***Official 2010 F1 thread***

Am tempted to go to Spa as well but Abu Dhabi is epic and could be worth the trip to make a week out of it. Not meant to be that expensive either.
 
Hungary for me next year, not that bothered about the racing just usually make 'boys' holidays out of F1 races and with the poor pound to euro I fancy somehwhere different to spa and spain etc.
 
tonyyeb said:
Honda sold their team and effectively their entry to Brawn with the approval of the other teams, CVC and the FIA
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Thats the same as BMW to Sauber then isnt it? So they should get priority over any Toyota replacement wheither its sold on as a going concern (which doesnt sound viable with all the job losses rumoured) or not

(Sauber being first in the queue and all that?)

edit - ok fair enough (after reading further on)


CS - I was thinking that the new CA was coming in for 2010, so when Honda walked away there should have been a penalty for walking away a year early (maybe not very much but it was never mentioned at all) - thats all I found curious, after all Im sure they didnt race under 2009 without a CA at all? (You are far more in touch than I ever will be, but thats the appearance from the outside imo)
 
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FrankJH said:
Thats the same as BMW to Sauber then isnt it? So they should get priority over any Toyota replacement wheither its sold on as a going concern (which doesnt sound viable with all the job losses rumoured) or not

(Sauber being first in the queue and all that?)

edit - ok fair enough (after reading further on)
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Yeah... but BMW didn't sign the CA to commit until 2012, Toyota have thus securing a place.
 
rypt said:
Should go the whole hog and have a standard driver as well :P
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Once the races are all year round, standard cars, shorter races the icing on the cake will be when you have the drivers dissing each other and shouting into the microphone like WWE.

Bernie wants a spectacle, when F1 becomes reduced to something akin to travelling monster truck shows on abandoned air fields (except silverstone!) it will be a sad day indeed.
 
Good read up about Toyota's time in F1 here - http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/11/05/how-toyota-got-it-wrong/

This quote is particularly eye watering

After the peak of 2005 the team slumped badly during the next two seasons. But there was no let-up in the spending. Last year they were estimated to have a budget of almost $450m, and that was after Schumacher’s wage bill was replaced by Timo Glock’s more modest pay packet.
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Ralf left several years ago (unless my memory is failing lol) - why was he still being payed last year (which is what that seems to claim?

Rumours that Renault ARE going to pull out in the printed press today - from the end of 2010, with an agreement to continue supplying engines
 
Probably explains Kubicas one year deal lol.

Good riddance, might even be why the Fia went so easy on them. They probably told them they were off anyway at the end of 2010 ;)

So much for the power of the teams and starting their own series. They can't even afford to run now, how were they ever going to start up alone.
 
dannyjo22 said:
Probably explains Kubicas one year deal lol.

Good riddance, might even be why the Fia went so easy on them. They probably told them they were off anyway at the end of 2010 ;)

So much for the power of the teams and starting their own series. They can't even afford to run now, how were they ever going to start up alone.
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Well, they would take much more of the profits of the series without a certain someone bleeding all the money out of it, and it would cost less to enter, and take part :)
 
Ferrari are moaning AGAIN

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8344166.stm

"Ferrari has said that those in charge of Formula 1 have "waged war" against the major car manufacturers, leading to the withdrawal of several teams"

"In exchange, so to speak, we will now have, Manor, Lotus (at least in name only, as this incarnation has little to do with the team that gave us Colin Chapman, Jim Clark and Ayrton Senna to name but a few,) USF1 and Campos Meta."

Hold on Ferrari you said the same thing when a team called McLaren came into F1 did you not.
And look at them now :)

And if the big teams would have agreed to a budget this would not be happening.


Edit= beaten to it :)
 
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