Don't give them a choice?
The F1 2014 season
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Don't give them a choice?
The teams HAVE to agree to those kinds of changes in the rules
On some circuits it may just make the show even worse (there are some tracks where its nigh on impossible to go offline and pass another car , even if they are much slower in a "straight" race) and thats without even taking the circumstances on the day into effect - like rain etc etc
Nice idea but I think it would cause just as many issues
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It'd be funny, if it wasn't so bloody sad.
We should add loop the loops as well!
Machine guns strapped to the front!
Multiball...MULTIBALL!
a button on Bernie's mobile that disables a car - "Even I have got sick of that finger" - Vettel's engine goes bang (not that it needs much encouragement) - Sauber have just annoyed me , so their rear wing collapses - Mercedes need to be taken down a peg or two so suspension goes just past the pits.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/26303405
Brilliant news, this will encourage more women to watch the Sport too.
Bet she's made up!
Brilliant news, this will encourage more women to watch the Sport too.
Bet she's made up!http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/26303405
Brilliant news, this will encourage more women to watch the Sport too.
Maybe Im just being cynical but I thought that was just for a little more "friendly" media attention after Bernie's court case and just before the new season.
Really happy for her that she has been signed up for two or three sessions, but Im sceptical if it will be enough to really prove anything (after all , the drivers themselves are saying how different the new cars are to drive - so how will an in-experienced driver cope after just three sessions - all widely spaced apart)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/26303405
Brilliant news, this will encourage more women to watch the Sport too.
Brilliant news?? another pay driver gets to sit in a seat at the expense of some young talent and prove that pay drivers shouldn't be on the grid.
I just don't get the Susie Wolff thing, there has to be like zero chance she will ever get to competitively race in F1 and even if she does she just doesn't seem to have the talent to get anywhere.
De Silvestro is arguably the better possibility of having a woman in F1 but I think she will likely need a lot of work beforehand.
De Silvestro is arguably the better possibility of having a woman in F1 but I think she will likely need a lot of work beforehand.
It's brilliant news for girls and young women aspiring to become racing drivers is what I meant, and for getting more females to view the sport.
In other news, Marussia were wiped out by a Trojan at testing lol!
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112630
In other news, Marussia were wiped out by a Trojan at testing lol!
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112630
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It's a knock-on effect. Four years ago there were no women in F1. Two years ago we had two women as development drivers. This year, one of them is actually getting to test at a race weekend. Give it another two years and people will be hoping de Silvestro gets to drive. Another two or four years, and some girl who was ten when Suzie Wolff and Maria de Villota started the ball rolling will be in some team's Young Driver Programme.
Yea that is a good point, but women racing drivers isn't a new thing. A lot of teams would kill to have the first F1 driver for a generation as the sponsorship could be immense.
The problem is we are getting drivers who aren't up to scratch simply because they have money behind them (this isn't just the female drivers). It could also go the other way and damage the prospect of women in F1.
I think that they have agreed to change the weight rules for 2015 so that taller drivers (due to the heavier power sources this year) dont get such a bad deal but women in general weigh considerably less which could allow engineers more design lee-way over a similarly physically sized man.
Given the above Im wondering if a mid to back grid team could risk a previously tested female driver (from another country /formula) ? Obviously still a big risk, but it would be interesting to see factual information whether Danika? Patrick (for example) was less /more fit than an F1 driver (and whther actual strength actually comes into it any more)
Given the above Im wondering if a mid to back grid team could risk a previously tested female driver (from another country /formula) ? Obviously still a big risk, but it would be interesting to see factual information whether Danika? Patrick (for example) was less /more fit than an F1 driver (and whther actual strength actually comes into it any more)
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Changes to qualifying.
Q1 will now last 18 minutes, two less than previously, whilst Q2 will remain at 15 minutes and the final top-ten shootout, Q3, will be extended by two minutes to 12 in total.
The 16 cars which make it though to Q2 will receive an extra set of option (softer) tyres, but these tyres can only be used during Q3 - so those who don't progress will get to keep them for the race, but those who do make it into the top-ten shoot-out must use the additional options to set their final time, but must then hand them back to Pirelli after.
Those in Q3 will then start the race on the tyre in which they set their fastest lap on in Q2.
This ensures that all the cars in Q3 are competing on the same tyre, without the incentive to stay in the garage, but the strategic element of starting on the prime (harder) option remains a possibility if they choose to use that tyre in Q2.
It also gives those starting outside the top-ten an additional set of new tyres. Those in Q2 get to keep the additional set which Q3 runners had to hand back, whilst the bottom six cars will have used less tyres in the first place.
The change is likely to be confirmed ahead of the next pre-season test in Bahrain next week.
Q1 will now last 18 minutes, two less than previously, whilst Q2 will remain at 15 minutes and the final top-ten shootout, Q3, will be extended by two minutes to 12 in total.
The 16 cars which make it though to Q2 will receive an extra set of option (softer) tyres, but these tyres can only be used during Q3 - so those who don't progress will get to keep them for the race, but those who do make it into the top-ten shoot-out must use the additional options to set their final time, but must then hand them back to Pirelli after.
Those in Q3 will then start the race on the tyre in which they set their fastest lap on in Q2.
This ensures that all the cars in Q3 are competing on the same tyre, without the incentive to stay in the garage, but the strategic element of starting on the prime (harder) option remains a possibility if they choose to use that tyre in Q2.
It also gives those starting outside the top-ten an additional set of new tyres. Those in Q2 get to keep the additional set which Q3 runners had to hand back, whilst the bottom six cars will have used less tyres in the first place.
The change is likely to be confirmed ahead of the next pre-season test in Bahrain next week.
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Susie Wolff is just another pay driver, women or not, I think that this is bad for the sport. Perhaps I'm being too unrealistic about zero pay drivers but she is clearly not fast enough, judging by her results in DTM, though I imagine her being married to a shareholder has helped her get a drive somewhat.