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[Nacho]

I'm worried for Williams

Someone save their asses already!

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between di Grassi and Senna, it's time like this where it's nice to see brazilian drivers step up (massa)...
even if they kinda suck sometimes (nelson), at least they are on the grid (rubens)...

3 out of 20 drivers from brazil right now with 2 as an option to possibly step up/replace

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

between di Grassi and Senna, it's time like this where it's nice to see brazilian drivers step up (massa)...
even if they kinda suck sometimes (nelson), at least they are on the grid (rubens)...

3 out of 20 drivers from brazil right now with 2 as an option to possibly step up/replace

wouldn't di Grassi will replace junior tho?

but yeah, possible Senna in a STR next year since berger is a family friend of the Sennas.

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wouldn't di Grassi will replace junior tho?

but yeah, possible Senna in a STR next year since berger is a family friend of the Sennas.

di Grassi to replace Nelson
Senna to STR
Massa at Ferrari

Rubens... gone?

if nothing changes, 3 brazilian drivers... if something changes, 3 possible brazilian drivers

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

di Grassi to replace Nelson
Senna to STR
Massa at Ferrari

Rubens... gone?

if nothing changes, 3 brazilian drivers... if something changes, 3 possible brazilian drivers

di Grassi > Nelson
At this point in time * > Lubens

i see this as a positive for Brazilian drivers..

[mads]

di Grassi > Nelson
At this point in time * > Lubens

i see this as a positive for Brazilian drivers..

Juebens > Button

and i like button

[mads]

baby sato born!

[Robert]

sign Sato and call it a day... we all know he can pass Alonso in an under powered car

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

who?



thats right.. quick nick.. that's who.

[Robert]

lol yeah that was great stuff.

[DrDickAction]

who?



thats right.. quick nick.. that's who.

Just practicing his patented double pass

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

[mads]

[Robert]

lol you forgot the cow in the background kerozen02.

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Red Bull Racing suspect that Mark Webber's retirement from the Singapore Grand Prix may have been caused by static electricity produced by a nearby tram.

Webber was forced out of the Singapore night race with his first mechanical failure of the season, just as it seemed he was on course to take a podium finish thanks to a brilliant pit call by his team under the first safety car.

But Webber pulled into the pits on lap 30 with a broken gearbox when it tried to select two gears at once. And without an obvious explanation for the problem, team principal Christian Horner suspects that total freak circumstances were to blame.

"At Turn 13 the gearbox selected two gears at one," Horner told Mark Hughes in this week's Autosport Singapore Grand Prix report. "The moog valve controlling the gearshift had been triggered into changing to seventh while he was still in fifth.

"Yet after interrogating the software we can see that it at no time was allowing for this. We can see a momentary electrical surge at the precise moment, which seems to have triggered the moog valve.

"It was exactly what [Toro Rosso] suffered from with (Sebastien) Bourdais in Friday practice, at exactly the same place. A tram line runs beneath the track at that corner and it seems as if static from a passing tram at the very moment Mark was in the corner passed through the ground."

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Renault boss Flavio Briatore is to take on a revised role within the French car manufacturer next year, with him planning to appoint a team director to help oversee day-to-day running at the outfit.

Briatore's current contract with Renault runs out at the end of this year, and he has so far refused to commit himself to a new deal until the future direction of both the team and Formula One had been settled.

However, Briatore has told Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport that he will definitely stay on board, although in a new position.

"In 2009 I won't have a 360-degree role anymore," said Briatore, who is set to meet with Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn in Paris today to discuss the future.

"There will be a director, who I've already spotted, to take care of day-by-day management. That way I'll be able to concentrate on the most important things."

Briatore is optimistic that the team, which took their first win of the season in Singapore last weekend, are now back in a position to return to the form that helped them to back-to-back titles in 2005 and 2006.

"There are cycles in F1," he said. "Just when the times were difficult, Carlos Ghosn didn't want to lower the budget. F1 isn't just a matter of money; otherwise Toyota would win every race.

"In Renault we had to refresh the whole aerodynamics department. When you change 40 people you need to wait for them to amalgamate. Now we are in line, and we're ready to start over. We have the right people, young and capable."

Renault's hopes of keeping Fernando Alonso on board for next year have been boosted by the Singapore victory, but Briatore still thinks more work is needed to convince the Spaniard. A final decision from Alonso may not come until after the season has finished.

"The victory hasn't changed a thing," said Briatore. "Fernando hasn't offered himself to anyone and I think he's happy to stay, but we will meet about it when the championship ends. What can we offer him? An innovative car and a reshuffle that plays in our hands."

And Briatore has done little to quell speculation that the team are looking to replace Nelson Piquet next year, with Lucas di Grassi believed to be favourite to step up from his testing driving role.

"Piquet hasn't had a good championship so far," said Briatore. "He does good things before qualifying, and then he doesn't go the way he should. We'll see..."

i hope he doesn't go far... i like Flav, he's one of the few personalities we got in F1

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Sebastien Bourdais could be in the frame to remain in Formula One next year by switching teams.

The French radio station RMC reports that the 29-year-old rookie, who has had a difficult season in 2008 since moving from Champ Cars to Toro Rosso, is in with a chance of racing next year for Renault.

Given Bourdais' history with Renault, the union seems unlikely. A few years ago, bemoaning the French marque's reluctance to give him a chance in F1, Bourdais said "I know I don't belong there."

Renault's driver plans for 2009 are, however, in a state of flux. The Flavio Briatore-led squad is trying to convince Fernando Alonso to stay, while considering whether or not to keep the struggling Nelson Piquet as his team-mate.

Brazil's Lucas di Grassi is a candidate, but so too is another Renault test driver and GP2 competitor, the Swiss-French 22-year-old Romain Grosjean.


Frenchman Denis Chevrier, Renault's F1 engine chief, told a Spanish newspaper that he hopes Alonso stays for 2009.

Referring to the former double world champion's Singapore win, he told Marca: "75 percent of it was down to Fernando, who drove flawlessly, brilliantly.

"I really hope he stays because there are very few drivers like him. He is very important to us, especially for next year."

[Redliner]

Good for Le Seb...I think he should get another chance. He hasn't been a total failboat in the same way Piquet Jnr has been. But than again...he hasn't really impressed me. Maybe it's the car b/c before the B-spec car came out, he was keeping up with Vettel pretty well...

[vietlol]

nooooo flava flav

[DrDickAction]

nooooo flava flav

How many more supermodels is he gonna bang with all the extra time? I think he will end up fucking every single woman under 35 within a year or 2.

[Redliner]

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McLaren has admitted it will take a 'strategic' approach to the final races of 2008 for fear of again squandering the chance of winning the championship.

Team boss Ron Dennis said in Singapore last weekend, where championship leader Lewis Hamilton finished third, that neither team nor driver will take undue risks in order to protect their advantage in the drivers' classification.

Last year, Hamilton had a 17-point advantage with two races to go, but key errors allowed Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen to bridge the gap.

"I think an inherent weakness in the team and Lewis last year was the overwhelming desire to win the races at almost any risk," Chief Executive Martin Whitmarsh is quoted as saying by The Guardian.

"That is more forgivable in Lewis - you would like to have that in a young racing driver. We as a team should have been more disciplined than we were," he added.

Indeed, in the closing laps of the Singapore Grand Prix, Hamilton was instructed by the pitwall to settle for third place rather than try to pass Nico Rosberg.


In 2007, the British driver slid into the pitlane gravel in Shanghai, before further mistakes in Brazil cost him the title.

"We wanted to win and pushed too hard when we didn't need to," Whitmarsh said, recalling the last races a year ago.

"Championships aren't won like that," he added.

Hamilton, meanwhile, is this week the subject of criticism in the German press, with the broadcaster RTL pronouncing him a "megalomaniac" for comparing himself with the legendary late triple world champion Ayrton Senna.

"I know that I am as good as Ayrton Senna was," the 23-year-old is quoted as saying.

Seriously?!? Damnit. I can't like him after that...

[Nacho]

Bernie in with the sweet burn.

Bernie Ecclestone, the chief mastermind of the night racing concept for F1, has hit back at Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo's claim that the Singapore Grand Prix was akin to a "circus."

Also lashing out at the lack of overtaking opportunities at new street circuits, and the farcical Safety Car rules, Montezemolo said last week that "all this is humiliating for F1."

But Ecclestone, F1's chief executive, hinted to Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper that the attack by Montezemolo was perhaps to divert attention from Ferrari's woeful showing under the city-state's floodlights.

"If the Ferrari President is right about the Singapore Grand Prix being a circus," he said, "then we have to be grateful to him for providing the clowns."

The 77-year-old is undoubtedly referring to title rival Felipe Massa's botched pitstop, when the Brazilian ripped the fuel hose from the rig and pulled it the entire length of the pitlane.

Ecclestone continued to fire: "After the weekend Ferrari had, their President should have shut up and kept his head down. If Massa loses the World Championship, he will know the team were responsible."

The British billionaire also slammed Ferrari's unique pitstop gantry lights system, used instead of a traditional lollipop, as "over the top."

"Why do you want to have some other piece of technology that can go wrong?" Bernie wondered.

[MrHahn]

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Seriously?!? Damnit. I can't like him after that...

OH GOD! I Think my head just exploded!

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http://en.f1-live.co...002095425.shtml

Seriously?!? Damnit. I can't like him after that...

oh hell no...
shummi with his 7 world titles isn't as good as senna...
now this little faggot thinks he's that good...
that mother fucker

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

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Seriously?!? Damnit. I can't like him after that...

you know he's as good as senna was just because they basically have the same helmet schemes
if he changed his helmet to copy schumi's helmet then bernie might even just provisionally give ham 7 WDCs.