2253 replies to this topic

[_R_]

I wonder whtats up with that flat brimmed hat thing...
Kimi is sporting it in F1 and Hayden is sporting it in MotoGP

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

I wonder whtats up with that flat brimmed hat thing...
Kimi is sporting it in F1 and Hayden is sporting it in MotoGP

its a n-word thing.

[kngrsll]

I guess you've got this one as your bg

sad trulli is sad

[kngrsll]

its a n-word thing.

http://www.nettakeaw...-streets59fifty

[Skyliner]

sad trulli is sad

You might be too if your hometown got fucked to hell by an earthquake, killing a few hundred people.

How do you feel now punk?

[yonson]

its a n-word thing.

and gay as hell...

You might be too if your hometown got fucked to hell by an earthquake, killing a few hundred people.

How do you feel now punk?

but he always looks like he's trying so hard to be sad

[Nacho]

sad trulli is sad

Looks more like he's checking out Hekki's ass............ and approves.

[Nacho]

Oh, Flav, you're such a tool.....

Briatore buoyant over Renault form

Renault team boss Flavio Briatore was upbeat about his team's form at the Chinese Grand Prix despite leaving Shanghai with no points.

The French squad introduced a new floor for Fernando Alonso's car on Saturday, following the FIA's verdict over the design of the double-decker diffuser.

The modified car helped Alonso secure second place on the grid, but a disastrous race ended up with Alonso outside of the points. The race was dominated by the Renault-powered Red Bull cars of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber.

Briatore reckons Alonso was very unlucky with the timing of the safety car, but the Italian is adamant Renault was the best team behind Red Bull and Brawn GP.

"Double victory in the two wrong cars," joked Briatore about the Red Bull one-two. "No, I'm happy for Red Bull and I'm happy for the engine, but we were very unlucky with Renault. Because Fernando was really, really unlucky. The safety car destroyed our race. Maybe we called him a little bit too early. It was unlucky.

"And after that he spun. If everything had been perfect he would have finished fifth, after the two Red Bulls and the two Brawns. But our car is much better. I want to see our car with normal weather. The car is much more competitive. Fernando was second on Saturday and we saw we had the same level of fuel as Button.

"And today, our performance... Behind the two Red Bulls and the two Brawns, it was us. We were quicker than McLaren, than Ferrari and BMW. I'm not jumping ahead because it's not the moment, but the car is better and it's only a question of going to Bahrain and hope the weather is not like in the last two races."

Briatore said Renault has significant updates for the Spanish and Monaco Grands Prix, and he is looking forward to seeing the car perform in a dry race.

"Absolutely congratulations to Red Bull," he added. "They have a fantastic car with the normal rules. And what we are doing now is improving the car for Bahrain. We have a big step for Fernando and for Piquet in Monte Carlo and for Barcelona, and we are working flat-out.

"Now we know the direction and I'm happy about the performance of the car, because all weekend, especially Fernando, was always there. I'm happy and let's see what happens in Bahrain. I want to see a normal race."

The Renault boss was also critical on Alonso's team-mate Nelson Piquet after the Brazilian spun several times during the race.

"Jesus Christ, it was a very, very bad race," said Briatore. "I understand if you spin once, but this was kind of a contest: the more you spin the more points you have. He spun a lot but no points.

"He needs a normal race. A lot of people spun, not just Nelsinho. People with more experience, from Kubica to Heidfeld, everybody spun. Alonso spun as well. This is just the beginning of the season. At least we have a really good car now "

[More&Faster]

flavio really looks like a fool now that redbull dominated a race after all that shit he was spewing about diffusers. he needs to just stfu for a while.

[vietlol]

flavio needs to never stop being flavio

[Nacho]

F1 Live's cliff's on the FIA hearing on the diffusers.

The FIA on Monday backed Adam Parr's claim that Ferrari said it fielded technically illegal cars in Formula One.

A spat broke out in Shanghai between the Italian team and Parr, who is the Williams team's chief executive.

Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali, backed by Renault's Flavio Briatore, hit out at Parr after comments attributed to him suggested Ferrari had used illegal cars in the past.

But on Monday, the FIA said Ferrari did indeed admit to committing "a technical violation" of the technical regulations in the past during the Court of Appeal hearing last Tuesday.

"Ferrari acknowledged that multiple vertical transitions had been used by many teams in the past, including Ferrari itself, and argued that all such prior uses (including its own) had constituted a technical violation of the (technical regulations) which had been tolerated," the Court of Appeal finding said.

The FIA published the court's 20-page findings in full on Monday.

In the document, the court - which found in favour of the diffuser teams Brawn, Toyota and Williams - acknowledged the loophole that led to the saga.

Amazingly, the diffuser teams and their rivals had argued at length about whether holes in the controversial designs were actually holes.

"The (diffuser teams) and the FIA submit that, while there may be spaces between different surfaces, the surfaces themselves do not have holes in them. They contend that the spaces between different surfaces are not holes within the very specific meaning of" article 3.12.5.

The FIA also denied Red Bull's claim that the governing body turned down its clarification in January 2007 about designing a similar concept.

Monday's document reads: "The questions put to (the FIA) in previous cases were different and answered correctly and in a manner consistent with its present position."

The contesting teams had also argued that if the design of 'double-decker' diffusers were considered legal, the seven remaining teams would have no choice but to spend great amounts of money redesigning their own diffusers, creating a situation contrary to the current efforts to reduce costs in F1.

The FIA separated the concepts by stating that "the possibility of teams not presently using the Contested Design Concept incurring future development costs is not a factor relevant to the legal assessment of whether the Contested Decisions comply with the (technical regulations) or not."

[cafcwest]

I'm really sad to see the F2009 being so slow/unreliable

It's the F60 this year grasshopper, in celebration of Failari's 60th year in F1.

[Skyliner]

It's the F60 this year grasshopper, in celebration of Failari's 60th year in F1.

Shiyan is too busy being engaged and 'ing to care about such trivial matters.

[_R_]

According to team advisor Helmut Marko, "harmony" is not the word to describe the relationship of Red Bull's two drivers.

"No. Rather, I would call it healthy competition," the Austrian, team owner Dietrich Mateschitz's right-hand man in racing matters, told sportnet.at.

Before the 2009 season began, Marko admitted that Australian Webber's average lap time deficit to 21-year-old Vettel, at half a second, was "too much".

Now the gap is smaller, he agrees.

"In the beginning Mark resisted using Vettel's setup. He would not accept it. Now he uses it because it is just faster," Marko said.

Not only is Webber eleven years older than Red Bull's new arrival, Vettel has contested 97 fewer races but already won twice.

The 32-year-old Webber, who broke his leg and shoulder in the winter season, qualified behind Vettel in Shanghai and then finished second to him in the race.

"I have been incredibly determined to get in the best condition I can and the best shape possible to overcome the injuries that I have had to give this youngster (Vettel) a hard time and so far it is working and we are pushing each other hard," he said.

Team owner Mateschitz told Austria's Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper: "Mark has proved that he is one of F1's best drivers. The combination of our pair is ideal."

"What we wanted is two drivers who are on the limit and can push each other, and that is so," the Austrian billionaire said.

Mercedes-Benz is interested in seeing Sebastian Vettel at the wheel of a McLaren at some point in the future.

That is the admission of Norbert Haug, boss of the German carmaker's racing activities, in the wake of countryman Vettel's second dominant race win at the wheel of a Red Bull-branded car.

Haug has previously admitted Mercedes' interest in the 21-year-old German, who is under contract to the energy drink company until the end of next year.

"After that we will have to see, perhaps some day he will drive a silver arrows," he told the German newspaper Bild.

Vettel also has ties with BMW, with whom he debuted as a F1 test driver and first contested a Grand Prix, in the injured Robert Kubica's car at Indianapolis two years ago.

Part of Vettel's ongoing BMW deal, Mario Theissen confirmed, is that he drives an M5 on the road.

Seven time world champion Michael Schumacher said: "I can see him fighting now for the world championship."

Vettel

[_R_]

The Italian press unsurprisingly unloaded on the famous Ferrari team in the wake of the Chinese Grand Prix.

Not since 1981 has the Prancing Horse kicked off such a bad start to a championship, leading the national La Repubblica newspaper to muse that after three point-less races, ‘disastro’ is too moderate a description.

It is impossible in this moment not to recall Ferrari's often calamitous past, before the efficient and dispassionate German, French and British influences of Michael Schumacher, Jean Todt and Ross Brawn respectively oversaw the highly successful era of the early 2000s.


"In those days," said Niki Lauda, who drove for Ferrari in the 1970s, "Ross, because he is English, was the ideal bridge between the Italians, with their spaghetti culture, and Schumacher, with his German efficiency.”

"Now the Italians are running it all. Does it work? It could be chaos. That's the problem," he is quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.

he does have a point

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

he does have a point

tack on a fiery brazilian and a finn that doesn't give a shit to the equation too

[Nacho]

tack on a fiery brazilian and a finn that doesn't give a shit to the equation too

I welcome the return of Failari.

[More&Faster]

I welcome the return of Failari.

me too. they've been winning long enough.

[yonson]

Kimi to RedBull with Vettel, Alonso to Failrari along with Massur, Webbah to Renault

[MrHahn]

Kimi to RedBull with Vettel, Alonso to Failrari along with Massur, Webbah to Renault

Worst outcome, ever.


Kimi can stay with his failmobile - he chose it, along with the $50m pay packet

[Nacho]

Worst outcome, ever.


Kimi can stay with his failmobile - he chose it, along with the $50m pay packet

50 mil is a pretty solid way to make up for driving a bad car.

[tefnut]

Worst outcome, ever.


Kimi can stay with his failmobile - he chose it, along with the $50m pay packet

I'm just happy he was able to swipe a WDC in 2007 before the team completely imploded post-Brawn/Schumi

[Robert]

I'm just happy he was able to swipe a WDC in 2007 before the team completely imploded post-Brawn/Schumi

.

[_R_]

I'm just happy he was able to swipe a WDC in 2007 before the team completely imploded post-Brawn/Schumi

no Todt, no Shumi, no Brawn...
the Ferrari power house has been demolished and Italians moved in...
this will not end well...

[yonson]

Worst outcome, ever.


Kimi can stay with his failmobile - he chose it, along with the $50m pay packet

He went to Ferrari because McLaren couldn't get him a championchip...

50 mil is a pretty solid way to make up for driving a bad car.

I damn sure wouldn't want to drive a slower car just for the $$$ If I didn't have a chance to win in it...

I'm just happy he was able to swipe a WDC in 2007 before the team completely imploded post-Brawn/Schumi