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senna at str would be awesome

fuck the rome gp...

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I wonder if he's gonna keep his Ferrari-Red helmet when he goes to Mercedes.

It was also revealed Schumacher will race a new helmet livery in 2010. At Jerez on Tuesday he wore his customary bright red livery, which had become synonymous with his successful career at Ferrari.

However, it appears helmet manufacturer Schuberth is currently building his 2010-spec prototypes, and in the meantime he is using the 2009 model.

[Redliner]

I'd sure like to put my head in a Schuberth...

you know...so that I pretend that I'm a 7x world champion when I go to an autocross

[DrDickAction]

I'd sure like to put my head in a Schuberth...

you know...so that I pretend that I'm a 7x world champion when I go to an autocross

Or play GT5p in your living room

[Redliner]

Or play GT5p in your living room

I'll have to take a pic of me doing this next time

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[yonson]

He looks thrilled

[Nacho]

Someone's been playing a bit too much Burnout and/or Need for Speed

New points need tweaking - Ecclestone

By Dieter Rencken and Matt Beer Wednesday, January 13th 2010, 20:36 GMT

Bernie Ecclestone would back a further adjustment to the new 2010 points system, as he feels the current proposal will not sufficiently increase overtaking.

The FIA ratified the Formula 1 Commission's suggested 25-20-15-10-8-6-5-3-2-1 points spread for the top ten finishers before Christmas, but Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali said today that this could still be altered.

There have been suggestions that a greater gap between the points for winning and finishing second should be introduced - a proposal Ecclestone would fully endorse.

"I think they were very clever in what they did, because the points system that we agreed has made no difference at all," he said.

"My idea was to make a much bigger gap between first and second, and maybe second and third. What I was trying to do was give people the incentive to overtake, not to sit there getting points."

Ecclestone also revealed that he had more radical proposals to improve the show - starting with a controversial plan to introduce 'shortcuts' at grand prix tracks that each driver could use for a limited number of times per race.

"I think it would be very easy for us on each circuit to have an area where you could gain a bit of time so you could overtake - a shortcut if you like - which a driver could use five times during the race, so it would stop people getting stuck behind somebody," he suggested.

"It's good for TV, good for the TV commentators, they could talk about somebody having three [shortcuts] left and somebody else having two and what's going to happen and so on."

He added that modern F1 cars' efficient brakes and reliability had also damaged the spectacle.

"The other thing I've been pushing like crazy with people is that brakes these days are so efficient that - I'll say this and it's probably wrong - I could brake as late as anyone else if I saw the braking markers," said Ecclestone.

"In the seventies and eighties, all the overtaking was done was under braking going into corners. That doesn't happen anymore.

"The other thing that's bad, in the seventies whoever was in the top six places at half distance, you could guarantee that by the end of the race only three of them would be there - and now all six are there. You don't get people stopping anymore."

But despite his desire for regulation changes to increase the level of drama in races, Ecclestone still believes that this year's driver and team line-up should produce an exciting championship, especially with Michael Schumacher's return.

"I think it's wonderful, it's going to be a good year - good competition inside the teams and the teams with each other," he said. "I'd be surprised if it wasn't one of the best years for a long time."

http://www.autosport...rt.php/id/80852

[chiuey]

Someone's been playing a bit too much Burnout and/or Need for Speed

[vietlol]

somebody should give bernie an f1 car to test and show him the brake markers and when he snaps his neck we can get on with the show

[kngrsll]

mandate steel brakes?

[vietlol]

mandate steel brakes?

pinnacle of technology: moving backwards since the 90s

[vietlol]

http://www.castroldr...s.com/rankings/

if anyone wants a laugh

[kngrsll]

http://www.castroldr...s.com/rankings/

if anyone wants a laugh

omg

[yonson]

http://www.castroldr...s.com/rankings/

if anyone wants a laugh

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http://www.castroldr...s.com/rankings/
if anyone wants a laugh

i don't understand the maths behind that at all...

[MrHahn]

pinnacle of technology: moving backwards since the 90s

[chiuey]

http://www.castroldr...s.com/rankings/

if anyone wants a laugh

Well seeing as the ranking is only based in a 12 month period, Button's position can only drop. There is no way he will win the first 6 races of the season again, and considering how poorly he did during the second half of the last season he could be dropped significantly once the F1 season begins. In that sense, we would quite likely see Vettel and Hamilton climb to the top of the chart quite quickly. Add in Schumacher's and Alonso's point tally it's almost a given that re-adjustment of the ranking would prove interested.

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Breaking: Shumacher takes out Alonso during Ferrari ski trip

Reports from the press event in the Italian Dolomites revealed that Alonso fell and slid for 40 metres while skiing down the steep 'Schumacher' descent at the Madonna di Campiglio resort. He was unharmed and put the accident down to a lack of practice.

[vietlol]

that cheating bastard

[vietlol]

new helmet design, blue is back!

[yonson]

[DrDickAction]

Kinda surprised he didn't go all red/yellow. Ferrari & Spanish flag motif

[vietlol]

he is from asturias which is all light blue and shit

I like it personally, only bit I dont is he changed those arrows ontop from white sparkles to flat black which I dont really like

[vietlol]

Felipe Massa
"Things have started very well - we've started to talk about the car, what we have to do to have a competitive car.

"I've spoken more to Fernando already than I did to Kimi [Raikkonen, his previous team-mate] in three years. But I worked well with him even without speaking!"

'why dont you learn something'