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[DrDickAction]

err... Ferrari/McLaren

I knew what you meant

[Nacho]

err... Ferrari/McLaren

Possible, but Brawn has a solid base to build upon, where as Ferrari/McMerc's success last year directly hurt them in their cars for this year due to lack of development on their current cars. If the regulations were changing again next year it'd be a different story.

[DrDickAction]

Possible, but Brawn has a solid base to build upon, where as Ferrari/McMerc's success last year directly hurt them in their cars for this year due to lack of development on their current cars. If the regulations were changing again next year it'd be a different story.

but brawn has no $$$ to sustain development. I'm willing to be everybody...even FI is going to catch up to the existing brawn this offseason.

[Nacho]

but brawn has no $$$ to sustain development. I'm willing to be everybody...even FI is going to catch up to the existing brawn this offseason.

I'd bet that they'll get funding, and Ross is already spending what he does have smartly, it seems.

[vietlol]

So good to see the 'little' teams winning and shaking up the order huh

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Ferrari Formula 1 driver Kimi Raikkonen will make his World Rally Championship debut when he contests his home round of the series, Rally Finland, next month.

Raikkonen has already competed in three rallies this year, but the Jyvaskyla-based ninth round of the WRC will be his first competitive outing on gravel. The Finn, who won the F1 world championship with Ferrari in 2007, tested the Abarth Grande Punto for two days in central Finland earlier this week.

Raikkonen will be co-driven by Kaj Lindstrom, the former co-driver of four-time world champion Tommi Makinen. Makinen's own racing team will run the Abarth for Raikkonen.

Lindstrom has contested Rally Finland 10 times, finishing sixth twice with Makinen, and admits the 29-year-old Raikkonen will face a difficult task when he starts his first WRC round.

"Rally Finland is not going to be easy for sure," said Lindstrom. "The rallies we have done so far have been smaller events, a three-day WRC round is much longer and more intense than those national events.

"And it doesn't just start with the rally, we have two days to go through the recce and make the notes. Kimi makes very good pace notes, but there will be pressure on for the recce."

Lindstrom added that his driver's absence of gravel experience will also make his task tougher next month.

"He has competed on snow and asphalt, but never gravel, but we have tested on gravel," said Lindstrom. "But one of the hardest things for Kimi will be the speed of this event. Rally Finland and the roads used are so fast, like nothing we have done before - that does take time.

"But, let's not forget, this guy is a pretty good driver! He's very talented and I'm sure he will cope fine."

Raikkonen finished 13th in the Arctic Rally in January, his rally debut. He returned to snow rallying and held seventh overall in the Vaakuna Rally, before putting the Abarth off the road and ending the event 17th. His asphalt debut came on the Rally della Marca in Italy in May, where he damaged a wheel and retired on the third stage.

I'll be surprised if he lasts past the first day

[vietlol]

kimi rallying is more exciting than f1 atm

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September 11th 2009 could be the date on which Fernando Alonso is revealed as a Ferrari driver for the next five Formula One seasons.

The Spanish newspaper Diario AS claims that the sport's best-known secret may already be scheduled for official confirmation on the Friday of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

The report believes Ferrari has not decided which of the team's contracted 2010 drivers, Felipe Massa or Kimi Raikkonen, will be ushered aside to make room for the former double world champion, who currently races for Renault.

AS said Ferrari intends to hold its major end-of-season event at Valencia in November, not only to welcome Alonso to the team, but also its new 2010 Spanish sponsor Santander.

The report said Alonso could be the ‘surprise guest’ at the event, but would have to wear casual clothes because of his Renault contract through December 31st.

here we go again...
either sign or shut up already...

[Nacho]

@ them putting Vettel's post race radio transmission in the Silverstone review video on F1.com

http://www.formula1....race_edits.html

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@ them putting Vettel's post race radio transmission in the Silverstone review video on F1.com
http://www.formula1....race_edits.html

how can you not like this kid

[DrDickAction]

@ them putting Vettel's post race radio transmission in the Silverstone review video on F1.com

http://www.formula1....race_edits.html

[DrDickAction]

how can you not like this kid

Seriously.

We haven't had anyone win and have fun while doing it in A LONG time...

[kngrsll]

Seriously.

We haven't had anyone win and have fun while doing it in A LONG time...

Jenson wasnt a happy winner?

[DrDickAction]

Jenson wasnt a happy winner?

This is true...

Seb is much more of a goof ball though.

[kngrsll]

This is true...

Seb is much more of a goof ball though.

i love em both... but seb is going to be something else.

[vietlol]

@ them putting Vettel's post race radio transmission in the Silverstone review video on F1.com

http://www.formula1....race_edits.html

[Nacho]

Jenson wasnt a happy winner?

I like both drivers that have won races this year. They're both loving it a lot more than the other guys in the recent past.

[yonson]

Crazy Frog

[DrDickAction]

I like both drivers that have won races this year. They're both loving it a lot more than the other guys in the recent past.

Schumi, Kimi, Alonso, even Massa and Hamilton all seemed like they were doing a job. Jens and Seb act like they get to race cars and just happen to get paid doing it.

[Redliner]

I think it's more that they don't have any personality

I really like these 2 guys right now though. Theyr'e good for F1. I wish we'd see more of it though...

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As the global economic recession bites, two prominent motor racing series are in dire straits.

For the Middle East and Asia-based stock car series Speedcar, the end of the road has come. The official website is off the air amid reports the organisation has been closed down after just two seasons.

Speedcar featured stock cars driven by mainly ex-F1 drivers, including Jacques Villeneuve, Jean Alesi, Johnny Herbert, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Tonio Liuzzi.

Meanwhile, it is reported that the future of the A1GP series is in serious doubt, following the collapse of the British arm of the organisation.

A1 Grand Prix Operations Ltd ran the day-to-day administration of the championship but went into liquidation last Wednesday, the Telegraph newspaper said.

"Like many other companies in today's difficult economic environment, we had cash flow problems and we haven't been able to pay them (the suppliers)," a spokesman confirmed.

about all that A1GP talk

[DrDickAction]

I think it's more that they don't have any personality

I really like these 2 guys right now though. Theyr'e good for F1. I wish we'd see more of it though...

Kimi has personality, he's just not going to show it to the press.

Same with Schumi...

[vietlol]

Hirvonen says he is frustrated with Latvala for constantly crashing anyone else not like this guy?



http://www.autosport...rt.php/id/76645

[MrHahn]

I'll just leave this here

Actually when I first read the headline I thought they were talking about another F1 boss

Hitler got things done: Formula One boss

Agence France-Presse

July 04, 2009 10:30pm


FORMULA One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has described Adolf Hitler as a leader able to "get things done" in a discussion about dictators during an interview with The Times newspaper published today.

Asked to comment on accusations that world motorsport chief Max Mosley behaved like a dictator, Mr Ecclestone went on to speak about Hitler, former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein - whom he said should have stayed in power - and the Taliban.

"In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he ... could command a lot of people, able to get things done,'' Mr Ecclestone told The Times.

"In the end he got lost, so he wasn't a very good dictator.''

Mr Ecclestone added: "We did a terrible thing when we supported the idea of getting rid of Saddam Hussein. He was the only one who could control'' Iraq.

"It was the same (with the Taliban in Afghanistan). We move into countries and we have no idea of the culture. The Americans probably thought Bosnia was a town in Miami. There are people starving in Africa and we sit back and do nothing but we get involved in things we should leave alone.''

Mr Ecclestone said Britain's only female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was also someone who had "got the job done''.

"She was the one who built this country up slowly. We've let it go down again.''

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Hirvonen says he is frustrated with Latvala for constantly crashing anyone else not like this guy?
http://www.autosport...rt.php/id/76645

I kinda agree with him...
Latvala has a win it or bin it approach...
dude totalled his car on the last 2km super special stage while in 2nd place with like a 30 second lead... he could've pushed the thing around the track to secure 2nd, but he hits a barrel and crashes out...

race before, he went off course while in lead on the last bend right before the timing boards losing like 5 minutes...