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[vietlol]

Torro Rosso can't fit their motorhome anywhere so its placed in the water - known as a "floater home"

[vietlol]

macca seems to be working pretty good

[vietlol]

kube goes poof

[vietlol]

fred is pushing it hard

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

anyone catch hamiltone's diamond #1 on top of his helmet?

[Redliner]

I'd love to see the teams boycott Monaco b/c of the 2010 rules...you want to make the FIA listen? That'll do it

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anyone catch hamiltone's diamond #1 on top of his helmet?

you know, i thought i had a photo of that, but i must have dreamed it something, can't find it anymore...
Monaco is always a complete mashup of position, todays practice once again showed that...
qualifying on saturday is going to be interesting...

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

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Flavio Briatore's super-yacht, moored in the trackside harbour, will be the scene of a crucial team meeting on Friday.

At 2pm, it is on the Renault boss' triple-storey boat, called 'Force Blue', that the Formula One Teams' Association will devise their strategy for a subsequent meeting with the FIA President.

During a London meeting last Friday, the teams told Max Mosley that they wanted to go away and devise an alternative to his budget cap plans, which have sparked a spate of quit threats.

Mosley reportedly wanted his meeting with FOTA to take place at 3.30pm on Friday, which is a traditional 'free day' in between Thursday practice and Saturday's track action.

"He wanted to have us under time pressure," surmised Red Bull boss Christian Horner, according to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport.

The Mosley meeting was therefore moved back to 4pm, and the outcome is highly anticipated, even by the unusually anxious Bernie Ecclestone.

"Well, I am concerned, I don't want them (Ferrari) leaving," the F1 Chief Executive admitted to reporters in Monte Carlo. "I don't think anybody does."

so tomorrow is a big day

[chiuey]

so tomorrow is a big day

ibwesitoutaseason...

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ibwesitoutaseason...

what if there are only 6 cars on the grid come sunday

[Redliner]

what if there are only 6 cars on the grid come sunday

That's what I'm saying...if the teams boycott now, FOTA will be heard...sucks for us...but it is what it is.

[vietlol]

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a couple notable pictures

1) Jensons helmet
2) Monaco... I have to see this live sometime in my lifetime (assuming Bernie/Max don't destroy F1 by then)
3 & 4) Red Bulls rear diffuser
5)

[DrDickAction]

Red Bull diffuser....with speed hole

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

a couple notable pictures

1) Jensons helmet
2) Monaco... I have to see this live sometime in my lifetime (assuming Bernie/Max don't destroy F1 by then)
3 & 4) Red Bulls rear diffuser
5)

connecting the endplates to the diffuser is really pushing the definition of a diffuser IMO.. oh well, as long as the FIA say its legal...

[DrDickAction]

esploding kubica?

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According to Formula One Teams' Association President, all teams have agreed to withdraw from Formula One at the end of the season should the sport's governing body, the FIA, proceed with its plans to introduce a £40m budget cap for the 2010 season, the BBC reports this afternoon.

Few details are available as FOTA has concluded their meeting on board Flavio Briatore's yacht anchored in Monte Carlo ahead of this Sunday's sixth round of the championship at the Principality, but Ferrari President and FOTA Chairman Luca di Montezemolo has made clear the threat to exit the sport is far from a bargaining gesture.

The teams are now meeting with FIA President Max Mosley to state their case, presumably with their own cost cutting plans for the 2010 season and beyond, a move that Mosley believes is unlikely to yield a realistic alternative to the budget cap.

Asked if he was confident about the meeting with the FIA President, he answered: "We will see. We are all together," he said after the meeting on Force Blue.

"We will be in position to go to the FIA saying in a very constructive but very clear way the position of FOTA," Montezemolo continued.

Insisting that the proposition to Mosley will be final he added: "What is important is that our view of the future is absolutely in common. We want Formula One, we don't want something else."

With both sides seemingly unwilling to back down, the threat of a breakaway series has gone from an unlikely possibility, to a real threat to the governing body and commercial rights holders; Formula One Management.

above is from F1-Live
original BBC story: http://news.bbc.co.u...one/8064314.stm

[Skyliner]

The stewards at the Monaco Grand Prix have set an important precedent ahead of Sunday’s Grand Prix by giving eight GP2 drivers 25-second penalties for cutting the first corner on lap one.
Source: f1fanatic article

Hamilton getting a penalty.

[DrDickAction]

above is from F1-Live
original BBC story: http://news.bbc.co.u...one/8064314.stm

WOW

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Teams fail to reach agreement with FIA

Formula 1 teams failed to reach an agreement with FIA president Max Mosley about the future of the sport on Friday, despite lengthy talks that ran into the early evening.

Following a series of discussions over the course of the day, the teams met with Mosley to try and find a resolution to their unhappiness about plans for a voluntary budget cap.

However, despite talking for almost three hours no agreement was reached meaning several teams remain poised to not lodge entries for 2010 by next weeks deadline.

Although most team principals refused to comment about the situation as they left the Automobile Club de Monaco, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo revealed that more talks were needed.

"It was a long and constructive meeting," he said. "FOTA will have another meeting tomorrow, and then there will be another meeting with Mosley.

"What we want is that Formula 1 stays as Formula 1, that it doesn't become something different and go towards constant changes which confuse the public and all the others, that there should be stability and that we work over the next two years to arrive at a way of further reducing costs."

Despite the failure to reach an agreement on Friday, and with next weeks entry deadline looming, Mosley said he remained optimistic a deal could be reached.

"It was a good constructive meeting. The discussions are ongoing," he said.

When asked what the issues were, Mosley said: "They are the same issues. But I am hopeful there will be an agreement."

Ferrari, Red Bull, Toyota and Renault have all said that they will not enter the 2010 championship unless the rules are chaged.

Teams have until May 29 to lodge their entries to the championship with those missing the deadline likely to face a fine if they want to get back, providing there is space left on the grid.

F1, we know drama

[Redliner]

"Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.
Watch a heel crush, crush.
Uh oh, this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear!
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fineeeeee."

[MrHahn]

So we all following NASCRAP next year?

[vietlol]

I can cheer on Juan again

[Robert]

So we all following NASCRAP next year?

I think I would rather follow the Outlaw series than NECKCAR.