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[Dr. Jimmmah!]

Lotus is going Mercedes engines next year.

[DrDickAction]

Wow. Renault seems like they'd need a 2nd team to stay supplying...Caterham doesn't seem out of business just yet, but not sure how they're going to last another year.

[Nacho]

Wow. Renault seems like they'd need a 2nd team to stay supplying...Caterham doesn't seem out of business just yet, but not sure how they're going to last another year.

STR uses Renault engines now.

[Redliner]

[Redliner]

Even Massa wants to know where FA is going, lol

[DrDickAction]

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

Even Massa wants to know where FA is going, lol

Lol. Excellent troll deflection on Fred's part

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Sooo... Caterham is doing well

[DrDickAction]

employees locked out this morning. Done. =/

This OpEd does not paint a very rosey picture for the remaining teams either.

http://joesaward.wor...ock-on-effects/

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

Haas doesn't join till '16, right?

[vietlol]

18 cars in Austin, what a joke

http://www.autosport...t.php/id/116497

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

18 cars in Austin, what a joke

http://www.autosport...t.php/id/116497

It's becoming MotoGP right before they introduced CRTs. Really hope F1 doesn't have to resort to customer teams w different rule sets

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It's becoming MotoGP right before they introduced CRTs. Really hope F1 doesn't have to resort to customer teams w different rule sets

it was a horrible idea at the time, but it honestly saved MotoGP...
next season 2 new teams (Suzuki and Aprilla) and 25 riders on the grid...

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Sportmanship and having fun...
lets be in each other's team photos

[Redliner]

Sportmanship and having fun...
lets be in each other's team photos

F1 has really lost its mojo compared to MotoGP...

[Redliner]

18 cars in Austin, what a joke

http://www.autosport...t.php/id/116497

Bernie not giving two shits about lower teams is a problem too...even though he ran Brabham in his younger days.

I'm not even sure why lower teams want to be in F1 these days. What's the purpose? What's the draw? It's not like the old days where a "garagista" like Williams and McLaren can become a respectable racing team. Lower teams don't even have a chance to be a feel good under dog even...back in the days, you'd at least see a Minardi mixing it up in the top echelon. Fernandez is right to lose interest in Caterham - FOM has done everything to keep small teams out while trying to bring in manufacturers who only care about F1 when it best suites them and dumps the teams when they feel like F1 isn't helping their marketing...

The spirit of F1 is losing focus year by year. Instead of trying to grow the popularity of the sport, they only focus on bringing in as much money to line Bernie's pockets as possible by going to venues where no one gives two shits about racing (Korea, Bahrain, Russia, etc). This year has only been saved by the battle at the MB but otherwise, I'd be pretty bored of F1 this year.

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and Marussia has now filed as well...

[DrDickAction]

Three car teams next year, except, of course, that Sauber and Lotus can't afford to field 3 cars.

What a shit show.

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F1 has really lost its mojo compared to MotoGP...

F1 needs personalities like Rossi/MM/Cal/Redding/Hayden/Colin and less ego like Alonso/Nico/Lewis. Closest things we have is Ricco/Kimi personality wise..

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

F1 needs personalities like Rossi/MM/Cal/Redding/Hayden/Colin and less ego like Alonso/Nico/Lewis. Closest things we have is Ricco/Kimi personality wise..

Felipe baby.

[Redliner]

F1 needs personalities like Rossi/MM/Cal/Redding/Hayden/Colin and less ego like Alonso/Nico/Lewis. Closest things we have is Ricco/Kimi personality wise..

It's F1's corporate culture that stuffs them out IMO...having to tow the company line all day everyday for their sponsors...

Somehow MotoGP has managed to avoid that.

[DrDickAction]

<br />It's F1's corporate culture that stuffs them out IMO...having to tow the company line all day everyday for their sponsors...<br /><br />Somehow MotoGP has managed to avoid that.<br />

It's just money. There is an inverse relationship between sponsorship dollars and personality. Look at the difference between payton manning and rob gronkowski, dereck jeter and coco crips, or tiger woods and john daily.

[Redliner]

https://www.youtube....clmYQbrk#t=1195

Work on your computer and put this on the background. A convo between the team principal of MB, Lotus, Sauber, FI and McLaren about all the problems of F1 explained in one video...really insightful.

[Redliner]

http://www.autosport...t.php/id/116584

First time Burnie has admitted he has made a mistake. And the first rule to fixing it is to admit you have a problem, lol.

[vietlol]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116584

First time Burnie has admitted he has made a mistake. And the first rule to fixing it is to admit you have a problem, lol.

dementia setting in