sh@un

maybe the steering-wheel defect was due to removing an airbag wheel to fit it. probably wasn't anything to do with what it was made of unless 'woodgrain' referred to a short length of 4x2 attached to the top of the steering column

should def look at making changes that enable chasing cars to follow their prey very close at racing speeds without any of these tedious downforce/overheating issues. road cars have more sophisticated aerodynamic aids than F1 cars are allowed to have these days- having a variable aperture for the radiator inlets could probably compensate for the hotter air when drafting. they should at least be allowed to have something like that, and make it an automated function linked to water temperature. the return to steel brake rotors as mentioned would probably help a bit too all you have to do is throw in a right-hand turn and the Indycar is f**ked!

now Peugeot's even caning performance road cars (well, if you can really class 'hot-hatches' as such) not that that fact'll greatly trouble members of this forum, i shouldn't imagine

But then again, knowing how thorough Anal Ron is... I've no doubt that McLaren have the engineering nous and production facilities to make it happen if they're over being engine customers.

Well they have scratch-built their own road car engine now

and the Cosworth engine looks to be a bit shit at the moment, too... ima go out on a small, shaky, treacherous limb and say that the McLarens with be a full in-house effort by the time the engine supply deal with Mercedes runs out

cracka puh-leez; it's not like Ferrari are in any way a shining example of sainthood do you really wanna have that argument? apparently when some underling inside McLaren does something wrong, the FIA holds Ron Dennis personally accountable (obviously it'll be Whitmarsh now), yet when the TEAM PRINCIPAL of Renault orders one of his seat-warmers to have a stack, Renault is in no way responsible for that and it's got nothing at all to do with the fact that a Renault withdrawl would have left F1 with no dual manufacturer|engine supplier team bar Ferrari (until the recent advent of Merc GP, of course) p.s the shortcut idea is some dumb-ass shit

go back to the days when Ferrari used to go through 150 or so engines a season?

then winning just becomes a matter of who's willing to throw the most money at the problem, which is what they don't want

prolly get more interest if this was actually in the 'parts for sale' area

what's a 7-times world champ to do when the best He can manage is 6th place?- drown your sorrows in a box of icecreams of course!

true and the driver playing second-fiddle to the one with more points often having a whinge about not being given the superior strategy

most of the 'overtaking' in recent years has been done in the pit lane, based on stop-strategies seems this year it'll happen by the other two common methods; mechanical f**k-up or being out on the wrong tyres when it starts to rain as a footnote, I did get quite a chuckle when Lewis inherited P4 back after McLaren brought Button in and baulked Rosbergs pit exit- Machiavellian maybe, but a good example of the limited scope teams have to influence a driver's track position. p.s no way in hell Red Bull can do a wheel change in 1.8 sec

maybe the teams already took their fuel rigs down to Cash Convertors?

The solution to the whole 'no refuelling' balls-up seems amazingly simple to me Bring refuelling back, BUT make it a rule that the fuel hose has to have been disconnected from the car, and the hose man have stepped away BEFORE any of the tyre crew are allowed to touch the wheels. No more cars trundling down pitlane with the hose attached, strategy restored. Easy.

I know it's been done, the point is that and the gear thing would gaurantee more overtaking btw, the common denominator between the Brabham race car and the Mac road car is Gordon Murray

like the Mac F1 road car runs (to great effect)

maybe F1 cars should do away with front and rear wings altogether and just be permitted to run fan-assisted ground effects aero so the downforce levels don't change near other cars?

with a butt-ugly set of wheels hung off 'em

too early mang

how good would that be; everyone would be getting all extra-worn out 'n shiz it'll never happen...

There's one (maybe two) things they could do to guarantee some on-track passing: go back to H-pattern gearboxes with foot-operated clutches, and toss the power-steering systems as well

Dream start to Alonso's Ferrari career, and dream start to the season for the Fez

that bump is mental for a new race circuit looks like it should be dead smooth

the McLaren paint scheme looks even better on track than I thought it would. so horny