Formula One 2012

[Roy]

I bet that car looks nothing like what they come to Australia with!

Also in some pics it looked almost white. I was excited that they may have dropped the silver and gone red and white , but oh well

[sh@un]

Source, Skysports

http://www.skysports...00.html#photo=0

my niggahs

looks like they're hiding a few details as yet (rear diffuser, exhaust)

[tweety bird]

me likey.

[tweety bird]

Q&A with Button and sob.

http://www.formula1.com/news/interviews/2012/2/12969.html

[ctjet]

Now we wait for the fugly 2012 entrants

Looking forward to see if Williams has done anything sexy with their livery

[Roy]

Looks like Homo has been called a dog by Sutil overnight for not appearing for his defence, any well wishes etc. What a farking girl, Sutil was supposed to be his friend in the F1 world!

[ctjet]

26 vs 27

extremely cool

http://mclarenf-1.com/index.php?page=srch&ch1=15&ch2=22

[Snowman]

26 vs 27

extremely cool

http://mclarenf-1.com/index.php?page=srch&ch1=15&ch2=22

Thats a cool website.

From the profile picture if you run the 2011 Mac v 2012 Mac over the nose you see a considerable change.

However if you run the 2012 Mac over the 2011 RBR you will see an eerie similarity!

[ctjet]

How are they similar?

The nose is beginning to look similar, ill grant you that. But the rest of the car looks much like an evolution from last year. Just a much tighter bum now that the exhaust has been optimised (no octopus), and the old U-pods are gone in favour of mp4-25 style ones

If anything, the just combined the last two years cars into one!

[tweety bird]

Looks like Homo has been called a dog by Sutil overnight for not appearing for his defence, any well wishes etc. What a farking girl, Sutil was supposed to be his friend in the F1 world!

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton obeyed team orders and swerved around the wreckage of a once firm Formula One friendship after being accused of cowardice by

former grand prix rival Adrian Sutil.McLaren effectively put a gag on the 2008 world champion after newspapers in Germany and Britain reported Sutil had branded Hamilton

a "coward" for failing to back him in a trial that ended on Tuesday.

The German was given a suspended 18-month sentence and fined €200,000 ($261,800) for a brawl in a Shanghai nightclub last April. Hamilton, who had won the Chinese Grand Prix, also attended the nightclub.

A Munich court found the former Force India driver guilty of injuring Eric Lux, chief executive of Renault F1 team owners Genii Capital, with a champagne glass in an altercation between the two.

Sutil had told the court that he had repeatedly apologised to Lux and denied it was his intention to hurt him but rather to throw a drink in his face.

The court had also wanted to hear from Hamilton but the McLaren driver was excused due to team commitments ahead of Wednesday's launch of their new car at the Woking factory in southern England.

"Lewis is a coward. I do not want to be friends with someone like that," Sutil, who had previously counted on Hamilton as one of his closest friends in the paddock after being team mates in the junior

Formula Three Euroseries, told Bild newspaper.

"For me he is not a man. Even his father sent me a text message to wish me good luck in the trial. He [Lewis] changed his cellphone number. I could not even reach him anymore."

Asked about the comments, Hamilton was prevented from replying by a team spokesman who intervened.

"We've been told that Lewis shouldn't really go there [talk about the case] because it might go under appeal. So can we move on to the next question," he said.

"I'll listen to him," smiled Hamilton.

Sutil, 29, has said he is considering some time out of the sport, something he may have little choice about with only clear vacancy remaining at struggling HRT.

The Renault team has since been renamed Lotus while Force India have already announced Germany's Nico Hulkenberg as team mate to Britain's Paul di Resta, who is managed by Hamilton's father Anthony.

http://www.smh.com.a...0202-1qua2.html

"I'll listen to him," smiled Hamilton.

what a little bitch.

Edited February 2, 2012 by tweety bird

[ctjet]

the whole 'leaving 2011 behind' thing really hasnt worked well so far

first apperance out and he's already back in it!

[sh@un]

stfu Sutil; glassing people is a dog act

not surprised Hamo doesn't wanna be associated with such asswipes

[chef_stagea]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Adrian Sutil hopes to lapse to F1 after being found guilty of disgusting corporeal harm

The German was handed an 18-month dangling prison tenure as well as fined $262,000

Sutil has mislaid his place during Force India for 2012 to fellow citizen Niko Hulkenberg

He accomplished ninth in a drivers’ championship in 2011, scoring 42 points

(CNN) — German motorist Adrian Sutil is assured of returning to Formula One notwithstanding reception an 18-month dangling prison judgment for disgusting corporeal mistreat upon Tuesday.

The former Force India motorist was additionally fined €200,000 ($262,000) for injuring Eric Lux, arch senior manager of a Lotus team’s owners Genii Capital, with a champagne potion in a Shanghai nightclub after final April’s Chinese Grand Prix.

Sutil mislaid his chair with Britain-based Force India for 2012 as well as was transposed by his fellow citizen Nico Hulkenberg — who final raced for Williams in 2010.

The 29-year-old’s representative is anticipating to find Sutil a upon all sides inside of F1 prior to a latest deteriorate starts in Australia upon Mar 18, though his options have been singular with Spanish marque HRT a usually group upon a grid with a chair nonetheless to be filled.

Can Senna revive intrigue to Formula One?

His bent didn’t humour from a verdict, you have been right away exploring a possibilities that exist in Formula One

Manfred Zimmerman

“He’s still a race-car driver,” Manfred Zimmermann told CNN. “His bent didn’t humour from a verdict. We have been right away exploring a possibilities that exist in Formula One.

“We will do a many appropriate to find a place there again as well as usually time will discuss it if we’re successful. The many critical thing to Adrian is that Lux supposed his apology.

“They shook hands as well as right away they can pierce on. A bucket has been taken off Adrian’s shoulders. Otherwise, we’re presumption Adrian has a destiny in Formula One as well as will find his place again shortly enough.”

Zimmerman pronounced Sutil has no strait skeleton outward of a chosen motorsport should he not have a possibility to supplement to his 90 competition starts.

“We’ll usually consider about that if all else falls through,” Zimmerman said.”But we’re presumption that all will work out.”

Sutil accomplished ninth in a drivers’ standings final deteriorate with 42 points. His top finish was sixth, that he completed during his home competition in Germany as well as during a season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix.

[dori34]

ooh yeah!

cant wait for redbull to unveil theirs!

[Roy]

stfu Sutil; glassing people is a dog act

not surprised Hamo doesn't wanna be associated with such asswipes

Are you kidding? General powder room gossip has had the event as an accident, not a deliberate glassing. Meant to throw a drink over a tosspot whose behaviour was out of line and in the cufunkle copped a glass in the face. No charges were made in China, where the accident occured. It seems a German can be charged with a crime that took place abroad, against a non German in Germany.

I am a long way from letting Dog Hamilton off the hook for this one. We will never know, but it appears as though Hamilton abandoned a mate rather then supporting him to protect his own neck from any publicity of involvement. Hamo has hung out with Sutil post the event, and the two have been fine so a bit late/convenient to drop his mate in the shit a few days before the trial saying busy with media committments.

[sh@un]

Are you kidding?

dude ends up with 29 stitches after Adrian only intended to douse him with champagne ?

seems like it was too fanciful a defense for the court anyway

[Roy]

I am with Sutil on this one. I would be curious to read the actual verdict. What was the charge? A suspended sentence sounds like a slap on the wrist, and the 200k to charity sounds like a good will gesture.

I have read he was charged with aggravated assault, other sources say grievous bodily harm or both. None of those require intent. They are both misdemeanor and not felonies because the intent to commit the crime is lacking, but rather then accidental, the behavior is wreckless hence the more serious charge over assault. Well at least thats what I can remember from High Scool Legal Studies (20 years ago ) so if thats wrong would love to know the facts!

Sloppy journalism in this day and age means you don't even get the facts behind the story. I am not 100% sure why the case was even heard in Munich and no charges were laid in China. Did the German Police file charges or is Lux able to file a charge in a German court and it is obliged to be heard if agaisnt a German citizen ? It all smells as though a man with means filing a private law suit over bruised ego...and a few unfortunate scars.

The whole Lux attacked by Sutil is BS IMO. Story goes a friend of Lux spilled a drink on Sutil. Lux gets power happy and throws his weight around asking Sutil to leave. Sutil responds by returning the favour and attempting to spill the contents of his glass over Lux...and woops. Things go pear shaped. I can almost guess the friend of Lux was a good sort, who perhaps threw a drink at Sutil? Then Lux , the man in shining armour comes in "you better leave" all with a few people pushing out their chests being hard men in 10k suits! Sutil goes to hurl a drink at him...and yeh...pear shaped.

The fact that Lux is running around saying a phone call isnt enough of an apology, but instead wants a face to face apology tells me this it is more about bruised ego rather then a genuine victim of assault. Otherwise he would want nothing of an apology and would be talking convictions.

Hamo is a dog as 10 days before the trial he was attending to give evidence on behalf of Sutil. Then 5 days before pulls the pin because of media commitments. Fark me I would know what is more important!

Anyway, moving on...

[N1GTR]

Boy wonder needs to fix his priorities. Less modelling next seasons release of clothing for snobby metrosexuals and more time helping your mates.

[Roy]

Mates? Well he wont have many distractions for the coming season. Nobody on the grid likes him. His Mrs dumped him. He walked away from this Dad. Dennis isnt around as much to protect/support him. Whitmarsh seems more open to the two drivers and has never used words like "petulant" to describe Button...but has used such language for Hamilton.

His support network on race weekends seems non-existant. Hoping his 2012 season is a cluster fark and his candle blows out and McLaren dont meet his pay demands at end of year. He will be remembered as a great talent, who was lucky to win a WDC whose most mature performance as an F1 driver was his first season. After that hsi head seems to spend half the time off in the clouds, and the other half up his ass.

[sh@un]

man, the first bloody race can't come soon enough