Great news for Jenson. I imagine the Japanese ties have helped and keeping slightly tighter lipped than Alonso, I hear he's off to GP2.

 

Will be interesting if Renault and Honda pull a rabbit out of the bag and usurp ferrari as #2 power. The pressure on them both to perform will be immense next season as effective team owners/sole representatives!

 

I'm imagining that no one will unseat merc till a new engine rule comes into play.

 

Wonder if Renault will keep maldonado on, gets good tv time, although less of late.

Red Bull final announcement to withdraw from Formula One in two weeks http://t.co/9fKpHBcLCM

Is this the start of the end then, as we know CVC are ready to sell up.

 

Processional races, boring race tracks, little parity between the top and bottom teams et al.

 

Will F1 decline as WRC did as the top manufacturers and team leave to concentrate on other sports?

 

Or will RB leaving mean it will start to develop and thrive again as RB "may" have been restricting things in some areas?

Ricciardo expects RedBull to stay...

 

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/121191

 

although a VAG engine in the future looks less likely than before - the new VW chairman was quoted yesterday as saying "all unnecessary investments will need to be canned"

Edited 8 October, 201510 yr by camelspyyder

I think this is just RB spitting their dummy out to try and get what they want. Can't see them leaving just yet.

Mercedes are not going to pass the upgraded (Monza) motor to customer teams this year:

 

autosport.com

..., as we know CVC are ready to sell up.

 

 

but who will buy ?

Joe Saward reckons it's not happening any time soon:

https://joesaward.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/some-basic-truths/

What are the FIA doing? Rarely hear anything from Jean Todt

Red Bull asking Renault nicely to let them have engines for 2016?

 

Cyril Abiteboul does not sound keen to continue with RBR (hardly surprising the way they've slagged his product off for several years)

Big crash in FP3 for Sainz Jr.  Session red-flagged and will not re-start.

Red Bull asking Renault nicely to let them have engines for 2016?

 

Cyril Abiteboul does not sound keen to continue with RBR (hardly surprising the way they've slagged his product off for several years)

Red Bull throw all the toys out of the pram because they can't win at the moment.

Then they end the engine supply  contract with Renault early, before they have found a new engine supplier.

Now they are 'demanding' a 2016 spec engine from Ferrari. Not the sharpest tools in the box are they.

You must understand that Christian Horner believes that his team have a god-given right to get what they want.  Remember the (Renault invention) blown diffuser that wasn't in the rules? The other teams lodged complaints so the FIA changed the rules to allow it telling the other teams that they could now use it as well (knowing that if the car/engine combination wasn't designed and tested with it retrofitting wouldn't work as well).

 

How many other teams and team managers whine so much after a few races without a win?  Horner has been whining since the start of the season - even though a lot of the problem was also down to an underperforming chassis.  Another factor, of course, is the requirement to nominate your gear ratios for the whole season.  Red Bull tended to change the gear ratios at every race, sometimes twice when the Friday practice didn't work the way they hoped.  

 

Why on earth would any engine supplier want to deal with such a team in the future?

But Ferrari threw their toys out of the pram as have just about every successful team when their time on top came to an end.

Redbull are just the current team treading a well established path

Poor old RBR...

 

But they have mightily pi55ed off Renault, and previously done so to Ferrari (when they engineered a swap of engines between RBR and STR - when they had different ones), and the owner has a major (unknown) historical beef with Mercedes.

 

So that leaves Honda, or RBR's preferred pie-in-the-sky Audi engine (which'll never get built because VAG will have no money left).

 

At least they don't have a rules veto like Ferrari did, otherwise they'd be able to ban every engine that was faster than theirs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

12 months after RedBull have gone no-one will miss them.

 

What was that last rock'n'roll style F1 team?  Was their car yellow?  Who cares?

 

 

Edited 10 October, 201510 yr by camelspyyder

Well well,

 

STR aren't as proud as the big boys.

 

A deal for the current Ferrari motor is almost done.

Which leaves RBR possibly crawling back to Renault. So to todays race, who will be first into turn 2?

Loved the feature with Jensen! It will be a sad day when he leaves F1.

Hoping that Nico will get another Lewis hammering today ;-)

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Shame Rosberg went out early and deprived us of a race at the front.

WTF was Kimi thinking of? 

I pressed play, 53 laps later I've got a lot of tabs open for the new site design/build, and EddieJordans voice is back on. Great missed much, nope. Sad.

 

Highlights will be a highlight. 

 

Poor Nico, but didn't Hamilton have the faulty bin last year?

 

I thought I'd heard redbulls choice on engines somewhere before:

Seems Kimi's "move" has done it...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/34500999

 

Merc Champions 2015 after penalty. Sad they won like this, although it was inevitable.

Hamilton had his own DNF 2 races ago so must be fairly even this year.

Jenson should pack it in and go to WRX instead - it looks way more fun...

 

 

Oh and well done to Force India on the 3rd ever podium.  :clap:  :clap:  :clap:

Edited 11 October, 201510 yr by camelspyyder

Seems Kimi's "move" has done it...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/34500999

 

Merc Champions 2015 after penalty. Sad they won like this, although it was inevitable.

Only 30s? Surely a fair penalty for Kimi would have put him back behind Valterri?

Hamilton needs to penalised as well for his continuous "on message", vomit inducing comments about "being blessed" and "feeling the fans' love".

Fans don't fall for this condescending garbage.........................do they?

I don't have time to watch any more than lights to flag (if I'm lucky)... so I don't get to observe the drivers personalities.

 

Was under the impression they're all robots anyway.