Re: [POLL ADDED] Formula 1 2009 Season
 

Part of that story is at>>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/7962869.stm

Re: [POLL ADDED] Formula 1 2009 Season
 

What? A situation where teams could get penalised to Ferrari's advantage......crickey, never saw that one coming:D

Re: Formula 1 2009 Season
 

This I never saw coming either! Could be 26 cars on the grid for the 2010 season, along with the crappy "medals" system.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/7957788.stm

Re: Formula 1 2009 Season
 

This will be bordering on unsafe, in my opinion - also, I cannot see how adding more teams to a 'winners take all' championship makes any sense.

The 2009 season is a bit of an unknown quantity, but previous seasons have resulted in maybe 5 teams dominating the results - adding 3 more to the back of the grid makes no sense at all to the competition, or am I missing something???

Re: Formula 1 2009 Season
 

Does anybody know if the BBC plan to add F1 to BBCHD?

Re: Formula 1 2009 Season
 

Not this year.

Re: Formula 1 2009 Season
 

Well one team will be the americans...I wonder who the other two will be??

Re: Formula 1 2009 Season
 

The BBC can deliver programmes in HD, just not the F1. The Australian GP will be filmed by n Australian TV company, and they might not have HD filming capabilities. So we can't watch something in HD if it's not being broadcast in HD!

I like the idea of introducing more teams. Maybe Super Aguri will be back, Pro Drive will be there, and I wonder who the third team are. :D

I don't like the medals system. He compared it to an Olympic sprint race...but that's just one race to determine the winner, with heats before it. The F1 doesn't have heats then a final. It's more like football, with matches and who ever has the most points wins.

Re: [POLL ADDED] Formula 1 2009 Season
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/7965056.stm

The stewards have said the cars are legal so four of the teams have now lodged official protests (though one of the protests have been thrown out on a technicality)

Re: Formula 1 2009 Season
 

This is a disgrace that the poisoned dwarf ex second hand car salesman can make such much money and wield so much power over F1.

This really is scandalousness and I wish his young beautiful wife would turn on her kers system at the ultimate moment and save us all a lot of grief, that would blow him out of the water.

Re: Formula 1 2009 Season
 

:mad::mad::mad:

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Although I can't say I like the man very much, I certainly don't begrudge him his success. He has worked very hard, from almost nothing, to achieve what he has. Surely he must be given a certain amount of respect for that.

Re: Formula 1 2009 Season
 

I'm afraid I cant agree with you, he has milked F1 for every penny he can get I believe that he still gets 50% of the profits and the teams get the rest, a bit unbalanced I think.

He also comes up with a ridiculous idea a couple of weeks before the start of the season that is only stopped by all the teams banding together, I could go on but I won't :)

Re: Formula 1 2009 Season
 

Lewis says that McLaren are going to struggle this year. Wonder if this statement is true.

Re: Formula 1 2009 Season
 

We'll find out in a few hours. :)

Re: Formula 1 2009 Season
 

We sure will :D

Hopefully the rule changes will actually promote better racing...unlike other rule changes in other years ;)