Racing (Car) : Formula 1 2014 Season

[jb66]

If i was alonzo id stay with ferrari, kimi hasnt performed well this season

[andy_m]

Caterham now fully in the hands of the administrators meaning the whole lot can be sold as a going concern, and Bernie has given them permission to miss America and Brazil...watch this space. If Marussia decide to only run one car again we'll have a couple of races with a grid of fewer than 20 cars.

[andy_m]

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/201...-miss-f1-us-gp

I hope this doesn't result in Sauber overtaking Marussia, but an 18 car grid for Austin.

[007stuart]

Marussia also goes into administration

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-29784602

[Stop It]

Well, this is a sad situation.

What do we need to happen for action to be taken to get the sport to take cost cutting seriously? Or is Bernie going to shove the big teams into running 3 cars instead?

If that's the latter, then so be it, but for me half of the fun of Formula 1 is seeing the "small" teams prove themselves by taking points off the teams with far bigger budgets and as a route for young drivers who don't mind a bad car because they can prove themselves. Look at Bianchi, Alonso, heck even Schumacher started at a team that if the big teams have their way with scrapping cost caps would never have existed.

[Matth]

Often wondered how today's "Minardis" survive - maybe a dual specification is needed, like in the old days of turbo & non-turbo, when there was an interesting battle among the minor league non-turbo teams - pretty sure there was actually a separate championship among them.

It was a sad day when they lost the lucrative tobacco sponsorship, and for WHAT?
I knew the Malboro McLaren, the JPS Lotus, the Benson and Hedges Jordan, Lucky Strikes (I forget which one they were) - knew they were brands of cigarettes, but it didn't make me want to go and smoke any!

I'd vote, right now, to bring back tobacco sponsorship, after all, alcohol sponsorship is allowed (though Labour want to ban it!) - still if they ban that, maybe they can go for porn site sponsorship instead.

[andy_m]

Lucky Strike was BAR, but they're now Mercedes so I'm not sure that helps your point!

[Cobbydaler]

Trouble brewing among the smaller teams left.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/29858916

[Matth]

For all the talk of cutting costs, nothing has been achieved - in fact, probably the greatest cost cutting measure I can recall was the season when KERS was permitted, but by "gentleman's agreement", none of the teams implemented it.

Surely this seasons exotic turbo + energy recovery engine INCREASED costs.

[andy_m]

Gerard Lopez made a good point in the team principal's press conference - he could run a gp2 car for a season for €4 and only be 5 or 6 seconds behind Mercedes' €300+ championship winner. It's hard to argue that a 5 or 6 second advantage for more than €296 represents good value for money, or even that it couldn't be achieved for a lot less.

Of course the point he misses is that as a marketing exercise, €300 for a world-wide car manufacturer to associate themselves heavily with the champions of the pinnacle of motorsport is a drop in the ocean.

[SnoopZ]

I hope this seasons championship isn't decided by double points in the final race as that would be terribly unfair.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

I hope this seasons championship isn't decided by double points in the final race as that would be terribly unfair.

+1

[MalteseFalcon]

IMO, if it means that Hamilton loses the title then I am all for it.

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by MarkC1984

IMO, if it means that Hamilton loses the title then I am all for it.

I expected a comment like that.......

In my opinion the race points still need to be the same in every race even if someone doesn't want that person to win the championship.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by MarkC1984

IMO, if it means that Hamilton loses the title then I am all for it.

Oh dear Mr Grumpy is in great today it seems.