The 2014 Formula One Season

Is it just me or is there an impressive amount of innuendo in that one? :P

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Well, not intentionally. I just missed a word out.

EC83 écrivait:
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> Jackie Stewart in 1970, I think - he seemed to
> carry #5 in some races that year and #1 in others.

I think #5 was in 1971 (and #6 for Cevert) as his regular number for that season.


gav écrivait:
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> The last champ not to carry was Alain Prost. Next.

I guess he was meaning "... and still racing."

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So, Sauber have confirmed Sutil and Gutierrez, with Sirotkin as test/reserve.

Thank goodness they didn't give Sirotkin a race drive.

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GPGSL -
GPGSL-3 - Pizza Party Racing manager and driver
Nations Cup - Team Scotland manager

In other news Kobayashi is being hinted with a berth at Caterham.

smoglessbutton4 Wrote:
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> So, Sauber have confirmed Sutil and Gutierrez,
> with Sirotkin as test/reserve.
>
> Thank goodness they didn't give Sirotkin a race
> drive.

Looking at the interviews, they didn't really have a choice - apparently he hasn't got a super licence yet.

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J i m Wrote:
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> In other news Kobayashi is being hinted with a
> berth at Caterham.


T'would be interesting to see what he can do with that.
I doubt next year's Caterham chassis will be much good, but if the Renault engine is the dog's b*ll*cks then it would be nice

...but, if the Renault engine is the dog's b*ll*cks, then Vettel will dominate again...

I'm torn!

'Tis nice to see Caterham considering talent over $$$, though - giod on them!

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GPGSL -
GPGSL-3 - Pizza Party Racing manager and driver
Nations Cup - Team Scotland manager



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/21/2013 04:08PM by smoglessbutton4.

Except Kobayashi has reportedly put together a sponsorship package of maybe up to £6m. Plus.. As far as I'm aware he still has his donations from the Japanese public pit towards a F1 comeback.

Do you think Fernando Alonso will travel even more next year? If you're trying to find the original tweets from Fernando, they have since been deleted - probably as an order from Ferrari...

alexf1man Wrote:
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> Do you think Fernando Alonso will travel even more
> next year? If you're trying to find the original
> tweets from Fernando, they have since been deleted
> - probably as an order from Ferrari...

That is a pretty cool Tweet. Hope he will keep travelling that much, that's pretty hardcore. Hope he'll be in F1 for a good few more years too - he owes it to himself to win at least one more title before he retires. Whatever happens he'll probably go down in history as one of the great characters of F1 - the sport has been better and more entertaining altogether for the last 10 years thanks to him being in it.

I like Fernando.

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As spotted elsewhere, Max Chilton's Twitter bio no longer mentions him driving for Marussia.

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Which means either..

He's signed for Caterham.
Maurussia have found yet another rookie with an untapped wallet, or
Daddy can't afford to pay the pocket money anymore.

Or it's 2014, his contract expired on the 31 December, and it hasn't yet been renewed.

As long as Marussia have not signed Rodolfo Gonzalez, we should be fine.

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Races: 163 - Wins: 23 - Pole Positions: 24 - Fastest Laps: 22
Season 9: Constructors' Champions

have to say, the drivers aren't being very original with their choices of car numbers, other than bottas (with 77) I think they need reminding its a choice between 2-99, not 2-27.

I'd go for 88

Does anyone have any info about the car launch dates yet? We usually start he hear about launch announcements round about now.

Laton Wrote:
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> Does anyone have any info about the car launch
> dates yet? We usually start he hear about launch
> announcements round about now.


Seeing as testing begins at the end of the month, it kinda makes sense to hold off the launch and do a little media presentation prior to their first appearance on track.

In other news, it appears Kamui Kobayashi will know what he's doing by the end of the week. Seeing as he was linked to Caterham, it might be worth keeping an eye on him...

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GPGSL: S6 - TafuroGP Tester (14th) /// S7 - ART Tester (6th) /// S8 - Demon Driver (13th) /// S9 - Demon/Snake Driver (13th) /// S10 - Snake Driver (???) ///]
"My ambition is handicapped by laziness" - Charles Bukowski



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Apparently Lotus will not take part in the first test at Jerez and plans to unveil the car between Jerez and Bahrain.

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used to be GPGSL's Nick Heidfeld

Laton Wrote:
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> Does anyone have any info about the car launch
> dates yet? We usually start he hear about launch
> announcements round about now.


Mercedes to unveil the W05 on 28th January.

Mclaren 24th January.

Ferrari on 23th or 25th (not confirmed yet on which day it's gonna happen)


On 28th day testing at Jerez will already start, so I guess Ferrari and McLaren are only ones to reveal their cars before it.

Other teams will just roll out their cars when ever they are ready to hit the road. Most likely on 28 Jan, 19 Feb when testing at Bahrain will start, or just before start of season at Albert Park *cough* Marussia *cough*.

Kimi, so, Massa Fernando Sebastian is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?



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Not sure how anyone found out about it as I haven't read it anywhere other than Twitter, but apparently the Driver numbers are to be revealed today