2010 Formula One season [Huge update on page one]

I think Marlboro is still advertising with Ferrari...


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Frantic Wrote:
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> dont know anything abot that but its possible that
> if a car crashes very hard in 1st laps means car
> on fire like 70s?

Not likely, cars ran full tanks through 1993. I believe the last car to catch fire due to a crash was Berger at Imola '89, in a Ferrari that stored fuel in the sidepods (now illegal).

Yeah I think Marlboro's contract ends at the end of 2010 or 2011?

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2013 - Nando must come through..

casabonka Wrote:
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> Yeah I think Marlboro's contract ends at the end
> of 2010 or 2011?


End of 2011, i think - but they could extend it further if they want to.

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X (@ed24f1)

Definitely, as said already, Fernando's helmet compliments the Ferrari livery beautifully.

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loque Wrote:
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> my grid prediction for Bahrain (I don't like
> Bahrain being round 1)
>
> I think the grid will look like this:
>
> Hamilton
> Schumacher
> Vettel
> Button
> Alonso
> Massa
> Rosberg
> Webber
> Kubica
> Barrichello
> Kobayashi
> Glock
> Trulli
> Sutil
> Hulkenberg
> Liuzzi
> di Grassi
> Petrov
> de la Rosa
> Kovalainen
> Buemi
> Alguersuari
> Senna
> Lopez
> Campos D2
> USF1 D2
>
>
> I would place Ferrari higher but for the apparent
> lack of pace. If the car is good, Alonso is my
> favourite for the title. I've put Mclaren where
> they are because something tells me they're going
> to be fast early on. Red Bull will suffer from a
> late launch. Mercedes will be slightly out of
> sync with two new drivers. Lotus will be useless
> but Trulli will get some good quali pace out of
> it. Glock and di Grassi could surprise at Virgin.
> Expect Hulkenberg to struggle. Kubica and
> Kobayashi will destroy Petrov and de la Rosa
> regardless of what their cars are like. Campos
> and USF1 will be the minnows. Especially USF1
> which I do not trust.
>
> Let's see how right I am! :D


I don't think either Button or Hamilton will be in the posistions suggested but the rest of seems possible.


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Lewis/Alonso
Schumacher
Jense

The rest :p

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

95% sure that campos and usf1 will not make it, and also force india is in danger.

...now, what on earth FIA thought when they choose those (anonimus) names for f1 when names like lola, prodrive (AMR) and others are rejected.
it seems that FIA will again be fault for things that happening (will happen) to f1...

Indeed, Companies House has seemingly lost patience with Force India for not filing its accounts, therefore they have begun the process of closing them down by serving them notice.

They have 3 months starting from the 26th January to file their 2008 accounts correctly, if they don't then Force India will be dissolved and the team will become property of the state/FIA and the criminal proceedings begin (its sound a bit dramatic, but this is a criminal offence in the UK).

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I hope that doesn't happen, it would be a pretty sad end to a team that just 10 years ago had such promise under the Jordan banner.

stipe Wrote:
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> 95% sure that campos and usf1 will not make it,
> and also force india is in danger.
>
> ...now, what on earth FIA thought when they choose
> those (anonimus) names for f1 when names like
> lola, prodrive (AMR) and others are rejected.
> it seems that FIA will again be fault for things
> that happening (will happen) to f1...


Lola? Remember what happened the last TWO times they were in F1?

Nevertheless, since the team was acquired by Mallya and Mol's Luxembourg-based vehicle, Orange India Holdings, in October 2007, it has had a track record of filing late accounts. Its 2006 and 2007 results were both delivered last year a total of 28 months late.

i guess no sacks of rice have fallen over in China today

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...atleast lola had cars ('97 oouch) to race with but definitely will be much seriously take task unlike those two (phantom) teams

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Lola? Remember what happened the last TWO times they were in F1?

The Lola project of '97 was a cockup from the bean counters and bean providers. The team itself might have been OK, but MasterCard decided they needed to be on the grid a year earlier than planned. The team didn't even have time to test things in a wind tunnel... due to MasterCard (and the Lola hierarchy for allowing it) it was a car based on guesswork.

The Lolas of the 80s weren't actually Lolas - more of an offshoot of Lola's connections with Carl Haas.

Lola have made plenty of chassis for other teams over the years, but with little to shout about... given some of the teams though, that was always going to be the case, regardless of how good the core chassis weren't.

I hope Button & Hamilton retire or finish outside top 10 in Bahrain...........Because i hate Mclaren

Go Mercedes and Ferrari

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Force India will be on the grid. IMHO the most likely outcome is that they will be heavily fined and will race under appeal for the season until the accounts are correctly logged, but I don't believe they will be 'wound up' for it.

My reasoning is economic, and there are plenty of precedents here in the UK to follow on such matters. Firstly, Force India have invested a lot of money into this season and courts will be hesitant to force them to waste all of that investment. Secondly, and more importantly, a lot of employees are depending on Force India's participation for their income. Once again, the courts would take their needs into account.

I'm certainly not saying that the company will "get off" with filing late accounts, but the courts IMHO will not allow the operation to close down, at great economic and personal expense. They will keep it going somehow, but the team will be punished in another way.

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Vettel
Schumacher
Alonso
Massa
Hamilton

The rest .............


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Force India have been given a grace period to sort everything out, the'll be on the grid no worries.

Not heard a great deal from the team over the winter. I am quietly confident they can produce a special car. I would be supprised to see them just off the top teams .. At least thats my hope! I hope the di Resta testing could mean sutil is on his way out...

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"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL

from what i heard,force india will get some money from etihad because etihad didn't respect their 3 years contract with force india

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