The 2011 Formula One Season

Surely Branson has to think about his brand. If he pumped a bit more money in, they could develop their own gearbox inhouse. But now Marussia are involved, would this involve an increased efficiency in the technical side?

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"My ambition is handicapped by laziness" - Charles Bukowski

or at least in engine tuning...


talking ´bout Virgin. Here in Argentina Esteban Guerrieri concluded successfully negotiations with the government to get the money to get into a Virgin next year. He talks regularly with John Booth and the expectatives to have after 19 years an Argentinian driver in F1 (at least here) are high. Has this been reflected in other countries or there are talking only about D´Ambrosio and one or two names more for that seat?

19 years? Have you forgotten about greats like Mazzacane en Tuero?

And Noberto Fontana!

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doh! typing error! i mean 10 years

anyway, if we say good argentinian drivers we should go back to... 1982 :P





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/22/2010 08:33PM by Frantic.

Nickv Wrote:
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> 19 years? Have you forgotten about greats like
> Mazzacane en Tuero?

> Plus Dave's Fontana

I think that's plenty of reason to forget

chet Wrote:
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> 97kirkc Wrote:
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> > F-Ducts and double diffusers are banned for
> 2011.
> >
> > Also regarding Virgin, they can flash all the
> > CFDness in front of everyone as much as they'd
> > like, as they've said they are sticking with
> the
> > Xtrac internals to the gearbox with their own
> > casing. That needs to change, even HRT have
> done
> > their damn best to get hold of the Williams
> parts
> > to get away from it.
>
>
> Still, I expect them to give Lotus a run again
> next year on pace. After a year of poor
> reliability, you'd hope that they can at the very
> least sort that out for next year. And again, they
> can have all the CFD power in the world but I
> still believe their drivers are one of the key let
> downs whilst the Lotus lineup is probably one of
> the main reasons why they are 10th in the WCC. Di
> Grassi has been poor and Glock has not much been a
> great deal better.
>
> HRT are likley to get Colognes playcar too arent
> they?
>
> Also, on that point. Surely working in the Cologne
> base during 2010 must have been the best job ever!
> Essentially from what I understand, the faciliy
> has been used as an R&D base for Toyota and
> various projects, one of the rumours being an LMP
> car. I suspect some guys would have worked on a
> 2011 spec F1 car... Seems to me like they were
> getting paid to let their imagines run wild!


I think it's quite unfair to rate drivers without F1 racing experience prior to this season in the lower cars. We knew Yamamoto sucked, but Senna/Chandok/di Grassi are true rookies and their cars were dire. Glock was in a slow but reasonably reliable Jordan and lucked into those points - I still remember being surprised he didn't crash! - and won in GP2, and seems consistent. I read from a couple of places and even from Lucas himself that the team usually went with the setup he found for the car, for Glock's car as well. They need better chances to prove themselves as they had some reasonable success in lower Formulas, despite Senna's unlucky retirements in GP2 and Chandok's unimpressive results in there but consistent driving and finishing in the HRT.

Trulli and Kovalainen are both confirmed at Lotus as well as Maldonado at Williams

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Maybe Maldonado will be a pleasant surprise in F1, like Kobayashi, but based on how he performed against Hulkenberg in GP2 in 2009, it doesn't bode too well for Williams.

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Xtrac's line on the gearboxes was that they weren't packaged in the car properly (I spoke to them recently when applying for jobs...)

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Hopefully it will be fixed for next year. It's hard to believe the entire blame can be placed on xtrac.

Good luck with jobs!

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

Sauber has announced that it will launch the C30 on 31st January at Valencia.

Maldonado is in. Hulkenberg is out.

[www.autosport.com]

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It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.

Updated P1.

no need for a new thread ...

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new teams win!!

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

Toro Rosso STR6 to be released on 1st February.

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Also who thinks that instead of green, Pirelli should use yellow stripes on the soft tyres (as it's one of Pirelli's logo colours and is easier to see)?

alexf1man Wrote:
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> Toro Rosso STR6 to be released on 1st February.
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> Also who thinks that instead of green, Pirelli
> should use yellow stripes on the soft tyres (as
> it's one of Pirelli's logo colours and is easier
> to see)?

Wasn't the green stripe a gimmick, or did they actually stop using white stripes? Either way, I agree with you

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I agree, too, but the green stripe is for show the ecological compromise Formula 1 has (something that I think is hypocritical considering todays cars burn aprox. 70 litres of fuel in 100 laps)

I think its more to do with the FIA's 'Make Cars Green' campaign rather than a specific F1 initiative.

[www.makecarsgreen.org]

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Virgin Racing have confirmed D’Ambrosio and Glock as their two drivers for 2011

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