The 2011 Formula One Season
Posted by madotter
McLaren have just tweeted this
Black livery? Er, no: the same Rocket Red & chrome finish that you've grown to love since Vodafone McLaren Mercedes was born in 2007...
Shame, black and red would have been lovely
Black livery? Er, no: the same Rocket Red & chrome finish that you've grown to love since Vodafone McLaren Mercedes was born in 2007...
Shame, black and red would have been lovely
As mercedes only remains as a engine provider there are rumours that McLaren wants to change their livery to not be confused with the Mercedes GP cars and for giving "fresh air" to the team. Here is a link but its in spanish.
I think the car would look moreless like that picture Dan posted, although i would go back to the start and use orange, like they used in some test in 2005/6
edit: didnt see JackHammer´s post
anyway, i want the orange
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/05/2011 07:17PM by Frantic.
I think the car would look moreless like that picture Dan posted, although i would go back to the start and use orange, like they used in some test in 2005/6
edit: didnt see JackHammer´s post
anyway, i want the orange
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/05/2011 07:17PM by Frantic.
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Kolles said he is confident Karthikeyan still has the pace to compete at the top level, after spending the 2009 season racing for his team in the Le Mans Series.
Ok, he maybe has the pace to compete, but does HRT really have it?
HRT should race in lemon colors next year, as its just became the biggest lemon of formula 1
no toyota factory and Karthikeyan, they might consider borrowing a gp2 car to keep the pace
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Apparently Narain could've raced for HRT in 2010, but didn't want to race with an "unproven" team!
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I think HRT might get quite a few Sundays off in 2011.
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I think HRT might get quite a few Sundays off in 2011.
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Despite how much of a mess the team have been, they did make it to every race in 2011, and they have apparently got a car coming for '11 and will make it to at least one test with the new car...
Thing is, Narain self confessed (pretty much) he will be bringing sponsorship money, and that the deal owes alot to that. So if Tata are involved then im pretty sure HRT have every chance to make it, as much as they did last year.
My personal hope is that they buy the team and sort it out for the future.
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
Thing is, Narain self confessed (pretty much) he will be bringing sponsorship money, and that the deal owes alot to that. So if Tata are involved then im pretty sure HRT have every chance to make it, as much as they did last year.
My personal hope is that they buy the team and sort it out for the future.
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
Oh no! What will NASCAR do without Narain there? You know he won the Most Popular Driver Award in their Camping World Truck Series, after running just 7 races in the season!!!! LOL
Narain winning that award is clear proof that the Indian public, despite living in squalor, filth, poverty etc, can clearly use the internet to support their sportsmen. Either that, or Narain has a very tired finger from voting for himself a few million times!
As for him being back in F1, yep - money for HRT and seat time for Narain. Other than that, a wasted place on the starting grid.
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Narain winning that award is clear proof that the Indian public, despite living in squalor, filth, poverty etc, can clearly use the internet to support their sportsmen. Either that, or Narain has a very tired finger from voting for himself a few million times!
As for him being back in F1, yep - money for HRT and seat time for Narain. Other than that, a wasted place on the starting grid.
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Well there is a suggestion (mainly from Joe Saward) that Liuzzi might end up at HRT, paid for by Force India, to avoid paying him more damages.
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Good to see Narain getting another chance in F1. I always felt he was underrated.
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> Seriously? I know he brings money and all, but he
> was rinsed by Monteiro at Jordan.
Actually it wasn't quite as straightforward as that. People tend to forget that he was quicker than Monteiro during the early part of the 2005 season. Just because Monteiro scored more points and finished more races than Narain doesn't necessarily mean he whooped the guy.
I agree that it doesn't look great for his CV that he was getting beat at times by an incident-prone moron like Monteiro, but it doesn't make him a write-off. Let's see how he goes.
Monteiro getting another shot at F1... Now that would be puzzling.
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> Seriously? I know he brings money and all, but he
> was rinsed by Monteiro at Jordan.
Actually it wasn't quite as straightforward as that. People tend to forget that he was quicker than Monteiro during the early part of the 2005 season. Just because Monteiro scored more points and finished more races than Narain doesn't necessarily mean he whooped the guy.
I agree that it doesn't look great for his CV that he was getting beat at times by an incident-prone moron like Monteiro, but it doesn't make him a write-off. Let's see how he goes.
Monteiro getting another shot at F1... Now that would be puzzling.
Narain was very Sato like but even more erratic. If he's calmed down then he would be pretty quick imo.
Difference was Tiago improved throughout the season, Narain didnt seem too. Hopefully he has rounded some of his rough edges. I still remember his Aus qualifying effort in the wet!
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
Difference was Tiago improved throughout the season, Narain didnt seem too. Hopefully he has rounded some of his rough edges. I still remember his Aus qualifying effort in the wet!
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
hold up, the accident prone monteiro broke the record for most finishes in a season... 18 out of 19 is pretty immense in not just a crap car, but amongst accident prone backmarkers in a rookie f1 year!
Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole it
His finishing record in 2005, which looks good on paper, reflects more on what a tank the 2005 Jordan was than on Monteiro as a driver TBH. He did have a solid-looking season but his finishing record benefited from being in an F1 era - the mid-2000s - when cars had been made much tougher and more able to withstand collisions than previous generations of F1 cars were. In any earlier era he would've had additional non-finishes due to accident damage. To pick up on what Chet said - his pace did improve over the season, but his racecraft(or lack of) didn't.
He was basically another Alliot or de Cesaris - he just drove in F1 at a time when you could crash into other cars without it ruining/finishing your race.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/10/2011 03:51AM by EC83.
He was basically another Alliot or de Cesaris - he just drove in F1 at a time when you could crash into other cars without it ruining/finishing your race.
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