F1 Thread

[Daniel 7]

Weird innit? No Santander on it, or on Alonso's overalls from a shot the other day. Mind you, they weren't overrun with sponsors last season, and Honda ran that "my earth dream" car a few years ago with nothing.

Still got Mobil though, which cost them on the power front last season. I guess Honda are actually going to work with Mobil given they're the works team this time around.

[CJ]

Not paying for engines will save a lot. It has to be a worry though for f1. Williams has nicked sponsors from lotus. FI have nicked some from sauber. Not many new sponsors about though.

Did you kow that the teams compete with Bernie for sponsors? Bernie gets the cost for the track side sponsors? Well formula one management does to be strictly true. The weird thing is that the teams have to supply a list of people who they are bringing to a gp so from gets a head up and can nick a sponsor from under the teams noses.

[Bender]

Concept Ferrari F1 Car

[Vermilion]

That's pretty much awesome!!!! Be great as a road car imo.

Red Bull did one a while back too...




Who needs wheels anyway....2050?

[Daniel 7]

Alonso airlifted following a crash in testing at Barcelona. Hope he's ok. Been reported that he's concious, speaking and has been taken in for tests.

[RichC]

Seems Alonso is going to miss the first race of the season. Probably not a bad decision to make in light of how long he spent in the hospital and after the Bianchi crash of last year.

[CJ]

he could just walk round.

more chance of getting to the end than the mclaren

[meffin]

And he'd still be faster than Max Chilton was

[Vermilion]

Not great news about Alonso if true, saying he could have blacked out before the crash, and not due to it, also rumours that when asked who he was, he replied 'Alonso i drive go carts', later when asked he replied... 'i drive for Ferrari', hence pulling him from the season opener.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/31732315

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[Daniel 7]

Its a weird one this. There are all manner of rumours that he was electrocuted that were really swiftly denied by everyone at McLaren.

He also forgot some family members, apparently

[dww]

I though the GPS and other data released indicated that he was braking as hard as possible at the time of impact which surely wouldn't have been possible if he had blacked out before the crash.

I think people around F1 are worse than football fans at random extrapolation from minimal facts.

Alonso clearly had a pretty extreme concussion so I think a 'long' recovery seems reasonable. In general I think the problem in sports of all types is people expecting athletes to come back too quickly from this type of injury.

[Vermilion]

I though the GPS and other data released indicated that he was braking as hard as possible at the time of impact which surely wouldn't have been possible if he had blacked out before the crash.

I think people around F1 are worse than football fans at random extrapolation from minimal facts.

Alonso clearly had a pretty extreme concussion so I think a 'long' recovery seems reasonable. In general I think the problem in sports of all types is people expecting athletes to come back too quickly from this type of injury.

While i agree, sort of, many drivers have had such impacts, and rumors such as these haven't necessarily followed.

Can't believe the first race is so close.

[RichC]

Looking forward to the season starting next week its going to be interesting to see if anyone has got close to the Mercs.

[Daniel 7]

They haven't

[RichC]

I think you're right in terms of anyone catching them interesting to see who has jumped up though (if anyone) to challenge Williams for the 2nd spot and surely Lotus can't be as bad as last season.