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[Foliorum Viridum]

woow chin-boy.. very funny

I couldn't resist

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

I am sorry but the FIA is joke. Only in formula 1 you will find risk taking and innovation banned. I feel for lotus. All that money and research time just gone to waste.

Kimi will make up for it don't worry.. He'll be still fighting for points so nothing has changed

 

[brotkasten]

Kimi will make up for it don't worry.. He'll be still fighting for points so nothing has changed

You surely meant he'll fight for the one point you'll get when you finish 8th.

 

[Xun]

I am sorry but the FIA is joke. Only in formula 1 you will find risk taking and innovation banned. I feel for lotus. All that money and research time just gone to waste.

Indeed.

Very corrupt and also biased in favour of a certain team.

 

[Osiris]

You surely meant he'll fight for the one point you'll get when you finish 8th.

I think he meant fighting for points over the season, if he's lucky he could even manage to get 20 or 30 points in total!

 

[brotkasten]

Indeed.

Very corrupt and also biased in favour of a certain team.

Hey, leave Red Bull out of this. They'd never do such a thing and always end up as the one who suffer.

 

[Xun]

Hey, leave Red Bull out of this. They'd never do such a thing and always end up as the one who suffer.

What makes you think I'm talking about Red Bull?

 

[brotkasten]

What makes you think I'm talking about Red Bull?

So you meant McLaren? Don't be ridiculous. Whitmarsh couldn't even hurt a fly, let alone bribing a FIA official.

 

[ashk]

So you meant McLaren? Don't be ridiculous. Whitmarsh couldn't even hurt a fly, let alone bribing a FIA official.

Stop teasing, he obviously meant Mercedes. Allowing the double diffuser at the start of the 2009 season gave Brawn the title that was rightfully Red Bull's.

 

[Ark]

Stop teasing, he obviously meant Mercedes. Allowing the double diffuser at the start of the 2009 season gave Brawn the title that was rightfully Red Bull's.

:lol

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

You surely meant he'll fight for the one point you'll get when you finish 8th.

10th

Hey, leave Red Bull out of this. They'd never do such a thing and always end up as the one who suffer.

So you meant McLaren? Don't be ridiculous. Whitmarsh couldn't even hurt a fly, let alone bribing a FIA official.

Stop teasing, he obviously meant Mercedes. Allowing the double diffuser at the start of the 2009 season gave Brawn the title that was rightfully Red Bull's.

LOL!

 

[mblitek]

I just uploaded two really good documentaries:

Driving Ambition - Eddie Jordan - 1998 - 51minutes

Colin Chapman & Team Lotus preparing for Silverstone - 1978 - 16min

The Eddie Jordan one is the complete version and follows some wicked sideburns E.J. & Jordan F1 for a season.

Plus, the usual suspect F1/car mags uploaded. Enjoy!


p.s. Thanks for the well wishes!

 

[Edmond Dantès]

kim's new helmet.

 

[Adamm]

kim's new helmet.

Not as good as his previous one, but still awesome

 

[Edmond Dantès]

Not as good as his previous one, but still awesome

It may change slightly with a plethora of sponsor stickers.

Also, Kimi is getting up to speed right now in the R30.

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/273658/raikkonen-drives-2010-car-in-valencia/

 

[Adamm]

Looks better from this angle!

 

[Edmond Dantès]

Still think the McLaren era helmet is the best design thus far.

Simple and elegant.

 

[S. L.]

lots of rumor info about the new ferrari

Italian technical journalist Giorgio Piola has struck again, releasing some details of the new Ferrari due to be launched at Maranello on Friday February 3rd.

The car has been described as “ugly” by Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo and it’s certainly a new departure from the DNA of Ferraris of recent years, but all there are agreed that if it’s fast enough, it will certainly be beautiful!

Among the indiscretions Piola has published in Gazzetta dello Sport today are that the suspension is a pull-rod system, the first on a Ferrari for 11 years. This is what Red Bull has been using since 2009 and many others have followed.

It works well with a lower nose and allows a lower centre of gravity on the car. At the rear it allows the back to sit low, clearly part of Ferrari’s strategy for coping with the loss of the blown diffusers.

The new rules, lowering the nose on the cars, means that the nose droops down.

The drivers are more reclined in the new Ferrari. The sidepods are very narrow and the crash structures to protect the driver are in two wing like shapes in front of the leading edge of the sidepods, above the radiator inlet line. In addition to meeting the crash requirements, they will clearly have an aerodynamic function.

All the teams are working on innovative sidepod ideas to try to get the best possible airflow to the rear of the car to make up for the lost downforce from the banning of the blown diffusers. Sidepods offer quite a bit of freedom to the designers.

According to Piola the front and rear wings at the launch will be old specification, not the 2012 ones.

The exhaust outlets will be at the lower end of the range specified in the new rules, blowing across the bottom profile of the rear wing. But there is a development plan, apparently, to move to what McLaren and Red Bull is believed to be doing, which is to exit the exhausts high up, to blow across the top profile.

*snip*

http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2012/01/some-indiscretions-from-italy-about-the-new-ferrari-f1-car/

 

[Shaneus]

woow this is amazing.. read this

Bit slow on the ol' uptake, eh? Not everything I post is about Webber.

 

[Adamm]

lots of rumor info about the new ferrari

http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2012/01/some-indiscretions-from-italy-about-the-new-ferrari-f1-car/

I cant wait for the new ferrari, so much talk about it!

 

[Orgun]

Iceman in the Lotus R30

 

[Adamm]

Iceman in the Lotus R30

Funny its an autosport "Spyshot" when Lotus are also posting pictures on thier twitter feed.

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

kim's new helmet.

EEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! please god let this be a placeholder

Not as good as his previous one, but still awesome

its UGLY!!!

Bit slow on the ol' uptake, eh? Not everything I post is about Webber.

sorry my bad. I don't read all the replies all the time .. but you have to agree that its worth posting twice atleast

Iceman in the Lotus R30

ICEMAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN

wish we could get some timings. Any benchmarks on the track he's using?

 

[Adamm]

ICEMAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN

wish we could get some timings

It will probably be slow.

Not mocking him, just that its unlikely that they will be pushing for fast times.

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

It will probably be slow.

Not mocking him, just that its unlikely that they will be pushing for fast times.

The purpose is to train the neck as his personal trainer said.. so its all about putting in the laps and do some high G's turns and breaking

@f1talks f1talks.pl
After few laps Kimi Raikkonen was 8 seconds slower that "regular" time of the track for F1 car... #F1

 

[oipic]

Liking Kimi's helmet (and great to have him back, of course), but that number on the side of it looks more suited to those agricultural trucks he drove for Kyle Busch last year.

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

Liking Kimi's helmet (and great to have him back, of course), but that number on the side of it looks more suited to those agricultural trucks he drove for Kyle Busch last year.

Am I the only one who really hates the helmet?!

 

[h3ro]

Am I the only one who really hates the helmet?!

Not a fan either.

My personal fave was this special Monaco lid he wore a few years back:

I liked his Ferrari lids as well, with the paisley. :lol

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

News Update:


Ecclestone still confident over Bahrain

Webber first to test RB8

 

[NihonTiger90]

News Update:


Webber first to test RB8

Guess they wanted to give him an advantage on that start. :lol

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

Guess they wanted to give him an advantage on that start. :lol

*laughs*



*runs*

 

[Adamm]

Guess they wanted to give him an advantage on that start. :lol

Its the only time he will be first all season!

Spoiler

Until vettel hands him a race win after he has wrapped up the title

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

Its the only time he will be first all season!

Spoiler

Until vettel hands him a race win after he has wrapped up the title

awww.. you guys are so harsh when it comes to Webber.. If he sucks what can the poor guy do about it? give him a break!

 

[brotkasten]

awww.. you guys are so harsh when it comes to Webber.. If he sucks what can the poor guy do about it? give him a break!

He could always man up, stop finding excuses and replace Massa at Ferrari.

 

[S. L.]

Buemi to Toyota

Spoiler

at Le Mans

http://www.gptours.com/index.php?command=show&what=news&id=6577

 

[Adamm]

He could always man up, stop finding excuses and replace Massa at Ferrari.

Then destroy Alonso!
Winning 3 championships in a row, bringing Ferrari back to thier former glory!
& then walk off into the sunset waving his finger at Vettel (who is now racing for HRT)

 

[Edmond Dantès]

New Sky promo:

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/chromase...ssf1-promos.ogg

 

[Adamm]

New Sky promo:

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/chromase...ssf1-promos.ogg

Link doesnt work =/

 

[Edmond Dantès]

It should work now:

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/chromaserver/ssf1-promos.ogg

 

[S. L.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PCV2xCCyAgk
kimi in valencia

and some sketches how things could look like

 

[Edmond Dantès]

More details of project 663.

http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2012/01/some-indiscretions-from-italy-about-the-new-ferrari-f1-car/

No such thing as an ugly Ferrari F1 car.

 

[ANDY_098]

Kimi enjoying an ice cream on his first Lotus outing.

 

[Adam Scott Aukerman]

It should work now:

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/chromaserver/ssf1-promos.ogg

Say what you want about Sky, but they really have the ability to make their broadcasters look awkward as hell down to a fine art.

 

[Psychotext]

They really do look like fish out of water. What the hell is with all the makeup too?

 

[SunhiLegend]

Only a couple of weeks left before the first pre-season test session.

 

[ashk]

Buemi to Toyota

Spoiler

at Le Mans

http://www.gptours.com/index.php?command=show&what=news&id=6577

Don't they already have three drivers? Wurz, Lapierre and Nakajima?

 

[ANDY_098]

Don't they already have three drivers? Wurz, Lapierre and Nakajima?

They must be running (at least) two cars. A lot of top drivers looking for a drive with Peugeot dropping out.