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The Formula 1 2011/2012 Off-Season Thread |OT| The Year of the Red Bull

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Myoclonic Jerk

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Orgun said:
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LOL
 
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Adamm

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All the official photos of the CT01 seem to do thier best to hide the ugly nose.
They are either side on, from the front or from behind. None are from the same angle as the leaked photos :D
 
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Adamm

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Sky Sports news have said that they will broadcasting on site for up to 6 days round every GP
So 2 days before friday practice & one day after the race they will be at the track? Seems excessive....
 
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Orgun

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Adamm said:
Sky Sports news have said that they will broadcasting on site for up to 6 days round every GP
So 2 days before friday practice & one day after the race they will be at the track? Seems excessive....
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That does seem overly excessive.
 
Myoclonic Jerk

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Adamm said:
Sky Sports news have said that they will broadcasting on site for up to 6 days round every GP
So 2 days before friday practice & one day after the race they will be at the track? Seems excessive....
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so for back-to-back races they will be around the clock for 2 weeks?
 
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Adamm

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Official announced of Sky Sports News plan for F1

http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1/news/12433/7456424/Sky-Sports-News-announce-2012-plans

Sky Sports News will broadcast from the site of every 2012 Grand Prix for up to six days and will be in attendance for every day of every test session, the channel have announced.

Two dedicated reporters - Rachel Brookes and Craig Slater - will be embedded to work amongst the teams both at races and during the upcoming 'test season', with the channel pledging to "provide viewers with breaking news stories, detailed analysis and extensive coverage of each Grand Prix, including on-site build-up and reporting for all 20 races."

In what sounds like manna from heaven for F1 aficionados, it's also been eye-catchingly revealed that Brookes and Slater will be broadcasting "up to six days of coverage from each Grand Prix, with on-site reports beginning each Tuesday and running through the week to post-race reaction."

"This is the ultimate news service for F1," enthused Andy Cairns, Sky Sports News HD Executive Editor.

"Our reporters will be trackside and in the Sky Sports News HD studio ensuring viewers are always up to date with what's happening on and off the track.

"And viewers with iPads will be able to follow our F1 coverage wherever they happen to be via the new Sky Sports News app which features on-demand video, the latest news and interviews, data as well as Sky Sports News itself."

The channel has already broadcast bespoke features from the headquarters of Caterham, Williams and Marussia, and will be in attendance for the launches of the 2012 cars and driver line-ups throughout February.
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Cool! :D Hopefully the testing coverage is good
 
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Foliorum Viridum said:
6 days of coverage is overload. The coverage that BBC did was just about as much as you can do whilst remaining interesting.
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Agreed. There can be too much coverage. Just look at the 1.5 hour build up to their football matches - SNORE.

Although I am glad testing and the unveils are getting some loving.
 
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Shaneus

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It would take about 5.5 days per round just to cover the entire surface area of Webber's chin. That barely leaves enough time to cover the race, let alone practice and qualis.

PS. I'm still a little sad about Petrov. No idea why because I hardly followed him during the season, it just seems he was really hard done by and had his career needlessly cut short. Poor bugger :(
 
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Shaneus said:
PS. I'm still a little sad about Petrov. No idea why because I hardly followed him during the season, it just seems he was really hard done by and had his career needlessly cut short. Poor bugger :(
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Money talks so he had to walk!
He wasn't my favourite of the rookie so I can't say I'll miss him.
 
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Shaneus said:
PS. I'm still a little sad about Petrov. No idea why because I hardly followed him during the season, it just seems he was really hard done by and had his career needlessly cut short. Poor bugger :(
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He's just a name in the long history of F1. He'll be forgotten as soon as the coming season starts.

Adamm said:
All the official photos of the CT01 seem to do thier best to hide the ugly nose.
They are either side on, from the front or from behind. None are from the same angle as the leaked photos :D
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It doesn't really matter how the front of the car looks. Since there are rarely interesting fights for position 18-24, we won't see it that much.
 
mclaren777

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It doesn't look that bad.

Is it okay to post this? Many of the images from yesterday were also pictures from F1 Racing magazine. I don't want to get banned.
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Foliorum Viridum

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Shaneus said:
It would take about 5.5 days per round just to cover the entire surface area of Webber's chin. That barely leaves enough time to cover the race, let alone practice and qualis.
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Sky actually can't cover Webber's chin because in a bid to cut costs the BBC are using it as their studio this year.

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Lucius86

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3 of the main sponsors under the nose of that Caterham are all IT companies I use in my servers at work. They can all fuck right off.

Edit: That has to be one of the weirdest links to Webber seen yet.





























Awesome.
 
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mblitek

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Agh, I just wrote a great reply and somehow and undid it all with my voice dictation! Brutal.

Anyways the short version is this, I liked Petrov because he came from an unknown racing series and racing Lada's to racing in what is considered the top-tier of motorsport. I am surprised that he does not have a seat because of all the relatively "new" money in Russia and the fact that Bernie also wants a race to happen and presumably a place like Moscow. But you never know, Formula One is a funny business and I could see that if a race was planned in Moscow during a calendar year that he might just get a seat for sponsorships sake.

Is anyone here or does anyone here know of a good "template" source for creating a blog/website with CMS? I really want to get this website off the ground with minimal coding effort done by me.
 
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ashk

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Actually the Russian GP is planned to take place in Sochi from 2014. Maybe that will help him get a drive again by then. With drivers like Karthikeyan and de la Rosa managing to return to F1 I can't see why Petrov wouldn't be able to as well.
 
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Scottify

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Apologies if I missed this earlier. But some upcoming launches.

Ferrari & Force India -- 3-Feb-2012
Team Lotus -- 5-Feb--2012
Sauber & Red Bull Racing -- 6-Feb-2012
Mercedes AMG -- 21-Feb-2012

That's all I've heard so far
 
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Shaneus

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To clarify, are the only two things keeping the front wing on the car those two struts or is there something else I'm missing? Because they look like they'd cause quite some instability to the wing.
 
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