Big Takeover
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It was a wacky podium. First Bourdais breaks his trophy, then Dario's told he's been penalized and is no longer the third place finisher (later rescinded).
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The Formula 1 2013 Season |OT| End of the Webber Era
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Mastah
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Kobayashi has crashed during Moscow City Racing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9CMN9CxGSw
Ferrari: "well, maybe Felipe is not that bad all in all", lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9CMN9CxGSw
Ferrari: "well, maybe Felipe is not that bad all in all", lol.
Adam Scott Aukerman
Member
Embarrassing but not exactly the easiest conditions to be driving an F1 car in. Filthy public roads, in the rain, at low speeds. Rather him than me.
Big Takeover
Member
Ferrari, do the right thing - on-board video with a timestamp overlay, and dubbed in Russian pop. DO IT
Classic Koba, tried to overtake at all cost!
Psychotext
Member
What compound tyres are we having this weekend?
Butter
Soft and medium
Psychotext
Member
Softs should be interesting. I guess at least it's not Super Soft and Soft.
Yeah, heat wave is slowly roasting Hungary and nearby countries and it will get even hotter at the weekend
Pizza Luigi
Member
So that's good news for Lotus right?
With the old tyres Lotus and Ferrari would dominate the weekend. With this new tyres nobody knows.
Pizza Luigi
Member
Good point. Cryin
Adam Scott Aukerman
Member
Quite. It's also not really clear how far Lotus and Ferrari have fallen behind in the development race, and add on top of that how well each team will have made use of the YDT and you're well and truly into who the fuck knows country.
So Vettel will probably win.
Beautiful lol.
Rumours going around this morning that there will be announcement that F1 will be coming back to the A1 Ring (Red Bull Ring) in Austria.
Looks like it'll be on the 2014 calendar.
Wonder how much Red Bull paid Bernie to get it back on the calendar?
Looks like its confirmed:
Looks like it'll be on the 2014 calendar.
Wonder how much Red Bull paid Bernie to get it back on the calendar?
Looks like its confirmed:
zomgbbqftw
Banned
Red Bull Ring? Awesome.
Psychotext
Member
Sweet. Tempted to go to that one next year.
FUCK YES YES YES YES! My favourite track finally back.
Korea is gone too I reckon. Nice track but in the middle of nowhere and terrible attendance to go with it.
Race will be July 6th I'm hearing
Bernie doesn't give a rats arse about attendance, only the fee the race organisers pay and the quality of the hotels.
Wasn't this the problem with the Red Bull Ring? Wonder if they are working on it
With any luck, it's back-to-back with another Euro track. Was pissed I couldn't do that this year, love to do it next, for fucking sure.
We should do a GAF thing.
How do you come to that conclusion? Not being a smartarse, genuinely want to know.
My body is ready. Have we ever had that before? Has that ever happened in the last decade or so?
I thought it was the quantity of hotels they were worried about. Good news though!
It will be Hockenheim next year no?
Psychotext
Member
Yup.
Squirrel Killer
Member
In the midst of a 10 week stretch with only 3 races, you're worried about a crowded schedule?
I was just being sarcastic considering Bernie's history of destroying the European F1 heritage while going after the money Arab and Asian countries were throwing at him.
But from every report in the last week, he's not going to remain in charge of F1 after the bribery charges. Don't really know if this will end up being a good or bad thing for the sport to be quite honest.
systemfehler
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Yes it was more a problem of hotel quanitity and infrastructure. There are also some groups which will try to block F1 in Austria because of emissions (noise, pollution, etc.). The proper permits have yet to be issued and now everyone will look very closely at the government if there is rule "bending" of any kind.
I hope everything goes through. I only live an hour away and would love to go there.
Big Takeover
Member
Great news about Red Bull Ring. It always seemed to put on exciting races. I'm a big fan of short length tracks (it's only got 8 turns!). Compressing field can really help the show. It really reminds me of Interlagos in that way.
Of course I like long tracks too, and they didn't get much better than Osterreichring, but those days are long gone.
Of course I like long tracks too, and they didn't get much better than Osterreichring, but those days are long gone.
Goldrusher
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It's official.
It felt the same to me, maybe it's because of summer time, going to the beach on weekends. Actually I 'm thinking of downloading the race.
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A1 ring back? Hell yeah!
brotkasten
Member
I hope they keep it the same track and not fiddle with it too much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNrAalKiClA
KillerMan91
Member
So Kimi, Button and Alonso only ones next year with actual experience from the track.
I thought it was a new track, then noticed it was short and felt a lot like A1. Then I looked at the description and see it was the A1 Ring. That was a great circuit. It needs to be repaved, but it was always a good racing track. I assume it only dropped from the calendar because of Bernie's greed. PEACE.
Pizza Luigi
Member
Holy shit
KillerMan91
Member
Time really flies. It feels like it was yesterday when Alonso and Kimi were those promising rookies. Now they are almost the only ones with experience from the race that was a decade ago...
RomanticHeroX
Member
Excited for the return of the Austrian GP! The circuit itself is pretty interesting, but goddamn does it have a gorgeous backdrop. Photos from that GP always look amazing.