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[Aiii]

A disgruntled employee, you say?

I wasn't gonna say, but yeah that was my first thought too when this news got out. It had to have been someone high up.

 

[Fox Mulder]

Hong Kong next year in Formula-E.

Yep, that's a formula e course alright.

 

[darkinstinct]

Guys, there is no conspiracy here, it was found out by a small German lab by accident when lab tests showed different results than the official tests. That started an investigation which led to the whole mess we have now. Piech obviously knew what was coming and therefore tried to kick Winterkorn out of office but he couldn't publicly tell about it because at that point investigations in the US were still ongoing.

 

[DrM]

Beautiful response from Manor. Top class

Hong Kong next year in Formula-E.

High risk that somebody in support race will die from boredom during crawl on that long straight

 

[DieH@rd]

Rekt.

 

[Staab]

Rekt.

That's beautiful, haha...

 

[Lucius86]

Rekt.

That's like a Lotus level of twitter response.

Manor have a new fan.

 

[Mastah]

Nice cloud.

 

[cmr-94]

Amazing how often it rains on a friday, and not a sunday

 

[stryke]

hmmmm

 

[Wax Free Vanilla]

Holy shit, Fernando claiming that they're gonna be super fast next year and the Manor is gonna be shit because their chassis will forever be crap.

A 100% Peter P car design and an on song Honda PU = race winning machine. McLaren Honda would have won this season if they were allowed to fix their ERS, Button says the issue is an easy fix but due to the retarded token system they couldn't do shit.

Next season we're going to see a Honda/Brawn leap in performance. I wouldn't be surprised if McLaren Honda and its drivers take both championships.

 

[Aiii]

hmmmm

That's what he's always been saying.

 

[tomtom94]

That's what he's always been saying.

To be fair, if it's 22, that means we'll lose one team between now and March.

EDIT: I see you corrected your mistake. THIS POST IS NOW REDUNDANT

 

[Zeknurn]

hmmmm

I think this tweet says it all

@f1enigma: Im perplexed with all the Bernie comments. So confusing

 

[Aiii]

EDIT: I see you corrected your mistake. THIS POST IS NOW REDUNDANT

I'm faster than McLaren-Honda.

 

[frontieruk]

I'm faster than McLaren-Honda.

But will Manor be?

 

[Mastah]

Sweet dreams, Felipe baby.

 

[ElTorro]

Sweet dreams, Felipe baby.

He ain't sleeping. That Manor tweet killed him.

 

[DrM]

Nice cloud.

Just need Putin's face photoshopped on it

 

[nature boy]

hmmmm

Teams with 3 cars? With RB out, it'll be an all-Merc podium.

A disgruntled employee, you say?


What a beautiful response.

Employee that's also a major shareholder. So no, unless he wanted to lose a ton of money.

 

[DrM]

Autosport reporting that RBR and STR are back in talks with Renault for 2016 engines

 

[Aiii]

Autosport reporting that RBR and STR are back in talks with Renault for 2016 engines

Thank god for this, because it is a lot more interesting than anything going on on track today, heh.

Though, I have to say, I like Fridays practice the most out of the weekend because it's just the Sky commentary shooting the shit all day, silly jokes make my day.

 

[Mohonky]

Autosport reporting that RBR and STR are back in talks with Renault for 2016 engines

Oh man. Looks like Ferrari weren't interested in giving in to Red Bull. Going to be an interesting few months of PR from both sides. Though now that Red Bull have already thrown Renault under the bus and Renault are looking at their own works team, what does this mean for Red Bull is Renault really do buy out Lotus? Second tier Renault engines for Red Bull?

I cant even begin to imagine it.

Will Red Bull chuck an almighty wobbly and just sit out some races until the contract is finished with F1 I wonder?

 

[DrM]

I think little greedy dwarf brought them back together, because he apparently said to some media people that RBR engine deal is 'sorted'

 

[Aiii]

I think little greedy dwarf brought them back together, because he apparently said to some media people that RBR engine deal is 'sorted'

If it wasn't for that little greedy dwarf, they would have been gone from F1, so let's give the man some credit.

For all of Bernie's fault, his dedication to F1 is not one of them.

 

[JadedWriter]

Rekt.

Funny, we can almost say the same about Alonso's Minardi Honda.

A 100% Peter P car design and an on song Honda PU = race winning machine. McLaren Honda would have won this season if they were allowed to fix their ERS, Button says the issue is an easy fix but due to the retarded token system they couldn't do shit.

Next season we're going to see a Honda/Brawn leap in performance. I wouldn't be surprised if McLaren Honda and its drivers take both championships.

I have 3 words for you, twenty fucking twelve.

 

[dubc35]

A 100% Peter P car design and an on song Honda PU = race winning machine. McLaren Honda would have won this season if they were allowed to fix their ERS, Button says the issue is an easy fix but due to the retarded token system they couldn't do shit.

Next season we're going to see a Honda/Brawn leap in performance. I wouldn't be surprised if McLaren Honda and its drivers take both championships.

Interesting enough, there was an article a couple days ago saying the opposite is more likely.

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/f1/exclusive-honda-misery-set-to-continue-into-2016/

 

[Lourio]

lol sky commentators are just throwing out different Red Bull rumors left, right and centre.

Who to believe??

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12475/10022886/red-bull-being-force-out-of-f1-claims-red-bull-owned-magazine

 

[Dilly]

It's a crying shame that that whole diesel-scandal had to pop up just right now.

I'm convinced this kind of stuff happens with every manufacturer, so I wonder which of them spilled the beans on VW. It was either a disgruntled employee or one of the other manufacturers that went "hey, you might want to look into this on these cars"

It was discovered by some American scientists.

A 100% Peter P car design and an on song Honda PU = race winning machine. McLaren Honda would have won this season if they were allowed to fix their ERS, Button says the issue is an easy fix but due to the retarded token system they couldn't do shit.

Next season we're going to see a Honda/Brawn leap in performance. I wouldn't be surprised if McLaren Honda and its drivers take both championships.

I'm tired of your nonsense, buddy.

 

[Aiii]

That is what THEY want you to believe, Dilly.

 

[JadedWriter]

I'm tired of your nonsense, buddy.

He can drink all the cracked out McHonda Kool Aid he wants, he's the only one trying to get on that space ship.

 

[ElTorro]

It was discovered by some American scientists.

It was actually discovered by German scientists from Berlin at the ICCT.

 

[Dilly]

It was actually discovered by German scientists from Berlin at the ICCT.

I thought this was the start of the scandal?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/volkswa...sed-by-routine-university-research-1443023854

 

[Mastah]

Lessons learnt from Bianchi accident:

GP3? Who cares.

 

[ElTorro]

I thought this was the start of the scandal?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/volkswa...sed-by-routine-university-research-1443023854

Can't read that article, but the guys from the ICCT were interviewed regularly by German media over the last weeks. The ICCT apparently has locations in the US too, so that's probably the root of the confusion. I think the actual experiments were conducted in Berlin, but it was probably joint work across their locations.

 

[Dilly]

Can't read that article, but the guys from the ICCT were interviewed regularly by German media over the last weeks. The ICCT apparently has locations in the US too, so that's probably the root of the confusion. I think the actual experiments were conducted in Berlin, but it was probably joint work across their locations.

I see.

 

[Lucius86]

Lessons learnt from Bianchi accident:

GP3? Who cares.

No way they drove in those conditions, surely?

 

[JadedWriter]

Lessons learnt from Bianchi accident:

GP3? Who cares.

I wouldn't even want to do this in Gran Turismo 6.

 

[spuckthew]

That looks dangerous as fuck what the hell

 

[Zeknurn]

On Inside F1, EJ said the rumor about Red Bull buying Formula 1 could happen and he also said that another possibility is Red Bull takes over the motorsport part of Volkswagen Group.

 

[tomtom94]

On Inside F1, EJ said the rumor about Red Bull buying Formula 1 could happen and he also said that another possibility is Red Bull takes over the motorsport part of Volkswagen Group.

Part of me says "well, Hamilton to Mercedes sounded that implausible when he first called it" and then the sane part of me goes "no, that's just fucking stupid".

 

[DrM]

Maybe Oracle Eddie is right ...

 

[Aiii]

Either of those happening seems like good things to me. Please be right, based Jordan.

 

[Mohonky]

Red Bull running F1? Yeh, because that wouldn't half turn into a complete shit show. Red Bull not winning? Nah sorry guys the sports dead, wrap it up.

That or some ridiculous rule sets that favours Red Bull and Red Bull only.

 

[Aiii]

Because that makes total sense. Spend half a billion dollars to buy something and then just kill it off just because, right? Seriously.

Why even assume that Red Bull would continue running a team if they bought F1.

 

[yami4ct]

On Inside F1, EJ said the rumor about Red Bull buying Formula 1 could happen and he also said that another possibility is Red Bull takes over the motorsport part of Volkswagen Group.

Red Bull taking over VW motorsport makes a certain amount of sense. With all the trouble VW's dealing with, I can see them trying to offload side devisions to cover losses.

 

[Scipius]

Why even assume that Red Bull would continue running a team if they bought F1.

It certainly didn't help Brabham when Bernie took control of F1.

 

[Ark]

Red Bull buying F1 would be the best thing that could happen to the sport. They'd actually have an online presence, probably have web streaming, they'd be able to make sure the regs aren't crap.

CVC does literally nothing for the sport other than collect it's pay-cheques, Red Bull would make the sport active again.

I hope its true, actually. Although we'd probably still have to put up with Bernie.

The VW rumour makes a little more sense though.

 

[nature boy]

On Inside F1, EJ said the rumor about Red Bull buying Formula 1 could happen and he also said that another possibility is Red Bull takes over the motorsport part of Volkswagen Group.

Ha, no.

 

[JadedWriter]

Lewis Hamilton 'driving like a god,' says F1 legend Niki Lauda

"Nico and Alonso are on the same level and then you have Daniel Ricciardo and Dany Kvyat. They are the top drivers in the rankings with two or three tenths difference in their speed."

Ummm....no.