2012 Random F1 Discussion

Tobias · PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:56 am

I need to be honest here. If it hadn't been posted on the forum, I would have never thought about the fact that it's 18 years ago of Roland's passing.

Neil · PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:16 pm

nea wrote:

Rumours that Sauber's "Out of the Blue" logo in China is to do with a deal between Chelsea FC, Roman Abramovich and Sauber.

I actually had correct information!

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/04/30/s ... m-chelsea/

RtN · PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:40 pm

Couldn't have picked a more inappropriate race to reveal that if they had tried.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:56 pm

kals · PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:52 pm

mclaren2008 wrote:

RIP

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Tobias · PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:12 pm

the Simtek, such a beautiful car. Always been a fan of the slightly purple tone.

RtN · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 12:51 am

Well, at least from Mark's perspective there'd be none of the ambiguity over whether he's contractually a number 2 or not.

Bit of a kick in the teeth for Perez, though.

RtN · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 1:31 am

A lot will depend on the direction the team goes on the exhausts.

Juihi · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 1:42 am

Oh wow!!!!

did NOT see that coming, it would be absolutely epic though

Scirocco · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 5:02 am

Shit.. Who is going to replace Webber? I got a sneaky suspicion Kimi will as I don't think Red Bull will bring in Ricciardo or Vergne yet. Although if they did I got the feeling Ricciardo will get it judging by the first 4 races. I can't see Massa replacing Webber or even getting another drive. I think he was in the Indycar paddock for a reason now.

SBan83 · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 6:08 am

Scotty wrote:

I can only see Ricciardo taking the seat, he is the ultimate successor, everyone else who is as promising is either tied to Ferrari (Perez, Kobayashi) or Mercedes (di Resta, Hulkenberg) in one way or another.

It sucks that despite having Perez contractually bound to them, they go for Webber.

I think Perez is quite ready to go to Ferrari already and doesn't really need any more time to mature as a driver. Still, as long as Ferrari continue to run like this, he's better off at Sauber I guess. Maybe Ferrari fear that Alonso will bolt to Mercedes or Red Bull if they don't improve.

EAS · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 6:30 am

Maybe Ferrari fears Perez develops too fast and starts to causing problems for Alonso too early. And we know Fernando gets easily stressed with the view of the rear wing of his teammate right ahead of him.

Juihi · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 6:52 am

Check out this awesome tribute to Ayrton Senna!

SBan83 · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 6:57 am

EAS wrote:

Maybe Ferrari fears Perez develops too fast and starts to causing problems for Alonso too early. And we know Fernando gets easily stressed with the view of the rear wing of his teammate right ahead of him.

But Webber will cause even more problems for Alonso.

aerogi · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 8:16 am

18 years ago I woke up on sunday after witnessing the first time a driver being killed live on television. I remember it made me very sad.

But things were going to be even more sad and unreal...

RIP Roland. RIP Ayrton.

NVirkkula · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 8:40 am

Scotty wrote:

Kimi is too unpredictable, I wouldn't see him getting a Red Bull role, too scared he may do another Ferrari '08-'09 slump. Besides, he hasn't exactly trumped Grosjean yet, Grosjean has showed he can match him.

Yeah, because Ferrari was the best car and the team was totally supporting Kimi, he just didn't have any motivation and had too many ice creams.

And what kind of match has Grosjean been so far? He's not even close to Kimi in racing pace. Grosjean is fast, but I don't think he's shown anything yet that you could say that he's matching Kimi.

Juihi · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 8:50 am

NVirkkula wrote:

Yeah, because Ferrari was the best car and the team was totally supporting Kimi, he just didn't have any motivation and had too many ice creams.

He also scored more points than anyone else in the last half of 2009 in a hunk of shit car even though he was really unmotivated and just wanted ice creams

micha · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 9:25 am

Scotty wrote:

Massa will only be able to get a bottom 3 team slot, Sauber won't take him, Caterham, Marussia or Hispania might. IndyCar would be well suited to him, plenty of mediocre F1 drivers have made it massive there.

But is he willing to take the wage-cut?? None of those teams I see able to give him a few million to drive for him. All three will be better of with cheap decent drivers instead of an expensive crap one. Save the money to invest in the car I'd say.

acopip · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 10:01 am

aerogi wrote:

18 years ago I woke up on sunday after witnessing the first time a driver being killed live on television. I remember it made me very sad.

But things were going to be even more sad and unreal...

RIP Roland. RIP Ayrton.

This is strange. At this time I wasn't even born...
But my family in Brazil keeps me telling stories about Ayrton Senna. I read a lot of stories and watched a lot of films about Imola '94, but (fortunately) I will never feel the sadness like you all did.

Rest in peace Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna, keep racing in heaven!

ellis · PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2012 2:21 pm

If Webber thinks he has a better chance of winning a world title at Ferrari, he really should look at the recent history of the team. Whilst nobody would claim RBR to be 100% unbiased (maybe it is up till Horner, but we all know that above that they prefer Vettel), Ferrari are just flat out bent towards one driver and always have been. I see no reason for them to give Webber a fair shake whilst Alonso is sitting in the other seat.

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