2013 Random F1 Discussion

JJ · PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:24 pm

I don't mind 22 races as long as logistics work out and teams and mechanics do not get burnout. Though I'm no sure if TV companies like to send their commentary crew in 21 countries around the world.

Also it depends on the season how important extra GPs are. If the championship battle stays tight until the last race, no one would object if the season was 2-3 races longer. But if one driver dominates, the latter part of the season may appear very boring and prolonged. Those new races late in calendar (Sochi and Mexico) will probably be crap in terms of racing, while at the time of New Jersey and Austria performances of the teams may not be yet stabilized and thus racing will be interesting.

And the more races, the better chance of having rain in some of them

kals · PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:13 am

gd49 wrote:

I've got no idea who supplies fuel to F1, or indeed pretty much any racing series.

Almost every team has a contract with a major fuel supplier, Ferrari and Shell being a hugely obvious one. These contracts carry big financial benefits. A single fuel supplier will have big effect on these independent supply and financial contracts.. for instance...

Williams - PDVSA - Maldonado
Lotus - TOTAL - Grosjean

Losing this type of finance is not what teams want when sponsors are hard to come by right now.

But then again I just think this is a pawn in FIA's negotiating game of chess over the 2014 calendar.

StanV · PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:30 am

Total fuels RBR as well. Most of the Renault (or subbrands) partnered series/teams get fueled by them. I thought Williams had a deal with Total as well due to their engine contract, but I could be wrong (@kals). Might just be for oil with the rest done by Pastor's company or vice versa.

Same goes for all the PSA (Citroën/Peugeot) thingies by the way. Ze French connection.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:32 am

You know the way F1 likes to add value to its one make tyre supply deal by running compound rules saying teams must run 2 compounds of tyre in the races....?

I hope they're not going to try any of that bullshit with the fuel supplier....

"You have to run x amount of the race on fuel mixture A and the rest on fuel mixture B...oh btw that means you'll have to come in and refuel..BWA HA HA!"

Plz no!

LuckyStrike FAN · PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 4:18 am

BP Castrol supplies fuel & lubricants to Marussia and Mobil 1 is the one for Mclaren and Force India.

micha · PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 7:33 am

phil1993 wrote:

Is it just me that finds less is more sometimes? I think 18 is a nice amount, if you have too many I think an individual event becomes devalued a little.

22 will be pretty tough on teams as well, both physically and financially.

Maybe more striking is that the FIA has control of the fuel supplier in the future. Not necessarily for the prestige, but for all of the sponsorship deals.

22 is a very long season when one driver and/or one team dominates the season. While 18 is way to short when several drivers and teams compete for the win and the season is decided in the last race.

Logistically it's going to be a nightmare. Maybe if 75-80% of the races where in Europe it might be posible if planned sensible.

Tobias · PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 2:32 pm

kals wrote:

Well I had no idea Samsung was affiliated with Renault. Seems a sensible marketing decision to badge the engine under the South Korean company for the Korean GP, this is no different to Acer badging the Ferrari engines Prost used all those years back (although Samsung Motors is actually a car manufacturer).

wait, Acer was not an actual engine manufacturer? :oops:

ellis · PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 2:47 pm

Nope, Acer make consumer electronics.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:44 pm

Acer used to make those bad taste ferrari branded notebooks

kals · PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:47 pm

Acer still make notebooks, and they're pretty good.

Tobias · PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:11 am

I wonder if half of the Korean track will be located in the city now, as was originally planned.

phil1993 · PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:19 am

Tobias wrote:

I wonder if half of the Korean track will be located in the city now, as was originally planned.

No, and it never will be.

Schumifan · PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:50 am

Building a whole city just for an F1 race was always an insane idea. I'd love to have been in the board meeting.

Gaara · PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 11:51 am

You'd have been too high to remember what happened in it >.<

Echti · PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 12:03 pm

Tobias wrote:

I wonder if half of the Korean track will be located in the city now, as was originally planned.

Only some motorways around the circuit have been completed, but that's it. The track itlef and the surroundings are basically in the same shape as they were in 2010.

StanV · PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 12:44 pm

Schumifan wrote:

Building a whole city just for an F1 race was always an insane idea. I'd love to have been in the board meeting.

It'd be the same kind of board meeting as those Chinese ones where they go "people seem to like going to Europe, so let's build Paris over here instead!"

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 12:48 pm

"It's the 50th year of Formula 1. Lets celebrate that by going to Bahrain first instead of Australia and summing up 50 years of the sport by adding a shitty extra loop of track that really spreads the cars out. All in favour, put down your caviar and throw your bags of money into the air"

ellis · PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 12:54 pm

I remember discussing Korea with Guy Smith of all people (bit of a random name drop, but hey). I can't remember how we got onto the subject, but he said it was meant to be a street circuit. And I told him no no, they were building a circuit then going to build a city around the circuit. He laughed and then realise how mental an idea that was.

phil1993 · PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 12:57 pm

ellis wrote:

I remember discussing Korea with Guy Smith of all people (bit of a random name drop, but hey). I can't remember how we got onto the subject, but he said it was meant to be a street circuit. And I told him no no, they were building a circuit then going to build a city around the circuit. He laughed and then realise how mental an idea that was.

All I know is that no-one in F1 likes going to Korea. Well, maybe about 1% of people do.

Oh, and Bahrain is a twilight or night race next season so that'll be, er, interesting.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 1:02 pm

phil1993 wrote:

ellis wrote:

I remember discussing Korea with Guy Smith of all people (bit of a random name drop, but hey). I can't remember how we got onto the subject, but he said it was meant to be a street circuit. And I told him no no, they were building a circuit then going to build a city around the circuit. He laughed and then realise how mental an idea that was.

All I know is that no-one in F1 likes going to Korea. Well, maybe about 1% of people do.

Oh, and Bahrain is a twilight or night race next season so that'll be, er, interesting.

Add another race to the "evening time" list.

F1 must be desperate to break into the US market with all these later races (Evening in Europe=slightly more manageable time in the US Timezones)

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