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I reckon the car looks awesome!!!! Clothing ummm. Well thats why I knocked back their drive when they saw me driving around the streets of Hyderabad on a scooter....I just couldnt handle the team shirts!

Forget Heikki....he is solid at best with questionable pace. He didnt cover himself in glory at Lotus by even doing a solid job with them. Was a tough ask to step in to the team, but he probably performed under even moderate expectations. Kobi is a waaaay better bet and is not confirmed. A bit disappointed McLaren didnt pony up with the cash to give Vandoorne the seat Caterham give Frijns a go...but oh well

So since Dennis thinks winning is so easy lets see him start with getting some sponsors. I wonder who their new title sponsor is? They have just released their 2014 Team Merch and it is plan old McLaren with some Mobil and Mercedes signage. Obviously no Vodafone.....and interesting nobody else. You would think if they had a new big sponsr they woudl find their way onto their 2014 merch

Well, personally I think Williams are going to spring a rather large surprise this year. They have been heavily involved with the development of the Audi Le Mans hybrid tech and this year they have Mercedes engines. So combine a good V6 with their know how of getting ERS to perform in a 24hr race etc and the use of KERS for 30 seconds a lap now...well I think Williams will be very strong in this area. Combined with Symonds who is no dummy....and I think Bottas is a good thing and hopefuilly Massa can push his development along. II personally am expecting Williams to do a '13 Lotus! So Brawn would be wise to jump on board...he will get all the control he needs/wants. He wont even have to travel to every race.

LOL, that's the first thing I thought of when I read he was getting involved at Mercedes. I think it was a question that Brawn wanted control, not design/management by committee without overall governance. For the same reason he told Merc to shove it I cant see him ending up at McLaren. They simply have too much politics and the reality is he didnt like the Honda way of going racing either. I have read he found it very frustrating. So ... lol that means he will go to Williams...he will, he will, he will...I hope

Dennis was always a wanker. Sorry, what he did to DC and Montoya annoys the hell out of me. He got results in the 80s with Senna and Prost. He got results in the 90-00s due to Newey. Newey in part left because of what a miserable place Dennis made it. So, lol yep, come on back Dennis.. I look forward to going back to hating McLaren rather than feeling sorry for them! And look forward to watching the messiah come back for all to realise that he is just a guy that was smart oenough to know he needed smarter more talented people around him.

Anyone know of someone machining out an L2 housing to suit a normal TD06 turbine?

...and there goes Buttons year, not going to be easy for him! RIP John Button

Getting close.. more reports coming out that Caterham will be signing Kobayashi and Ericsson! That will be a good combo! May have preferred to see Frijns rather than Ericsson but oh well

Romain will continue to be a gun! Re Kimi...from Autosport.comon Kimi in Nascar But the race wasn't without its dramas. As anyone who heard Kimi's Abu Dhabi radio chat is aware, he knows what he's doing - even if that means failing to wear the correct protective gear... "When he first came here I looked at his shoes and I told him, 'I don't think you'll be able to run those shoes over here' and he's like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah that's what I always race with', so he didn't want to put the heat shields on. The floorboards get exceptionally hot in NASCAR vehicles, maybe 125-130 degrees. "But he didn't want to put his booties on as we call them and we are a bit into the race and he comes on the radio and says, 'My feet are getting very hot! Never mind, I will put them out the window!' "I thought that was the funniest thing I ever heard on the pitbox. And that was the only time he brought it up in the whole race."

They may have paid for an engine or two ...but they do not have a confirmed and signed Renault deal. I assume its because they dont have the funding to pay Renault the upfronts

Looks like R35 GTR brakes by a different name. Probably just the mounts that they make to ensure the R35 gear bolts to an R32/33/34

Think it was the weekly Sky F1 Show earlier in the year talked that Sony was a possibility when discussing the bad year they were having and chances of damaging negotiations with replacement sponsor. They were talking how the Honda deal could bring Japanese sponsors on board?!?!? Made no sense to me And something else I stumbled across. Lotus still have not confirmed a Renault engine deal. Surely they are using one and building the car around it...but dollars from non existant sponsors etc and payments is stopping a formal deal. I hope they are not in as bad a shape as some media outlets are saying with regards to possibly not fronting as employees still missing pay cheques

With SONY as their new sponsor?

Kobi to Caterham...come on get him back in the car. Bringing speed and cash with his experience where as Heikki brings experience but no speed or cash. Also, i guess it looks like an engine...

Odds are he would have been a decent enough driver if not injured. He is a Le Mans winner

From Autosport That is why it was fascinating to hear from Vettel on stage at the AUTOSPORT Awards – a now regular appearance where those present see what the real man is like – how things are not always so rosy with Marko. "I got a big wake-up call in Hungary," said Vettel, referring to the last race where anyone other than him won. "I thought I did a decent job on the Saturday. Pole was a very, very close fight with Lewis – I think there was only a few hundredths difference. "I was happy with my lap in my final attempt in Q3 but I knew pole was for grasp, so I was not entirely happy. I got to my room, got changed and when I was in my underpants Helmut Marko opened the door, and he said: 'You f**ked that one right up!' "I asked him what he meant. "He replied: 'Turn 5, I saw it. If you only copied the lap from Q2 in Turn 5 you would have pole.' "What most people don't see is that this year has been a tricky year in some respects. People always think that Helmut and I are like best mates. But actually the example I am giving you is that he was never shy of giving me shit and probably never will be. "So he gave me a massive bollocking for f**king it up. I said on Turn 5 he had a point, as he had spoken to the engineers so was well informed. But it wasn't an awful lap. He said, 'Yeah but you should still have got pole.' "Next day, we finished third which I think was a good recovery for the race we had, getting stuck in traffic and so on. But he said, 'You see, yesterday you get pole you win the race; you didn't get pole, you f**ked it up; and today you saw you had a shit race!' I said, 'Thanks for the summary!'"

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FOS, personally would rather the Revival but timinst isnt right

Reasoning for using Greddy plenum? I have always liked them...but guessing your reasoning may be more measured????

LOL, so many versions around these days. But the two are the "yes, yes...dont need to tell me every second" ... and the "leave me alone, I know what I am doing" versions Meanwhile, Le Mans tickets being booked this weekend. Just need to find the dollars to do the Austrian GP between Le Mans and Goodwood. Being single has its advantaged!

I grabbed that hoodie, beanie and a few shirts last year. Lost me beanie on the drink in Paris...need to get another one so my drunken roaming the streets saying "yes, yes, yes...leave me a lone I know what I am doing" has some sort of witty undertone...rather than just beign drunk!

So many new rules are annoying me...they dont appear to be steps in the right direction!!!!!