Formula One 2014

[djr81]

  On 07/01/2014 at 8:05 PM, Roy said:

With SONY as their new sponsor?

Dont want to be hating but typical Jo Saward horsesht. Runs a story that has been specifically denied by Sony. He gets about one in a hundred of these things right but it is all (At best) unsubstantiated rubbish.

Having said that sods law dictates that Sony will end up being McLarens new sponsor.

[sav man]

  On 08/01/2014 at 3:19 AM, blackrex said:

I'd rather watch R/C cars racing than than FormulaE, if that is what they are going to be like, especially with the ridiculous 100m dash that the drivers have to do in the middle of the race when they change cars after 20 minutes.

not as ridiculous as the fans being able to vote extra power to a certain car.

[tweety bird]

  On 08/01/2014 at 2:59 AM, levinboy said:

The future

Kill it with fire!!!

[blackrex]

  On 08/01/2014 at 3:48 AM, sav man said:

not as ridiculous as the fans being able to vote extra power to a certain car.

I hadn't heard that little gem before, what a joke!

[25GTT]

holy $hit, so kinda like Grettel and big brother voting system???

On that note.... i did vote Grettel out via text about 10 times..... I won :-)

[MFC05]

Anyone heard about Formula E, using electric racing cars :S

[benm]

Looking more forward to Formula E than I am Formula 1......now if only Merc and Ferrari got in on the action

[PN-Mad]

Oh man, that seriously sucks the nut bag.

It's about as evocative as turning on my blender.

[Roy]

  On 08/01/2014 at 3:37 AM, djr81 said:

Dont want to be hating but typical Jo Saward horsesht. Runs a story that has been specifically denied by Sony. He gets about one in a hundred of these things right but it is all (At best) unsubstantiated rubbish.

Having said that sods law dictates that Sony will end up being McLarens new sponsor.

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

[tweety bird]

  On 07/01/2014 at 8:49 PM, tweety bird said:

Also, Mercedes will launch it's new f1 car on the 28th of January.

Caterham will launch it's f1 car on the 28th as well.

[hrd-hr30]

can we vote extra power into that one that's trying to do skids? Formula lamE

[sh@un]

pure electric race cars will always be the gay red-headed step brothers of the real ones that predominantly burn hydrocarbons

[89CAL]

  On 08/01/2014 at 12:03 PM, Roy said:

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

Im sure they have a renault deal for this year.

[Roy]

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

[mattie4270]

KIMI,haha,love it

[mattie4270]

This years gunna be sooooooo good

[tweety bird]

Formula 1 driver numbers revealed as FIA announces 2014 entry list.

2014 F1 entry list so far in numerical order:

# Driver Team/Car

1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault

3 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault

6 Nico Rosberg Mercedes

7 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari

8 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault

11 Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes

13 Pastor Maldonado Lotus-Renault

14 Fernando Alonso Ferrari

17 Jules Bianchi Marussia-Ferrari

19 Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes

20 Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes

21 Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari

22 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes

25 Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Renault

26 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Renault

27 Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes

44 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes

77 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes

99 Adrian Sutil Sauber-Ferrari

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112089

[sh@un]

Sutil chooses the winner number

[tweety bird]

Max chilton will stay at marussia.

[sh@un]

well that's a relief