Pre-Season 2018-2019 Winter testing and car launches
You can't just so No Izumi it's my opinion. You asked what's changed and thats what I believe has changed. Back in 1999 there were 7 engine suppliers and only one of them had its own team. Now there are 4 and three of them have their own team. Basically (as Red Bull found out) if you don't play ball with the main teams you don't get an engine. The engine regs are now in such a way that no one else is willing to try and get into the sport due to how far behind they are. Boy didn't they make it hard for Honda coming in!
That's my view. I know it's one you don't share and that's cool. But in my opinion the sport is now run by Merc/Ferrari not the FIA who have realised they need each other to make the sport work but are working very hard to make it seem like the sport is full of other competitive teams but really they are pulling the strings. That's my view and I'm sure others share it.
You are very much entitled to yours though.
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BradMan
Rookie
a word on the new RBR
The view from trackside: Red Bull impressing
Reports new Sky F1 signing Karun Chandhok:
"The Red Bull has massively impressed me. They have a sharpness on turning, especially into Turn One. They are able to turn really sharply but the rear end keeps up with the front. They have fantastic grip on the front end."
The view from trackside: Red Bull impressing
Reports new Sky F1 signing Karun Chandhok:
"The Red Bull has massively impressed me. They have a sharpness on turning, especially into Turn One. They are able to turn really sharply but the rear end keeps up with the front. They have fantastic grip on the front end."
olegg
Race Winner
Binotto suggested last week that Vettel may be prioritised over new team-mate Leclerc
if the championship situation calls for it.
"Mattia has a tremendous task in front of him, and I believe he wants to do it his own way," said Wolff.
"Team orders are always a very controversial topic, we've discussed it last year, be it within Mercedes or Ferrari,
and coming out with that at the beginning of the season is a statement."
I do respect your point of view RasputinLives, despite some quirks around edges.
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Yeah, but I do not understand what it all means. Some articles implied that Ferrari was concentrating on speed, whereas Mercedes on reliability, which explains their slower lap times. Point however is, Vettel raked still more laps than Hamilton and Bottas cumulatively together, which seems like reliability run to me as well. How is Mr. Wolff will explain the difference? Sandbagging?
olegg
Race Winner
Can you at least wait until after 4 days of these tests to hint at some Mercedes problems?
This is only a tests. And teams have no target here and now to show the best circle time.
And in terms of reliability Mercedes seems to be all right.
And judge is only the race.
Drivers always have a little moan at new situations. They'll all have forgotten about it and adapted by Barcelona.
F1Brits_90
World Champion
that ten tenths is what i saw. & obviously im talking in pounds not dollars as i translated it. the problems is that they were spending that in dollars & now they are spending that in pounds. but still a midfield team is now spending 250m dollars which 17-20 years ago was a championship challenging team. now its a challenging for 6th team
True, however as an experienced fan surely you know improperly heated tires during a race or exiting from pits could be problem. I think we heard about this in the past.
Any sign of that Williams yet? Apparently screens were up over garage earlier.
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