The 2013 Season

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

Is Bianchi bringing any money to the team? And I wonder if the BBC will mention him (Razia) in the race build-up?

 

[Brogan]

Bianchi has some money but not the full £5 million apparently.

 

[mjo]

Ferrari engines in 2014 for Marussia?

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

Devastating for Razia ... 14 days away from your first GP...

A new pope a-coming... and an Italian driver back in F1...

 

[RasputinLives]

Bianchi is French but the two countries are close

Glad he has a drive as want to see him get a chance. Poor old Luiz.

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

Sheesh... assumption being the mother of all duck up's ...

With a name like Bianchi.... surprised he is not part Scottish...

 

[RasputinLives]

He's a bit mixed up nationality wise. His great uncle was Belgiun

 

[teabagyokel]

He's not another Gachot, is he?

 

[RasputinLives]

He was born in Nice so I don't think so. Just think of him as this generations Jean Alesi.

 

[Brogan]

With just 10 days to go to the first GP weekend of the season and race 10 still TBA, I would say I'm amazed that a professional sport can't do a better job, but I'm not, considering who runs it and their track record.

What's interesting is that all discussion on this mythical tenth race has completely ceased.

 

[FB]

Maybe it will be a virtual race on the Clip the Apex International Circuit and they will link together the simulators at the various factories?

 

[cider_and_toast]

Haven't they now confirmed that the calendar is now fixed and there won't be a TBA race this season?

 

[Brogan]

Not as far as I am aware.

It's still showing as TBA on f1.com: http://www.formula1.com/races/calendar.html and on the FIA site: http://www.fia.com/championship/events/fia-formula-1-world-championship/2013/tba

 

[Brogan]

A gallery of all the DRS zones this season: http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/bilder/drs-zonen-2013-6741817.html#fotoshow_item=1

 

[downforce]

Who do you guys think will triumph in the Bottas V Maldonado duel this year?

Clearly Bottas has the more impressive junior career but he has been out of racing for a year and in the final part of last year Maldonado was finally starting to look like a top driver, he had front punching pace and appeared to have cut the crashes out.

Singapore and Abu Dhabi were impressive.

 

[RasputinLives]

Well I've gone with Bottas in TMP but I can see it just as easily going the other way. Bottas is unproven but has a rep for consistancy so I think it depends on which Maldo shows up. Sometimes I get the feeling the win made Pastor think he could walk on water and that accounted for a lot of the mistakes afterwards.

I'm sticking with Bottas because I think he has the makings of someone who can have a long front running career. He could of course buckle under the pressure and make me look stupid.

Def the most interesting team mate battle this year.

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

Similar to FI last year: Maldonado will start off quicker, due to being more 'in tune' with F1, but by the end, I can see Bottas matching or even beating him at times.

 

[teabagyokel]

Brogan - Double zones everywhere bar Monaco and Japan...

...an interesting change of policy.

 

[mjo]

Didn't really want to start a new thread on this, but here's a summary showing when all the major motorsports series are in relation to the f1 season.
http://www.lloydbayliss.co.uk/mscal/mscal.php

 

[cider_and_toast]

I would guess there are now double DRS zones at most tracks to compensate for the loss of the use of DRS where ever they wanted in practice and qually and I guess it also allows a car to grab the place back if it can stay close enough to the car ahead on the same lap.