F1 2017

[Badgers]

Good morning all

Perez looks to have signed for Force India for another year
Rumor is Alonso has resigned for McLaren

Alonso resigned?
Or re-signed?

 

[1%er]

Alonso resigned?
Or re-signed?

re-signed announcement early next week is the talk

 

[Limejuice]

Alonso resigned?
Or re-signed?

When Flavio Briatore is your manager, either. Or both. Wherever the money is. That.

 

[Badgers]

re-signed announcement early next week is the talk

 

[Limejuice]

Ha ha. Rain. Wheel out those intermediates.

 

[1%er]

Aston Martin would need to build an independent engine (they do build a V12 now) most of their cars used an AMG engine which is really a Mercedes and I don't think Mercedes would allow them to badge an AMG as Aston Martin

 

[Ax^]

Good morning all

Perez looks to have signed for Force India for another year
Rumor is Alonso has resigned for McLaren

MClaren must have deep pockets out of somewhere


come on the rain...

 

[1%er]

MClaren must have deep pockets out of somewhere

They do, they are backed by Mansour Ojjeh and the Bahrain wealth fund, so funds are not a real problem. Although I'm not sure they will keep funding them if they don't get there act together quickly after the new concorde agreement

 

[Ax^]

true but if Alonso managed to get another big pay increase after removing 100 million pounds worth of sponsorship and no many results

its a bit

edit*

he was already the best paid driver on the grid

 

[1%er]

As mentioned above, I think Dietrich Mateschitz has had enough of F1 and I'm not really sure we will see him still owning a team after 2021, I think Red Bull will still be a sponsor and maybe even a title sponsor just not an owner anymore.

Aston Martin are not a rich company and I'm not sure they have all the money to build a new engine for F1, let alone becoming a manufacture team, it will be interesting to see how a develops

true but if Alonso managed to get another big pay increase after removing 100 million pounds worth of sponsorship and no many results

Alonso will be looking for north of $40 million

 

[1%er]

This rain has really made what could have been a dull race much more interesting

 

[1%er]

Lewis leads

 

[Ax^]

 

[1%er]

Well, who'd have thunk it

 

[1%er]

I hope that Max thinks he can win the race on the first lap and causes Vettel a problem

LOL my hope became reality

 

[Ax^]

Vettel Possibly throwing away the World Title there


not expecting kimi to get a good start on Max

 

[hipipol]

Oh dear, poor Seb, the loon.....

 

[Ax^]

oddly enough i think someone told max don't go nut's at the start


and this happened

 

[1%er]

That McLaren is a strong car Alonso got a massive hit, I'm really surprised he is still running, can't see him getting to the end of the race

 

[1%er]

oddly enough i think someone told max don't go nut's at the start

Like telling a lion not to eat that meat

 

[weltweit]

What happened to Vettel at the start?

 

[Limejuice]

That McLaren is a strong car Alonso got a massive hit, I'm really surprised he is still running, can't see him getting to the end of the race

And so it came to pass.

 

[1%er]

What happened to Vettel at the start?

Taken out by Max and Kimi from the start then had a crash

 

[Ax^]

Taken out by Max and Kimi from the start then had a crash

well tbf he drove Max into Kimi taking himself out

 

[Limejuice]

The strange thing was Vettel racing on for a few hundred metres before pirouetting into the wall.

Oh, Danny K!

 

[Ax^]

kvyat

will be driving a taxi next year

 

[1%er]

The strange thing was Vettel racing on for a few hundred metres before pirouetting into the wall.

Oh, Danny K!

Yes, the car seems to swap ends on the straight, strange, maybe there was damage we couldn't see

 

[1%er]

well tbf he drove Max into Kimi taking himself out

Vettel will not get any blame for that, he had track position. He would not have seen anything behind because of the spray

 

[Ax^]

Vettel

"moved slight to the left at the start"

 

[spitfire]

Yes, the car seems to swap ends on the straight, strange, maybe there was damage we couldn't see

There was green stuff (hydraulic fluid?) pissing out of the back of the car, probably got onto the wheels causing a spin.