The F1 thread

Norwegian_Blue

Looks like like 2002 Jordan... I preferred the Black testing livery, but at the same time it's very nice to have yellow back!

chillidoggy

Right, gents.

Predictions for the win on Sunday?

Fretwired

chillidoggy said:

Right, gents.

Predictions for the win on Sunday?

Vettel.

sweepy

Lewis , Vettel , Bottas my top 3

boogieman

Lewis. With Bottas as a wild card.

bobblehat

Top 3 - Vettel ,Rosberg Ricciardo

Garthy

Hamilton, Vettel & Rosberg.

stickyfiddle

Garthy said:

Hamilton, Vettel & Rosberg.

This. 

I reckon Ferrari will be closer this year but that'll mean Vettel scraps with the 2nd placed Merc, which I just can't see being Rosberg, radio ban or no radio ban.

Garthy

stickyfiddle said:

Garthy said:

Hamilton, Vettel & Rosberg.

This. 

I reckon Ferrari will be closer this year but that'll mean Vettel scraps with the 2nd placed Merc, which I just can't see being Rosberg, radio ban or no radio ban.

You think Rosberg will beat Hamilton on pure merit?

stickyfiddle

Garthy said:

stickyfiddle said:

Garthy said:

Hamilton, Vettel & Rosberg.

This. 

I reckon Ferrari will be closer this year but that'll mean Vettel scraps with the 2nd placed Merc, which I just can't see being Rosberg, radio ban or no radio ban.

You think Rosberg will beat Hamilton on pure merit?

lol, no. Got my Merc boys mixed up. Meant to say I can't Hamilton being the second placed Merc. 

Rosberg hasn't actually got the better of him in a straight same-tyre, fully-working-car fight, has he?

chillidoggy

I'm going with Vettel for a surprise win.

stickyfiddle

I think it's probably more interesting to ask who will be the slowest team?

Manor - current titleholder, Merc-engined shitbox.

McLaren - upgraded-but-still-Honda-shitbox

Renault - old, established shitbox with shitboxier engine than last year

Sauber. No money so mostly using last year's shitbox.

Haas - shiny and new, all-Americky unknown. Great potential-to-be-a-shitbox...

gazzauk

Rosberg

Vettel

Ricciardo

Heartfeltdawn

Tyrell, Zakspeed, and Ligier. 

Not watching it this year. Putting money where my mouth is. 

Fretwired

I think Rosberg will struggle as both Hamilton and Vettel are risk taking racers. I'm yet to see Rosberg make an aggressive overtake stick on his team mate .. Ferrari were the faster of the two teams in winter testing and tended to be quick last year in race trim. It would be good to see Hamilton and Vettel wheel-to-wheel.

Fretwired

Red Bull and Aston Martin team up. New road car planned and Red Bull will have Aston Martin logos of their F1 cars ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-3496673/Red-Bull-Aston-Martin-team-build-2m-supercar.html

stickyfiddle

Fretwired said:

Red Bull and Aston Martin team up. New road car planned and Red Bull will have Aston Martin logos of their F1 cars ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-3496673/Red-Bull-Aston-Martin-team-build-2m-supercar.html

So the Fizzy Drinks Company  have a partnership with Aston Martin who are part-owned by Mercedes Benz while running F1 cars with engines branded by a watchmaker that are really Renaults? 

I think someone missed the "Simplicity in Branding 101" class...

Fretwired

stickyfiddle said:

Fretwired said:

Red Bull and Aston Martin team up. New road car planned and Red Bull will have Aston Martin logos of their F1 cars ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-3496673/Red-Bull-Aston-Martin-team-build-2m-supercar.html

So the Fizzy Drinks Company  have a partnership with Aston Martin who are part-owned by Mercedes Benz while running F1 cars with engines branded by a watchmaker that are really Renaults? 

I think someone missed the "Simplicity in Branding 101" class...

Mercedes only owns 5% of Aston Martin and supply's Aston with an engine which Aston's engineers then tweaks for it's road cars. I wonder if Aston Martin are about to enter F1.

stickyfiddle

Fretwired said:

stickyfiddle said:

Fretwired said:

Red Bull and Aston Martin team up. New road car planned and Red Bull will have Aston Martin logos of their F1 cars ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-3496673/Red-Bull-Aston-Martin-team-build-2m-supercar.html

So the Fizzy Drinks Company  have a partnership with Aston Martin who are part-owned by Mercedes Benz while running F1 cars with engines branded by a watchmaker that are really Renaults? 

I think someone missed the "Simplicity in Branding 101" class...

Mercedes only owns 5% of Aston Martin and supply's Aston with an engine which Aston's engineers then tweaks for it's road cars. I wonder if Aston Martin are about to enter F1.

There was talk last season of them buying into Force India so it might happen. They're obviously looking at motorsport in a serious way, and WEC must need some serious backing these days - I doubt it's much cheaper than F1, so if they could get AM-branded Merc engines for cheap... Maybe they'd buy Toro Rosso if the RB thing goes well? 

sweepy

Speed in Winter testing generally means very little, reliability does and so far the Merc clocked up a lot more miles