That gave me a good hearty belly laugh.

"Ralf Schumacher already turned down an offer from one of the new Formula 1 teams but did not accept the offer."

He turned a team down, but they didn't accept his offer of not driving for them?

Holy engrish batman.

My guess is someone tried to change "Ralf Schumacher was already offered a drive from one of the new Formula 1 teams but did not accept the offer" into "Ralf Schumacher already turned down an offer from one of the new Formula 1 teams" and just shat all over themselves in the process.

ralf schumacher comeback....wtf

:lol::lol::lol:

Don't call it a comeback! (He was never there.)

Have you ever seen that episode of Family Guy, where Stewie and Brian clone themselves, only the clones come out slightly off and a bit retarded....???..... Yeah, that's what happened in the Schumacher household many years ago.

"Bitch Shumi"?

:lol:

:lol: BSC !

:lol:

:lol::lol:

he only has 1 more season until he melts!

Flavo Flav's ban has been overturned by a French court, but the FIA says they will appeal. Pat Symonds 5 year ban was also overturned.

http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.a...47595&PO=47595

Gotta love the French legal system.

"Sorry FIA/F1, you're not allowed to not employ these cheaters. If they want to work in your organization, you can't say no, even if they conspired to risk a driver's life to help another driver cheat to victory."

How does that make any sense?

They surrendered to the overwhelming force of lawyers. :(

Who the hell is going to hire him though? Would you if you had anything to do with Motorsports?

There are drivers, most notable Mark Webber, that have Briatore as their manager that don't want to give him up. Personally, as much as Briatore sucks, he's a personal friend of Ecclestone, and that's a good connection I'd like to have if I were a driver picking my manager.

So far FIA has stated they won't renew a SuperLicense to any driver that employs Briatore as their manager, which this lawsuit would overturn. I don't really have a problem with that... but I would have a problem w/ Briatore being in a position where he would be making race-day decisions. They should have upheld that part of his ban.

Mercedes GP car launch photos

http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/gallery.ph...4681&startat=0
http://www.mercedes-gp.com/gallery.asp

Where's Heidfeld, you know since he's the 3rd driver over there now apparently.

Yeah, good point, that kinda sucks.

Maybe he's back at Brackley sweeping the floors with the third driver broom.

Oooh! Washed up F1 career burn!

Which is a shame cause I always liked Heidfield.

USF1 signs their first driver Jose Maria Lopez, former Renault F1 test driver
http://www.usgpe.com/news/us-f1-team...10-season.html

:lol::lol:

Who?

I thought USF1 was gonna get a Renault driver... but I thought it was going to be Kubica because Renault threw in the towel.

More importantly, why is a guy named Maria?

More importantly, how do you solve that problem?


I'll be here all week. Tip your waitress!

With no re-fueling now the top 10 drivers must start on their qualifying tires

http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/7506.html

What?

Does that mean that Q3 doesn't allow tire changes, or is everyone going to just duck into the pits to put on new tires just before the checkers come out?

I'm going to guess option B. With 5 minutes left, go out and make an ultimate lap run, then with 30 secs left pull in and change onto fresh rubber and dont head back out

Perhaps it means you have to start on the tires you set your fastest lap on so they dart in and out every 3 laps?

Pics of the Ferrari F10 from the official unveiling. The nose seems to stick out quite a bit.
http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/gallery.php?catID=4674

Spy pics of the Williams 2010 challenger. Not fully liveried, but with some design changes.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81104

And now the reveal of the McLaren MP4-25

http://www.autosport.com/gallery/index.php/id/1931

The shroud fin looks like its integrated with the rear wing. I'm guessing that's legal, but wow.

I think Renault did that in the past, but only for a few races... like at the last Montreal race and Monza or something IIRC.

Also... Button needs to get a drivers suit that fits him.

http://cdn.gallery.autosport.com/pic...e/l__y8p6947-2

:lol:

And here is the official video from the launch. Verdict? Lewis and Jenson get along very well (or so I'm told every 30 seconds).

Petrov confirmed as Renault's second driver at the car launch. And they went with their awful yellow/black livery from a while back.

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...0/1/10381.html
http://www.formula1.com/gallery/launches/2010/475.html

BMW Sauber also launched their car today
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...0/1/10380.html
http://www.formula1.com/gallery/launches/2010/474.html

Well that was quick. A B-spec car for ferrari before the first one has been tested

http://en.espnf1.com/ferrari/motorsport/story/7644.html

Virgin Racing released their own car. The first car designed all with CFD and no wind tunnel work.

http://www.f1technical.net/news/14125
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...0/2/10395.html

So, we'll see how that works out for them.

Also, Stefan GP, which bought the resources of Toyota when they quit, doesn't have an entry but has shipped a container with their cars and gear to Bahrain for the opener.

http://www.crash.net/f1/news/156476/...r_bahrain.html

Either this guy has money to burn and is ballsy, or he knows something we don't.

Two things:

1) That Virgin car is hot looking!

2) Stephan GP actually seems ahead of Lotus, Campos, and USF1... I'd say they have a decent chance of making the grid if one of those 3 fail to make Bahrain. And even then, if they're there and ready to go, I can see Bernie strong-arming the teams into accepting a 14th entrant.

Agreed, that virgin car is bad...

Stephan will be on the grid...I agree Scott, the fact that they're ready and the others are ???, Bernie will let them run.

And here it is: Ecclestone push for Stefan GP in Bahrain with BSC in the cockpit.

http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/formula-1-...umacher-entry/

BSC?

Butthead Schumacher?

I though "Ralf" started with "R". :lol:

:p

Dammit, I forgot! :lol:

The Force India VJM03. Nothing exciting to look at, except it seems they are doing the same thing as McLaren, having the engine cover fin connect to the rear wing.

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...0/2/10414.html
http://www.formula1.com/gallery/launches/2010/482.html

Red Bull RB6 Launched. They are doing the whole shark-fin to wing thing too. But theirs seems a bit bigger.

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...0/2/10418.html
http://www.formula1.com/gallery/launches/2010/483.html

The new Lotus team launched their car today.

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...0/2/10434.html
http://www.formula1.com/gallery/launches/2010/511.html

All the cars so far have looked beautiful, but this one for me takes the cake and I can't figure out why. Maybe its the return of British Racing Green that's got me.

That is a SEXY goddamn car!

Hell yes it is. Gorgeous.

uNf.