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Originally Posted by skimonkey30 (Post 129071)

what a cluster fuck

Guess it'll be called the Ecclestone/Brawn/Fry/MclarenMercedes :lol:

AKA: 2-Douches/1-CoolGuy Racing

Domain name's been registered :D

http://www.brawngp.com/

(and its Brawn GP, cause Brawn F1 would cause Bernie to have a fit)

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Originally Posted by Nick Koan (Post 129407)

Domain name's been registered :D

http://www.brawngp.com/

(and its Brawn GP, cause Brawn F1 would cause Bernie to have a fit)

truth :lol::lol:

And according to the press release, they'll be keeping Button and Barrichello

http://www.brawngp.com/pr.php

They are the B Team!

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Originally Posted by Nick Koan (Post 129409)

They are the B Team!

Yes, as in "B"ackmarker! :lol:

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Originally Posted by MattR (Post 129414)

Yes, as in "B"ackmarker! :lol:

Then what's Force India?

And here is the car, sans sponsors

http://www.brawngp.com/gallery.php

Since they have no sponsors or talent, they should paint the car in some creative livery, like the planet earth or something....

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Originally Posted by MattR (Post 129432)

Since they have no sponsors or talent, they should paint the car in some creative livery, like the planet earth or something....

Paint it like the planet Mars.

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Originally Posted by sperry (Post 129435)

Paint it like the planet Mars.

Paint it like Uranus! :)

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Originally Posted by Nick Koan (Post 129540)

STR4 debut

Um, that's the RB5, not the STR4?

Edit: wait... holy crap, that is the STR4. It looks way too much like the RedBull car! WTF?

Yeah I know. I had to rub my eyes multiple times.

Now that they've splashed the Red Bull logo all over it, it looks almost identical.

But yeah, the Red Bull car has the yellow nose and engine cover, while the STR has gold and no color on the engine cover.

http://jalopnik.com/5150879/red-bull...rez-gets-wings

god damn

I'm actually going to need a program or something to figure out all these driver/team/rule changes this year

they should have varsha, hobbs, and machett do a one hour special

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Originally Posted by skimonkey30 (Post 129614)

god damn

I'm actually going to need a program or something to figure out all these driver/team/rule changes this year

they should have varsha, hobbs, and machett do a one hour special

One hour won't be long enough. Remember when they first added knock-out qualifying? It took them through Q2 to finally finishing explaining the new qually rules every round! :lol:

Button is looking good in the Brawn GP car!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/73674

If they can get half as many points as Honda did last year, I'll be impressed (for the record, that means they need 1.5 points to impress me).

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Originally Posted by Nick Koan (Post 129662)

It's that half a point to earn your love that's gonna be a bitch!

That's the reason I'll be impressed!

I really do hope that all the changes make the racing somewhat better with more challengers for the championship

Only 15 more days till Melbourne! :D

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Originally Posted by skimonkey30 (Post 129691)

I really do hope that all the changes make the racing somewhat better with more challengers for the championship

Only 15 more days till Melbourne! :D

I would love to see Brawn GP win the 1st round. Then Honda come in as their engine supplier and primary sponsor because they realize they totally screwed up spending half of last season developing this season's car then dropping the program before the season started.

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Originally Posted by sperry (Post 129695)

Holy crap! My joke is more likely than I thought! :lol:

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Originally Posted by Brawn stuns F1 by smashing pole record

Even the cynics were astonished when Jenson Button cut the timing beam on the Circuit de Catalunya pit straight on Wednesday.

Low fuel run to impress potential sponsors or not, the Brawn GP had circulated the Barcelona layout in an unofficial 1:19.1.

Last April for the Spanish Grand Prix at the same venue, Robert Kubica's BMW was the fastest car in the low-fuel Q2 phase - a 1min20.5.

"If it stays like this, Brawn GP will be all by themselves at the front in Melbourne," Sebastian Vettel marvelled to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport.

Likewise, Fernando Alonso on Wednesday admitted that the BGP001 currently seems faster than his Renault. "Brawn is not such a surprise for me because they have been preparing their car for a long time."

"They have done great work with the aerodynamics," the Spaniard added.

After a similarly impressive Monday and Tuesday in Spain, Button's Mercedes-powered car, fundamentally designed under Honda ownership last year, was a full second and more quicker than the chasing Ferrari, BMW and Toyotas.

At the other end of the spectrum, McLaren's woeful winter continued on Wednesday, Lewis Hamilton slowest of the ten runners and at one point in the barriers at turn two.

Compounding the 2008 world champion's misery, when he returned to the pits from his crash, the ardent Spanish fans made clear their derision with a shower of boos and whistles.

Referring to the Mercedes-powered MP4-24, Ron Dennis told Reuters Television in London on Wednesday: "It is certainly not as fast as we would like it to be."

"But it's early days and we've still got quite a bit of testing to do and quite a bit of development to reflect through into our pace."

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headline...12084418.shtml

Yes, I would love that to happen!

Finally, my Honda F1 Racing Gear will be worth a damn :lol: (kinda).

Looks like Barrichello is keeping things going as well

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headline...12173446.shtml

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The final day of the group test at Circuit de Catalunya was briefly delayed this morning due to the foggy conditions. The ten runners were however soon out on the 4.655km Spanish Grand Prix circuit, and once again it was a Brawn Mercedes that ended the day at the top of the timesheets.

Rubens Barrichello took over testing duties of the new BGP001 today from Jenson Button, the Brazilian veteran proving every bit as effective as his British team-mate. Barrichello completed 110 laps, his best time of 1:18.926s coming on his 102nd tour.

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damn.....looks like they arent going to be back markers for long.

I'll bet fernando is kicking himself in the shorts for not signing that mega deal with them last year