Good news! There won't be any of that annoying overtaking at the new Austin track:

http://www.planet-f1.com/news/3213/6...New-US-Circuit

Overtaking is for chumps with no pit strategy.

I'm not even the least bit surprised. In fact, I would have been surprised if a new F1 track was built without Tilke behind it in some manner.

Here is a picture of Alonso's wheel from the finish in Turkey.

http://twitpic.com/1t1y4m

Apparently he drove the last 4 laps with the wheel like that, being real careful not to load it up and make it slip the bead.

:eek: What broke it? Was there contact at the end between him and Petrov?

Yeah, it was the contact with Petrov.

More on the story:

http://adamcooperf1.com/2010/05/31/l...nso-in-turkey/

:eek: damn

:lol:

http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/formula-1-...y-the-hatchet/

http://images.gpupdate.net/newsnew/155387.jpg

That picture is embarrasing and douchey

Red Bull just lost a point in my book.

I like it. It reinforces the image Red Bull cultivates of being a bunch of idiots who run race teams, and just happen to be extremely competitive in the series.

fox coverage blows

Rim looks okay to me ...... :P

Well, I never learned what the steering wheel was for on an f1 car this time around.

Literally.

http://adamcooperf1.com/2010/07/08/y...t-of-hrt-seat/

Not official yet, but Adam Cooper is always on. Bruno Senna will be replaced by Sakon Yamamoto at the British GP this weekend.

Oh damn, now I have to go and change my picks in FF1!

At least Sakon has experience being a rolling chicane.

I saw that earlier... YAM is already available to be picked!

The real question is... did Senna lose his seat entirely? Otherwise, what's the reason for missing just one race? Is Yamamoto buying the seat for a weekend?

I just read on the official Formula 1 site that the reason is unspecified, but HRT will release a statement tomorrow morning.

To me its sounding like he lost his seat permanently. Senna wasn't paying for his drive (nor was he getting paid) and it sounds like HRT is in some financial trouble, so maybe they were forced to go with a driver that could buy a seat.

http://en.espnf1.com/hrtf1/motorsport/story/22573.html

The press release is saying that Yamamoto is only in for this race and Senna will be back for the rest of the season.

Weird.

I guess the lack of testing means a backmarker team has to pull nonsense like this just to get their backup drivers some seat time?

More musical chairs at HRT:

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/2...ok-in-germany/

It sounds like Yamamoto must be bringing cash to the table to get them to screw around with their drivers like this.

Ferrari is busted for "team orders". Spoilers below...

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...0/7/11071.html

While I felt for Massa, I actually think the FIA keeps getting this wrong. Teams are teams and should be allowed to make decisions for the betterment of the team, even at the expense of one of their drivers. I'm a huge Massa fan, and I think he deserved to win that race... but realistically, if he doesn't want Alonso as the preferred driver, he just needs to drive faster and get ahead of him in the championship right from race 1. And that's especially true at Ferrari where the team is always more important than the driver(s). Ferrari either has a publicly stated #1 driver, or they treat whoever is in the championship lead as the #1 driver. They may be ruthless about it, but you can't say they're not consistent or that they play favorites.

Holy unnecessary blocking for 10th place, Schumacher!

http://photos.gpupdate.net/large/160273.jpg

:eek:

That move was lame...Schumi is losing respect from fans and peers race-by-race.

Could this have been more than a block for tenth? Barrichello, and Schumacher have a history don't they? Perhaps someone who has been watching F1 longer than I could clarify.

Also did anyone see the Top Gear tribute to Ayrton Senna last week? It was quite touching.

Oh no doubt their history at Ferrari had something to do with it. Barrichello has a much faster car plus fresh tires and something to prove. He was going to pass Michael or wreck trying... it was just a dick move for Schumacher to make it so much closer to the latter than necessary.

Holy crap, I agree with Flavio?

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/2...ionship-title/

This season should have been Vettel's championship season, except his bad luck early on with reliability opened the door for Webber, and Webber having been given the opportunity has simply out thought and out driven Vettel and the rest of the field on track. Vettel will eventually win a bunch of championships, but this season is Webber's IMO.

Quick Nick... now with less Quick.

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/2...-join-pirelli/

They make it out to sound like Heidfeld wanted to leave, but I have a hard time believing anyone would want to leave an F1 team for a tire manufacturer. Then again, with the lack of testing, and Schumacher and Rosberg on the team... it's not like Heidfeld was getting any seat time. He'll probably get to drive a lot more at Pirelli, even if there's no real chance of getting to race.

Just a reminder since it's been a long break... Spa is this weekend! :cool:

And, in other news, Ferrari is threatening civil action against the FIA if the WSMC takes away points for the shenanigans in Germany

http://en.espnf1.com/ferrari/motorsp...ory/26271.html

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog....1283361814.jpg
Austin track layout

Hmm, an uphill start will be interesting.

Looks fairly decent. Especially for a Tilke track.

No joke. I never would have guessed that was a Tilke design. Apparently he's fully aware of his reputation for sterile track designs... that Austin track looks way more old-school. Really seems like it's built into the surrounding landscape instead of the landscape being built around the track.

Should I be starting a 2011 thread for this?

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/2...rmed-for-2011/

20 races next season! And Interlagos is back to being the season finale! :D

Did Tilke designed the South Korea track?

YouTube - F1 Showrun South Korea circuit with Chandhok

Yep.

http://ff1.seccs.org/images/tracks/Korea.jpg

http://ff1.seccs.org/images/tracks/Korea_track.png

Heidfield to replace de la Rosa in Singapore for Sauner

http://adamcooperf1.com/2010/09/14/s...e-la-rosa-out/
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/86691

Crazy! Sounds like there may have been some shenanigans behind the scenes with the whole Pirelli stint so he could get out of his Mercedes contract and back over to Sauber.

Yeah, I can't remember if I its in one of those articles, but I read another one that said the Pirelli contract ends on Thursday and the new contract with Sauber starts on Friday. The funny thing is, it always ended in mid-September, rather than through the end of the calendar year (or after the last race or something else appropriate) and it went unnoticed or unreported.

Looks like some shenanigans.

I really want to know how the radio conversation that led up to this went:

"Heikki, telemetry indicates you have an engine problem."

"Yeah. It's on fire!"

"Stop and get out."

"Actually, I'm right by pit lane, I'll just come in."

"Dude, don't come in! None of us here want to be on fire too!"

*sigh* "Fine, if I pull up to the pit wall, can you get one of the tossers over at Williams to hand me an extinguisher?"

"Um... okay."

http://photos.gpupdate.net/large/163173.jpg

I have never seen a driver in the modern era put out his own fire. :lol: Kovalainen is a badass!

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/2...reman-as-well/

I was laughing my ass off at how cool he was about the whole thing! Rear of the car is ENGULFED and he's as casual about getting out as could be!

I thought he was actually going to stop to put the steering wheel back on! :lol:

Hekki is awesome.

Looks like Group Lotus (the car manufacturer) is going all out against Team Lotus (the F1 team) saying its rights to the term "Lotus" are invalid.

http://adamcooperf1.com/2010/09/27/g...ony-fernandes/

Furthermore, Mark Webber isn't righteous.

What the hell is this crap?

seriously, wtf?

I was hoping she was topless.

Not 2010 news information, but future speculation.

Porsche ready to evaluate F1 return

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/87103

Suzuka qualifying postponed due to rain. Reset your dvrs for 9pm Saturday.