I'll try and be there

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The FIA is optimistic that a deal can be agreed with teams to move forward with plans for a budget cap in Formula 1 next year, but has warned that it will not compromise simply because of the 'hysteria' caused by threats to quit the sport.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75267

What I suggest you do is make a topic called: (The Stig)'s Team(s) Thread. In that thread you can post as many teams as you want to create, what is it 7 and still counting?

Good luck with this team

So Ferrari are the next on the bandwagon. Toyota, Red Bull and Toro Rosso have already stated that they are unlikely to enter Formula One from 2010 onwards if there is no radical change to the regulations.

I agree with you Tristan FOTA should get complete control of all the Formula One assets. Maybe then they'll actually be able to go to tracks where they want to race and not ones Bernie wants to.

E: Why will Max go to Cuba?

I personally don't think anyone was to blame. The tyres Barrichello used on his 2nd stint weren't as fast as the team predicted and he couldn't get them to work properly.

Remember there's still 12 races left in the season for him to have a chance at winning

I'll try my best to be there Deko

Quote from z-ro 8 :

ok i want to not bumpdraft with wild, so i'm guaraneed a second place finish

Okay ... What are you exactly trying to say :P

You should have been there mate, Hopefully you'll come along next week though

Preferably if you would like someone to make you a skin, you would need several views.

You should post up a side view, rear view, top view and any other relevant view you may find useful.

Will there be wind in any of the sessions Deko?

3. Wild (DC, but was leading clearly)

Thank you very much!

I'm not really all that sure what happened, I just seemed to have lost connection. When I tried to reconnect I couldn't because when I copied the password it only copied part of it for some reason.

Will you be hosting it from your house next week or would you like to use the Storm Racing Event Server?

I suppose it all depends on how much you're willing to pay for the service and the specifications you desire.

What's currently your maximum price you're willing to pay for the service and what sort of specifications are you currently after? Any particular location you desire ... There's a variety of things that you need to consider before buying some hosting.

Good Luck

Also if you've paid for the domain and the domain is still registered in your name it's still technically yours.

I've had this problem on Opera as well, although it's only on certain videos. So I'm unsure whether it's browser related or Youtube. I'd probably put my money on Youtube though. As someone has previously said try updating your flash etc.. maybe that will do the trick!

Wait so you've closed Real Life Gamers within a month of opening it ... Now you’re creating a partnership with a new team LCC and FFC...

How many teams must you make before you're finally going to settle with one, instead of opening various teams that are doomed to fail within the first month of opening?

I wish you the best of luck with this new partnership, hopefully you'll be able to keep this one open for longer than a month...

It's really quite good, I wonder if Massa has heard it yet

The song was pretty good, shame she kinda f*cked it up on the "To winning is to drive fast" bit.

Quote from 5haz :

Perhaps a dedicated sub-forum for F1 threads, with an appointed section admin, if you peeps are so bothered?

Perhaps if you asked the bosses nicely?

I think that's a top notch idea

I personally think more than one Moderator for that section would be needed. Maybe 2 or 3 would make life easier for them?

Quote from DevilDare :

Dont know why, but i have this feeling Hamilton will be knocked out, or will knock someone out in T1 or lap 1. Anyway, i wont do any predictions for this race as I am absolutely clueless. So many drivers could win

It wouldn't surprise me if a bit if one of the front runners made a mistake early on in the GP.

If there isn't a sandstorm, or rain which I doubt will happen. Then I'll take a gamble.

1 - Trulli
2 - Button
3 - Vettel

Now hopefully I won't make that much of an ass of myself

Quote from samjh :

I wonder how Lola will come into play? I doubt they have the money to field a team of their own, so they'd probably be supplying the chassis and aero to another team. Perhaps Prodrive will adopt Lola and stick an Aston Martin engine in it.

Lola should have enough money to run a Formula One team in 2010. As F1 will have a £30 Million budget cap.

I certainly hope they do, as it would be fantastic to see Prodrive + Lola in Formula One.

It wouldn’t be named Aston Martin; it would be named Prodrive F1. I personally think it would be great for the sport. Hopefully they’ll be able to get some more teams so we can have even better action packed races.

Maybe they’ll finally get a grand prix back in the United States also, but I highly doubt it in the current economic crisis.

Quote from samjh :

usf1

USGPE Bernie wouldn't let them have the F1 in their name or something so it had to be changed to US Grand Prix Engineering.

I’m quite appalled at the current situation Formula One is in regarding the tracks.

Bernie and co shouldn’t need this excessive amount of money, for someone to host a Grand Prix. I think it would make more sense if they could pretty much pay what they can afford in this current economic state.

I think it’s such a shame that they are making a lot of the historic tracks pretty much redundant. I would like to see them going back to a few of the old ones once again!

I feel sorry that she died from having Terminal Cancer, but many others do every year. I simply see no reason why she should get a musical made about her.

She was in the public eye for all of the wrong reasons; Being Racist etc.

I cannot understand why someone would consider making a musical about her, let alone put one into production. Why should she get one and not any other terminally ill person? It’s simply not fair on them!

Yeah I don’t see any reason why they cannot simply keep it at Silverstone. Maybe their safety standards are not up to regulation? Or was it because they were late in renewing the contract they had. I cannot remember to be honest.

On the times online website I found a very interesting article. “Bernie Ecclestone linked to Donington Park takeover”

The Formula One commercial rights-holder, who is in Bahrain for the fourth grand prix of the Formula One season on Sunday, pointedly did not rule out taking up the lease himself on the circuit where the British Grand Prix is supposed to be staged from 2010 for ten years, in place of Silverstone.

“Let's see what happens, shall we,” he said, when it was put to him that he could take control of developing the track on the Derbyshire and Leicestershire border near East Midlands airport. “At the moment, it's all speculation. I haven't thought about it.”

“I've been in talks with Simon Gillett today and we've been talking through the money situation,” Ecclestone said. “I'm trying to help him sort things out. What he really needs is an investor. That's the best hope of saving the race.”

Full Article:
Times: Bernie Ecclestone linked to Donning Park Takeover

The British Grand Prix's future has been thrown into fresh doubt after Donington Park's owners, Wheatcroft & Son Limited, commenced legal proceedings against the track's operator - Donington Ventures Leisure Ltd - over unpaid rent.

Full Story:
Autosport: British GP In Doubt

I find it quite amazing the sum of money that they are in debt by. Why would they let them get so heavily in debt, then decide to go and take legal action, it doesn’t seem quite right to me.

I hope there will be a British GP in 2010, it wouldn’t seem right if there wasn’t. Also as someone said on the BBC’s debating forum, Brands Hatch is a more than capable venue if Donnington could not hold it.

Either way it’s not looking too good for us Brits.

Quote from tiagolapa :

So... their people fail to design a good car under the available rules and next they want more money to fix the bad design problems?

They didn't fail at designing a 'good car' it's just not as quick as some of the other teams. As for the money part I don't see one specific reason why Brawn shouldn't get it!

Brawn told them about the loop holes in the regulations and no-one really wanted to hear about it, so it’s their fault for not wanting to change the regulations. They’ll just have to play catch up over the next few races.

Quote from Joris :

I just read on a Dutch F1 site that Flavio Briatore claims that his cars are faster than the Brawns and Red Bulls but the circumstances did not show that.

He even stated that Fernando had as much fuel after qualifying as Jenson.

How exactly are the cars faster? They haven’t show any evidence that they are, Alonso qualified 2nd with the lightest fuel load on the whole grid.

I’m pretty sure the team has to tell the FIA the correct weight of the car after the qualifying. Also I'm sure the FIA weighs the cars after qualification? So 605Kg including driver + car weight and what ever left over is the fuel load.

Please tell me if I’m wrong.

Quote from NoFear1989 :

Anybody have Video with Hymn Mistake ?

I don't think it was a mistake. I'm pretty sure it was the German one for Vettel and the British one for Red Bull. Maybe I'm wrong?

Quote from sam93 :

I don't see how they will have reliability issues from rushing to make a new aero package as their Mechanical parts have been fine. BrawnGP are using a Mercedes engine and their car is mechanically fine so far. Mclaren just need a new aero package, their engine seems to be fine and it seems they are having the most luck with KERS. So, with the new aero package and using the current engine and KERS they will have the overall best package as not a lot of teams are making the use of KERS.

I’m not sure all these new aerodynamic upgrades will make it better than the Brawn. I agree the engine is sound.

I agree they probably have the best KERS package out there; we’ll have to see how the Williams one is. It certainly is sounding promising from what I’ve heard so far.