Quote from detail :

His name means "I'm a car" in Russian

and in Croatian "I machine"

btw Kobayashi will have a seat next year for sure. If noone, but noone wants him USF1 will take him (I know this from a very reliable source)
\o/

Quote from aroX123 :

Is he crying over most unsuccessful manufacturer team in F-1 history?

Lotus said they dont wan't young superstars or pay drivers but what if they got both and signed Kobayashi.

Im guessing that toyotas line up will go to Lotus next year for sure, gascoyne has already showed intrest in both Trulli and Kobayashi.

and trulli has already shown interest in NASCAR

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80131

Quote from dawguk :

Hyundai being South Korea's largest conglomerate, and South Korea having an F1 Grand Prix in the future, it's not totally implausible.

not a bad idea for a company who used to make cortina kits....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/h ... t/formula_one/8359972.stm

Living in this rumour mill is fun.

Could be a mistake.

Seeing as Brawn are now very much Mercedes favourite child.

Quote from 5haz :

Could be a mistake.

Seeing as Brawn are now very much Mercedes favourite child.

But Brawn won't give Jenson the pay increase he wants, they won't even meet him half way. So why not go to Mclaren? They will match his wage demands and give him a potential championship winning car. Rosberg and Kovalainen at Brawn for 2010 anyone?

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

and give him a potential championship winning car.

Theres no guarentee of that IMO.

Quote from 5haz :

Theres no guarentee of that IMO.

They turned the worst car on the grid into a race winning car in a matter of months. I think it's safe to say they have grasped the new regulations, and have shown they have the ability to develop their car very quickly during a season. I personally think Mclaren and Red Bull will be the two top teams next year, since they both improved their cars this season. Brawn actually got worse as the season went on, the only question is just how good Ferrari's car will be considering they started working on it so early.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

the only question is just how good Ferrari's car will be considering they started working on it so early.

with alonso and massa in the team, i wouldn't be surprised if they return with an equivalent of schumi's pwnage 2004 machine...

Quote from el pibe :

with alonso and massa in the team, i wouldn't be surprised if they return with an equivalent of schumi's pwnage 2004 machine...

They won't really have any perceptible influence on the car. They could help to improve the car through the season, but that actually requires Ferrari to begin the season with a car that has enough potential for development.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

They turned the worst car on the grid into a race winning car in a matter of months

More like 12 months?

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

They turned the worst car on the grid into a race winning car in a matter of months. I think it's safe to say they have grasped the new regulations, and have shown they have the ability to develop their car very quickly during a season. I personally think Mclaren and Red Bull will be the two top teams next year, since they both improved their cars this season. Brawn actually got worse as the season went on, the only question is just how good Ferrari's car will be considering they started working on it so early.

Perhaps I suppose, I'm not saying that its unlikely, I think its very likely that Mclaren will be at the top next year, just that its not guarenteed. Especially in the long term, with Mercedes looking like they're going to back Brawn and Mclaren going their own way.

Do remember that one of the contributing factors to Brawn going backwards in the second half of the season was that they stopped to start developing next year's car. Then again Mclaren are probrably doing something similar too (seeing as they had no championship to fight out to the end this year). And Mclaren are probrably big enough to develop an existing car and design a new one at the same time (they did something similar to this in 2004, developing the previous year's car while building the new one).

Theres no difference in the regs though, apart from no-refueling, which is going to make the car bigger but its not a substantial change like this year was, so don't see why Brawn need so long to develop the car tbh. Again i could be wrong. :P

I think the next year Brawn car will still be competitive
Ros Brawn stated that it has been developed this whole season, spending only a little bit of time on the current car. Also, it will be adapted for the Mercedes engine. The current car had the engine not placed in the middle, so the right part of the car was actually lighter/heavier than the other part.

Some movement here:

Glock -> Manor

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80177

This is getting exciting, i am looking forward to 2010 like many others

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80178

http://www.crash.net/f1/news/1 ... for_mercedes_gp_seat.html

Interesting though it can't be true. I think it's just made up.

Its only a half truth...Schumacher is no more ferrari advisor but sure as hell he wont be driving next year.

Quote from Intrepid :

http://www.crash.net/f1/news/1 ... for_mercedes_gp_seat.html

Interesting though it can't be true. I think it's just made up.

[SPAZ]IOFHPÅE)RYPuihuiorghp()YUETo8wigriyuweoytwrgliugl[/SPAZ OUT MOMENT] PLZZZZZ be true

Quote from Intrepid :

http://www.crash.net/f1/news/1 ... for_mercedes_gp_seat.html

Interesting though it can't be true. I think it's just made up.

Doesn't he have a contract where he isn't actually allowed to drive any non-Fiat products? Or am I going mad again?