Super Maldonado Kart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f ... mbedded&v=UMrYMjuq_qs

Quote from rudagar :

super maldonado kart :d

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f ... mbedded&v=umrymjuq_qs

:d

Quote from BlueFlame :

They aren't catching, they are being left behind. Sauber, Williams and Toro Rosso now have definate point scoring cars. Caterham were lucky to catch a Williams on a good day last year.

Force India are struggling though.

Quote from Mustafur :

Force India are struggling though.

They still got points though didn't they?

Quote from BlueFlame :

They still got points though didn't they?

i think 1

It's hard to say for a certainty that they're struggling a) after one race in which b) one of their drivers was knocked out on the first lap.

Quote from PMD9409 :

http://www.autotoday.fi/page.p ... =201202639&rss=allimg

Google Translation:

Quote from Google Translate :

Kim's driving mileage, super license went to the old (01.04.)

Kimi Raikkonen experienced a weekend of an unpleasant surprise. The International Federation FAI driver informed him that his superlisenssinsä is out of date.

According to the Association an F1 car does not drive unless the driver have a valid super license.

Kimi Raikkonen and the size of the Lotus team were in the belief that the super-license is still valid, but this is apparently not.

FAI, however, changed the rules already in the year before, the license must be replaced at regular intervals. Renewal periods are affected by many factors, such as driver's age, motor sport, competitions, and driven up to the final results.

Duration of the license may, therefore, to live, that is, if doing well, we need to be a little more validity. If, however, is completely out of motor racing, all the license may be canceled within a few months.

The duration of calculation is such a complex operation that probably Lotus tietokonegurujen calculation diagram has been some sort of bug.

Super License Renewal is not just a reporting issue. In order for the license period may be extended, you need to run both a theory and practical test.

The theory test has ten questions, covering topics including motor racing rules and safety.

For the practical test should, inter alia, to leave the race car and turn off the gas a small fire extinguisher.

The International Association hold regular meetings with these koetilaisuuksia such as F1 races in connection with. However, union organizing today an extraordinary opportunity for the Nürburgring, but it does not inform the Lotus Kim.

Kim is a rear gate. If he wins the GP2 race one, he automatically receives a license back to the super. At the present time, however, seems highly unlikely that Kimi would compete in the next F1 race.

Epälutettavien data, Lotus will organize a press conference later today.

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Does this mean he needs to do GP2 and win one race before his Super License is reinstated?

01.04.12 hahahaha

Almost got me there!

Ah. Shame on me!

I was in a Finnish TeamSpeak last night when that link was posted in the main channel with about 9 Finnish people. About 30 seconds had past, and then there were only 3 left, the rest rage quit.

Bernie Ecclestone says F1 teams not worried about Bahrain GP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17663875

hmmm i dont think Bahrain will run :/ too much disorder!

F1 teams expect Bahrain Grand Prix to be called off:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17676140

Jackie Stewart uses tenuous parallels to make an idiotic case for it to still go ahead.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/ ... hrain-grand-prix.17276323

Quote from englishlord :

Jackie Stewart uses tenuous parallels to make an idiotic case for it to still go ahead.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/ ... hrain-grand-prix.17276323

It's not an idiotic case at all. Just because it's different to the masses doesn't make it idiotic.


How do you support your friends in need? Just **** off and leave them to sort it out? No, you give them economic support. Which is what the F1 event does.


Abandoning the event just shows that the rest of the world don't care about Bahrain and their problems, being there shows support by F1 saying (what ever happens to you Bahrain, we respect you enough to keep coming back anyway).

Not bothering to turn up just makes things worse from a diplomatic point of view.

Quote from BlueFlame :

It's not an idiotic case at all. Just because it's different to the masses doesn't make it idiotic.


How do you support your friends in need? Just **** off and leave them to sort it out? No, you give them economic support. Which is what the F1 event does.


Abandoning the event just shows that the rest of the world don't care about Bahrain and their problems, being there shows support by F1 saying (what ever happens to you Bahrain, we respect you enough to keep coming back anyway).

Not bothering to turn up just makes things worse from a diplomatic point of view.

Support for who? You have it the wrong way around - going there shows F1 doesn't care about what's going on. The race is run and paid for in full by the Bahraini government. F1 racing in Bahrain means F1 supports the government.

People are making the right noises to show they don't approve, but contracts exist to ensure that the race is put on, and that the teams attend.

It's not up to the teams or Bernie if the race goes ahead or not, it is up to the organisers. Bernie stated this a couple of days ago.

Because the race was cancelled last year, they really don't want to cancel it again, because it would mean that it cannot simply be re-added for next year (some rule to do with 2 cancellations in a row), this would not be good considering they have a contract until 2016.

Also, it was announced today that some golf event is going ahead. If it's safe enough for golf, then it must be safe enough for F1.

Quote from BlueFlame :

How do you support your friends in need? Just **** off and leave them to sort it out? No, you give them economic support. Which is what the F1 event does.

Does to the government, king and his house. I think I saw 150m USD figure mentioned somewhere as the economic impact, but if that figure came from the government...

Main thing is that a successful GP run without any problems would "show" to the rest of the world that everything is "ok" in the country while everything clearly isn't ok.

It wouldn't show anything of the sort. People who care know about the problems involved, people who don't care, don't know. Doesn't matter if F1 is there or not, the problems will be the same before, and the same after. If anything you're giving them a day off from the riotting and protests.

Quote from BlueFlame :

It wouldn't show anything of the sort. People who care know about the problems involved, people who don't care, don't know.

If cancellation shows that there are problems, successfully run GP shows the opposite.

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Doesn't matter if F1 is there or not, the problems will be the same before, and the same after.

That's part of the problem, because the government and king still gets good PR of the GP, as if things had improved.

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If anything you're giving them a day off from the riotting and protests.

Yeah, all of them are so eager to attend the GP.

Quote from deggis :

a successfully run GP shows the opposite.


.

No, a GP shows a GP.

Like I said, the people who care about the situation in Bahrain will continue to care, the people who don't care, will continue to not care. Doesn't matter if there is a GP or not.

Quote from BlueFlame :

No, a GP shows a GP.

Quote from deggis :

rofl