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Originally Posted by Lemmings
That's a bit harsh.
If it happened to me I'd also want to tell the world, but I'd go about doing so in a completely different way.
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:blink: :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lemmings
That's a bit harsh.
If it happened to me I'd also want to tell the world, but I'd go about doing so in a completely different way.
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Originally Posted by Noxide
According to the official F1 site, F1.com, Spanish sponsor Banco Santander will move its backing from McLaren to Ferrari after the 2009 Formula One season, the bank's boss Emilio Botin has confirmed.
"Santander will be with Ferrari in 2010, yes," he is quoted as saying by the Spanish newspaper Diario AS.
Botin also made clear his desire to reunite the Santander logo with the car driven by Fernando Alonso, after the former double world champion left McLaren at the end of last year.
"Alonso is the best driver in the world and we would like to work with him, but that's not something that depends only on us. We will however not move our backing to a team that does not have Alonso in its immediate future." he confirmed.
Ferrari's current race drivers Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen are both contracted to the Italian team for 2009 and 2010.
We will however not move our backing to a team that does not have Alonso in its immediate future." he confirmed.
Mmmmm...... :whistle:
If Bernie Ecclestone's 'gold medals' proposal for scoring in Formula One was retrospectively applied, it would change the landscape of the sport's history.
In the 58 world championships since the category's modern inception in 1950, the Olympic Games-style system would have crowned a different champion up to 12 times.
The most recent example is this year, when runner-up Felipe Massa won six races compared with Lewis Hamilton's five. Under Ecclestone's proposed regime, the Brazilian would now be 2008 world champion.
The big winners of the F1 Chief Executive's plan, however, would have been Nigel Mansell (1992) and Jim Clark (1963 and 1965). In both cases, the drivers would each have won two extra titles.
The biggest loser, on the other hand, would be Nelson Piquet, who according to the 'medals' system would not have won any of his three titles in the 80s.
Alain Prost would have won five titles instead of four, and Keke Rosberg - because he only won a single 'gold medal' - would not have been crowned champion in 1982.
Indeed, under Ecclestone's plan, the Finn and father of Williams driver Nico Rosberg would have finished the drivers' championship just sixth.
Lewis Hamilton this week will receive a top German media prize for becoming the youngest ever F1 world champion.
On Thursday, the 23-year-old McLaren driver will be named as the recipient of a 'Bambi' :laugh: :laugh: trophy at a gala ceremony, organisers the Hubert Burda Media group said.
Also honoured with a Bambi, for her comeback following a series of highly-publicised personal problems, will be pop star Britney Spears, who will sing at the ceremony :glare: :glare:
Former team owner Eddie Jordan has slammed Bernie Ecclestone's proposal to introduce an Olympic Games-style 'medals' scoring system for Formula One.
During a press conference in London on Wednesday, F1 Chief Executive Ecclestone reiterated his plan, revealing that the teams are also fully supportive.
But Jordan, who sold his Silverstone-based team at the end of 2004, told the BBC: "I think (the proposals) are a nonsense."
"I can't possibly believe he's thinking straight, especially on this one. His focus must be on cost-cutting and nothing else. The rest is just dressing it up."
Jordan disagrees completely that scrapping the current points system, expanded from the top six finishers to the top eight some years ago, is a good idea.
"I was one of the team principals who advocated the points should go down to eighth place because one point is as important to those teams as a win is to McLaren and Ferrari," he said.
"He is tinkering with something on which he has lost the understanding. He thinks only wins matter."
"There has not been enough thought put into this and for him to say that it comes with the full approval of all the teams - I'm sorry, I just don't believe it."
Ecclestone wants so Ecclestone gets in F1. He has the monopoly and that needs to be broken. This idea is ridiculous. If a driver finishes second or third every race and ends up with more points than one who has a couple of firsts and a bunch of DNF's, who should win? Personally, I would prefer to see consistency win. Why is that bad for the sport? It has nothing to do with overtaking. If BE gets his way then we can all expect a lot more stewards enquiries over results, then BE can give it to whoever he wants regardless of who crossed the line first. There are already too many races decided by the rulemakers interpretation (or the fear of them). Get rid of them and then drivers will overtake. F1 is in serious danger of losing its appeal and if that happens the drivers will be able to move, but BE will be stuck with the monster he is creating. Perhaps the teams should flex their combined muscle and put him in his place.
Couldn't agree more.
At least now the rules are as ridiculous as the cars.
Charges will not be laid against Mark Webber following the Australian driver's cycling crash last week, Tasmanian police have confirmed.
Inspector Glen Woolley was quoted by a local newspaper on Thursday as suggesting either the Formula One driver, or the driver of the four-wheel drive vehicle that struck his mountain bike head-on, could be charged with a traffic offence and summoned to court.
But in a subsequent statement, Tasmania Police said that while an investigation into the crash is ongoing, charges will not be laid.
Red Bull driver Webber is recovering from surgery on the two broken bones in his right leg in a Hobart hospital, but is targeting a return to the cockpit in February.
"At the moment there is pressure and swelling whenever I stand up. There is talk it will be like that for the next two or three weeks and come the first week of February we should be on target for me to be able to walk unaided," he told the BBC.
Hope he recovers ok....