And to go to McLaren!!!:mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Duje
Next year I'll have to support Kimi for the drivers championship and hope Alonso comes second.
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And to go to McLaren!!!:mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Duje
Next year I'll have to support Kimi for the drivers championship and hope Alonso comes second.
Lewis Hamilton on Friday said he was surprised that Felipe Massa is questioning the outcome of the 2008 world championship. The pair fought to the wire for last year's drivers' crown, but Massa told a Brazilian TV network that the crash-gate scandal made him feel "robbed" of the title.
"It is my title and what people say doesn't bother me," Hamilton told Bild. "I am a little surprised, because we had a very fair title fight over the course of the season.”
Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali commented: "There is no authority that can annul a sporting result one year afterwards, so we have to live with it."
Massa also told Globo that it was "not so cool" that Nelson Piquet Jr only admitted to crashing deliberately after he was fired by Renault. On Thursday, the pair shook hands at the Granja Viana kart track near Sao Paulo, where they are training for a forthcoming race.
Meanwhile, Massa insists he has no problem with Ferrari's appointment of Fernando Alonso as his team-mate next year.
The pair clashed infamously after the 2007 Nurburgring race, when following an on-track scrape they argued while waiting to go onto the podium. "Shortly after that, we got over it together," Massa said. "It's in the past. There are no problems between us."
He also said he does not fear the arrival of the Spaniard, who is regarded by some as the most complete current F1 racer.
"He is a great driver," he said, "but so were my two previous team-mates, Kimi and Schumacher. I am calm. Today Ferrari is a team well able to work with two drivers. Raikkonen didn't talk much but we got on together well. He was a great teammate and I hope that Fernando is too.
"You know that in Ferrari you will always have a good driver next to you.”
I wish these people would make up their minds already so that I know what gear to buy for next year :mad:
As expected, the confirmation of Fernando Alonso's move to Ferrari turned the key to kick-starting the 2010 driver market.
Much of the specialist Formula One media waited in vain throughout Tuesday for the announcement of Robert Kubica's move to Renault, but the French daily L'Equipe reports that the deal will actually be unveiled on Wednesday.
The hottest new rumour is that McLaren and Toyota are not alone in pushing for Kimi Raikkonen. Germany's Sport Bild reports contact between the Finn's management and Red Bull Racing, despite the fact that Mark Webber was recently put under contract for the 2010 season.
"We are negotiating even with teams that everybody thinks have no vacancies,” admitted Raikkonen’s manager Steve Robertson.
ill put money on hes at McLaren next season.
The bookies have already opened betting for who to get most points between raikkonen and hamilton
The head of Formula One's most historically committed team has hinted that it might reconsider its loyalty to the FIA-sanctioned series.
Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo was the chairman of the Formula One Teams Association, which threatened to pull out and race in a rival championship over a rules and commercial argument with the governing body earlier this year.
Ultimately, FIA President Max Mosley acquiesced and all the current teams signed a new Concorde Agreement, binding them to the official Formula One category for the next three seasons.
"We have a contract that finishes in 2012, so we have time to consider what to do next," Montezemolo said in an interview with Sky Italia's news channel TG24.
In the meantime, he said the sport "needs to renew, to revive the interest and to once again establish credibility with rules that do not change every day."
Montezemolo added that he does not like "this Formula One" of today, and vowed to organise "a day of work with the media, the sponsors and the organisers" in order to "improve" what he describes as an "extraordinary sport."
Aaawwwwww sweet. Kimi finally visited with Massa :laugh::laugh:
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Jenson Button has joined the elite group of race drivers to have won the world championship. His fifth position in Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix was enough to clinch the title from Sebastian Vettel and Rubens Barrichello.
"Today was the best race that I've driven in my career and I'm really going to enjoy this moment," said Button. "This season has been a rollercoaster ride from the elation of the wins at the start to the hard graft in the second half of the season which has seen us grind out the results needed to take the titles.
"To everyone back at the factory in Brackley, thank you for all of your hard work and for producing such a fantastic car,” he continued. “It's going to take a while to sink in but for now I'm just revelling in the achievement of a lifelong dream."
Button is the tenth British champion following in the footsteps of Mike Hawthorn, Graham Hill, Jim Clark, John Surtees, Jackie Stewart, James Hunt, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill and the out-going champion Lewis Hamilton.
His string of six wins from the first seven races equalled a record set by Clark and Michael Schumacher and formed the foundation of his championship campaign. While his final win of the season came at Istanbul in June - pending the last round of the season in Abu Dhabi - since then he was able to score points on a regular basis much to the frustration of his rivals.
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Button has had his fair share of critics for his performance in the second half of the championship, but had he started the season with points paying finishes and ended the season with a string of victories, his success would have, arguably, been seen in a differing light.
He may not have the flair of some of his rivals and may not put the car right on the limit week in week out, but his Brazilian race was a very good performance and with more points than his rivals, he has achieved his career objective of championship success following many years of loyalty to Honda and its new successor, Brawn GP.
In view of his team having taken the constructors' crown as well, Button's title caps what has been a fairytale success story for the Brawn team, an outfit which came close to shutting its doors mere weeks before the 2009 championship began. The BGP 001 completed its first on-track testing only a month before the season's first race.
“I am so incredibly proud of the team and our drivers and it's so very special to have won the constructors' and the drivers' championships in our first year as Brawn GP,” said Ross Brawn. “It's really going to take a while for what we have achieved today to sink in. Jenson is a fantastic racer and he had a great race today, particularly after such a difficult qualifying yesterday. He knew what he had to do and did just that and is a very deserving world champion.”
I thought it may have been deleted posts.
Tried El Ds advice, I had it set at default 15- pages per thread, tried 5, 10, 25, 30...all with the same results, but a 50 page per thread setting has fixed this in that particular thread.
Yes indeed. That has everything to do with Formula 1 :blink: