The Motorsport Thread 2014

JJLehto wrote: Last couple of months have been...hectic for me lol Even by my standards I am out of the loop, I missed a few races and caught just the finale in fact.  Yeah, that really is a helluva jump. I'd be inclined to agree he's not ready but things are different now. If one has the skill, it seems it's possible to be 18 and drive for titles! Maybe the general increase in skill, competition and strength of feeder series.  This may also be old news but I was inspired to check after the Top Gear episode: Schumi is in a wheelchair, paralyzed and unable to speak. God to think this is the 7 time champion and once unbeatable Michael Schumacher

I'm glad to see Alonso back but heart broken over Michael Schumacher. I really thought that he was a real life Terminator.  I guess we're all just human at the end of the day.

And to add to some bad news in the racing world, Brian Vickers had to have a form of heart surgery to repair a patch added back in 2010 that was rejected by his body.  Because of this, he'll have to miss the start of the 2015 season.  Poor guy can't catch a break with his health. 

Kvyat was announced back in Japan. Frankly Vettel jumping ship caught Red Bull on the hop, Kvyat's not really ready for the A team and they know it but they've got no choice since they almost universally prefer to take young drivers from their own scheme than hire someone else.

The Button news was an early Christmas present for me.  I honestly thought he was gone. 

I can only imagine there's a lot of money involved somewhere but god knows where, it's really turning into a farce.

Looks like the Korea race is a red herring, even the organisers don't know about it. Bare with me, this'll take a bit of explaining. The rules next year state that each car will only have 4 Power Units (engine, batteries, MGU-K, MGU-H, electronics, turbo) to use over the season, down from 5 this year, but if there's more than 20 races that goes back up to 5. It seems this has been done to help Renault, Ferrari and Honda, as the first two will likely have to push things a lot further than Merc on performance to catch up at the possible expense of reliability and Honda are brand new. It's a rather arse backwards way of doing things but thats F1 for you.

Next years calendar, with 21 races! Korea has come out of absolutely nowhere to be added in 1 week before Spain, which is nuts in itself, but it also clashes with the Spa WEC race. Hulkenberg is going to be absolutely f**king livid as he's just signed with Porsche to do Spa and Le Mans next year alongside his racing with Force India. Pretty certain this is Bernie being a spiteful b*****d and not wanting F1 drivers to drive anything else, as soon as it's announced Hulk wont race at Spa Korea will probably disappear from the calendar.

15 March                    AUS                 Grand Prix of Australia

29 March                    MYS                 Grand Prix of Malaysia

12 April                       CHN                  Grand Prix of China

19 April                       BHR                  Grand Prix of Bahrain

 3 May                         KOR                 Grand Prix of Korea (TBC)

10 May                        ESP                 Grand Prix of Spain

24 May                        MCO                Grand Prix of Monaco

7 June                         CAN                 Grand Prix of Canada

21 June                       AUT                 Grand Prix of Austria

5 July                          GBR                 Grand Prix of Great Britain

19 July                        DEU                 Grand Prix of Germany

26 July                        HUN                 Grand Prix of Hungary

23 August                   BEL                  Grand Prix of Belgium

6 September               ITA                    Grand Prix of Italy

20 September            SGP                 Grand Prix of Singapore

27 September            JPN                  Grand Prix of Japan

11 October                 RUS                 Grand Prix of Russia (Sochi)

25 October                 USA                 Grand Prix of USA (Austin)

1 November               MEX                 Grand Prix of Mexico

15 November             BRA                 Grand Prix of Brazil

29 November             ARE                 Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi

Wow, been so busy can't believe I forgot to post here!

^I highly agree. Hamilton is a worthy champion and the championship was not some kind of giveaway due to Nico's great driving and his pushing of Lewis all year. It was not one of the bitter rivalries like Prost and Senna, but next year it could get uglier. We'll have to wait and see.

Edited by SteveG - November 24 2014 at 11:04

Will Rosberg win? Will Bottas spoil the show for Hamilton? Will I win a million dollar lottery?

sleeper wrote: Tom Kristensen has just announced his retirement from motorsport, a 9(!) times Le Mans winner who thoroughly deserves the name "Mr Le Mans". It'll be very strange not seeing the names McNish and Kristensen on the entry lists of WEC races next year.

 Yes.