The Official 2010 F1 Thread!!!!!!

[Jon325i]

That's one of the reasons Turkey will probably not be on the calendar next year. Sad that Tilke's best track is also the one that will be the first to go of his, only to be replaced with another of his tracks I am sure.

Well to add to the mixed signals - the commentators on Speed were saying that Turkey is set to lock in a contract to remain on the F1 calendar for the next few years. No source was specifically mentioned so I guess it's nothing more than hearsay at this point.

The news swirling around the new U.S. venue at Austin, TX in two years' time could mean one of these European circuits getting dropped. Due to the logistics and time required for each event, the teams believe 18 or 19 races per season is about as much as they want. Not to mention additional events = additional cost. Counter-intuitive to FOMs desire to reduce costs in this sport.

Jon

[dirtysix]

They're probably pricing the locals out of it.
Shame if it did go. Definitely one of the more interesting tracks.

[E30Kaiser]

That's one of the reasons Turkey will probably not be on the calendar next year. Sad that Tilke's best track is also the one that will be the first to go of his, only to be replaced with another of his tracks I am sure.

[naplesE30]

I think they only sold 35k tickets. More tickets are sold to every home Cardinals game. 81 times a year.

Appears to be some spare seats there.

[dirtysix]

Appears to be some spare seats there.

[Jon325i]

Sorry - had to do it....

[dirtysix]

Yay!
Maclaren won.

[Jean]

Oh boy what a race. I also like Petrov's pace, I think he is doing well for his first year in f1 compared to many other noobs.

I was watching BBC feed and didn't see anything about Button's umbrella girl wtf?

Lewis can suck it, I also laughed when he was thanking his team when just at the last? race he was bitching on the radio.

[vlad]

Was she the thick one.

no, she was the pretty one and looked very good, after she fainted and was carried away, Button's dad was holding the sign and the umbrella

[E30Kaiser]

Helmut Marko said the drivers need to give each other room (and they just about did), and that Vettel needed to get past Webber so that Hamilton didn't overtake him, but if Vettel overtook Webber then the same situation arises and then he'd be saying Webber needed to overtake Vettel otherwise Hamilton would overtake Webber...

Neither have apologised and I can agree with that, if you ignore the fact that they're team mates it would be called a racing incident. So I'd tend to side with Christian Horner, saying neither is totally to blame, and neither is blameless. Yes Webber squeezed him, and yes Vettel appears to have moved right too early...

I agree with this completely except for the first part because the reasoning was that Vettel could run a little deeper at full race pace because he had saved gas behind Hamilton. So the way they looked at it apparently, especially before knowing that McLaren was in fuel conserve mode as well was that Vettel could gap the aussie-train and hopefully guarantee the win and hope for a 1-2 finish.

I think Vettel couldn't see where Webber was, and knowing that it was his teammate assumed that the space was there and began to move back into the race line. People on a lot of the blogs are making it out like Vettel turned into Webber trying to intemidate him. Red Bull Racing is saying they don't expect Montreal to be a good track for them, so I am devastated that such a big chance has past them up and they may not be able to spring back well in Canada.

[323iNathan]

Helmut Marko said the drivers need to give each other room (and they just about did), and that Vettel needed to get past Webber so that Hamilton didn't overtake him, but if Vettel overtook Webber then the same situation arises and then he'd be saying Webber needed to overtake Vettel otherwise Hamilton would overtake Webber...

Neither have apologised and I can agree with that, if you ignore the fact that they're team mates it would be called a racing incident. So I'd tend to side with Christian Horner, saying neither is totally to blame, and neither is blameless. Yes Webber squeezed him, and yes Vettel appears to have moved right too early...

[Pinepig]

Button's umbrella girl fainting on the grid was totally unexpected

Was she the thick one.

[vlad]

Button's umbrella girl fainting on the grid was totally unexpected

[E30Kaiser]

Yeah, the more I hear the more it seems like Webber was told not to challenge Vettel if Vettel did get a run on him. The team wanted to guarantee the win it seems by letting Vettel take the lead as he was running faster. This could be a bigger deal than just a pass gone wrong.

[naplesE30]

From the F1 homepage:

Q: Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said he didn’t believe it was Vettel’s fault. Is this the official opinion of the team?
HM: Well, in the situation Sebastian was in, he had no other choice than to act the way he did.
Q: That suggests that one of the two should have given way to the other…
HM: Yes.

Q: And you will discuss with them who that should have been …
HM: Yes.

Q: Is it true that the team gave instructions to Mark Webber’s race engineer to let Sebastian Vettel pass because otherwise Lewis (Hamilton)would be able to overtake?
HM: That is not correct, because that would mean a team order. We informed Mark about the situation and it is for the driver to decide. The fact is that if Sebastian hadn’t passed he would have been overtaken by Hamilton.

The team sounds as if its fully behind Vettel which is why Vettel was motioning Weber was crazy as soon as he got out of the car. This will only fuel the rumors Weber will not be back with RBR next year.