The Official 2011 F1 thread.

[Hick]

You guys think he will quit if the car is slow?

I wonder if Rubins will find a drive

[Jean]

Nice, yeah I am concerned if Williams is going to be fast enough.... :/

[E30Kaiser]

and just as importantly I hope the Williams is much faster than this year.

[YAN-3]

woohooo!

awesome! I hope this is all true and Kimi comes back next year!

[323iNathan]

woohooo!

[E30Kaiser]

I thought this was a funny quote of Horner:
When asked if Vettel had asked for permission to set the fastest lap at the end of the GP, Horner said: "Of course not because he knows we don't like it.

"We had done our best to manage it, we had turned all the engine modes down, KERS off, and short of putting a cow on the circuit there was not a lot else we could do."

Impressive for him to set the fastest lap with so much of the car put into "conservation" mode or whatever you would like to call it.

[Hick]

Its a shame that such a cool race track seems to lend itself to such BORING racing....

Massa seems to have it out for Hami now. He deserved that drive through...

Once again, MSC > Rosberg

[lambo]

Well, the good thing about not partying tonight is I get to catch the race live :D

[E30Kaiser]

Totally true about Ferrari and their Preseason antics.

In other news RBR broke the record which was held by McLaren since 1988(Senna and Prost) by getting 16 pole positions in a single year. Simply flabbergasting considering the organizations they are up against.

[323iNathan]

^20+ seconds with Vettel leading early & then screwed by a bad pitstop and held up in traffic once released... It was still Webber & Vettel 1 and 2 in Quali.

I would like Ferrari to do well next year as much as the next (Ferrari) guy, but they've made a lot of noise the last few years in preseason and then been disappointing.

[E30Kaiser]

Yes Vettle started with BMW. He scored his first point with them.

I hope next year is a little bit closer. This year was cool, but everyone knew who was going to win.

I think if anything Ferrari will be the team to beat next year. I mean I know it wasn't just one thing, but look at Silverstone when blown exhausts were reigned in just a little and Ferrari won by 20+ seconds. I hope RBR and Vettel keep winning though.

[pharow]

Yes Vettle started with BMW. He scored his first point with them.

I hope next year is a little bit closer. This year was cool, but everyone knew who was going to win.

[E30Kaiser]

Vettel started with Toro Rosso in 2007 (plowing into the back of Webber in Fuji behind the pace car lol), pulled a pole/win at Monza in the rain in '08 for STR. Went to RedBull in 2009 and came close to the championship then.

The Webber comments aren't quite fair if its' true he isn't getting = machinery, but makes his performance more impressive that he is usually within .1-.2 with inferior equipment.

To add on to that he technically started with BMW in 2007 at Indy. :P

Also Webber is getting the exact same equipment as Vettel. The thing that makes that almost a certainty is the fact that it is Webber we are talking about here, if he felt he wasn't getting the same treatment he would make sure the world knew it.

[Heysüß]

So is Vettel going to just dominate every season? What is Red Bull's secret? They are in everything these days and damn near every time pull the best competitors. Maybe Button has a chance to challenge Sebastian but its only Vettels 2nd year and he can only get better.

no, they're not. They just had the best innovation with the major 2010-2011 changes and it's taken everyone else a while to make their own/copy. If you notice now (even though it doesn't really matter) mclaren have been getting closer and closer to RB. Next season promises less rule changes so the cars will be more similar in performance since they had all this year to dial them in, but as always some team could pull something out of their ass and dominate the first half of the season (Red Bull/Brawn GP).

[z31maniac]

So is Vettel going to just dominate every season? What is Red Bull's secret? They are in everything these days and damn near every time pull the best competitors. Maybe Button has a chance to challenge Sebastian but its only Vettels 2nd year and he can only get better.

Vettel started with Toro Rosso in 2007 (plowing into the back of Webber in Fuji behind the pace car lol), pulled a pole/win at Monza in the rain in '08 for STR. Went to RedBull in 2009 and came close to the championship then.

The Webber comments aren't quite fair if its' true he isn't getting = machinery, but makes his performance more impressive that he is usually within .1-.2 with inferior equipment.