The Official F1 2009 Thread

[Hick]

good race. i still want to see Rubins win the championship, not going to happen now, but maybe he will get to win Brazil for the first time. the fans will go crazy if he does

[vlad]

Ferrari should hire vettel to partner Alonzo :D

[DarkWing6]

Ferrari should hire vettel to partner Alonzo :D

He already signed with Red Bull for at lest another year. I don't remember if it was a multi-year deal or not.

[kishg]

good race. i still want to see Rubins win the championship, not going to happen now, but maybe he will get to win Brazil for the first time. the fans will go crazy if he does

+1 i hope he wins in brasil.

[kishg]

Disagree, he who gets the most points DESERVES it. He just happened to build up his monsterous lead at the beginning of the season.

Why is that more or less worthy than an end of season push to make up a margin?

that would make sense if everyone was driving spec cars. at the beginning of the season, brawn basically blindsided everyone else with the diffuser. as the season progressed, the other teams, esp mclaren and red-bull caught up. at this rate he may well lose by a point or two if things go wrong like hamilton in 07. I'm a brawn fan and I still hope they win constructors and i hope either button or rubens wins WDC but I can't say they will in dominant fashion.

[E30Kaiser]

I obviously hope that Vettel wins, but if a Brawn driver has to win I want it to be Rubino. Still hoping for a Vettel surge. There are a lot of ifs in this season and I think Vettel would have benefited greatly if his luck had been different. Button couldn't have had much better luck this season, everything has gone his way for the most part except for the DNF at Spa and the penalty in Japan.

[z31maniac]

Vettel would seriously be in the hunt if he hadn't been fucked in Singapore. What a bullshit way to do the pit speed limit.

I'm a huge RBR fan. I've always liked Webber, and been a big fan of Vettel since he came into the sport.

[E30Kaiser]

Vettel would seriously be in the hunt if he hadn't been fucked in Singapore. What a bullshit way to do the pit speed limit.

I'm a huge RBR fan. I've always liked Webber, and been a big fan of Vettel since he came into the sport.

Same here, also I don't understand how they can give him a drive through penalty for it unless it was a big gain in time(which I doubt it was) I thought common practice was for fines to be handed out for speeding in the pits. I mean Rosberg apparently was speeding in the pits at Japan but nothing was dolled out for him. I understand each case is different but these rulings are just all over the place.

[TDE30]

Fernando to SF, and Kubi to Renault; maybe a slightly better car will cease Kubi's bitching.

http://jalopnik.com/5376139/robert-kubica-goes-to-renault-f1

I imagine Heidfeld will probably serve as someone's test driver next season, oh well.

[E30Kaiser]

If they keep Romain, Renault is back on my hate list.

[TDE30]

^ No question about it. It's odd how these teenage phenoms (Alguersuari, Grosjean, Buemi) all seem to be shit drivers at the moment. It really makes one respect drivers like Vettel (hell, even LH to some extent, as much as some may dislike him.)

[Dave]

Dont discount Buemi. I think he has promise.

And as far as a pairing for Kubica, why not Nick????? They seem to play well together.

[TDE30]

Dont discount Buemi. I think he has promise.

And as far as a pairing for Kubica, why not Nick????? They seem to play well together.

True about Buemi, he shows the most promise out of that group.

Are you suggesting that Nick and Kubi both go to Renault, I think that would be pretty cool actually. Nick probably isn't on top of everyone's shopping list though (as much of a fan of his as I am) but he is very consistent and that might help him go to another team as something other than a test driver.

The whole Sauber 2010 situ is still murky, I'm not sure if the Sauber outfit will remain under a different name or if them and BMW are both leaving at the end of the season. If some for of Sauber stays, I'd be surprised to see Nick not stay with them (after all, he has been with Williams-BMW/BMW-Sauber for five seasons now.)

[z31maniac]

^ No question about it. It's odd how these teenage phenoms (Alguersuari, Grosjean, Buemi) all seem to be shit drivers at the moment. It really makes one respect drivers like Vettel (hell, even LH to some extent, as much as some may dislike him.)

I really dislike the cheeky Looo-ese Hameeeeelton, but the guy is a fantastic driver. And arguably the best when the conditions go south.

[E30Kaiser]

Once again I would argue that Vettel is the best driver in poor conditions. One needs only look at Brazil last year where he passed Lewis' McLaren in a Toro Rosso and almost gave Massa the championship. Also you have Japan in his first year as well as China, and his win at Monza last year in a Toro Rosso in the wet. The kid ist Der Regenmeister. But yes, Lewis is ONE of the best in wet conditions. I don't know if it is his strategy or what but Heidfeld always seems to benefit from rain as well.

I wonder how bad off Brawn will be next year though, I mean they won't have the defuser advantage to help them like they did at the beginning of this year when they were dominant. It also seems they haven't been able to keep up with development as well as the other teams so I would say most of their strength this year comes from the fact that they wrote off last year and worked so much longer on this year's car than the other teams. Next year they will not have the same advantage and I wouldn't be surprised to see them around where Toyota is this year come next season.