The Official Formula 1 2015 Season Thread
12-11-2014, 01:19 PM
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Re: The Official Formula 1 2015 Season Thread
The wider question is, will it last? The risk is that the project doesn’t find competitiveness within two seasons and then disappointment will set the tone. The big question mark is that Honda powerplant and how long it takes to be class leading. Friends inside the race team say that the 2015 chassis is already a good step faster in the simulator than the 2014 one and there are still three months of development time to Melbourne.
It’s unlikely that, if the team finds itself winning in 2016/17, Dennis will make the same mistake again of not backing his best driver at the right moment to take the title.
It’s unlikely that, if the team finds itself winning in 2016/17, Dennis will make the same mistake again of not backing his best driver at the right moment to take the title.
12-11-2014, 01:25 PM
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Once a grand prix race winner and Formula 1 title contender, Heinz-Harald Frentzen today drives a hearse and is recovering from knee surgery.
Driving a Jordan, the German was a standout of the 1999 season, winning races against the odds and remaining a championship dark horse until the final stages.
Now 47, the former Williams driver Frentzen has most recently been racing a Mercedes in Germany’s GT Masters series. But Kolner Express newspaper reports that he might be forced to sit out the 2015 season as he is recovering from a serious knee operation.
The publication said the long-term injury dates all the way back to 1999, when he crashed his Jordan at high speed in Canada.
“My knee is still swollen and tender and I have to be careful,” said Frentzen. “It’s my braking leg and in GT Masters you need to brake very hard.”
While he recovers, it is reported that Frentzen has returned to his native Moenchengladbach to help with the running of the family business — a funeral home.
“It’s true,” he confirmed. “Even in my formula one career from time to time I helped my father with the business and now I’m helping my sister Nadine-Nicole.”
Their father, Harald, died in 2014. Express said one of Frentzen’s new roles is to drive the hearse — a converted E-Class Mercedes.
Frentzen said: “I’m actually retired and at the moment I don’t mind not racing in 2015. But one should never say never.” (GMM)
Found this interesting..........
12-11-2014, 01:31 PM
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Well they were not using the fuel/lubrication designed for that engine. One also has to wonder how much they were being limited by the electronics. Can't really prove anything but if I were Merc I wouldn't be letting them have the best control of the ERS if I could help it. Especially when they are going to a different engine manufacturer next year. Williams was using the "good" fuel/lubricants which I'm sure was helpful. Their chassis was good too but I think McLaren being "stuck" with Mobil limited them a bit this past year.
That said they were pretty mediocre in 2013 when none of that mattered.
That said they were pretty mediocre in 2013 when none of that mattered.
12-11-2014, 01:36 PM
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HHF might have the inside track in that series. I'm sure he is quite familiar with the handling characteristics of different hearse models.
