I'm happy and sad at the same time. Happy to see Nicole back in the paddock at races :) but sad to see that shes not single anymore :(

Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-together.html

Battle of the McLaren babes :D :D :D :D :D I'm hella looking forward to this :)

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Vs.

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Helmet cam mounted on one of the Scuderia Ferrari F10 drivers. Can't tell if its Felipe Massa, Fernadno Alonso, or a backup driver. But just hear that baby roar! yikes!

^^^ Sounds nice, but have you have heard the sound of the Ferrari and Honda V12 engines from the early 90's? It's a demonic shriek!

2010 Season Preview:

The return of Michael Schumacher; four world champions on the grid; at least three leading teams in which team mates will be fighting head-to-head for the title honours; and the prospect of drivers having to display genuine finesse in nursing their tyres now that refuelling has been banned.

Is it any wonder that 2010 is being billed as a fantastic season for the FIA Formula One World Championship?

First of all, there’s Michael Schumacher on the comeback trail, at 41 still as fit and focused as he was in his heyday when he won 92 Grand Prix victories and seven world titles. And the metamorphosis of Brawn GP into Mercedes GP signals the return of the Silver Arrows to Formula One racing for the first time since the team was withdrawn, victorious, at the end of 1955.

Then there’s Fernando Alonso, adding fresh charge to Ferrari, while Felipe Massa returns as healthy and determined as ever after his horrible accident at Hungaroring last July. Jenson Button is already settling in alongside Lewis Hamilton at McLaren, where he will be determined to prove that the 2008 champion is not going to wipe the floor with him.

Sebastien Vettel and Mark Webber are ready to go head-to-head at Red Bull, and owner Dietrich Mateschitz has made it clear he will accept nothing less than the world championship from one of them. The return of Lotus, meanwhile, spearheads the appearance of new teams from Virgin and HRT.

There are fewer rule changes this year, and the most significant is the ban on refuelling. It has obliged teams to develop longer cars with up to 160 kg of fuel-tank capacity instead of the previous maximum of 80, and to juggle weight distribution. The ban will place a premium on preserving their Bridgestone tyres between the mandatory stop(s) in which drivers must switch compounds. It will also change strategy, and promote greater efforts to overtake, as drivers will be less able to wait for pit stops to make up places. Calculation of testing form has been a nightmare, since fuel loads can vary so much (from 10 to 160 kg). Just so you know, every 10 kg of fuel equates to 0.3 seconds on lap time.

The other major change places much more emphasis on victory, as the new points system goes down to 10th place, thus: 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1.

Each driver now gets only 11 sets of tyres per weekend, six sets of primes and five options. Three sets apply solely to Fridays, and must be handed back even if they aren’t used. And drivers from the Q3 session must start the race on the tyres on which they set their grid time.

The penalty for engine changes has effectively been doubled; it’s now 10 grid positions at the race at which the failure occurs, and for the next. The other significant change once again allows teams to run their third drivers on a Friday, provided they use the engine and tyres allocated to the nominated race driver of the relevant car.

Fucking F1 mis-management idiots. Still no HD broadcast this year. Even bowling is shown in HD these days.

Stupid rule. I was hoping to see drivers go all out this year in Q3

Oh, wow...the last time there were 4 world champions on the grid was probably 1992 - Senna, Prost, Piquet & Mansell! Exciting times!

Too bad Kimi Raikkonen left Formula 1 for rallying :( or else we would've had 5 WDC's!

1. Vettel
2. Massa
3. Alonso
4. Hamilton

fuck hamilton is such a good driver. He gets put in a mediocre car and can still keep up with the ferrari's who spent all of last season developing their car.

also anyone see the mclaren wing? Renault is claiming its cheating even though its legal.

Not cheating. Charlie Whiting already inspected the wing and it's good to go :)

Vettel is so fucking fast, it's insane! I hope Button steps up his game :D :D :D

^^ he was fortunate to have a stupidly fast car last season.

Agreed Majin,

Actually I think you could go further and say the whole Brawn outfit was really lucky with the double diffuser being allowed. Button was barely on the podium in the 2nd half of last season.

In my heard I would like to see Lewis take this one, but my brain is saying Alonso in Bahrain.

rich

Don't worry, I have faith in Button. I think hes one of the good drivers in the field, just SLIGHTLY under Alonso/Raikkonen/Hamilton but with a WDC under his belt, he should be just as good as them ;)

Indeed, too fucking bad I didn't put any money when Button was 5000:1 for WDC and Brawn was 5000:1 for WCC. FML.

I'm feeling Vettel or Hamilton for Bahrain.

Anyone staying up to watch Bahrain?

WOW vettel's exhaust just died! Ferrari looks like it might 1 - 2 if they dont fuck up with hamilton in third. MS is in 6th. Lots of DNF's too.

booo 6th place -_-


wow Alonso's front tires are torn the fuck up

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay hamilton.

I think it's time i get a hamilton avatar ^_^

Hamilton ftw... and BD2002 dozed off at 6am LOL

That race was a major snoozer.

well said Great68... watching the best drivers in the world circulate pushing their cars at maybe 80% the whole time was a waste of time.

rich

let's hope that wasn't the kind of race we'll be seeing over and over again. Zzzzzz.

and fucking TSN losers, always going to commercial split-screen right when the leaders pit. never fails. i'm thinking this is the season I will be watching the repeat on SPEED instead.

Four world champs, four good teams, and we're left with a snore-fest.. Overtaking is damn impossible with the heavy cars and tire management needs. The only parts worth taking note is the start and the pitstop. WOW...

I had my PVR set and was about to sleep at 3am but thought it'd be one exciting race, stayed up, canceled my PVR and started to watch the race. Set my PVR again and went to sleep on Lap 28. Well done to the FIA for removing what little overtaking there was in F1

And whois idea was it to start the race in Bahrain...seriously? FUCK I hope the upcoming races will be more exciting. Australia in two weeks!!

^It conflicted with the australian commonwealth games.