Posted on 08/05/2009 7:57:45 PM PDT by Chode
This will be a general purpose thread for F1 news and pings that really don't require a thread of their own.
this Chin bio-war is starting to really piss me off
Wow ! Thank You.
Those dammed chicoms have screwed the entire planet.
INDY 500 in August...
hope it’s open by then
I’ll stop by the Penske Shop and beg The Captain to do everything possible to get Us a Green Flag.
thx...
Although this morning it was announced that the French Grand Prix, due to take place in late June, will not be going ahead, we are now increasingly confident with the progress of our plans to begin our season this summer.
We’re targeting a start to racing in Europe through July, August and beginning of September, with the first race taking place in Austria on 3-5 July weekend. September, October and November, would see us race in Eurasia, Asia and the Americas, finishing the season in the Gulf in December with Bahrain before the traditional finale in Abu Dhabi, having completed between 15-18 races.
We will publish our finalised calendar as soon as we possibly can.
We expect the early races to be without fans but hope fans will be part of our events as we move further into the schedule. We still have to work out many issues like the procedures for the teams and our other partners to enter and operate in each country.
The health and safety of all involved will continue to be priority one and we will only go forward if we are confident we have reliable procedures to address both risks and possible issues.
The FIA, teams, promoters, and other key partners have been working with us throughout these steps and we want to thank them for all their support and efforts during this incredibly challenging time. We also want to recognise the fact that the teams have been supporting us at the same time that they have been focusing enormous and heroic efforts to build ventilators to help those infected by COVID-19.
While we have been moving forward with our 2020 plans, we have also been working hard with the FIA and the teams to strengthen the long term future of Formula 1 through an array of new technical, sporting, and financial regulations that will improve the competition and action on the track and make it a healthier business for all involved, particularly as we engage the issues created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
All of our plans are obviously subject to change as we still have many issues to address and all of us are subject to the unknowns of the virus. We all want the world to return to the one we know and cherish, yet we recognise it must be done in the right and safest way. We look forward to doing our part by enabling our fans to once again safely share the excitement of Formula 1 with family, friends, and the broader community.
Our best wishes to all of you.
Chase
good to see...
gonna be an * next to this season...
Better than no season at all.
100%
https://www.thedrive.com/video/7859/f1-champ-juan-manuel-fangio-kidnapped-in-cuba-59-years-ago-today
All time favorite F1 race? I didn’t even have to think about it. 1979 French Grand Prix at Dijon. Titanic battle between Gilles Villeneuve and Rene Arnoux my never be equaled.
100%
No can do, I've enjoyed so many.
One of last years most memorable?
The Canadian Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel won the race, but was penalized out of first due to a bad call on an infraction. Vettel never got over it, and his racing suffered for the remainder of the season.
Hamilton to launch new commission to improve diversity in motorsport.
Lewis Hamilton has announced the launch of The Hamilton Commission, a new research partnership aimed at making motorsport “as diverse as the complex and multicultural world we live in.”
“The time for platitudes and token gestures is over,” he concluded.
Extreme irony alert!
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We’ve got both good and bad news about the 2020 Formula 1 race schedule—let’s have the latter first. Because the United States and its South American counterpart Brazil are competing for the COVID-19 high score, F1 has ruled out racing in the Americas in 2020, and that goes for our neighbors Canada and Mexico too. This dark cloud has a silver lining, and that’s the news that F1 will bring back three blasts from its past with races at the Nürburgring and venues in Portugal and Imola.
The infamous ‘Ring will be the first of these new additions, ushering in an October of racing on the weekend of the 9th through the 11th. This event will not be held on the 12.9-mile Nordschleife, which F1 last raced for the 1976 German Grand Prix that almost took Niki Lauda’s life, but instead its shorter Grand Prix circuit. Said layout was most recently visited by F1 in 2013, when Sebastian Vettel claimed his most recent win in Germany, and what would yet be his final world title.
Following two weeks thereafter will be the Portuguese Grand Prix, which last ran in 1996 at Circuito do Estoril. Portugal’s comeback, though, will instead be held at Algarve International Circuit in Portimao, where F1 has tested in the past, but never raced. F1 will bookend October by revisiting Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, which most people know as Imola; the place where sporting icon Ayrton Senna lost his life. F1 hasn’t raced there since 2006, and the circuit’s sudden return will mark the third race held in Italy this season, preceded by events at Monza and Mugello. It is at these events that Scuderia Ferrari will run its 999th and 1,000th championship races.
These additions bring the 2020 F1 season’s length to a total of 13 races, and F1 plans to add as many as five further events as plans solidify. F1 still hopes to wrap up the 2020 season with a finale “in the Gulf in mid-December,” signaling that Abu Dhabi may once again herald the arrival of the winter break—though with car development partially frozen for 2021, it won’t resemble the engineering frenzies of past years.
The infamous ‘Ring will be the first of these new additions
Except, as it goes on, it's of course the F1 course, so they could've skipped the "infamous" part...;)
And even the F1 course was neutered in the penultimate corner to cater to the newer F1 back some time; the former Veedol "S" is now the Veedol "Z" chicane... raced both versions on two wheels, and the "Z" really sucks when you get there from the long back straight...takes the rhythm right out of you.
That said, it's still a good car track, looking forward to see some F1 racing there again.
(The Nordschleife I only do on four wheels for fun in slow motion...)
And while I'm at it...used to enjoy watching some of the before and after banter and analysis of the races...since Hamilton has gone on his one man mission to destroy viewer entertainment of F1, it's now straight to "lights out", and after the checkered flag I turn off immediately. Hope he's gone sooner than later.
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