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phil1993
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The YDT is scrapped and race drivers can participate instead if the teams choose so. Mercedes will not be present.


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http://www.f1zone.net/news/young-driver ... lem/19614/

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So what about the young drivers now?
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RtN wrote:
Mercedes will not be present.


Must feel like a boomerang...
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Mika Kimi wrote:
So what about the young drivers now?


The young drivers will be the only ones allowed to do car work; the regular drivers can only do work on tyres.

But I can't imagine many teams will give a balanced amount of time between the two.

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StanV wrote:
I think Michael Schumacher obviously arranged everything, the sneaky bastard.


Well, the bash towards Mercedes is not greater because Hamilton is there instead of Schumacher

Good that these failures happened, now with this new measures, Mercedes advantage will get a little smaller
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What a terrible advert 8O

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Pirelli to use kevlar belts in Germany, will bring back 2012 compounds for Hungary.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/23141389

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Oh I'd like to be a fly on the wall in Luca De Montezemelo's office right about now (assuming he was in it while receiving this news).

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What a f*ck up this has been.
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Mika Kimi wrote:
What a f*ck up the teams and FIA have created by prolonging an issue that has been well known for a long while.


Corrected :thumbsup:

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What a f*ck up the teams and FIA have created by prolonging an issue that has been well known for a long while.


My English is improving. :D
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so what's the odds for Pirelli pulling out of F1 in the end of the year?

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Pirelli to use kevlar belts in Germany, will bring back 2012 compounds for Hungary.


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LucasWheldon wrote:
so what's the odds for Pirelli pulling out of F1 in the end of the year?


I'd say very high. Not withstanding the challenges of recent times, no-one from within F1 has tried negotiating a 2014 (and onwards) contract with Pirelli. What does that tell us?

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It tells us Todt already has a replacement lined up.

You cannot blame Pirelli for wanting out, everyday Joe Public who saw Silverstone is just gonna say "I'm not buying Pirelli if all they do is explode", some people are just too short sighted/thick to understand.
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but I've been reading headlines from pirelli's PR saying "we have nothing to worry, as many teams signed a contract for 2014"

anyway, they signed with the teams, but not with FIA

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I know someone mentioned this plan originally yesterday, but this is utterly pathetic - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/108499

"Junior drivers are only allowed to car dev work, while race / test drivers are only allowed to do tyre dev work"

And people inside F1 wonder why people outside of F1 say the sport is an utter mess. Just do the 'effing test, let the teams do what they want with the drivers they have (senior or junior) and stop creating more complexity than is really necessary.

Part of me hopes that for those three days there is nothing but constant heavy rain, which will mean the teams are unable to conduct any meaningful testing with Pirelli's tyres nor make any progress with car development. In a twisted way it will teach F1 a good lesson about management and opportunity.

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Sauber are in penury and have already missed payments to suppliers as well as Hulkenberg's salary. Development on the car has stopped. The source is Blick.

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Regarding Sauber, I've been wondering how they managed to continue in F1 after BMW withdrew if you see the lack of (big) sponsors on their cars.
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Allegedly their hopes rest on Gazprom money.

It's not an ideal situation but I can't envisage the situation being critical just yet.

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