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I really loved those times, but lets face it those teams were just crap. Its all well and good to look back with rose coloured glasses but let's not over look the fact that there are certain outfits that just don't belong in F1, Caterham and HRT being the most recent examples.

F1 does need more teams like Jordan ad Ligier though. Teams that can produce value to the grid and have the occasional good result. This is why I feel Hass is actually one of the most important things to happen to F1 in quite a while. If they succeed and F1 promotes them well enough then we could have other similar teams join, bring value to F1 and boost its health, despite having the dipshits in charge who want to destroy the sport.

Yes, I understand your point! Also, for the credibility of the series, it's good to have teams that will stay longer than just 2 or 3 seasons. But there's another side on that, back on those times, even if that teams would only exist for a very short time, it could give the chance to much more drivers to have a go in F1. I mean, many teams could have been just dust in the wind in the past, but for those who worked on that teams, this very short time was one of the most important of their lifes, they were reaching their dreams, that made the sport much more captivating, those people were real passionate! Also, the big number of teams could produce some great surprises, a team could not even pre qualify in a race and reach the points zone in the very next one, in a time where only the top six could score. The teams would improve in different directions during a season, which meant we could see many ups and downs and the drivers needed to value much more their results. For the drivers, for the sport and especially for the public, those factors created the era where motorsports grew the most and attracted a huge number of fans (me included).

As for Haas, I completelly agree with you! I really hope it can give a new boost to F1! The problem is that if this boost really comes, will the F1 management be able to use it correctly? It's very difficult to think they would, given the recent actions. Almost forgot to say, I'm glad Manor has improved either, at least by the tests, it seems as they will not be so far away from the others like in the previous seasons. I really hope they can keep this improvement. Everytime I look at Manor I think of Jules and those points he got at Monaco. That was just "a little" for many people, but for Manor, it was the difference between continuing in F1 or leaving it! Manor still standing up, despite all the crisis and lack of proper money, means Bianchi effort wasn't in vain, this is really nice to see and I hope they never forget that!

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Jaime Alguersuari came out of the closet

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhRghi4yF68

Memo to Sutill lol

Good for him. And I don't mean that in a sarcastic way. Sports is one of the hardest professions to be openly gay in.

interesting rendition of the to-be Baku circuit:

http://www.gpupdate.net/en/videos/7261/baku-circuit-presentation/

My whole point was that the only reason a team 'belongs' in F1 is because they can be there. Everything else feels like 'entitlement' by an old rich guys country club.

There is a reason that we have people like Toto, Monisha, the Ferrari guy in F1. Too much business, not enough passion from 'real racers'.

Yes, i know, that's also 'entitlement' in a way, but i rather see passionate people doing what they love then business minded people taking the passion out of it.

Ah well. The addiction story above is so true. I'm also craving to do simracing again....sigh...

Question is, is it a way to relive pasdion or just fantasizing about a glorified past?

I agree, never liked him as a driver, but he deserves to be happy

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Just thought of a good way to make qualifying more random. Don't have 3 practice sessions before qualifying. 1 short 30 minute warm up followed by normal qualifying. Then have the free practice sessions before the race. All focus on car setup can then be on the racesetup. Cars who qualified out of position can setup the car for more straigth line speed. No more stupid parc ferme rules.

He retired last year from racing i believe?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BCYB3CmxsDs

McLaren hinting about a new livery, with traditional Marlboro colors, might be just a decoy or something like that

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Ridiculous. Ever seen the flag of Japan? Plus the Mclaren logo has some red in it. Why would they uncover the car and then launch a 2nd paint scheme? Ron is silly, not senile.

Did they ever say that that was going to be their livery for the season?

they never said it was their testing livery.

Personally I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to change it after the massive backlash it gotten from the fans.
I think even Stevie Wonder hated it.

Really? I didn't know he was an F1 fan.

Not anymore since the silent turbo engines

So Sauber needed more time to re release last years car? lol

http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/148 ... es-new-c35

Sauber is a winner for adding some colors to the grid

I like it.

hahaha

F1 fans sure know how to fix everything.