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Why do think McLaren is pushing for Mercedes engines. If they score those Alonso might stay

or not, judging by his luck

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Sky sports now also reporting McLaren and Honda are to split. I think there is at least some truth in the rumor.

I can see Alonso signing a one-year deal if McLaren gets supplied by Mercedes, since he probably hasn't got any other option which can guarantee at least some short-term success.

But I'm quite interested in how McLaren will sort this out financially. Regarding the costs you've got Alonso's salary and the payment for Mercedes-engines, whilst they'll lose Honda's huge financial backing and whilst they still don't have any major sponsors.

Unless Fernando is prepared to take a massive salary cut in order to get a reasonably competitive drive?

If he's willing to take a paycut and McLaren sticks with Honda he should go to Force India. While I cannot see them fight for the win each weekend I can see him bring that little bit extra to get regular podiums and score a win if everything falls into place (or Spain 2016 situations).

What if Sauber flies next year with the Honda in its back, and McLaren have to admit that maybe their chassis wasn't that great after all, and several factors in its design caused the Hondas to be more vulnerable for flaws?

now that Ron Dennis is gone, they can make an effort to get do like IndyCar teams do, using sponsors for one race only

what they did in Indy also could give more visibility to F1 in US, maybe picking more sponsor from there

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Would Honda take all the bashing like a little bitch if that was the case? If sauber flies next year it's because they finally fixed their own issues

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I think you've more chance of being struck by lightning whilst sat on your toilet than Sauber have of being competitive with this years Honda engine.

However, it would be sweet irony if Honda were to completely redesign their engine for next year, or perhaps revert to their rumoured big but working mk1 engine, and it actually last a race distance...

they should pick one of those 1.6 VTEC engines, put a huge Garret turbocharger and set boost at 4 bar and screw those hybrid crap

fuel mileage will be poor but it'll reach 18000rpm and pole positions all the way

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I just hope they can turn their luck around.

And for F1 to switch back to a more traditional engine formula soon, instead of that nonsense bullshit they have now.

Are you KIDDING?

You know the reason why they made rock hard tyres this year (and the racing quality decreased at a result!) is that fans cracked the shits at them for making tyres that degraded too quickly?
They were asked to make tyres that degraded to improve the show by FOM, they did that, fans bitched, drivers threw them under the bus, negative publicity, teams tried illegal tricks to fix it resulting in Silverstone 2013, they backed off a bit but still made degrading tyres, more driver and fan bitching, Pirelli said "ok, enough of all the negative publicity, you finally get what you want: harder tyres that the drivers can push on"

Races suddenly decrease in quality, fans bitch again.


They really can't win, I have no idea what they get out of the sport when they're met with just wall to wall negativity, and yet every time they're delivering perfectly what they've been asked to do by the powers that be.

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I'm surprised Pirelli haven't already quit.

I know that, that's why I said I have been defending them until now. But their effort and apparent lack of any semblance of in season development this year has been pathetic and been my last straw with defending them.

I actually liked the degrading tyres (well not quite to the extreme that the early ones did. The early 2013 spec were good). This years tyres are as hard as they are because they basically said they were playing it cautious because of a lack of data. Well guess what, they now have mountains and mountains of data. So develop and change the compounds for the second half of the season. But they aren't/wont.

We need someone to challenge them. That's what they want as well. Hopefully the new owners agree

F1 was better with a tyre war, IMO

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I hated the tyre war, was horrible seeing a team struggling because of something out of their control

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I think it was good for the sport, each tyre manufacturer had it's own strengths/weaknesses
(Michelin faster but took time to get heat into the tyres and went through an odd graining period that livened up races)

Wet races in particular brought that to the fore, some amazing races were generated because there were different windows of competittiveness between Michelin and Bridgestone.
Brazil 2003 being one, as the Ferarris were overtaken early on, then Rubens came back when his tyres came in leading to quite a lot of passing.

What the FIA are forcing Pirelli to do with the different tyre specs now is basically trying to ape the differences in performance brought by a tyre war.
Bridgestone didn't want to play that game, but Pirelli do.

The only thing the FIA would have to regulate is equal dispensation of teams between each different tyre manufacturer to prevent them making a tyre for 1 team and telling the rest of them to put up with it.
One of the main reasons the Ferrari was so dominant was the exclusive relationship they had with Bridgestone and it's no wonder Williams and Mclaren saw they weren't getting that treatment so jumped to Michelin.

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