Auto Racing Discussion Thread

[Dmitry 92]

Wehrlein is going to Sauber. It looks clear. Bottas will go to Mercedes and Massa is going back to Williams.

[Federer91 3,026]

And the first big casualty of a favourite - Al-Attiyah retires from the race after he busted the car in stage 3

[Dmitry 92]

Bernie Ecclestone sacked. The new age was started.

[heywoodu 16,007]

8 hours ago, Dmitry said:

Bernie Ecclestone sacked. The new age was started.

 

Hopefully the new owners can eliminate some of the bad things from Ecclestone, but mostly keep a lot of Ecclestone's things that saved Formula 1 from being dead a long time ago. 

[Dmitry 92]

12 hours ago, heywoodu said:

 

Hopefully the new owners can eliminate some of the bad things from Ecclestone, but mostly keep a lot of Ecclestone's things that saved Formula 1 from being dead a long time ago. 

Ross Brawn said that he would like to bring the old sound back. This is the main thing but it will be only in 2021.

[Federer91 3,026]

This week officially starts the new motorsport season with the return of F1.    Also GP2 is now transformed into the Formula 2 banner (version 3.0 ) in an attempt from FIA to restructure the smaller formulas. There is also talk in the comming years to combine GP3 with F3 and make a defined pyramid of the classes, which we know has always been very blurry. 

[heywoodu 16,007]

1 hour ago, Federer91 said:

This week officially starts the new motorsport season with the return of F1.    Also GP2 is now transformed into the Formula 2 banner (version 3.0 ) in an attempt from FIA to restructure the smaller formulas. There is also talk in the comming years to combine GP3 with F3 and make a defined pyramid of the classes, which we know has always been very blurry. 

That last one would be good in terms of having a bigger field, but not so good in losing a number of races  

 

 

[heywoodu 16,007]

And hold on, not only Formula 1 but also MotoGP/2/3 starts again this week 

 

World Superbikes has already gotten  underway  

 

And I'm guessing it's almost time for F4, Formula Renault and all those things to get going as well  

[heywoodu 16,007]

Alonso 

 

 

 

Edited March 23, 2017 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,007]

No Wehrlein in Melbourne. That means with Giovinazzi we'll have an Italian in F1 for the first time since Jarno Trulli in 2011