Formula One 2012 - Some big changes in F1 (post 209)

It was announced today that the Bahrain Grand Prix will go on as scheduled on April 22!

I'm not looking forward to this stupid race that should have been cancelled.

Force India team member left after their car was almost hit with a Molotov cocktail. Not the type of drink we associate with F1 glamour.

Bernie you effing imp, stop being so greedy and send a message to the fan that you do have a heart.
As for the race and track temperature? Hot hot and some more hot with dry heat.
Not waking up at 4am for this race.

Bernie is definitely willing to sell the soul of the sport to the highest bidder. dealing with the devil...

on the positive side, details are slowly starting to leak out about the Austin USGP race. they had a meeting in Elroy, the closest actual 'city' to the track, and discussed traffic management with the residents. sounds like they are planning two busses from remote parking - the county events center northeast of austin, and from somewhere in downtown (probably geared as much at downtown hotels and residents than for people to find a place to park). Bus access only for general admission tickets, parking on site is likely to only be available for race officials, teams, FOM/FIA, seat license holders and suite holders. they did reference 40 to 50k temporary bleachers, which seems to be in addition to the already announce ~35k in semi-permanent seating they are selling personal seat licenses and season tickets for (for 2012/2013, F1 and V8 supercars are included in the season price)

Bernie has two slappers daughters who like to spend his money on a scale never seen before. He needs every penny he can squeeze out of F1.

Quote from Zoe Moon : Bernie has two slappers daughters who like to spend his money on a scale never seen before. He needs every penny he can squeeze out of F1.

Yeah his stupid girls are just spending like crazy. One bought the Spelling mansion worth 100+Million for her and b/friend or husband. WTF just as bad as the russian oil tycoon kids.

Makes me want to puke thinking about them.

Quote from Superocean : Yeah his stupid girls are just spending like crazy. One bought the Spelling mansion worth 100+Million for her and b/friend or husband. WTF just as bad as the russian oil tycoon kids. Makes me want to puke thinking about them.

Yep, they're a waste of space. Tamara is no better, she spent $1.6m on a bathtub for her house in London and the house includes other crazy things like an in house spa/beauty salon and a closet that is bigger than some homes in the UK. She bought it for $72m and spent $29m remodeling it so a grand total of $101m. She's looking to buy a mansion in California too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063771/Tamara-Ecclestone-Inside-Bernies-girls-jaw-dropping-18m-home-refurb.html

just in case you all missed the race, here's a great video i found.
There's nothing sinister or somebody singing.

http://youtu.be/AdKOrLp--TU

An explosion and fire in the Williams garage occurred about 90 minutes after the race, just as they were starting the celebrations over their win in Spain today. Pit teams from Williams and several other teams battled the blaze alongside the track fire crew.



The news reports are all over the place as to what caused the fire and how many were injured. Looks like sixteen people (including four Williams team members) suffering from smoke inhalation were treated at the track or taken to local hospitals. Some reports say one person has severe burns and was flown to the hospital, no word on who it is or their condition yet.

Senna's car looks to have been damaged by the fire, not sure how bad it is. Maldanado's car was not in the garage at the time the fire broke out.




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-2143820/Fire-Williams-garage-Spanish-Grand-Prix.html

Quote from Zoe Moon : An explosion and fire in the Williams garage occurred about 90 minutes after the race, just as they were starting the celebrations over their win in Spain today. Pit teams from Williams and several other teams battled the blaze alongside the track fire crew. The news reports are all over the place as to what caused the fire and how many were injured. Looks like sixteen people (including four Williams team members) suffering from smoke inhalation were treated at the track or taken to local hospitals. Some reports say one person has severe burns and was flown to the hospital, no word on who it is or their condition yet. Senna's car looks to have been damaged by the fire, not sure how bad it is. Maldanado's car was not in the garage at the time the fire broke out. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-2143820/Fire-Williams-garage-Spanish-Grand-Prix.html

crazy stuff. Senna's car is toast, from the picture Speed showed earlier I'm assuming the chasis is a total loss. The most credible rumor I've heard so far was suspecting a KERS related explosion/fire. I saw the sky sports coverage on youtube, couldn't believe that in 6 minutes and 30 seconds you didn't see a single uniformed fire personnel or truck on the pit lane side, hopefully they had people on the hospitality side by then. no idea why information has been so slow to get out.


also, mostly unrelated to F1:
http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/ar...lo-kanaan/

http://en.espnf1.com/spain/motors...78583.html

31 people treated at the track, seven to local hospitals

Didn't get to watch the post race but that's some bad news for Williams. According to my other web boards, 2 were hurt badly, it most likely started by the fuel area. Seems the feeder series race may also have had some fuel problems? A bunch of computers and tech carts are totalled now with fire and water damage.
Took way too long for the Fire team to get there and there are just way to many people on the pit lane after the race.
Hope they recover from the fire. Good job on the Caterham and FI crews being big help with the fire from the get go.

Bruno Senna's Williams car came through the Spanish Grand Prix garage fire relatively undamaged and the Brazilian will use it in Monaco again this weekend, the Formula One team said on Monday.

Photographs showed it surrounded by charred debris and covered by extinguisher foam but a team spokeswoman said the chassis was fine.

Williams' chief operations engineer Mark Gillan said in a team preview that while preparations for Monaco had been "somewhat hampered" by the fire, the team was ready to go racing.


"The impact of the fire has been mitigated by what can only be described as a Herculean effort by the factory and our suppliers to restock both the damaged equipment and car parts," he said.




http://www.reuters.com/article/20...YA20120521

Looks like they will be on /Super soft and soft this weekend and next for canada. Maybe since the Merc have such good mechanical grip old Schumi might have a chance at the podium.

I'm rooting for Kimi to have a good race but who know if he'll be up for it with all the drinking/partying in the marina.

Quote from Zoe Moon : Bruno Senna's Williams car came through the Spanish Grand Prix garage fire relatively undamaged and the Brazilian will use it in Monaco again this weekend, the Formula One team said on Monday. Photographs showed it surrounded by charred debris and covered by extinguisher foam but a team spokeswoman said the chassis was fine. Williams' chief operations engineer Mark Gillan said in a team preview that while preparations for Monaco had been "somewhat hampered" by the fire, the team was ready to go racing. "The impact of the fire has been mitigated by what can only be described as a Herculean effort by the factory and our suppliers to restock both the damaged equipment and car parts," he said. http://www.reuters.com/article/20...YA20120521

I'd be nervous driving that chassis. Heat can do strange things to objects that aren't readily visible.