Grey season after the retirement of the F1 God? I think so.
The future champion of F1 in 2007 :
(http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/9452/04ed1.jpg)
Chances to win the title:
Raikk?nen 30%
Massa 30%
Fisichella 16%
Alonso 12%
Button 5%
Kovaleinen 2%
Others 5%
I'm pessimistic:
Alonso 30%
Raikonnen 20%
Hamilton 14%
Massa 12%
Kovaleinen 8%
Fisichella 6%
Button 3%
Others 7%
You still have that McLaren phobia! Notice that they are a weak team since ages! :P:)
New sponsor, huge amount of money, precise top driver and a supertalented newbie in the team - I'm afraid they will be good.
IMO :
K. Raikkonen : 25%
F. Alonso : 22%
F. Massa : 17%
H. Kovailainen : 13%
L. Hamilton : 10%
G. Fisichella : 3%
J. Trulli : 3%
N. Heidfeld : 2%
J. Button : 1%
R. Barrichello : 1%
R. Schumacher : 1%
R. Kubika : 1%
N. Rosberg : 1%
D. Coulthard : 0%
M. Webber : 0%
A. Wurz : 0%
C. Albers : 0%
A. Sutil : 0%
T. Sato : 0%
A. Davidson : 0%
Totto rosso drivers (not yet confirmed) : 0%
The new colours of Renault : not light blue and yellow as Alonso left and his spanish sponsor too, but dark blue and yellow (classical colours for Renault) and orange additions due to new sponsor (ING bank from Netherlands).
Some pictures : http://www.sports.fr/fr/f1/slide/dujour/2007/3814.html
1 and 2 : the new Renault
3 and 4 : the new McLaren (this car's looks is really beautiful)
5 : the new BMW (still ugly look, as previous ones)
6 : the new Ferrari (very strange nose, it's too "round", not enough sharp IMO)
7 : who cares to see Kimi skiing ?
8 and after : not F1 pictures or pictures from 2006 season
New Renault's unserious painting fits fine to a mediorce team. :P
Ferrari design became poor without the characteristic Vodafone icon.
McLaren's most beautiful car was in last year, now it's worse with the huge Vodafone script on the red rear wing.
BMW design is simple as always, I like it.
Kimi is a good guy in private life: alcohol, parties, scandals. Maybe I'll cheer for him this year. (unless another driver will be able to defeat Alonso)
Quote from: CTGFerrari design became poor without the characteristic Vodafone icon.
McLaren's most beautiful car was in last year, now it's worse with the huge Vodafone script on the red rear wing.
I have difficulties to understand your mind...
First you say Ferrari was more beautiful with Vodafone logo, then you say McLaren is less beautiful with Vodafone logo. Tell me : vodafone logo is supposed to improve or decrease car look in your mind ? :P :D
Ferrari was red - basic color of Vodafone is red. They fit.
McLaren is silver, Vodafone script (not the logo) is on the rear wing with red basic color. They don't fit.
Oh, ok, I thought you were talking about the logo. :p
Shall we hope that CTG will come back to F1? ;D
Alonso made a too good test day...
Quote from: CTG on February 01, 2007, 01:10:09 AM
Alonso made a too good test day...
Yep. Alonso, followed by the 2 Renault and then the 2 Ferrari. Hamilton tests are crappy compared to Kovalainen => new potential victory estimate according to these tests :
Before :
K. Raikkonen : 25%
F. Alonso : 22%
F. Massa : 17%
H. Kovailainen : 13%
L. Hamilton : 10%
G. Fisichella : 3%
J. Trulli : 3%
New :
F. Alonso : 25%
K. Raikkonen : 22%
F. Massa : 17%
H. Kovailainen : 17%
G. Fisichella : 6%
L. Hamilton : 3%
J. Trulli : 3%
Others remain unchanged.
Silver Spirit has some identity problems: Raik?nnen went to the enemy, another enemy arrived to McLaren. I'm with Raik?nnen and Hamilton. Alonso is ignored.
Quote from: CTGAlonso is ignored.
No. Alonso is Champion. :D
Forever Raikonnen! Dirty-smelly asshole Alonso! Poor Kubica!
(short summary of Australian GP)
My own opinion of Australian GP :
+ :
Raikonnen (perfect week-end, perfect race),
Alonso (still here, he made McLaren car back at its best after a not good season last year),
Hamilton (impressive first race, a slow finish (maybe he was tired or just wanted to get sure to have the podium once Alonso passed him) but no fault, promising),
Hedfeild and Kubica (too bad for the Polish that he had an engine problem),
Massa (without his gearbox problem during qualifications, he would have fight for victory for sure. Started last he finished 6th just behind Fisico, very good performance),
Rosberg (nice GP, good finish with nice moves to gain some places, and he managed to put his Williams-Toyota before the official Toyota team),
Sato (weak car, but real talent. Why this pipsqueak is still in such team as Super Aguri ? Button should go there and let his place to Sato in "real" Honda team).
+/- :
Kovalainen (not too bad for a start, but 3 mistakes in race made him out of the points. Remember that he was just a test driver last year (while Hamilton was racing in GP2), he will need 2 or 3 races to get back at his best),
Fisichella (the Renault team still have work to be at their best, so far the car is slower than Ferrari, McLaren and BMW, he managed to keep the 5th place with a serious race, it was hard for him to keep Massa behind him in the last 6 laps, but he managed to do it),
Sutil (hard to start F1 with such a weak team as Spyker (ex-Midland), but he managed to reach the finish line for his first F1 race, so it's a good result for him I think).
- :
Wurz (man, look at your rear glasses sometimes ! Stupid Wurz almost got decapitated by Coulthard's rear left tyre because of his incompetency ! Coulthard race was anonymous, but he didn't deserved to finish it this way because of Wurz)
Albers (he hit Davidson at the beginning and ended in a solo accident after 21 laps only. Go back to DTM man, you don't deserve to be a F1 driver),
Button (his worst race ever).
Hamilton is leading!!! B?FF!!!
Oh my God, what happened to Kubica? :-/
Alonso got a stop/go penalty. Fine.
Wildest race since Brazil '03... terrible race from my compatriots (Massa's DQ and Rubens again screwed by pitting decisions), and of course Kubica's shunt scared the hell off my Polish descent (thankfully he is rather fine, just a broken leg it seems). But it all ended in joy, for Hamilton's maiden victory ;D, plus Alonso's humiliation...
Ferrari was penalized by the pace car. 1st pace car entrance (Sutil crash) ripped of all Ferrari hopes for a podium.
Black flags for Massa and Fisico and stop go for Alonso : they all should have learnt the new rules regarding pitstops when pace car is on.
Perfect victory of Hamilton, really deserved 2nd place for Heifled, and lucky, very lucky Wurz and Kovalainen.
Last message : Honda sucks. 6 GP : no points. While Super Aguri with the older version of Honda engine already have 4 points (all won by Sato who perfectly got rid of Alonso at the end of the GP, lovely, I like Sato). I really think that Sato deserves a much better team than Super Aguri. Unlike his ex-teammate Button (prefered by Honda, stupid Honda managers), he always manage to get the best of his car and do only a few mistakes.
Let's dream : Renault drivers next year : Bourdais and Sato.
Quote from: DuplodeKubica's shunt scared the hell off my Polish descent (thankfully he is rather fine, just a broken leg it seems).
I also heard that he is "only" with a leg broken. Happy news compared to the hard crash he had.
Massa had to start from the pit - SABOTAGE!!! ;D
He's damned agressive now and will be in TOP8 soon.
Too bad MAssa had his problem at the start, else my Kimi/Massa tip would have been perfect.
Who will replace Albers in Spyker team ?
He had to be fired because his sponsor didn't pay to Spyker what he was supposed to pay. Too bad for him.
Money is really the key to have a seat in F1. That's why talented drivers (S. Bourdais or F. Montagny for example) can't race in F1 while worse drivers can just because they have a sponsor (S. Speed or A. Davidson for example)...
Bourdais made tests with Toro Rosso last winter and was obviously faster than Speed and Luizzi after only a few laps of test. But he had no big sponsor and therefore was not accepted in the team. So he came back to ChampCar where he is still one of the leaders after beeing champion last 3 years...
After a few learning races, Montagny proved last year that he was as fast as Sato, but he had no big sponsor that could allow him to drive as regular driver for Super Aguri, so he is now only a test driver for Toyota. I hoped that he could replace R. Schumacher in Toyota due to Ralf's weak results, but it seems it was just a dream...
Problem in France is that there is no big sponsor ready to pay for French drivers. That's the opposite in some other countries like Japan where Y. Ide (one of the worst driver who raced in F1, the only one I remember that had his license stopped due to bad racing) and S. Yamamoto (who replace F. Montagny for the end of 2006) have big sponsors...
Alex Yoong was the worst driver ever.
Quote from: CTGAlex Yoong was the worst driver ever.
But FIA didn't stop his F1 driving license. FIA did for Yuri Ide.
Nyalonso is dirty and lucky. Let's hope McLaren will be disqualified.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lZpGasXb2js
Funny F1 anime.
Btw dirty Nyalonso sucked, I was sooooooooooo happy with that. ;D
Kazuki Nakajima (best GP2 rookie this year) will replace Alexander Wurz for Williams-Toyota for Brazilian GP. Wurz decided to stop his career 2 days ago and declared that it was immediate and not after last GP of the season.
An ad made at the beginning of the year by Mercedes, that will probably never ever be on TV again due to Lewis-Fernando problems now.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t-AQGohc3zI