[F1] F1 nieuwtjes topic deel 19 Mclaren revolutionair?

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THE MOLE : A document changes hands
_{MAY 18, 2007}

The Mole's agent Dusty Road, named after an ice cream sundae at Fortnum & Mason, had been quiet for a long time but one day The Mole received a postcard addressed to Mr WH Smith at the Barristers Benevolent Association, one of his "letterboxes".

This was the signal that Dusty wanted a rendez-vous. The card had only a list of six numbers, followed by a date and a time. The Mole knew that the numbers indicated the volume, the page, the column and the line from the Yellow Pages which would indicate the address of the meeting. After decoding the message The Mole discovered that he was to meet Dusty at Getti, a fancy Italian place on Marylebone High Street, where they make a marvellous green pea-flavoured risotto. The Mole was delighted. It was a very suitable venue.

Dusty is a little paranoid and has been known to turn up at meetings wearing a fake moustache, which makes him look like a bank manager pretending to be a Mexican bandit, but on this occasion he came disguised as an American tourist, wearing a teeshirt that said simply "W rocks". He had a camera slung around his neck and a guidebook in his hand.

Where the disguise failed was that his accent was straight out of Brasenose College, Oxford, but he did not seem to think this was a problem

"So what's the scoop?" asked The Mole, as he nibbled a grissino to death.

Dusty looked around him furtively and slid a piece of paper from his pocket.

"And you didn't get this from me," he said.

"Didn't get what?" said The Mole and slipped the paper into his pocket. "I don't know what you are talking about."

The Mole guessed that it was the proposals that Max Mosley had put forward to the car manufacturers, for 2.2-litre turbo bio-diesels in 2011.

In the cab on the way back to the office he began to read the paper.

"Executive Summary," it said. "There are two principal reasons for change: (1) The need to create a healthier commercial outlook for participants by lowering their costs; and (2) the need to react to public concern about the environment.

"The FIA will use future regulations to reduce the cost of participation in Formula 1:

"Research and development relevant only to Formula 1 will be discouraged, whereas that which has relevance to road car development will be encouraged.

"New technologies in Formula 1 will come from the mainstream R&D of major manufacturers. The result will be a justifiable and mutually beneficial way to fund the main development challenge presented for Formula 1 participation.

"Combining the need to change with the policy adopted leads to objectives which appear to have broad support among the participant manufacturers: Energy efficient power-train development will be overtly encouraged; development outside the power-train will be severely constrained; waste will be reduced by an increased requirement for longevity of components.

"This strategy now needs to evolve. How far should the FIA go on each point? The main constraint will be to avoid damage to the emotional attraction of Formula One for its fan base. In particular the technical awe of Formula 1 and its sheer speed must be retained. Step one is to develop a framework for the regulations aimed at fixing the power-train. Such a framework is put forward, but at each stage guidance is sought from the manufacturers. A detailed proposal can be drawn up quickly once these points are decided upon.

"This paper focuses on the 2011 power-train regulations only, but lists implications for the chassis, bodywork and sporting rules. Today the power-train is the determining step and must be decided before the remaining regulations can be detailed."

The Mole looked out of the window at London passing by. It seemed rather more interesting than turbo bio-diesels. It was true that most of the manufacturers have such engines, but these are used to power SUVs and small trucks, rather than flashy sports cars. But that did not really matter. The Coventry Climax F1 engine started out as a fire pump and did rather well.

The important thing, he thought to himself, is that the engines sound good. Fans don't want to go to a race track to listen to something that sounds like a taxi.

The engine thing was really not the problem. The problem was hidden away in the suggestion that followed that all the Formula 1 cars should have identical aerodynamics.

"That won't do," he said out loud. "This is really just NASCAR. Silhouette racing. If that is going to be the case it would be better to stop pretending that we are at the forefront of technology and stick a body on the cars and allow them to crash into each other and be driven by drooling country boys from the Deep South and F1 rejects from Colombia. You can pull in the viewers but is that what F1 is all about?"

And then it struck him. His job was to make sure that the British motorsport industry stayed healthy and grew. Bernie Ecclestone's job was to make money for himself and his partners. Max Mosley's job was to make sure that the FIA does not become an irrelevant body. The job of the team bosses was to make winning cars, built to whatever rules were in force at a given moment.

No-one had the job of protecting the sanctity of the sport.

"No-one but the media," he said. "And where are they? Too busy having lunch."

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2007 18:15 schreef sanger het volgende:
Er is al eens een le Mans bolide geweest welke sneller ging dan een F1, op sommige circuits.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2007 19:11 schreef sanger het volgende:
Volgens mij was het de Porsche 917 trouwens.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2007 20:09 schreef ElmarO het volgende:
Spyker een keer geen laatste.

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Op zaterdag 19 mei 2007 02:25 schreef vosss het volgende:

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Spyker misschien niet, maar Albers is gemiddeld toch een seconde of 2 langzamer dan Sutil; dus als Albers had gereden stond ie mooi laatste

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Op zaterdag 19 mei 2007 02:57 schreef Vitalogy het volgende:

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Je overdrijft

_{een klein beetje}

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Op zaterdag 19 mei 2007 11:45 schreef vosss het volgende:

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Weet ik, ongeveer een halve seconde

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Op zaterdag 19 mei 2007 02:44 schreef Atreidez het volgende:
Kan me best voorstellen dat ze bij McLaren pro Hamilton zijn, is tenslotte engels team.. Kan t dus ook wel voorstellen dat de ambiance voor de spaanse aanwezigen misschien wat te hamilton kan overkomen Maja, of Alonso zich daar nu echt druk over maakt zolang het materiaal gewoon gelijk blijft..

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Op zaterdag 19 mei 2007 02:25 schreef vosss het volgende:

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Spyker misschien niet, maar Albers is gemiddeld toch een seconde of 2 langzamer dan Sutil; dus als Albers had gereden stond ie mooi laatste

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Op zaterdag 19 mei 2007 13:23 schreef vingerplant het volgende:

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Maar dat heeft ook een reden he, want Chris heeft altijd problemen met dit en dat en de auto is niet goed blabla en de andere hebben nooit wat

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Op zaterdag 19 mei 2007 15:12 schreef Bernard0s het volgende:

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Chris is uberkritisch, en dat was een Schumacher of Hill ook. Zeiken over de auto is nooit slecht.

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Night GP or no GP for Australia
Ecclestone makes his demands

Organisers of the Australian Grand Prix have been told to stage a night race next year or forego a contract extension after the event in 2010.

The Adelaide newspaper Sunday Mail will on Sunday quote F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone as warning that only a floodlit race held after 9pm at Albert Park next March may be enough to satisfy the sport's officialdom.

"Unless they (organisers) can come up with something that's going to satisfy us I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be able to continue there," he said, not long after inking a deal with Singapore for the first ever night race in 2008.

The news is just the latest instalment in the flagging fortunes of the Melbourne race, which has suffered growing losses and declining crowd numbers and local sponsorship in recent years.

Ecclestone said GP boss Ron Walker knows about his demands for a night race.

"Ron is not stupid and he knows exactly what is at stake," the 76-year-old Briton said, although an insider at the Australian Grand Prix Corporation warned that it is unlikely to happen.

"To have Formula One cars hooning around Albert Park at 9pm won't go down well with the locals and it's a family event, so afternoon is obviously the ideal time," the unnamed insider said.

A Victorian government spokesman, however, insisted: "We will be seeking to keep the event in Melbourne."

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Op zaterdag 19 mei 2007 22:18 schreef Tackleberry het volgende:
ik moet ook nog het tweede deel van de race kijken in verband met vakantie, dus ik ga ook nog even kijken of ik die dvd ergens kan vinden

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Op zaterdag 19 mei 2007 22:24 schreef WEST het volgende:
moet je dinsdag ff kijken in _{a.b.multimedia.sports}