[F1] F1 nieuwtjes topic deel 58 - Seizoensfinale 2009!

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Op woensdag 4 november 2009 15:30 schreef beantherio het volgende:
Pirelli geeft aan geen interesse te hebben in F1

Goodyear en Michelin hebben er ook geen trek in

De zoektocht naar een nieuwe bandenleverancier wordt op deze manier nog heel interessant.

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Op woensdag 4 november 2009 15:39 schreef ArcticBlizzard het volgende:

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Vredestein!!! FTW

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Op woensdag 4 november 2009 16:05 schreef Googolplexian het volgende:

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Goodyear
Pirelli
Michelin
Dunlop
Kumho
Avon
Hankook
Continental

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Op woensdag 4 november 2009 16:05 schreef Googolplexian het volgende:

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Goodyear
Pirelli
Michelin
Dunlop
Kumho
Avon
Hankook
Continental

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Op woensdag 4 november 2009 16:05 schreef Googolplexian het volgende:

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Goodyear
Pirelli
Michelin
Dunlop
Kumho
Avon
Hankook
Continental
Yokohama

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Op woensdag 4 november 2009 09:51 schreef ArcticBlizzard het volgende:
[Upd] Toyota vertrekt uit de F1

Toyota weg uit de F1

Diverse andere sites melden het ook.

Ik vind het toch wel jammer, leuk voor sauber maar ik had toch liever toyota gehad.

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Renault could become the fourth manufacturer to quit F1 in a year
Renault is to discuss pulling out of Formula 1 at an emergency board meeting in Paris on Wednesday.
The French car company will decide whether to remain in the sport with its own team, switch to simply being an engine supplier or quit altogether.
The news comes on the day that Toyota announced its decision to quit F1, becoming the third car company to leave the sport in the last 11 months.
Renault is not expected to make public its decision on Wednesday.
The company does not want to distract attention from a publicity event on Thursday at which president Carlos Ghosn will promote the company's efforts at introducing zero-emission vehicles.
The emergency board meeting will be attended by Renault F1 bosses Bob Bell and Jean-Francois Caubet, but they will not be allowed to take part in the debate about the team's future.
A Renault spokeswoman was unable to comment.


Renault have had their least competitive F1 season since 2001 and finished eighth out of 10 teams in the constructors' championship after Sunday's final race of the season in Abu Dhabi.
The company came under scrutiny for the team's involvement in the Singapore 2008 race-fixing scandal, in which they decided not to contest charges that they had asked Nelson Piquet Jr to crash to aid team-mate Fernando Alonso's bid for victory.
Motorsport's governing body the FIA gave Renault a ban from F1, suspended for two years, as punishment, while team bosses Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds were forbidden from attending FIA-sanctioned events.
Last month, Renault signed the highly-rated Polish driver Robert Kubica to lead their team in 2010 as a replacement for double world champion Alonso, who has moved to Ferrari.

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Op woensdag 4 november 2009 19:20 schreef Tarado het volgende:
Renault considers Formula 1 exit

By Andrew Benson
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/spo(...)mula_one/8343221.stm

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We want a different closing chapter

Maranello, 4 November 2009 - It seems like a parody of Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians", published in England for the first time in the year 1939, but reality is much more serious. Formula 1 continues loosing important parts: over the last 12 months Honda, BMW, Bridgestone and this morning Toyota announced their retirements. In exchange, if one could call it that, Manor, Lotus (because of the team of Colin Chapman, Jim Clark and Ayrton Senna, to name a few, there is hardly more than the name), USF1 and Campos Meta arrived. You might say "same-same", because it is enough if there are participants. But that's not entirely true and then we've got to see if next year we'll be really as many in Bahrain for the first starting grid of the 2010 season and how many will make it to the end of the season.

In reality the steady trickle of desertion is more the result of a war against the big car manufacturers by those who managed the sport, than the effects of the economical that affected Formula 1 over the last years. In Christie's detective novel the guilty person is only discovered when everybody else is dead, one after the other. Do we want to wait until this happens or should we write Formula 1's book with a different closing chapter?

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The FIA says it seeking “urgent clarification” from Toyota about its legal obligations under the Concorde Agreement, following the Japanese manufacturer’s sudden withdrawal from Formula 1.

Toyota’s F1 outfit joined all the other current teams bar BMW Sauber in signing the new Concorde deal in the summer, which committed them to participate in the sport until 2012.

But the team’s parent company the Toyota Motor Corporation announced on Wednesday that it was quitting F1 with immediate effect because the sport no longer suited its medium-term business strategy in the depressed economic climate.

While its departure leaves a spare entry on the 2010 grid that could be filled by BMW Sauber – which currently only has a reserve slot following BMW’s handover of the team to investment group Qadback – the FIA says it needs to establish the nature of Toyota’s commitment before it can admit a new 13th team.

“Urgent clarification is now being sought from the Toyota F1 team as to its legal position in relation to the championship,” it said in a statement.

“This will have a direct bearing on the admission of any future 13th entry.”

The governing body admitted it was also concerned by Bridgestone’s announcement on Monday that it would pull out of the sport when its current contract expires in 2010, but said the tyre company had at least given it enough notice to find a new supplier for F1.

“The announcements this week by Toyota and Bridgestone of their withdrawal from Formula 1 are of concern to the FIA,” said the statement.

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FIA wants 'urgent clarification' on Toyota

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Overzicht van F1 prestaties Toyota
_{Door Tim Ceuppens, 2 uur en 58 minuten geleden}

2002: Toyota rijdt eerste F1 race




2009: Toyota rijdt laatste F1 race

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Op woensdag 4 november 2009 21:23 schreef vosss het volgende:
Deze vind ik overigens best geniaal van F1pits.net:
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Op woensdag 4 november 2009 22:05 schreef Googolplexian het volgende:
Leuke inkopper voor Todt, dit...

Bridgestone weg, Toyota weg, Renault dus ook misschien

Ik zie niet in hoe Mercedes kan blijven in F1 (lange termijn) ... met zo'n slechte markt zijn de kosten van F1 moeilijk te verantwoorden richting de aandeelhouders.

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Shooting down speculation to the contrary, Renault's F1 managing director Jean-Francois Caubet insists a working budget for 2010 has been approved and the team will race in Formula One next year.

Following the announcement of Toyota's departure on Wednesday, the Renault board met in Paris, triggering reports that the French carmaker could be the next to quit F1.

But Caubet told the sports daily L'Equipe: "We have already contracted our drivers, had our budget approved and are enrolled in the world championship. Season 2010 has begun already."

He said Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn has also laid out his expectations for Renault's 2010 season; that the team "returns to a good level".

"We will not be world champions in 2010, but we do have hopes to be much improved," Caubet continued.