[F1] F1 nieuwtjes topic deel 100

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Op dinsdag 21 februari 2012 14:38 schreef Peterselieman het volgende:
Ben trouwens benieuwd welke naam Vettel aan zijn nieuwe auto zal gaan geven.

Jammer voor hem trouwens dat hij de naam Kinky Kylie al eens gebruikt heeft, want dit jaar was dat een goede naam geweest

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Op dinsdag 21 februari 2012 15:43 schreef Trystar het volgende:
HRT 2012

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Op dinsdag 21 februari 2012 15:43 schreef Trystar het volgende:
HRT 2012

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http://www.hrtf1team.com/en/coche/el-f112.html

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Op dinsdag 21 februari 2012 15:56 schreef Kleffe_Dop het volgende:
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Jubileum topic! [ afbeelding ]

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andrewbensonf1 twitterde op dinsdag 21-02-2012 om 15:53:17 OK, so I have been in contact with HRT and that image is not the 2012 car. So stand down all those who were breathlessly excited about it reageer retweet

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Jarno Trulli says he was offered Ferrari F1 drive while racing for Toyota

Jarno Trulli has revealed he was offered a seat at the Ferrari team while he was racing for the Toyota team in Formula 1.

The veteran Italian is set to be absent from the grid this year after losing his seat at Caterham following a grand prix career that started in 1997 with the Minardi team.

Trulli, a one-time grand prix winner with the Renault team, raced for Toyota from the end of the 2004 season until 2009, when he moved to Lotus, now Caterham.

Speaking in an interview with Autosprint magazine, the Pescaran says former Ferrari boss Jean Todt offered him a seat to drive for the Italian squad, but he turned it down because he had committed to Toyota for the long term.

Trulli did not specify the year in which he was offered the drive, but said he felt like a Ferrari driver briefly.

"Nobody knows this, but at this point I think I can publicly thank Jean Todt for having been one of the few top team managers to consider me during my career. No one knows this, but Todt offered me a seat at Ferrari," Trulli was quoted as saying by Autosprint.

"I won't tell you when exactly: I was racing for Toyota and I was doing very well. But I had signed a rather long contract with the Japanese, and in my career I've always honoured my commitments. In 15 years of F1 I've never needed lawyers.

"I thank Todt not only for having offered me a drive at Ferrari, a chance that unfortunately I couldn't accept, but also for every time I asked for advice and received fine indications with a friendly approach.

"He has always been very honest with me. I've always kept this thing for me, but since today it's thanking time, I've felt like doing that. Regardless how things went, for a moment I felt I was a Ferrari driver."

Toyota is returning to Le Mans this year with an LMP1 programme and Trulli, who said he had a series of offers on the table, admitted he would like to return to the Japanese squad in another series.

"Toyota remains for me unfinished business," he said. "With them I started in a great way, with provisional pole in Japan. In 2005 at the second race I got on the podium, the team's maiden one, and in the first part of the season I was second in the standings behind Alonso.

"However we still lacked that development capability that was achieved later, so we lost ground. In 2009 I did everything in order to win the first race, but for many reasons we didn't manage to. Since I didn't manage to in F1, it would be nice to win a race for them in another series."

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Op dinsdag 21 februari 2012 15:43 schreef Trystar het volgende:
HRT 2012

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http://www.hrtf1team.com/en/coche/el-f112.html

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Op dinsdag 21 februari 2012 19:14 schreef vosss het volgende:

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Het geheim zit hem in de voorvleugel voor zover ik weet.

De zogenaamde W-Duct

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Op dinsdag 21 februari 2012 19:28 schreef Glijdt_licht het volgende:

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het gimng om de wieltjes onder de wagen

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RTLGP twitterde op dinsdag 21-02-2012 om 19:36:51 Lotus trekt zich terug uit test Barcelona: Lotus GP komt niet meer in actie tijdens de testweek in Barcelona. De... http://t.co/kBqVKP7o reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 21 februari 2012 19:58 schreef Dside het volgende:
Formula 1 2012 - Schumacher Test Drive - New Mercedes W03

BBC Formula 1 2012 - Schumacher optimistic after test driving new Mercedes W03

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Lotus has pulled out of the rest of the Barcelona test after a chassis issue materialised this morning.

Romain Grosjean had problems during the first laps with the new 02 chassis, and initially the team decided to stop for today while chassis 01 was flown over.

Further investigations revealed a more serious problem, and the team has decided to resolve it before running again.

It means that both Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen have lost priceless track time this week, although it remains to be seen whether the team can trade the lost days for some extra track time, as Mercedes did with Sunday’s private test.

James Allison said: “Before we were due to fly chassis E20-01 out to Barcelona in replacement of chassis E20-02 – damaged this morning – we ran a series of simulations at the factory based on the data provided by our brief running on track today.

“As a result, we were able to identify an area which requires some additional work. It will be more productive for us to carry out these modifications to both chassis at Enstone rather than send E20-01 out to this week’s test. We’ll put the right measures in place and we will be able to fix the problem before next week.”

“Not running this week has been a tough decision to take, but we feel that our choice is the right one,” said team boss Eric Boullier. “On the positive side, we have quickly identified the issue with the chassis and our design office has already devised a solution.

“We will be present at next week’s test in Barcelona. We draw faith from the fact that the E20 was quick out of the box in Jerez and showed its reliability there. We have a lot of work ahead of us over the next week but everyone at Enstone is ready for this challenge.”

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Op dinsdag 21 februari 2012 20:03 schreef Xebber het volgende:

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RTLGP twitterde op dinsdag 21-02-2012 om 19:36:51 Lotus trekt zich terug uit test Barcelona: Lotus GP komt niet meer in actie tijdens de testweek in Barcelona. De... http://t.co/kBqVKP7o reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 21 februari 2012 23:16 schreef RingBewoner het volgende:

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Hm.... Klinkt niet goed. Hopelijk is het geen voorteken voor een slecht seizoen.

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Op woensdag 22 februari 2012 07:41 schreef Black-beauty-babe het volgende:
Weet iemand of de A1GP een doorstart maakt?

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Op woensdag 22 februari 2012 09:11 schreef Tarado het volgende:

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Er zijn al eerder pogingen gewaagd, of het deze keer gaat lukken geen idee, op "hun" website staat dat het nog iets van 22 weken gaat duren http://www.a1worldcup.com/

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Op woensdag 22 februari 2012 09:54 schreef nils7 het volgende:
Oeh had me ooit eens opgegeven voor een stage daar... dat vonden ze toen interessant maar daarna was uiteindelijk nog maar 1 race gereden, dus dat ging helaas niet door

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Feb.22 (GMM) Mercedes is eyeing a new two-year contract extension for Michael Schumacher, according to the major German newspaper Bild.

The seven time world champion, having returned to F1 with the famous German marque in 2010, has not decided whether or not to continue his comeback beyond this season.

"Bild knows that Mercedes wants to keep him," said the newspaper, after the Brackley based team's new W03 car was launched in Barcelona.

The report said Mercedes has decided to offer Schumacher, 43, a new two-year deal through 2014.
"Before we talk to any other candidate, our first contact will definitely be Michael," confirmed team boss Ross Brawn.

Schumacher commented: "I'll decide when the time is right."