[F1] F1 nieuwtjes topic deel 111: waar nieuwtjes niet meer voorkomen.

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Oct.22 (GMM) McLaren is reportedly seeking a new engine partner for its famous formula one team.

The Woking based team has been powered by Mercedes engines since 1995, but the German carmaker now has its own, entirely separate works team.

Indeed, McLaren's current Mercedes relationship will soon end, leaving the Martin Whitmarsh-led team having to become a normal engine 'customer' like Force India.

Honda, the Japanese carmaker who in the past enjoyed a successful F1 partnership with McLaren, has been mentioned as a possible alternative, particularly with the sport's rules switching from V8 to turbo V6s in 2014.

Honda pulled out of F1 after the 2008 season.

"I follow the rules, certainly, and if they present an opportunity then it would be nice to go back (to F1)," Honda's head of research and development Yoshiharu Yamamoto admitted this month.

The Sun newspaper said McLaren is indeed "looking to ditch Mercedes and reunite with Honda".

"There is no way McLaren will stay as a customer for Mercedes engines," a source is quoted as saying.

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Op maandag 22 oktober 2012 09:15 schreef sasquatsch het volgende:
Nog meer F1 nieuws dan maar.

'McLaren wil af van Mercedes motor'

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Op maandag 22 oktober 2012 10:25 schreef Peterselieman het volgende:
Een zakje geld kan denk ik VW wel overtuigen om de Formule 1 in te gaan. McLaren-Porsche.

Klinkt niet gek

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f1enigma twitterde op maandag 22-10-2012 om 11:08:54 Robin Frijns will test for Red Bull in the Abu Dhabi Young Driver Test reageer retweet

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Op maandag 22 oktober 2012 01:43 schreef k_man het volgende:
En van Burdie.

Het formule 1 nieuwtjes topic... twee pagina en geen enkele post gaat over F1.

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Op maandag 22 oktober 2012 14:18 schreef sasquatsch het volgende:
Drie teams hebben tot dusverre de line up voor de Abu Dhabi Young Driver Test bevestigd.

Sauber: Esteban Gutierrez, Robin Frijns
McLaren: Gary Paffet, Oliver Turvey, Kevin Magnusson
Red Bull: Antonio Felix Da Costa, Robin Frijns

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During a constructive meeting, Jean Todt, the FIA President, in co-operation with Bernie Ecclestone, the Commercial Rights Holder, has presented to all F1 Team Principals the new structure of governance, including the new conditions of entry for the Concorde Agreement, starting in 2013.

All the participants in the meeting were encouraged to seek clarification which resulted in a fruitful and helpful debate on how the new structure would operate in 2013 and beyond.

A further important step has been achieved today to secure the future of the F1 World Championship which should lead to a final settlement to be reached between the FIA, the Commercial Rights Holder and the Teams in the coming weeks.

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Op maandag 22 oktober 2012 14:18 schreef sasquatsch het volgende:
Drie teams hebben tot dusverre de line up voor de Abu Dhabi Young Driver Test bevestigd.

Sauber: Esteban Gutierrez, Robin Frijns
McLaren: Gary Paffet, Oliver Turvey, Kevin Magnusson
Red Bull: Antonio Felix Da Costa, Robin Frijns

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Op maandag 22 oktober 2012 20:43 schreef D. het volgende:

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Zenden ze die test nog ergens uit?

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Op maandag 22 oktober 2012 20:34 schreef nils7 het volgende:
is Frijns trouwens kampioen geworden...?

ah ja

De line up van Sauber ziet er zo voor 2013 prima uit dacht ik zo

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Op dinsdag 23 oktober 2012 09:53 schreef nils7 het volgende:
Oh ja... ik was Nico vergeten, was die al bevestigd dan?

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Renaultsport F1 has revealed its 2014 Formula 1 power unit. The 1.6 litre V6 has already undergone extensive testing at the firms factory in Paris and the results are promising.
“The project plan was initially constructed for a 2013 arrival date, and so the kick-off point was formally way back in September 2010″ explains Rob White, Renault Sport F1′s Deputy Managing Director, “We have now been running development engines of various types since the latter part of last year. First of all we had single cylinder engines running. There are some extremely significant bits of learning needed in order to be ready.
“We also had a multi-cylinder engine for the previous architecture that was running and has run more recently. We have now run a V6 and the programme is more or less in line with our planning. We’ve got new learning to do: everything to do with direct injection, everything to do with turbocharging in these new conditions, a substantially bigger energy recovery system design.”

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Op maandag 22 oktober 2012 14:18 schreef sasquatsch het volgende:
Drie teams hebben tot dusverre de line up voor de Abu Dhabi Young Driver Test bevestigd.

Sauber: Esteban Gutierrez, Robin Frijns
McLaren: Gary Paffet, Oliver Turvey, Kevin Magnusson
Red Bull: Antonio Felix Da Costa, Robin Frijns

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Oct.24 (GMM) Mercedes is working on a "completely new car" for the 2013 season, Niki Lauda has revealed.

Lauda, the F1 legend and triple world champion, is Mercedes' brand new non-executive chairman -- the main link between the Stuttgart carmaker and the Ross Brawn-led, UK-based team.

With this year's W03, Nico Rosberg won in Shanghai and Michael Schumacher lapped the quickest in qualifying at Monaco, but otherwise the silver machine has often been a disappointment.

With the regulations staying essentially stable next year, ahead of the radical changes for 2014, most teams are working on evolutions of their current cars for next season.

But with Lewis Hamilton arriving from McLaren for 2013, simply evolving the W03 is not going to be Mercedes' approach, Austrian Lauda suggested to the broadcaster RTL.

"We are working on a concept for a completely new car. The current one is simply not fast enough," he said.