[F1] F1 nieuwtjes topic deel 141: Formula Strap-on

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Feb.12 (GMM) New details of the plan to spice up qualifying for 2014 have emerged.

Last week, it emerged that at a meeting in Bahrain on February 21, F1's major players will move to ensure the final 'Q3' segment is exciting under the radically different regulations.

The fear is that, to preserve tyres and for reasons of reliability, drivers will sit out the session for other tactical reasons.

It was reported that a likely solution would be to supply drivers with an extra set of tyres for the final 'Q3' hitout.

Writing in Autosprint, the Italian correspondent Roberto Chinchero said the extra set, only eligible to be used in Q3, will be the 'option' - or fastest - tyre.

According to the reported proposal, drivers will also be encouraged to push hard in Q3 by ending the rule that required cars to start the race on the last tyre used in the top-ten hitout.

Now, top-ten drivers will start on the tyre with which they set their best Q2 time.

The Q3 changes, likely to increase track activity, will mean the session is extended from 10 to 12 minutes, giving drivers more time to fit in their additional 'runs'.

And the lengthened Q3 will mean Q1 is reduced from 20 to 18 minutes.

Meanwhile, for drivers who do not make it into Q3, they will be given an extra set of 'option' tyres for the race, also discouraging them from saving tyres in qualifying.

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Op woensdag 12 februari 2014 11:39 schreef Rossdale het volgende:
Dan wordt het dus extra interessant om 11e te worden op harde banden. Dan start je daarop in de race, en wissel je halverwege hun levensduur snel naar options, omdat je toch een extra set ter beschikking hebt en rij je bijna een hele race op de option band.

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Op dinsdag 11 februari 2014 23:19 schreef Capaja het volgende:
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schumacher heeft longontsteking

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Op woensdag 12 februari 2014 10:15 schreef sasquatsch het volgende:
En Martini wordt zo goed als zeker de sponsor van Williams. Op Internet is de onderstaande teamkleding aangeboden in een merchandise shop.

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Op woensdag 12 februari 2014 22:03 schreef New_Pope het volgende:

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Prachtig .

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Op woensdag 12 februari 2014 22:14 schreef Tarado het volgende:

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Dit lijkt nep

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Op woensdag 12 februari 2014 22:14 schreef Tarado het volgende:

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Dit lijkt nep

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OnPole confirmed that “subject to a distribution issue that needs to be resolved, yes there will be a 2014 [Martini Williams] replica range. We will be offering a small range including the team shirt, team T-shirt and team cap. We hope to have these available to pre-order on our website by the end of this week. The expected delivery date is mid-March.”

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Op woensdag 12 februari 2014 11:39 schreef Rossdale het volgende:
Dan wordt het dus extra interessant om 11e te worden op harde banden. Dan start je daarop in de race, en wissel je halverwege hun levensduur snel naar options, omdat je toch een extra set ter beschikking hebt en rij je bijna een hele race op de option band.

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Op woensdag 12 februari 2014 10:15 schreef sasquatsch het volgende:
En Martini wordt zo goed als zeker de sponsor van Williams. Op Internet is de onderstaande teamkleding aangeboden in een merchandise shop.

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Op woensdag 12 februari 2014 22:47 schreef sasquatsch het volgende:

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Ik waag het te betwijfelen. Die afbeelding is verschenen op de website van een 'officially-licensed F1 merchandise store' en ze zullen toch niet riskeren dat ze door het plaatsen van een fake hun licentie kwijt raken. Ik denk eerder dat ze te vroeg met de Williams merchandise naar buiten zijn gekomen. Nu is het Williams shirt op die foto op de site ook vervangen door een McLaren shirt. Sowieso is het shirt anders, dus is het ook geen paint job over het McLaren shirt heen.

Ze hebben ook bevestigd dat er een range van Martini Williams producten komt.

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Op donderdag 13 februari 2014 01:19 schreef SiGNe het volgende:

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Nee want die band mag alleen in Q3 gebruikt worden, niet in de race dus.

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Meanwhile, for drivers who do not make it into Q3, they will be given an extra set of 'option' tyres for the race, also discouraging them from saving tyres in qualifying.

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Op donderdag 13 februari 2014 20:45 schreef Ferry_76 het volgende:
Aardig filmpjes met F1 records die je liever niet achter je naam hebt:

Top 10 Unwanted Formula 1 Records

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Op donderdag 13 februari 2014 21:53 schreef singha het volgende:
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Ik dacht eerst staat Vettel daar nu naast Madonna. Is het z'n zus...

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Sauber has named Simona De Silvestro as “an affiliated driver”. The 25-year-old Swiss women has been racing in the United States since 2006, competing in Indycar since 2010, when she was Indy 500 “Rookie of the Year”. She finished second in Houston last year. The goal is to take part in a preparation programme with Sauber, with the goal of gaining a Superlicence and preparing for a race seat in Formula 1 for 2015. The programme will include on track testing, simulator training, as well as mental and physical preparation.

“This is a major step towards me achieving a life-long dream and I’m so happy to have the opportunity to take this step with such a great team,” the Swiss girl said. “The Sauber F1 Team is a team with a legacy and the only Swiss team in Formula 1, which I think makes this even more exciting. I can’t thank Monisha Kaltenborn and Peter Sauber enough for their support and belief in my abilities and for giving me this chance.”

Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn said: “Simona’s ambition is to enter Formula 1 in 2015. We regard her as a very talented race driver, and we, therefore, decided to take her on board as an “affiliated driver” and support her on her way to the pinnacle of motorsport.”

De Silvestro is expected to continue to race in Indycar this year but will return to Europe for tests with Sauber.

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World Champion Formula 1 team Red Bull could be on the market for a new engine supplier, in the wake of a problematic start to the 2014 season and the new V6 turbo era.

That is the claim of ex-Formula 1 team owner Gian Carlo Minardi, whose former team, still Faenza based, but now called Toro Rosso, is owned by the energy drink company.

Out of troubled engine supplier Renault’s four Formula 1 partners, including Toro Rosso, the senior Red Bull team managed the least mileage of all at the recent Jerez test.

Minardi, however, observed that – officially – the Red Bull-owned teams are sending out messages of “tranquillity and calm” about what many others believe is a crisis.

“According to circulating information, the situation seems more difficult than that and not easy to solve,” the 66-year-old wrote in a post in Italian, on his website.

“It seems that Red Bull are exploring a possible change of engine for 2015,” added Minardi.

He said he has also heard that Renault, struggling to solve the obvious problems with its turbo V6 ‘Power Unit’, has gone beyond the walls of its Viry factory and is now “shopping” around for technical fixes.

“That has practically never happened before as, quite rightly, Renault has always sought to preserve its technology,” said Minardi.

“This news can only feed suspicions of structural problems in the engine that are not easy to solve in the short term.

“Obviously, I hope to be proved wrong as soon as the testing in Bahrain, but undoubtedly we are living through a chaotic time in Formula 1,” he added. (GMM)

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2014 12:39 schreef sasquatsch het volgende:
Red Bull in 2015 met andere motorenleverancier?

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2014 12:29 schreef Rossdale het volgende:
Volgens mij zijn Sirotkin en de roebels dan dus echt helemaal uit the picture.

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EliGP twitterde op vrijdag 14-02-2014 om 12:48:47 Renault says Jerez issues should be solved: http://t.co/BoLD0GSQke #F1 reageer retweet

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Renault confident Jerez issues solved

Renault is confident it has solved the problems that ruined its first four days of running in the Jerez Formula 1 test two weeks ago.

The three Renault-powered cars that appeared in the first four-day test in Spain managed just 151 laps between them and intense work has been underway to fix the problems ahead of the first Bahrain test, which kicks off on Wednesday.

Renault has completed promotional running days with Lotus at Jerez and Scuderia Toro Rosso at Misano, with head of track operations Remi Taffin optimistic about progress.

"Mainly, we were facing hardware issues, and consequently also software issues," said Taffin.

"The first one we pointed out was the energy store problem. We had good upgrades that we could test either on the dyno or on track as we had two filming days and everything worked as expected.

"So we are now confident that the problem we had in the first test are now solved when we look into the hardware and especially the energy store.

"The next chapter was obviously software. In the first test, we had some poor driveability on track that was mainly traced to either boost control and calibration issues which we have taken on for the last two weeks on the dyno and we have improved our level.

"We are now still a bit behind our initial schedule but we now have done what we would normally have done in the first test.

"So we should be OK in Bahrain to have a problem go out on the first day with the car and the power unit that is working.

"The last point was the integration issues we cold have faced with our customers.

"We have worked on the dyno with them and we will get into Bahrain and the first day without all of the issues that we had in the first test, which we now believe are closed.

"We are ready to go into what we would have liked to do in the first test, which is testing properly the power unit and trying to give our customers the means to 'discover' their cars."

Problems with Toro Rosso

While the second of Lotus's two days of promotional running ran smoothly, with the team racking up the maximum permitted 100kms, things did not go so well for Toro Rosso.

Taffin admitted that Renault had hoped to get away with some minor issues that had not held back Lotus, but that this was not the case.

"We hoped not to have any problems, but we had a few further ones," said Taffin.

"But in fairness, it was not a surprise. We knew what we had in the car and we thought we would get away with it based on what we did in the first filming day [with Lotus], but obviously not.

"The reasons are well-known on our side and we have since worked on it but there is nothing we can do on a filming day.

"When you start the day off with a configuration, you have to run all through the day so it's difficult to react."

Catching up, but still behind

Taffin accepted that Renault is still on the back foot, but laughed off suggestions that it is months behind its rivals in terms of engine development.

"We are still behind schedule, but it's not a question of months," said Taffin.

"I think we are at least where we would have thought to be for the first test so maybe we are now three weeks behind and we are on a plan to recover.

"We are now going to go into Bahrain with what we would like to have finished the first test with."