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[Cuky]

ee, ali sad su troškovi ograničeni na 250M€, što uključuje i motore. I sad se tu većina buni jer RB motore od Renaulta dobiva gratis, dok npr. Mercedes, Lotus(Renault) i Ferrari troše novce iz tih 250M€ na razvoj motora, dok ostale ekipe isto iz tog budžeta troše na kupnju motora. I zbog toga se bune jer je RB u prednosti što se financija tiče jer nema troškova na motore i to sve može koristiti za razvoj bolida.

[Kenny]

ee, ali sad su troškovi ograničeni na 250M€, što uključuje i motore. I sad se tu većina buni jer RB motore od Renaulta dobiva gratis, dok npr. Mercedes, Lotus(Renault) i Ferrari troše novce iz tih 250M€ na razvoj motora, dok ostale ekipe isto iz tog budžeta troše na kupnju motora. I zbog toga se bune jer je RB u prednosti što se financija tiče jer nema troškova na motore i to sve može koristiti za razvoj bolida.

Onda neka uvedu cca 150-200M€ za šasiju i ostalo za motor

[spacedoc]

j...m ti limite uvijek će netko naći rupu. Neka žnj ekipa je a za tu ekipu druge tvrtke slažu bolid i troše stotine milijuna a prodaju za bagatelu , ekipi piše da troši 100 milijuna a dok ovi na razvoj troše sve skupa par milijardi

[dmarijon]

Ajmo mi sve to na papir, markicu na jezik pa na kovertu, i pravo - berniju.
Hoću reći - ...

[Forza]

Why F1-2012 is no lottery

It's classic chaos theory, but F1 2012 is no lottery

The 2012 Formula 1 season has thrown up a sequence of surprising, record-breaking, results – and attracted criticism for it too – but it's not the lottery some have suggested, as Jonathan Noble explains in his Autosport Article.


It's been labelled by some as chaos. With six different winners, six different men setting fastest laps and five different drivers on pole position so far this year, Formula 1 has faced a fair bit of criticism that its most unpredictable of seasons is delivering nothing more than a lottery.


The fingers of angry fans have been pointing at Pirelli – whose degrading tyres have been singled out as the key factor now deciding performance. Those who are unhappy suggest that it's become total luck as to whether or not a team can switch its tyres on over a particular weekend: if they do, they win, if they don't, it's game over.


It's a view that, for a hugely complex sport like Formula 1, is far too simplistic. For if you sit down and speak to those at the centre of the whole thing, you quickly come to realise that the Pirelli factor is not the cause of what's going on, it's the effect of something that happened last year.


Remember the chaos theory? That small differences in initial conditions for a system can yield hugely diverging outcomes that make long-term predictions impossible – even though such a future is determined entirely by that first input?

So the tiny changes in the atmosphere caused by a butterfly flapping its wings in Britain could eventually lead to it helping create a tornado in America many months later.
That 'chaos theory' is what we are seeing in F1 this year: that a small decision taken a while back has led to the unintended consequences of a shake-up in F1 that has delivered a new-look sport and a start to the season we have never experienced before.

To understand exactly why we've ended up with the kind of campaign we are witnessing now, we should not be looking at decisions taken in Pirelli's offices in Milan over the winter. Instead, the key moment was in the meetings of the FIA's Technical Working Group last autumn that moved to ban blown diffusers.

The 2011 season was effectively decided by blown diffusers. The team that had optimised it the best – Red Bull – walked away with the championship, with main rival McLaren only launching a challenge after ditching its fan-tail version for an RBR-style concept on the eve of the campaign.


Ferrari made progress in that area over the year but it was not enough; Renault's season was wrecked by its forward-facing exhausts not allowing it to exploit a proper blown diffuser, and Mercedes GP's basic car concept was not well suited to blown diffusers either. Other teams – like Sauber and Williams – never got the blown diffusers working properly at all and really struggled.


With blown diffuser technology at risk of getting out of control – especially in cost terms as hot blowing got more and more complicated – the FIA acted in the interests of the sport to ban them for 2012.


That ban had two main consequences that have played big parts in what we have seen this year: it helped close the competitive order up, and it has produced cars with less rear downforce, which has had a knock-on effect on tyre performance.


In competitive terms, the one-second advantage that Red Bull Racing enjoyed over the non-blown diffuser opposition was wiped away instantly, in an era where increasingly tight technical regulations make it hard to find such advantages anywhere else on the car.


Teams like Williams and Sauber that really struggled with blown diffusers and had very difficult 2011 campaigns were going to start on a much more level playing field, while Lotus and Mercedes were given a bit of a leg up for their 2012 hopes.

The evidence of the season so far shows just how much the F1 field has closed up in competitive terms this year – and how spread out things were in 2011.


Looking at the Q2 battles for Spain, China and Monaco the comparison between the time you needed to beat to make it through to Q3
are much smaller this year than before.


In Monaco the 11th fastest driver – and therefore first car not to make it through to Q3 – was just 0.510 seconds off the top Q2. Last year, it was 1.540 and in 2010 it was 0.942 seconds.


That patterns of being close this year and much wider in 2011 has been repeated at other races: in Spain the figures are 0.839 (2012), 1.691 (2011) and 1.330 (2010). For China it is even closer – 0.331 (2012), 1.388 (2011) and 0.820 (2010).


Looking back at Monaco, which is the only track that has used a largely unchanged tyre from last year (the supersoft is the only same compound) – things have been remarkably close.

The top five drivers in Monaco qualifying in 2010 were covered by 0.606 seconds. In 2011, that gap was out to 1.126 seconds and this year it was just 0.338 seconds.


The gap between first and second fastest in qualifying also backs the trend: in 2010 it was 0.294 seconds, in 2011 it was 0.441 seconds and this year it was 0.080 seconds.


What this competitiveness is doing is effectively making the penalty of missing out on a few tenths of performance much greater. The 0.441 seconds gap that Jenson Button was missing off Sebastian Vettel in 2011 secured him a front row slot: this year it would have only been good enough for sixth on the grid. It really is that close.

With the ability to deliver improved performance through aerodynamic development so limited, and the quality of the drivers in the field so good, the element of the package that can deliver the tenths of a second that are the difference between fifth and pole position have become the tyres.


Last year, drivers like Vettel and Webber could have lost exactly four tenths of a second by not optimising their tyres in Monaco qualifying and it would have made not a single difference to their final grid positions. Do that in 2012 and you are talking about five or six places.

To further add to the mix comes the consequence of cars having less rear downforce because of the blown diffuser ban. This has caused two things: primarily, at a time when the working temperatures range of the tyres has moved up, the tyres are sometimes running cooler because there is not as much energy being put through them. The downforce issue also means cars are more prone to oversteer this year. That means more wheel spin in the races; which increases degradation and wear.


The biggest problem teams are facing in getting to grips with the tyres this year is getting all four corners of the car operating in the perfect temperature window – with it particularly difficult to get the front and the rears operating in harmony.

Other issues come into play here too. A mandatory weight distribution means that teams cannot move ballast around to help get their cars as well balanced as they would like. Plus, F1's ban on refuelling means there is a huge headache in sorting out a balance that works with 150kg of fuel on board as well as 10kg – especially with parc ferme restrictions meaning no set-up changes between qualifying and the races.

Teams know exactly what they need to do. You need to get the supersoft working at 95 degrees Centigrade, the soft at 105C, the medium at 115C and the hard at 125C.

However, with a 20-degree window either side before performance from the tyre drops off, how do you get your front/rear tyres in harmony for a stint on the softs at the start of a race on full fuel load, without busting the window for the hard stint at the end of the race – if say, as has happened at many races this year, track temperatures suddenly change by 10-degrees between qualifying and the race?


Teams are slowly understanding what they need to do, but at the beginning of the year many did not have a clue: which is why there were such fluctuations. Things are calming down now. Just look at Mercedes: tyres too hot in Australia, too cold in Malaysia – and then Nico Rosberg has been the highest scoring driver in the field.

That's not chaos; that's order. It's engineering, problem-solving and talent coming to the fore. If it was random, why do we have five of the top seven places in the championship table taken up by world champions?
When we look back in six months' time, the answers to what is going on now – and why one man and one team eventually came out on top – will all be there. And it will not because he bought the right lottery ticket.

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[Slash]

Super tekst. I vrlo utješan moram reć .

[Alonso Fernando]

Koliko zaradjuju nasi ljubimci:

Reported F1 Salaries *
01. Fernando Alonso €30 million
02. Lewis Hamilton €16 million
= Jenson Button €16 million
04. Sebastian Vettel €10 million
= Mark Webber €10 million
= Felipe Massa €10 million
= Nico Rosberg €10 million
08. Michael Schumacher €8 million
09. Kimi Raikkonen €5 million
10. Heikki Kovalainen €4 million
11. Timo Glock €3 million
12. Kamui Kobayashi €1 million
= Romain Grosjean €1 million
14. Nico Hulkenberg €500,000
= Sergio Perez €500,000
= Vitaly Petrov €500,000
= Pedro de la Rosa €500,000
18. Jean-Eric Vergne €400,000
= Daniel Ricciardo €400,000
= Pastor Maldonado €400,000
21. Bruno Senna €250,000
= Nairan Karthikeyan €250,000
23. Paul di Resta €200,000
24. Charles Pic €150,000

Source: Business Book GP 2012
Izvor:http://www.planetf1.com/driver/18227/77 ... oney-list-

[Igor18]

Krpaju kraj s krajem

[nando fan]

Alonso ocekivano najplaceniji. Ferari ne stedi na najboljeg

[Domi]

Prvak će prvi isprobati stazu u New Yorku

Vettel to drive New Jersey street circuit:

Reigning World Champion Sebastian Vettel will be the first man to officially drive the New Jersey Circuit next week, the venue for the next year's Grand Prix of America. Situated in New York, the 3.2-mile (5.1 km) track has been designed by respected circuit planner Hermann Tilke and is set to feature a total of 19 corners.

The event takes place at 2.30pm local time (GMT -4) on Monday 11 June, directly after this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal. The Red Bull driver and two-time title winner will get behind the wheel of an Infiniti IPL G coupe road car, the luxury automotive company currently holding a large sponsorship deal with the team.

Vettel will later take part in a press conference along with Race Promoter Leo Hindery and Keith St. Clair, Director of Infiniti Marketing Communications and Media.

[The Greatest]

Ove nove staze su nevjerojatno sterilne...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 2ZSZcUq8#!

[spacedoc]

majku im ..... ! Nema prijenosa treninga

[Bernardinac]

majku im ..... ! Nema prijenosa treninga

Imaš na astri n-tv njemački kanal sa sukomentatorom Nick Heidfeldom u osam sati.

[spacedoc]

e jbg kad ja imam samo net

[Barry]

pa net zakon imas streamova koliko hoces

[spacedoc]

net tv sa tel reći

[Cuky]

Prva, doduše virtualna, slika motora za 2014. Radi se o P.U.R.E. 1,6 litrenom V6 turbo motoru

The P.U.R.E. Corporation have released the first image of a 2014 F1 engine to René Fagnan of Canadian website Auto123.com; these will be all new 1.6l v6 turbo engines. New to F1, P.U.R.E. (Propulsion Universelle et Recuperation d’Energie) are a start up business created by Craig Pollock and backed by private investors. Initially based out of Mecachrome’s facilities, they are now based at the Toyota Motorsport Gmbh’s (TMG) Cologne technical facility. Seeking to exploit the new Engine rules as a route into F1, P.U.R.E. are speculatively developing their own engine, as they do not yet have a team announced as a partner to use the engine. Customers notwithstanding P.U.R.E. are a serious proposition, with Ex-Ferrari and FIA engineer Gilles Simon employed as Technical Director, as well as former Renault Sport MD Christian Contzen acting as a consultant. The engine’s design has been in progress since July 2011 by Simon and his team, mainly using simulation tools although single cylinder testing has also been carried out. With the move to TMG the engine’s major castings have been signed off and ordered, so that testing of a complete engine can be scheduled for July this year. Thereafter, a second generation engine will be ready for the summer of 2013.

Više na linku

[Kenny]

Neznam di da stavim ni nema veze sa F1, ali ovo se zove organizacija da svi mogu pratit trku http://gt1world.com/pages/live" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mrd]

Neznam di da stavim ni nema veze sa F1, ali ovo se zove organizacija da svi mogu pratit trku http://gt1world.com/pages/live" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ja znam da ima za f1 nešto kao f1 in pubs. Nisam siguran, ali fora je da se ljudi okupljaju po kafanama u različitim gradovima i gledaju formule. Ima sajt na kojem se svako može prijaviti za svoj grad da bude kontakt osoba, ostaviš svoj broj telefona i gdje se gleda i ljudi te zovu i zajeno gledate. Nije loše.

Evo jedan zanimljiv interview sa Charliem, neki njegovi pogledi na sudare i kazne, što se mene tiče, malo se previše hvata za lewisa (možda sam subjektivan) i tog jednog mijenjanja pravca i ostavljanja pola staze, a premalo na namjeru i ugrožavanje sigurnosti, sve u svemu zaimljiv članak:

Charlie Whiting on driving standards and safety

[Armanini]

Neznam di da stavim ni nema veze sa F1, ali ovo se zove organizacija da svi mogu pratit trku http://gt1world.com/pages/live" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

thx na linku, taman stigao dok su cekali start i pogledao cijelu utrku..
eto slovakiaring i gt1.. tako bi mogli mi za koju godinu.. nadajmo se..
utrka vrlo dobra, ferr mocna pobjeda, dobar dio utrke borba ferr - mcm
pol staze pokriveno cementnim prahom, pa zatim kisa - dobitna kombinacija hh..
zenga u lambu vozac utrke, pred kraj je lomio krugove i dosao do 2 mjesta u zadnjem krugu, vozio brzi krug na slickovima nego auti na wet ..

[Kenny]

Neznam di da stavim ni nema veze sa F1, ali ovo se zove organizacija da svi mogu pratit trku http://gt1world.com/pages/live" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

thx na linku, taman stigao dok su cekali start i pogledao cijelu utrku..
eto slovakiaring i gt1.. tako bi mogli mi za koju godinu.. nadajmo se..
utrka vrlo dobra, ferr mocna pobjeda, dobar dio utrke borba ferr - mcm
pol staze pokriveno cementnim prahom, pa zatim kisa - dobitna kombinacija hh..
zenga u lambu vozac utrke, pred kraj je lomio krugove i dosao do 2 mjesta u zadnjem krugu, vozio brzi krug na slickovima nego auti na wet ..

Ja nažalost zaspo, sutra valjda neću

[Forza]

Valencia organisers confirm 1 DRS zone for European GP between turns 11 and 12.

‏@CircuitValencia
La única zona de DRS del Valencia Street Circuit se reduce en 120 metros en la recta desde el puente hasta la curva 12 http://valenciastreetcircuit.com/notici ... t_id=37779

[Dero]

Valencia organisers confirm 1 DRS zone for European GP between turns 11 and 12.

‏@CircuitValencia
La única zona de DRS del Valencia Street Circuit se reduce en 120 metros en la recta desde el puente hasta la curva 12 http://valenciastreetcircuit.com/notici ... t_id=37779

Koja komedija, pa ona druga kratka ravnica i kočenje prije zavoja 17 fakat zahtjevaju i malo truda od strane vozača za napad. Sad su u potpunosti maknuli jedinu drugu opciju za pretjecanje na toj usranoj stazi.

Kako volim kada mi useru super utrku na stazi poput Kanade s DRSom a onda mi za jadnu stazu poput Valencije reduciraju DRS

[Domi]

Prodaja karata za Texas očito ide bolje nego očekivano, zaželili se Ameri Formule

With tickets to Austin's first United States Grand Prix selling fast, organisers are considering putting up additional grandstands.

Three-day reserved grandstand seats and general admission tickets for the November event went on sale earlier this month.

The demand, though, has been greater than what the organisers initially forecast, leaving them to consider erecting extra grandstands.

"We have experienced incredible demand for reserved grandstand seating tickets, and customers have quickly purchased our available inventory," said Julie Loignon, COTA's vice president of public and community relations, told ESPNF1.

"As such, we are considering installing more reserved seats between Turns 9 and 10 and between Turns 11 and 12 in place of other types of seating that had been planned for those areas.

"We will release more information about new grandstand inventory and when additional reserved seats might be available for purchase as soon as possible. We are extremely pleased with how things are going overall, since our public ticket sales began less than a week ago."

[McLewis]

neznam gdje da ovo stavim, pa cu ovdje, ali sad gledam utrku u Brazilu 2008. i spominje se ona genijalna bernijeva ideja sa medaljama za pobjednika, pa ko vise pobjeda taj pravak, sta bi ove god nilo s tim pravilom, imali bi 7 izglednih kandidata za naslov i 17 jos mogucih hahahahhaa koja debilana....