that's incredible how you connected the dots! Especially with the unfortunate financial situation in Cyprus. I have been trying to follow the news out of Cyprus recently. And I am mystified why Russia has such strong ties to this particular region of Greece " title="dunno" /> .
Maybe Olga can help..
Thank you for the response, D. I don't think I could have digged that deep on my own.
I haven't heard any news coming out of NY/NJ and my belief is that the GP is all ready dead. With 19 races all ready slated into the 2013 calendar, that leaves only 1 remaining spot for 2014. Will it be russia? will it be NY/NJ? will it be Thailand? We will wait and see.
Zitat von Sonnythat's incredible how you connected the dots! Especially with the unfortunate financial situation in Cyprus. I have been trying to follow the news out of Cyprus recently. And I am mystified why Russia has such strong ties to this particular region of Greece .
Maybe Olga can help..
Thank you for the response, D. I don't think I could have digged that deep on my own.
I haven't heard any news coming out of NY/NJ and my belief is that the GP is all ready dead. With 19 races all ready slated into the 2013 calendar, that leaves only 1 remaining spot for 2014. Will it be russia? will it be NY/NJ? will it be Thailand? We will wait and see.
Sonny, the Cyprus matter is such a sensitive and complicated topic for us, i would never dare discuss it here... " title="" /> still i'm very happy that you seem to consider it "a part of Greece"
ZitatLewis Hamilton wanted help to get Red Bull seat - Bernie Ecclestone Sunday, March 24th 2013, 04:52 GMT
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, Sepang 2013Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that Lewis Hamilton pleaded with him last year to engineer a move to Red Bull.
With Hamilton disillusioned at McLaren, Ecclestone said in an interview with The Mail on Sunday that the former world champion asked him for assistance in securing a Red Bull drive alongside Sebastian Vettel.
But efforts to secure a deal collapsed when Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz said he felt loyalty to Mark Webber and instead chose to retain the Australian.
Ecclestone said: "Sebastian wouldn't have cared if Lewis had signed for the team.
"Dietrich is a very honest, straightforward guy and told Mark the door was open for him to stay. That was good of him.
"Had Mark gone, Dietrich would have signed Lewis."
Hamilton's desire to move to Red Bull has long been known - with AUTOSPORT revealing at the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix that the Briton had made a secret approach to its team boss Christian Horner asking for a deal.
Ecclestone said that with the Red Bull door shut, he suggested Hamilton make a move to Mercedes, which the Briton seemed initially reluctant to do.
"'Why not talk to Mercedes, Lewis?'" Ecclestone recalled telling Hamilton. "Lewis rolled his eyes... but I told him that he had nothing to lose as he wanted out of McLaren."
well, it was connected not by me but by some good journalists, Sonny. I don't read much of Russian news to be honest, but after you put a question I made a quick search. some fact were known from the beginning - like the fact that several private companies mentioned in initially pulled out of project in one-two months after start (you would think that they were just smoke to show investors 'activity' and to sell the project to public, as if anyone can go against Putin). Some were knew.
Cyprus... they were well know off-shore territory in Europe before joining EU and as I understood some of the business practice and tax regulations stayed till today with little changes.
ZitatPirelli has promised to change compounds claims Marko
25 March, 2013
Red Bull consultant Helmut Marko claims Pirelli has promised to change its tyre compounds in time for the forthcoming Bahrain Grand Prix.
Together with Mercedes, Red Bull has been pushing Formula 1′s Italian supplier to change tack after claiming the 2013 tyres are penalising the best cars.
“There are definitely signs about a change of the compound,” Mercedes’ Toto Wolff was quoted as saying by SID news agency.
“In all probability, either in Bahrain or maybe after,” he added.
Officially, motor sport director Paul Hembery insists Pirelli would only change its tyres mid-season if all the teams make an “unanimous” request.
“That is definitely not the case,” he said.
But Red Bull’s Marko said on Sunday: “We are having to tell our drivers to go through the fastest sections not as fast as they can, because it’s too high a load for the tyres.
“Of course we have had serious talks (with Pirelli),” he told German television Sky.
“I think Pirelli has realised (the situation) and we have been promised that other compounds will come to Bahrain at the latest,” added Marko.
ZitatThe tough battle took the grip away even from Räikkönen’s hands
Translated by Nicole F1 | Turun Sanomat 03:19
Kimi Räikkönen’s Lotus lost it’s victorious speed in one week – or rather in one night. Kimi was still the fastest man on the track on Friday in Malaysia. On Sunday Räikkönen whipped his Lotus into 7th and got only the 13th fastest laptime in his names. The 56-lap long squeeze with a car that lost traction was a tough experience for Kimi. When a dehydrated Räikkönen took another drinking bottle again from the team’s fridge, it fell on the floor right away. – I can’t keep anything in my hands. That’s how tough it was to squeeze during the whole race, Räikkönen laughed to Turun Sanomat. – I was expecting us to be much more behind the lead when comparing it to how difficult our car proved to be in the race. The car munched downforce The race started on a wet track with the same mid-term tires Lotus lost their grip with in qualification. Did it bug you when the weather was was like that right from the start? – The rain didn’t bug me, what bugged me was the car not working. For some reason we lost more and more downforce during the whole race. It actually munched it. What can you do… We tried to do what we were able to do. The main thing is that we pulled off at least a few points from all of this. Räikkönen got even more difficulties after an accident in the start. – I hit someone’s rear tire and my front wing lost a piece. It didn’t exactly help the speed. Räikkönen managed to make four overtakes, but he spent a lot of time in the so called dirty air behind McLaren’s Sergio Perez and Sauber’s Nico Hülkenberg. – If the car would have been in a better ‘oxygen’ (lol, he means ‘stitch’ but couldn’t resist translating it), then I would have passed them quickly. But it became more and more difficult when losing downforce. Flaws found that need to be fixed It’s clear that Lotus has to improve the car to the next race in China. – If we get it to work in China like it worked on Friday in Malaysia then we have nothing to worry about. I guess we already know why the traction vanished, but it’s difficult to say for sure. On Saturday evening we found a few other flaws also. All the flaws should be fixed to China. Lotus had once again one pitstop less than the other top teams, but now the strategy didn’t work like it did in Australia. – I don’t think that our position would have changed even if we had made one more pitstop. And I don’t think it would had happened in Australia either. With one more pitstop we could have raced flat out all the time and it wouldn’t had affected speed-wise at all when comparing to others. Crash course with Hülkenberg Räikkönen clashed hard especially with Hülkenberg. They nearly crashed during the pitstop and then they clashed in a racing incident. – These days you can basically come to the paddock lane as long as you leave some room, but he should not drive at me on the straight lane. Even if it didn’t change the end result in any way, Räikkönen pulled Nico’s hair. Hülkenberg defended himself by saying that he didn’t see properly when the fluid-tube had exploded inside his helmet which hindered the visibility. In the end Räikkönen finally overtook Hülkenberg and made three other successful overtakes which required a lot of struggling. Turun Sanomat, Kuala Lumpur HEIKKI KULTA
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ZitatThe 56-lap long squeeze with a car that lost traction was a tough experience for Kimi. When a dehydrated Räikkönen took another drinking bottle again from the team’s fridge, it fell on the floor right away. – I can’t keep anything in my hands. That’s how tough it was to squeeze during the whole race, Räikkönen laughed to Turun Sanomat.
Nice report is sounds like it was pretty tricky for Kimi.
I hope Marco is just talking nonsense and that they dont just change the tyres. But I dont think it is likely to happen. They dont just throw the tyres on, it needs to be tested and designed.
Both Kimi’s and Romain’s contracts with Lotus end after this season. The team hasn’t so far decided about the continuance and negotiations about new contracts will probably start in summer. Lotus might also change owner, hence they are not hurrying with continuance negotiations either. Eric Boullier sees it possible that Robert Kubica or Davide Valsecchi would be in the team next year. - If Robert is ready to come back to F1, then he will most certainly be one of our candidates, Boullier told F1news.ru -website. - Valsecchi has better chances than anyone else. We have plans for him both on- and off-track during this season. He gets to test our old car, Boullier said. They have rumored that Räikkönen would be interested to drive in Red Bull if he doesn’t get the contract he likes from Lotus. Grosjean on the other hand needs strong performances from this season in order to get an extended contract. http://www.sportti.com/uutinen.asp?CAT=1-1&ID=238315
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