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    Following four years of domination by Sebastian Vettel and his Red Bull team, the FIA is bringing in some sweeping changes to Formula 1 for 2014. Will lady luck remain with him? Will the brilliance that is Adrian Newey produce another championship winning car? Or will the other 500 or so collective brains find the loopholes and introduce the ‘inspirational design’ that is both legal and performance enhancing … at least until the other copy it!

    If you have the slightest interest in F1 you will know that last year was the last of the V8 era. For one last blast click here … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhXHdKm775s
    This year the cars will have bigger electric motors, more electric power and more time to deploy this power, all attached to smaller 1.6l V6 Turbo engines with limited amounts of fuel.
    A video capturing the changes can be seen here … http://www.formula1.com/news/technical/2014/0/1133.html

    So expect cars to run out of fuel, destroy engines and the new 8 speed gearboxes due to overheating, run out of braking as they have a lot less engine braking to assist them, and to spin up the rears as drivers battle to control a rise in torque with no traction control other than the throttle pedal … just the way it should be!

    Another full calendar this year with 19 races to be enjoyed … there was potential for 22! The 2014 calendar in full:

    16/03 Australia
    30/03 Malaysia
    06/04 Bahrain
    20/04 China
    11/05 Spain
    25/05 Monaco
    08/06 Canada
    22/06 Austria
    06/07 Great Britain
    20/07 Germany
    27/07 Hungary
    24/08 Belgium
    07/09 Italy
    21/09 Singapore
    05/10 Japan
    12/10 Russia
    02/11 United States
    09/11 Brazil
    23/11 Abu Dhabi


    The driver changes for 2014 offer some stability, some new blood and I’m sure in the case of Ferrari, some fireworks. Teams, drivers and engine suppliers listed …

    RED BULL -
    Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo
    : Renault

    MERCEDES - Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg : Mercedes

    FERRARI - Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen : Ferrari

    LOTUS - Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado : Renault

    McLAREN - Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen : Mercedes

    FORCE INDIA - Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez : Mercedes

    SAUBER - Adrian Sutil and Esteban Gutierrez : Ferrari

    TORO ROSSO - Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniil Kvyat : Renault

    WILLIAMS - Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas : Mercedes

    MARUSSIA -
    Jules Bianchi and Max Chilton : Ferrari

    CATERHAM - Kamui Kobayashi and Marcus Ericsson : Renault

    And for those of us with lasting memories of the Great McLaren Honda years, Honda returns with new engines using V6 petrol and hybrid power for the 2015 McLaren ... and some new sports car

    Lights out at 1.30am on Friday 14th March
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    And the real high tech change for 2014 is .....

    .... to keep the championship ‘alive’ right to the end of the season, they have signed off on the allocation of Double Team and Driver points for the last race in Abu Dhabi … next they’ll have Dermot O’Leary presenting to add further suspense!!

    Further tech reviews ...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkVG...layer_embedded
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    Some of the more interesting design elements ….







    Senninha

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    Hey! Kamui is back! Excellent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NSXGB View Post
    Hey! Kamui is back! Excellent.
    apparently paying £2m for his seat and not taking a salary .... I hope he can get that thing to score some points ... He'll certainly add some spider to that end of the grid
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    Here is hoping for a non dominant red bull team this year, and hoping McClaren can make some improvements before the big mate up for 2015.

    just want to see a bit of mix and for someone to challenge other than Vettel

    changes should be interesting based on your thoughts Paul, but can't see me sitting up for the 1st race
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    Any word yet on which team Ann Summers are going to sponsor?
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    Renault engines did sooo well at the first test session... not!

    Total laps run - by power unit:
    1. Mercedes, 875 (4 teams)
    2. Ferrari, 444 (3 teams)
    3. Renault, 151 (3 teams)

    red bull managed a total of 21 laps in 4 days of testing....

    This week’s official aggregate test times from Jerez:
    1. Kevin Magnussen, McLaren, 1m 23.276s, 162 laps
    2. Felipe Massa, Williams, 1m 23.700s, 133 laps
    3. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1m 23.952s, 121 laps
    4. Jenson Button, McLaren, 1m 24.165s, 83 laps
    5. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 1m 24.812s, 78 laps
    6. Valtteri Bottas, Williams, 1m 25.344s, 42 laps
    7. Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, 1m 25.495s, 173 laps
    8. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, 1m 25.588s, 188 laps
    9. Nico Hulkenberg, Force India, 1m 26.096s, 17 laps
    10. Sergio Perez, Force India, 1m 28.376s, 48 laps
    11. Daniel Juncadella, Force India, 1m 29.457s, 81 laps
    12. Jean-Eric Vergne, Toro Rosso, 1m 29.915s, 45 laps
    13. Adrian Sutil, Sauber, 1m 30.161s, 103 laps
    14. Jules Bianchi, Marussia, 1m 32.222s, 25 laps
    15. Esteban Gutierrez, Sauber, 1m 33.270s, 60 laps
    16. Marcus Ericsson, Caterham, 1m 37.975s, 12 laps
    17. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, 1m 38.320s, 11 laps
    18. Kamui Kobayashi, Caterham, 1m 43.193s, 54 laps
    19. Daniil Kvyat, Toro Rosso, 1m 44.016s, 9 laps
    20. Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull, 1m 45.374s, 10 laps
    21. Robin Frijns, Caterham, No time, 10 laps
    22. Max Chilton, Marussia, No time, 5 laps
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    lotus have managed to do some laps after missing the first test session, with a 'promotional' session at Jerez..... where they used up all the 62miles they are allowed to do, due to the mileage restrictions imposed on a promotional event.

    pretty much the same as red bull managed then!
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    is Magnussen the new McLaren wonder child?
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