F1 2014 thread

Agent_Smith said:
Here's a vid of the proposed layout and more info here

[video=youtube;YiX-7D_3Q34]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiX-7D_3Q34[/video]
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I am familiar with that track and it looks like F1 would also miss out on the final turn. Basically, in its heyday the peraltada made the parabolica at Monza look like a gentle curve. It was a balls of steel banked turn with little run-off, so you had to nut up for it.
 
thestaggy said:
I am familiar with that track and it looks like F1 would also miss out on the final turn. Basically, in its heyday the peraltada made the parabolica at Monza look like a gentle curve. It was a balls of steel banked turn with little run-off, so you had to nut up for it.
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Hmm, that's a bit of a pity. I can only guess that it might be safety related, or it's been done to allow cars to follow each other more closely through the final corner to facilitate overtaking down the main straight (much like the changes made to the second to last corner at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona a few years ago).
 
Vital Statistics - the Hungarian Grand Prix

Did you know that Lewis Hamilton has won more than half of the Hungarian Grands Prix he has entered? Or that Fernando Alonso has won just once in Budapest, while racing for Renault more than a decade ago? Ahead of this weekend's Formula 1 Pirelli Magyar Nagydij 2014, we present all the need-to-know facts, stats and trivia...

Circuit: Hungaroring

Circuit length: 4.381 km

Number of corners: 14 (6 left, 8 right)

DRS zones: 2

Race laps: 70

Race distance: 306.630 km

2014 tyre compounds: Soft, Medium

Circuit lap record: 1m 19.071s - Michael Schumacher, Ferrari, 2004

First world championship Grand Prix in Hungary: 1986, Hungaroring (won by Nelson Piquet, Williams)

Number of races: 28 (all at the Hungaroring)

Number of races at the Hungaroring with at least one safety-car appearance: Two of the last ten

Longest race: 1986 (2h 00m 34.5s)

Shortest race: 2004 (1h 35m 26.1s)

Last year's pole position: 1m 19.388s, Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes

Last year's podium: 1 - Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), 2 - Kimi Raikkonen (Lotus), 3 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull)

Most appearances (current field): 14 - Jenson Button; 12 - Fernando Alonso; 11 - Kimi Raikkonen, Felipe Massa; 8 - Nico Rosberg; 7 - Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton; 6 - Adrian Sutil; 3 - Daniel Ricciardo, Pastor Maldonado, Kamui Kobayashi, Sergio Perez, Nico Hulkenberg; 2 - Romain Grosjean, Jean-Eric Vergne; 1 - Max Chilton, Jules Bianchi, Valtteri Bottas, Esteban Gutierrez

Most Hungarian Grand Prix wins (driver): 4 - Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton; 3 - Ayrton Senna; 2 - Nelson Piquet, Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve, Mika Hakkinen, Jenson Button; 1 - Nigel Mansell, Thierry Boutsen, Rubens Barrichello, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, Heikki Kovalainen, Mark Webber

Most Hungarian Grand Prix wins (constructor): 12 - McLaren; 7 - Williams; 5 - Ferrari; 1 - Benetton, Renault, Honda, Red Bull

Most Hungarian Grand Prix wins (engine manufacturer): 9 - Mercedes; 7 - Renault; 6 - Honda; 5 - Ferrari; 1 - Ford/Cosworth

Most Hungarian Grand Prix pole positions (driver): 7 - Michael Schumacher; 4 - Lewis Hamilton; 3 - Ayrton Senna; 2 - Riccardo Patrese, Mika Hakkinen, Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel; 1 - Nigel Mansell, Thierry Boutsen, Alain Prost, Damon Hill, Rubens Barrichello, Kimi Raikkonen

Most Hungarian Grand Prix pole positions (constructor): 8 - McLaren; 7 - Ferrari; 6 - Williams; 2 - Renault, Red Bull; 1 - Lotus, Benetton, Mercedes

Most Hungarian Grand Prix pole positions (engine manufacturer): 10 - Renault; 7 - Ferrari, Mercedes; 3 - Honda; 1 - Ford/Cosworth

Number of wins from pole: 13 from 28 races (46 percent); Four of the last ten races (40 percent)

Lowest winning grid position: 14th (Jenson Button, Honda, 2006)

Laps led (current field): 277 - Lewis Hamilton; 114 - Fernando Alonso; 60 - Felipe Massa; 56 - Kimi Raikkonen; 45 - Jenson Button; 30 - Sebastian Vettel; 5 - Romain Grosjean

Most podium places (current field): 7 - Kimi Raikkonen; 4 - Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton; 3 - Sebastian Vettel; 2 - Jenson Button; 1 - Romain Grosjean

Number of Hungarians to have started at least one Grand Prix: 1 (Zsolt Baumgartner)

Strange but true: Lewis Hamilton has led for at least one lap in every Hungarian Grand Prix he has contested bar one - 2010 - when Red Bull dominated and he retired with a transmission problem. He has also won four times in Hungary, a record only Michael Schumacher can match.

Percentage of 2014 season complete: 53 percent

Maximum number of world championship points still available to a single driver: 250

Significant running sequences going into this weekend: Ferrari - 77 consecutive races in the points - the longest run in F1 history; Fernando Alonso - 13 consecutive points finishes; Nico Hulkenberg - 12 consecutive points finishes; Alonso and Hulkenberg - finished in points in every race in 2014; Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton - 3 consecutive podium finishes

Milestone: A Mercedes triumph at the Hungaroring would be the team's 23rd Formula One victory, which would move them level with Tyrrell and into a share of ninth in the all-time list.

Turbo history: If a Ferrari-powered car wins the race it'll be the first Ferrari turbo win since the 1988 Italian Grand Prix.
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www.formula1.com
 
Massa questions FIA stewarding

Felipe Massa has suggested that the FIA needs to improve the quality of its stewards after they focused on whether he was to blame for his accident with Kevin Magnussen at the German Grand Prix.

The stewards in Germany did not penalise either of the cars involved, but according to their report they looked at whether Massa turned in on Magnussen at Turn 1 rather than whether Magnussen put his car in a dangerous position.

The report read: "The stewards took into account that this was the first turn of the first lap, cars 77 [Valtteri Bottas], 19 [Massa] and 20 [Magnussen] were entering Turn 1 and it appears the driver of car 19 was concentrating on car 77. There was no intentional turning in by car 19 on car 20. Car 19 's rear right wheels impacted with the left front of car 20."

Ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix, Massa said the FIA needs to review its stewarding if they thought he might be to blame.
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http://en.espnf1.com

Fekking idiot, Massa should shut up and do his job.
 
Azerbaijan will happen in 2016 says Ecclestone

24 hours after confirming that Mexico returns to the F1 schedule in 2015, Bernie Ecclestone says that Azerbaijan will happen in 2016.

"Baku is for 2016," he told Forbes, referring to the capital of the oil-rich country which sits at the crossroads of western Asia and eastern Europe.

Should the current 19 races remain on the calendar, and ignoring India's proposed return to the schedule, the addition of Mexico in 2015 and now Azerbaijan would bring the 2016 calendar up to 21 races, the most in the sport's history and over and above the agreed limit according to the Concorde Agreement.

With a number of teams (Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull) having it written into their commercial agreements with Formula One that if the schedule exceeds 20 races it would require majority consent, the only other option would be to drop one of the current races, most likely a European event.

To further confuse the situation, now widely written off, Ecclestone says that the proposed race in the New Jersey towns of West New York and Weehawken, which has been deferred more times than most care to remember, has raised its head again.
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www.pitpass.com

Some more great news.
 
Polish said:
Azerbaijan will happen in 2016 says Ecclestone



www.pitpass.com

Some more great news.
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Great news for growing the sport globally, yes. But not so great from a viewing perspective. The arrival of these 21st century tracks is all well and good but it is coming at the expense of the traditional races. Monza is set to be dropped and every year, the F1 world holds its collective breath to see if Spa Francorchamps renews it's contract. Imagine an F1 season without these two races! It just doesn't bear thinking about :cry:
 
Free practice 1 times

1 Hamilton GBR Mercedes 1'25.814
2 Rosberg GER Mercedes 1'25.997
3 Räikkönen FIN Ferrari 1'26.421
4 Alonso ESP Ferrari 1'26.872
5 Vettel GER Red Bull 1'27.220
6 Magnussen DEN McLaren 1'27.357
7 Vergne FRA Toro Rosso 1'27.683
8 Ricciardo AUS Red Bull 1'27.782
9 Button GBR McLaren 1'27.804
10 Massa BRA Williams 1'27.960
11 Gutiérrez MEX Sauber 1'27.967
12 Hülkenberg GER Force India 1'28.101
13 Kvyat RUS Toro Rosso 1'28.208
14 Maldonado VEN Lotus 1'28.266
15 Bottas FIN Williams 1'28.330
16 Perez MEX Force India 1'28.376
17 Grosjean FRA Lotus 1'28.593
18 Sutil GER Sauber 1'29.025
19 Kobayashi JPN Caterham 1'30.363
20 Ericsson SWE Caterham 1'30.892
21 Chilton GBR Marussia 1'31.004
22 Bianchi FRA Marussia 1'31.248
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http://en.espnf1.com
 
I never read too much into FP1 times. The teams seem to use FP1 to get a feel for conditions and get the track cleaned up (particularly at the Hungaroring where dust is always an issue at the start of the weekend). FP2 is where things get interesting.

Having said that, Mercedes at the top as expected and good to see Ferrari up there. Hope they can keep it up.
 
Polish said:
Yeah agreed..

My McLarens are always doing so well in the FPs, but then ja.

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Looking forward to seeing the Maccers next year back with Honda. Hopefully they can come to grips with the synergy between their aero package and the power unit. Need them strong again.

Oh, hope they paint it white and orange too! :love:
 
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