F1 - General discussion and 2017

Porsche would be wonderful to have in F1. I just don't see them doing it because they have the Ferrari battle in production cars, but Ferrari are so far ahead in terms of experience when it comes to F1. Think it would be detrimental to their brand image.
 
McLaren needs a british name if it is anything other than Merc.
Jaguar or Aston Martin would be nice but I think Jag is already working with Williams and Aston Martin with Red Bull.
 
This is a fcking brute of a race!!! I always try to watch as much of it as possible. Then you realize the enormity of the task!! An entire F1 season in 1 race!! EPIC!!! The comrades of motor sport!
 
the race is 3PM Saturday 17 till 3PM Sun 18th
Supersport have coverage so should be able to fill in the actual details.
 
Epic - thanks :)
I totally forgot about it this year. Glad you posted!
 
McLaren set to walk away from partner Honda after disastrous 2017

FALLEN Formula 1 giant McLaren have reportedly finally had enough of the spluttering Honda engine partnership and will be running a Mercedes power unit in 2018.
A report claims the English team has made the tough call to walk away from its long-term engine supplier and major sponsor after an abysmal start to this season which has seen the team fail to secure a single Formula 1 championship point.

With McLaren’s performance issues widely attributed to the Honda engine, star driver Fernando Alonso is reportedly considering his future options and is out of contract at the end of this year.
With the Honda engine failing for both power and reliability, McLaren has been nowhere near the front of this grid this year.

Alonso’s forced retirement from the Canadian Grand Prix on Monday (AEDT) after engine troubles was the final straw for the Honda-McLaren partnership, The Daily Mail reports.

It is not a decision McLaren makes lightly. The call will cost the team $132 million (£78 million) to secure an engine supply deal with Formula 1 champions Mercedes as well as lost revenue from its deal with Honda.

It is a return to its roots for McLaren, who ran with Mercedes engines from 1995 until 2014 when it made the switch to Honda.

As part of the switch to Honda, McLaren also secured a long-term sponsorship agreement with Honda, making the Japanese car manufacturer the team’s premium sponsor.

It remains unclear if Honda will be held to see out its sponsorship agreement with McLaren if the team pulls the pin on their engine deal, however, recent reports claim Honda will be forced to see out at least part of its long term sponsorship deal which runs through until the end of 2022.

However a recent contrasting report states that McLaren’s decision to walk away from Honda would see the team lost a whopping $145 million in Honda contributions towards driver salaries, performance testing and car development.
The team has already reportedly moved to secure its next engine supplier with McLaren’s majority shareholder Mansour Ojjeh spotted in discussions with Mercedes chairman Niki Lauda and team boss Toto Wolff.

The Daily Mail reports the McLaren-Mercedes deal will likely be made official within the next few weeks, allowing the team to start work very shortly on its 2018 engines.

They will reportedly be forced to cough up to $18 million per season to run the Mercedes engines.
McLaren will continue to run the Honda power unit until the end of this year.

It has been a rocky relationship between Honda and McLaren this year with team officials going public with their criticism of the Honda engine.

McLaren racing director Eric Boullier described the Honda engine as “not good enough” after Alonso’s retirement in Canada.

“We dared to hope,” he said.
“For the first time we were running in 10th within spitting distance of the flag. OK, what we were daring to hope for was hardly rich pickings — a solitary world championship point for Fernando, who had driven superbly all afternoon.
“After so much toil and heartache, even that single point would have felt like a victory. And then came another gut-wrenching failure.

“It’s difficult to find the right words to express our disappointment, our frustration and, yes, our sadness. It’s simply and absolutely not good enough.”
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http://www.news.com.au/sport/motors...7/news-story/337589ec63a5d77f7e89025a3aea99c1

Not sure how true this is, but it would be the best news I have heard in two years! A very painful divorce though financially. Good thing for Mclaren that their road car division is doing well enough to probably subsidize the team till the results and a sponsor come along.
 
For the ACE Stream users:
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Euro Sport 1 LIVE - SD

Select AUDIO 2 English from the Right click menu
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YouTube livestream

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Eurosport 1 English version:
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Yoh... did you see K.affer get taken out by that LMP2?
Flip, no respect!
 
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That was a big miscalculation on the braking zone for the LMP2.
 
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