The F1 Thread 2015 Season

McLaren being bellends shocker. Easily the most hateable team on the grid. Hope Magnusson will be fine. He's a genuinely promising, talented driver, and a lot better than some of the pay drivers on the grid
 
He didn't even want to stay as reserve driver next year, not the end of the world.
 
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel has been given a 10-place grid penalty at the US Grand Prix, boosting Lewis Hamilton's hopes of retaining his world title.

Vettel has been punished for an engine rule infringement, as Hamilton aims to win his third drivers' championship.

The Briton will become world champion again if he wins at the weekend and the German, 28, finishes third or worse.
 
pauldyson1uk said:
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel has been given a 10-place grid penalty at the US Grand Prix, boosting Lewis Hamilton's hopes of retaining his world title.

Vettel has been punished for an engine rule infringement, as Hamilton aims to win his third drivers' championship.

The Briton will become world champion again if he wins at the weekend and the German, 28, finishes third or worse.
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Just a question of when. The rest of this season is already about next season.....Still, looking fwd to the next few races, especially Interlagos. Would be great to see Lewis seal the champiionship at the scene of his first world championship triumph :)
 
Britain's Jolyon Palmer has been named as Lotus' second driver for the 2016 season.

The 24-year-old, last year's GP2 champion, has served as Lotus' reserve driver this year and has now been handed a promotion to fill the vacancy left by Romain Grosjean, who is joining newcomers Haas.

Palmer will partner Pastor Maldonado, whose position at the team was confirmed last month, at an Enstone team whose long-term prospects are set to be enhanced by a takeover by Renault. The French manufacturers have signed a letter of intent to buy back the team they sold in 2009, although a takeover has yet to go through.
 
The United States Grand Prix is shrouded in uncertainty as a result of heavy thunderstorms in Texas on the periphery of Hurricane Patricia.

Second practice at the Circuit of the Americas near Austin was cancelled as a result of the storms.

With up to 30cm of rain forecasted to fall on Saturday, qualifying could be postponed until Sunday.
Officials have not yet made specific contingency plans because the weather forecast is changing so frequently.

However, governing body the FIA is open to the possibility of changing the weekend timetable to try to ensure qualifying can take place if there is a window of dry weather.

The worst of the weather is expected to subside by Sunday, when the race is scheduled for 1400 local time (1900 GMT).
If it is not possible to run qualifying on Saturday, officials have the choice of running it on Sunday morning before the race, or deciding the grid by another method.

Hurricane Patricia, which is on its way to Mexico, is one of the strongest tropical storms on record.

The storm is even raising concerns about the forthcoming race in Mexico next weekend.

If it causes extensive damage in the capital Mexico City, there could be a knock-on effect for the race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez track, which is hosting a grand prix for the first time since 1992
 
I'm guessing they won't run at all today. Forecast for Sunday doesn't look as bad so hopefully we'll get a race, apparently if they can't fit qualifying in before then the grid will be decided by either FP1 results or the championship standings.
 
Giggsy92 said:
I'm guessing they won't run at all today. Forecast for Sunday doesn't look as bad so hopefully we'll get a race, apparently if they can't fit qualifying in before then the grid will be decided by either FP1 results or the championship standings.
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Should do it by driver number IMO, would spice it up.
 
A mate of mine has flown out to the GP and has finally arrived in Austin after a hell of a journey. Flights delayed and cancelled due to pilots being stuck in the storm.
 
I suspect if they get any sort of running in FP3 the teams will be going for it a bit just in case Quali is rained out.
 
I swear I had a dream about some chatastrophe like this at F1 race few days ago before I even knew there was a race this weekend. There was lot of crash involved due to some similar reasons. Mindfeck.
 
Delayed opening the gates to the track because of safety. Yeah nothing is happening today.
 
Malaysia stopped after a few laps behind the SC didn't it?

When Kimi famously got himself a can of coke and a magnum ice cream :lol:
 
Rado_N said:
Malaysia stopped after a few laps behind the SC didn't it?

When Kimi famously got himself a can of coke and a magnum ice cream :lol:
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:lol: I remember that.
Sundays weather does look better, but today looks worse than Friday.
It is going to be a strange race, hardly any practice, chance of no Qualifying.
The first chance for any long distance runs could be the race .
 
FP3 is going to go ahead apparently, but the gates are closed so no fans will be there to see all the cars staying in their garages...
 
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