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Re: F1 season 2008
Interesting race again...Alonso-Rosberg-Hamilton...
Incredible what they did with Massa´s refuelling, giving a green light to leave the pits before the refuelling hose had been detached....
BBC SPORT | Motorsport | Formula One | Alonso wins as Hamilton prospers
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Not a great race but was alright, Singapore needs to iron out some of those problem spots on the track and hopefully they will. As for the night race I would say this is a good move in the right direction. As for the race, thanks to Alonso's team mate starting the dominoes effect which gave Alonso the victory he was not expecting.
News seems to point in the direction of Asia that this is the future of formula one as Europe falls in to recession.
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News seems to point in the direction of Asia that this is the future of formula one as Europe falls in to recession.
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You actually mean what Ecclestone is saying "more money more money!"....
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You actually mean what Ecclestone is saying "more money more money!"....
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Really? 
Your saying old Bolt doing for the money? I’m shocked, he he he. 
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Shhh don´t tell anybody...
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Old Bolt thinking......
"Mmm all F1 races in Asia sounds good to me."
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2009 BBC F1 team revealed....
2009 BBC F1 team revealed. - Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Not sure what to make of it apart from the fact next year no adverts.
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Ecclestone still knows how to throw punches...
Bernie Ecclestone has hit back at Luca Montezemolo’s criticism of the Singapore Grand Prix as a “circus”.
Bernie says:
"If the Ferrari president is right about the Singapore Grand Prix being a circus then we have to be grateful to him for providing the clowns."
Bernie Ecclestone mocks Ferrari ‘clowns’ | F1 Fanatic - The Formula 1 Blog | F1 news, cars, drivers and more
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F1 goes green........
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Formula One racing will show its support for the FIA’s Make Cars Green campaign by running on unique green-grooved tyres at this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. The sport’s official tyre supplier, Bridgestone, launched the specially-designed rubber at a ceremony in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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Max (Spanky) Mosley has warned F1 has one year left...... 
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FIA president Max Mosley has issued a stark warning to Formula 1 teams that the sport's whole future is in jeopardy unless radical cost cutting measures are rapidly introduced.
Mosley described the current level of expenditure in F1 as 'unsustainable', and warned that the championship could face serious problems as early as 2010 unless action was taken now.
"Very crudely expressed, one of the teams at the back of the grid cannot possibly hope to raise more than - including the money they get from Bernie - say 40 million Euro, let's say £30-35 million, which in the real world is a huge sum of money, but that's the most they can raise," he told BBC Sport.
"To compete today, they need two or three times that and even then they're at the back of the grid.
"You can't run a business where the outgoings are two to three times the income - not for very long."
The FIA president believes F1 is in real danger of losing more teams.
"It depends at the moment on millionaires - or billionaires, we don't have millionaires any more - millionaires subsidising them, people like (Force India co-owner) Vijay Mallya of Kingfisher or Dietrich Mateschitz of Red Bull," said Mosley.
"Without them, those teams wouldn't be there.
"We've already got two gaps, we're likely to lose two or three more of the independent teams.
"Formula 1 cannot continue like that, that's been obvious for some time.
"At the moment we've got 20 cars.
"If we lost two teams we'd have 16, two teams 14.
"It then would cease to be a credible grid."
He said F1's bigger spenders were also keen to reduce cuts.
"Some of the manufacturers may be in difficulty now as well, because if you look at their share prices, their profitability, their sales, the days when they could just toss out 100, 200, 300 million Euro a year, which is what Formula 1 costs those big companies, I think they're finished," Mosley continued.
"I really think it's a serious situation.
"If we can't get this done for 2010, we would be in serious difficulty.
"I think we can survive through 2009, but if we don't get it done in 2010, we may be in serious problems."
Mosley is urging teams to significantly reduce their expenditure on engines and gearboxes in particular.
"At present the engine and gearbox together, for an independent team, is upwards of 30 million Euro a year," he said.
"That could be done for probably five percent of that cost without the person in the grandstand noticing any difference at all."
He also pointed out that the FIA had been promoting cost cutting changes long before the present global economic crisis.
"It isn't prompted by the credit crunch," said Mosley.
"This is something I've been campaigning for for two or three years.
"It has become apparent, long before the present economic difficulties, that Formula One was unsustainable."
The FIA has said that it will implement its own cost-cutting rules unless the teams can devise acceptable solutions of their own within the coming weeks.
Mosley: F1 in jeopardy unless costs cut - F1 | ITV Sport
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Re: F1 season 2008
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The Singapore circuit is brand new and was untested until the very first race. Sure there were problems but they did not come to light until the race and most likely will be corrected before next years race.
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Good on him about time someone put Ferrari in their place lets hope they have nothing to bitch about in Japan, and Lewis kicks their ass
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And also:
Fernando Alonso linked to Ferrari with the Banco Santander
( Which mean they would buy Kimi out, I guess )
Fernando Alonso linked to Ferrari with the Banco Santander
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Japan F1 race ( time )
Pole 1. Lewis Hamilton McLaren 1.18,404
2. Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari + 0,240
3. Heikki Kovalainen McLaren + 0,417
4. Fernando Alonso Renault + 0,448
5. Felipe Massa Ferrari + 0,470
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Japanese GP results
1. Fernando Alonso Renault
2. Robert Kubica BMW
3. Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
4. Nelson Piquet Renault
5. Jarno Trulli Toyota
6. Sebastien Bourdais T. Rosso
7. Sebastian Vettel T. Rosso
8. Felipe Massa Ferrari
9. Mark Webber Red Bull
10. Nick Heidfeld BMW
11. Nico Rosberg Williams
12. Lewis Hamilton McLaren
Massa got one point more, Lewis none...
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Japanese GP results
1. Fernando Alonso Renault
2. Robert Kubica BMW
3. Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
4. Nelson Piquet Renault
5. Jarno Trulli Toyota
6. Sebastien Bourdais T. Rosso
7. Sebastian Vettel T. Rosso
8. Felipe Massa Ferrari
9. Mark Webber Red Bull
10. Nick Heidfeld BMW
11. Nico Rosberg Williams
12. Lewis Hamilton McLaren
Massa got one point more, Lewis none...
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Glad i did not get up at 4.30am if this was the outcome what happened to Lewis?
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Penalty for the first corner of the race, and later on spinning and ending up in the back of the driver pack....Two races to go, hopefully not recalling last year and ending up with no points for the last races....
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Re: F1 season 2008
I think the stewards were unfair to Bourdais, he didn't block Massa, all he was doing was exiting the pits.
The FIA want Massa to win, they keep fiddling the results.
Ferrari made by FIAT or should I say FIAT.
I got up for it , good race.
Pity BWW-Sauber didn't develop this years car anymore, Kubica could have been champion.
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