Time to start the news for 2015.
well duh... ?Ricciardo has been a sensation?: Red Bull boss Horner gives his verdict on 2014 | James Allen on F1 ? The official James Allen website on F1
http://m.perthnow.com.au/sport/motor-sport/daniel-ricciardo-talks-about-formula-one-fame-and-a-wee-bit-more-in-revealing-documentary/story-fnhq61x5-1227165829541
This explains a lot if you read between the lines a bit. http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/former-f1-doctor-attacks-fia-over-hospital-visit/
4 minute interview with Mark Webber. BBC World News - Extra Time, Mark Webber, Webber: ?I ran out of puff? dealing with F1 politics Webber: ‘I ran out of puff’ dealing with F1 politics Former Formula 1 driver Mark Webber has told BBC Extra Time that he ran out energy trying to deal with the politics involved in the sport. Mr Webber explained that he put a lot of effort into it early on in his career, but in the end he “ran out puff” dealing with relationships he found “shallow”. “It’s not always about the stopwatch and the lap time,” he said, “it depends on how far you are prepared to go to have that part contribute to your performance.”
http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2014/12/video-how-lewis-hamilton-sets-up-his-mercedes-f1-steering-wheel-differently-from-nico-rosberg/
Looks like Jenson got married... Jenson Button ‏@JensonButton 41m41 minutes ago Happy New Year from Mr & Mrs Button!! We're excited to see in the New year with family and loved ones, we hope you're too! ��������������
The FIA has confirmed*Lewis Hamilton*will continue to race using the number 44 in*2015instead of using the number one which is reserved for reigning world champions. Its only 12 months since the FIA gave drivers the option of choosing their racing numbers, and Hamiltons decision shows how keenly some of them identify with numbers they used early in their racing careers. However for Formula One it means the world champion can no longer be readily identified by the iconic number one. This has been a dependable feature of grand prix racing for decades. You have to go back over 20 years to find the last grid which did not feature a car bearing the number one.*Alain Prosts*retirement as reigning champion left F1 with no one to carry the number one during the 1994 season. Instead his Williams team mate Damon Hill used the number zero. Coincidentally, the same scenario played out the year before when Hill had also used the number zero. Prior to that*Nigel Mansell*had won the championship, but switched to IndyCar for 1993. Before these two seasons there was only a handful of occasions when the number one was not present in the field, or was used by someone other than the reigning world champion.
Alan Jones (Williams) & Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari) - Osterreichring, Austrian Grand Prix - 1979 Image Unavailable, Please Login
I can't say that the racing was better back then but I sure do love the look of the cars a lot more......and it was the era that drivers were drivers, not the athletes they are today....and I kinda preferred that (sounds contradictory from a gym junkie like me). I mean, Gilles staple diet was fries, steak and ice cream and he was still the fastest guy out there. Gotta love that. i didn't follow F1 until 1983 (first year it was televised live) but I sure knew who Gilles was! People also forget that Jonesey was just about the best ground effect F1 driver in his day....a bit like Vettel whose style really suited the exhaust blown Red Bull. Well, ditto for Jonesey!
Regarding Vettel....just look at 2012 when the Red Bull team had problems trying to re-capture the exhaust blown diffuser (well actually exhaust blown skirts) after the rule changes......Mark Webber was near even steven with Vettel up to the half way point ( Webber had 2 victories to Vettel's one)and when Red Bull got the exhaust skirts working again, away Vettel went.
The racing was WAY better back then without a shadow of a doubt. I remember watching this at the time and being totally blown away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeLK9UftveA If I can even be bothered watching an F1 race these days I invariably fall asleep.
I thought it was going to be Nico sitting in a cinema watching Hamilton win his races A bit like Clockwork Orange
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcOkLtactEI]Interview with McLaren-Honda driver, Fernando Alonso - YouTube[/ame]