redslert
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re: The Official F1 Thread
No one can beat Murray Walker.
No one can beat Murray Walker.
dittoredslert said:No one can beat Murray Walker.
They have a Schumacher and a Poodle. Who else do they need?Orange Juice said:toyota should be expecting this kinda stuff... they never deliver... they need good drivers to begin with.
given the amount that toyota are spending on their team developement, i dare say that they're looking for the extra cash to subsidise their workCape said:Oh, bloody hell. I hope not. We don't need toyota supplying 6 cars with engines.
Toyota have been way down in the speed traps all year, even the cossie is faster. Hopefully Frank doesn't go for the Toyota manufacture engine. Toyota want the $$$, and the cossie is one of the fastest engines out there, a couple of retirements shouldn't change things, stick with it, cossie has a long history of V8s.
Toyota would get very shitty if Williams wins and scores more points than the Toyota F1 team
We've let Webber down in F1: Williams
AdvertisementThe Williams Formula One team has admitted it has let down Australian lead driver Mark Webber this season.
Webber has been beset by mechanical problems several times this year while headed towards a batch of world championship points.
The latest failure hit him at the recent Monaco Grand Prix when his smoking car ground to a halt while he was in a top three fight with Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen.
A frustrated Webber flung away his $70,000 steering wheel and stormed off the track.
Williams technical boss and fellow Australian Sam Michael agreed Webber had been denied probable podium finishes three times this season by the car's technical weaknesses.
""I feel for Mark at the moment," Michael told SpeedTV. "Obviously in Melbourne, Malaysia and now Monaco he was on line to get a second or third place in all those grands prix.
"If he'd done that he'd be third or fourth in the drivers' championship at the moment, but we've let him down with reliability and it's our job to fix that."
In fact, Michael went as far as to suggest Webber could have won his first GP in Monte Carlo had his car held together.
"In terms of performance the car was very strong in Monaco and it was certainly capable of winning," Michael said.
"We knew how much fuel we had on board compared to Fernando and Kimi because they stopped before us. We put enough fuel in to cover them all.
"But we had an exhaust failure on both cars, something we've never seen in 30,000kms of testing.
"And they were brand new parts for the race, but we had identical failures within two or three laps of each other."
Despite the problems, Williams plans to use the same engines at this weekend's British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
The team is entitled to a new engine without penalty because of the Monaco circumstances but Webber implied financial restrictions were beginning to bite the independent Cosworth company which powers Williams.
Non-engine issues such as hydraulics have stopped Webber in previous races and the Cosworth V8 surprised most observers with its competitiveness, but the company was never going to keep up with the continual upgrades factory teams can afford.
"At the start of the year we did have the best engine in the field, no doubt about it," Webber said.
"But it's not possible for Cosworth to sustain that strength of development and budget against a Honda or Renault or Mercedes."
Meanwhile, Webber said the car's hot pace at the tight Monaco circuit is unlikely to be sustained around the sweeping open Silverstone layout.
Testing at the similarly-configured Barcelona circuit means "we have a lot of improving to do", according to the Australian.
nah, i missed it. given that neil and leigh were both at silverstone, i imagine it would have been a good one to watch in terms of f1.Cape said:Did you happen to watch rpm today?
Crompo interviewed webber at silverstone, and today was the first time webber did not specifically say, "I want to stay at williams".
Heads have to roll at three teams. Williams, Honda and Toyota.
Williams aero department is absolute shit, as shown here at silverstone. Ever since they introduced those "tusks" and went back to the normal nose design they have gone down hill.
And who is the idiot who sends webber and nico out in qualifying with enough time to do one flying lap on HARD tyres? They need more than an outlap to warm up.
As for Honda - Fry needs to leave. Especially seeing him on RPM today.
Don't post rumours in this thread. Which is just what you posted BULLSHIT made up by some idiot whole doesn't know anything.ohdato said:There is talk of Williams doing a deal with
Toyota for free motors if they hand over Webber.
Hopefully its crap. Would hate to be 2nd driver to Schumi Jnr.