Comments on: So are the nine teams in or out?

By: iceman

iceman — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:18:42 +0000

You should check out events like the Historic Masters and the HSCC Historic Superprix at Brands, rpaco. Still plenty of those old Lola sports cars being raced (they even started making them again!), and the odd Lola Formula 5000 car too.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:57:21 +0000

Thank you very much for your reply.

After reading it I did a little research and came across this page, its a very interesting explanation of the MC Lola project (the rest of the site is pretty entertaining too!).

http://f1rejects.com/teams/lola/profile.html

Peter

By: rpaco

rpaco — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:57:43 +0000

Last Lola I saw was a giant 6 litre sports. (Formula libre race) Driven by Ian Flux (or Ian Taylor) who promised to use only 2 gears after the start (2nd & 3rd) and still won by a clear length of the straight after ten laps of Brands Indy cct. Sounded wonderful. It was many years back in my middle age.

By: James Allen

James Allen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:52:51 +0000

Nice line, Iceman!

I remember that 1997 Lola -the first time it hit the track. Boy was it slow! You are right, with the F1 field currently separated by a second and a half at some venues, it would not be a good move to go back to the slowest car being six seconds off the pace.

By: iceman

iceman — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:48:40 +0000

Well Lola certainly know how to build a racing car, and Campos have teamed up with Dallara, so that’s at least 2 more teams with the technical capability to build F1 cars. Whether they will be fast F1 cars is another question of course. Whatever you do, don’t mention Mastercard! I did once but I think I got away with it

By: iceman

iceman — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:38:09 +0000

I read somewhere (sorry I can’t remember where) that an under-floor venturi/diffuser will produce a quarter of the drag (and therefore turbulence) that you would get from a wing producing a similar amount of downforce.

By: iceman

iceman — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:28:51 +0000

I’m sure Brawn’s engineering expertise is considerable, but I suspect that the hundreds of millions that Honda spent last year on developing the car may also have some bearing on their current performance.

By: Frenchie

Frenchie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:14:49 +0000

Hey MartinWR,

Are you Max Mosley in disguise? You might want to read their entry properly. The 9 teams are guaranteeing they’ll be there for at least 3 years which as it happen will coincide with the end of the financial crisis.

By the way, you ought to know who puts money on the table to go racing: the teams.

Don’t you think they are entitled to have a say in the rules?

By: Snail

Snail — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:15:38 +0000

I’d have thought football would outrank F1.

By: Richard Mee

Richard Mee — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:08:41 +0000

This comes down to a straight ideology contest between those who think the teams are being childish on one side and those who want to stop Max in his tracks on the other. Thing is that without the prospect of an alternative series Max still holds all the aces and i believe that FOTA won’t stand-up to the pressure of musical chairs with the remaining places – at the end of the day these teams are competitors to the end.

If they want to push this the whole slog – and I really hope they do cos i’m fed up with Max and his “I never lose a battle” ego trip… they really should start publically talking to global circuits and making it clear that there is a serious alternative to the FIA’s “official” incarnation of 2010 F1

This is essential to steady the nerve of the pure racing teams and ultimately maintain FOTA.