New Cars for 2015 Season

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Hey - for once I managed to beat Fernando!


Was just reading the BBC sport pages and came across this:

Williams Reveal Car for F1 2015 Season




The only obvious changes appear to be to the nose, in line with the new regs. Apparently there have been some significant changes under the skin too. Last season's car came in well under weight and had to run with ballast. They've taken the opportunity to use some of the spare weight allocation.

Symonds said that another focus for Williams with the new car was to seek extra performance from parts that previously had been compromised by the need to be light.

They have been able to do this because the 2014 car was already well under the weight limit and carried ballast to make it legal. In addition, the cars' weight limit has been increased this year to ensure heavier drivers are not forced into losing weight to remain competitive.

Symonds said: "We felt we came up against design barriers in the FW36 and so took the opportunity to remove those barriers for the benefit of the performance.

"The FW36 carried a reasonable amount of ballast, so we were able to make alterations to the design for added performance without the fear of adding excessive mass."

Everyone please feel free to add more as other teams release pics...

I think Alonso will be fine for Malaysia. Standard precaution to not have a double impact & risk coma. This stinks of media in over-drive, devoid of any real information & getting frustrated, same thing happened with his contract last year, remember the ridiculous rumours back then?

Alonso has tweeted, YES, he does remember the Internet & his Twitter account, "In a few days the championship starts and we run out science fiction. I propose a game with RT to the most creative rumors."

Alonso added that he is working hard on his fitness training and is confident of being back in the McLaren-Honda cockpit for the Malaysian Grand Prix on March 29.

Alonso tweeted further, "Keep working good – 30 min bike, 30 swim, 30 gym. Malaysia is one of the most demanding races, and we will be at 100%!".

Sounds fine to me, why bother with all this nonsense & lying about training to cover up something. Pretty sure he will be fine to be honest.

Some of the concussion stories in the NFL would keep the beeb up late at night

Van Der Gaard decision delayed until Wednesday. Sauber claiming it would be unsafe to put him in the car without testing.

Big news, Manor Marussia have named Spain's Roberto Merhi as their second driver for the start of the 2015 season.