F1 World Championship 2019

I think the change is good for Ferrari. As Scottie mentioned earlier there was a lot of people that had trust issues with Arrivabene and that is never good in a F1 team.

Some exciting dates for car launches that are coming up:

February 12 – Renault

February 13 – Racing Point

February 15 – Ferrari

I've seen a lot of media people online getting quite vocal since Arrivabene was let go about how closed off he was to the press. Compare that to someone like Horner who speaks from the pitwall during races and you can see he was clearly very different.

I hate to say it, but Ferrari feel a bit like soccer teams in the UK. Poor results and they blame and fire the manager and go through manager after manager and maybe the manager isn't the reason. A good manager should be able to put the right stuff in place for the team, but Ferrari have had a few recently without much change.

Good stuff: 10 things that EVERY F1 fan should be excited about in 2019, read it HERE

ocscottie wrote:

Good stuff: 10 things that EVERY F1 fan should be excited about in 2019, read it HERE

Let me add one more thing

#11 More MERCEDES domination!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmmmm "Ferrari has made the "wrong decision" picking Binotto" read more HERE

1911 wrote:

Let me add one more thing

#11 More MERCEDES domination!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know early in the off season they were having trouble with their Power Units, lets hope those continue

I thought Hamilton was fantastic this year. In cars that were pretty close to equal this year he got the best of Vettel. A lot of Ferrari race strategy was pretty dumb. Vettel has been my favorite driver for a while but Hamilton is growing on me..I liked Sebastian a lot better when he was with the sugar water company, Ferrari comes off like such a bunch of arrogant assholes..the way they wouldn’t even take the time to talk with Martin Brundell on the grid was great..millions of people on the world wide broadcast and you just shake your head no and don’t even look at the camera/ fans..real nice..glad he got fired

Getting close to car launches and the first test! Cant wait to see the new cars / teams etc etc.

Strange: Sauber becomes Alfa Romeo Racing for 2019 F1 season

Better watch / snag this before it gets taken down: Michael Schumacher: The Making of a Legend

ocscottie wrote:

Better watch / snag this before it gets taken down: Michael Schumacher: The Making of a Legend

I cried a lot when his engine blow up every fck races at his debut with Ferrari

I saw him driving 3 times at Spa. He was not a very a "gentleman" as Hill on the track. I remember vs Damon Hill in Australia, or Coulthard at Spa and the most famous dumbest move of Schumi vs Villeneuve at Jerez.

Thx for sharing OC.

WCRider wrote:

I cried a lot when his engine blow up every fck races at his debut with Ferrari

I saw him driving 3 times at Spa. He was not a very a "gentleman" as Hill on the track. I remember vs Damon Hill in Australia, or Coulthard at Spa and the most famous dumbest move of Schumi vs Villeneuve at Jerez.

Thx for sharing OC.

Yes, Schumacher was a prick, so was Senna.

Sometimes you have to be a prick.

I'm an angel

Romain Grosjean's 2019 Helmet.

Excited for this season! my thoughts -

-Finally we have a PPV F1 Service! While the coverage in 2018 was good due to the SKY feed an app will be that much better. Finally for the first time in my life I can PPV Motogp, US MOTO, MXGP and F1! holy shit I cant believe it took until 2019 fro this to happen but it is finally here.

-Bennito ?!? Ferrari really has been missing that extra edge since the days of Brawn and Todt. Lets see if they can put all the pieces together for 2019. They need to continually enhance the performance of the car through the entire season as we have seen over and over Mercedes brings it after the summer break.

-Vettel I have been a Vettel fan for years, but he has made too many mistakes and doesn't seem to have the raw speed he has in the past. I'm still hanging in there, however another bad season or a beating by LeClerc and i'm jumping on the Verstappen Bandwagon.

-Hamilton - if he dominates another year, he may well be in the conversation for GOAT. (I am not a Hamilton fan either)

-Ricciardo - Make or break season, My opinion is that he wont do much in the dog renault.


Cheers F1 fans!

GRO should be interesting in the Haas.
I think he has it if he keeps his head on straight.

HAAS has revealed their new livery and a new title sponsor in Rich Energy

Livery looks great (shown on a 2018 car)

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/141368/haas-unveils-new-livery-with-first-2019-car-reveal

Although I did laugh when the boss of Rich Energy said he expects them to beat Red Bull

Few more shots of their new look.

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Kinda interesting how the teams are broken down. Much more restrictions in F1 regarding true satellite teams but it appears to be heading in that direction.

Mercedes
Williams - Mercedes
Racing Point - Mercedes

Ferrari
Alfa Romeo - Ferrari
Haas - Ferrari

Red Bull - Honda
Toro Rosso - Honda

Renault
McLaren - Renault



There have definitely been worse layouts in past F1 years.

There is an NBA team sponsored by ROKiT, (Houston Rockets) I guess its a telecom company, i had never heard of it.

Renault R.S.19.

I love the Renault car how from the side it looks black, and the front it looks yellow.

"I am not quite up to speed on the new aero rules, but I think the easiest way to tell a 2019 car from a 2018 car is that notch in the side of the rear wing, is that correct?"

Correct.

Check out Ricciardo, man i hope that car works for him, he may have committed career suicide.

and here is an article about him: Ricciardo: Difficult 2018 will make me better for Renault in 2019

Other than Renault and RIC, my biggest question is still going to be how the Honda works out for RedBull and Mad Max.