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Never heard of that. Any details of the problems?
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17 Jan 2017, 19:04 (Ref:3703223) | #154 | |
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not willing to fill up the troll with this personal matters on a motorsport forum , for the ones interested just google kankamol Albon and you will know.
Big respect to Alex for his performances on the race track and never heard any wrong comments about him out of the track so this should be kept as personal matters. |
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23 Jan 2017, 13:38 (Ref:3704477) | #156 | |
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Report on Autosport confirming Matsushita returning to ART, with Albon as his team-mate (albeit that is still TBC)
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27 Jan 2017, 15:26 (Ref:3705581) | #157 | |
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right we got testing & full season dates
the cars will test 1st in Barcelona on March 13-14-15 then two weeks later Bahrain will host the test on March 29-30-31 then the race dates go like this Bahrain April 14-16 Barcelona May 12-14 Monyr Carlo May 25-27 (Friday and Saturay races) Baku 23-25 June Red Bull ring 7-9 July Silverstone 14-16 july Budapest 28-30 July Spa 25-27 August Monza 1-3 Sept Jerez (standalone) 6-8 oct Yas Marnia 24-26 November |
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BTW. The RUSSIAN TIME's manager interview with Autosport.com, I believe Artem Markelov, as expected, is confirmed for 2017.
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It seems odds are in favour of GP2 being rebranded as FIA Formula 2 for the coming season, following Bernie's departure:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report...anding-in-2017 |
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So if it becomes FIA F2, does that mean just a rebrand or will there be a new set of rules too, like multi make?
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It's already most expesive set of rules, new car next year, based on what Svetlana said in that interview teams struggle to find drivers for 2017, 2018, with new cars, will be even more strain for teams, as will have to find extra money for new equipment. Dallara designs and manufactur new car.
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feels like carlin were right to bail out, doesn't it?
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GP2 to F2 won't change a thing, but I don't mind the change.
But what will they do with GP3? They can't name it F3. |
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4 Feb 2017, 09:11 (Ref:3709311) | #164 | |
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So Gelael and Nato confirmed at Arden (Team who finished dead last of the team rankings in 2016).... really hard to find any logic in this world.
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GP2 is not F2!
Nor should it be rebranded as such. 3.5V8 would be a much better basis as is less expensive kit. I agree that the category should permit chassis choice, and ideally more than one engine. But wouldn't that raise costs? |
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Having various chassis suppliers for GP2/F2 would only lower the cost in the long run when used variants are sold on. In the short term the R&D and purchase cost is a problem. |
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What happened to Mitch Evans? He seemed to have vanished from the radar in any racing series
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Shame, he came a long way and could have done a decent job in F1
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Rowland confirmed at DAMS for this season alongside Latifi.
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Evans is doing Formula E with Jaguar.
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http://www.autosport.com/news/report...-dams-for-2017
...and according to F1news.ru, Markelov will return at Russian Time. |
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