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#F1 Daily News and Comment: Thursday 22nd January 2015

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#F1 Daily News and Comment: Friday 29th August 2014

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Mercedes spend 772m euros on F1, Williams restructure the race team, Where’s Paddy? Firmly at McLaren for now, Jerez Running Order

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Mercedes Finances

Mercedes balance sheet for the year ended 2011 shows they have invested in total, 278m euros. Spending on the AMG F1 team was 144m euros that year spent from Brackley, however Brixworth where the engines are made had a cost explosion. Their 2011 spend was 134m euros, up over 50% on 2010.

This division of Mercedes, has been developing engines for the electric super sports car SLS AMG Electric Drive, the current KERS system and the turbocharged V6 engine for Formula in 2014.

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RB9 launch – politics and a big mystery

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Lack of effort

The Red Bull launch has been received in a number of different ways. The preview video, ‘The rhythm of the factory’ (check it out in F1 Forensic) seems to have gone down quite well. This was the pre-cursor to the big live unveil. I have spoken to Christian, and he accepts the reveal of the car in the video could have been better – more like in the TJ13 video – with some more effort from the RB graphics team, and the matter has been duly noted for 2014.

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McLaren’s emotive past, Specifications of the MP4-28, Analysis of changes to car, Razia to replace Glock, Ferrari’s first Chinese sponsor

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Quick News:

Ferrari has signed a sponsorship agreement with Weichai Power.The agreement with one of China’s largest manufacturers of diesel engines and machinery vehicles is for 4 years and will run until 2016. Weichai Power, a part of the Weichai Group, is the first Ferrari sponsor of the People’s Republic of China.

Marrusia: Rumours are emerging Louis Razia is replacing Timo Glock. TBC

McLaren’s big launch:

Nostalgia reigns: The big launch today with an emotive and haunting piece on Bruce McLaren, speaking as though from beyond the grave he spelled out his vision for McLaren which is still clear today. Then we were privileged to see this CanAm-winning M8D driven into MTC, the car which Bruce was killed by during testing at Goodward.

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Whispers that Force India have a ‘concrete offer’ on the table to sell

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Whispers last week

TJ13 reported earlier in the week that Mallya and Sahara could be in negotiations to sell part of all of the Force India Team. And raise much needed cash.

“I was chatting to someone this weekend who is both experienced and wise in the matters of team operations, and I told him of my increasing surprise at Force India’s lack of announcement of Di Resta. He smiled and said he was not. I pressed him on the matter insisting there is absolutely no reason not to announce a driver who will definitely be racing in 2013.”

He asked me one question. “When football clubs may be about to change owners or managers, do they announce new player contracts or leave those decisions for those about to take responsibility?” (TJ13 Link) 

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F1 Driver Simulator’s, Formula E’s 1st team, PIrelli’s organic tyres, RB9 launch date and Britney, FanVision withdraws from F1, Have F1 hosting fee’s peaked?

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Red Bull: will launch their RB9 on the 3rd of February at their base in Milton Keynes. Sebastian Vettel is calling in a promise made by Horner that he could have ‘anything’ if he won his 3rd consecutive title in 2012 – well each of his car’s are christened with a girl’s name so he has insisted Christian Horner allows US pop idol Britney Spears to whisk the sheet from the car amidst paper fireworks and with ‘Baby one more time’ blasting through giant rock band speakers ( 😉 ) – can anyone actually think of anything worse?

FanVision withdraw from F1: I asked for it – this is the worst F1 news I’ve heard for quite some time. Utterly disastrous. FanVision I count as an essential for any of the F1 GP’s I attend each year. It was formally called Kangaroo TV and it gives track side fans the clarity of viewing a race that they would get at home.

Some think its expensive, but at 50 Euro’s for Mrs Judge and I (we put a headphone splitter in) to have all the practice sessions, qualifying, the support races and the main event – we think adding 5-6% to the total cost of us visiting a  race other than Silverstone is well worth it.

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Ferrari announce… no launch date, Helmut Marko: Alonso too political, Nurburgring still not confirmed, Banks close to seizing Mallya’s assets, F1 car evolution

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2013 F1 calendar: Our favourite subject. At risk of getting reader DwilD started again, I’m afraid there is more to report. Having said that, I don’t remember a season in recent times where the number of issues on the calendar are yet subject to uncertainty.

Yesterday tj13 reported potential unrest in Bahrain. The week before Christmas we had the bizarre scenario of Barcelona claiming they knew nothing of the widely publicised bi-annual sharing arrangement with Valencia (LINK) and Valencia’s surprised response (LINK).

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