Daily #F1 News and Comment: Sunday 28 July 2013

This page will be updated throughout the day. Please press the twitter button at the bottom of the post if you are on twitter. Top Lotus money troubles (10:30) More doubts over Sauber’s Russian saviours(11:30) Brawn to Ferrari?(12:03) —————————————————————————————————- Lotus money troubles In June TJ13 reported that Lotus has a new investor, Infinity Racing, who … Read more

Daily News and Comment: Friday 12th April 2013

This page will be updated later in the day Marussia woes In FP2 Max Chilton managed just 5 laps and stopped the car out on track. On returning to the pits he said, “In turn one I lost all propulsion so for safety reasons we have stopped. But maybe we can go out again”. The … Read more

Symonds full time with Marussia 2013, Luca on testing, aero, and everything else

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thejudge13 archive: For readers new to thejudge13 while news is a little thin in the winter I’m posting links to articles you may have missed. This show’s the dark side of some F1 personnel. “Mallya lives in opulence whilst Kingfisher staff starve and commit suicide“.

Pat Symonds and Marussia: We’ve been looking at Caterham and Marussia in a little more detail recently. Caterham have lost their sporting director, whilst Marussia appear to be consolidating their team nicely.

Add the Williams KERS system to the 2013 Marussia car and Caterham should be worried. I’ve been expecting an announcement about Pat Symonds for a week or so now, but still nothing on their website.

However, Timo Glock in an interview to German Autoweek last night confirmed that Pat will be joining the team full time for 2013.

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