F1

[Bezzen]

So.... who do you guys think will buy Jaguar F1?

There are a couple of potential buyers:

* Red Bull (this isa rumoured to be very likely)
* Team Arden (very interested, but can they find the money?)
* Rich russian kids

I'm hoping for Arden as that will probably make it highly like for a Swede racing next year (Wirdheim). Unfortunately I think it's not that likely so the Swede in question will probably have to race around American circuits next year.  :-(

My bet is for Red Bull. And that way we will probably have a driver's lineup of Klien (:pissed:) and Liuzzi with a young american driver as third.

[Bezzen]

But Jenson Button is having a very good season, i did not predict that one.  

Yeah, what BAR really needed was to get rid of Villeneuve apparently. It will be interesting to see BAR at Suzuka as I bet Honda will have a special engine for the home grand prix. (probably it will be really fast for 10 laps and then Sato blows it up as usual).  :-D

Button and Sato has been the best combo this year I think. Jenson for the results and Sato for the entertainment.  :-)

[Bezzen]

Eccle should get rid of that fee for entering a new team (was it $40 million?). It's not a real fee (the team gets it back), but it sure isn't many people in the world who can open their purse and put that amount on the table. The cause for the fee was to only get really serious entries and not another Pacific, Simtek or Life team that went bust. I don't really see the point. Why not let everyone who think they can run a team enter. And if they go bust they go bust. At least there would be some more cars on the grid now and then. And some more drivers would get the chance to show off. (unless Verstappen steals their seat, as he always seem to do).

Btw, now it seems like Dallara could be up for buying Jaguar. There has been serious rumours about them building a team for 2006, but now there's speculation that they might buy a complete team and run the R6-car next year. Would be nice.

[Bezzen]

Anyway, I agree on the point that a third car would push costs even further thus putting pressure on teams like Sauber, Jordan and Minardi. Still, at least Coulthard would be likely to keep his McLaren seat!

I think that only the top teams were forced to run a third car (wouldn't be a part of the championship). But perhaps that's something I've made up. I'm not really sure.  :-o

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I heard something rather interesting about the BAR cheating from the commentary of the swedish F1 broadcasts. At a grand prix last year he had been chatting with some important BAR person before the race. That BAR-dude was complaining about Renault cheating. He said that it was a "well known fact" among the other teams that Renault was doing something possibly illegal. And then he went on to describe what the teams thought they were doing. And.... well, he described exactly what BAR was caught doing this year.  :-D

[Bezzen]

Monaco GP this weekend! Woohoo! I just love that race, eventhough there's no overtaking there's just something very special about it.  :-)

[Bezzen]

I can't remember ever seeing that much passing going on in Monaco. A great race.  :-)

And it's time for the European GP this weekend. :-D

[Bezzen]

I think everyone should have a third driver on track. And then they should ban private testing to cut costs. And all the third drivers should be allowed to qualify for the last four open slots on the grid. They wouldn't race for constructors points, off course. That way we would have a nice full grid with some of the up and coming drivers and costs would be drasticly cut due to no private testing days.

Anyway. I guess the big teams would never allow that to happen (Ferrari in particular seem to love the private testing), but I think it'd be nice.  :-D