Formula 1 - 2009 Season - The Orange Room

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The 2009 Season Preview: Part One - All Change Please

The 2009 Season Preview: Part Two - A New World Order?

The 2009 Season Preview: Part Three - A Year for Dark Horses?

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2009 season changes

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2009 FIA Formula One World Championship Race Calendar

01 2009 FORMULA 1 ING AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX (Melbourne) 27 - 29 Mar

02 2009 FORMULA 1 PETRONAS MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX (Kuala Lumpur) 03 - 05 Apr

03 2009 FORMULA 1 CHINESE GRAND PRIX (Shanghai) 17 - 19 Apr

04 2009 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX (Sakhir) 24 - 26 Apr

05 FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE ESPANA TELEFONICA 2009 (Catalunya) 08 - 10 May

06 FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2009 (Monte Carlo) 21 - 24 May

07 2009 FORMULA 1 ING TURKISH GRAND PRIX (Istanbul) 05 - 07 Jun

08 2009 FORMULA 1 SANTANDER BRITISH GRAND PRIX (Silverstone) 19 - 21 Jun

09 FORMULA 1 GROSSER PREIS SANTANDER VON DEUTSCHLAND 2009 (Nürburgring) 10 - 12 Jul

10 FORMULA 1 ING MAGYAR NAGYDIJ 2009 (Budapest) 24 - 26 Jul

11 2009 FORMULA 1 TELEFONICA GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE (Valencia) 21 - 23 Aug

12 2009 FORMULA 1 ING BELGIAN GRAND PRIX (Spa-Francorchamps) 28 - 30 Aug

13 FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO SANTANDER D'ITALIA 2009 (Monza) 11 - 13 Sep

14 2009 FORMULA 1 SINGTEL SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX (Singapore) 25 - 27 Sep

15 2009 FORMULA 1 FUJI TELEVISION JAPANESE GRAND PRIX (Suzuka) 02 - 04 Oct

16 FORMULA 1 GRANDE PREMIO DO BRASIL 2009 (Sao Paulo) 16 - 18 Oct

17 2009 FORMULA 1 ETIHAD AIRWAYS ABU DHABI GRAND PRIX (Yas Marina Circuit) 30 Oct - 01 Nov

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This is the most revolutionary year Formula 1 has ever witnessed.
Expect this to be the best season of the 59 years history of Formula 1 racing!

sev

what a start it was!! what a fantastic day! I still cant believe what happened tonite

Chief

iamlebanese

is aljazeera sport still covering the F1 races?

Hye4Lebanon

Chief -

Hye4Lebanon thanks you for the above post.

Osiris

Quote:

Originally Posted by iamlebanese

is aljazeera sport still covering the F1 races?

I guess this season it's Bahrain TV.

On a side note, what's with Brawn GP! These guys are 1 second quicker than any other car!

http://www.brawngp.com/

LebanonUSA

If Ferrari go ahead and quit F1 this year, it's R.I.P. Formula One. There's more dirty politics going in F1 today. It even makes Lebanese politics look like Shangri-La compared to the dirtiness that is going on there.

I hope FOTA does break ranks and form a new series...

sev

I hope FIA goes with the budget cap. I been massive supporter of this budget capped teams IN F1. And in many other sports as well..

Its so simple. You have team X, Y And Z. Team X spends 300 million, Team Y has only to spend 75 million and Team Z has 50 million. Every year Team X wins..
With budget capped around 60 million. Team X, Y And Z each will be spending around the same ( below 60 million). They will think wiser on what to spend, plus it will make cars very close of each other as well. We will see who in the blue hell is best driver on planet.

Ferrari are bunch of pussies, they are afraid they get beaten and be a mid-table team in a budget-capped F1. They want F1 To be like each year mclaren vs ferrari fight lol..

what a joke they are

LebanonUSA

Sev, the problem isn't about the two-tier rules and the budget cap proposed by the FIA. It's about the FIA doing whatever it wants without seeking input/approval from the teams. The teams met today and decided that either FIA backoff its controversial plans, or they're all walking away from F1 next year. This isn't about Ferrari/McLaren vs the rest of the teams. Toyota have an even bigger budget than Ferrari does and they've never won a race.

The teams are interested in budget caps but not $60MM. How can a team like Ferrari, McLaren or Toyota go from over $500MM to $60MM? That's like slashing their budget by almost 90%!

And only the elite should be in F1. It is (to become was) the pinnacle of motorsport. Walmart and the Dollar Store don't need to be on Rodeo Drive. If the small teams that Max Mosley wants to include in F1 next year can't afford joining the big boys' club, then probably they don't belong there. Let them join GP2 instead. If the new small teams join, and the today's big names leave, imagine the following headline in the news in 2010: Wirth Research drivers beat Epsilon Euskadi drivers in Australian GP; Formtech drivers come in 5th and 6th, while RML's drivers come in 7th and 8th.