The Junior Series Thread

Post by **Londoner** » 28 Nov 2015, 15:42

(slow clapping) Bravo Sean Gelael, bravo. He's joined that elite tier of drivers who are total scrublords as of this afternoon, :facepalm:

Post by **Londoner** » 29 Nov 2015, 10:29

Gasly, what the hell was that? Dropped it on a kerb and let his car roll backwards into the pack. Really really stupid. :facepalm:

EDIT: Race cancelled, the barrier at turn 2 is ruined. Thanks Gasly...

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 29 Nov 2015, 11:06

See FIA. SEE! TECPRO IS JUST NOT BETTER THAN TIRE BARRIER. Not efficient in absorbing impact, took LOOOOOOOOOOONG time to replace, and GP2 sprint race cancelled after 2 laps. Briliant.

Post by **Ataxia** » 29 Nov 2015, 11:09

AxelP800 wrote:See FIA. SEE! TECPRO IS JUST NOT BETTER THAN TIRE BARRIER. Not efficient in absorbing impact, took LOOOOOOOOOOONG time to replace, and GP2 sprint race cancelled after 2 laps. Briliant.

When you come up with a better solution, Axel, we'll consider your opinion.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 29 Nov 2015, 11:14

AxelP800 wrote:See FIA. SEE! TECPRO IS JUST NOT BETTER THAN TIRE BARRIER. Not efficient in absorbing impact, took LOOOOOOOOOOONG time to replace, and GP2 sprint race cancelled after 2 laps. Briliant.

De Jong and Burti would like to have a word with you

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 29 Nov 2015, 11:16

Ataxia wrote:
AxelP800 wrote:See FIA. SEE! TECPRO IS JUST NOT BETTER THAN TIRE BARRIER. Not efficient in absorbing impact, took LOOOOOOOOOOONG time to replace, and GP2 sprint race cancelled after 2 laps. Briliant.

When you come up with a better solution, Axel, we'll consider your opinion.

Wut? I said tecpro is not better than tire barrier so tire barrier is better solution. Need to put like 5 layers of tires to be safe, and you can see from a lot of crashes that a properly installed tire barriers does not get chaotic when hit. Just a simple layer of the protection in front of those tires that needs replacements. Problem?

Post by **Ataxia** » 29 Nov 2015, 11:23

AxelP800 wrote:
Ataxia wrote:
AxelP800 wrote:See FIA. SEE! TECPRO IS JUST NOT BETTER THAN TIRE BARRIER. Not efficient in absorbing impact, took LOOOOOOOOOOONG time to replace, and GP2 sprint race cancelled after 2 laps. Briliant.

When you come up with a better solution, Axel, we'll consider your opinion.

Wut? I said tecpro is not better than tire barrier so tire barrier is better solution. Need to put like 5 layers of tires to be safe, and you can see from a lot of crashes that a properly installed tire barriers does not get chaotic when hit. Just a simple layer of the protection in front of those tires that needs replacements. Problem?

Yes, I have problem. For the reasons Wizzie just provided above, the tyre barrier is NOT a better solution. It's still dangerous and impact absorption is variable due to the positions of the tyres in the wall. The Tecpro might not be perfect, but nobody was hurt.

I could forgive you then for that, if we were simply discussing the tyres. But I know what you're like, and what your warped way of thinking does. I know that you're angry, not because people were at risk and the race ended, but actually because you saw Gelael in the wall yet again and it takes 3rd out of the reach of Haryanto. Pathetic.

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 29 Nov 2015, 11:30

Lol. You think I'm not happy because Haryanto losing a certain podium or what? No. It's just stupid to see a race cancelled because of this "better" barriers that took an eternity to be fixed. That would be embarassing if actually happened during F1 race, innit? Cool down mate. Those UPPER CASE is just hyperbolic. Then so I would recommend thicker SAFER barrier for certain areas of circuit, but as we know FIA doesn't like SAFER barrier.

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 01 Dec 2015, 12:38

Sean Gelael and Mitch Evans will took Campos GP2 seat for next year. While in post-season test day 1, Philo Paz Armand managed to get a seat with Status GP. Oh I'm still hoping someone actually notices Zahir Ali. He was at equivalent level with Haryanto. Ahhhhh : :cry:

Before someone moans again those emoticons is dramatif effect. No such crying actually happens. Just disappointment

Post by **Ataxia** » 01 Dec 2015, 13:06

AxelP800 wrote:Sean Gelael and Mitch Evans will took Campos GP2 seat for next year.

You got a source for that?

Regardless, we've got another son-of-a-former-F1-driver on the map; Giuliano Alesi's testing for Arden in the GP3 tests. Will Palmer is testing for Arden as well.

Other notable names to take part in the first day of the post-season GP3 test are Charles Leclerc electing to test for ART, Jake Hughes and Jack Aitken sampling the Koiranen, Tatiana Calderon at Status and Steijn Schothorst getting back into single-seaters after a year out racing in the Renault Sport Trophy.

In the first GP2 test day, Ollie Rowland's driving the #5 ART, Ghiotto and Eriksson are looking to step up too, and will sample the Tridents, whilst Gasly and Wehrlein will be Prema's first runners at Abu Dhabi. F3 champion Felix Rosenqvist is having a go in the #23 Status.

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 02 Dec 2015, 04:19

http://www.motorsport.com/gp2/news/evan ... -campaign/

Thia site is my main source of news together with autosport and speedcafe

GP2 test list is from..... well gp2series.com

Post by **Ataxia** » 02 Dec 2015, 11:02

AxelP800 wrote:http://www.motorsport.com/gp2/news/evans-and-gelael-to-join-campos-for-2016-gp2-campaign/

Thank you, Axel.

Regardless, this seems like a bit of an odd move from Evans; surely he'd be able to find a WEC seat by now? Gelael, yeah, he's there because of the Los Pollos Hermanos money.

Not a surprise that Markelov's in line to stay at Russian Time, he's slowly developing into a great little racer and RT seem like the best environment for him to push that further. He needs to find something in qualifying though, if he's ever to get to the points on a more regular basis

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 02 Dec 2015, 11:40

Ataxia wrote:
AxelP800 wrote:http://www.motorsport.com/gp2/news/evans-and-gelael-to-join-campos-for-2016-gp2-campaign/

Thank you, Axel.

Regardless, this seems like a bit of an odd move from Evans; surely he'd be able to find a WEC seat by now? Gelael, yeah, he's there because of the Los Pollos Hermanos money.

I was wondering for several days "what in the world is this Hermanos Rodriguez thing about Gelael" until I finally searched Google, and welp
...... I dunno how to react.

Irony is I don't like he is sponsored by KFC because it's MURICA's product. Nationality bias comes to play

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 02 Dec 2015, 20:06

GP2 will be the new F2 series, Didn't see that coming did you? You did? Oh, ok then.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 03 Dec 2015, 04:22

Jean Alesi's son will be testing a GP3 car

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 10 Dec 2015, 19:39

The FIA's push to prevent future Verstappens continues: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/122207

andrew · Post by **andrew** » 25 Dec 2015, 19:50

Discuss
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/122333

Although I can see where he is coming from, he probably shoudlnt be saying things like this

novitopoli · Post by **novitopoli** » 26 Dec 2015, 10:53

I think he could have avoided publicly saying it, but I can understand why he has such a feeling. Yet I think both he and Ocon are great drivers, and I hope they both make it into Formula 1.

Post by **Ataxia** » 15 Jan 2016, 10:01

Sergey Sirotkin's bagged himself the ART drive in GP2. We have a title favourite!

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 15 Jan 2016, 10:58

Ataxia wrote:Sergey Sirotkin's bagged himself the ART drive in GP2. We have a title favourite!

More favorite than Gasly or Lynn?

Post by **Ataxia** » 15 Jan 2016, 13:19

DanielPT wrote:
Ataxia wrote:Sergey Sirotkin's bagged himself the ART drive in GP2. We have a title favourite!

More favorite than Gasly or Lynn?

Well, he beat both of them in a Rapax last year; Sirotkin was just far more clinical than both of the DAMS drivers. Lynn and Evans should definitely be threats this year, but you'd have to put your money on Sirotkin.

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 15 Jan 2016, 17:23

Guys, please. Jordan King has signed for Racing Engineering. Might as well end the season now. :pantano:

yannicksamlad · Post by **yannicksamlad** » 19 Jan 2016, 13:36

And now we have Campos with Sean Gelael and Mitch Evans, Russian Time have Marciello ( no longer with the Ferrari Driver Academy) and Markelov, ART kept Matsushita and got Sirotkin , King is at Racing Engineering and Dams have Lynn and Latifi ....
So where's Gasly ( still with Red Bull I think) going? And I assume Rowland will go to Prema....

Rossi and Haryanto...if they dont get a F1 deal there's only one Racing Engineering seat left..and that may not be super-competitive ( they seem to have dropped off a little since Fabio left) ...or maybe Prema will do the job in their first year ( but seems unlikely given the need to 'understand' the tyres so much these days in order to be competitive).

The prime seats are nearly filled....
And I hope we get 26 cars on the grid - Hilmer failed to sell on their GP2 team, but maybe they'll be back this year. Hope so.
Testing in March...can't wait

Samster · Post by **Samster** » 19 Jan 2016, 19:34

First 2016 rookie has been signed, Antonio Giovinazzi is promoted to Prema's GP2 team.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/122532

yannicksamlad · Post by **yannicksamlad** » 22 Jan 2016, 11:19

I should probably add that when I said ART have kept Nobu , that isn't official, and I partly inferred it from Nobby's Twitter post....I wonder if Red Bull want Gasly at ART ...
Rosenqvist is also knocking around ...but may do something else...

Samster · Post by **Samster** » 26 Jan 2016, 15:11

Gasly joins Prema and will be Red Bull's official reserve driver too.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/122579

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 27 Jan 2016, 11:12

The Good Reverend Dr. Maldonado's cousin is making his single seater début in Italian F4.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 29 Jan 2016, 13:06

Great news everyone!

yannicksamlad · Post by **yannicksamlad** » 29 Jan 2016, 15:37

Salamander wrote:Great news everyone!

Yeah - looking good for some diversity, and I hope she goes well .

Meanwhile GP2 - A Pic has secured a Rapax seat ..but it looks like the season wont start until Barcelona. ( they did Bahrain twice last year, and seem to be skipping it this year ) ...which is ages away....
And they may not go to Sochi - and thereby avoid the madness and financial cost of of Turn 1 lap 1 where there's run -off, bollards, varying interpretations of 'gaining an advantage' and no space... .

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 29 Jan 2016, 18:21

yannicksamlad wrote:
Salamander wrote:Great news everyone!

Yeah - looking good for some diversity, and I hope she goes well.

That livery (particularly the side of the nosecone) reminds me of some of A1GP's promotional material:

I originally thought it reminded me of their test car liveries, but that turned out to be just a single row of flags running along the top side of the nosecone, with a black airbox and white sidepods...

Post by **Ataxia** » 03 Feb 2016, 15:02

With the Renault announcement, the other news is that Ollie Rowland will join their new Renault Sport Academy programme. He will drive in GP2 for MP Motorsport.

yannicksamlad · Post by **yannicksamlad** » 06 Feb 2016, 09:09

And Norman Nato gets the remaining Racing Engineering GP2 seat..
Not quite sure what happened with Ollie Rowland...I thought he might get a bigger team drive. After all he tested with the big names, but there was no seats left for him when the music stopped. Maybe de Jong will return to MP for another year....
Seats are filling up, but there's still a bit of room for my fave Sergio..hoping we get to see some more Sergio spectacular.

Dj_bereta · Post by **Dj_bereta** » 06 Feb 2016, 15:43

So, there are just two rookies for this season in GP2?

yannicksamlad · Post by **yannicksamlad** » 07 Feb 2016, 16:27

Dj_bereta wrote:
So, there are just two rookies for this season in GP2? (sorry I messed up , and may have sent a PM instead of just quoting ..and have now lost the 'quote-ness)

...which made me think a bit - and actually Gelael, Rowland and Latifi haven't done full seasons yet, but have had a few drives. Still it does seem that rookies don't get in to top teams easily these days , apart from those with Red Bull, McLaren, Honda etc links. If we assume these big boys are indeed identifying the best drivers then it sort of makes sense - they find the best drivers, put them in the best teams, and in a formula where small advantages decide whether you'll be 4th or 14th , this keeps those drivers at the top of the championship table at the end of the year. And to win GP2's title these days you are going to have had to adjust to those strange Pirellis, so its likely to take a year or two. So the teams will keep you on ( with your Red Bull / McLaren/Honda etc money) .Add in the lack of F1 seats, and you have a category where drivers will spend a few years ..
And its not a bad place to be - GP2 cars being only maybe 5 or 6 seconds a lap slower than F1 at some tracks in some years...
But it all adds up to make the 'charge-through-the -ranks' of GP2 more difficult- easier just to skip it if you can- isnt it Max?

novitopoli · Post by **novitopoli** » 08 Feb 2016, 11:46

Luca Ghiotto will race for Trident in GP2 next year.

Here´s me hoping he will be the one who´ll bring Italy back where it belongs.

golic_2004 · Post by **golic_2004** » 08 Feb 2016, 12:29

Tatiana Calderon joins Arden for GP3
http://www.motorsport.com/gp3/news/cald ... en-672247/

Post by **Londoner** » 10 Feb 2016, 19:48

I do love a good Twitter beef. :pantano:

Context

Wallio · Post by **Wallio** » 11 Feb 2016, 15:41

Simtek wrote:GP2 will be the new F2 series, Didn't see that coming did you? You did? Oh, ok then.

Did this fall through or what? Everything I see calls it GP2?

Post by **Ataxia** » 11 Feb 2016, 16:53

Wallio wrote:
Simtek wrote:GP2 will be the new F2 series, Didn't see that coming did you? You did? Oh, ok then.

Did this fall through or what? Everything I see calls it GP2?

It'll probably change in time for 2017.

Anyway, the second MP seat's gone to...to be honest, I don't even need to tell you! You KNOW who it is.

golic_2004 · Post by **golic_2004** » 11 Feb 2016, 18:13

Ataxia wrote:
Wallio wrote:
Simtek wrote:GP2 will be the new F2 series, Didn't see that coming did you? You did? Oh, ok then.

Did this fall through or what? Everything I see calls it GP2?

It'll probably change in time for 2017.

Anyway, the second MP seat's gone to...to be honest, I don't even need to tell you! You KNOW who it is.

WHAT is the POINT?! I mean really?