2012 Formula One Thread

[DLSTR]

Originally Posted by alcheng

Honestly, I don't understand the hype about Bruno Senna, he is not Ayton Senna, not even close at all, I am surprised he can stay in F1 for this long....

He looked like a fish out of water today. Driving around on his own without direction. He is too hit and miss. He is gone. Williams need a driver who can get points or they are of no use. They cant afford him to just drive around.

[Titan1080]

Have any of you guys picked up F1 2012? So far I've only had time to lap COTA, a fun track but looks like there may not be very many overtaking spots apart from the braking zones in the straights. Will have to give it a try with some traffic...

[alcheng]

It's a very nice game!!

I always respect the programmers put so much effort on developing the in-cockpit view, however, to make it realistic, 3 displays is a must in order to obtain the 200 degrees of visual field of human eyes, but it is not realistic to have 3 displays....

Nice game though!!

[Titan1080]

I wonder if they considered using Kinect to track your head like in Forza 4. I've had ok results with it there and it made for a few laughs as I tried explaining the concept of looking towards the apex to my friends...

[alcheng]

I never tried it in Forza but will you get dizzy quickly since the "view" is moving all the time....?

[Titan1080]

I didn't. It takes some getting used to though and you really need to have a room suited for using Kinect where it can clearly distinguish your head. I have my wheel mounted to a base with an old car seat and with me so close to the floor, the Kinect sometimes loses my head and the view gets stuck looking the wrong way.

[alcheng]

Perez is going to McLaren... (Confirmed by McLaren)

Hamilton most likely to go to Mercedes.....

Schumacher... move to Sauber??

I believe he will mostly retire after this season... he's too expensive for Sauber, and too old for battling in the midfield...

Link To The News

[m4a1mustang]

Originally Posted by alcheng

Perez is going to McLaren... (Confirmed by McLaren)

Hamilton most likely to go to Mercedes.....

Schumacher... move to Sauber??

I believe he will mostly retire after this season... he's too expensive for Sauber, and too old for battling in the midfield...

Link To The News

According to Schumi's manager they (Mercedes) presented him with a contract extension mid-summer that he did not sign. Apparently he didn't want to commit to drive when he wasn't sure what he wanted to do.

Also, there appears to be a separate bit to Michael's Mercedes contract in which he has the option to stay on in a high-paying advisory role. If he doesn't want to drive anymore I suspect he'll stick with Ross at Merc and help out where he can.

FWIW, Peter Sauber said he'd hire Michael in a heartbeat. Sauber can afford to pay him. So if he wants to drive that's an option.

But he'll probably just retire.

[alcheng]

Originally Posted by m4a1mustang

According to Schumi's manager they (Mercedes) presented him with a contract extension mid-summer that he did not sign. Apparently he didn't want to commit to drive when he wasn't sure what he wanted to do.

Also, there appears to be a separate bit to Michael's Mercedes contract in which he has the option to stay on in a high-paying advisory role. If he doesn't want to drive anymore I suspect he'll stick with Ross at Merc and help out where he can.

FWIW, Peter Sauber said he'd hire Michael in a heartbeat. Sauber can afford to pay him. So if he wants to drive that's an option.

But he'll probably just retire.

And for 3 years, Mercedes couldn't really design a fast race car, I would wonder if Schumacher would want to take another chance, with his age is climbing up, Mercedes has to have a really good car next year in order to have Schumacher to win some races... and I doubt Mercedes could have a good car next year.....

As for Sauber, even they can afford Schumacher, will he wants to race for a mid-field team...??

I am wondering whose gonna replace Perez in Sauber.... I am also wondering will Wiliams keep Senna for 2013....

[m4a1mustang]

My guess is he won't. Short of Ferrari offering him Massa's seat I don't think he'll be back in a car next year. Not because he doesn't want to drive but because there are no competitive options.

And I don't even know if he'd go to Ferrari considering they forced him out at the end of '06 to make way for Kimi. And we all know how that worked out for them.

[alcheng]

Top four, McLaren, Ferrari, Red Bull and Lotus won't have room for Schumacher, Ferrari won't dropped Massa, he is cheap and good relationship with the team, obedient, plus, why Ferrari would put two champs in one team, they always favorite one.

Red Bull has Vettel and Webber. Lotus, they have Kimi, and they need a title sponsor for next year too as Lotus is pulling out, I bet they'll go back to "Renault" next year...

What left is Sauber and Williams (If Williams is smart enough to drop Senna..)

But I doubt Schumacher will sign a mid-field team....

Bye Bye Schumy....

[m4a1mustang]

I hope he still stays involved with the sport.

[6MT]

Originally Posted by m4a1mustang

I hope he still stays involved with the sport.

[alcheng]

Originally Posted by m4a1mustang

I hope he still stays involved with the sport.

Originally Posted by 6MT

too

back in 2010 I had extreme high expectation on his return since Mercedes won the championship and I thought they could carry on the momentum. But 3 years has passed and their performance has been disappointing...

I so much wish Schumy to stay in the sports but without a competitive car, plus his age... it is not a good scenario for him as a driver...

[eastwest2300]

Originally Posted by alcheng

too

back in 2010 I had extreme high expectation on his return since Mercedes won the championship and I thought they could carry on the momentum. But 3 years has passed and their performance has been disappointing...

I so much wish Schumy to stay in the sports but without a competitive car, plus his age... it is not a good scenario for him as a driver...