THE FORMULA 1 THREAD

bgsapc said:

Yeah, I hope they don't do away with Turkey. I love turn 8. I know its extreme but man that woudl be a dream pulling those g's in that car through 4 apexes. I'm sick of Brawn. I started liking J. Button especially after his old appearnce on top gear, but now everytime i see an interview with him in just wanna punch him in his face. I'm really getting pissed about this situation with the FIA and the teams. Don't cause another cart/IRL split.

That would ruin the best racing series in the world. That said, I hope vettel can pull off a win this weekend, or Hamilton, Massa, hell Bourdais could win this weekend, please just not J. Button. I don't want record books to equate Button to Schumacher because a fluke of a season.

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GTICrazy90 said:

Does anyone know what time the race starts on FOX?? Pacific

edit: its at 12pm. I was looking for 5 but couldnt find it. I guess they are not showing it live

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GTICrazy90 said:

Damn i missed it, im gonna watch the rerun on tuesday on speed

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The FIA has announced that it will take legal action against the FOTA teams following their decision to launch a rival championship in 2010.

The eight FOTA squads declared last night that they could not reach a deal to end the row with the FIA over next year's regulations and the governance of the sport, so would go it alone next year.

All the FOTA teams submitted conditional entries for next season and subsequently withdrew them, but the governing body said last week that it intended to hold Red Bull, Toro Rosso and Ferrari to previous agreements that it insisted committed the trio to Formula 1.

The FIA made Ferrari the focal point of its anger when announcing its plan for legal action this afternoon (Friday).

"The FIA’s lawyers have now examined the FOTA threat to begin a breakaway series," it said in a statement.

"The actions of FOTA as a whole, and Ferrari in particular, amount to serious violations of law including wilful interference with contractual relations, direct breaches of Ferrari's legal obligations and a grave violation of competition law.

"The FIA will be issuing legal proceedings without delay."

The statement added that the scheduled announcement of the 2010 entry list tomorrow will be delayed due to the legal proceedings.

"Preparations for the 2010 FIA Formula 1 World Championship continue but publication of the final 2010 entry list will be put on hold while the FIA asserts its legal rights," it said.

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(CNN) -- Felipe Massa has been woken successfully three times to make contact with his family, one of the surgeons who operated on the Brazilian Formula One star told CNN on Monday, after a horror crash in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix left the driver needing surgery on a fractured skull.

Peter Bazso, the medical director of the AEK hospital in Budapest, confirmed that Massa's injuries had been "life-threatening" after he careered off the Hungaroring at 200kph in his Ferrari, but that his condition was now "slightly improving."

Brawn GP's Rubens Barrichello was also optimistic after visiting his fellow Brazilian on Monday afternoon.

"I saw the doctor and he said that [Massa] had reacted well when he first saw the doctor and reacted well when he saw his father," he told waiting reporters.

"I asked the doctor 'as someone who has no understanding of medicine, how will he be?' the doctor said 'most probably he is going to be 100 percent fine"

Bazso told CNN said he had watched Saturday's accident on television and his team, who specialize in brain injuries, was immediately put on standby to operate as Massa was airlifted to his hospital. Does safety need to be improved in Formula One?

Massa was hit on the helmet by a spring which had fallen off the rear of the Barrichello's Brawn.

The impact left Massa concussed and he lost control of his Ferrari on the high speed Turn Four before ploughing into a tire barrier.

Bazso and his team performed a two-hour emergency operation shortly after Massa arrived at the hospital, which also caters for the Hungarian military.

He remains in a medically-induced coma in intensive care but Bazso said there were good signs of a recovery.

"We tried to wake him up three times so he could make contact with his family and each time we were successful," he said.

Massa's parents and his pregnant wife Anna Rafaela flew to Hungary to be at his bedside after the accident.

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