Melbourne 2014
This year we´ll have 19 races and much has changed: First the engines: V8 are gone, and this season we will have the return of the turbo engines (V6).
The 2014 Turbo Engine
The design of the cars has also undergone several changes (and in my opinion they aren´t particularly
pretty…) in order to comply with the new regulations.
Ferrari: old -v- new
The scoring system has also changed: In the last race points count double. Another change is the number that each team carries on their cars. For the first time each driver was allowed to choose a race number (from 1 to 99), that he can use till the end of his career. Several drivers (Massa, Räikkönen, Maldonado, Ricciardo, Perez, Sutil and Hülkenberg) moved to another team. We will have 2 rookies (Kevin Magnussen and Daniil Kvyat) and one return (Kamui Kobayashi). In my opinion Vettel is going to win again (The pre-season has been horrible, but as some say, in F1 almost everything has already been invented, and the rest, sooner or later, will be by Adrian Newey and placed in the car of the German driver …). Australia isn’t really his lucky track. He only won in 2011, and retired 3 times .
We’ll see what Ferrari can do (this year with Alonso and Räikkönen. Could this be problematic? Two former champions on the same team often isn´t a good option, and both of them are very competitive…) and Mercedes (who kept their drivers ).
We’ll see what Ferrari can do (this year with Alonso and Räikkönen. Could this be problematic? Two former champions on the same team often isn´t a good option, and both of them are very competitive…) and Mercedes (who kept their drivers ).
Can another driver / team win the championship? I don´t believe so, but let´s see what Lotus and especially Williams will be able to do.
About the Author:
Pedro Cunha lives in Portugal (by the way, the first Portuguese F1 GP was in 1958 and the last one in 1996). He’s a financial analyst/consultant with a degree in Economics. He’s an avid blogger and writes about a lot of issues: politics, economics, music, cinema, football, and of course, F1! (He started to watch F1 races in the middle 70´s, on TV). You can view his blog here:
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