F1 » Briatore: Alonso is going nowhere.

As far as the Regie' is concerned the Barcellona GP is going to make them or break them for this season. If the car improves so much that it would be challenging for podiums, then they would have achieved a miracle with the dog they have at the moment. For next year with all the new rule changes once again, cars have to be redesigned from scratch. Ferrari have already embarked on a development program with Michael Schumacher. If Renault will not do the same with Fernando they will get nowhere again next year. This year they are lumped with a Fissichella dog, but it's no problem, McLaren have been waiting 8 years for a result and they are not there yet. What're a couple of years?

F1 » Barcelona test times - day two: 15 April.

I really do not understand why some media gives any importance to tests. Times are absolutely not indicative of anything to anyone outside the teams because they are the only entitities that know what they are testing and for what. Coming first or second in a test is as good as the reserve Team of Manchester United winning a charity match against their own A team. Worthless. What really counts as far as the whole package and setup are concerned is the Saturday qualifying session which tend to be the same story repeated over and over again.

F1 » Ferrari 'horrified' by nose leak story.

cont... They (Renault) were miles ahead in performance and Michael Schumacher could not keep up with Fernando for the first six races of 2006. The TMD system is an internal component that could not be seen and copied. Some teams tried to design their own TMD's but wihout real success. So what did Ferrari do? They protested to the FIA that the TMD's were an illegal fitting and they were banned. Ferrari are notorious for stopping development by other teams if they do not have the technology but then are the first to complain of others copy theirs. Can this be a ploy to get the FIA to stop the introduction of similar noses by other teams on the basis of spying allegations again???????

F1 » Ferrari 'horrified' by nose leak story.

It is amazing how a company such as Ferrari are so prone to lose their Intellectual Property (IP) so easily. 780 pages of new, confidential info last year; Info about their new radical nose in a newspaper weeks ahead of its introduction on the cars; etc. etc. Security seem to be lacking, or otherwise they enjoy themselves accusing others of copying or spying. If something is introduced and then copied by others, that is not spying. If engineers change employers and take ideas and knowledge in their heads gleaned from years of experience that is dissemation of knowledge. In 2006 Renault designed and introduced a radical stability component called the Tuned Mass Damper. continued

F1 » Piquet wings it as spy row hits Renault hard.

.... from being employed by a rival for a number of years. The Mclaren?Ferrari spy saga of last year will definetly have repercussions when such persons move from team to team, but then again no one can stand in the way of development and the dissemation of knowledge unless it is irrevocably proven that the info is stolen like the case like year.

F1 » Piquet wings it as spy row hits Renault hard.

Chassis designers, engineers and other experts are in great demand in F1, and some are headhunted from other teams all the time. In recent years we had Bobby Byrne and Ross Brawn moving from Bennetton to Ferrari, Adrian Newey moving from Williams to McLaren to Red Bull Racing, once again Ross Brawn to Honda, and we can go on like this infinitum. Unless information is directly copied in text or digital form and passed from one company to another illegally, then there is no espionage involved. Persons can carry ideas in their heads and adopt them to their new employers as they please. the only way a company can stop a person doing so is by having a clause in his contract precluding him

F1 » Fisi: Alonso was expected to 'save' Renault.

In F1 there are some drivers who are simply there to fill a void. Giancarlo Fissichella is one of them. He was retired by Flavio from Renault because he proved to be useless in 2006 and worse in 2007. He did not get the Force india drive against all odds, but as a result of the lack of super-licensed drivers available. If he cannot drive the Force India car as fast as it goes, seeing that he either does not finish a race or that he is one lap or more down, then I suggest that he should take donkey racing for a change.

F1 » Kimi: Don't blame Lewis, blame his car.

As I have said numerous times before, there is no call for anyone to start calling others names. Dave do not embark on such a path. Anyone who does it, in my opinion has to accept the barrage of abuse that would follow naturally from all others. I think that I agree with Ownen's thinking and reasoning if one looks as a supporter of the team from the team's point of view. Some are primarily a team's supporters and they have team rivals, not driver rivals. It's a case of McLaren versus any other team to win, and not Lewis against Fernando or Kimi or Massa et al. Some people do not see it this way because they do not look at F1 in its totality but simply back a home driver. Wrong way.

F1 » Fisi: Alonso was expected to 'save' Renault.

What exactly is Giancarlo talking about? The man has been around since 1996, have raced in about 200 races and has only managed to ever win just 3 races throughout his carreer, even when Renault had a WDC and CC winning car. His best position last year was in 4th at Monaco, which race was won by Fernando in the McLaren. One year on his own as the team''s veteran last year, and the Regie''s development was flushed down the drain. This year''s Regie'' is still not up there, and Fernando said so from the first test that the car is a dog. Has that anything to do with you by any chance Giancarlo? 3 wins in 200 races is hardly a record to be proud of.

F1 » Webber: We have two drivers, they have one.

"we have two drivers they have one", Mark are you serious? Coulthard have not finished one single race out of the first three of this season, for God's sake. I think that it is about time that DC took over the BBC commentators job and left F1 racing on the track for good. He's a waste of time. The RBC is a good car, but it is lacking drivers' compatability at the moment. Nelsinho and Nakajima are still very raw at the edges, I agree, but so are various others with other teams.