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Formula 1 Team & Driver List for 2015
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Company Name Team Name Name of the Chassis Name of the Engine Driver Driver RED BULL RACING LIMITED (AUT) Infiniti Red Bull Racing Red Bull Racing Renault # 3 - Daniel Ricciardo (Confirmed) # 26 - Daniil Kvyat (Confirmed) Sebastien Buemi (Reserve) MERCEDES-BENZ GRAND PRIX LIMITED (DEU) Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team Mercedes Mercedes # 6 - Nico Rosberg (Confirmed) # 44 - Lewis Hamilton (Confirmed) FERRARI SpA (ITA) Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari Ferrari # 5 - Sebastian Vettel (Confirmed) # 7 - Kimi Raikkonen (Confirmed) Esteban Gutierrez (Test & Reserve) Jean-Eric Vergne (Test) LOTUS F1 TEAM LIMITED (GBR) Lotus F1 Team Lotus Mercedes # 8 - Romain Grosjean (Confirmed) # 13 - Pastor Maldonado (Confirmed) MCLAREN RACING LIMITED (GBR) McLaren Honda McLaren Honda # 14 - Fernando Alonso (Confirmed) # 22 - Jenson Button (Confirmed) Kevin Magnussen (Reserve) FORCE INDIA FORMULA 1 TEAM LIMITED (IND) Sahara Force India F1 Team Force India Mercedes # 27 - Nico Hulkenberg (Confirmed) # 11 - Sergio Perez (Confirmed) SAUBER MOTORSPORT AG (CHE) Sauber F1 Team Sauber Ferrari # 9 - Marcus Ericsson (Confirmed) # 12 - Felipe Nasr (Confirmed) "This will be my number from now. Thanks for Marcelo and the IMX staff who created the logo! #nasr #12 #f1" — Felipe Nasr (FelipeNasr) December 18, 2014 SCUDERIA TORO ROSSO SPA (ITA) Scuderia Toro Rosso STR Renault # 33 - Max Verstappen (Confirmed) # 55 - Carlos Sainz, Jr. (Confirmed) WILLIAMS GRAND PRIX ENGINEERING LIMITED (GBR) Williams Martini Racing Williams Mercedes # 77 - Valtteri Bottas (Confirmed) # 19 - Felipe Massa (Confirmed) 1MALAYSIA RACING TEAM SDN BHD (MAL) CF1 Caterham F1 Team Caterham Renault TBC - Max Chilton (TBC) TBC - (Expect one from: Sutil, Chilton, Lotterer or Stevens) Crowd-funding goal met but they're still looking for a buyer. MANOR GRAND PRIX RACING LTD (GBR)* **Removed** No longer on the entry list. Marussia has ceased trading and all 200 jobs are gone.
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Marussia has folded. Despite being named on the provisional entry list for the 2015 F1 season and having been targeting a return in Abu Dhabi, administrator FRP Advisory announced on Friday morning that the team has ceased trading, resulting in the loss of over 200 jobs. The administrator FRP Advisory admitted: "It goes without saying that it is deeply regrettable that a business with such a great following in British and world motor sport has had to cease trading and close its doors."
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I'd thought Caterham was in worse shape than Marussia. Given there's hopes of 60 million or so of prize money of securing P9 on the constructors champion (given caterham and sauber were pretty hopeless this season). That would attract a bit more investors compare to caterham.
In addition, I'd hope Ferrari would help Marussia and Bianchi on his treatment and recovery.
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Given the horrible performance from Sauber, we actually see improvement from Marussia comparatively.
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re: Sauber and their Nasr and Ericsson confirmations.
There are 2 problems and they are called Sutil and Giedo van der Garde . Sutil's contract goes through to 2015. Apparently van der Garde had also inked a contract for 2015. http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/le...gs-over-sauber |
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******** Horner called this stupid, basically LOL “The concept of that is wrong and shouldn’t be allowed," said Horner. “I don’t agree with the fans having to fund a team,” he told Sky Sports News HQ. “The fans pay to be entertained by the teams, they shouldn’t be having to pay for a team." "It is important that Formula 1 doesn’t do its dirty washing in public, it is important that the teams along with the commercial rights holder and the governing body sit down and go through what are the issues and what do we need to do to create a better environment going forward,” he added |
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11-08-2014, 02:25 AM | #12 |
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I have to admit that I don't care if severly uncompetitive teams are there or not. Marussia and Caterham are pretty much just roadblocks for the other teams and will NEVER be competitive. F1 is for the big boys with deep pockets. I'd rather see space made fo V.A.G. , BMW , Toyota or another Red Bull type of company that can make the necessary investments to go for the WC.
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“The concept of that is wrong and shouldn’t be allowed," said Horner.
“I don’t agree with the fans having to fund a team,” he told Sky Sports News HQ. “The fans pay to be entertained by the teams, they shouldn’t be having to pay for a team." Sounds like a surprisingly naive thing to say. He is also going to tell Ferrari to stop selling overpriced merchandise to it's fans? Fans pay to be entertained, directly or indirectly - or maybe he thinks it's still 1960 and wealthy owners will just write big checks for their own amusement?
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This from The Buxton Blog "Nothing Lasts Forever":
"In the 64 year history of Formula 1, 164 teams have existed. Today, including Caterham and Marussia, 11 survive. 153 teams have thus failed within that time period. That’s an average of a little over two teams (2.390) failing each season. While unfortunate, the demise of the sport’s two slowest and most poorly funded teams is well within acceptable and statistical, if slightly Darwinian, limits." |
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Bernie Ecclestone: Caterham crowdfunding plan a disaster for F1
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has labelled Caterham's plan to get back on the grid via crowdfunding as a "disaster" for the sport. Caterham's administrators revealed a plan on Friday to try to raise £2.35 million from fans to ensure the Leafield-based outfit could race in Abu Dhabi. But Ecclestone is not impressed with the idea, and says that if teams cannot afford to compete in F1 then they should not be there. "It's up to the fans if that's what they want to do," he told media in the paddock at the Brazilian Grand Prix. "Maybe people will put investment in the team. "I think it's a disaster. We don't want begging bowls. If people can't afford to be in Formula 1, they have to find something else to do. "If I sit in a poker game and I can't afford to be there with the other people, I get killed and have to leave." Ecclestone added that he is slightly baffled as to how F1 teams have got into so much financial trouble, but says it is not his business to manage their affairs. "I don't know what they do with their money," he said. "I don't spend their money. We just give it to them. "We give the teams nearly $900 million a year. We don't spend it. "The trouble is they haven't really understood. People want to win, all the teams here want to win. Some teams have got more money and they spend it. "When I had a race team a few years ago, in fact a few hundred years ago, I used to run the team according to how much money we could spend and we won the world championship. "That's what they don't do. They don't seem to understand that somebody is going to be last." (autosport Nov. 8th 2014) |
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Alonso to McLaren as well as Vettel at Ferrari are set to be confirmed no later than next week.
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Up to 15 people are leaving McLaren this week and next, allegedly to make room for Alonso's people. The McLaren Honda car will most likely debut at the post-race testing after Abu Dhabi. ******* 11/12/14 update Catheram is around 52% to goal but their driver, Marcus Ericsson, has cut all ties with the team. If Caterham does meet goal, they'll need to find a new driver "Following recent events re Caterham Sports Limited and 1 MRT Sdn Bhd, my adviser Eje Elgh and I have decided to terminate, with immediate effect, all agreements connecting me to the Caterham F1 team," said Ericsson in the statement.
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I hope McLaren take Alonso's advice and keep JB for another couple of years. He is still faster than Magnussen and is a likeable driver with a bit more character than the young Dane. F1 can't just be a lineup of whining super egos, rookies and sponsored crash machines.
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