It's not Goodbye.

Well it's Lewis Hamiltons last day at Mclaren. And its sad to see him go, But can understand why.

Lewis has been with McLaren since 2007, and has had 27 wins with the team. It's been a very good career so far. He wants to move and grow up as he says. But to Mercedes? sorry but I think this is a mistake but anyway!

He started off in karting before McLaren Signed him to the silver car and It was announced prior to the start of the season that Hamilton would be partnering defending double World Champion Fernando Alonso who had joined McLaren after leaving Renault. On his debut at the Australian Grand Prix, he finished third in the race, becoming the thirteenth driver to finish on the podium in his first F1 career! At the time, Hamilton broke Bruce McLaren's record of being the youngest driver to ever lead the world championship in 2008 .

It's been tough over the years for him, bad seasons Hamilton's relationship with McLaren team boss Ron Dennis dates back to 1995,[85] with the first indication that Hamilton was unhappy with his team and has been good seasons but he all ways came out fighting and driving throw the pack his skills will be very much missed at McLaren i'm sure .

But as he moves on to his new team he will have a tough season a head of him new car new team to get to grips with and that's on top of a new team mate, Nico Rosberg.  Nico is a very good diver but some times tends to be aggressive on track.

Maybe this will be a good partnership for each over Lewis hes leadership and Nico skills and ability to calm down on track.

I wish Lewis all the best
Mclaren will miss you and your driving skills . All the best for the 2013 season

Lewis Hamilton  career


Races   110 (110 starts)
Championships   1 (2008)
Wins    21
Podiums 49
Career points   913
Pole positions  26
Fastest laps    12
First race      2007 Australian Grand Prix
First win       2007 Canadian Grand Prix
Last win        2012 United States Grand Prix
Last race       2012 Brazilian Grand Prix
2012 position   4th (190 pts)

Too Much or Not enough?

Bernie Ecclestone says Formula 1 still has too many teams....

He would like one more team to pull out to bring it down to 10 teams. We have 11 teams at the moment for next season, but surely we need more teams not letting them go. More teams and more cars will surely make for a existing race and interesting season and harder so its not just vettel wining race's and championships time after time.

But Ecclestone said he would be happy to see another team drop out.

"It's just that 10 is easier to handle, for the promoters, for transport," he said. "We'd rather have 10, so long as we don't lose Ferrari."

Ecclestone said he had heard that HRT had gone into liquidation. Asked whether he believed it was possible a buyer would be found, he said: "I wouldn't wont to"

This is on the back of HRT Team going in to  liquidation and Mr Ecclestone suggesting that the number of European race tracks may go down in 2014.

Is it all about money? or is it just that 10 is easier to handle?
Has F1 changed this much from the old days when teams race and not worry about the money? Teams and drivers helping each other . Has this all gone?

And if it's about the money....  HRT were one of three teams to enter F1 in 2010 following attempts from the FIA to introduce a budget, and none of the three teams - which also include Caterham (formerly Lotus Racing) and Marussia (formerly Virgin) have scored a point since their debut.

So please F1 boss, can we get more teams and drivers? it's time to see women drivers! F1 needs to go back to just racing and the sponcers will follow, as more and more pepole fall in love with the sport then getting rid is not the way to go. Let us enjoy the whole experience!

Image from www.autoweek.com

(Quotes from BBC article)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/20717038

2013 Pre-Season Testing Schedule

The pre-season testing schedule for the 2013 Formula 1 season has been confirmed, and as expected all three tests will take place in Spain.


This should see how the new cars will look and drive for the new 2013 season
And with all the updates thay tried during the 2012 season if some off that will come over to the new cars .


Will redball fix the alternator problem from last season???

Will Lewis Hamilton help Mercedes get to the front grid ?

And more important will mclaren sort out the reliability issues ones and for all ..

This will be a good year !!


Dates Circuit
05/02/13 to 08/02/13 Circuit de Jerez (Spain)
19/02/13 to 22/02/13 Circuit de Catalunya (Spain)
28/02/13 to 03/03/13 Circuit de Catalunya (Spain)

F1 tweaked next year's date's

2013 FORMULA 1 CALENDAR

17 March - Australia (Melbourne)
24 March - Malaysia (Sepang)
14 April - China (Shanghai)
21 April - Bahrain (Sakhir)
12 May - Spain (Barcelona)
26 May - Monaco
9 June - Canada (Montreal)
30 June - Britain (Silverstone)
7 July - Germany (Nurburgring/Hockenheim)
21 July - TBA
28 July - Hungary (Hungaroring)
1 September - Belgium (Spa-Francorchamps)
8 September - Italy (Monza)
22 September - Singapore (Marina Bay) *
6 October - Japan (Suzuka)
13 October - Korea (Yeongam) *
27 October - India (Buddh International)
3 November - Abu Dhabi (Yas Marina)
17 November - United States (Austin)
24 November - Brazil (Interlagos)
* Subject to confirmation

Entry list for the 2013 F1 Season

HRT owners Thesan Capital whose future now looks uncertain for the 2013 season which will be a shame I think as we need the smaller teams to make the races more interesting .

It's all to easy to have big teams and big money but we would only have 7 teams
On the line up . more teams mean more interesting races the smaller teams are just as good and wear are the new drivers
Going to get a seat in a F1 car if all the small teams go or have no backing ?

This is where Bernie Ecclestone should be
helping or looking into ways to keep teams like HRT going or new teams coming in to the sport ....

But Several drivers who have been confirmed by their respective 2013 teams are absent un till the drivers numbers have Been sorted out

The drivers are Nico Hulkenberg and Esteban Gutierrez at Sauber, Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniel Ricciardo at Toro Rosso, Charles Pic at Caterham and Timo Glock at Marussia

As for force India we may see some new faces next year or maybe so old faces .

But I hope we see some new teams as well soon F1 is changing and with 2014
I can only hope for the best

The FIA entry list in full so far are :

1 Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull
2 Mark Webber, Red Bull
3 Fernando Alonso, Ferrari
4 Felipe Massa, Ferrari
5 Jenson Button, McLaren
6 Sergio Perez, McLaren
7 Kimi Raikkonen, Lotus
8 TBA, Lotus
9 Nico Rosberg, Mercedes
10 Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes
11 TBA, Sauber
12 TBA, Sauber
14 TBA, Force India
15 TBA, Force India
16 Pastor Maldonado, Williams
17 Valtteri Bottas, Williams
18 TBA, Toro Rosso
19 TBA, Toro Rosso
20 TBA, Caterham
21 TBA, Caterham
22 TBA, Marussia
23 TBA, Marussia

2013 looking to be a interesting year !