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[What's Burning?]

The 2013 things I'll keep an eye out, I'd like to see which Williams shows up. If Mercedes understood what happened last year and know exactly what to do about it, and I'd like to see Sauber continue mixing it up in Q3.

[scotty]

In fact, WB's post about the tyres gave me an irresistible urge to make one half prediction right now - if the E21 works the tyres in the same way the E20 did, then these softer 2013 Pirelli compounds should work better for them, in theory.

[Jabberwocky]

The red side pods remind me of the HRT "your name here" livery

[scotty]

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[What's Burning?]

The red side pods remind me of the HRT "your name here" livery

except they actually have a name there.

[Jabberwocky]

Well I renamed my company "your name here" did me wonders

[bud]

I think most companies would have rather paid good sponsorship money not to have their name on HRT's side pod.

[spankyham]

So we may well have a new butt for jokes during those slow news days.

 wrote:">HRT F1 entry and assets being pursued by new Scorpion Racing

A group of Canadian and American investors are pushing to try and secure HRT's entry slot in Formula 1, AUTOSPORT can reveal, but they may have to wait until 2014 before being allowed to join the grid.

Sources have revealed that negotiations to purchase the HRT company and secure an entry are at an advanced stage, and the plan for a team known as Scorpion Racing appears to have the blessing of F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone.



However, AUTOSPORT understands that the FIA believes the 12th entry slot for 2013 was closed off when it was informed at the end of last season that HRT had been liquidated.

Although the governing body is aware of the plans for Scorpion Racing, it does not appear to have any intention of making a special case to allow another team in for 2013 because the entry deadline closed last November.

Click here for Edd Straw's investigation into the collapse of the original HRT team

The investors behind Scorpion Racing are hoping to complete due diligence of the buy-out plans in the next few days.

That means the viability of their plans should become clearer by the end of the week.

Scorpion is hoping to run its effort from a facility at Silverstone, using updated HRT F112 cars that will be powered by Cosworth engines and use a Williams gearbox.

AUTOSPORT has learned that discussions have taken place with Ecclestone about the idea, and he indicated to the outfit in a letter last weekend that if its takeover of the HRT assets was complete then it should get an entry to F1.

Ecclestone wrote to the Scorpion Racing investors saying: "Have you bought the HRT company? Because if you have, they [the FIA] would be accepting you."

It is not clear if there is any mechanism for Scorpion to secure a place on the grid if it can convince the FIA that it has the funding and technical capability to compete in 2013.

[What's Burning?]

Virgin/Marrusia was the butt until last year. I'm all for Scorpion, Canadian American... I'm sure they can get a bacon sponsor!

[vlad]

If they'll be like HRT, no, thanks. If they actually plan to DO SOMETHING, then I'm all for it!

Btw, I think Lotus is hiding a lot of things with that car.

[stonemonkey]

If they'll be like HRT, no, thanks. If they actually plan to DO SOMETHING, then I'm all for it!

Btw, I think Lotus is hiding a lot of things with that car.

They've opened up a gap at the rear of the front wing endplate.

And in the video scotty posted, at 2.25 it looks like the bumps over the rockers aren't symetrical, do they have different suspension setups on each side?

EDIT: Just searched and it was like that last year too.

One interesting point on the front of the car is the unusual hump arrangement on the top of the chassis. The usual bumps used to clear the rockers and other front suspension linkages are asymmetric. With a larger bulge on the left and a smaller one to the right. This suggests something is unusual about the suspension, Renault were known for the innovation in this area with front to rear interlinked suspension, the reactive ride height system and also running with a roll damper in place of side dampers. I suspect the bulge is to neatly incorporate the asymmetric rocker arms needed for a roll damper and hence the car runs without left and right dampers. However the front of the bulkhead is so heavily packaged with other hardware it’s impossible to see the springdamping elements inside.

[andrew]

I bet Scorpion Racing has a sting in it's tail.

[What's Burning?]

Lotus launched early now that I think about it.

[What's Burning?]

Yeah it all makes sense.

ESPNF1; Ferrari has announced that its 2013 challenger will be known as the F138 ahead of its launch on Friday.

The name is a combination of the year, 2013, and the number of cylinders in the engine, eight. In recent years Ferrari has used a number of naming methods, most commonly by prefixing the year with an 'F', but also celebrating its 60 years in the sport with the F60 in 2010 and the 150th anniversary of Italy's unification with the 150 Italia in 2011.

The most recent name is closer to the traditional method, which combines engine displacement and cylinder count, such as the 156 from 1961 and the 312s from the 1960s and 1970s. The last such type number was used in 2006 when Ferrari launched the 248 F1 at the beginning of the 2.4 litre, V8 era.

The team explained the reasons behind the latest name: "The name of the fifty-ninth car built by Ferrari to compete at the highest level of motor sport derives from a combination of the current year and the number of cylinders, partly to mark the fact that this will be the last year that the V8 engine configuration will be used in Formula 1, bringing to an end what will be an eight year career."

[Hammer278]

For Alonso's sake, they better have a lot more imagination in the aerodynamics to compete this season.

BTW Scorpion racing is too late. 2014, maybe.