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Sneak peak of the 28

[vlad]

Damn, that's a short video! But, we'll see it more soon.

[Jabberwocky]

I love that Bruce video

[racechick]

Yes, Bruce video is classy.

[Jabberwocky]

Damn, that's a short video! But, we'll see it more soon.

Does it count as pre season testing

[vlad]

Hahaha, was thinking the same.

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Scarbs on the 28.

[What's Burning?]

Peter Windsor is my favorite F1 personality.

[Jabberwocky]

That is the 1st time I have seen Scarbs and he looks just like I imagined him to be.

Peter Windsor is very good. He always remind me of Warwick Davis.

[What's Burning?]

That is the 1st time I have seen Scarbs and he looks just like I imagined him to be.

I think maybe it's subliminal... the logo on the scarbs.com blog does suggest something just like that.

[Jabberwocky]

lol indeed it is

[CookinFlat6]

You might have a point, but McLaren are turning in record profits aren't they? Last I heard, their 2012 financials weren't shabby at all. But what you say holds true, their diversification has led to the downfall of the race team. It's through some miracle they won it in 2008 even, a combination of Lewis and a car that was UNUSUALLY reliable. But that happens very rarely for McLaren.

This year, they have a 2nd rate driver and a new guy thinking he actually has something to learn from mr.2nd rate. If McLaren are thinking Championship they need something completely out of the box, 2009-like and they have never ventured out of the box since I've watched the sport. The 3rd pedal which got banned in the 90s and the F-duct are at the top of my head...but didn't serve too much purpose in the end.

The Mclaren thread seems to have disappeared up its own backside recently, seems no one has visited recently so being the fair chap that I am, I looked a bit more into their 'record' profits

It appears as though the group made a pre tax profit of £19.7 mill. Now I have a vague idea of what a profitable company is vs an unprofitable one, and its not todays profits the smart cookie like Ron looks at, but the next 3 years. A profitable engineering group would not worry much with those profits, however one with an F1 team attached to it would not be completely relaxed.

Assuming the published numbers are the whole story ofcourse and we could never really know that with a private company.

Good luck to Ron, he deserves to keep his fortune and his businesses and not see them smoked by second rate workers

[What's Burning?]

I wouldn't worry, there will be a lot of Mexicans buying McLaren chachkies. I'm sure the spanish language forums have picked up.

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James Allen on McLaren first test

McLaren maybe just shaded Round 1 – this first test – but it’s debatable.

Jenson Button’s lap in the 1m 18s on hard tyres on a dirty track on Day 1 was an eye opener. The McLaren hasn’t done anything eye catching since, but it got all their competitors wondering. At this stage the car looks better on the hard tyre than the soft, but there is a lot of new parts and set up changes to come so that may not be a pattern for the season. If you take a one second delta for the hard to the soft tyre, then this equals the Massa’s time on Day 3 when allowing for the tyre difference, but Button did the time on a dirty track on Day 1, whereas the track was clearly faster when Massa did his time. So it’s close, but the McLaren looks fast.

[racechick]

James Allen's a bit slow with that one, Massa was saying it last week.