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A new season beckons and a new start (hopefully)

2016 Race Calendar
March 20 - Australia (Albert Park)
April 3 - Bahrain (Bahrain International Circuit)
April 17 - China (Shanghai International Circuit)
May 1 - Russia (Sochi Olympic Park Circuit)
May 15 - Spain (Circuit de Catalunya)
May 29 - Monaco (Circuit de Monaco)
June 12 - Canada (Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve)
June 19 - Azerbaijan (Baku)
July 3 - Austria (Spielberg Red Bull Ring)
July 10 - Britain (Silverstone)
July 24 - Hungary (Hungaroring)
July 31 - Germany (Hockenheimring)
August 28 - Belgium (Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps)
September 4 - Italy (Autodromo di Monza)
September 18 - Singapore (Marina Bay Street Circuit)
October 2 - Malaysia (Sepang International Circuit)
October 9 - Japan (Suzuka)
October 23 - United States (Circuit of The Americas)
October 30 - Mexico (Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez)
November 13 - Brazil (Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace)
November 27 - Abu Dhabi (Yas Marina)

Teams and Drivers


2016 Championship Standings


POSITION DRIVER TEAM POINTS
1 Nico Rosberg Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team 313
2 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team 280
3 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing 212
4 Kimi Raikkonen Scuderia Ferrari 170
5 Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing / Scuderia Toro Rosso 165
6 Sebastian Vettel Scuderia Ferrari 165
7 Valtteri Bottas Williams Martini Racing 81
8 Sergio Perez Sahara Force India 80
9 Nico Hulkenberg Sahara Force India 54
10 Fernando Alonso McLaren-Honda 43
11 Felipe Massa Williams Martini Racing 42
12 Carlos Sainz Scuderia Toro Rosso 30
13 Romain Grosjean Haas F1 Team 28
14 Daniil Kvyat Scuderia Toro Rosso / Red Bull Racing 25
15 Jenson Button McLaren-Honda 19
16 Kevin Magnussen Renault Sport F1 7
17 Stoffel Vandoorne McLaren-Honda 1
18 Pascal Wehrlein Manor 1
19 Jolyon Palmer Renault Sport F1 1

Points are awarded as follows: 1st place - 25 points; 2nd -18; 3rd - 15; 4th -12; 5th - 10; 6th - 8; 7th - 6; 8th - 4; 9th - 2; 10th - 1. If drivers are tied on points, positions are decided on results countback. Wins are compared, and the driver with most wins is classified ahead. If wins are equal, second places are looked at, and so on.

I'm looking forward to the cars being unveiled and the start of testing. It will be interesting to see how much progress Honda and Renault have managed to make over the winter and it's nice to have a proper Renault works team again. I'm expecting Manor and Haas to be somewhere around Sauber at the back, maybe even stealing a point or two.

If Rosberg stays on form from the end of last season and Ferrari produce another decent car to go with their engine gains we could have a pretty decent 3-way battle for the WDC.

Calling it now, Vettel will win the championship at the last race ahead of hamilton.

Best part of the season is between now and qualifying at the first race.

All those dreams that get crushed in Australia, although if the Mercs end up far and away in testing then its all over already.

I'll wave to you all from Melbourne

I'm actually optimistic about this season, there's plenty of reasons to be positive with Ferrari more competitive, Rosbergs resurgence at the end of last season, Haas joining etc. Plus good seasons usually follow gooseberry fool ones.

With only a month to go shouldn't the cars have been unveiled already?

Renault is the only one i have seen so far but yeah there should be more teams showing there cars for this year. Years ago it was normal for teams to have already unveiled there new cars by now. But could be down to the testing ban

Mclaren fires up 2016 engine for the first time wow engine we will see the actual car next Sunday
http://www.grandprixtimes.com/news/id/11264

Ferrari have done the same
http://www.crash.net/f1/news/226603/1/f ... -time.html

a bit or a rarity this clip is

New Red Bull livery.

Kyvat's face says it all.

Looks like the 1995 sauber:

Did Horner let Geri Halliwell design that?!

Whenever has a team with an out-there livery ever gone on to improve on its performance from the previous year?

that design mongs big time awful design

Is it matte?

No its Christian Horner.

Captain Kinopio wrote:Is it matte?

yeah it is a matte effect which does not look at all good on a F1 car

good one Ad7



looks ok from this angle front does good imo

Errkal wrote:Got a link?

I can't seem to find it. There should really be a rule where if a thread rolls over the last post is a link to the new one!

Here