Red Bull will be challenged in 2012

Hi all, thanks for your many and varied questions about the 2011 season. I've answered a number of them as well as giving my thoughts about how the season panned out and what I think will happen in 2012.

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Murray

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/murraywalker/2012/01/red_bull_will_be_challenged_in.html

Patrick Depailler Pedro Diniz Duke Dinsmore Frank Dochnal Jose Dolhem

Sport Utility Vette

This is based on something I did about 30 years ago with an MPC '78 Corvette and an MPC Blazer chassis! This one's gonna be a neater, cleaner job!  If you ever kept asking yourself "What should I do with this 4x4 model with the hopelessly trashed body?" this is an option! 
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Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/1007671.aspx

Franco Comotti George Connor George Constantine John Cordts David Coulthard

Alonso the new favourite


Fernando Alonso is the new favourite for the title © Getty Images
Fernando Alonso is the new favourite to win the Formula One drivers’ title, said David Coulthard in his column for The Telegraph.
“He is the man with the momentum and, on the same basis that I backed Mark Webber to win the title before Korea, is now my favourite to claim the world title in Abu Dhabi on Nov 14. “When the cars are so evenly-matched you have to back the man in possession. Especially when that man is a two-time world champion and arguably the finest driver of his generation.”
The Mirror’s Byron Young drew comparisons between Alonso and seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher as the Spaniard bids to become the sport’s youngest ever triple world champion.
“Like Schumacher, Alonso accepts no opposition within his team. Ultimately he fell out with McLaren over their refusal in 2007 to bring Lewis Hamilton to heel. “He returned to Renault on condition he was No.1, only to be at the centre of the Singapore cheat scandal - engineered to hand him victory. “The Spaniard has always denied involvement but at the German GP in July he was brazen enough to radio Ferrari to rein in team-mate Felipe Massa so he could start the winning streak that has taken him to the brink of history.”

Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/10/alonso_the_new_favourite_1.php

Luca Badoer Giancarlo Baghetti Julian Bailey Mauro Baldi Bobby Ball

1970 Boss 302 complete

Finished up this morning, and I'm very happy with the way it turned out.  My only issue with the build was trying to glue the rear view mirror to the windshield, and I wish there was more detail to the inner door panels like the Mach 1 kit. Otherwise I was extremely happy with the kit.  Enjoy.[View:http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/themes/sca/utility/Photobucket:550:0]

 

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Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/1007730.aspx

Fernando Alonso Giovanna Amati George Amick Red Amick Chris Amon

Five ways to improve F1


Emerson Fittipaldi in his heyday © Sutton Images
In an interview in the Times, former world champion Emerson Fittipaldi’s outlined his five-point plan to enhance Formula One. Cut costs “They spend a fortune in wind-tunnel testing alone. Reduce costs and the slowest teams would catch up and make it more even.” Limit downforce “They need to reduce enormously the downforce in the cars, the only way to bring back overtaking. We need more mechanical grip so that you have longer braking areas, can set up the car coming out of a corner, get in the slipstream and then overtake.” Close the pitlane “When the safety car goes out they should close the pitlane. Now it’s just a lottery.” Lift ban on team orders “It is a very stupid rule. It’s why they are called teams, it’s why they have two cars. If a driver is leading in the championship, everything has to go in his favour. What is wrong with that? It’s so easy for teams to camouflage their orders anyway. All they need to do is tell one guy on the radio he has a problem with his brakes. They can bend the rules very easily. In the old days they would even swap cars, so why do we have this ban now?” Retain traditional grands prix “These places are the soul of racing. The Americas are under-represented. We have Canada back, but there is no USA, no Argentina, no Mexico. We need to stay in the heartlands.”

Source: http://blogs.espnf1.com/paperroundf1/archives/2010/11/five_ways_to_improve_f1.php

Yannick Dalmas Derek Daly Christian Danner Jorge Daponte Anthony Davidson