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The Williams FW36 is just one of the many "Ant
Eater" Proboscis nose-jobbies to look out for this Formula 1 season.
(Source: richardsf1.com)
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Least of all, thanks to Richards F1, I
learned a new word in regards to the Funny; Err UGLY looking noses that
dominate the F1 landscape this season. The word is Proboscis, which I'll let
Y'all look it up in Bloody 'Ol Webster's Dictionary if you're so inclined...
And as I seem to scribble each year - the
supposed "Off-season" has gone by in thy proverbial blink 'O an eye,
as your humble No Fenders scribe has
been merrily traipsing about thee warmer climes of the Pacific and Southwest -
managing to miss the majority of all three F1 winter tests this year with
jaunts off to Hawaii and Arizona instead and thus it's even harder to fathom
that three Bloody years has already slipped by since taking in the Australian
Grand Prix in person; Aye Karumba!
Hence, I'm summarily not really sure of what
to believe in regards to the upcoming Formula one season.
If winter testing's results are any
indication of what to expect, then I'll be very happy indeed as I simply do NOT
wish to see "TWINKIEBOY," aka Seb' Vettel win his fifth consecutive
world championship this season - as Red Bull has struggled mightily to get its
Renault powerplant to cooperate inside of Adrian Newey's inherently
shrink-wrapped RB10 chassises bodywork!
Thus with all of the troubles Renault powered
teams (Caterham, Lotus, Red Bull and Toro Rosso) have had to date while
Mercedes Benz has played opposite fiddle, leading the majority of winter
testing whilst Ferrari (with customer teams Marussia and Sauber) seems to be
running in the middle, you'd have to give the nod to the Merc' runners at the
moment; yet there's that nagging redundancy of why they call I-T the Winter
Olympics, so don't be too surprised if either of la Scuderia's Gran Primo
Piiloto's Fredrico Suave (Fernando Alonso) or thy "Iceman" (Kimi
Raikkonen) or even Red Bull's Seb' Vettel winning Down Under in Melbourne this
coming weekend. As I'd guess that the betting man would pick one of the two red
cars? (Ferrari)
Then again one shouldn't overlook thy young
"Louise 'JAGUAR" (Hamilton) or his stable mate "Brittany"
(Nico Rosberg) in the works Mercedes GP cars while Sergio Perez has been
enjoying seeing his name upon the top of the testing timesheet's recently in
Bahrain ahead of his more established teammate thy "Incredible 'Hulkster,"
(Nico Hulkenberg) while the verdict's still out upon McLaren's latest
challenger; the MP4-29, albeit Bloody 'Ol 'JENSE (Button) and his relatively
unknown teammate 'MAGS Jr. (Kevin Magnussen) have shown to have speed in their
new racecar.
Another encouraging challenger wearing the
three pointed star for the first time ever this season is Williams, as Team
'Willy seeks to improve upon its ghastly ninth place Constructor's finishing
position last year as this is one of the teams I'm most interested in this
year, as Felipe Massa joins Valtteri
Bottas in the attempt to return Sir Frank to the
sharp end of the grid, as the Merc' runners have run double the mileage of the
Ferrari's and Renault's; but we'll see in Melbourne who's who, eh?
While there's three rookie Gran Primo
Piloto's on the grid this year, and arguably - on paper, you'd most likely rank
them in the following order: Kevin Magnussen; Denmark replaces Sergio Perez at
McLaren this year. Virtual unknown 'Rooskie Daniil Kvyat (Russia)
has landed Scuderia Toro Rosso's vacated seat upon Daniel Ricciardo's
move to Red Bull and, Sweden's Marcus Ericsson (and his chequebook) has found
his way into one of the two Caterham seats. But as Formula 1 always does, don't
count on this to necessarily be their final pecking order...
ah, but what about the Bloody rule changes
Y'all say? As I'll let some other clever scribe do the heavy lifting and simply
point Yuhs in that direction, albeit the cars are radically different due to
the change in engine capacity and heavier reliance upon energy recovery devices
as Formula 1 attempts to join the "Green Bandwagon," which I prefer
to call GREENWASHING! A term I
pilfered from Pamela, Up North Eh!
Yet throwing mud upon water, the FIA since has made
more rules revisions outlined here;
And although I've already posted this link
below previously, nevertheless it's a pretty good insight to the 'Mega engine
formulae change this season...
So who'll win Down Under this weekend? As I
guess the odds-on favourite would be Lewis Hamilton, although I'd prefer his
team-mate Nico Rosberg to win the race, or even better yet would be seeing
Felipe Massa on top of the Bloody podium! With his junior team-mate Valtteri Bottas scoring
his first podium and giving Sir Frank an improbable 1-2 finish, while I'd like
to see Jules Bianchi score his and
Marussia's maiden Grand Prix points Sunday.
ah, I guess we'll all know the outcome
shortly, but as good 'Ol Bob Varsha liked to remind us: "First before you
can finish, you must Qualify!" Of which we'll see how well the FIA's
addition of an extra set of Pirelli rubber benefits us, the television viewers
during 'Q3 Final Qualifying, as its been far too long since hearing the voices
of Messer's Diffey, Hobbs, Matchett and Buxton!