Quote Originally Posted by AndyL View Post
I wonder if Renault will try to saddle Red Bull with year-old engines Few would blame them.
I'm not sure they can. Thankfully it seems that this whole year-old spec loophole will be closed from next year and all customers will have to receive (basically) the same spec. As for Manor this year, that was a special dispensation granted with agreement from other teams.

However, Christian Horner did say a while back that it's in their contract that they must be Renault's priority team...

In any case, Red Bull is clearly a team that could do with a year's supply of humble pie to go with whatever engines they get.




And on a completely different note, I just woke up from such an interesting dream about next year's Australian GP and wanted to share cos it was so good. I didn't watch any but somehow saw the qualifying results on the old teletext. Although it was no surprise who was on the front row, Hamilton, but only a little ahead of Rosberg, there was nevertheless a feeling of things definitely being closer with other teams over the season - a real 2012 feel with lots of teams able to have good days (I wish!)

I definitely remember McLaren looking much improved with Button starting 6th or 7th, and Maldonado's Renault was having a very good day up there somewhere. But the real thing that stood out was Romain Grosjean for Haas, qualifying a superb 4th on debut! Though the feeling was that would be an above average result for them, they were definitely going to be right in the midfield mix over the season.

Sadly, I've never had an F1 dream where anything remotely resembles what happens in real life, so...