1. Yes, but needs a good qualifying to be able to chase Vettel who will no doubtbly on pole.

2. If it was policied on a incident by incident basis, then it could work.

3. The teams need to learn how to adjust to the problems, it's a little bit cowardly to go crying to Pirelli to change it so Red Bull can stay in thr lead.

4. Lack of proper money, lack of high profile staff and no REAL talented drivers.

5. McLaren and Mercedes to improve with Lotus and Ferrari hounding Red Bull  

TEAMS: Lotus, Force India, Scuderia Toro Rosso, Caterham

DRIVERS: Raikkonen, Di Resta, Ricciardo, Pic

FASTEST PRACTICE LAP: Raikkonen

POLE POSITION: Vettel

PODIUM: Alonso, Vettel, Raikkonen

FASTEST RACE LAP: Vettel

BEST CONSTRUCTOR: Lotus

WORST CONSTRUCTOR: Marrusia

FIRST RETIREMENT: Van Der Garde

Lotus have confirmed that James Allison has left the team with Nick Chester appointed their new Technical Director.

Allison, who has served in the post since 2009, has been strongly linked with a host of teams, including McLaren, Williams and Ferrari.

"James Allison leaves Lotus F1, Kimi won't be pleased," tweeted Sky Sports F1's Martin Brundle on Wednesday morning, referring to the team's star driver.

Kimi Raikkonen has yet to sign a contract for the 2014 season and with Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz having recently mentioned the Finn as a target for his team, the suggestion is that Raikkonen's future at Enstone might be swayed by Allison's departure.

Allison's future was first called into question at the start of the year. However, speaking to Sky Sports F1's Ted Kravitz at the launch of Lotus's E21, he stated his commitment to the cause.

"I have a pretty long contract with this team. I take contracts very seriously and I intend to honour that in every aspect," Allison said back in January.

"It is true that there is talk and chat and happily people do pay me some attention. But I have a contract with this team and that's that."

At the time, the rumour was that McLaren were favourites to land Allison in place of their own technical boss Paddy Lowe, who was being lined up to replace Ross Brawn as Team Principal at Mercedes.

McLaren then announced in February that Lowe would leave the team, with Tim Goss subsequently installed as Technical Director at Woking.

Ferrari are another candidate to secure Allison's services. Having started his career at Benetton, who later morphed into the current Lotus outfit, he spent five years at Maranello between 2000 and 2005.

Allison then returned to Enstone, where he was promoted to Technical Director in 2009.

Source: Sky Sports News 

Paul di Resta can become a Formula 1 world champion given the right car, according to ex-F1 driver Allan McNish.

Scotland's Di Resta produced one of the best drives of his career to finish fourth in his Force India in Bahrain, just missing out on a maiden podium."Paul was driving like the old Jackie Stewart," said McNish. "It was the 'looking as if you're driving slow but actually driving very fast' approach.

"If someone puts him in the right car, he can fight for the world title."

 Speaking to BBC Sport, McNish added: "That opportunity of getting in the right car, to be able to do it, is probably going to be the hard part to achieve.

"But it's performances like in Bahrain that will put his name in the frame for some of the seats that might be coming up at the end of the season."

Di Resta spent much of the Bahrain Grand Prix in the top three, even leading the race at one point. However, he was overtaken by the Lotus of Romain Grosjean, who was on fresher tyres, with five laps to go.

The Scot ended up two seconds adrift at the finish to end up fourth, equalling his previous best performance from Singapore last year.He is now eighth in thedrivers' standings with 20 points, ahead of the likes of Mercedes' Nico Rosberg and McLaren's Jenson Button, as well as being 14 clear of Force India team-mate Adrian Sutil.

Di Resta, who beat Sebastian Vettel to win the 2006 Formula 3 Euroseries, was widely tipped to sign for a big team at the end of last season, but a move failed to materialise.

Despite the knockback, the 27-year-old threw himself into a new gruelling training regimeover the winter and is this season displaying a more relaxed and confident persona both on and off the track.

"I think he has developed and grown up," added McNish, who will be the BBC Radio 5 live analyst for the Spanish Grand Prix.

"He had a difficult winter because he had no team-mate and was the one the team looked to for the lead on development.

"He's still young and he's still got a lot of years ahead of him.

"That result in Bahrain will give him a lot of confidence and belief in what he can do inside the car. I would say a podium is on the cards at some point of the year. I don't think that's unrealistic."

Source: BBC Sport 

Don't get me wrong, new tracks can be interesting, but with so many new ones introduced since 2006, it's becoming a little bit ridiculous because we are eventually gonna lose important tracks like Spa, Monza and the German GP if these new tracks keep coming, some of these new tracks are actually terrible, singapore is precession, Hungary just needs to go, China is hit and miss, Korea is falling apart, there is 4 right there. 

Also, I'm sure you'd all agree Bernie should stop being so picky about these tracks because they may or may not have the right facilities for his rich cronies. 

2 circuits i'd love too see on the Calendar are Brno in the Czech Republic and the Losail track in Qatar, very good tracks with corners that will heavily promote overtaking. 

Ferrari have confirmed Fernando Alonso's DRS failure in Bahrain was caused by the 'breakage of a mechanical component within the system,' and insist the Spaniard could have challenged Sebastian Vettel for victory had he not suffered the problem.

The double World Champion was forced to make two early pitstops after his rear wing flap failed to close after being deployed during the race, forcing Alonso to complete the Grand Prix without the overtaking aid.

It is the first time Ferrari have suffered such a failure since DRS was introduced in 2011 and the team are not unduly worried about the incident happening again.

"The failure is not something that causes concern for the long term, however, paying great attention to reliability must always remain at the highest level," a statement from the Scuderia read.

"It has often been the case that it takes only a small problem to prevent the car's full potential from being exploited. The disappointment at what happened is even greater when one looks at the usual analysis of performance over the race weekend, which shows that Alonso could definitely have been fighting with Sebastian Vettel for the win."

Alongside Alonso's problems, the sister car of Felipe Massa suffered two tyre failures during the race and Team Principal Stefano Domenicali admits it was a trying weekend.

"It's hard to recall a race where so many things went wrong," Domenicali said.

"The DRS failure prevented Fernando, who yet again produced a great performance, from fighting Vettel for the win. Then for Felipe, there were the two tyre-related problems that pushed him out of the points and prevented from getting the top-five finish that was within his grasp. We had the potential to get these results, but we were unable to do so, partly because of external influences."

Ferrari now trail Red Bull by 32 points in the Constructor's Championship and the 47-year-old says the team will work hard to get back to the front.

"We must continue to develop the car and increase our understanding of the tyres, which is more crucial than ever this year," he added.

"In these first four races of the season, we have not managed, for various reasons, to bring home the points that were within our grasp. That's why the gap to the top in both classifications seems quite large, but we must not be discouraged by this, quite the contrary, because we have seen so often, both in our favour and against, how things can change in a hurry.

"We believe in our ability to be in the fight for the titles right to the end and this time, we have been in that fight since the start, which has not been the case for a while. At the same time, we must be aware that in order to achieve our objectives, we have to be perfect in every area."

Source: Sky Sports News 

Mark Webber on Thursday refused to specifically deny reports he is set to quit formula one and spearhead Porsche's Le Mans prototype project next year.

"At the moment there's all sorts of rumours going around," the Australian is quoted by Austria's Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper.

Indeed, in the wake of the 'Multi-21' affair and his nightmare Chinese grand prix a week ago, some conspiracy theorists were suggesting Red Bull were trying sabotage Mark's car.

"There's also a lot of nonsense being peddled," Webber said.

The 36-year-old did not specifically address the Porsche rumours, except to say "I still have a lot to offer".

Salzburger Nachrichten reports that Webber is scheduled to have a "private conversation" with Red Bull magnate Dietrich Mateschitz on Monday.

Source: Motorsport.Com