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Post by truenorth on May 22, 2018 9:06:32 GMT -8
Márquez will do a complete test with a Red Bull Formula 1 Oriol Puigdemont According to Motorsport.com, Marc Márquez will take a test drive at the wheel of a Formula 1 car in Spielberg in two weeks. Le Mans (France) .- The initiative, promoted by Red Bull, will also allow the premiere of a single-seater to Dani Pedrosa and Tony Cairoli, nine times motocross world champion , all of them sponsored by the energy drinks brand. This is the way that the Austrian company has to thank the effort and the good results achieved lately by the three pilots. The tests, scheduled for the next days June 5 and 6, just after the Italian Grand Prix, will be made with a racing car that will incorporate a V8 engine that was used before the entry into the F1 World of hybrid technology (2014).
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Post by mikey on May 25, 2018 15:58:16 GMT -8
Sounds like they are expecting to lose someone come the end of the season!
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Post by gturner38 on May 27, 2018 13:09:40 GMT -8
Sounds like they are expecting to lose someone come the end of the season! Not really. A test with a motorcycle racer is meaningless because even if Marquez proved to be a natural race car driver, he still wouldn't be able to qualify for a superlicence.
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Post by Sabrina81 on May 27, 2018 13:12:14 GMT -8
I thought this was a step towards a Red Bull Honda.
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Post by r60man on May 30, 2018 7:44:08 GMT -8
Sounds like they are expecting to lose someone come the end of the season! Not really. A test with a motorcycle racer is meaningless because even if Marquez proved to be a natural race car driver, he still wouldn't be able to qualify for a superlicence. Not so fast there: "Under exceptional circumstances Appendix L also allows the FIA to award a Super Licence to a driver who does not meet the normal criteria if a vote reveals unanimous agreement by the members, and provided that the driver has completed 300 kilometres of testing at racing speeds in a current car."
Considering that Marquez and Pedarosa are both hugely popular Spaniards and have a lot of experience at the same tracks it wouldn't be that much of a stretch, and there is a provision for it. The key is racing speeds. But of course if they are testing in a Williams or McLaren those speeds are not to terribly fast these days.
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Post by boiler on May 30, 2018 8:47:23 GMT -8
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Post by gturner38 on May 30, 2018 16:08:00 GMT -8
Not really. A test with a motorcycle racer is meaningless because even if Marquez proved to be a natural race car driver, he still wouldn't be able to qualify for a superlicence. Not so fast there: "Under exceptional circumstances Appendix L also allows the FIA to award a Super Licence to a driver who does not meet the normal criteria if a vote reveals unanimous agreement by the members, and provided that the driver has completed 300 kilometres of testing at racing speeds in a current car."
Considering that Marquez and Pedarosa are both hugely popular Spaniards and have a lot of experience at the same tracks it wouldn't be that much of a stretch, and there is a provision for it. The key is racing speeds. But of course if they are testing in a Williams or McLaren those speeds are not to terribly fast these days.
There is no such language in the current version of ISC Appendix L. That language was used in earlier versions prior to the points allotment when the requirements technically were that a driver had to finish top 4 in F3000, top 6 in Indycar, etc. In fact, they were fairly lenient in giving the licence to anyone who did 300 km and had a Grade A licence. www.fia.com/file/66613/download/12831?token=-BWJjhY3
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Post by r60man on May 31, 2018 4:11:57 GMT -8
Huh, wikipedia is wrong! Actually I got that from another site, but obviously not up to date. Learn your lesson kids, as Abe Lincoln once said "You can't trust everything on the internet!"
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