The Motorsport Thread 2015

^Yes, I heard  about Grosgean singing with Hass on Fox News (!), if you can believe that!!

Maybe his hints were a kick up the arse for McLaren to get themselves sorted with a deal for next year.

Seems Renault are all but guaranteed to buy out the Lotus team, word is that they're going to step in to the court case with the HMRC at the high court and pay off the £2.7 million owed for June, July and August. It's unlikely they would spend that kind of money if they weren't going to buy the team.

And apparently Ron Dennis wasn't happy with his comments.  Well, get your crap together so you're not fighting for 12th-ish every race.  Those two world champions and the name McLaren deserve much better than that.  Embarrassing.

Some more news on the Brabham team for SteveG here.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/121057

Button signed on officially for 2016!  And it sounds like he'd like to be around for when the major changes to the car take place for 2017, as well. 

A pretty good race overall, a shame that Rosbergs throttle broke early on as I think we could have had a good fight between the two Mercs but lots going on behind and a very dramatic last lap. Hamilton will wrap up the title in Austin if he scores 2 points more than Rosberg and 9 more than Vettel.

Yep, and any other form of motorsport you like.

Raikkonen gets his inevitable penalty, that move on Bottas was just never on, it drops him from 5th to 8th and gives Mercedes the Constructors Championship. Alonso also gets a penalty for cutting turn 16 repeatedly, dropping him to 11th behind Verstappen.

Points go down to 10th so Raikkonen still scores about 4pts for today.

Yeah, the mechanical failures this year do seem to have cost Rosberg more than they have Hamilton but not enough to make much of a difference to the title race.

Yeah, that was cool, though it did have more to do with everyone else falling off the track.

They seem to be fairly confident for Austin though, best bet there would be Alonso though since he'll have an upgraded engine. They can't produce enough parts quick enough for Jenson to get it until Mexico though.