So another season has finished with Vettel and Redbull winning both titles...again.

What will next year bring?? A US track? Will Rubens, Kubica and or Kimi be back?

I for one am hoping for a much closer season between the top 4 teams at least and hopefully lots more excitment.

So, I will add info as I find it until the new season starts.


2012 FIA Formula One World Championship calendar:

03/18/2012 Australia
03/25/2012 Malaysia
04/15/2012 China
04/22/2012 Bahrain
05/13/2012 Spain
05/27/2012 Monaco
06/10/2012 Canada
06/24/2012 Europe
07/08/2012 Great Britain
07/22/2012 Germany
07/29/2012 Hungary
09/02/2012 Belgium
09/09/2012 Italy
09/23/2012 Singapore
10/07/2012 Japan
10/14/2012 Korea
10/28/2012 India - Buddh Circuit, New Delhi
11/04/2012 Abu Dhabi
11/18/2012 United States - Austin, TX
11/25/2012 Brazil

Gezzz.. their tires haven't even cooled off yet...!!!

I am excited too about next year's championship. I would like to see Ferrari coming up with hugely improved machine and hope Alonso takes on the world.

Agreed Kev, and I will make at least I race next year. Monza is a given, but where else? I quite fancy a night race so Abu Dhabi or Singapore, with a wee extension to relax after the excitement, but what about Austin... new track, and Bernie will pull the stops out, but what's the area like?

If it is a go'er, I wll go to the US GP. I'm not sure about the area but will look into it.

First bit of news for next year.

Martin Brundall has now confirmed his move to Sky.

http://www.planetf1.com/news/3213/73...rms-Sky-Switch

Not much of a surprise. What will DC do? I'd love to see him move as well.

Here are the full details of the BBC coverage for next year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/form...e/15893254.stm

Gotta put the news on the correct thread though..

I'll be setting up a Fantasy F1 league for next season (at the start this time) if anyone is interested.

yup, count me in when you get it going

That really sucks. I am sure the rest of the team will follow suit. Maybe i need to look into getting sky.

The Kimster is back:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/96573

DC's comments to Jake Humphrey right at the end seemed to imply that they would be sticking with the beeb.

Will suck not being able to watch all the races

Fintastic news!! And all the talk about going to Williams,(thanks your God that didn't happen) and he signs a 2 year deal with Renault.

Jake won't be going anywhere. Not sure about DC or EJ though. Would be a great snatch from SKY to get them as well although they need to use their own people as well.

Porschy, time to get a bit of SKY maybe?

No balcony

I heard sky will be having a dedicated F1 channel, anyone any ideas what the costs will be, can you get just 1 channel on sky? or can you get a 'ahem' after market sky card?

I guess it is either Sky or watching it with commercial breaks on RTL. Will there be commercial breaks on Sky too?

What about Telesport's coverage - anyone know about that?

I am somewhat reluctant to get Sky -and I guess you'd need to subscribe to a sports package too?

"The F1 channel will also come at no extra charge to all Sky TV customers who take both Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 or the HD pack of channels"
There won't be any adverts during the race.

Seems that they are staying

http://www.planetf1.com/driver/3213/...-with-the-Beeb

2012 Entry List

RED BULL RACING (AUT)
Red Bull Racing Renault
1. Sebastian Vettel
2. Mark Webber

VODAFONE MCLAREN MERCEDES (GBR)
McLaren Mercedes
3. Jenson Button (was number 4 2011)
4. Lewis Hamilton

SCUDERIA FERRARI (ITA)
Ferrari
5. Fernando Alonso
6. Felipe Massa

MERCEDES GP PETRONAS F1 TEAM (DEU)
Mercedes
7. Michael Schumacher
8. Nico Rosberg

LOTUS F1 TEAM (GBR)
Lotus Renault
9. Kimi Raikkonen
10. Romain Grosjean

SAHARA FORCE INDIA F1 TEAM (IND)
Force India Mercedes
11. Nico Hulkenberg
12. Paul Di Resta

SAUBER F1 TEAM (CHE)
Sauber Ferrari
14. Kamui Kobayashi
15. Sergio Perez Mendoza

SCUDERIA TORO ROSSO (ITA)
STR Ferrari
16. Daniel Ricciardo
17. Jean-Eric Vergne

AT&T WILLIAMS (GBR)
Williams Renault
18.Pastor Maldonado
19. TBA

TEAM CATERHAM (MAL)
Caterham Renault
20. Heikki Kovalainen
21. Jarno Trulli

HRT F1 TEAM (ESP)
TBA
22. Pedro De la Rosa
23. TBA

MARUSSIA F1 TEAM (RUS)
Marussia Cosworth
24. Timo Glock
25. Charles Pic

Meanwhile, HRT have already announced Pedro de la Rosa as half of their line-up, however, the FIA has yet to receive official confirmation from the team.