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Time for some F1 Gossip

Ladies and gentlepeople's some gossip for you with a special twist;

Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne admits work on the team's 2015 car has started late, but predicts it will get better as the season goes on. (Autosport)

Sauber driver Marcus Ericsson says the team is "fired up" to fight back in 2015 after failing to score a point last season. (Crash)

Officials are considering rescheduling the Malaysian Grand Prix to avoid downpours in the wake of Jules Bianchi's crash in Japan last season. (Pitpass)

Ex-F1 driver David Coulthard believes development will be difficult for Toro Rosso in 2015 without an experienced driver to guide the team's engineers. (Sky Sports)

Test driver Jean-Eric Vergne has spent his first day on the job at Ferrari and says he cannot wait to work alongside race drivers Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen. (Ferrari.com)

World champion Lewis Hamilton loves his music. And his dog. He decided to post a photo on Twitter capturing the majesty of both, saying music was "therapy" to him.

Anthony Hamilton thinks his son Lewis could wrap up the 2015 world championship by the middle of the season if he avoids the bad luck which plagued him at Mercedes last season. (ESPN) That’s not what he said though.

Britain's Jolyon Palmer, who won the GP2 title in 2014, is eyeing a third-driver role after seeing drivers with bigger budgets secure F1's few vacant seats for next season. (Sky Sports). No shít Sherlock

Lotus driver Romain Grosjean says he is approaching the 2015 season with a revamped driving style to help boost his form. (Autosport)

Qatar has given the green light for ambitious plans to hold a Formula 1 grand prix on a new street circuit in the city of Losail, in either 2016 or 2017. (Autosport)

But their plans could be thwarted by an unofficial veto given to Middle East neighbours Bahrain by F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone over a decade ago. (Daily Telegraph)

F1 track designer Hermann Tilke is confident that his revisions to the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City will prove to be successful when the race is held on 1 November after a gap of 23 years. (Adam Cooper F1)

Williams needs to secure a bigger budget before it can make the next step and become a world championship contender again, says its technical chief Pat Symonds. (Autosport)

Former Toro Rosso driver Jean-Eric Vergne says he would rather be a test driver at Ferrari than with a struggling team at the back of the grid. (Gazzetta Dello Sport - in Italian)

Red Bull design chief Adrian Newey expects the team will still be playing catch up to Mercedes again in 2015. (James Allen on F1)

Former McLaren test driver Gary Paffett has criticised plans for a points-based super licence system for 2016, saying that the present plans have cut off a route into Formula 1 for drivers competing in the German Touring Car (DTM) series. (Reuters)

Red Bull designer Adrian Newey says that he understands why Sebastian Vettel left the team to join Ferrari. "It's a natural curiosity in life to find out how you can perform in different environments," he said. (Sky Sports)

No, Adrian, he left because he was a coward

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posted on 15/1/15

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posted on 15/1/15

Wider tyres would help reinvigorate Formula 1 reckons Pirelli
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117368

posted on 15/1/15

Tyre manufacturer wants wider tyres that use more rubber (kaching)

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