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http://www1.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/9094168/? 9
(with video of the press conference)

Michael Schumacher: Leading neurosurgeon warns on "dangerous injury"

Michael Schumacher's condition has been described as "very dangerous" and his injuries may take several days to "reach their peak".

Leading neurosurgeon Christopher Chandler said the haematoma and bruising the seven-time Formula One World Champion suffered during a skiing accident could cause "ferocious swelling".

"An intra-cranial haematoma is a blood clot, which causes swelling and pressure on the brain," said Chandler, who is a consultant with the London Neurosurgery Partnership.

"The scenario may be that he had a blood clot in his brain that required immediate removal, which would explain the surgery.

"By bilateral lesions, I suspect they mean contusions or bruising to the brain. That bruising of the brain, which you can see on a scan, causes ferocious swelling and that is really serious.

"(Cerebral) contusions are often the most significant injury. Once you remove the clot, the swelling carries on and bruising precipitates and propagates that swelling.

"If you have a brain injury with sufficient severity to cause a coma, that indicates a very serious situation. The longer a patient is in a coma, the less likely they are to make a full recovery.

"You can't say that they won't recover, and you can't say they won't be brain-damaged, but an injury such as bilateral bruising, which means on both sides of the brain, is very serious, and can be very dangerous."

The consultant continued: "Brain swelling takes a number of days to reach its peak. The brain has a rigid unyielding box around it - the skull - which allows no room for growth, making swelling very, very dangerous.

"And once that injury occurs it's a vicious circle where a little bit of swelling causes more pressure, which causes more swelling, more pressure, and it starts to accelerate and affect vital parts of the brain.

"When that happens, you are in really deep trouble, but this man received probably the best possible care that you could imagine in the circumstances.

"He had the brain injury and within minutes a team of medics were there and they airlifted him to hospital. Within half an hour he was assessed and being flown to the neurological unit in Grenoble."

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I heard about Schumacher from the Internet because they don't say anything about it on the news here.

But after reading this article, I'm really worried. I never thought it was that serious.

Please keep updating the news here.

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i guess we all have heard or read the update for Michael's health....and i guess we are just numb...i cant take him off my mind!

only thing we can do is hope for the best....

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F1's manufacturer teams have huge advantage in 2014, says Ferrari
By Jonathan Noble Thursday, January 2nd 2014, 14:09 GMT

Formula 1's manufacturer teams will enjoy a huge advantage in 2014 because of the complexities of packaging the new power units, reckons Ferrari technical director James Allison.

As teams continue to work on getting their new cars ready for F1's first pre-season test at Jerez that starts on January 28, Allison is in no doubts that 'works' teams Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull will have the edge over customer outfits.

"One of the massive advantages that this team has is that it has the engine and chassis under one roof," said Allison, who rejoined Ferrari last year after a spell at Lotus.

"That is an advantage in any year. But in one like this one, where you are packaging such a different power unit as has been necessary in a year like this - that advantage I think becomes quite large."

Ferrari's engine chief Luca Marmorini suggests that too much focus has been placed on the competitiveness of the engines alone, and believes success will ultimately depend on how the whole car comes together.

"Probably too much [emphasis] has been given to the power unit," explained Marmorini.

"The power unit is a big change, but also it will be extremely complex to incorporate the power unit in a competitive car.

"For Ferrari, this has been a joint project [between chassis and engine departments].

"With the power unit project, it has been fundamental for reliability.

"Any decision in terms of the engine has been as a result of discussions with the chassis people, because in the end the car has to win, not just the power unit."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112000?

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Transformación del Ferrari F138 en un F1 de 2014 /

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxzYqej8sFQ&feature=youtu.be

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Happy New Year - Five things to look forward to in 2014
The first person that any driver wants to beat is his team mate, and to that end, to say that some of new match-ups are tantalising is an understatement. At Ferrari, returnee Kimi Raikkonen - the Scuderia’s last world champion - will go up against the man who’s yet to win the title in red despite several years of trying, Fernando Alonso.

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http://www.formula1.com/news/features/2014/1/15359.html

it is not really news, but I am not sure where to post it. It's short video of BMW 1.5L turbo engine qualification run in 1986. with some introduction by Sir Jackie Stewart and comments by Murray Walker and James Hunt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JIXPqgwQHk

it is incredible how they ran those cars. you can hear long pauses (by modern standards) between gear shifts and it sounds very nervous comparing to more linear delivery by modern cars with all shift made in milliseconds. Plus all those mechanical and electrical controllers in the car for driver to work with.