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I'm looking forward to this season. Here are the things I'll be looking for. 1. Can Yamaha regain ground on Honda? Honda clearly had the bike to beat last season and it seemed that Pedrosa was really the only person who should have challenged Stoner but he didn't quite seem up to it and an injury to...

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The Ford Team must be kicking themselves. All they had to do was finish. Even when Loeb gifts them a chance to get back into the championship, they still drop the ball. Just give him his championship trophy right now and get it over with.

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Part of Merc's problem is that they really liked usng V8s. V8 engines are a major part of their business but turbo charged 6s really are not. You might see some other manufacturers enter into the sport now. Maybe Volkswagen/Porsche or possibly some of the Japanese manufacturers might take an interes...

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It's a bit premature for this thread, isn't it? For all you know, Hamilton might walk the championship this year.

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Well, Sutil is a 29 year old driver who really hasn't established himself as anything more than a solid performer. As such, no competitive team will have even a remote interest in bringing him on. Not with all the negative publicity. Competitive teams want either promising young talents or establish...

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Alonso nearly won 2010 with the 3rd best car on the grid. In fact, the only reason he didn't win was because Ferrari botched pit stop strategy in Abu Dhabi and Fernando ended up behind Petrov. Why not say the worst car on the grid while you're at it? My left brain tells me to usually ignore such cl...

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I'm not even a Raikkonen fan but to me, he is clearly the most mentally tough. He doesn't seem too phased by big moments in my opinion. I think it's sort of a by product of his personality. Kimi doesn't seem to concerned with other people or their opinions. I think that helps him in those types of s...

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Well I think the current wet weather tires can displace 60 liters per second each. I'm not sure but I think that in the past, the tires were perhaps a bit more efficient.

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Yeah, the place is crawling with them nowadays. You can't go into a thread without expecting to see a seven page war between a reasonable human being and a troll. We need an exterminator!

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Most F1 drivers DO NOT have private jets. Maybe 2 or 3 of them do but that's about it. Do you have any idea how much a private jet costs to purchase and maintain?

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What annoys me is that some people this forum seem to think that "looking after your tyres" is a new thing. Looking after you tyres was ALWAYS part of formula1. At least for anyone that has been watching for more than 10 years. Its the early/mid/ late 2000's and the Ferarri/MS era that brought in i...

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WTkFox wrote:If you were keen eyed to spot that, then you would of spotted a bikini girl during the race when it was pouring down
(and I did rewind to check if I was imagining it, but damn, she was a good looker)

When and where?

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This thread provides a striking insight into the mind of the internet hater. The OP actually believes that everyone should objectively watch that clip and feel some strong sense of dislike towards the 22 year old being interviewed. To me, his comments just sound like any other young sportsman who co...

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I think Sutil missed his chance. It's one thing to be a Hamilton or an Alonso where you're seen as a future star from day one. To be a guy like Sutil who has to work his way from backmarker to midfield and finally to the front, you just don't have the same margin for error. You can't afford to get ...

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I think Sutil missed his chance. It's one thing to be a Hamilton or an Alonso where you're seen as a future star from day one. To be a guy like Sutil who has to work his way from backmarker to midfield and finally to the front, you just don't have the same margin for error. You can't afford to get i...

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Vettel fans are in for some abuse this year. Take your medicine boys. You were very happy to dish it out a year ago. I think Sebastian will do just fine but things will be far more difficult than they have been these last two years. He'll have some ups and downs now that he wont have the car to sit ...

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"With the tires Hamilton isn't coping, so they suck! Get rid of them and get Hamilton back on top! If he isn't doing that well its because of the tires!" He's coping just fine. He's ahead of his title rivals in the points and has finished on the podium twice. I also believe he will figure out how t...

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"With the tires Hamilton isn't coping, so they suck! Get rid of them and get Hamilton back on top! If he isn't doing that well its because of the tires!" He's coping just fine. He's ahead of his title rivals in the points and has finished on the podium twice. I also believe he will figure out how t...

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It's the Pirelli tyres. Pirreli say the tyres are promoting closer racing but they are actually destroying it. In the past, if you lost ground, be it due to an incident on track, poor start, poor pitstop, etc you could at least try and fight back through the field. Remember the days when the pit wa...

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60s-Jim Clark
70s-Gilles Villeneuve
80s-Ayrton Senna
90s-Michael Schumacher
00s-Lewis Hamilton

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I think these new tires have muted the whole rain-master thing.

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On Pirelli tyres we will never see a drive from Lewis like China 2010 again. It's simply impossible. now the inters are weak too, we won#t see a lot racing in wet conditions, too. Don't talk like that. He'll sort it out. The wins are coming. Don't let the knee-jerk reactions of forumers persuade yo...

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You also have to remember Sebastian Vettel never dominated the supporting classes like say Lewis Hamilton did. A 2nd in Formula 3 was his best result. Skill in lower catagories doesn't necessarily translate to Formula 1. Arguably the current Formula 1 is more about tyre feel and maintenance over ag...

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On Pirelli tyres we will never see a drive from Lewis like China 2010 again. It's simply impossible. now the inters are weak too, we won#t see a lot racing in wet conditions, too. Don't talk like that. He'll sort it out. The wins are coming. Don't let the knee-jerk reactions of forumers persuade yo...

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In general I like Stallone but his portrayal of sports in his films always leaves something to be desired. "Driven" was absurd. There was a scene in that movie where the two main characters race Indy Cars through the streets of a major city. It was totally ridiculous. Even "Rocky" is totally unreali...

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I never get why Ferrari youth always stick to some you drivers such as Bianchi... And neevr went for more talented ones like Hulkenberg.. Ferrari are notoriously poor at developing young drivers. They have a poor eye for talent and a poor young driver program. Red Bull and McLaren put them to shame...

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You left out that he finished runner up in GP2 in 2010

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I want to make this post to make something very clear. LEWIS DID NOT OVER-SHOOT THE BOX. Not by any significant margin at least. Perhaps he was 3 inches over the line but there are several stops at every single race where drivers stop a couple of inches over the line. WATCH THE RACE FOOTAGE! The jac...

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We can nitpick and suggest that for F1 to take a stand here would be hypocritical because there are social and political problems in most of the countries on the calendar but I think that would be missing the point. No country is perfect but shouldn't we, as human beings, draw the line somewhere? Ca...

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One thing that a lot of people seem to be missing is that there is a definite drop-off in the race pace of the MP4-27 in comparison to its qualifying pace. In qualy trim it seems to clearly be the fastest but in the races, the Red Bulls and even the Renault seem to be a match for it. What's more, th...

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I think he should avoid going to Ferrari mid-season but if they offer him the seat for next year, he would be a fool not to take it. Do you have any idea how valuable that seat is? There are countless drivers in motor racing who would kill for a drive with Ferrari. They are the largest, most well f...

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I think he'd be a fool to leave. Where would he go? McLaren is the only team that is comparable in terms of consistently producing competitive machinery and I don't think that he'll ever go back there (not to mention the fact that they have two elite drivers already and do not run a #1/#2 system). H...

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I'm excited about the Senna-Maldonado match-up. It will be interesting to see who comes out on top there. I had once written off Senna as just living on his uncle's name but it seems that he has some of his precious DNA too.

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He lost a lot of time at the first pitstop after the restart. The rear jack-man couldn't get the jack under the car, then Lewis had to be held in his box until Massa had gone past. He was also 1 or 2 laps too late switching to the slicks at the end - he would have jumped Perez if he had pitted at t...

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There were errors on both Hamilton's pitstops by the team, that is a fact. Erm, the commentator quite clearly said on the first one, that Lewis overshot his stop... While it doesn't take a lot of time for team to come around to make a pit-stop, but the time lost was enough to put him in between tra...

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I think he should avoid going to Ferrari mid-season but if they offer him the seat for next year, he would be a fool not to take it. Do you have any idea how valuable that seat is? There are countless drivers in motor racing who would kill for a drive with Ferrari. They are the largest, most well fu...

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There were errors on both Hamilton's pitstops by the team, that is a fact. Erm, the commentator quite clearly said on the first one, that Lewis overshot his stop... While it doesn't take a lot of time for team to come around to make a pit-stop, but the time lost was enough to put him in between tra...

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I think Lewis wanted to stay, and JB thought it would be better to change early. simple as that. I dont also think the pitstops are to blame for lewis' showing today, JB was faster than him although he was usually stuck behind slower cars ( i was paying close attention to live timing, whenever jens...

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Last year when maclaren screwed up hamiltons pit stops most people were willing to give them a pass. Finally people are starting to see how bad their strategy is race after race. This isn't something that has just started this year its been going on for awhile. I thought sam micheals was brought in...

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Last year when maclaren screwed up hamiltons pit stops most people were willing to give them a pass. Finally people are starting to see how bad their strategy is race after race. This isn't something that has just started this year its been going on for awhile. I thought sam micheals was brought in...

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