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They've lost ground relative to the field this season. That much is clear. It seems that the banning of the EBD has hurt them more than anyone else. No one could seem to figure out how they managed to have such a huge edge in qualifying even at times when other teams were quite close to them in the ...

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Dude, plenty of teams got through Q1 on primes. The Maccas, Mercs and Red Bulls all used primes in that session. Grosjean was on options though but he probably didn't have to be.

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Ferrari are not going to win titles this season. The best they can hope for is to improve the car and perhaps be able to win a race before the season is over like they did back in 2009. The bigger issue is that they had the second best car in 2010, the third best car last year and they are now proba...

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The prime of Massa's career was 2007-2009. Before that he was erratic and after that he has been passive and slow.

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Aduka wrote:
leaw wrote:hahaha! thats so true!
little by little he's turning into Nick Heidfeld ... not that Nick was a bad driver, just that there always was something(s) missing about him.
For god sakes he's 4th on the grid...

I bet you wont be able to walk at 43....

He's talking about Nico, not Michael

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I don't think Hamilton will set as many poles as Vettel did last season. That Red Bull was a qualifying genius in 2010 and 2011. The car won 32 pole positions over the 37 races in those two years. If you recall, they always seemed to pull out an extra half of a second in Q3 and no one ever figured ...

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They have a long list of people to fire and Massa isn't at the top of it.

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I don't think Hamilton will set as many poles as Vettel did last season. That Red Bull was a qualifying genius in 2010 and 2011. The car won 32 pole positions over the 37 races in those two years. If you recall, they always seemed to pull out an extra half of a second in Q3 and no one ever figured o...

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They have to do like Vijay Mallya did in force india, fire Mike Gascoyne and hire some real engineers Well their struggles certainly illuminate the difficulty in bringing a back-marker team up to a respectable midfield position. I think the teams who have successfully done this have generally done ...

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The only thing I can say for certain is that McLaren look like they're the fastest. Red Bull had a KERS failure on Webber's car. It's hard to tell how far up the grid he could have been without that issue. Vettel said he messed up his Q3 lap so he could have done a better time too. Between Mercedes ...

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Hakk, just be happy that Kimi looks like he'll have a car that's capable of getting to the podium this year. I bet you didn't expect that. Eventually Kimi will get his act together and I believe that he can earn some good results. As for the idea that Alonso would leave Ferrari for Lotus; rubbish. ...

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Even so lets say he's lost 2-3 tenths, often Rosberg was beating him by more and Schumacher never had a team mate challenge him like Rosberg. You also have to take into account how fit Schumacher is, he's still one of the fittest guys in the field so the age excuse does get tiring just to down play...

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Lets not go overboard as do remember it's about the whole season not one race. Also remember that Rosberg has beaten the certain 7X WDC 2 seasons in a row comfortably and that Michael is very good at getting the team working for him more so over his team mate. Ok, I just want to address this whole ...

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Hakk, just be happy that Kimi looks like he'll have a car that's capable of getting to the podium this year. I bet you didn't expect that. Eventually Kimi will get his act together and I believe that he can earn some good results. As for the idea that Alonso would leave Ferrari for Lotus; rubbish. T...

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Good. No more special treatment for these guys. THis is their third year of existence and they still can't show up to the first race with their act together.

I think small teams can be the life-blood of F1 but not when they are as clueless and poorly managed as these guys.

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Rosberg does seem to struggle when the pressure of a real opportunity comes into play. I remember a couple of races where he had an opportunity to possibly win and he choked. Remember China last year? Now he finds himslef in with a shot at pole and he chokes again. He's got to get better at this if...

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Rosberg does seem to struggle when the pressure of a real opportunity comes into play. I remember a couple of races where he had an opportunity to possibly win and he choked. Remember China last year? Now he finds himslef in with a shot at pole and he chokes again. He's got to get better at this if ...

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Hey Flav another former Briatore No 2 shows you up, are you going to man up and admit you know SFA about the sport? just who is the 'paracarro' now? What do you mean? Firstly it was over 2 years ago and no matter how good he was that time it's reasonable to assume that he improved his driving. Seco...

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steoc4 wrote:Worrying sign - easy front row lock out for McLaren, something Red Bull pretty much never achieved while everyone was bemoaning how dominant they were last year.

The Red Bulls locked out the front row several times last year. Not sure what you're talking about.

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She's a beauty!

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This is it guys! His best shot at a title since 2008. No more chasing the Bulls all year.

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Very interesting Webber out qualifying Vettel. Was the EBD even more important for Vettel than we presumed? Could be a one off, but interesting still. I think there was a bout 1 hundredth of a second between them so don't jump to any conclusions. Mostly it seems like the RB6 and RB7 were highly dep...

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Can we all wake up and pay some attention to Grosjean now?

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McLaren 1-2!

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Hamilton 1:24.9!

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How about Roman Grosjean. He's really impressed me this weekend so far.

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Aduka wrote:
sandman1347 wrote:The Ferrari is so shockingly bad.
DOnt tell me you are one of those who think they were sanbagging

No I knew they weren't going to be at the front but I didn't expect them to be so near to the back.

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The Ferrari is so shockingly bad.

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Mercs are amazing!

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MaccaBT wrote:He don't look happy!

I'd imagine that he is deeply frustrated with a number of things right now.

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Wow. Fernando out.

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HRT are just a joke. :thumbup: They shouldn't even be allowed on the grid ever again. Bernie needs to go find 2 more teams so we can kick HRT out and have a 13th team. They should just kick them out and have 11 teams. The traffic on track has gotten a bit out of hand. I actually prefer a 10 team fi...

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Banana Man wrote:Raikkonen lets his old team mate off the hook big time.

Good Point. Kimi should have made the cut. It's not the end of the world though. He's been out for two years. It will take a couple of races for him to get up to speed. This way we get to see him come through the field. Should be fun.

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The Ferrari is shocking!!!

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I'm very impressed with Alonso. He did a competitive lap in that car.

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rife_hypocricy wrote:anyone think the fia will uphold the 107% rule?

I hope so. HRT are in their third year now. It's time they got their act together. No more special treatment.

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Looks like house cleaning time for Luca as if that worked last time around. Baldisseri, Dyer, Costa, Kimi...bookies should give odds for who the scapegoats will be this time. My money's on Domenicalli, Tombazis & the cleaning lady at Maranello Domenicalli will definitely be the guy on the chopping ...

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Looks like house cleaning time for Luca

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raider-hall wrote:best car out on track as of now.

Premature man. Premature.

I hope you're right but wait until qualy. Red Bull were right there in the time sheets and they never used the softer tire. Merc is also right there. At least we know the McLaren is competitive.

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My guess is that Fernando will be the only familiar face at Ferrari by the time they're back in Australia in 2013.

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