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I just read that Mercedes are 5 kg overweight! They haven't optimized the weight of the car yet apparently. That suggests lots of room for improvement. http://www.foxsports.com/motor/story/f1-2017-australian-gp-preview-mercedes-ferrari-battle-032517 That's interesting. I wonder if it explains the r...

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Cool, we have 12 teams - good luck!

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Six people have signed up (thanks!)
Six more and we'll have a full grid!

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A testing plan that ends with; "Test n+1: Test the front wing with increased angles until it probably fails and breaks off at Vmax so that we can validate our front wing mounting point failure prediction. See appendices in warehouses 1-15 for the associated risk registers for this test." Even Flavi...

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But there's no point in testing engines to destruction. Stress them, yes, a bit towards the end of the testing program to see what shakes, rattles and rolls, or what components wear faster than designed to. I've never designed a test program for racing cars, but I've designed tests for prototype mi...

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Alright, I've signed myself up. Do you suppose we're going to get enough PF1 members for a forum league? :lol: Maybe just you and me but I'll give it a go... http://gpgaffer.com Code for the PF1ers league: 4B3D069 It took me less than 4 minutes to join and pick my team. £50M to spend on 2 drivers, ...

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Between winter testing and the first race last year, we saw Mercedes make a larger jump in performance than Ferrari (IIRC). Again, that just holds true for single lap pace. The long run pace between both teams was not far off the real pace difference of the season's start. Yea, I'm not saying you a...

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I'll be that guy then... Why is everyone automatically assuming Mercedes will be closer or better than Ferrari? If you look at both the short and the long runs Ferrari is clearly on top at the moment. Ferrari really didn't try to set monster times either. Vettel was lifting and intentionally screwi...

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Between winter testing and the first race last year, we saw Mercedes make a larger jump in performance than Ferrari (IIRC). Again, that just holds true for single lap pace. The long run pace between both teams was not far off the real pace difference of the season's start. Yea, I'm not saying you a...

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I think we can safely say that no-one has gone flat out yet. Reasons being; 1. All the cars will change between now and Melbourne, 2. Limited number of engines mean they are all turned down and teams don't want to stress and blow them during testing, 3. No-one wants to show their hand. Anecdotally,...

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I think we can safely say that no-one has gone flat out yet. Reasons being; 1. All the cars will change between now and Melbourne, 2. Limited number of engines mean they are all turned down and teams don't want to stress and blow them during testing, 3. No-one wants to show their hand. Anecdotally, ...

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Hi all So with testing over, it looks like this year will be predictable. Right? Mercedes and Ferrari will start strongly, Red Bull will catch up fast. The mid-field will be bunched together like sardines. Sauber and McLaren (Honda) have a lot of work to do. No-one will be able to pass, so quali wil...

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I would gladly fork out some cash to watch good F1 coverage, but the sane options are non-existing. The only way would be to pay for a satellite dish and receiver box thing and subscribe to the full monty sky package. Just to watch F1 every other weekend... Heck I haven't even plugged in the cable ...

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You could always try a bar with Sky Sports? If it doesn't clash with football then most will be happy to turn it on for you. There's a sports bar near me that always has it on one of its screens if there's a match that it clashes with. Good for European and North/South American races, just not so m...

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It's true, there are a lot of illegal ways to watch F1 during and after the event, but I'd rather not. There is a genuine cost to stage and broadcast f1 and I respect that. I don't necessarily agree with the rampant profiteering of certain individuals, or distributors 'bundling' disparate sports tog...

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All great information, thank you.

I think a day pass or nowtv is the answer for me, for the races not on BBC.

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Hey all I'm returning to the UK this month after many years abroad, and I'm looking for the best way to watch F1 next season. Legally of course. Depending on where I've been in the world, I've seen both BBC and Sky coverage, both are excellent but my preference would be Sky (but I don't even know if...

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This is Fernando's 'master plan' playing out... 1. Lewis, Fernando and Mark (Webber) have been buddying up and discrediting Seb for years. 2. Lewis knew about Fernando leaving Ferrari. 3. Fernando promises to bring trophies to Woking. 4. Lewis said he would drive his Mercedes 'like he stole it' (but...

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We all know Alonso is a highly regarded driver, quite possibly the best on the grid. With his recent comments about being fortunate enough to decide his own future you would imagine virtually any team would make way for the 2 time champ. So with nearly all the seats filled on the grid you have to s...

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I hope he gets a seat at McLaren. Alonso having one less option has nothing to do with that, I promise! :-P Grosjean and Alonso... they've been team-mates before, Grosjean posted the Friends theme tune on Facebook as a clue, must mean both of them at McLaren. More likely to be a reference to this y...

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I don't see McLaren signing FA for a one year deal knowing he is looking to go to Merc. So will they make him sign a 2 or 3 year deal? If he takes a year sabbatical (assuming Merc want him) we will have an another interesting year at Mercedes between their drivers with the added pressure of FA stan...

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Looking at the WCC, the team with fastest car (Mercedes) don't want him, the team with the second fastest car (RBR) don't want him, he won't be driving for the team with the third fastest car (Williams/Merc), he's leaving the team with the fourth fastest car (the beard gives him away) , so he's har...

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If it's an obvious plan from Alonso's point of view, then; 1. Get out of Ferrari because Ferrari isn't going to win anything in the next few years 2. Sign a 1 year deal with McLaren/Honda with an option to stay on if it proves to be a winning package 3. Negotiate a get-out clause from McLaren/Honda ...

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Some interesting points. I was going to start a thread to see what everyone thought of Crofty. Personally I think he's great, the passion and excitement is there, I think he and Brundle compliment each other. I don't think Brundle is giving Crofty rope to hang himself, I think they work well. My top...

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Alonso - 2007 Blackmail. That was probably one of the worst things on the "human level" to come out of all that. I've never supported Alonso, originally because he won the WDC almost by default in 2005 (although hindsight has shown him to be the more talented driver and full deserving) with Kimi br...

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How often do you see Hamilton fans criticising Rosberg? None right now. In fact all praise for the friendly guy with great post race reactions on losing. But Wait till he changes his attitude currently set as "second fiddle". Now with the title prospect on the line , I cant imagine a single driver ...

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Utter respect for Nico on Sunday.

The only thing he didn't think of was to stay within 1s of Lewis and keep his tires fresh until DRS became available 2 laps after the SC came in, but I won't fault him for going for it. Great race, brilliant reaction after getting out the car.

More please!

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Here's a thought - Would Ross Brawn have allowed them race? I bet he wouldn't. Merc have a gigantic advantage and could easily take all the action out of it by employing Ferrari/Schumacher tactics. It's a major credit to them that they chose not to. It's a good question, and sad to say probably not...

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Bahrain was a phenomenal race, no doubt about that, and just at the right moment to silence the moaning about the new look F1. It just goes to show you can have a dominant team in F1 and still have excitement, as long as that dominant team allow their drivers to race! The battle between LH and NR w...

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I'm fairly sure we can expect Merc at the top, but I strongly suspect the others will have gained a bit. perhaps Williams and Ferrari, and almost certainly RBR. I hope Merc have develpoed around the teething probs and we can have two guys racing? If there are others in the mix, that will be cool, b...

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I've been saying all week to people i know IRL that JB is the one to watch. Wasn't happy with the 10-1 that SkyBet were offering though for most of the week so didn't bother. But now he's qualified in 11th his odds are out to 33-1. Thats more like it. I'll have a cheeky fiver on that, thankyou very...

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Ricciardo: He beat two faster McLarens. I'm not so sure the McLarens were faster, I think they were very evenly matched. Daniel vs fastest McLaren in FP and Quali (I know qualy was mixed conditions). FP1: Ric: 1:32.599 But: 1:32.357 FP2: Ric: 1:30.538 But: 1:30.510 FP3: Ric: 1:30.970 But: 1:30.766 ...

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I've read a tweet by Benson that says media staff have to leave the track 15mins before start or risk passes revoked. How does this affect track walks?? By track walks, do you mean the interviews on the grid? If so, then maybe earlier interviews? Yep! Didn't notice any difference. Maybe they were j...

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Ev0lutionz wrote:I've read a tweet by Benson that says media staff have to leave the track 15mins before start or risk passes revoked. How does this affect track walks??

By track walks, do you mean the interviews on the grid? If so, then maybe earlier interviews?

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I decided about an hour ago bed wasn't worth it Mac. Decided to watch Rush instead! Nice choice! I re-watched qualifying, I nearly fell off my seat laughing at Martin Brundle: ...take a bite out the seat you are clenching so hard in these condition! :lol: Anyone on here at the circuit? Can you give...

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I decided about an hour ago bed wasn't worth it Mac. Decided to watch Rush instead! Nice choice! I re-watched qualifying, I nearly fell off my seat laughing at Martin Brundle: ...take a bite out the seat you are clenching so hard in these condition! :lol: Anyone on here at the circuit? Can you give...

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I put a bet on a few days ago. $3.50 on Hamilton to win @ 3.5 $6.50 on Rosberg to win @ 5 Total stake money $10. If Hamilton wins I get $10.50 (my total stake money back) If Rosberg wins I get $32.50 (enough for a celebratory pizza and couple of beers!) Of course now they'll take each other off at t...

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Nigel Mansell - Williams Fw16B Renault - 1994 Australian Grand Prix http://www.grandprix247.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1994williams03.jpg :o The first race I ever went to! Poignant for me because the film in my camera was damaged and ended up with no pictures from it, but I remember it like it ...

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One-lap Wanda! Sorry, didn't mean to hi-jack the thread. Hey, it's normal to get passionate about things - if I were a 4xWDC with a car/engine that's weeks behind in development, I'd probably be throwing a hissy fit. But I'm not, so I'd perform a logical root case analysis to identify the problems, ...

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