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Ended up with just a reprimand. Seems like a common sense ruling although the whole situation is a little embarrassing for Williams.

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Happy for them but they are not out of the woods yet. I wonder if it makes sense for them to keep the updated 2014 car for the whole season. Or maybe just adapt it to the 2015 Ferrari engine for some 30+ additional bhp but otherwise continue with the current chassis. Here's the rationale: From Autos...

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https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4051/4697604557_c8904fbe6f_z.jpg Nelson Piquet, Brabham, in 1983, champion that year. © Philip Kozloff The eye of the beholder, I suppose. I've always thought this was one of the best-looking cars of the early 80s. Same for me, I love the arrow shaped sidepods, nose an...

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Gutierrez showed some improvement later in the year, but it was too little too late (or maybe not considering his soft landing at Ferrari). The car was pretty bad, but I have no doubt that Hulkenberg or Perez would have finished in the points more than once. I find it fascinating to compare the fort...

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As has been stated many times Dallara is just building the chassis, Haas is responsible for the design. As Steiner states in a recent article that they are going to be hiring the lead designer soon. Haas F1 has already hired around 50 employees and hopes to announce a lead designer soon. Still, Ste...

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They can upgrade the specification of a component for reliability reasons, not an individual component. So this basically means that the 2nd-5th examples of a given component can be slightly different from the initial one (and each other), which is normally disallowed due to the engine freeze. So in...

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Meh. The ones that are clearly brilliant will make it even without backing. There are exceptions, but Bird is not at the top of the list there (Frijns is).

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One thing that completely baffles me: This Autosport article http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117089/ says: In particular, paragraph 2 of Appendix 4 of the F1 Sporting Regulations relating to engine homologation states: "A manufacturer may homologate no more than one specification of powe...

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This makes me a bit sad as it likely rules out a potential IndyCar seat. I guess he probably has a clause that lets him leave if an interesting race seat becomes available though (or maybe there is a way to make both work - not impossible with the ridiculously short IndyCar season) so fingers cross...

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This makes me a bit sad as it likely rules out a potential IndyCar seat. I guess he probably has a clause that lets him leave if an interesting race seat becomes available though (or maybe there is a way to make both work - not impossible with the ridiculously short IndyCar season) so fingers crossed.

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Yep. Rabat and Kallio were still riding 250cc (previous incarnation of Moto2) when Marquez emerged as a 16 year old. He has since won 125cc, Moto2 and two MotoGP world championships breaking several records in the process. Kallio and Rabat will stay in Moto2 until the end of their careers. Any cham...

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This is kind of similar to Moto2 - there are a bunch of career Moto2 (and Moto3) drivers who regularly fight for podiums and wins, but everyone knows they are not really on their way to MotoGP. Take this year for example - Rabat and Kallio were the title protagonists, but everyone knows that Vinales...

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Most of the reasons have been mentioned before (one that really resonates with me is how you'll have the same basic design for 3-4 years - so you don't start from scratch and can likely reuse a large percentage of parts). However I still feel the major difference is that due to the WEC's lower profi...

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One thing that I don't fully understand (only tangentially related to the thread, but I didn't want to start a new one - sorry): How on earth is Mobil1 developing the fuels/lubricants for the engine if (as reported) McLaren basically never gets to touch the engine apart from races and testing sessio...

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So he beat Hill to the title in 95 quite easily. But i think Hill was better in 1996, and the B196 was a bit further behind the Williams that year too. Could Schumacher have done it? I would say possibly. He certainly would of been closer than he was in the Ferrari. He would of had a harder time th...

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to establish himself as clearly the best of the pre-Hamilton generation. ... Really? Not sure what your question is. To be clear by pre-Hamilton generation I mean people who started racing in the early 2000s. So are you suggesting that: - He's already (regarded as) the best of that group? If yes th...

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Really a tough choice right now for McLaren. The optimal would probably be to ask Button to take a pay cut and place Magnussen at Lotus with the money they save, but it's probably too late for that. Things speaking for Magnussen: - He defended himself at least respectably against Button. The points ...

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Actually having two equal tusks would be illegal under this year's regulations. As it is now one if them is the 'real' nose that has to be rigid enough to pass the crash test, in a sense this is the structural part. The other tusk is just an aerodynamic element that happens to look similar to the fi...

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Hi Jasko - good to see two Aussies in your mix for F1 seats - in Will Power and Ryan Briscoe. It's just much harder for drivers from Australasia, Africa or North America to get opportunities to race in open wheel competitions (or apparently get decent sponsorship). F1 is still dominated by European...

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Very interesting question. I don't feel there are any drivers currently who are really championship material, but I feel there are definitely some that could be good enough for a 5+ season career on merit. Here's my assessment (disregarding people who had raced in F1 before): - Top tier (currently P...

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I'd say the area where drivers may have had some input in the past is weight distribution - this is an area that affects the car's balance more than what you can achieve by suspension set-up. However this is an area that's now regulated by the rules, so not too much room for the driver's input here....

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It's a good sign for Ferrari that it's Marco doing all the talking and Luca is keeping quiet. Previously it looked like Stefano was too timid and it was Luca who was speaking out publicly, which I think had a detrimental effect on the team. With such intra-team dynamics everyone is looking first and...

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4th. And he'll be in the top 10 after 5 laps

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Speaking of HRT, worth noting that Hass, like them, will be commissioning a chassis from Dallara to get them started. Seeing that Geoff Willis described the engineering level of the Hispania F110 Cosworth as being not reflective of current F1 practice and disappointing even considering it's stutter...

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So should we really believe that the other two manufacturers haven't thought about this? I find it hard to believe that this is really the silver bullet, especially given that Williams, FI and Macca aren't doing that much better this season. I do feel the whole engine discussion is a bit of a red he...

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There is a fail-safe mechanism where the regular (hydraulic) brakes are supposed to work regardless of the MGU if there is sufficient pressure on the pedal. So I think either the driver screwed up or Marussia screwed up really bad.

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Slightly off-topic but i've considering subscribing to autosport, could anyone who has one tell me a bit about it? is it worth getting the web and physical subscription or does the web pretty much have it all? I've only got the web subscription, so I can't say much for the print version but it has ...

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pokerman wrote:Like fellow Frenchman Jean Todt he ran a world championship winning manufacturer rally team, i wonder if he can be as successful as Todt in F1?

Also haven't both of them won Le Mans with Peugeot?

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I can only imagine this if a manufacturer comes by and buys them for the engine building experience. The only plausible ones are Hyundai and Ford, maybe GM as well, other big players are either in the sport, left recently or have the necessary experience in house, e.g. from building Le Mans engines...

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I think we won't see such dominant performances as e.g. Singapore this year, where his traction advantage was just ridiculous.
So while I think that Seb is the real deal, able to get as much out of the car as anyone, it might be that the new regs will affect him disproportionately.

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I can only imagine this if a manufacturer comes by and buys them for the engine building experience. The only plausible ones are Hyundai and Ford, maybe GM as well, other big players are either in the sport, left recently or have the necessary experience in house, e.g. from building Le Mans engines....

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I didn't realize that for each batch of 3 races the winner of each race advances automatically. The very obvious drawback for me is that after winning say the first race of a block a driver then has 2 races which don't affect his/her championship chances at all (of course there is still prize money,...

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Another similarity: Both teams shifted development to their new car relatively early in the preceding season. Interesting how this will turn out. My gut feeling is that McLaren's suspension might be easier to replicate for other teams than the double diffuser, but I might be completely wrong here. I...

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Janner Rallye is over, but he doesn't seem to care - won the first stage by 14s and most likely the second one as well (drivers are still running but the top guys have finished already)

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I seriously considered creating a thread about Marciello the other day, but instead opted to plonk my thoughts on him in the GP2 etc thread. I said this: So Raffaele Marciello - fresh from winning almost half the races en-route to the F3 Championship - has been absolutely flying in GP2/FR3.5 collec...

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Has anyone been following his career? I first heard of him only a few weeks back, but he seems to be one of the potential big talents: Currently 18 years old Euro F3 champion in 2013, runner up in 2012 with most wins Topped all 3 Formula Renault 3.5 tests this week, despite running with 2 different ...

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I must say I gained a lot of respect for Eric Boullier and the Genii folks over the last few years, they were able to save the team from disintegrating after the departure of Pat Symonds and Bob Bell and were able to make some significant progress. Getting new sponsors is a very good sign even thoug...

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Actually I thought that both his releases were very marginal. It all went well, but if he had any wheelspin he might have easily caused a collision.

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I think van der Garde is the favorite this year. He's in his 4th season and always looked competent, although interestingly he was only able to get wins in his first year. I think Gutierrez will be another consistent frontrunner. I'd love for a newcomer to prove me wrong, but I think this year will ...

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I recommend people with Sky subscriptions to watch it, it's definitely entertaining and you can also get the feeling of the track before F1. However GP2 needs to face a few challenges in the next few years. One problem is that it's ridiculously expensive to compete there, the other is that it's hard...

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