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"What do you give a person, who already has practically everything"

How about an alternator that works..?

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Nick H: 'Paul, I've just found your Nomex headgear with my stuff. Have you seen my lucky racing underpants, by the way...?'

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xECKSx58 wrote:Fernando Alonso's full name is "Fernando Alonso Díaz"

... is he related to Hollywood actress Cameron?

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What of that chap had not stepped out onto the Hockenheim circuit in 2000? That did have a hand in facilitating Rubens' first win - virtually from the back of the grid.

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Perhaps Lewis needs to find the corrcet balance. Then we could have a thread entitled: 'Wow... just how does Lewis manage to make it not too easy but not too difficult for Maldonado to pass? He's a legend - even better than Goldilocks!'

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As a Jenson fan I am happy to accept that, on the whole, Lewis is a quicker driver. One of the reasons Jenson went to McLaren was to pit himself up against such a benchmark. Most Lewis fans (and I support him also) will most likely accept that Jenson is capable of holding a candle to Lewis and on so...

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Can't see London working. The New Jersey circuit appeals to me simply because it looks good from a racing point of view. Add in the NY skyline and it looks a winner. Would be great to do a London GP as a one-off but, as mentioned above, it just does not seem practically feasible. Watch me get proven...

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I am not stating whether the end result was Maldo's fault or Lewis', but I sure did see Maldo get forced off the track. Going into a corner on the racing line it's surely down to the driver behind to pull out? No, not in this case. Maldonado was along side Lewis and Lewis kept going to the outside....

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Kamui: hit Felipe in a low-speed incident. Kmui at fault but potential consequences not dire. Subsequently retired from race. Therefore penalty applies to next race. Jean-Eric: hit Heikki in a high-speed incident. JE at fault and potential consequences more serious. JE subsequently retired so penalt...

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I found myself speculating on the same during the race. Kimi is quicker, you're both losing time to Fernando by fighting each other, give Kimi the opportunity to take points off Fernando and, possibly, follow him with a shot at nebbing Fernando yourself. Afterwards, it looks as if Fernando had somet...

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DennyDifferent: "I made a comment on the obviously naive opinion that Button probably wasn't thinking about Hamilton's result..." Ah, I now see your point. You're right, I'd guess that Jenson will feel some sens of relief that the gap between himself and his team-mate hasn't opened up even further, ...

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Vergne. Not overly harsh, considering the possible consequences when travelling at near-on 200mph. Kamui. Probably correct; his fault but a relatively low-speed incident so potential consequences no as bad as above. Pastor. Punishment was applied to his position in this race, as he actually finished...

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Agree with several on here. Felipe was driving a pretty good race up until the SC. That harmed his relative position which was then compounded when Kamui hit him after the restart.

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Well he would be happy to be in the points again and going back in the right direction. The fact the OP suggests he was happy Lewis crashed out is just shameless baiting and inciting arguments. He probably wasn't even thinking about Lewis. That's just naive. If Hamilton had collected more points th...

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Let's see... Looks good in practice and quali all the way to the final session, where it goes wrong and he winds up starting in 8th. Poor start and get bumped down into 13th. Strategy plays out up to the SC period, which harms him. Finds himself going backwards from a reasonable position with worn t...

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That Donington overlay looks good. Placing the Olympic stadium over the hairpin reminds me of Canada... That hairpin has pretty much a stadium look, with grandstands all around it and big screens for the spectators to view the rest of the lap.

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I'm going to be excesively nit-picky and mention that Vettel is the current world champion, as opposed to former... ... there again, somebody may well sugget that his 2010 title also makes him a 'former' champion... ... there again, he is yet to relinquish the title, so I guess that 'former' is not ...

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http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2012/Rookie+Rule+change Further verification courtesy of the motogp website. Seems to have divided opinions as well. If it does serve to promote Marquez directly to a factry gp bike I feel a little for the likes of Bautista and (to a lesser degree, as this is his rooki...

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Cricket is... for reasons i really don't understand :S India. 1 billion people, cricket-mad all ... not forgetting that it's such a simple sport to follow! I may be digresing from the subject matter here, but I feel compelled to provide this simple explanation of cricket (plagiarised from an unknow...

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It did seem a little strange to me that once it was obvious that Lewis was closing the gap to both Seb and Fernando at over a second a lap they should seek to cut their (potential) losses. Seeing as the DRS zone is - to me - notoriously easy to pass in, I do not see how either driver felt that they ...

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How would a lack of blown rear account for Jenson's early season form (Australia / China specifically)? If that is the case his side of the garage would be frantically working to minimise its effect. Jenson has readily admitted that he does not know why his pace is so lacking. On the live timing tod...

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Phew... think it was '85 before I really started watching in earnest - so I did get to see the Prost / Piquet / Senna / Mansell era. I'm sure that I have not seen every GP live from then to now but have been a regular follower.

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Nigel Mansell Damon Hill Jenson Button Not that I do not appreciate - and have not appreciated - other drivers! It's also fair to say that the above three could be both incredibly rewarding and incredibly frustrating, in equal measure, to follow. But that's the nature of supporting someone, or somet...

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Back to the topic... Lewis in 2012: I would suggest that his performance in Spain speaks volumes. Qualified at the front by an impressive margin, which accounted for more than he should have gained for a fuel shortage that saw him demoted to the back of the grid. Drove an impressive race on a two-st...

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Do those overhead shots tell the whole story? From what I saw Fernando and Roman made contact which resulted in Roman skewing across, squeezing into Michael and ultimately ending his own race. I would not apportion blame for this. I would agree that he could do with more experience but he can only g...

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... with Charles Pic closing at a rate of knots before - several months later - disappearing off the F1 radar...

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... I feel a migrane coming on...

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Going out on a limb... Webber to make a cracking start and take a pole-to-flag victory

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Not absolutely sure about the influence of EBD in terms of Mark-vs-Seb in 2011 but there was an article written on how Seb was so good at managing the tyres both in quali and race trim. MArk, by hs own admission, took some time to get to grips (no pun intended) with them. As mentioned in this thread...

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Blimey. Quite aside from how close the car was to clearing the catch fence, did you see the wheel that vecame disengaged at this point? Up in the air and straight down into the patch of the oncoming cars; one took it nose-first. Would shudder to think of that coming down directly onto a driver...

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Many of those already mentioned (I'll quote Canada 2011 for wet and Suzuka 2005 for dry) but, as a Nige fan, Silverstone 1987 (chasing down a 30-sec deficit on Nelson Piquet) and Hungary 1989 (opportunist pass on Ayrton Senna after starting 12th) are a couple of my favourites.

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In my opinion, one should make some allowance for the baby's relative lack of experience...

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You do know that he ate a baby..?

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"... Q3 time must also be within 107% of the pole sitter's time"

I can just imagine all ten drivers drawing lots for grid position before ambling around the circuit in pre-arranged times to meet the above criteria... and I do not think of myself as a conspiracist!

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The baby moved in the braking zone: not his fault.

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I can empathise with that. Expected Jenson to at least claw something back in Barcelona on Sunday but it appears that he just lost the set-up on the car after Friday. Very grim. Hopefully he will find it again! Watching him chase down Fernando and Sebastian last year through the twisty circuit of Mo...

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... and make it back to the pits under its own steam

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Somebody mentioned the chicane at Eau Rouge for the 1994 Spa weekend... first 20 seconds of the clip below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWGg64VusrU

... ugh

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"... blame lewis\burn him with fire for every little thing..."

Ha! Just heard that Chelsea have finally won the European Cup, snatching it from the jaws of defeat twice, I believe... think we should also pin that on Lewis

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"... if those four drivers and two teams left just so we didn't have to deal with the extreme views of some of their fans..."

They would only find others to jump on and cry foul.

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