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Which topic will succeed in monopolising the board? There appears to be a titanic power struggle going in between Pirelli-related and Lewis-Hamilton-related topics. As a sub-plot, each of these themes has its own battle for population supremacy between what I would refer to as the rational and the c...

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Why is running out of fuel at the end of the race ok?

Because running out of fuel before the end of the race would be a bit of a disaster.

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He has never been afraid to speak his mind or express his opinion; he media saw him as quite a whinger as a result. I'll freely admit that I had this opinion also and, observing some of his spills earlier in his career, thought that he couldn't quite handle it at the sharp end. Didn't he show me up ...

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Prancing_Farce: "The FIA dislike black skin"

That pretty much sums up the attitude expressed in the thread title and the demented conspiracy theorists that have pounced upon the opportunity to use it.

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ess-aitch-one-tee... that should help! Actually, that's a rather good pint raised. Whilst Lewis was having an 'eventful' 2011 and Jenson having a very good one, it's logical to assume that Martin Whitmarsh would want to eflect any negative comments on Lewis and instead discuss the positives on Jenso...

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"Brundle for Lotus F1 Team strategist."

I can just imagine the communications on race-day:

Martin: Kimi, what is with the extra stop?
Kimi: I need a s**t...

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That will not change; the ruling states that the car must return to the pits under its own power. As for why the rule is different between the qualifying and race, it's because the qualifying and race scenarios themselves are different. There have been many detailed explanations on this, including f...

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"If they start penalizing teams for not fueling up the car sufficiently then it should not be distinguished between quali and race..." I disagree; I believe there should be that distinction. Qualifying is about one flying lap whereas the race is completed over at least 90 minutes. There are far many...

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When I first read the thread title I immediately wondered whether he found her..? :? Spa 2008 sticks in my mind. Particularly the view of other drivers who said that they agreed that Lewis had not strictly adhered to rescinding his advantage by cutting the chicane but that the punishment was excessi...

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It's worth noting that different cars, different engines, different set-ups (I'd suspect even tyre types, presures and the degree of wear) will determine the rate of fuel-burn durnig a race. Add traffic to that (if you're in traffic you may not be going at full pace), weather conditions (wet = reduc...

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Will there even be free-to-air highlights?

I may have to take up thumb-sucking again.

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You mean:

Englebert

Lewis

Dario

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"Schui got caught by someone doing his own move."

Hoisted by his own petard?

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Blimey... has nobody blamed Lewis yet..?

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Interesting. I recall a recent thread entitled Where Will Lewis Be In A Year's Time, suggesting that he may choose not to extend his contract with McLaren. Somebody did propose that Felipe would make an interesting replacement at McLaren and I, for one, am of the opinion that if such a scenario were...

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I'm a Prost fanboy / I'm a Senna fanboy...

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Sebastian (to Fernando): "Did you just say that Kimi sucks on Mario Kart?"
Kimi: "Shut up guys - my Yoshi has just missed another power-up thanks to you..."

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"... are Pirelli not designing/building the tyre to accommodate a precise performance brief..?" This is something I alluded to in another thread. The aim, as far as I am aware, is to provide two sets of tyres that in an ideal world will leave race strategy evenly split between x number of stops and ...

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Pirelli is attempting to pick a combination that in theory splits the race strategy more-or-less evenly between x stops and x+1 (or x-plus-whatever) stops. How even this is will vary according to the car design, set-up and weather / track conditions but it adds to the excitement to see different str...

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The proposed small-capacity turbo engines remind me of the old Renault 5 turbo which constantly had problems with overheating... apart from that it was a real pocket-rocket! Didn't the active suspension that Williams used in 1991 make its way onto road cars? I recall Citroen touting this with one of...

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It is surprising that this has not made news... perhaps Zedd has stumbled onto an exclusive!!!

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I can well imagine that a certain German racing driver had a few words to say about a certain Indian racing driver that may not have made family listening..! But I am going well off-topic now.

I do wish HRT all the very best; they deserve something from their efforts and commitment.

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I've also fond it to be a rental company in Puerto Rico...

http://www.pepinocars.com/

@ Minchy...

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"... the rent is probably in the 3 oranges pm range..."

... plus one cucumber.

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"...and the crap he got as a result from his tenor at Ferrari."

He had his own personal singer at Ferrari?

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At this stage of the season, and with the European leg to come, it really is too soon to say. That Ferrari should have been nowhere in the first four races but Fernando is just ten points off the leader. Jenson has had two great races and two very poor ones. Lewis would be Mr Consistent if it were n...

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Also worth pointing out that Dovi is getting used to a new bike, having spent the bulk of his MotoGP time on a Honda. Take nothing away from Cal, though, he clung onto Dani very well. Hope he keeps this up through the season, there must be a podium out there waiting for him!

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I'm fully in agreement with one or two posters that state that drivers have always had to manage their race pace one way or another. It's a 90-minute event, not a sprint. Even in the days of the supposed Michael-Schumacher-custom-Bridgestones they did not always drive flat out... that one time in Hu...

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What the stewards have concluded is that Nico decided to commit to defend the inside line prior to Lewis moving across that way as well. From what I see, Lewis also committed to pass on that side and, with the speed difference between cars, would have most likely clipped Nico had he then decided to ...

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"My left, not his left..."

Didn't Sato once get a message to this effect? Left, left... no, the other left...

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He was at one stage... critically, for Kimi, as he came upon Romain in front of him. I presume that they were out of sequence on tyres / stops and, on that basis, am surprised that Romain did not yield at that point.

Proviso - the above is speculation and I may be completely wrong!

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From some of the posts here (and I'm yet to see the race highlights) I'd have suspected they may have been Ray Charles, David Blunkett, Mr Magoo and a trappist monk.

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... is that the original 'Earth' car from Honda?

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"... Alonso actually punched a door off its hinges..."

That door is still doing the after-dinner circuit in and around Woking.

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Kimi... the placid Finn.

Priceless.

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"[Lee Mackenzie] kept looking into the camera and trying to have secret conversations into her Mic..."

Probabaly asking to find a Bahrainian equivalent to Mr Lue (sic?) from last week's China post-race footage...

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Don't you think that, off-camera, neither Jenson nor Lewis say a few choice words when things get royally messed up?

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Perhaps they should place Alan Sugar in charge.

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IamTheWillrus wrote:I could've sworn they made a rule about this after Hamilton's car conked out before the back straight after the race ended in Canada 2010?

Think that was quali, not the race itself.

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"... it has happened in several races..." How does one define 'several?' We have only had four races to date this year. I would say that Aus and China were good, Malaysia less so (cooler track temperature?) and today was a bad day out. There again, based on pit stops Macca nees to find an extra 5 - ...

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