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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the calculations seem off. You start off with a value of how many kWhr it takes to light the track. This is a measure of Energy. Not a measure of power. So you shouldn't be multiplying this by the length of time it is on for. Upon further research I realialize I am not ...

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Nice to see the PF1 forum missing the point as ever. Night race that far east = Primetime viewing in the west = more advertising £££ for F1. It isn't about multi-billion $ F1 trying to save energy, it is completely unrelated to F1 trying to appeal to manufacturers who are trying to sell cars to peo...

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Nice to see the PF1 forum missing the point as ever. Night race that far east = Primetime viewing in the west = more advertising £££ for F1. It isn't about multi-billion $ F1 trying to save energy, it is completely unrelated to F1 trying to appeal to manufacturers who are trying to sell cars to peop...

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Am I right in thinking that as well as there now being 8 forward gears on an F1 car, the teams also have to set their gear ratios for the season and can't change them depending on tracks? Are we likely to see wildly divergent choices if this is the case? Possibly one of the lesser teams gearing them...

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Yep, the advantage of being the works team means you get first dibs on the engines coming off the production lines, you might get engines ~5bhp stronger than your supplied teams, which is the sum total of FA in reality. I know in MotoGP they tend to be a few races behind in terms of the electronics ...

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Some people are just blind. Don't forget, Brundle is the one still making £millions out of F1, he's the one who has the most to gain from disagreeing. If you think watching Vettel opening a flap at the back of the car to get past Alonso is better than watching Schumi pass hill in the wet through Eau...

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They ditched it so that they were on the same power as Red Bull, simple as. Hindsight dictates that perhaps that wasn't the best idea, but that's what hindsight does. Toro Rosso would've been working with Ferrari to give feedback on their engines as well. Which driver has come second to Red Bull's ...

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I thought STR were stuck using Ferrari power because RBR had signed to use them years ago and wanted to switch to Renault power instead, meaning the only way they could get out of the contract was to shift it to STR? As the teams aren't really given much access to the engine, I'd have thought the mo...

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Obviously its still early days, but what will the FIA do if RBR can run ERS for one quali lap to get within 107%, then have to switch it off in the race, making them far, far slower than 107%, which is considered to be 'dangerously' slow?

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There have been times in the recent past when regs changes have somewhat shaken up the driver pecking order. You'd also have to say (as controversial as some views on this can get) that RBR had managed to reach a perfect car to suit Vettel and his driving style through those regs. I remember when tr...

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With the trying, or less than ideal conditions and teams realistically trying to learn all the intricacies of all the new systems rather than push to find the true all-out pace, it's safe to say no one knows which team, car, or driver has the best chance at anything. Only when Q1 gets underway Down...

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Is it worth their while to hacksaw the body work and at least get installation laps etc sorted in Jerez? I guess that whilst data would be rather compromised by the aero effect they may at least be able to get some basic setup work done and understand their engine somewhat better.

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Not the first time FIA bans something on safety grounds. Deal with it. this would have been fairly easy to avoid ... just put in a sentence that the crash structure has to decrease the speed of the car in a continous way over its overall length and the deal is done... the way they did it was demand...

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ohhhh boy... happy new regulations... the FIA put too spongy regulations up and now is not happy with what they got: FIA not happy with safety of nose designs. 2 teams might be considered too dangerours: AMuS exclusive (in German): http://ams.to/gE Quick translation of the most interesting parts: T...

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SteveC84, I'm sure a lot of us are following the Autosport & F1F feeds... Good for you! We don't need a copy and paste of the entire autosport feed. If people want to follow it they can just head over there. Autosport Day 3 Live Feed All well and good if I had copied and pasted the whole thing but ...

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Two things 1) Cost, why would anyone want to spend millions? 2) Cost, all the enthusiasts who enlivened F1 will never join F1. Remember engine makes like Hart, Judd? F1 used to have people who were small in operation but big in skill and enthusiaim, even the Mercedes engine gets it's root froms Ilm...

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Quick nick was overlooked by macca in favour of raikkonen which he bitched about ad nauseum at the time. Kimi was the right choice and has proven his class down the years. Hulk hasn't missed his chance just yet, there'll be a seat at macca sooner or later, both Ferrari drivers are in their 30's, and...

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Rodriguez, yes. More recently, Jean Alesi? Or more recently still, how about Heinz-Harald Frenzten? And going back to the Sixties, how about Dan Gurney? Alesi and Frentzen did drive top cars though...... Same goes for Salo with his Ferrari drive no? It's extremely rare that a true top talent misses...

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Pretty much what Brundle said during qualifying, "Look! Formula 1 drivers, actually DRIVING Formula 1 cars! They're having to modulate the throttle, I hope its like this next year, in the dry!" That's what I want to see. The current engines are so lacking in torque that they can pretty much just na...

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If this weekends race was being run in Melbourne rarer than brazil, what kind of difference in lap time would we be likely to see? Obviously there would be many variables, weather, heat, track surface, but in an all else being equal world, how much have teams knocked off their lap time over the cour...

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Are you guys sure engines won't be a key factor from 2014 onwards? I think its going to have a much bigger effect on performance than we've seen in recent years. We saw the incredible BMW engine of the early-mid '00s fail to win a championship and a hideously underpowered Renault engine (although I'...

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The FIA are fairy cakes of getting into another Group B rally situation in an era when both Governments and the public wouldn't stand for deaths occurring. It is also nigh on impossible to attract manufacturers to the sport if they are in danger of a PR disaster. Then on top of that you have the way...

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I can't help but think all that design talent Merc have stockpiled, plus them having spent the last half of the season focussed solely on developing next years package will lead to Hamilton being given the machinery to compete.

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How has rooting for a new winner?

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I'm beginning to wonder if F1 has some kind of ban amongst its accredited media from highlighting Renault's KERS issues too much. We have 4 engine suppliers in the sport, Cosworth are making up the numbers and are nowhere near the pace, Merc look as if they want out, Ferrari don't like the new engin...

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Its a reality in the real world I'm afraid. May not leave us with the best grid but there have been a few discussions on here recently covering it pretty well. If you are referring to the lesser drivers at the bottom of the grid, for instance the Karthikeyans of this world, then you may want to look...

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Pastor is properly quick, has the potential to develop into one of the fasted on the grid if he can just cut out his red-mist moments. I think if you look at team-mate battles in the past you'll see a long history of OK drivers being hammered by drivers who go on to get a top seat. Look at quick Ni...

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Pastor is properly quick, has the potential to develop into one of the fasted on the grid if he can just cut out his red-mist moments. I think if you look at team-mate battles in the past you'll see a long history of OK drivers being hammered by drivers who go on to get a top seat. Look at quick Nic...

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Nobody seems to think perhaps Schumacher is close to being as quick as he was before but in a car that is not going to get him near the front? I'm not saying this is gospel or anything, just its a possibility that no one seems to be willing to entertain. How many people have been able to live with S...

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Agree that he's weak willed. If he was so appalled by being asked to crash to allow Fernando to win then he shouldn't have done it. That he then throws sour grapes around in an attempt to get back at the team paints him in an even poorer light. There have been worse drivers in better seats in F1 si...

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Agree that he's weak willed. If he was so appalled by being asked to crash to allow Fernando to win then he shouldn't have done it. That he then throws sour grapes around in an attempt to get back at the team paints him in an even poorer light. There have been worse drivers in better seats in F1 sin...

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I nearly got run over by Kimi at the beginning of last years Rally GB, it started in my home town, think he mistook me for a ditch

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Santander also paid for Alonso's seat at McLaren lest we forget. Quite surprised that some people are naive enough to believe that teams like Ferrari and McLaren aren't going to let sponsorship form a part in their decision. McLaren are at a crossroads right now in their identity as a company and in...

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Had fantastic talent its agreed but I seem to remember he had a tendency to blow up engines in an era when reliability had become a major warfront. Don't think that was simply down to bad luck either, I think he drove the car that little bit too hard at times causing the issues. We'll never get to s...

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With no disrespect to Webber, I think Alonso and Hamilton are faster than him on one lap. So how can anyone say Red Bull wasn't the fastest car in last 3 years, when Webber in 2010 had 5 poles to Alonso's 2 and Hamilton's 1, while in 2011 Webber had 3 to Hamilton's 1 and 0 from Alonso? I don't thin...

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And Mark? Sadly (he really deserves at least one championship), I don't see it happen. Looking at what Vettel needs to do to win, and knowing Mark does not have a history of race-after-race only top performances, I'm afraid he'll fall back soon. Lewis kind of has the same problem as Mark in that re...

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I personally don't see where the worry is. I think its the usual case when we get a few years into some fairly stable aero rules, no engine development and obviously they've reached a point where they've closed off the big innovation loopholes. We have a very close field where the slightest mistakes...

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look at the cars in late 80's-senna's mclaren, they were completely brutal compared to now , and senna qualifying at monaco with a gear stick at the side - you could also say how would senna get on in 2012 cars , and pretty well i'd have thought-he'd love the tech side of it now Senna publicly stat...

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