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Alonso 2012 = Vettel 2015?

I was not aware Vettel is still fighting for the championship for the last race.

Vettel is definitely driving better than 2014, where he got trashed by Ricciardo. In 2015 he is confirming Raikkonen is past his prime time.

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Today Vettel drove like the guy who got his rear end handed to him by Ricciardo last year.

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Kimi finished on the highest position Ferrari planned for him to finish.

no. 2 strategy for a #2 finish

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Me wonder what would be worse nightmare for Alonso. That Kimi, whom he defeated comfortably in Ferrari, wins the WDC in Ferrari. Or that Vettel, who denied him two titles in the very last race and to whom he left his contractual seat in Ferrari, wins his 5th WDC in Ferrari. The worst would be Alons...

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I personally think that Alonso is done winning championships or races. I think that he will retire in 2 years time and remain in the shadows of Lewis and Vettel. Too bad, but that is what will most likely happen. This is the kind of mentality that elevates Alonso reputation into god-mode. People ac...

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I think he will give Mclaren the same number of years he gave Ferrari.

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Mercedes ate Vettel's dummy Vettel remained low key during the practices. Even said he was having "difficulties". Raikkonen was putting clearly faster times than him. It comes qualifying and Vettel nails a perfect lap and Mercedes don't know what hit them. This strategy is not new, Vettel used to do...

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Is Raikkonen being the victim of a no.2 situation? Second time in a row he get misterious "errors" from the team after being the faster driver over the weekend. Yes, of course. Why do you think that Ferrari kept him? He is expected to be a more cooperative Webber, that's all. ;-) Last year's compla...

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Lets wait until the season ends to make a judgement. If by the last race, Mclaren still holds the back end then it may have been better to stay at Ferrari. Keep in mind that had Alonso stayed at Ferrari, the technical heads would have stayed as well. Once Fernando left, Ferrari cleaned house. So I t...

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Is Raikkonen being the victim of a no.2 situation?

Second time in a row he get misterious "errors" from the team after being the faster driver over the weekend.

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mas wrote:Button: Nothing wrong with McLaren steering

http://www.espn.co.uk/mclaren/motorspor ... 95553.html

Is Button using the same steering rack as Alonso?

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It appears that Ferrari finally performs once al the scape goats are burned and there is nobody left to blame.

I have a feeling that is Alonso was there, the car would be a dog.

There is not much to conclude from the first test other that Ferrari appears to have woken up.

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Fiki wrote:
What surprised me most at the time, was that none of the liars were charged with bringing the sport into disrepute. Because the lies went out live. With young children watching

Are you talking about minute 2:15, nose holding liar move?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd9-Hlg8KWc

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There is an very interesting and insightful article at the Beeb by Andrew Benson which examines the prospects of Alonso's new partnership with McLaren.(http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/30291496) Under the section TIME THE GREAT HEALER: "The issue at the heart of the problems within McLaren all...

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There is an very interesting and insightful article at the Beeb by Andrew Benson which examines the prospects of Alonso's new partnership with McLaren.(http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/30291496) Under the section TIME THE GREAT HEALER: "The issue at the heart of the problems within McLaren all...

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Raikkonen has one foot out of the door.

If he gets crushed again, money talks and drives

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They know what its coming for Ferrari next year.

Better start the political moves to protect each other jobs.

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He knows more then anyone commenting here how Alonso has effected the team. Lets not get on our high horse and pretend we are in the Ferrari team to know what it's like on the inside. If he says that then it's only whats been happening on the inside, none of our thoughts based on fantasy and fictio...

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Mattiacci will get what he deserves next season Props to Alonso to hit back to Mattiacci, he's really a nobody, hasnt really done anything valuable for the scuderia, and he is probably going to be replaced pretty soon. What's all this bitterness with Mattiacci now, what did he do so wrong against A...

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Mattiacci will get what he deserves next season

If Honda makes a good engine, Alonso will be merciless

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Vettel fans are naive if they think Ferrari will start winning championships because he joined. Alonso knows why he gave up on Ferrari. Ferrari has serious engineering problems. People forget their wind tunnel has been "out of calibration" for 6 years. Of course, this year it is all the engine's fau...

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Did the previous Ferrari's Kimi drove suit him, when he was beaten by Massa? You mean F2008? Not really. It was ok at first but then Ferrari changed the car to a direction that suits Massa better. I think Kimi has said that F2007 was one of the best handling cars that he has driven . F60 was a dog ...

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Between media rumours and Alonso statements, I am inclined to go with the latter.

However, if one insists on following the rumors you could also read into the reports that Alonso is now playing "hard-ball" with Ferrari. It is very hard to do that with Ferrari withouth legally binding backup.

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It seems Red Bull's Vettel-Ferrari announcement royaly screwed Sebastian and Ferrari. If Alonso decided to say his 2-year contract, either Raikkonen is gone or 50 million off Sebastian's next year car budget Alonso is currently being in the negotiations with McLaren. I believe that he had already b...

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It seems Red Bull's Vettel-Ferrari announcement royaly screwed Sebastian and Ferrari.

If Alonso decided to say his 2-year contract, either Raikkonen is gone or 50 million off Sebastian's next year car budget

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I don't believe it is the "hunger" that makes a difference for Vettel this year. Or Räikkönen for that matter. It is the car that has them guessing. Ricciardo's skill set just happens to be perfect for it, Vettel's doesn't. Will Kyvat's prove to be what is needed once the evolution of the current f...

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Alonso has pounded Raikkonen flat this season.

Hopefully next year's Ferrari is the fastest car of the grid

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I was laughing all the race looking at how much faster Dan was, considering Vettel since the very first minute of FP1 focused solely on finding perfect race set-up, while Danny, as everyone one, had to find a compromise between quali and race pace. Yet it was like Vettel was driving Ferrari already...

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Vettel practicing for next year performance and result levels

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Where there is smoke there is fire.

It has now been proven, Ferrari leaks facts to the Italian media

Sounds like the engine will be fixed for next year, but the wind tunnel problems are back

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If they have 3 car teams, only 2 will count in the WCC (to make it fair with the 2 car teams) and so that is why it makes sense that the 3rd car would be a rookie or a younger driver still earning his stripes as the team could place less interest in it and the driver would be okay with that. The ot...

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If they have 3 car teams, only 2 will count in the WCC (to make it fair with the 2 car teams) and so that is why it makes sense that the 3rd car would be a rookie or a younger driver still earning his stripes as the team could place less interest in it and the driver would be okay with that. The ot...

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pubpokerplayer wrote:Hamilton is contracted for next season.

So is Alonso at Ferrari

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Let's piece together the clues: * It will shock people when it's revealed, but will make us facepalm at how obvious it was all along. Conclusion: - He will stay at Ferrari, and - Join Mclaren Honda, and - Take a sabbatical, and - Replace Hamilton at Mercedes, and - Buy and drive for his own team al...

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Like Alonso says, everyone is waiting for him especially as he's only verbally left Ferrari via conversation with LdM and not officially yet :) http://www.speedweek.com/formel1/news/65647/Fernando-Alonso-50-Millionen-Euro-fuer-Ferrari-Abgang.html It could be a case of Alonso still having a contract...

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As opposed to just blaming Ferrari i suppose? If Alonso can blame Ferrari, so can I! :-P On a serious note, I'm glad Massa made a full medical recovery, but we have no way of measuring how much speed he lost. Doing OK isn't really saying much, is it? He may have tried to fight his corner, but he kn...

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Then why didn't he deliver in 2008? Because Ferrari were unable to set their car up so that his driving style worked from the word go. Räikkönen proved that the car, and he himself, were fast enough with a record-equalling number of fastest laps. But the fact that he had to wait x number of laps be...

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Thanks for the development driver input Alonso... You are correct. The poor wind tunnel correlation and weak engine is due to Alonso's input. Raikkonen and Vettel will design a good engine and improve Ferrari's wind tunnel next year. Next year anything short of dominating will be due to current dri...

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This must be a modern day thing that cars must be tailor made to suit drivers, merely providing a driver with the fastest car in itself is not good enough Downforce; it changed everything! And "funny" tyres don't help the design teams either. But your remark leads me to consider it the other way ro...

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Laura23 wrote:SANDBAGGING

Dreaming is free

There has not been one pre-season fundamental design flaw rumor on Ferrari that did not materialized true since 2011.

The engine was the scape goat this year, but the new wind tunnel was never corfirmed to fix the woes the old had

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