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I believe McLaren are a worse team than they were in 2014, where with the best engine on the grid they came 5th. Being with Honda put them 9th, 6th & 9th, but I don't believe that if they stayed with Merc engines they'd have be doing better than the 5th they got in 2014. Putting the third (maybe bac...

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The issue of costs I think is distorted. Yes the hybrid engines are more complicated than standard ICE's. But the real driver of costs is the rules around the number of engines allowed by a driver over the course of a year. Give drivers 2 engines per weekend and costs will go down, not up because th...

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I don't buy the regulations being Honda's problem here at all. The regulations did not limit testing out new ideas, just how many tokens you could spend. Honda used the least amount of tokens of anyone on their engines the past few years. They simply don't know what to do to make a better engine. Th...

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This is McLaren we're talking about. There is 0% chance they will do anything that isn't boring.

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It always amazes me how many people are only interested in what's happening at the sharp end of the race. For me this was one of the more boring races of the season with not as much action going on down the field.

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I don't quite get this discussion. Either it's too easy to over take on one hand, or it's too difficult on the other. Apparently the only good racing is when two drivers are on the same age and type of tyres and somehow they've ended up the wrong way round on track. Frankly I saw a good race today w...

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My issue is that by design it reduces the amount of cars on track for most of the sessions. With last year's format anyone taking part in a stage of qualifying can be on track until the end meaning anyone can have their place taken and have to go out again to get it back. With the knockout it means ...

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The reliability rules were introduced to attract sponsors to F1. No one wants to sponsor a team who is going to blow up and be out of most of the race receiving little coverage and only negative coverage at that. The result is there are less upsets as everyone finishes who doesn't crash and fast car...

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For me the issue is not the cost it's the lack of development the engine manufacturers are allowed. They can't do it so why would they risk everything on getting it right straight away? Because if it's not perfect from day 1, tough there's nothing you can do. You'll remain uncompetitive forever

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It doesn't matter if they ban wind tunnels. The teams with money will spend it on CFD research and development and will end up with better designs as a result. This isn't making anything cheaper, it's changing what the money gets spent on that's all.

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McLaren are used to winning championships. I often hear this, but it's simply not true. It's been 17 year since they won a WCC and 24 years since the one before that. They had a good 8 year run that started 31 years ago, but that's mostly it. You simply can't say that most the people at McLaren are...

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I see a very bleak future for McLaren. I've been saying this for 3 years now. They are a miserable organization and are lucky enough to find an engine partner that is just as abysmal. Quoted for truth. Next year there will be 18 year olds who have never seen McLaren win a WCC. McLaren are a dull co...

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No team can complain about the limited development opportunities due to the token system when the only ones spending the tokens are Merc who started with the best engine and keep finding things to improve. If Renault want to develop they can change almost the entire engine with the tokens available...

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No team can complain about the limited development opportunities due to the token system when the only ones spending the tokens are Merc who started with the best engine and keep finding things to improve. If Renault want to develop they can change almost the entire engine with the tokens available....

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I don't get all the fuss about Merc dominating. The team that came second last year in the championship had a Renault engine, the team that came in behind Mercedes yesterday had a Ferrari engine - not a Merc engine. The fact is there are a lot of teams using Mercedes engines and they're not trading ...

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huggybear wrote:That's never a good sign when a team is promoting mostly the owners' companies.

*cough* Red Bull *cough* Torro Rosso *cough*

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They've lost me as a supporter. It's hard enough to support a team with their money and history failing to make a car that's midfield at best. But to add on that they're being friends to their drivers for no reason and the fact that they cannot make a decision to save their lives just makes me lose ...

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Now that's the $64k question isn't it. If you put a gun to my head I'd say McLaren, but not with any great confidence. Ultimately he has spent enough time at Ferrari already to judge their potential, and with time ticking on his career he has to roll the dice and make the change. I agree, Alonso ha...

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Covalent wrote:Not impossible, I think Alonso will be going all-out on getting that third WDC before retiring and he's going to make his damn best to land a drive in the best car.

To do this he is moving from the fourth to the fifth best team. Smart.

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I am no longer a McLaren fan. They're a joke. If this is the decision making ability they're not going to do well anytime soon.

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I don't have Sky so I can't compare. I like the commentary from Ben Edwards on the BBC and really like Tony Dodgens joining him in the FP sessions. But I think they need to swap a few people around. I can't stand Suzie Perry, she is clearly out of her depth, can't control the flow of the show and ca...

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I thought there was a rule that customers' engines must be the same as the factory teams? This was brought in to stop customer teams having to run last years engine and therefore having no chance. Has this rule changed with the change of the formula?

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I do't understand Alonso's decision here as I can't see McLaren bouncing back next season, even if Honda have a good engine. McLaren can't make a good chassis. Sitting a miserable 5th in the constructors with the strongest engine on the grid in the back of their cars, it's just poor. They have Ferra...

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Ron just likes anything grey because it is the colour of his soul. Quoted for truth. McLaren just seem to be a very boring company to work for. They have no soul, no emotion. Everything is grey, clean, dull and uninspiring like some kind of distopian future as seen in Equilibrium. I think you'd hav...

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My main hope with this signing is that the Sauber will not look terribly awful as it has in recent years given the colours of Banco do Brasil.

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I, for one, look forward to seeing this new backmarker team get lapped by the Caterhams.

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The single greatest thing they could do would be to make the cars all sound like a Skoda Fabia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6zUGuyRdVM

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So two drivers in the same car, one driver being much faster than the other is proof that it's all about the car

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not missing the point, using an example. Unless you believe the RBR only gained an advantage this race. And speaking of missing the point, perhaps you should have read the rest of my post which would have given greater context. It's only one more line. Oh the irony... I have said nothing about a si...

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except that Webber qualified on the harder compound less than two tenths slower than the Mercs, who were on the softs, and faster than anybody else. And that with the harder compound tyres being generally 1 second slower than the softs over a lap. That RBR is a monster of a car and easily much fast...

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I thought Vettel had had it easy up until last year and wasn't a fan at all. Now I think he has skill and probably is one of the greats and the thing that shows this the most is the current driver standings: 1. S. Vettel 322 2. F. Alonso 207 3. K. Raikkonen 183 4. L. Hamilton 169 5. M. Webber 148 No...

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2 or 3 podiums and no wins is all I expect from Hamilton in a Merc next year. I don't think he'll win a race whilst with Merc.

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What a stupid scoring system. Under that system the winner of the first race of the season has to merely not finish any other race at all any they almost certainly become WDC. The only person that could beat them would be someone who won more races and retired in all instances that they did not win...

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What a stupid scoring system. Under that system the winner of the first race of the season has to merely not finish any other race at all any they almost certainly become WDC. The only person that could beat them would be someone who won more races and retired in all instances that they did not win....

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Hakkinen & Prost
or
Schumacher and Prost

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The clear winner here is Perez. I'm pleased he's moved to McLaren as I think he is good enough for the seat there, even if he does have some big boots to fill. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Perez beats Button next season, but I still think it's more likely Button will edge it. The other big winn...

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Jenson's Understeer wrote: As for Monaco, it is what it is. While it would be nice to come up with a solution that provided at least one solid overtaking spot on the track, that it is so difficult to overtake just makes it all the more special when somebody does.

Do you think the same way about Valencia?

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The answer is obvious. Make the drivers drive on the roof of the tunnel like they are designed to do.

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My vote goes for Leob too. I'm impressed he performed well in an F1 test given the massive speed increases. There's a video on youtube comparing the relative speeds of a road car, a WRC (driven by McRae I think) and an F1 car driven by Coulthard. It's at a track where they set off in turn at interva...

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I've just been looking at Massa's results over the past two years and I'm surprised just how often he finishes a race lower down than where he qualified. Since the start of 2010 he has lost 110 places in 21 races and gained 46 places in 11 races. I'm amazed that Ferrari have put up with that kind of...

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