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I'm sorry but this strikes me as odd. DISCLAIMER: - I am not medically trained - I am not aware of the FIA's proceedures I have had concussion before, I've even been unlucky enough to have a bruise between my brain and skull. At no point did I have to go through any tests (or even recomended I have ...

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Walk away from from F1 and concentrate on making there fizzy liquid headache smell less like warm vomit.

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OK, you don't need to 'erth the car to the ground for you to become part of the existing circuit. No Mention of the throttle was mention when people talk about the data they've seen Massa was also down changing If all this is just a 'normal' accident and the car just got away from him in a gust........

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Not really in the early to mid nineties , cars could follow just as close AND get proper tows on the Straights.... Why? Large section aero if you look at eh an FW12 or14 that front wing is far less prone to aero stall in turbulent air than the 64 element, quadruple cascade abominations we have curre...

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Look at the A-sexually. Imagine a guy you've never really heard of managed 1 point from 18 race in GP3 then has dropped down the ladder since, turned up at the door of Caterham with 35k, no super licence - imagine exactly how hard would he be laughed at?? she has 35k and no super licence. who is goi...

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doing a wee bit a wiki analysis and yes i know this isn't representative due to the messiness of GP2 races Taking the raw average of gross time/laps for GP2 and F1 then dividing the F1 winners duration by the GP2 average lap to get a project GP2 lap count There are three events where GP2s wouldn't h...

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Without wishing to sound morbid (I know there are people's jobs, mortgages etc riding on this) but when is the shipping cut-off for the Caterham and Marussias to get to Austin? Truly worried about this. could they run the full 2015 season with 18 cars until Haas arrives in 2016? Could someone buy wh...

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Morning All, What is the minimum grid size that Bernie/CVC and the rest of the promise the promoters? is it 18 or 16? we had 22 at Sochi Caterham look about as like to turn up to Austin as I do. (20) Marussia need a cash injection to pay for the Austin/Brazil - alledgedly (18) exactly how tight are ...

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were they not shacked to find there wasn't a crimson member of the bovine species in the can??

so much of the face and the palm in unison.

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He also managed HAM pretty well - remember those doubters who said that would end his career? only for him to out score Ham in the WDC, winning his first race too..... Such an Epic Fail!

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1. sunday warm-up (ditch qualy parc ferme) 2. no limit on component numbers (engines, batteries etc) 3. ditch the 'both coumpounds' rule 3. Proper tracks, long Spa, Ostereichring, Hock.... 3. Wide 1990-era tyres 3. no boost/fuel limits 3. T-cars 3. One-off special cars for Monaco/Monza 3.random no-h...

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A third car would be easier than you'd expect. I think a slightlydifferent tack needs to be taken over resource restriction in order to cut the excesses of the haves to he have nots. Limiting: - The number of Car Operations staff at the track (mechs, Engineers) - Limiting the number of No Essential ...

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previous olden eras were about Driver v's Driver not engineer versus engineer. to be honest... it always was package vs. package, where package = driver + designer + engine manufacturer + pit-crew being the arguably best driver in the arguably best car didn't help a lot if the car wasn't to the dri...

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To be honest I'm slightly worried that all of us who love F1 are watching bosses hoping something will change for the better but they are the Preverbial frog in the pot of water, they've been in there so long and they've only just noticed that things are getting a bit dicey. I tried this out at work...

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wear rate shouldn't be worse, LMP1's could have done 5 x 45min stints at Le Mans this year on even lower profile tyres - they didn't because it would have gone over the max driver time allowance!

I think this can only be a good thing!

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Ban it midseason? Can the FRIC even be switched off? How can they expect the car to run the next race when it was designed with the FRIC in mind? This would make the car probably undriveable. The FIA sucks more and more. It all started with double points, then standing restarts and now they are tar...

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This all centres around which components the FIA deem as entirely sprung. FRIC is a passive system that HELPS the chassis to maintain an optimum ride height (helpful for DF), Optimum Rake angle (helpful to create max under floor DF) and minimal roll angle (helpful for side to side DF balance) The sy...

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Testing - is just gaining knowledge of the car, trying new stuff to make it go faster in the races. Racing - try to make the car go as fast as possible in a race. so surely racing in a race would be testing in a race which would be racing in a race that would be testing in a race which would be raci...

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F1 is all about the march of technology? OK. for the past 5 seasons, other than aerodynamics (science not technology) please highlight below the technological breakthroughs that have originated Soley in F1. . . . . . . . . . Its only this year that (six year after the first hybrid sportscars compete...

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RIGHT!!! FOR THE LAST TIME! I DO NOT want to ban Strategy calls, I DO NOT want to ban team Orders. Does taking away the radio instantly turn the clock back and remove other tech? NO! IF there is a mechanical fault sensed by the cajillion sensors on the Car then a control bus can over ride the LCD d...

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In my opening post I said I'd like to ban radios AND shore to ship comms. Basically the Team can only recieve from the car and can't send to the car, sono enegineer in the ear, no tweets on the LCD steering wheel, just let him drive. Lots of other forms of motorsport have done this MotoGP springs to...

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I know Team orders are now allowed in F1 and certain people enjoy the soap opera that is the to-and-throw of the engineer/driver chatter. But seriously isn't it about time that we let the drivers drive? let me be blunt I think it'd be best to ban ALL shore-to Ship comms, except for the pitboard " Bu...

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I think by swapping they mean introduce the RB10"B" which I've heard is an 'everything but the tub' change. Thus allowing ythe team not to have to re homologate through crash test (other than rear structure

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I agree on the points that the RB and TR share a lot of Infrastrucrue bothe mechanically and electrically and that the main differences are aero. but at the moment Aero is hurting the reliability of the RB and the renault engines hence why it occasssionally shuts itself down or goes a bit bonfire-y ...

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nope, Cylon interceptors

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Porsche did it first, had the car in the market first too! Porsche already have a 2 litre V4 with double ERS (although they aren't using 'Hot'-ERS) in their 919 LMP1-H McLaren's engine is a Nissan engine from the R390 GT1 from last century just rebadged. Don't get me wrong, all three cars the 919, t...

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what time does testing start and are there any live feeds, timing, photo bloggers etc there??

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Sorry but I'd be glad to see the end of the constant radio bleeting, yes Kimi is funny but if he saves up his syllables for after the race we might get a decent interview out of him. "but what about communication???" - Pit board - fantastic invention works for Motogp at 200+mph "what about the safet...

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Don't worry the micxo fo IC power against Eleccy power is still massively in favour of the Dino-juice supping part :] its nmot like WEC were you can unleash 300bhp of electro-motive-kidney-kick when ever you get on the (slightly quieter) loud pedal!! Thats a good point actually - now that we have th...

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I know Williams dumped their Coanda exhaust sytem part way through the year and found some pace but: Could/Would it have been possible (If They had wanted to) for Redbull to have tooled up to Brazil with a 2014 spec centre exit exhaust and pillar wounted rear wing on Webbah's car remember championsh...

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Although Redbull have the 'works renault' engine deal, creating a bign bang engine would cause vsastly different engine characteristics especially in such a uniform engine regulation series that F1 in 2013 was. You coul potentially create holes in the power band that would be instantly highlighted b...

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being a pedantic pickle. Turbos DO NOT compress the fuel air mixture. they compress the air . Then the fuel is added between intercooler exit and cylinder whether through the throttle body or direct injection. sorry being petty - I've not had enough caffine today.... secondly here is the V8 in all i...

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Firstly I'm a petrol Head always have been I love the idea of a 1.6 v6. with 4x the torque of the current '8's it means more chance fo them being uncrontrollable squirly and agressive -especially for the first season. As for the line (and yes I know I'm paraphrasing) "the engineers will find a way t...

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Still believed they should've based the nose heiht regs off the location and height from the reference plane of the driver's heels.

Any team turning up with that design in 2014, should be told to go home, stand in the corner and have a think about what they've done.

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Early, dare I say primative G.E. was dangerous, but now pratcically every single seater formula out side of F1 uses G.E. and it would be a very simple way to reduce aero spedning for the reasons hgilighted above BUT It would have to be used in conjuction with a stepped floor so that the tunnels can ...

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OK we have one driver who's announce he's lacking motivation, one who's not being paid both with premium seats. One of which we know is going to be filled by a driver already in F1. So In the Hyperthetical situation that btoh drivers walk before the teams get to the Americas, given the current state...

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To be honest after the article I've just read on PF1 I think Its a question now of if he'll turn up for the next feew race IF it continues to go fruit shaped in Abu Dhabi. Its now out in the open that he's not as motivated.... no testing limits for Porsche, I'd go clock up some miles and meet some n...

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I love the racing, the fact that someone can tweak their car throughout the race and come back from a lap down... what i don't get is the chase, is that like and end of season thing, is the early part of the season count for anything? and can no-one outside 'the chase' place in the final championshi...

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I'm not being daft here but there are a couple of very things that can be done. 1. Each team has a BoW (bill of weight) showing the weight for each component on the car. From the that and driver weight you/me/the FIA should be able to work out the amount of ballast used. BoW's can be submitted to th...

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