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Clouseau

My take on Prost, Senna and Schumacher is much like F1Mercenary's: all three great, cannot separate out any one as better or not than the others. Clark imo was not the same technical type of driver as 'The Three': initially he knew little of car set-up and relied mostly on Chapman to set up his car...

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Because Schumacher was the most protected driver in F1's history. He has no reason to doubt his team. This is the same Schumacher who had his team get Rubens to move over when he could have won in Austria even though Schumacher was leading the WDC with a points leads and had no competition from ano...

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This has the Schumacher Japan 2006 feeling to it, clawed his way back into a WDC, just about to take the lead again and BOOM. Lewis did make a good start, in fact both Mercedes' which was nice to see and might give a little hope for Lewis' WDC chances.The stacking of Engines is now a blessing too. ...

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Sauber seems to get closer to the middle field time wise or at least in the hands of Ericsson. They occasionally was up there before but only due to the misfortune of others. Now they almost carry middle field speed. Good for them.

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Gutted for Ericsson. Good start and pace running in 10th and pushing Magnussen for 9th when the team ordered him to pit as early as lap 8 effectively ruin his race when he came out in bad traffic and on top of that pit stop strategy out the window. Sauber

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Q1 Nasr 16th and out. Sad for him. On the uphand 11th from Ericsson with a good effort.

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1. Vettel 2. Ricciardo 3. Hulk 4. Massa 5. Perez 6. Alonso 7. Kvyat 8. Rosberg 9. Bottas 10. Raikkonen 11. Grosjean 12. Maldonado 13. Verstappen 14. Sainz 15. Ericsson 16. Nasr 17. Stevens 18. Hamilton 19. Merhi 20. Button Think it's safe to say - clueless. I will pick two drivers who I don't like ...

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1. Vettel
2. Ricciardo
3. Hulk
4. Massa
5. Perez
6. Alonso
7. Kvyat
8. Rosberg
9. Bottas
10. Raikkonen
11. Grosjean
12. Maldonado
13. Verstappen
14. Sainz
15. Ericsson
16. Nasr
17. Stevens
18. Hamilton
19. Merhi
20. Button

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Hamilton make mistake. Crying over the radio blaming others. Nothing new really.

Clouseau

Both Saubers way down the order in FP 3. Saw an interview with Ericsson explaining that they are struggling to get the tyres in and can't get them into the window. No surprise really as this track doesn't reward any of the few strengths of the Sauber car but showing it's weakness.

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Lotus49 wrote:I didn't know Will Stevens and Marcus Ericsson were members here. Welcome lads.

Why? Ericsson had a very good race (more so than Aloso who get alot of praise) until the rain came and the team ruined it all for him with multiple pit stops. Ericsson deserves at least a few votes on here.

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Well, there's always someone who wants to say that Mario Andretti didn't deserve to win in 1978 or that Keke Rosberg didn't in 1982 or Jacques Villeneuve in '97. Who would say Andretti didn't fully deserve his title in '78? In fact, you could say he deserved the title in '77 as much as Lauda. As ot...

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I think Marcus Ericsson stood out the most, really clean racing from him. Looks like he's capable of close racing, and finished reasonably close to Nasr. I dunno, he looked totally shell shocked when Verstappen mugged him You really don't like Marcus.. We get it. Your second post about how bad he i...

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Sorry for Ericsson too who had a really good weekend and was looking for some strong points but made a mistake and went out early after a promising start.

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I think this does qualify as bad luck. Puncture just after pits. Contact from Ericsson! Nasr I think. Yup he is fast becoming the Heidfeld of F1 2015. On SKY they said Ericsson, but it's not like they never get it wrong! Contact from Nasr. But yea, clueless from SKY as Ericsson was running in five ...

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Ericsson is flying

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This the new environmental F1. Enjoy.

http://youtu.be/jS4Dh_EAfJI

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Kobayashi. For his attempt to take out the whole field at the start to save the viewers from this terrible experiance.

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These engines sound like the CART series engine before the series went belly up. Wow, you just don't know what you are talking about do you. This terrible new engine sound just made me turn off my illegal computer feed less than half way in and turn on the TV for whatever. The new engine formula pl...

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Looks like F1 has stopped smoking the cigars and just chews gum now, some will be ok with the changes Im one of them others maybe put right off an will be lackluster about the season. You used a smoking analogy? So youre saying its better to smoke cigars destroy your lungs and throat and get cancer...

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I found utterly preposterous that Ferrari had special treatment from Bridgestone which made an already faster car into an unbeatable car. I remember Gary Anderson saying that other teams had to wait for a new type of tyre that Ferrari where using for about 3 or 4 races, once the Jordan got the tyre...

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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 Ea...

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Going round in circles with constraints called rules is 'artificial', I don't think that's a useful way of looking at it. For me it's seeing skill that is the name of the game. I'm hoping this year will be Epic, and the only reason it won't be is if FOM give us no information on fuel usage (which i...

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Personally I am in favour of DRS. To me what was far more 'artificial' was when drivers were unable to overtake a clearly much slower car because they would lose bundles of grip when following another car. To the racing purist, and to the casual fan, I would argue that the Alonso/Petrov situation a...

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Villeneuve is spot on right.

Brundle says nothing on the issue, just moans about JV speaking up.

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Wow! Do you know where this story originates, I've never heard it before? It makes sense, Mario was the better bet for the title but Ronnie was superquick. Would love to know where and how the story originally broke. It really is a well known story amongst F1-heads and I'm sure a lot of people can ...

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Ronnie Peterson was sabotaged by Colin Chapman in qualifying at the 1978 British GP at Brands Hatch. Colin wanted Andretti on pole for the British GP and ordered hard race tyres to be fitted to Ronnies car instead of the soft compound qualify tyres and in addition a good amount of extra fuel, just l...

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these cars will be much faster than last years,the turbo engines are the best thing to have happened to f1 in a long time.they just need to claw back some downforce to get the lap time,the motors are monsters compared to the puny v8's we had. in qualy trim they will be making over 1000bhp and aroun...

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The fastest GP2 time in Jerez testing last year was a 1m24.659s by James Calado. Already today, Button did a 1m24.165s and today was a designated wet day (so not perfect conditions). The beeb was saying last year that this year's F1 cars will be 2-3 seconds slower than last year's cars (at least in...

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The fastest GP2 time in Jerez testing last year was a 1m24.659s by James Calado. Already today, Button did a 1m24.165s and today was a designated wet day (so not perfect conditions). The beeb was saying last year that this year's F1 cars will be 2-3 seconds slower than last year's cars (at least in...

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One of the most revealing pieces on GP drivers'was published in the July 1984 issue of Road and Track magazine: 'Speed Graphic by Peter Wright, Lotus aero engineer on the ground effects cars of the late seventies. It directly measures and compares the cornering styles of Andretti, Peterson and Stew...

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I always liked them both. I took on to Hill beacuse of his father and I cheered for williams at the time. Then Villeneuve came along and as I supported him huge in CART he was instantly my favorite. I always knew Schumacher was the fastest of them all but I did not cheer for him at first. Then at je...

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I have always liked Eddie Irvine Ferrari never wanted him to win the championship That is a huge myth. I can't belive som people belive that for real. Why would any team let their main opponent win the WDC and run away with glory and money rather than winning the WDC yourself? Even more so when the...

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Nothing to be honest. I don't like the new engine formula, don't like the tyres, don't like Kers and DRS, hate that there is no refueling that in turn is limiting strategies and slowing down lap times for the most part of the race. I expect even slower lap times, a terrible engine sound, even uglie...

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Nothing to be honest. I don't like the new engine formula, don't like the tyres, don't like Kers and DRS, hate that there is no refueling that in turn is limiting strategies and slowing down lap times for the most part of the race. I expect even slower lap times, a terrible engine sound, even uglier...

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Please pull through Schumi. You are in our prayers.

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The point in.reality where coulthard cost Schumacher the title. The point where Schumacher threw the title away. Yeah right. Schumacher allways said Coulthard lifted in the racing line in heavy spray causing the accident. Many years later Coulthard admitted he did lift and that it was very dangerou...

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You mean when he outperforms Rosberg? Never.

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Close call but I go with Massa.

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