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Not long now until WWE style entrances at every race!

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Hungary 2015?
Valencia 2012?
Brazil 2012?

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It was fair, Maldonado did the same thing twice ( vs Hamilton Spa 2011 and vs Perez Monaco 2012) and got a 5 and then 10 place grid penalty for it. Punishments need to be consistent. Vettel does have previous indiscretions and moments of red mist. (No pun intended) and this is another one of those ...

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It was fair, Maldonado did the same thing twice ( vs Hamilton Spa 2011 and vs Perez Monaco 2012) and got a 5 and then 10 place grid penalty for it.

Punishments need to be consistent.

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But the fact is Vettel came out two seconds ahead of Raikkonen. Two seconds. That's all. For all the great laps he did he pulled two seconds over Kimi. Vettel would have likely lost that time had he not got lucky and Ericsson pitted when he did. It's also likely that Kimi lost more than two seconds ...

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mikeyg123 wrote:I'm sure Kimi is just naturally disappointed at his lack of pace.

This.

It was his best chance at winning since Spain last year, and he looked as annoyed then as he did now after not being able to get past Verstappen for the win.

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Kimi looks very unhappy Kimi's reaction suggests team orders after all? The Ferrari guy on the podium (forget his name) pretty much ignored Kimi. He embraced Vettel and congratulated Ricciardo very warmly, but ignored Kimi completely until Vettel shook Kimi's hand in front of him. After that, he ne...

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Surely the fact it was so close between the Ferrari's despite Kimi having traffic after his stop proves it's not team orders? Had Kimi not had traffic there's a very good chance he is still ahead of Vettel after the stops. For all the team can do, they can't choose whether Kimi loses 1 second a lap ...

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Fiki wrote:
pokerman wrote:
Zoue wrote:Kimi looks very unhappy
Kimi's reaction suggests team orders after all?
It does to me. Call it a pre-race or even pre-season understanding, but that is how it looks to me.

But surely if it was an 'understanding' then he'd not be so upset about it now as he knew it was coming?

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Alonso back to Renault!

Joking aside, Palmer has been awful. I was surprised they kept him on for a second season in all truth.

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Not the worst of all time, but what about Eddie Irvine to Jaguar in 2000? His stock was high when leaving Ferrari, 4 race wins and taking Hakkinen to the last race in a fight for the 1999 WDC. Stewart GP had looked really good the year before in 1999 (one of the reasons Barrichello was chosen to suc...

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I think Vettel said it best when he said Hamilton was playing dirty tricks. So yes, Mercedes were absolutely right to make the call and Hamilton should have obeyed the order. There must now be consequences for him at the first race of next season. Mercedes needs to send a very strong message. You m...

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Rosberg drove superbly today. The stats do not lie, had Hamilton's car been as reliable as Rosberg's he would have won the championship , however it wasn't and that is motor racing. I was worried that Rosberg winning might make the sport look bad, but on reflection the way he has handled the pressu...

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Rosberg drove superbly today. The stats do not lie, had Hamilton's car been as reliable as Rosberg's he would have won the championship , however it wasn't and that is motor racing. I was worried that Rosberg winning might make the sport look bad, but on reflection the way he has handled the pressu...

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Yeah Alonso destroying Massa for 4 years is all because Ferrari favoured him. No, Alonso is repeatedly voted the best driver in F1. How do you fancy doing your job up against someone everyone considers the best every day? Don't you think that would start to wear you down, why don't you ask Nico? An...

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I personally just think Webber had a purple patch in 2010. That mixed with Vettel having car failures (Webber's only 2 retirements were crashes in Valencia and Korea) and Alonso/Hamilton/Button also sharing the big points meant Webber's consistent points finishes (every race he finished he was in th...

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This is an interesting thread! Can't believe it's not happened much recently compared to past years.

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The races covered by channel 4 live have been announced in the past few hours: http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-announces-2016-live-formula-1-races Ouch only 1 of the first 4 races, then Spain x( At least they have some good races towards the end A lot of the first races are on ear...

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Must have been an error by the team I would have thought? Surely no actual benefit for having one tyre so much warmer than the others.

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Jan Magnussen, Martin Brundle, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Luca Badoer, Ricardo Zonta & Sebastien Bourdais all had decent results in junior formula, many of them winning F3000/GP2, how did they get on in F1, Gerard Barrabeig? :lol: The truth is no one knows how Sainz will do until he gets the chance. He has ...

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I thought the penalty on Alonso was suitable, though a fine on the team should be needed if one hasn't been given already.

I'm not a fan of punishing the driver when the team makes a mistake in all truth.

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Yeah, totally makes sense for Mercedes, who having spent millions over the past few years trying to be successful in F1 as a team, to then make one of their cars keep on having problems once they start to get successful. I cannot imagine how much of a sales boost it must be for them to have a car sa...

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Oh hai!

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More super imposed messages on the track from Bernie.

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That 'message' from Bernie was total cringe.

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Not a caption, but imagine being a driver and having to pretend you think this sort of thing isn't total peaky.

'Yeah, cheers! No, no, it looks great. Just like a real horse!'

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I cant seriously believe those results. How do we know they've not already decided on a name, and are using this as a publicity opportunity to nab a big email list (real email lists are worth an absolute fortune). Sorry Ferrari but you can get stuffed. You honestly think a company as rich and profi...

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Same bracket as the likes or Coulthard, Barrichello, Montoya etc. for me.

On his day he was superb, but spent too many races finishing around 3rd/4th place in a car that was the class of the field.

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Didn't Kimi say he was going to pit for inters if he hadn't of spun and hit the wall?

If that was correct it would have been a great last lap with Kimi on inters hunting down Lewis on dry tyres.

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Guia wrote:Oh, well, I hadn't thought of that! And thanks for the patronising tone, guys - hope you like the sarcastic one!

Maybe you should make sure the tone of your original post is clear before getting all uptight about the tone in which people reply?

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Goatsoup wrote:That is a good point, the Lotus drive could be a poison chalice for Kovalainen. he better not mess up too much.

What other choice does he have?

It's this or sit around the Caterham garage whilst van der Garde and Pic keep him out of a drive.

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Guia wrote:That the Nordscheife is given a Grade 3 listing should tell you that this hierarchy has nothing to do with anything even vaguely sporting.

Eh? It's ranked based on facilities and safety of the circuits. The old Nurburgring is extremely dangerous with very little run off areas.

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The race will be cancelled by the court.

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1989 Senna-Prost at McLaren-Honda; Senna winner Prost won in '89. Of course you are correct, Prost won the WDC in 1989. However I was stating 'who came out on top' which to me is the faster/more succesful of the pair. By these measures Senna was superior to Prost in 1988-9. For 1967-8 Clark did not...

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POBRatings wrote:1989 Senna-Prost at McLaren-Honda; Senna winner

Prost won in '89.

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Kimi's haircut

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Why does is say Grosjean is Swiss?

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They did this for the '94 Monaco GP, which was the race after Imola.

First two grid slots had the flags.

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My guess is a phrase that's made up to sound like something on the steering wheel, when all it is is a code word for turn it down and bring the car home.

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