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Because he wasn't the lead car most likely. Things are getting rather toxic at Merc now and Hamilton does seem to think they'll give him bad calls on purpose. Rosberg won the race fair and square, I don't think Hamilton's ego can accept that in the same way Rosberg's couldn't in Bahrain. But Rosber...

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The fireworks in 2007 all began when Lewis refused to accept he had been beaten in Monaco, could history be about to repeat itself...

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Alonso opened a very big gap once past Kimi. He was clearly alot faster today in race pace. No. He was only considerably faster when he was on his new hards and Kimi was still out on his second used mediums. When Kimi switched to his new hards he was doing similar times to Alonso on his new hards. ...

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I'd say their pace was roughly equal. In the first stint after the opening laps Kimi dropped back around 1.5s behind Grosjean and maintained a gap. At the same time Ricciardo was being told over the radio to drop back 2s behind Bottas to preserve his tyres, so it's logical to assume a stretegic ele...

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THe Mercs lapped everyone up to 6th

Also interesting the majority of teams finished with their cars next to each other (eg. merc merc redbull redbull) all the way down the grid.

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It wasn't just the overtaking, a couple of times he didn't even try to make the chicane and just went straight.

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According to Sky Alonso will be been penalized. EDIT: There comes the confirmation. Bad, really bad, it's a split second decision and Alonso had nowhere to go. Vettel fan speaking here btw, but honesty is honesty. +1 Alonso was still alongside and effectively held the inside line, if he had kept hi...

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Speaking of selective memories, here's something from 2 years ago: Angry Alonso unhappy with Pirelli Felipe Massa: New Pirelli tyres only suited McLaren, Red-Bull Racing team at Spanish Grand Prix Ferrari hopes hard tyre is altered Ferrari say Pirelli needs to change hard compound tyres for next ra...

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As for your comment about the opinions of people on here vs teams, two things. First, there are some posters on here whose perspective I would give more weight to than what is stated in the press by the teams. Over the years they have proven themselves to be unbiased and extremely knowledgeable. Wh...

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As for your comment about the opinions of people on here vs teams, two things. First, there are some posters on here whose perspective I would give more weight to than what is stated in the press by the teams. Over the years they have proven themselves to be unbiased and extremely knowledgeable. Wh...

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I'm not sure if you have read the articles provided, we are not talking about simply harder tyres but a differant tyre construction. Here is the original Scarbs article http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/107432 And another from a former Williams chief operations engineer http://www.jamesall...

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Pirelli in fact didn't settle for the final compounds until early 2013 ... the final decision for the development of the new tyres was made by Pirelli in October: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/103116 i'm not sure but some teams shifted their attention to 2013 quite before that time-fr...

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What do you guys think about the incident where Checo left no room for Alonso at turn 4? I guess Perez was a victim of the same thing where Button left no room during the fight between the two. But, still you have to leave room when you're alongside someone going out of a corner. So, do you guys th...

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The Brazilian doesn't have the race craft to slice through traffic with a faster car and it really hurt him. And Ferrari could not double stacked because Alonso and Felipe were very close on track. Imagine a slow-ish Fernando stop (and he had those today) what kind of damage it could have done to M...

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Of course V10 sounds better (along with a proper anthem

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEqlNU30Tg

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/20669262 I am so tired of this garbage. He talks about how Alonso had the title in '10 if not for a Ferrari mess up and how lucky Vettel was. He skips the part where Vettel was leading the first race when the car broke down and Alonso got the free win, and race...

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The current system gives slightly better acceleration to the following car and a better top end, hence why the overtake occurs toward the end of the straight when the top speed advantage is in effect. I think a system like the one you suggest might actually give a bigger advantage than the current o...

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Brawn signed Geoff Willis, Bob Bell and Aldo costa, they have to start having an impact sooner or later. They also have one of the best wind tunnels in the business and I think I'm right in saying Merc recently bought out the other shareholders in the team suggesting they might be ready to start pum...

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You have to remember Webber's reputation in his Jaguar days as a blistering qualifier. It seems that Vettel is better able to take advantage of various things, but that doesn't negate that Webber is a very, very fast driver. I know he is but when you can see a direct correlation in the inter team b...

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To my surprise, Alonso was not the quicker driver in a couple of last races at Ferrari. That car was capable of more, like Massa showed. He lost two titles in last races in three years. He seem to be deeply disturbed, to the point of taking any possible way to turn the things around (thinking about...

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But for 2014 there will be no more 'Coanda' effect - exhausts will have to exit between 3-5cm forward of the centre line of the rear wheels and no more than 25cm from the centre line of the car. From there, it will be impossible to blow them at the edges of the floor. After seeing the start of this...

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Alonso was big enough to congratulate Vettel when he won the title, he was even man enough to go to the McLaren garage and congratulate Hamilton when he won the title in 2008, not really the actions of a bad loser. When I think back a couple of races to Vettel screaming on the radio "it was a stupid...

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£4k...wow. My mate brought home one of the exhausts from the r26 that they didn't use because it had some sort of slight manufacturing defect, was ridiculously thin and light, not much different from waving an empty beer can around in your hand. Maybe I should forward this to him, i'm sure he'll sti...

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Found an interesting parrallel to this today, in their time together at McLaren Button outscored Hamilton (672 vs 657 points).

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veemax wrote:How cool is that! Has any other team ever done that for their employees?
Just the soft drinks manufacturer then
Very, very good gesture from the best team in the business!

Renault used to give all their people a bonus for every point scored, I suspect it's standard practice.

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For me this season has confirmed Alonso as the best on the grid. I was less sure how Vettel and Hamilton stacked up against each other though. I would say now though having seen them up against each other, the little mistakes Vettel has made and the fact that Hamilton has finally matured, that Hamil...

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You will find that Alonso has been the luckiest this season by a country mile. Not only has he had the reliability and leaders make way for him one way or the other, he is the only chap in the entire grid to actually have a lap dog for a teammate. His luck probably surpasses that of 23 other driver...

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Nope, but where was Vettels penalty? that was much worse than Hulks, the FIA were incompetent this weekend, sky analysis also showed that IT WAS yellow flags, once again shocking stewarding. +1 Vettels wasn't even because he lacked grip or locked his wheels and slid in to another car, he turned int...

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XploZiV wrote:Talks about the race starts, The Senna/Vettel incident, the Alonso overtakes and the Vettel yellow flag overtakes.

http://www1.skysports.com/formula1/video/12870/8282348

Excellent clip, thank-you.

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Senna wasn't along side at turn in. Senna has more fault in this incident. It looked like a dive bomb to me, Vettel was already in traffic, why would Senna attempt this low percentage pass...oh yeah, because he's a third rate driver w/o a seat for 2013 racing for the last time on his home track wit...

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Senna wasn't along side at turn in. Senna has more fault in this incident. It looked like a dive bomb to me, Vettel was already in traffic, why would Senna attempt this low percentage pass...oh yeah, because he's a third rate driver w/o a seat for 2013 racing for the last time on his home track wit...

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VDV23 wrote:It would have been closer to the truth if you said Alonso won't win WDC with Ferrari.

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They certainly finished higher than they would've with Kimi as their driver. WTF was he at when he went off, looked like he was trying to take some sort of wacky races shortcut.

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Joke? He had nothing to lose....he should have risked his race all the way to grab the 1st, but he kept waiting for Vettel DNF. Vettel with all his bad luck today was more aggressive and really drove like a champion! Alonso could have challenged Button for the win but he came for the last pit stop ...

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Bye Mike, don't let the door hit your donkey on the way out.

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Shame, Vettel drove another shoddy race and lucked into a championship, Kimi drove a shoddy race and lucked into 3rd, ho-hum.

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El_Chuzalongo wrote:Now what are the hatters gonna say?

"Get me a hat that says Vettels a c*ck"

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Even when Vettel gets hit, people still lay the blame on him. How the hell did Vettel get hit!! Are you retarded as well as blind. Senna was all the way over to the left on the line and vettel turned in on him. lovely individual fanboys Senna just took him out, stop being bitter. you must be a poor...

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Fingers crossed we don't get a start behind the safety car.

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Alonso is driving scared... pressure is getting to him. Funny how he and Hamilton keep claiming it is Vettel who is scared... does not look that way to me Listening to Vettel having his crying fit on the radio last week after Hamilton overtook him, he didn't sound like someone handling pressure wel...

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I bet Alonso is the first driver out in Quali 3 for the last run.... and Massa (2nd out) bins it in the gravel at the place predetermined to take the longest to recover a car from... BAM pole position. The only time I remember that hapening this year was Kimi spinning at just the right moment in Su...

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