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I've been an F1 fan for 20 years or more but in the last few seasons the passion has gone!! I thought it was the Vettel effect possibly but I got through the Schumi years ok so I don't think that was it. The lack of sound doesn't bother me, yes the sound was awesome, but unless you don't want to tal...

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Petrov is looking to switch to DTM in 2014 but still in talks with three F1 as well, didn't expect that!

http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns26878.html

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According to grandprix.com Horner has admitted that talks in Hungary were about Alonso, so unless he is playing mind games a move to RBR is not out of the question yet!

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I have just been watching back some of the racing from over the weekend and there were a few accidents here and there that could possibly have been avoided with some brake lights. Why are they on most series but single seaters? LeMans and GT and Touring cars all have them so why not F1, GP2, etc? We...

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You have to take the Top Gear laps with a pinch of salt don't you? Different days, conditions, tyres, weights, engine wear, fuel on board, clutch bite etc etc....... Different cars even. When I worked in the motor trade we would have in 2 pretty much identical make/model/mileage cars. One would be t...

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lamo wrote:I believe the next GP in Australia 1998, DC actually let Mika through on his on accord?

Didn't they have an agreement between themselves that whoever led after the 1st corner (or 1st lap maybe) would get the win? As they knew the car was so much better than any other at that time.

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I was reading somewhere today that Honda are wanting Brawn to head up their return to F1, that would give some teeth to the Lowe story. That would give Brawn a full year of unlimited testing on the Honda powertrain in a 2014 Honda chassis (can't remember the designer) before the powertain is moved ...

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I was reading somewhere today that Honda are wanting Brawn to head up their return to F1, that would give some teeth to the Lowe story. That would give Brawn a full year of unlimited testing on the Honda powertrain in a 2014 Honda chassis (can't remember the designer) before the powertain is moved i...

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Are they not going back to the Orange livery? It was hinted at by Whitmarsh the other day.

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In Webbers position I'd be tempted to start on the softs and pit after 1 lap getting them out of the way, giving a clear track at the back and a chance to put in some hot laps while the leaders struggle along on the softs.

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The Melbourne race and quali, as well as some others, are held at 5pm local time, as opposed to the 1pm local time for most races, for the benefit of the European audiences. What is the point? All it has done is cause problems that need not exist. Like the farce of qualifying today had been held at ...

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According to Williams their contract is watertight.

http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns24901.html

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I don't think that they can be excluded for contractual reasons, a companies history does not get wiped due to a drivers current contract.

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I've been wondering the same thing and not found an answer. Surely there has to be a period of development at least, they are supposed to be designed for efficiency and without constant development they aren't going to get the most efficient solution. What if a manufacturer has made a slight miscalc...

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There was a great quote from Adrian Newey on AutoSport yesterday where he said If the cars were developed to their maximum without any restrictions the drivers would not be able to withstand the g-force in order to drive it. I think there is a bit to go before the g-force is too high. From what I r...

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I have the current HD pack so get it without the Sports package but I can see this being changed in future seasons to bring everyone in line, despite their denials, as soon as that happens it will be bye bye sky! In the article though it does say the sky F1 HD channel will be bundled with the sports...

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As someone mentioned above, over the last 5 years or so testing HAS shown the relative basic pace of the cars. Since the ban on unlimited testing the teams have a finite time to get through the pre-season schedule and to collect data etc. Most plod along with their own programs and run various fuel/...

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It was mentioned on Teds notebook earlier as Lotus were calling it in to question BUT he also mentioned some stuff about one team introducing double drs, had people round and never caught it properly then the dog sat on the remote so I couldn't rewind. Surely any form of ddrs is banned this season? ...

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I almost bought a 3DTV a while ago but in order to get the 3D channels you had to have a sky world HD subscription at £63 (Now £65.75) a month and there was very little of interest being broadcast, there still isn't. If there had been an option to add 3D with just movies I might have gone for it, bu...

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As you get older an unconscious sense of self preservation starts starts to kick in. When you are young you tend to be reckless you think you are invincible and take much bigger risks even though you know its gonna hurt if it all goes wrong. As you get older the size of the risks you take tend to ge...

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As I understand it he was on a rolling contract that hasn't been renewed so he wasn't sacked as such, just not re-employed. In situations like that there isn't really any path for the employee to take like claiming wrongful dismissal, so he doesn't really have a leg to stand on in that respect. As f...

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I thought last years race was boring and apart from the start so was this years race. I've said before that on these Tilke tracks with long straights that it is worth a gamble to go for a high ratio top gear and it paid off for Ferrari today.Other than that it was a pretty boring race overall. the o...

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As mentioned above this is a minefield and there are many ways of hiding spending, through suppliers and sponsors etc. In order to police things it would mean every single sponsor/company/department/manufacturer would have to be fully audited. This is a massive task and probably impractical: Eg. Luc...

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If Honda are considering a return then 2014 is the obvious time to do it. There were rumours quite a while ago that they had been secretly designing an engine for a return under the new regs but they wouldn't confirm or deny them. The current Merc engine is probably the most powerful but come 2014 t...

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I used the Sky race control for the first few races after that just started watching the general feed as the novelty wore off. I watch the BBC feed when it is live but the Sky feed at other times, mainly because Simon Lazenby used to annoy me but he is growing on me slightly now and doesn't annoy as...

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The Exhaust Blown Diffusers were banned for 2012 for whatever reason along with engine assisted downforce supposedly. Anyway the intention of the law was to prevent exhaust gasses being used to assist downforce, yet teams are using this rather effectively once again, Red Bull especially. I've nothin...

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All teams need sponsors to survive, Red Bull is an odd one but still follows along the same lines. The main sponsor of any team is treated like royalty by the team, of course they have an influence. The question is how much influence? A smaller team like say a HRT is going to do whatever they can fo...

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I've just been watching an old documentary about F1. Even back in the 50s and 60s the cars were going faster than todays Red Bulls on the straights (200mph+ in the 50s!!!!), but obviously a lot slower in the corners back then on the skinny tyres and lack of downforce. As all of the tracks have chang...

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As there is no race this week the full show is often repeated the next weekend, so just keep an eye on the schedules on Saturday. I don't think you missed too much that wasn't covered on the race show though to be honest.

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I can't find a recent post on this, if there is please merge. Right with 7 races to go Jenson is pretty much out of it. Should he just support Lewis from now on? My head says yes. He should give way to Lewis and concentrate on next season. BUT nothing is certain in F1, another 3 Spas and he is right...

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Been waiting for them to bump in to each other all year, light hearted though that was, can't wait for Eddie Jordan to get in on the Sky coverage or be harrassed by them lol

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I've mentioned this before and it was backed up bu Brundle during the race on sunday. When Kobyashi came i n to F1 for example he was overtaking where overtaking "couldn't be done", many come in from GP2 and do great things in their rookie season only to be told that they shouldn't do this that and ...

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The Caterhams are within a second of the top 10 in practice today and splitting the Torro Rossos. The HRT and Marussias not much further back and quietly closing in on the pack. If you consider the fact that HRT didn't even qualify fast enough in Oz they have made up more ground than the top teams!!...

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I kinda like a bit of both channels coverage and haven't stuck to one over the other. I'm not keen on the sky anchor, smarmy git, but had the same view on Jake to begin with. Jake grew on me but this bloke hasn't. Having said that Eddie annoys me at times with nonsense waffle but Jonny Herbert gener...

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I'd put the "discretion's" down to pushing hard and no advantage was really gained so no harm done. If it was going on throughout the race then that would be a different matter, though I never saw it so don't know. The BTCC races at Knockhill on Sunday had some issues with drivers leaving the track ...

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Turbo's made such an impression last time as they were an undeveloped technology and the equivalence formula was decades out of date. Now there is little scope to develop any new ideas I have my doubts I would prefer a limiting factor, such as total fuel, and free choice of engine type There is a l...

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By that I mean after a season or so in F1 do the drivers take less chances and settle for what position they are in rather than go that extra bit to push themselves up a place or two. In the lower Formula drivers seem to drive by instinct and take a chance when they feel an opportunity exists, yet a...

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Mechacrome re-badged the Renault engines when Renault left in '97 but never updated them so they were never up to scratch. There is no way VW would take over a sub-standard design and badge it as one of their own, that is nonsense, what good would that do them? VW have been in the loop for a while n...

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Another cracking last lap here from the BTCC on Sunday, again I'm not sure what the rules are regarding track boundaries but no penalties were awarded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGOQgeSK1yE

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I think the OP is referring to the fact that the same hour is repeated day after day, week after week through the day. Rather than complaining that repeats are shown as such. Just had a look now and the same Force India clip is on yet again. Over the weekend full races from this season were on and w...

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