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Muulka

It wouldn't have been interesting for a casual fan and, australia being the opener, I hope a few new-comers aren't gone off off formula 1. If you take me as an example, my first race was Bahrain 2010. I still maintain that it was amazing. The new fan just sees cars flashing by. It's bloody thrillin...

Muulka

You do realise that that's a recording of the actual engine itself?
It's not simulator sound.

Muulka

I believe that the FIA tells the teams that anything they patent will be banned in the interests of competition. Remember it being mentioned before.

Muulka

Sorry to be pedantic, but it was "Just under 60ms"
I believe that the gap to Raikkonen was 0.057s

Muulka

If they'd had a larger Tarmac run-off area at Tetre Rouge, Allan Simonsen would provably be absolutely fine; he would have spun harmlessly and then carried on. Instead he clouted the barrier with te driver-side door.

Muulka

Unlike every other WEC race, it isn't streamed online. At least not officially.
There are ways of finding the Eurosport coverage online, but it's unreliable and morally ambiguous.
Free radio coverage though

Muulka

Surely the first teams to use the coanda exhaust were RBR, McLaren and Ferrari? Lotus didn't have one untill near the end of the season, while they had them before Australia.

Muulka

Just watching the Sky F1 show, and when they had an interview from one of the STR guys the logo-covered thing behind him had a Volkswagen logo on it. I haven't seen this before. An indication of the future?

If this is old news, please be gentle!

Muulka

Meteors very rarely actually reach the ground; They say they found a 6m wide crater, so clearly something did hit, but it was almost certainly a tiny chunk, though it would probably done some damage to anything man-made it hit. In all of recent history, I can only find reports of two people actually...

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I always thought that it was really a joke; it's hardly racism (since when is having certain hair colour a race?) I've never seen anyone actually discriminate against gingers at all; it's sort of become the norm to make fun. Doesnt make it discrimination. I have to say that I find it funny how serio...

Muulka

I'm a semi-decent orchestral violinist, and a budding classical composer. I'm working on my first symphony now. Every Wednesday in school, I don't go to study, I go to write music. I absolutely love it. Anyone interested in hearing anything i've written? I'm up to putting it up on YouTube.

Muulka

You're never getting an F1 car around that hairpin. F3 cars can't even hit the apex properly...

Muulka

I know the track and the year, and also the turn, but who else does?
It's not the first thing which might occur!

Muulka

NvrDieYoung wrote:the wheel detach itself on Spa too.............

That was finger trouble, and has happened to McLaren and Mercedes, just to start with, in recent years; Remember Silverstone last year, or Schumacher at China this year?

It can happen to anyone...

Muulka

It's so that we don't have the rediculous situation where no-one can overtake because they're on the limiter half-way down the straight.

Will make DRS much more effective; I can see sjorter zones!

Muulka

He reminds me of several drivers from the past who were wild to begin with. The one who stands out to me is Jody Scheckter. He caused a huge pile-up on the first lap (I think) at Silverstone, and look how he ended up. Although he could end up like I thnik it was Michele Alboreto. Not sure. De Ceseri...

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The excursion into sports car production has not gone well. The MP4-12C has been beaten in several tests by cars from Ferrari and Porsche and Ariel. In 2012 9 MP4-12C’s were entered in the 24hr of Spa. The highest placed car finished 9th and the next highest 30th – none of the other cars finished t...

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On the subject of KERS was there ever an announcement on the cause of the Pit fire? It was supposed to be something with a faulty KERS system. I thought at the time that if it caused that chaos in the pits, just imagine if it exploded mid-race. It was not. It was caused by a spark in the fuel pumps...

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Audio fixed

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Marussia are probably losing about 1.5 seconds with that engine and no KERS They would be up with Torro Rosso with a better engine easily In modern F1 an engine is 3 tenths max. and KERS is usually about 4 tenths. No way in hell they're losing a second from an engine. The Cosworth was one of the mo...

Muulka

Ummm...

Perez debuted in 2011?

2010 Sauber started with De La Rosa and replaced him with Heidfeld in Singapore onwards.

Muulka

I have absolutely no idea why you're saying Monza is so difficult... In F1 the braking to any hairpin off a straight is as challenging as Monza T1. And the low downforce doesn't make the fast corners harder. Unless you took off all your rear wing and then forgot about turning down the front wing... ...

Muulka

You've all forgotten the most important reason; they couldn't get tyres except a very limited number of super-super hard and slippy demo tyres.

I've thought long hard about this!

Muulka

I was listening to the Radio Le Mans Midweek Motorsport podcast (brilliant- radiolemans.com every Wednesday at 8pm UK time; check it out) and they had a guy from Racecar Engineering magazine who says he has it on good authority (as in he is 100% sure) that each driver will make a pitstop halfway thr...

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People have got the wrong idea about what these engines are supposed to do. F1 is the pinnacle of automotive technology, and these engines are supposed to help improve the tech in use in road cars. For once F1 engines will have something to do with the automotive engineering challenges of the day. A...

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Excellent video, would love to see a much longer and more indepth version. Made me think of the exploded Honda that Merc have on display at Brooklands. http://www.scientiaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/f1-car-exploded-view.jpg That's actually a 2010 MERCEDES PETRONAS GP F1 car on display at "ME...

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I believe that the death of a marshal in an incident during the race also had something to do with that.

Muulka

I have a feeling he meant an individual chassis. I would imagine that that would be virtually impossible to work out, but I know a guy on another forum who has a crazy amount of data on chassis numbers. I could ask him if that's your question.

Muulka

Didn't Pagenaud do like 1 F1 race ages ago? I seem to remember them joking about it at Le Mans. From what I remember he's doing very well in IndyCar? EDIT: Nope, Stèfan Sarrazin replaced Badoer in the 1999 Brazilian GP. For Minardi. Not the longest career in history; crashed on lap 31. Not the short...

Muulka

So say the people who complain of too many safety cars...

Muulka

Don't worry; you can barely see the markings on the hards, while it's clear to see on the mediums. Malaysia shows this

Muulka

I think that if the FIA quit limiting how the cars can be and just keep safety and no electronic wars then the sport will benefit from more room to work with and better overtaking so they wont need KERS and DRS. I understand strengthening the cars, I understand leaving it up to the driver and not h...

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Does anyone reali that this decision was made at a meeting of the teams, with no FIA involvement. The FIA will choose whether to accept these rules (they will; it's like the British Queen, theoretically she can veto a law, but she never does for the good of all). A majority of the teams voted for th...

Muulka

Got to laugh at Vettel whinging on the radio

Not a bad GP so far. Unfortunately I'm listening to James Allen; I'm in SPain ATM. Not the same as Sky, but better than Spanish, no?

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They are an Italian team and race under the Italian flag. And your telling them not to speak Italian? Not all F1 viewers speak English. So why should they compromise for a set group? It makes life easier for everyone: particularly for the stewards. IMO it should be a set practice that, english is u...

Muulka

It's usually number 4, isn't it? It's normally shown on one of the bar things which keeps changing. I couldn't use race control today. Dad recording cycling...

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Normally I accept the stewards' decisions, but this is utterly ridiculous. The rules state that the throttle position has to be linearly proportional to the throttle position, but clearly it was not on the Red Bull! I expect a protest after the race. Red Bull needs to be shown tgat they can't get aw...

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Button was slow for several races and every time he was mystified or "at a loss" to understand what was going on. Now it happened to Hami, and he was mystified too! I don't think I've ever seen any other driver say that. They'd usually say lack of grip, tire temps., etc. But this duo is just mystif...

Muulka

Their car is found to be illegal they will be disqualified from qualifying and forced to start from the pitlane. That's best case scenario. They could be sent home. Unlikely though.

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His rule, I believe, is that he retires a helmet when he wins, but hestill changes them often; expect the non-winning helmets to return!

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