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mikeyg123 wrote:Bottas' fault that one. he misread what Button was doing. Although the team should have realized Button was pitting.

The ludicrous thing is that Bottas will get a ten second stop go and a ten place grid penalty for Australlia 2016.

Deserved. That was an UNSAFE release!

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It's end of term!

Fun first lap!

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The old way (before the engineers had telemetry) could be something like this Fuel or timing go out of spec, which reduces power and over heats. The engine is worked harder to regain power loss and heats more. Depending on the cooling, the engine block and pistons can weld themselves together due t...

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I read in last week's Autosport that Alesi has actually signed for Williams, but the team were holding out announcing it until later in the year by which time it wasn't guaranteed he'd be driving for them (I'll have to read the article again and edit this post). Alesi then cut his losses and signed...

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That's alright then!

Was this announcement made by Louis Stanley from his suite at the Dorchester Hotel?

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Paddy Head has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List "for services to motorsport". :thumbup: It is very well deserved, for he is a great engineer and a 'doer' in motor racing, not a self-publicist off the back of it! I wonder if Williams Advanced Engineering's other projects put him on ...

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... And, as i tried to illustrate in my post above, there were so many "non sanctioned" events that it would not be possible to have recorded them. ... I wasn't going to mention unsanctioned “pirate” competitions, nor the fact that into the 1980s I could sign on to compete in National Level races w...

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Thank you for answering my post that differs from some peoples' perception instead of simply poo pooing it, without any evidence to the contrary, Seriously? First of all no one poo pooed your answer. Not agreeing is the more accurate description. And you don't provide much info other than "there we...

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I cited a couple of pieces of contemporary data, but if you want an online source, E-bay is probably the best bet. Someone can collect the old Autosports, Motoring News, Autosprint and Auto Motor und Sport, etc, to see just how many race meetings there were and then collect the programmes to see jus...

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Regardless of the results and team errors, Grosjean's thinking to let Raikkonen through and not Verstappen was a bit of racecraft you won't see equaled very often

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... A huge leap forward in UK was the early 60's when the Mini became available. Before that, for most people, the dream was something like a Lotus Cortina or an MGA, the real posh had a Jag, or very occasionally a Porsche and that was it. Cost was a real block as probably only 20 - 30 % of familie...

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This thread has revealed some problems with peoples' lack of knowledge and neatly throws up the usual big limitation of the internet; the internet tells you "what" but has no idea "how" or "why". It helps collectors of statistics but not historians. The reason why the drivers' ages in the 1950 Briti...

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A major part of second generation motor racing ability is developmental nurture, not genetic nature. Driving any car, let alone driving a racing car, is a learned rather than a natural human activity. If as a very small child you sat next to a daddy who drove rather well when he drove you around, yo...

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What truth is there in the rumour that police are looking for a blonde man with a German accent seen driving away from the scene in a Ferrari!!!?

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Merchandise is tiny income compared to sponsors. Mclaren will be more interested in keeping sponsor happy than fans sadly.Most things come down to money. And before anyone talks about fan numbers being all sponsors are interested in, they're not! For very many of the companies who pay for Formula O...

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Anyone who has read "Flat Out Flat Broke" has seen what's involved in being a professional racing driver. Where the money and the drives come from! Posting and boasting on the internet isn't part of the job! That's a guide on how not to do it. For a seemingly affable bloke he fell out with an awful...

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Anyone who has read "Flat Out Flat Broke" has seen what's involved in being a professional racing driver. Where the money and the drives come from!

Posting and boasting on the internet isn't part of the job!

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There is no canopy. There never was any canopy. We have entered the realm of entirely imaginary things. There never was any canopy on a Lotus 72 but you might want to investigate the 1967 German Grand Prix and the pair of Frank Costin designed, Mike Costin powered and Ron Harris owned and run Proto...

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hundleton1 wrote:I believe all engines go into a pot and a distributed randomly to the teams including the works one.

Have you ever thought of buying a bridge?

I happen to have one for sale!

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Caterham's [lack of] money worries were really there for all to see today, running Kamui Kobayashi as a "start money special" and retiring the car for no reason! Haven't seen that happen for a long while! Swedish commentator Eje Elgh, ex F3 driver and from what I understand speaks to Ericsson freque...

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For those talking about his years of experience, how come Palmer has been driving so absolutely fabulously this year? Years and years of driving and racing practice will teach anybody how to set a lap time but it can't teach you how to dice, race and overtake and this year Jolyon Palmer has done jus...

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If the circuit's so bad, how come both GP2 races were such good racing?

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... and of course the new front wing will have exactly the same settings he qualified on ...

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It's the Cisitalia 360. Nick Mason once described the contemporary BRM V16 as being akin to the "Victorians designing a moon rocket and damn' nearly succeeding". Dr Porsche's design for Cisitalia was infinitely more advanced and far-thinking, which is only fair because the money Piero Dusio advanced...

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What double success links Ronnie Peterson with Jackie Stewart, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Patrick Depailler and Alain Prost

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The manner of their passing in RTAs as WDCs but also their family businesses.

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I must be a dreadful ignoramus! I thoroughly enjoy GP2 and have seen some superb driving in recent years from Grosjean and Valsecchi and Nasr and now Jolyon Palmer [though DAMS set-up can't be hindering him]! Of course it's a rubbish spec formula where the cars are all very similar ... so nothing li...

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Thank you Guia I can certainly be a nana but now that you mention Germans, was there ever an F1 driver who knocked down 23 German aircraft during WW 2 including a V1. You mean Tony Gaze but I'd suggest that George Abecassis' DFC was every bit as brave in an unarmed Lysander. Doug Nye telle the stor...

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Perhaps the quote you want about Moss comes from Masten Gregory. Discussing testing times one day, someone told him it wasn't a fast day. "Of course it's not", he replied "Moss and Brooks aren't here!" I never saw Moss race properly but I was a huge enthusiast for Villeneuve, in part because he alwa...

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Villeneuve's wins at Monaco and Jarama are probably pretty far up that list. Exactly what I was thinking. Spain '81. The gap from 1's to 5th was 1.25 seconds at the finish, and it was like that for the majority of the race. Actually it wasn't! I was there that hot day and, until he went off, Alan J...

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Monza '69 / Monza '71.

Not the same firsts and seconds but proper sized gaps all race long!

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Sounds like he's fooled many with his poor me story tbh. He isn't the only driver who had it hard. Many observers said he always possessed the natal abilities, I'm not disputing that. But they also said he never had the right attitude to getting to the top. He sounded like the kind of driver who ex...

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I always thought he severely overrated tbh. He was a good driver but his attitude wasn't the best. Overrated!? Did you see him race or is that from reading about him online? He was the real deal!! Although if you want to talk about forgotten drivers, he did say "Niki who?" I've both read about and ...

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......the sound of an F1 car screaming down the streets of Monte Carlo...........Ooooh wait a minute, this is F1 2014. The racing better be good because a silent procession will be hard to take for some. I wonder how the lack of noise will affect fan's enjoyment of this race in particular, both at ...

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Nelson Piquet jnr: imo a very talented driver, highly underestimated. He usually only sat in the Renault on the Saturday before the race, team-mate Fred hogging all the testing/times sessions. Yet Nelsinho did remarkably well to finish 8 of his ten races. The way his F1 career ended was so unpleasa...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXERHsuIyUQ Tommy Byrne. He never made it to F1 though. I don't think he's been forgotten really either, not for a driver who never actually started an F1 race in the first place. Um... ya he did! Did he? Fair enough. I always thought he severely overrated tbh. He was...

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I suppose a lot of informed observers' lists of the best 50 racing drivers ever would include Tommy Byrne and Vincenzo Sospiri and Mike Thackwell - but, hey, they're rubbish - their Formula 1 results show two retirements and one official non-start between them!

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I was really bored by today's race!

If only the cars had been noisier ...

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Ronnie drove plenty of Grands Prix in yellow cars and blue cars and yellow and blue cars too

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I've sat and waited and no one has mentioned Jochen Rindt. He was THE quickest driver on the grid when he teamed up with reigning World Champion, Graham Hill in 1969 ... and was already acclaimed as the quickest wrists and reflexes the year before when he teamed up with the toughest racer, Jack Brab...

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