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Might be a stupid question but what will the performance difference be? I haven't looked into it yet... I don't know, but I guess the much smaller sidewall means they will be a lot stiffer. I assume the cars will maybe need more suspension travel to cope with hitting kerbs as an awful lot of that i...

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Ronnie Bucknum entered 11 races in F1 in the mid '60s, competed in USAC through the early '70s running at Indy 3 times, winning one race at Michigan and was a regular in sports cars. His son, Jeff, also drove Indycars & sportscars. I learned to day that his grandson, Spencer, will race in US F4 thi...

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Virtually every driver in F1 today has vastly more on track experience in racing than did the hero's of half a century ago - yes it it been that long. Today's F1 drivers started their careers on track as single digit children. Stewart, his contemporaries and all that preceded him didn't start racing...

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Schermerhorn wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:51 pm
They have Ferrari's rear suspension - a design an concept they purchased but have had ZERO technical input into - so their understanding of it will be zero and they'll never be able to overcome its deficiencies.

Ferrari (or Vettel) has not been all that successful with it.

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It is not possible to really compare drivers of different era. With all respect to Fangio, he could not get his body into and out of one of todays F1 cars. By the same token today's F1 drivers would have to be physically larger do deal with the F1 cars of the 50's - each era has its own issues that ...

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Invade wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 06, 2020 3:32 am
Why can't some of these races be non-Championship races where they try out some cool stuff and we can have some fun with it. We don't need more than 18 races for the World Championships proper.

Then Liberty could not charge as much for the sanctioning fee.

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I don't understand why everyone has a meltdown when the seat belts come loose. The drivers are wearing a helmet and practically lying down anyway Errol Spence Jr crashed his Ferrari road car, rolled it three times and only walked away with a chipped tooth. Considering the forces that F1 cars genera...

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Considering Gasly who qualified ahead of him, RB felt he wasn't good enough to be retained at RB, why would they retain Albon next year? He had numerous laps deleted for track limit infringements & also spun once. A messy qualy session for him. Also there's a good chance he may not have a good star...

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Haas finalized their car designs and updates at the Winter testing prior to the season start - and it shows.

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I really don't know why Giovinazzi gets another year. Shouldn't the same be said about Kimi in that case? Really can't say he's been much better this year. People have given quite a lot of praise to Kimi at times this year, and Giovinazzi is there or there abouts. I think he is at least decent now ...

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It was interesting to hear that prior to the race, Ross Brawn had said that the data showed that using the higher T1 would not improve the chances of passing. They had tested it in simulations and it wasn't needed. I was sceptical. How wrong was I? Sadly, the reason the tighter T1 wasn't needed was...

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Greenman wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 23, 2020 6:44 pm
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So you favour "bumper-cars" ?

The whole point is NOT to collide.

It is not an option, it is in the rules..

If you aren't rubbing you aren't racing.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oo9XZ_r3Hs Hmm, while bad language is often understandable, I think took it too far for even if being a much larger incident. Some of his moves last year and before that were pretty stupid at times. He shouldn't make it sound like he was 100% innocent in this, but t...

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65 lap times deleted in FP1, with at least one for every driver but Magnussen. Qualy could be fun. What BS - Track limits are there because a REAL TRACK LIMIT, may damage the cars and/or the drivers ego. If you exceed track limits, you should be parked as if you just impacted a wall with the result...

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Had this question been asked at the end of Vettel's consecutive run of WDC's the answer would have been different.

Appears that Vettel could master the double diffuser cars and the competition could not.

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Seems that the recurring 'argument' in this discussion is the application of White privilege in the racing world.

Schumacher and Hamilton are both the best of their competition eras.

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How much has Ferrari's 'cheating' been factored into the equation that benefits Vettel.

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Did Ferrari go out and buy the power units from Yugo? All the teams with Ferrari power sucked.

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Haven’t they tried banning radio and it didn’t work well? Rosberg got a penalty because they told him what to do to avoid a failure which just seemed daft at Silverstone if I remember correctly. Perhaps they could give it another go, but this time give it more thought beforehand. When there is no r...

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Only MB can beat MB.

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Feature Vettel is now being given the Alfa reject parts for his car now that is is known he won't be with Ferrari for 2021.

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Hamilton in a Williams would be a stretch.

Bottas in a Merc would not.

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Asphalt_World wrote:
mmi16 wrote:Is the Pope catholic?
No he isn't.

He isn't Jewish or Muslim......

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If any purchaser understands the mystique and history that is Indy and its importance - it is Roger Penske!

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Is the Pope catholic?

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LBET wrote:Good God. That didn't take long. This, and many other, forum(s) never cease to amaze me. Going from straight and level to augering in in just a few posts. Crike!

All it takes is a single troll.

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Eliminate the Fuel Flow restrictions - they don't permit enough fuel flow to even get the engines to their maximum RPM limit. Rules limit RPM to 15K and fuel flow restrictions are holding them to about 12K. There is already a maximum amount of fuel permitted - that is enough. The engine life require...

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Ground effects. Skirts were banned in F1 back in 1982 because of safety fears. The cars and circuits have evolved since to the point where, surely, this should be considered again. Voila - dirty air effect mitigated. Or magnified! Dirty air that won't permit airfoils to create proper downforce will...

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Max made a move of no probability and got the result such a move pays.

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I think it's something inbetween, they don't expect the drivers to be as quick as Verstappen but 5 tenths is too much, 3 tenths I think they would except? Obviously then in respect to Gasly they're seeing him as a bottom end F1 driver. It's not quali that's the issue so much it's how far he was fal...

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Behind Verstappen - all the RB and TR drivers are just the 'bum of the month'.

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With it coming from Renault I suspect it is 1000 broken horse power - and the horse has broken down.

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I think as long as we have cars producing dirty air behind them, then it is almost necessary. We even see cars with the use of DRS struggling to match the speed of the car in front sometimes. So I will probably say keep it, but only because there is a fundamental problem with these cars And no matt...

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Track limits CANNOT be a painted line.

Exceeding track limits must be self policing - a broken wing, a damaged floor, a spin through the grass, impacting a barrier.

If nothing gets broken or damaged and time is gained by the driver - it is not a track limit.

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Revolving Stewards only creates wildly different thoughts on the application of the rule and how they are to be applied. The same thing happens in Law. Different courts interpret and apply the same law differently. F1 needs to have the same Stewards at every event - at least, even if they are wrong,...

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How dare a driver actually make a RACING move in F1?

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Rosberg

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Wolves designing the hen house and all the security systems to 'protect' the hen house.

What a farce!

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Single element front and rear wings - ban barge boards and all the other mid-car tabs and vanes.

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