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In this case Vettel did nothing that Alonso hasn't done many times before, often to his team mate

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“the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones” The incident in Malaysia will have other implications as well: it will show whether or not the Red Bull Racing management is running the team, or whether Sebastian Vettel can do as he pleases. If a driver is allowed ...

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Vettel does not deserve DoD, not because of the team orders incident but because he compromised his race by making a wrong decision to go to dry tyres when the track was still too wet

A three times WDC should not make an error of that kind

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Hmmmmm According to Bernie is was Mateschitz who made the decision to keep Webber out of loyalty, against the advice of Marko. I suggest Vettel has reached the point in his career where he truly believes that he is the reason that RB have won 3 championships, not Newey or the team. Perhaps Mateschit...

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From the other thread Analysis from the FIA timing charts from lap 37 when Button finally got going after the pit fiasco Lap Hamilton Rosberg Webber Vettel Button 37 01:41.9 01:41.5 01:40.9 01:41.6 01:42.3 38 01:42.2 01:42.3 01:41.0 01:41.7 01:41.6 39 01:43.2 01:42.1 01:41.9 01:41.1 01:42.1 40 01:4...

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Hildebrand, distracted by radio team talk and adjusting settings on the steering wheel drove over the back of Will Power under full course yellow, interviewed a few minutes later he said "It was totally my fault, I was distracted, I hope I haven't hurt Power's race. I'm really, really sorry." You co...

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Hamilton is better than Vettel

as an actor!, his after race interview was half way believable

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At the end of the day, F1 wouldn't be half as captivating without the politics and stories like this. I love racing as much as the next guy but if I wanted that I'd pay a tenner and go and watch touring cars at Donington 5 miles down the road. In F1 the racing is sometimes pretty processional but t...

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di Resta started 14th, Sutil 8th di Resta Sutil 1 05:52.0 05:50.0 2 02:01.2 02:00.5 3 02:01.4 02:00.4 4 02:01.0 02:01.2 5 01:59.7 01:59.9 6 02:03.7 02:03.9 7 02:30.0 02:30.0 8 01:48.8 01:50.3 9 01:48.4 01:50.0 10 01:45.9 01:46.1 11 01:44.9 01:46.1 12 01:44.2 01:44.1 13 01:43.8 01:44.2 14 01:43.7 01:...

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SilverstoneRegular wrote:Will Rosberg do a Button? What is that?

Come out of a head to head comparison with an enhanced reputation, rather than a diminished one, as most Hamiltoniacs expected

or more simply, score more points

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Rosberg was cleary faster. I hope we won't see any hypocrites criticising every Ferrari call. Team orders are part of the game. Hamilton's race was compromised by the team, so they decided to level the playing field for both drivers by asking Rosberg to hold station. The Ferrari thinggy, no comment...

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Vettel > Webber especially at being untrustworthy Massa = Alonso more power to Felipe Hamilton = Rosberg will Rosberg do a Button Button >> Perez Sergio needs to pull his finger out Raikonnen > Grosjean not as obvious after Malaysia ;) Sutil = di Resta oh yes Hulkenberg >> Guitterez as expected Ver...

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Those gaps aren't possible. That means Vettels last 16 laps were 14+ second quicker than the Mercedes.. but he only beat them by 12 seconds and emerged 7 second ahead of them after the final stop? 1. My timing stopped on lap 52, there were an additional 4 laps to the end of the race 2. Take it up w...

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Not all that confident. I think rain helped them quite a lot past 2 days. Though if top 10 is good enough for them, then it is looking good, but far away from top 6 still. Button's 16 lap stint from lap 37 was 6s faster than Vettel, 15s faster than Webber and 20s faster than both Mercedes He had a ...

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Hang on chaps, when Button finally got going he had to sit behind Rosberg and Hamilton until they stopped for 6 and 5 laps respectively He had track position and a 5 lap undercut, he would likely have been gone up the road by the time the Mercedes stopped, he may well have been close to the leaders ...

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Not only untrustworthy, now a public liar too

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Analysis from the FIA timing charts from lap 37 when Button finally got going after the pit fiasco Lap Hamilton Rosberg Webber Vettel Button 37 01:41.9 01:41.5 01:40.9 01:41.6 01:42.3 38 01:42.2 01:42.3 01:41.0 01:41.7 01:41.6 39 01:43.2 01:42.1 01:41.9 01:41.1 01:42.1 40 01:42.5 01:42.5 01:41.4 01:...

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To be fair, the demonstration run only happened because Mclaren screwed up Button's stop, having engineered good track position and one stop less than both Red Bull and Mercedes, when he eventually got back on track he was the fastest car in the last stint for a time Both Webber & Hamilton were crip...

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SC84 wrote:Vettel put himself before the team

This

Vettel has secured the WDC lead and with it team strategy priority in future, sad but inevitable when key personnel at the team are tied to one drivers success

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Did they start with the same fuel load?

If they did, Hamilton used more during the race

If they didn't, Rosberg drove the race with more fuel

Either way, the fact that Hamilton needed team orders to stay in front of his team mate says much about Hamilton, not so much about Rosberg

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Enough is enough, someone at Mclaren must fall on his sword...

Or be pushed

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Alonso, Hamilton & Vettel

The three drivers in F1 whose team mates are contractually bound to be beaten

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Why not them use last years tyres...

They wont get WDC or WCC points but hey, they can run at the front all they want

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Why do you think this is significant... In Australia, the car that won started 7th, the car that finished 2nd started 5th, the guy on pole finished 3rd and was unable to match the race speed for much of the race of the guy who started 12th... With the 2013 tyres, grid position is nothing like as imp...

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McLaren - nothing wrong with Webber's ECU However, post-race inspection by MES has pointed to an issue in the garage instead . Peter van Manen, the managing director of MES, told AUTOSPORT: "There was an issue with Mark Webber's data system in the garage during the formation lap. The ECU on the car...

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It seems fairly obvious to me that grid position was worth nothing in Australia, Raikonnen won from 7th, Alonso was 2nd from 5th and the dominant pole winner was a distant 3rd. Sutil's performance demonstrated that all Q3 drivers should have chosen Prime and not done any laps at all in Q3, that woul...

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To be outplayed this badly I simply can't believe you wrote that, despite the lap time evidence that shows that at no time in the race, when on the same tyres, was Sutil faster than di Resta. Sutil gained track position due to strategy and then drove very well to maximise his position until the las...

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Oh, and 10 mins research on the FIA web site (race lap times and lap chart, see here ) indicates that at no time in the race was Sutil faster than di Resta when on the same tyres, PdRs last stint matched Massa's almost exactly. Sutil gained track position due to strategy and then drove very well to ...

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In support of the OP 1. The Force India was not a 'mid-field' car, Sutil was able to lap faster than the Ferrari/Red Bull because the car was just as fast if not faster than the cars behind him. He was under severe pressure, particularly from Vettel, and drove very well to keep him behind for the fe...

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I have a simple question for the Moderators, especially Mod Blue Why wasn't this thread closed?, it was created for and has been almost entirely populated with mindlessly stupid driver bashing of di Resta such as this Huh? What race were you watching..Diresta was nowhere on the pace of Sutil except ...

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After being out qualified by his rookie team mate Pastor sends a message to any Venezuelan thinking of emulating Humberto Muñoz Castro I think we're back to the condition of two years ago in the team The car is undrivable at the moment As by far the highest value pay driver, you would say that, woul...

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It must be very hard to reach a point in your life when time starts to take from you rather than give. I can confirm, having completed most of my three score years & ten that the realisation that one has far less life to live than lived concentrates the mind if only the tax payer in the UK was spen...

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http://www.axos.nl/retrorace/temp/The%20Connew%20Story-Dateien/image014.jpg Peter was a fiercely independent character, (still is !) and unknown to anyone, shortly after he begun working for Surtees, he begun the design work for an F.1 car of his own. Of course, he is by no means the first person t...

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Very few individuals will ever get to drive anything as special as a Formula 1 car, but one enterprising Brit is doing his best to make that dream come true by building one himself. Kevin Thomas, from Brighton, is slowly but surely putting together his own Formula 1 -inspired racer in his shed near...

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Chunky's description is good but not quite right. Firstly sailplanes operate in a similar speed range as F1 cars, from around 40kts (80kph) through 160kts (320kph), however, sailplanes do not exceed 100kts (200kph) frequently Blown wings were introduced in sailplanes to try to reduce the effect of l...

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It would make more sense for Bianchi to get the Marussia drive Marussia do not have an engine supply agreed for 2014, Bianchi opens the door to Ferrari engines Bianchi has nothing to lose by gaining race experience in a back of the field car http://files.myopera.com/crystalacey/Smilies_Emoticons/Bi...

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It is true that Flavio knew nothing of F1 racing or cars. And he could be a crude, harsh dealer with people. But he certainly knew how to assemble/build on good teams and to run them effectively, designers, drivers and crews. Yup, he was especially good at representing both the employer (as Team Pr...

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