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100kg per hour = 1.666 kg per minute = 27.7g per second.... etc. I wouldn't be surprised if the sensor isn't actually measuring mass flow but volume, 'cos this is easier. 100kg is about 130 litres. Nope, volume varies with temperature. They are measuring mass with immature sensors, hence why we had...

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Am I the only one who believes there is already a number 1 clause in the contract of Lewis Hamilton already? There already were orders last year, and from the beginning, too. Remember "Nico, LH is faster than you, now slow down 50% or you will overtake him"? x( There was slight possibility that wit...

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Maybe it just slipped your mind but RBR wanted something similar done to Merc last year after testgate. Mr. Swing, meet Mr. Roundabout. It would be maybe remotely comparable if appeal handed Ric win instead, mr Kettle. Mercedes just came again as a bunch of very sore losers, first after claiming th...

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LH and Kimi classy as always, I see. Here's the cruncher .... if some teams are so cash-strapped they have trouble finding cash for their star employee, what about all the mechanics, engineers, and support staff on the team? Do you think they are exempt, that the team hasn't asked them to accept les...

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Zoue wrote:Who's the third?

*Championships* [scorers, if we need to be A-R]

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It points to the rest of the package having some merit to overcome that kind of deficit. 3 WDCs behind the wheel, maybe? :? All they seem to have is reliability, had both McLarens didn't ended up DNFing last race both Ferraris would be outside Top 10. When was last time Ferrari drivers scored no po...

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PU is only 8% of PU is frozen now and 48% of 2014 PU parts can be changed for 2015 season according to FIA technical regulations. Which won't change anything as long as Merc can upgrade it too, unless they hit really diminishing returns. Luca de Montezemolo is. He's always seemed to want to run Fer...

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link I must say, bravo , one little threat and they turned the sport upside down just the way they wanted it. I wonder, will we now stop hearing of how evil Red Bull was for complaining (without threats) about tires when they were exploding left and right? Probably not, seeing the same people now s...

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I have a feeling that without starting in cheated McLaren 2007, flattering McLaren 2010 and 2011, and frankly overpowered Merc 2014 a certain driver would be seen at best Pérez level. Who would be first? IMHO, drivers who shown they can also win in worse car, not needing 1+ second advantage - Vettel...

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If they were turning heat directly into useful energy they would be in danger of breaking the second law of thermodynamics. And that's at least a two race ban. Care to point out how it would apply seeing F1 car is not an example of isolated system? Also, every single mechanical fuel engine 'turns h...

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I'm guessing Charlie Whiting, the race stewards and every journalist (whose articles I have read) all need to read them too - because none of them believe it was against the rules either - otherwise there would have been an investigation and we would have heard about it. Every article I have read u...

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He looked most like pic no.1 without glasses. And jet black hair. Andy Cowell then? Man responsible for Mercedes F1 engines? Yeah, I'd say Wolff was 200% right. Non-copyable 2 second advantage, what team could want more? Also, wishful thinking is strong in this thread, half guesses pointing to some...

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surely using mirrors gives you a sense of spatial awhereness that you wouldn't get with a camera - sounds dodgy to me It would be the exact same from a spatial awareness perspective. It would be far better in fact, mirrors have colossal dead zones. I have a car with rear facing camera and you would...

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I know this will sounds daft but, What if Ferrari were to pull of of F1 for a couple of years and then return completely from scratch in say 2017? Would they be allowed to completely start the engines from scratch too? Because if it as big a hill to climb as some are suggesting and they could do th...

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Anything else would be sabotaging one driver as in turning down engine or delays in pitstops which would infuriate both of them . Lewis thrives on beating his team mate in a straight fight and that keeps the harmony . Same LH who started playing political games 'support me, not other guy' before hi...

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http://i.imgur.com/k9WAGzU.png I think it's old photo. The hole was much bigger last race, I believe, not that hard to spot. How hard can it be to mandate a fixed camera position? Except, since you haven't bothered to even google this for a minute, there is indeed fixed position mandated and RB cam...

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I would not class the Battles Between Rosberg & Hamilton as boring ;) What battle? :uhoh: Watching 20 laps of LH "I dare you, crash into me, and I will make it look all your fault before media and the team" got awfully boring after 5 minutes. Had it been clean fight, maybe, not this ham fisted elbo...

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Your notion that the Mercs weren't pushing in qualy is insane because Rosberg was outqualified! You certainly don't want to take it easy to the extent that you lose positions on the starting grid. Quote from last quali: "Hamilton went wide, you have pole". That was before Rosberg finished lap or be...

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Don't the engine suppliers recoup their costs through what they charge the (customer) teams? Not all costs. Number of engines this year was reduced because a lot of engines were sold at loss in return for ad space and such. See Honda, they will be supplying McLaren next year free of charge. The pro...

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An interesting stat.... Ferrari fastest 2004 lap Schumacher 1:30.252, Ferrari fastest 2014 lap Raikkonen 1:39.438, no wonder Luca is tiddled Comparing one of best , mature Ferraris with Schumacher onboard with barely out of prototype, crap Ferrari with Raikkonen? What's next, we'll compare F1 cars ...

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I wish we could see Vettel and Ric in 2-3 races where car performs identically for both of them and has no issues. Would settle this thread far better than guessing at offsets. Im not convinced Vettel had problems yesterday I just think it goes to show he isn't as good as soom make out he is when he...

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I don't think Red Bull can do anything more from their side. Renault engine is their main problem. Yeah. Short of Dietrich Mateschitz performing emergency purchase of Merc engined team for Newey to give him supply of good engines to work with nothing is going to change this season. 1-2 all year long.

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It's all random.

POBRatings wrote:a whole lot of coinciding factors that seemed more than chance.

Nope, humans are just good in obsessively looking for patterns where none exist.

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orion_f1 wrote:It's still a lot more than using natural sunlight. Infinitely % more, in fact.

A) sunlight could have meant unsafe race (tire temps and driver dehydration)
B) far more energy was saved by moving race into time better for main audiences than lost on lighting.

This is all pretty elementary, you know.

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Yes. Let's just bring back last year's refrain: "It's not Red Bull's fault they always win. The other teams should develop a better car.". Shoe is on other foot. Yea, mate, except Red Bull won (by second per lap) on stuff easiest to copy, stuff always banned after that season. Now, Merc have monopo...

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Well, unless Merc has 2 DNFs ( extremely unlikely except maybe someone crashing into them) or one of small Merc customer teams by some miracle invents aero 300% better suited to race Merc losing it is about as likely as me landing on the Moon. Last race, Vettel commented his RB felt like go-kart nex...

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- close battles up and down the field. Mercedes . . . Tiny Merc engined teams and Red Bull . . Ferrari and the rest of the bottom of the barrel. Close? :-| - lots of overtakes without the use of DRS - a much closer field It's called 'late race SC bunching up guys who pushed and who conserved', othe...

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Wow, a lot of over reaction on here. Yes, the Ferrari engine appears underpowered but it's a little early to put the for sale sign out. The season is young and not every circuit is a power circuit It doesn't matter anymore. Merc engine is good enough to outweigh, by itself, engine, aero, and strate...

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Preface: I don't have any issue with V6 engines, sounds, weights, or any current regulation (except maybe the farce that is fuel flow measurer manufacturer itself admitted are unreliable). I just wanted to address one thing - people trying to pretend current season is in any way comparable to last f...

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Do you prefer a two car race, or a one car race like 2011 and 2013 (and to certain extent 2009, 2010, 2012)? Edit - Came to think of it, with two cars you actually have a race. But do you actually have that with one? This again? Yes, 2010-2013 period was vastly preferable as not only Vetted didn't ...

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Agree with this. The speed advantage is generally a clean air advantage and the tyres also come and go at differing points and varying temperatures. Not only this, we saw some ham-fisted brute driving from LH today. I counted at least 6 instances of 'back off or we will both crash' today and it was...

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wolfticket wrote:It's really frustrating watching two excellent drivers totally helpless as cars just drive past them on straights.

Yeah, regardless where you stand on Alonso vs Kimi stance, they are really not that bad to have multiple people effortlessly coast past with little effort...

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sgt_hippo wrote:

"You tell me I missed pole by .055? How? Did Karthikeyan drove for Merc??"
"Atta boy Seb, we can show them!"

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I'm sure they'll try long term if they can't make their existing designs mitigate the advantages (as will others), but it looks like it would mean an almost complete engine redesign. Yeah, this is one thing outside of any team (but Merc, who have their engine builders ready at every whim) influence...

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Brawn with a 1-2 second per lap advantage? That is nonsense, they had about half a second in Australia. From the next race onwards it was about 0.3 per lap. By race 5/6 Red Bull was as quick. Yeah, not only this is nonsense, but what turns Mercedes dominance (largest since 2002) into a farce is the...

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At the tail end of 2008/beginning of 2009 Mercedes were only an engine supplier and they'd just won the title with McLaren. It was McLaren who said no to the Red Bull and Merc deal late in 2009, before Merc announced they'd buy out Brawn. Think about what you say for a second: McLaren blocked Red B...

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McLaren won't have Merc engines next year so that's free up a slot. I'm surprised at how hard a few of you are writing off any kind of Red Bull/Merc engine deal. We know that the unexpected often happens in F1. Mercedes long term future in F1 is as an engine supplier rather than a manufacturer. The...

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I like the unbroken string of '1' by Merc engined cars. Not only Renaults have crap performance, but will randomly shoot their drivers in the foot with random penalties. Yet, 'fans' still claim there is nothing wrong with 2014 competitiveness (no, not even in the customer teams) and Mercedes F1 keep...

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If Merc continue to dominate those figures will dwindle rather rapidly again. Yeah. And the problem isn't even in Mercs, it was in very badly thought out rapid engine freeze giving works teams massive advantage, advantage that is impossible to match for the customer teams. Turbos can stay, but the ...

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Ferrari fan? Or red bull fan? Didnt you know Vettel won the constructors on his own last year? Yeah, and MW was sixth in WDC until Raikkonen quit and string of Merc failures kicked him to third, and that was his best result in RBR "dominance" years. According to you, it's comparable to situation wh...

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