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Ok, I guess that quali had one saving grace: two drivers with most vocal, overhyping fanbases lost to their team mates, meaning less gloating until tomorrow! Always look on the bright side of life! 8) The title won't even be a battle, not really. Merc have at least a second in hand and still haven't...

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1-2 again. Raise hand who was surprised? x( Welcome to next 2002, barring engine failures (from most experienced manufacturer who dumped most money on them? heh) or LH crashing into someone, we'll see exactly the same podium (2 guys in silver on left, one in blue on the right) whole year. At least w...

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2007 car was very good, it just went against cheating competition, making it look less stellar. Ditto for 2008, WDC went to wrong team thanks to Piquet. 2009 and 2011 were less so, but 2010 and 2012 were able to compete, the problem was with RBR not having two Webber grade drivers but just one. Look...

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in the rain yes. Even if Vettel got pole yesterday he would have been passed by Hamilton at the very least. *shrug* probably, this car is good enough to lap everyone else twice if run at 100% power. You gotta give credit where it's due, Merc could win this year's WDC with Kovalainen and Karthikeyan...

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Because in the first 2 races they have looked like the 2nd fastest car and they have a record for appearing to be the best at in season development (plus a lot of people say their aero is ALREADY the most effective, its just engines letting them down). Cars won't be majorly overfuelling as it is - ...

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Why is everyone putting Red Bull second? Judging by fuel table, they need to use far more fuel than the rest of top 5 to even stay competitive. Wait until other teams figure out how much fuel they need to finish and start underfueling, gaining easy pace on RB. If Renault can sort out engine issue, R...

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I'll answer my question, apparently, 10 places is for unsafe release, while 10 seconds for pushing car back to reattach the tire and rejoining. Ouch

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Sad

I was under impression he served 10 seconds just before retiring, is it extra penalty or stewards didn't accept the stop and RB should have kept him out another lap to claim they served it in this race?

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Vettel, Alonso, Hulk. Ric and Kvyat also very impressive. LH? Please , Maldonaldo would have easily won that in his place. How someone barely grabbing the pole by .055 seconds in 2 second faster car - who didn't shown anything but cruising today (and still managed to lose grand chelem purely on his ...

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So, Mercs in fuel/tire saving mode do laps 1 second faster than anyone else. Rosberg needed 2 laps to do 3 second gap and he still wasn't serious. What a joke, at least with RBR you had Webber bravely fighting to fall back to 8-10 place despite his car. Now? Vettel missing the pole by .055 with Rena...

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The only way they would leave would be to set up a rival series, so in that scenario, a couple of other teams would be leaving also. What if Fiat had huge financial problems and their dependent companies slashed extraneous items from their budgets? Quite a few auto makers pulled out of F1 over the ...

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Everybody here has a boss or maybe is a boss of a company. For the sake of the argument let say is a construction company Lets say one of your employees needs to do land surveys using a tool that you provided, calibrated to other surveyors on the field so at the end of the day all the foundations a...

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because even RBR have not claimed that they informed the FIA that they would be using a different measuring system to the FIA approved one. And I'm not aware that anybody, even Red Bull, has claimed a protest was made and sabotaged by other teams. What's your basis for making this assumption? We kn...

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Oh, please Horner's getting a taste of his own medicine. The irony is hilarious. This is testgate all over again and who was the biggest face of "we only want fair play". So, according to you completely illegal test equals a team staying within rules mandated 100 kg/h and being disqualified only du...

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That wasn't successful. Merc still got punishment for it, they were made to miss the in season test remember? Which was far shorter, later, and more rigid. It's like being banned from getting slice of cake when you already ate half of it, unsupervised, week ago. And there will also be loads who gen...

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Laura23 wrote:Teams like Minardi/Toleman etc would, on those brilliant days, shock and get a result from nowhere.

Hmm, remember that Minardi victory in 2008?

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I would not guarantee it. The sensors would all have been calibrated the same way and I would take the position that its not so much that they are all perfect, but they are all as similar as I can make them and I write the rules. I'd agree with you if sensors were really the same for all, like weig...

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What is worrying is Alonso already berating team for lack of progress and saying they need to be faster. Usually he waits for 4th or 5th race or so... And I don't think there is a huge innovation on one of the other cars which cannot be implemented straight away (like EBD or Double Diffuser). Merc e...

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Lets say the the FIA flow sensor works exactly the same on every car no matter the location, mounting, or engine supplier and once the car goes out with a particular PU and flow sensor combination and runs a full session in that configuration the FIA says your offset for this pairing is X%. Given t...

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Sensor supplier Gill Sensors claims that 52 per cent of its meters are with a 0.1 per cent accuracy reading, with 92 per cent within 0.25 per cent. Which means 10% of sensors can be wrong by unspecified amount. That's 2-4 cars per race having big (dis)advantage on average, I am puzzled how anyone (...

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If they had told him prior to the boom - perhaps Lewis would have diven it differently and salvaged a few points - maaybe. There was safety car period, I don't see anyone in top 10 being unable to pass slow driving car after that. See why Vettel called quits despite being able to continue at crawl ...

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Quark wrote:I just hope all the organizers bring up this very valid point and the old, real F1 engines come back. These tree huggers are killing my F1

I guess Senna was fake driving treehugger then, after all, he won his WDCs in V6 Turbo car

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I hope Renault teams can solve their issues which would (maybe) move them one spot higher but I am not very optimistic about that.

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You know, all that bickering about sound, and I can't help but think of the drivers who were subjected to as much as dozen hours of deafening noise each racing weekend. Now their work place is a bit more bearable and yet it seems 'fans' don't care about well being of their favourites at all. I am th...

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I really hope that Renault in RBR isn't just due to fuel usage and they can be competitive against other 2 engines...

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Just what I have observed... Lewis on podium always wonders what happened to his teammates his teammates thus far never do. Maybe they don't like doing transparent PR stunts? Or know perfectly well where he is after "Nico, LH is faster than you, now can you slow a second per lap to not overtake him...

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Racing wise, if the winner is 30 sec away even with a SC and with no real reason to push, then the season doesn't look too bright honestly. Yeah... :( Bottas made the race interesting, but if there were 100% reliability, I'd expect Mercs being in the lead by 50 seconds, followed by McL and Williams...

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I'm not at all convinced that RBR are at fault here. It seems like a fool's errand to preserve their own sensor even after the FIA's notice, if they weren't completely sure that theirs was showing the correct data and the FIA's was not. Also, seems like all of this took place in a daylight and not ...

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Covalent wrote:Last time Ferrari had two World Champions was in 1954.

It almost happened in 2000

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andrewinwork wrote:"Lewis is amazing at this circuit he even managed to beat us in a fairy cakes can McLaren round here last year"

One, can you cite source, two, it wouldn't be first time MW shows he has no idea whatsoever about technical side of the sport.

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Piquet isn't there this year to hand the points to wrong people, sooo...

"Kimi, SC time now, now, now. Can you confirm you understood?"

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not much similar, actually. Northern Ireland has been part of the United Kingdom since 1801. It's hardly comparable to Russian troops invading a sovereign state Crimea was part of Russia since 1774 to 1991, so longer than that. Try again, by your standard Russia has all the rights to intervene. Oh,...

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Brundle. JV just mouths off tired "kids these days" tirade. KERS is artificial? Why? We want better engine technology, not worse one. I imagine driver from beginnings could bash JV for driving artificial aero car with all these nonsense wings and artificial wide tires and rear engine and stuff, and ...

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Why did i write those claims? Being speculative works either way. Does anyone have a proof Schumi would have gotten the 1997 F1 title certainly alongside Frentzen against a Bryne-Brawn-Villeneuve partnership in Maranello? Maybe, some people chose to believe their imaginary, speculated "facts" rathe...

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Well, if in 2014 McLaren wins WDC and WCC, especially with Button, he will look like a complete fool. But only time will tell.

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Guia wrote:I wonder what Domenicali means?

"Kimi, we must make sure the inside of your gearbox is properly 'integrated' before race"?

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Hamilton won his title against Massa with one more point than 97 while having Heikki as teammate. Plus he had Crashgate rob Massa of 10 points. So please, how he is fast when he didn't even won on merit? The only McLaren driver to even threaten Vettel RB run and to beat Alonso to 2nd WDC spot was B...

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How did that answer my question? So, what you're saying Mercedes is full of incompetents that don't even read press that they still have to consider any changes in their relationship now ? x( They were competitors last four seasons , threatening to dial down cooperation now is sign of outright inco...

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How are they nervous? All but open threat "our relationship might change" when the Honda deal was known for a year now? :uhoh: You guys act like it was announced yesterday and Mercedes had to backpedal from 'we generously share everything' stance but they know perfectly well for a season now about ...

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Sounds like a healthy concern, naturally they dont want to give too much info to Honda. They don't want to, sure, but it is Mercedes who controls what they give. How can McLaren change anything in that? Send team of ninja spies to Germany? No, it looks like the only factor McLaren has any influence...

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