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Mercedes warns McLaren relationship will change in 2014 F1 season Mercedes has warned McLaren that it faces being treated as a full-on competitor rather than engine partner this year, ahead of the Woking-based team's switch to Honda power in 2015. Although Jenson Button recently called on all the M...

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If that's the case what are they doing with the first 3 gears? Maybe just at the start and pitstops? Seems like a waste to me, could the torque band really be so wide that apart from starts and pitstops they'll manage with 4 or 5 gears the entire race? Some driver also said they'll never hit the li...

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Covalent wrote:

...naah. Not even this can match the F14T. '12 and '13 cars were miles better than this monstrosity, F14T looks like 2012 car tested by Maldonaldo.

After 3 day long session of whiskey imbibing.

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cmberry20 wrote:Well, a least they can clear the 2007 Spygate fine now!

Dude, it was paid by British taxpayers years ago

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Why everyone is saying Kobayshi? He was ok driver, but his skills are several years out of date, he isn't any more experienced or younger than he was last time, either. Remember what Kovalainen shown us last year in similar situation?

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RickM wrote:Why they stopped calling it F<year> I don't know. Seemed a bit silly really.

Actually both 2006 and 2013 names are throwback to system in times before Ferrari started using just year, so you should reverse the question

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it's still better than that double-point thingy... the big thing here is the elimination-aspect... every three races the last 4 drivers will be eliminated from the chase, until only 4 are left... so the best 4 drivers will have the same chance at the final race, theoretically... People saying it's ...

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RickM wrote:Red Bull must have some odd clauses as all their drivers seem to go way overboard on the Red Bull branding, you dont see four merc badges on Hamiltons helmet, or four Santandar logos on Alonsos

Alonso helmet has 5 Ferrari logos and 2 Santander ones. How is it any different?

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GordonSmith wrote:In 2010, he brought Red Bull to such status after a relatively bad 2009 season.
No, Adrain Newey brought Red Bull to such Status.

Same Newey whose previous 5 Red Bull cars warmed the end of the grid?

Or the Newey whose 2 RB cars were outscored by 25% by 1 Toro Rosso car?

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People have accepted even that one WDC twisted in crucial spot by crashgate. You can even find people saying that WDC "winner" deserved it despite not being anywhere close without Piquet's help, so I have little doubt whoever wins will be accepted. To people constructing wild scenarios, first, even ...

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Sorry to crash the praising but I don't think any of the 2 woudl have given the chance to get a top car (both being Williams) if not for their surnames from their higher rated dads. Damon had an average record in lower formula. I can think of many drivers during their days equal if not better than ...

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I can't help but think Hamilton or Alonso would have dragged the E21 to the Brazilian GP, still in WDC contention. Raikkonnen and Grosjean flubbed it. Not if Ferrari paid them to 'mysteriously' develop sudden need to have surgery for issue they had for years. But then again, neither was paid as lav...

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Yeah, he needs all good news he can get because he isn't talented or fast as Hamilton. Yeah, he is 'nowhere' near as talented - despite 5 team orders and 3 DNFs he only had 3 1st/2nd places to Lewis 1 . Rosberg completely trashed him, and in the category all Lewis fans cling to in Button years, top...

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Brawn was they key to Hamilton leaving McLaren for Mercedes. Less than a year later he's leaving them. Oh dear. Hamilton won't be a happy bunny. The icing on the cake would be if Brawn then joins McLaren. It's already funny seeing Hamilton fans wanting Hamilton back at McLaren if that happens, espe...

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What was awful was certain team trying to win race by penalising others and telling Rosberg to move aside, after they promised this time for sure really there will be no team orders, honest :thumbdown: Brazil was full of great battles, sad they choose lawyer way instead, I'd probably disagree with B...

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FringeUK wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/25080473

he could have avoided the contact as he had space

What space??

Look at the photo on top of your link, Bottas was nearly touching white line with right wheels, while LH had free 3-4 car widths to his left...

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RunningMan wrote:He isn't going to get the machinery needed to take 5+ wins a season every season.

This season he did 13. He can surely do 5 even in much worse car...

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Lewis started his F1 career in a car and team with which he was entirely comfortable whereas his team mate was new to both. So whilst his debut season was undeniably impressive, he didn't look quite as impressive in later seasons. Not only this, take a look at his results in 2007. He was perfect in...

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RaggedMan wrote:I don't think the world could take twice as much Bernie.

I just think the apprentice would in this case make us wish Bernie was back

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HamsterHuey wrote:Rosberg seemed to convincingly outpace Hamilton in quali

Yeah, wasn't Ros-Ham gap larger than Alonso-Massa one?

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I wouldn't mind that, actually. But if I were to choose a team principal to replace Bernie, it would be Ross Brawn, without a doubt. I don't know, the most successful team leader of last 5 years or someone who can lie with straight face that over a thousand kilometre test did nothing, our huge jump...

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we would have a 4 time WC in Alonso haha. Gee, seeing Alonso failed to pass PETROV of all the people back then you'd both waste it and it would still be two regardless :lol: Sorry, Aloneso will have to live with shame of not only not bringing any title to Ferrari but actively robbing them of two, i...

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Re: Hamilton's incredible start and possibly Villeneuve's (though I admittedly can't judge this as I don't know the 96-97 seasons and competition well enough). Villeneuve and Hill had not only by far the best car, but also by far the weakest opposition in last 25 years. With Senna dead, Prost and t...

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In last 10 years? Go to Massa in 2008 and explain what Alonso buddies are about to do in Crashgate. Tell Massa to adjust stops accordingly, after all he was race leader just before crash, thus robbing one cheater of undeserved win and make far more deserving driver 2008 WDC, two for one

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The material reality is that the Indy 500 was never an F1 race and as such Ascari's record of nine consecutive F1 wins is just a fact of life. Nope - it was part of WDC, points counted. That is a fact. You are of course entitled to your opinion, but I am strangely sure that if reverse was true (F1 ...

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96 was an answer from Damon to all of his critics What answer? :uhoh: 1996 had every single WDC from previous years dead, retired, or stuck in 4th grade car (MS). It's like Chilton won 2013 WDC in Red Bull while Alonso, Vettel, Kimi and Hamilton were all retired or drove for Caterham. Please, his c...

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Rindt's 27 points in 1970? 1-1-1-x-x-x-x-x Won it despite both runners up claiming 1-2 in almost all of last 5 races.

You pretty much can't have worse streak than this, for obvious reasons...

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Does someone want to recalculate the WCC standings minus Webber's results? Deleting Webber, Merc (for simplicity, no one else is close) would have +34 points (because Webber a lot of time finished behind both of them), 10 more than Vettel. At the rate Vettel is going, he will outscore them in Brazi...

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New drivers next year, Kwyat and Magnussen are both champions. How many more rookies you can bring in? F1 rooster isn't made from rubber, you can only bring in someone new if current driver retires or is kicked out. Also, sadly, rookies tend to go to worst teams first - which is why it's so ironic a...

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mikeyg123 wrote:I thought Webber was poor

Well, duh, when you can't beat Lotus for 12 laps while driving in RBR, sure, but at least today he managed to not break anything, or whine, and actually stumbled into a podium so credit where it is due - really best MW performance in 2013

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You know what's more boring than F1?? The people who log onto this forum every Sunday/every other Sunday to tell us all how boring F1 is..... Yeah, this. Schumacher and Senna got streaks far more dominating than that and somehow the trolls weren't complaining then. Maybe we should all just ignore t...

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8 wins in a row beats both drivers 7 - and even Ascari's unofficial (not) consecutive 9 will be badly tested in Brasil. Anyway, no one before did 8 in a row in just one season. Congratulations, Seb!

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I had flashbacks to Michael's years every time they shown Mercedes in this race

Webber maybe strongest race this season, too bad it was just not enough to beat Grosjean.

Excellent by Nico and Valetteri!

Mm, doughnuts

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baksonlee wrote:Many cynics thought you wouldn't be able to do it.

And only took three team orders and three retirements in his favour!

Great success, if you ignore fact he brought home just one win to Rosberg's two (and zero second places to Rosberg's one)...

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I wonder if any team has ever swapped cars between their drivers during a race weekend to check out if the cars are really the same (obviously with feedback from the drivers?) and detect such problems? I mean, if the cars are essentially made to be identical, and the set up, suspension parts etc ar...

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And since the other way is as much as applicable, i.e. that RoGro got enough points to get Lotus to 4th in the WDC on his own , it turns out that Lotus succeeding in coming up with such a competitive car to be a shot into own foot. It effectively enabled Kimi to amass so many points only to cost Lo...

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'Greedy' Kimi giving up a podium-capable car for 2 races, when even two 5th-place finishes can net him a million Euros? Must be some new, hitherto unknown type of greed, throwing a million bucks away like that. ;) What if Ferrari offered him guaranteed 1 mln if he goes and operates back NOW, for ex...

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Good luck, Felipe! You deserve it! :thumbup: Lewis was a far better worthy champion. Nice bait, but no one with common sense will call someone driving a car full of technology stolen last year a 'champion', especially after being in WDC contention only due to Crashgate. He is lucky that race counted...

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Razoola wrote:I personally feel Lotus has not paid up. So why not get it done now

Because he has contract giving him quite a lot of money for each point scored?

The only reason to do it now would be Ferrari giving him a bonus pay to weaken Lotus in final stage of WCC...

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The difference between the relationship he has with Alonso and the one he had with Schumacher is that Michael was a lot "softer" on Felipe. Michael was much more of a mentor to Felipe than anything else and supported his team-mate a lot more. Alonso is much different in that regard. As far as an ou...

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