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huggybear wrote:Arsene Wenger ... still coasting his way to fourth.

With a resurgent West Ham 3 just points behind, even that's questionable... though Arsenal being Arsenal they will first screw up their chances to win the league and then salvage 4th when all hope seems lost

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I think Leicester are in a very strong position. They're averaging just over 2 points per game, which actually isn't that much, normally it would be barely enough for a Champion's league place... it just so happens that this season everyone else is doing less than that. Leicester's points average is...

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I think the main point against a full canopy is the possibility of a driver getting trapped inside, which could quite plausibly happen if any part of the canopy is even slightly deformed after a collision. That's also why a halo with a supporting element connected to the airbox won't considered as i...

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In a way its the old argument about local news and far off lands. Except with the instant and international media we now have, local is getting quite big. You might be saying more about how we should behave rather than how we do. We are still like tribe. In tribe people only cared about people from...

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Just got reminded of this, which I think is very appropriate : https://xkcd.com/1173/

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F1 did OK when the Cosworth DFV engine was ruling the roost. At the moment, Mercedes have a stranglehold on F1. Other manufacturers could spend fortunes trying to catch up. We don't know if they will spend enough or if they will catch up. At the moment we have a race between 2 Mercedes cars. Bring ...

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I get the concerns about spec engines. This is one area of the new proposals I'm uncomfortable with. IMO they could remove concerns at a stroke by allowing both teams and manufacturers to choose between making a hybrid or a cheaper, biturbo option. That should satisfy manufacturers like Mercedes wh...

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Ferrari are (rightly) going to veto the fairy cakes out of this. I read somewhere that it might not be possible for them to do so under the terms of their veto arrangement. Can't remember exactly but IIRC they'd have to argue they'd be at a disadvantage and that would be difficult IIRC, Ferrari's v...

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Not that this will ever see the light of day, but i'm honestly surprised at the amount of people effectively advocating this. This is your 2 tier F1, and it would be doing it via the back door. There is no realistic way of maintaining a parity of performance of the current engines across all condit...

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End F1 and replace it with another top tier single seater series? Good idea. I wonder what they'll call it? F1000? F1mk2? G2? F1 now is fundamentally what it away has been. People have short memories and short attention spans. I don't think a few years break and a re-brand will fix that. I think ul...

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The new engines wouldn't be competitive against the fuel efficient Hybrids without refuelling, this clearly is part of the proposal and it was brought forward that refuelling increases costs. As I mentioned in a previous post, this is only true if the new engines are also limited to 100kg of fuel: ...

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Not that this will ever see the light of day, but i'm honestly surprised at the amount of people effectively advocating this. This is your 2 tier F1, and it would be doing it via the back door. There is no realistic way of maintaining a parity of performance of the current engines across all condit...

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(other quotes removed) The new rules will be weighted in which direction, the manufacturers or Bernies? When has there ever been equality in F1, let's also have spec chassis' and spec budgets. If you want to prioritise spec engines then there is no need really for the engine manufacturers to be in ...

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So does "no limits on revs, engine durability or fuel flow" mean they can use a new engine every race? Will they still have the 100kg max limit? I really see no difference in this and allowing say Renault to drop the recovery part, give it more revs and fuel, a bigger blower, and they would have th...

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The specifications now say the new engine will be a 2.5 litre V6 or smaller, with one or two turbochargers producing “greater than” 870 horse power. The engine will have no limits on revs, engine durability or fuel flow, freedom in the area of the exhaust and no hybrid power. http://www.grandprix24...

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Spectre. Spoilers below Pretty underwhelmed. Firstly, they Star Trek 2'd us with the guy who would obviously be Blofeld being Blofeld. Not a twist to anyone who knows the Bond mythos really. And wouldn't work for someone who didn't anyway. Interesting they gave him that scar though. The romance plo...

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I completely agree that ISIL and many others need to be replaced, but by what? Sadam Hussain's replacement just left a hole that was filled by …ISIL… there has to be a succession strategy, or withdraw completely. That's what got us into this mess in the first place ! When the West deposed Saddam Hu...

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I'm reading predictions of doom. I wouldn't worry about it as much as some of you are. However it blows up (if), it almost certainly won't affect you or people near you, and on a humanitarian level there are still bigger and more immediate things one can care about than these self-perpetuating stor...

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It's incredibly sad, a shocking attack. Unfortunately by the amount of vile comments I am reading on social media aimed at Muslims it appears to be having the desired impact too. I certainly agree that vile anti-muslim comments are completely wrong and completely unhelpful. It's a huge logical flaw...

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I was out sick all last week, probably good that I didn't get the chance to post anything too stupid and unemotional, having a week out has helped with perspective... so here's my 2p on the championship: - Lorenzo - absolutely deserved winner, he was consistent enough through the season and the fast...

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Banana Man wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34730265

What a plank. Thankfully it seems a fair few black players disagree with him.

Definitely. Managers not getting results get fired, doesn't matter at all what they look like.

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Will people stop using the word "interfering"? Surely you mean racing. There is no interfering, in as much as all racing interferes with other riders. The only darn interference that day was done by Rossi. Both by stopping and crowding another rider off track and then hitting him. There's no interf...

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Lorenzo trying to get in on the act and failing. https://twitter.com/MCNSport/status/661594262522458112/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Crashes, accusations, courts of appeal, rider wanting to appear against his teammate at the court, Marquez father saying Italy is a sh*t mafia country, Yamaha and Hond...

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The parties in the case are Rossi and the FIM. Not even Marquez is a party to the case (though he might he heard as a witness). Lorenzo's word as a witness has as much weight as mine or yours since all any of us have to go on is TV footage. And while his championship bid will be affected by the out...

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minchy wrote: If it is then every call center employee in the world would be working from prison!

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A bit harsh isnt it? But maybe its an exemplary punishment for those who want to "alter" races on their own. Not harsh at all, it's reckless endangerment. I would question the "want to "alter" races on their own" bit though, I think it's just an idiot getting himself into trouble rather than active...

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Seems to me Fiki has answered his own question. 'While the possibility exists that the hit on the brake lever could be accidental, the accident was caused by Rossi.' Exactly right. It was Rossis fault and he got penalised for it. And there is no proof it was deliberate so he is not going to get a p...

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Lorenzo trying to get in on the act and failing. https://twitter.com/MCNSport/status/661594262522458112/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Crashes, accusations, courts of appeal, rider wanting to appear against his teammate at the court, Marquez father saying Italy is a sh*t mafia country, Yamaha and Hond...

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Lorenzo trying to get in on the act and failing. https://twitter.com/MCNSport/status/661594262522458112/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Crashes, accusations, courts of appeal, rider wanting to appear against his teammate at the court, Marquez father saying Italy is a sh*t mafia country, Yamaha and Hond...

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No, if the design is for the 5m engine, the spending of 25m within the regs on the engine is only going to return a few %. If the same token system is used as this year, there is no doubt the big teams would spend money like water on testing and developing. But there will be a gap before the tokens...

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We need independant COMPETITIVE customer teams and engine suppliers in this sport to keep it alive. I was nodding in agreement with this when I realised... when was the last time we had that? In the last 15-odd years till 2014 there was Cosworth supplying the no-hopers at the back and occasionally ...

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Of course he will if he can just like the others not fancying competing on equal terms. Looking like Renault or $500m bust now, start warming up the humble pie for Horner and Marko ;-). the Renault option would be the obvious one. Given that Renault have been repeatedly and very publicly dissed and...

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Oh indeed I think they are taking many things into consideration, for instance any rider but Rossi would have been disqualified Erm... citation needed? :EDIT: I've been trying to Google a list of MotoGP riders who have been black-flagged and what for but the results are 'poisoned' by a ton of links...

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I've ridden sporty bikes for the last 30-odd years. A few races ago I started wondering why the brake lever guard doesn't cover all the length of the lever; the possibility of something accidentally (or otherwise) still happening is clear. This what Marquez said: Then he kicked out at me, knocking ...

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I've ridden sporty bikes for the last 30-odd years. A few races ago I started wondering why the brake lever guard doesn't cover all the length of the lever; the possibility of something accidentally (or otherwise) still happening is clear. This what Marquez said: Then he kicked out at me, knocking ...

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I went with 'no one', not because there isn't anyone in motorsport who deserves recognition, but because knighthoods are a meaningless anachronism.

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Once again, lasardi, you are making assumptions based on they way you choose to see it. I am not against a more equal distribution of money, however I am supportive of the fact that some teams bring considerably more money into the sport and are deserving of a bigger piece of the "pie". Why should ...

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It's the smaller teams that it affects the most, there is enough money sloshing about in F1 for the costs of the engines to not be a problem. High costs are always a problem, even for the richest teams. They have been doing many regulations to try to cut costs over so many years. Better money distr...

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"Ferrari" and "affordable" are two words that dont get along very well why should they? They have a great product and should get compensated for the hard work and great products they produce. #economics101 I never said they should make cheap products. But in F1's case, it damages F1, because small ...

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Well, now that the sh*tstorm has died down a bit, it occurs to me that the combination of incident + penalty has set us up for a grandstand finish. Consider the following: - Rossi was never the best qualifier and this season has been off the front row as often as not, but he's good at fighting his w...

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