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Max and Vettel can take a lesson or 2 from Ricciado, that is how you overtake!

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Wow, that was a risky move with Max's track record at defending.

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Fiki wrote:Somewhat surprised by Vettel's penalty, rejoining unsafely is one thing, causing an accident is another.

Did you mean Max's penalty or did I miss something?

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What is Max on about on the radio?

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Good decision on the penalty for Max there.

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bourbon19 wrote:Well VET P4 on merit...

P6 on merit, the other 2 places were gifted to him by Max! But it was a superb and brave overtake on Grosjean.

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What is Max doing? If you leave the circuit, you can't rejoin and cut someone up that badly.

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Must've missed that comment! I did hear that he would have no problems with a driver switch again if Bottas is ahead, which is a shame, but at least he's straight out with it and honest.

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In that budget. Does this account for the entry fee each team has too pay the fia each season. The champion team (merc) have to pay a premium which I believe is €50,000 per point scored the previous season with the rest of the grid paying €25,000 per point scored the previous season. A question to ...

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I don't really see the point in qualifying. I mean qualifying is something you do when threre are more candidates than places on the grid. At present we are 6 cars short for a full grid, which means everybody qualifies. I remember the reason for bringing in "better" qualifying schemes; avoiding lon...

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To me, Hamilton has got better with age. I am still confused why Kimi has not won a grand prix since his return to F1 :uhoh: ... It appears that Vettel does not like pressure compared to Hamilton, who thrives on it. :) Also, I've noticed that Hamilton's results get better in the 2nd half of the sea...

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I think the last season that I really enjoyed was 2012 although this year so far and last year have been good to watch. I'm sure others have said it in this thread already, but being from the UK and not having access to watch live has really made me lose interest. I used to watch the Sky footage by ...

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Wow, so much hate for Vettel. :uhoh: There's a difference between hate and poking fun at. And Vettel really doesn't help himself for the poking to be going his way! My own response to the poll would be 'It all depends if Max and Vettel manage to get round turn 1 without hitting each other! Neither ...

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Not actually sure if this needs to be in a spoiler as I'm going to try and not say things about the plot, but the DVD's out now, so I've finally seen it...... I enjoyed the film, but compared to the rest of the Marvel films, it wasn't much of a stand alone film. By which I mean it doesn't stand up a...

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Is this really an issue? Mercedes openly admits that it will employ team orders, and everybody is mocking Ferrari in advance. But that is the point. Where Mercedes have been very open about employing team orders, Ferrari and a section of their fanbase seem to be pretending that their drivers are tr...

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All I can think is that if no good quality highlights are shown, it will simply reduce the viewership in the UK or make people find less reputable means of viewing. So all round not good for f1 in the UK.

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Looks to be rainy for qualifying at this stage.. Spa is seriously unpredictable when it comes to weather. So many times 1 part of the track is dry & the other wet. Wet weather means advantage Hamilton ! Aiaiai, don't say this in here! :lol: I know exactly where you're coming from, but I'd agree wit...

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There’s a chance of rain on both Saturday and Sunday. I want there to be rain, because I want Vettel to make amends for what happened in Germany. I seriously think that he’s second only to Hamilton in the wet. Hungary is a chance to prove it and silence the critics. I am curious as to which races (...

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I'd say it makes sense from an advertising perspective both from the the manufacturers point of view and Liberty's in marketing the sport with more sports car names in it. I don't think it would ever work though for the simple reason that the commentators are almost guaranteed every race to constant...

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Ham smashed the previous Silverstone lap record by 5 seconds 8O The level of performance is scary with the cars now. The external shots of them going through Maggots and Becketts looks like something from a CGI movie sequence. The lap record set by Alonso is a racing lap record. He did beat his own...

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I was thinking something like this too. There was nothing wrong with the first radio message, someone admitting fault and apologising (I wish more people could do this as opposed to trying to pass blame elsewhere). But the second time we heard him was awful! I don't know everything that was said ove...

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So F1 fans suddenly feel otherwise crap music now is good because an F1 driver is involved in it. Aguileras voice is holding up the whole tune which is pretty flat and repetetive. Do you remember when MTV sponsored a team and they asked drivers for requests? The drivers ised to request the most god...

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Finally managed to watch the race as the catch up wasn't available until 1am or so!

Fairly boring race again, but I do like the fast, flowing track layout. Just a shame that it's such an eyesore with those lines everywhere.

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2/3 for Fernando Yep. Can't help but feel that's sealed his fate as an F1 driver, and that he (and most likely McLaren) will do a full season of Indycar next year, to give him a proper go at the Indy 500. And with the new regulations coming in for the 2010 season, McLaren could well enter Le Mans a...

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Ah, thanks peeps. I honestly though he was in #7

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Zoue wrote:
minchy wrote:Looks like Alonso is going to miss out from that spin earlier. Doubt they're going to catch up a lap in the final hour.
he's in the lead?

Is he? Which car is he in?

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Oh, just seen the analysis that he missed his pit window.

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Looks like Alonso is going to miss out from that spin earlier. Doubt they're going to catch up a lap in the final hour.

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Yay, home and watching finally!

I don't mind looking at the scrolling positions bar, but I do wish (which I don't think I've ever seen in endurance racing) that they'd put on the side of the screen the current top 3 in each class. Would make it a lot easier to catch up on positions quickly.

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Lol, much appreciated:)

Shift over soon so I should get get to watch the finish if I don't fall asleep.

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Been working all night so not been able to watch. You guys should post more commentary!!! One post #8 was behind with stop go penalty, couple of posts later and they were ahead.

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Something that I don't think has been mentioned in this thread yet is how this, or any other incident like it, will affect the bookies and gambling. I don't gamble myself, but bookies take bets on f1 and if it is classed as a sport the odds and bets should reflect that. Look at match fixing in almo...

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To be honest, I don't know if there is a rule which specifically stops inter-team orders similar to the badly worded tram order rule which got abolished back in 2011(ish), but I'd assume if there isn't, there probably should be, otherwise it really will just be an engine manufacturers championship.

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Something that I don't think has been mentioned in this thread yet is how this, or any other incident like it, will affect the bookies and gambling. I don't gamble myself, but bookies take bets on f1 and if it is classed as a sport the odds and bets should reflect that. Look at match fixing in almos...

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I think regardless of who Ocon was actually racing, he wouldn't have even needed to use defensive driving to keep Hamilton behind him and lost no race time himself. In my opinion, in this situation, it really shouldn't matter if he on a different strategy or not - he was currently ahead of Hamilton ...

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^I don’t think drivers factor into the decision I'd say that all depends if drivers are two-a-penny or an expensive commodity? Because you can almost guarantee that the engine supplier will be one of the drivers deciding factors if they have a choice of who to sign with (especially if it is a Honda...

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My gut instinct as to whether redbull will change to Honda is simply if they want to keep Ricciado or not. For a top driver who is potentially in demand for more than one top team, it'll have to be a pretty Steller pitch by redbull and Honda to keep him there. But then again, the pitch worked on Alo...

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You know it's been a dull race when the podium ceremony is the most entertaining thing in 2 and a half hours!

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I put more stock in Patrick O'Brien's assessments. http://grandprixratings.blogspot.ca/ I still miss you Patrick, RIP my friend. I was also going to say Patrick's ratings are still the best by far. He worked on his formula for so long, taking driver, car and overall package into account from their ...

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[*] Is anyone having issues with NOWTV? the aspect ratio seems to be 16:9 letter box on every channel like films are. Everything looks horribly squashed on the f1 coverage. It is fine in the menu of my nowTV box, but awful when watching the coverage. What could this be? You tried altering the ratio ...

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