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Alonso was right to leave Ferrari. Things are Ferrari just fall short in so many ways. Allison is lucky to get out there. Yeah, because McLaren is so much better huh? Alonso was right because he believed Ferrari wouldn't be able to challenge for a championship in the near future, and Macca might. A...

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silkjet wrote:Alonso was right to leave Ferrari. Things are Ferrari just fall short in so many ways. Allison is lucky to get out there.

Yeah, because McLaren is so much better huh?

guardiangr

Ferrari were probably the best at strategy in 2012. Right now, it seems that they are trying too hard to beat cars they simply cannot beat with odd and overly aggressive strategies instead of just doing the best job they can. Ferrari's botched strategy at Canada ultimately cost Alonso the title. Al...

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Turns out Brawn was there for the charity football match, at least that's the official excuse

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shoot999 wrote:https://twitter.com/F1Photographer/stat ... 5059898369

https://twitter.com/MauriceHamilton/sta ... 0456448001

I really hope he's going there to meet with Ferrari, otherwise I will get disappointed...

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It's been coming since his wife passed away unfortunately. Apparently he doesn't want his children to move to Italy and Ferrari aren't happy with him spending so much time away from the factory as naturally he wants to be with his children as much as possible. I'd say a return to Enstone is probabl...

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Apparently Ferrari have replaced him with some guy called Binotto with immediate effect. The sudden leave might be because of Allison's children and family in the UK. Will this also count as his gardening leave before he joins Renault? Ferrari seem to be screwed for this year AND next year's regula...

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Zoue wrote:yep, just beat me to it!

Bad news for Ferrari I think. A big blow to lose such a key design figure when such a big change is coming up.

Back to Renault, then?

Renault is my guess aswell. Such a big blow for Ferrari, 2017 is fading away from them day by day.

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Wow, just.... wow.

Sky Sports F1 ‏@SkySportsF1 6m6 minutes ago

FULL STORY: James Allison has left Ferrari after three years with the team http://skysports.tv/TXrMGR

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As it is now this poll is 79% that Ferrari won't win a race this year! That is surprising to me as I thought it would go close to 50-50. Guess there are too many Hamilton supporters on here! Does it ever even occur to people that maybe the vote is actually based on reasoned opinion, not knee-jerk f...

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No While their engine is better than last year, its still second best. Their chasis is behind RBR and Merc, The track side strategy is the worst, They just don't have any competitive advantage that will give them an edge at any track. Ha, I agree about their strategy. As it is now this poll is 79% ...

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Zoue wrote:According to SKY it's "with the stewards." Does that mean it's officially being investigated then? Talking about the Max/Kimi incident, of course

I really hope so, they should at least investigate it.

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Yeah let's penalize Button for getting help about a probably terminal problem but not even investigate Verstappen.

FIA is a joke...

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Pirelli is the single worst thing that has happened in this sport.

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Everyone saying that they didn't vote for Seb because of his 2 mistakes at the end. He was pushing so hard trying to close the gap that he made those mistakes. I saw that as commendable and worthy of my vote instead of losing it because of those mistakes.

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kleefton wrote:Probably the worst driver on the grid?

You forgot Ericsson

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I would be very surprised as a Ferrari fan if they nail it for 2017. At the previous 2 attempts at regs change (2009 and 2014) they failed miserably, I don't have any hope for 2017 and Vettel needs to understand that aswell.

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Let me begin my long post by reminding everyone what were are talking about. It is concerning the death of a human being. By all accounts Jules Bianchi was a wonderful and talented young man on the cusp of a successful career. Please, let us never forget the man. http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp...

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EDIT: I wrote a long post only to post a blank reply when I pressed submit. Bah, I can't be bothered to re-write all that again.

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I seem to remember that t was reported that the brake by wire system failed on his car contributing to his crash. Bingo. From the FIA's report on the crash: 7. During the 2 seconds Bianchi’s car was leaving the track and traversing the run-off area, he applied both throttle and brake together, usin...

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I was surprised aswell with the Marussia bit, don't know really why, my guess is they should include them to the legal action or their lawyers advised them to do so. I still fail to see how Marussia played a role in the accident though, apart from the fact that Jules was driving their car. That was ...

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2 votes for Hamilton? Driver of the race someone who got passed from the outside and never completed half a lap? Come on people... Max for me, he hardly made a mistake with Kimi up his exhaust pipe, very cool drive for his age. He's got ice in his veins it seems, the new Iceman It should be Hamilto...

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http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/teams-could-be-forced-to-make-tyre-choices-blind-in-2017-690118/ Basically, Pirelli need the choices for Melbourne by November, but the teams won't be able to test the tyres until February. F1 is unbelievably hopeless sometimes. Maybe if Pirelli didn't have to hold...

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I can't say I disagree with him. At most physically demanding sports women can't compete at the level men are, without wanting to sound sexist or something. The only sport I personally can recall where women do great is tennis. Most physically demanding sports have very different physical requireme...

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I can't say I disagree with him. At most physically demanding sports women can't compete at the level men are, without wanting to sound sexist or something. The only sport I personally can recall where women do great is tennis. Tennis is not a great example! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_...

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I get the hate for Pirelli and sometimes I pity them but it is too late for them now, just save whatever face you have left Pirelli and get out of the sport.

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I can't say I disagree with him. At most physically demanding sports women can't compete at the level men are, without wanting to sound sexist or something. The only sport I personally can recall where women do great is tennis.

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Voted Vettel for the laughs but if I would vote for someone that would be Vandoorne.

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Wrong choice of title. He didn't confirm anything, the right wording would be "claims swap proposal". The only person who can confirm it is Toto Wolff and that's not going to happen.

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Nothing to do with emissions-gate huh? Okeyyyyy.....

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It is whatever for me I guess. I'll wait and see before I pass judgement but I am a bit concerned about the added aero. My main gripe and what I cannot stand atm is the fuel capacity and fuel flow. They might do something about the capacity as I am reading on autosport today but fuel flow has to be ...

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Actually, no. Your request for evidence was in my rebuttal of the redundant comment claim. So it was to me. Jesus, my last paragraph is me trying to be clear for about the 12th time what i'm looking for. It's not part of the first 2 paragraphs. Jesus, I was responding to your inference that I was b...

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Even a F14T would be a tremendous upgrade for Manor

It's a good thing if he manages to make them a competitive team.

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Not surprising. It's more surprising he couldn't break most wins in one season record. Maybe in 2016 he will do it. I don't think so. If he had a clear #1 driver status like Schumacher, or a clearly weaker partner like Vettel, then maybe. I think Nico is too strong to be overrun like that. Yep how ...

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That's not true, there are restrictions on wind tunnel usage and CFD time, plus there is restricted track testing. Once the season have started they CANNOT implement any changes to the power unit, effectively locking any advantage a team (Mercedes) have in without any chance of catching up. As far ...

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One thing I don't understand is how on earth Pirelli thinks this is good for their brand and don't demand more from the FIA. Surely they can see all the negativity from the fans, drivers etc. It is not a wild guess to think that their profits are suffering from that also and I take that example fro...

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One thing I don't understand is how on earth Pirelli thinks this is good for their brand and don't demand more from the FIA. Surely they can see all the negativity from the fans, drivers etc. It is not a wild guess to think that their profits are suffering from that also and I take that example from...

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I think everyone should've realised by now their inability to produce a proper racing tyre and start moving away from the excuse "we are producing what we were asked for by FOM". EDIT: Of course the problem for Pirelli is magnified due to the stupid regulations. At this point it would help Pirelli a...

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Like I said before if mere testing is the golden bullet for the engines why did Honda make so little progress in the all the practice sessions they had during the season, they brought countless numbers of engines to the GP weekend. What I read was that they were perhaps lacking a bit of expertise p...

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Like I said before if mere testing is the golden bullet for the engines why did Honda make so little progress in the all the practice sessions they had during the season, they brought countless numbers of engines to the GP weekend. What I read was that they were perhaps lacking a bit of expertise p...

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