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Is Kimi gonna be allowed to win or will he have to let Vettel by? It would make total sense from a championship perspective to let Vettel by. However, there will be a huge backlash if there is a hint that strategies were manipulated or Kimi is told to let Vettel by. I don't think Ferrari will be af...

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I don't see it working in F1 unless you made it a spec series. Red Bull and Torro Rosso had pretty much identical cars a few years ago but Torro Rosso didn't have the budget to develop it as Red Bull did.

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Serious answer: I think these cars are a huge success. The last few years have made watching paint dry a more attractive option for me. And going back to the crappy tyres we've had since 2011 would be an absolute disaster IMO. This year is better in almost every way Better how? Cars can't follow ea...

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UnlikeUday wrote:Tomorrow's race is poised to be super.

For Ferrari/Vettel fans, yes. Lets hope there's some action further down the field though as I imagine Vettel will dominate at the front.

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Why's everyone assuming it's just Alonso? This is great for publicity for Indy, and F1 in America, etc. etc. It may even not be his original idea at all. Although it probably is. Either way, this helps everyone, incl. Liberty. In that article Bliny posted above Zak Brown said he initially came up w...

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I would just go with the halo, but just try and make it better aesthetically. The screens actually look worse in my opinion. The halo would at least protect against cars riding over the top of each other and large pieces of debris, including wheels. They're the most likely scenarios. Totally unrelat...

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If you care about Raikkonen you should ask the guy to retire already. What's the point? is there any dignity left? How could some members here even start a thread on his 2017 chances to win the WDC? :-(( I hope for his own good that he was saving fuel for all the race.. I've not really seen that he...

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Any change of engine will increase costs massively and there is no way Todt or anyone will bring about a new engine themselves. It will require manufacturers to agree and they will only agree if it benefits them somehow.

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Mclaren have been in a very bad way since 2013 (arguably 2009). They are ultimately to blame for this Honda disaster, for allowing Honda to make so many mistakes and failing to manage the whole project properly. They've basically allowed Honda to fail and are only now trying to do something about it...

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Zoue wrote:As a aside, the Castrol sponsorship must be £2.50 a year, judging by the size of the logo. Had to really search for it and it doesn't really suggest too big a technical partnership, unless I'm reading too much into it?

I thought the same. Doesn't even seem to appear on the driver suits.

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I wonder if Mclaren will be the first team to suffer a inexplicable front wing failure in testing. Don't mind the orange, but it does seem very bare for a team hoping to be at the front. And Alonso doesn't look best pleased.

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Alonso will try, I'm sure. Even if it doesn't happen next year he'll be poised to move to Mercedes in 2018, surely.

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Alonso v Ham part 2 ---PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSE!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: Mercedes are not going to risk that after all the drama of the last years. If Fernando comes then Hamilton goes. True unfortunately. I don't think Mercedes could cope with two 'number 1' drivers. In fact, I don't think any tea...

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Seems a bit premature really. Retiring from F1 at 31, With a contract at the best team in F1 having just had his most successful season. I think he'll be back in a season or two.

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I used to play snooker and always attacked the ball. Sometimes you play against someone that deliberately snookers you. (Put the white in a position where you can't pot a ball, and will most likely foul giving your opponent a shot). I hated it and never did it. But it was part of the game. That is ...

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Abu Dhabi as a race just doesn't offer anything interesting. I am sure it is a great venue with all the attractions on offer but as a season closer its bland I was thinking that before the race. It's like the worst track for the scenario we had today. A spot of rain today would have been incredible...

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Flash2k11 wrote:With the closing speeds involved in overtaking, a blocking maneuver is more often than not going to end in a collision. It's just too dangerous to allow it.

I regard moving under braking as cheating. It's a really underhand thing. When a driver moves under breaking they are not racing anymore.

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I like Vettel but I always feel his angry radio messages are somehow...fake. It always seems like he does them for effect. If he really was that angry behind the wheel, he'd crash into people on purpose or get out of his car at the end of a race and punch people. He's like a kid who watches an exple...

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The FIA are on a safety trip, starting the race under the SC last race. But a driver floors it through blind corners under double yellows and they do nothing. Lets not forget, Bianchi died by going too quickly through a double yellow flag zone. It is a serious offence, anything could have been arou...

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Arbitrarius wrote:I think the biggest problem with F1 regarding rules is that it has allowed competing interests to influence them. This permeates down to the race director and stewards.

This is the reason F1 seems to kick itself in the balls so often.

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Any trophy in the shape of a company logo is just a piece of advertising. I'm surprised we don't see those oh so tacky boards they bring out behind footballers crammed full of logos when they're doing the podium interviews. They do seem to have stopped digitally projecting adverts on the track thou...

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The whole radio ban is stupid, it's a team sport ffs I agree however, currently these are the rules and they are more than enough to sit down and learn them if they really want to win. I guess that is what they are doing now, but it seems stupid to impose a ban on comms when the cars are so complic...

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I liked the first segment with the new Mclaren and Jenson Button. I felt Evans was trying to be less like Clarkson and it worked well. After that, I was simply bored. The guest bit went on for way too long and the first car/best car thing made the whole thing tiresome. The road trip was a good idea ...

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I think this is the sort of speed of thought that someone like Schumacher and possibly Vettel would have had the mental capacity to work through in real time during the overtaking manoeuvre. Yeah or other brilliant drivers like Alonso, Prost and Hamilton... Seriously "mental capacity"? What a basel...

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This incident is nothing to do with the approaching corner. Rosberg is in the lead and he is well off the normal racing line, so it is a defensive move prior to the braking zone. Both react to the apparent fact that Rosberg started in the wrong engine mode, went to correct that then realized he nee...

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I don't see much of a future in F1 for Kvyat now. Red Bull say this is to somehow stop him getting into a situation like Grosjean did where he keeps crashing due to inner pressure. By knocking his confidence even more by quite obviously demoting him? Also, this is bad news for Sainz. Red Bull obviou...

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You would have to pick randomly which position starts pole after the Saturday race to avoid drivers trying to finish in 10th. This is what happened when they tried this format in the BTCC. All these ideas are gimmicks though, I feel. F1 should be pure racing.

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Comparing F1 to tennis is stupid. Physical strength is not the limiting factor for women in F1. Look at F1 drivers, there are plenty of women who are much stronger than any one of them and could endure the exertion for much longer than them - not that I actually think it is necessary to do either t...

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I have no problem with Alonso challenging Herbert live on TV, although his jibe that Herbert 'became a commentator because he wasn't a champion' was a bit of a weak insult.

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This is not going to be a popular opinion, but I would have liked them to try the revised qualifying that was on the table: Q1 and Q2 extended so a second run would be possible, and Q3 as it was in previous years. Instead we now get this all-or-nothing political powerplay that can drag on for a goo...

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and now on top of everything, the new qualifying has been reinstated “They’re going to do what I proposed, which is leave things as they are for this race [in Bahrain],” F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone told Autosport. “After that we will then have a good look and decide whether what was done was the r...

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If you can't convince someone that stealing is wrong then that's a pretty damning indictment of their values and upbringing. I don't think saying it's too expensive otherwise is any kind of argument. As for Steam, I'm not convinced that they are responsible for a drop in piracy rates because of the...

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Interesting watching Ted's notebook that it was suggested this was perhaps another idea backed by Red Bull, notice none of their drivers are speaking about it. This goes along with the big aero plans for 2017 which is still being pushed for by Red Bull, plus there is also the client engine which Ho...

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it looks hideous Yes, it does look hideous...absolutely hideous. Just close the cockpit if this is the alternative. Yes. I feel they should develop a proper canopy solution if they are going to try and implement a solution to the flying debris problem. This is a half-measure and looks pretty awful....

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Asphalt_World wrote:New quali system has been delayed until the Spanish GP at the earliest.

F1 showing it couldn't organise a 'you know what' in a brewery yet again.

Surely they won't introduce a change to the qualifying format part way through a season....

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I suppose it'll be fine until a car that has recently been eliminated holds up another car who is attempting to avoid elimination and in turn gets eliminated.

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The change was one of the key concessions made when the manufacturers agreed to cut their prices to customers in 2017. All four now have works teams and will justify their spending in terms of making their own squads competitive, without the cost being passed on to the teams they supply The manufac...

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How many ex f1 drivers get to have there two pence worth before it stops becoming news worthy? It's getting extremely boring. The trouble is, they/we look at the past with rose tinted spectacles. I remember finding f1 back in the early to mid 00s mind numbingly boring at the time. A lot of the time...

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https://www.formula1.com/content/fom-website/en/latest/headlines/2015/10/f1-engine-customers-to-get-same-year-power-units-from-2016.html Now this is the important bit! They have agreed to supply same spec engines as the works engine - and do it from this year. That makes sense and is good for F1. :...

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