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infi24r

Lewis Hamilton is still very fast and doesn't crash when he starts at the front.

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We all know who we're talking about here.

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Completely ignoring the fact that the 2009 season was one of the closest ever and the gap from first to last was usually around two seconds or less... In relative terms, the Caterham is much, much further off the pace than the 2009 Renault was. OP - If Kovalainen struggles to get within a second of...

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Hard to say, but all we know is that over the course of a season Alonso would be 1 point behind Hamilton.

edit - alonso has ascended to levels of such greatness in recent years I can't even make this joke

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Johnston wrote:
infi24r wrote: and was mistake prone.

Mistake Prone? when?

I'm just playing the Vettel fans. Mistake prone at starts and during quali. The starts I can agree with

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Aduka wrote:
Toby. wrote:Even when the topic isn't about Mark Webber, Aduka seems to manage to pull him into it to criticise him.
If you want to talk how bad is Vettel or depressed...you need someone as benchmark.and the best benchmark right now is Mark.

edit - actually, I can't be bothered.

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Toby. wrote:Even when the topic isn't about Mark Webber, Aduka seems to manage to pull him into it to criticise him.

He has to take attention away from the fact that Hamilton is destroying Vettel this year.

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I've always respected Hamilton. He he is a top driver for sure. He was maybe a little bit overhyped in 2007 and 2008 and people forget he was essentially a rookie. It went to his head and lead to erratic performances from him but he seems to have his head in the right place. I suspect that having Bu...

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:lol: :lol: Why would he need a new chassis? Vettel with less bad luck, would now be quite some lead ahead of Mark. He's not satisfied how car behaves, y et he was able in both of races to come in-front of his teammate . We must have seen differing Malaysian GP's :uhoh: Nope. Vettel was well in fro...

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:lol: :lol: Why would he need a new chassis? Vettel with less bad luck, would now have quite some lead ahead of Mark. He's not satisfied how car behaves, yet he was able in both of races to come in-front of his teammate. Vettel has had no bad luck. He has good luck in Australia with the safety car ...

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thehabsonice wrote:mm do you guys have a source?

http://www.play-auto.net/2010/05/vettel ... in-turkey/

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There have always been 2 schools of thought about this. 1. The chassis was never problematic and Vettel was just getting beaten by Webber outright and 2. The chassis was problematic and RBR giving it to Mark signified that he was being restrained with inferior equipment. Take your pick. And yes, Vet...

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Hamilton is the rain master currently.

Watch his Silverstone 2008 victory in the rain, that has to be one of the greatest drives of all time. Even in Malaysia he was lapping some 2 seconds faster than anyone else.

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I think we all saw Vettels lack of domination coming. The problem that I forsee is the media have spent the last 12 months trashing Mark Webber as another Massa, yet all of a sudden he is outperforming Vettel. The quali score is 2-0 so far, and Webber didn't even have KERS for one of those, he also...

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If this is true, I don't know where it puts Ferrari. Is it blatant violation of the testing limits or a clever way to improve the car? I'd say the former. I agree with his assessment of the race, but I think that, even under "testing" circumstances, Massa should've been faster, and should never hav...

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Also was Webber not catching Vettel before the puncture? Webber was catching Vettel for a few laps, but then Vettel went faster. I guess he was having trouble getting heat into the tires, not being helped with driving on hard. Out of about 6 laps towards the end in which they were both in free air ...

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Perhaps the feed was out of kilter, but wasn't he told to stop, then continue then later to stop? I know they are delayed but I'm sure that was the order I heard... Either way, I kinda agree with Seb here. If you can finish, you should (assuming it is not dangerous to do so). Smart move would be to...

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He did, and he was catching Vettel significantly before Vettels little incident. D espite Mark being on the softer tyre which was worse in those condition. And another excuse :lol: :lol: Are you blind? Check the lap times...Vettel was the one who was faster during majority of the race. Vettel is st...

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I think we all saw Vettels lack of domination coming. The problem that I forsee is the media have spent the last 12 months trashing Mark Webber as another Massa, yet all of a sudden he is outperforming Vettel. The quali score is 2-0 so far, and Webber didn't even have KERS for one of those, he also ...

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This actually shows that Webber was significantly faster than Vettel throughout the race. Bit of a shame for Red Bull that things didn't go quite right for either car. These are official laptimes from the race.. So much of.."Webber having better pace for the whole race".... http://oi43.tinypic.com/...

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darksides wrote:I felt that Vettel was lucky in both races to end up in the track position he was, it had nothing to do with his speed in the races, it was down to pit stops/strategy etc.

and starts.

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You also have to remember Sebastian Vettel never dominated the supporting classes like say Lewis Hamilton did. A 2nd in Formula 3 was his best result. Skill in lower catagories doesn't necessarily translate to Formula 1. Arguably the current Formula 1 is more about tyre feel and maintenance over agg...

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This actually shows that Webber was significantly faster than Vettel throughout the race. Bit of a shame for Red Bull that things didn't go quite right for either car. These are official laptimes from the race.. So much of.."Webber having better pace for the whole race".... http://oi43.tinypic.com/...

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Seems Vettel needs a perfect car for his style otherwise he's not so commanding and starts throwing tantrums. Also NK didn't say it was his fault. He apologized for ruining SV's race but said he had nowhere to go. BTW he apologized to Button too even though it's way more clear-cut Button's fault ca...

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The Blown Diffuser was just another 'driver aid' that makes the cars more tame I think. Sounded like quite a clever idea but not for racing cars. I'm worried about Webz getting stuck behind a Lotus or Merc early in a race and ruining his chances of a win, unless RBR gets better in Qualifying this y...

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Ferrari need a competitive second driver right now, they are actually following that win in a position to take third in the constructors if they have two solid drivers scoring consistent points. That gives them a big lead over teams like Mercedes who have scored 1 point. Alonso can't do it alone tho...

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My favorite part of the coverage was after turn 1 beatie going "Now Vettel leads Webber" when you can clearly see Mark's helmet in the leading Red Bull. It took him 10 seconds to work out what was going on.

Id rather have no commentary personally.

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I cannot wait to see Vettel completely melt down this year. He is no doubt running back to base demanding several things including preferential treatment, despite looking inferior to the #2 car this year so far.

A few more bad races and he will truely lose the plot.

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The Blown Diffuser was just another 'driver aid' that makes the cars more tame I think. Sounded like quite a clever idea but not for racing cars. I'm worried about Webz getting stuck behind a Lotus or Merc early in a race and ruining his chances of a win, unless RBR gets better in Qualifying this y...

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Highlight of the race was when Vettel thought he could overtake Webber and Mark just got the position straight back without a moment of hesitation.

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On the plus side there wasn't many commercials.

On the downside we had no race start again, but on the plus side we didn't have to listen to them for very long.

Good coverage as a whole, would watch again.

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chinki wrote:FOTD: Vettel and Button CAN overtake

Vettel did overtake Webber on track for a few seconds.

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The skill of the world champions was answered in their finishing results today.

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Mark Webber admitted that he took too long to get up to speed on intermediate tyres after only finishing fourth in the Malaysian Grand Prix. ..... "I think when it's mixed like that, on intermediates especially, it's down to how you have the balance, how the pressures are, the feeling and the confi...

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Good performance by Mark today, should give him a nice mental lead over Vettel. Webbers been faster in Quali and now leads him in the points.

Mark lost out waiting in traffic for 5 seconds in the pits, but apart from that had the pace for a podium. Only a matter of time until he delivers.

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Attempted team orders but Perez'es spin was genuine.

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Either Seb is in very bad form or Webber is in very good form. Mark looks to have the slight edge this year. Which is strange because people kept saying Webber was past his prime last year, yet he's out qualifying his double world champion team mate and leading him in the points.

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Hamilton is calmly getting his act together. it wouldnt be too long before we see button being totally destroyed by hamilton if things keep going this way it seems that roles have been reversed a bit doesn't it? Lewis is learning alot from Jenson. If he can calm his mind and be consistent Jenson ha...

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Am I the only one who thinks Perez got the order not to pass Alonso? And that he intentionally let the car roll in the safest corner on the track? Probably to avoid a scenario like Austria 2001. I think Perez is that good, that he doesn't need this. At Ferrari they need a new scandals boy for Alons...

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Once again Hamilton had the edge over Button in qualy, however, judging by his lockups in the last turn, was this at the expense of taking more from the tyres, which is fine to produce the faster qualy lap but is not sustainable for every lap of the race. I'm definitely looking forward to the answe...

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