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HawaiiF1Fan

Are you quite light? Karting is massively dependant on weight, especially on single geared, low powered rental karts. I'm hopeless at karting when it comes to any semi serious level, but I weigh 90kg. I used to do a league thing on rented karts, and it was dominated by small guys and girls. (Indeed...

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I'm not sure you don't have marbles with any racing tire. To create a really durable tire with superior grip is not an easy feat.

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Exediron wrote:
HawaiiF1Fan wrote:^^^I think Baku gets dropped. Remember all the buzz about NY/New Jersey? Now nothing.
Ah, but New Jersey didn't having the backing of a corrupt government! You're forgetting the most important ingredient for any race to be successful in modern F1!

I stand corrected.

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Mclaren dropped him by sending a short email on his birthday. That's one classy team. The thing is, they have a horrible young drivers programme. They don't know how to manage it and are screwing their drivers, making their champions wait, and just creating a mess all around. Yes, Hamilton worked f...

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I want to see Alonso in a car where he can fight Vettel and Hamilton on equal terms for one time at least before his time is up in the sport. Ricciardo would be my next pick to be in position to fight for a title, but he's got time; Alonso doesn't. My selection is a three-way battle between McLaren...

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Magnussen has already had his chance, and Vandoorne looks more promising. It makes sense. That said, I do think that Magnussen would be an improvement on Stevens at Manor, although I doubt that they'll make the switch. With Manor now taking Mercedes powertrains it makes sense that Mercedes might pl...

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Realistically speaking McHonda is a pretty good place to be. When they do finally get their t issues sorted he will have had time with two WDCs to show him how to succeed in F1. I thought I would just fix that for you. ;) While I understand that Stoffel is a very good choice for any team to have, I...

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^^^I think Baku gets dropped. Remember all the buzz about NY/New Jersey? Now nothing.

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Thank you for that track map HawaiiF1Fan, I was looking for that earlier on and didn't (yet) come across it. Where are the days when such information would be on all maps? It would be nice to have the gears mentioned too, but we can't have it all I guess. Anyway, thanks! Kimi's line may get him thr...

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Ref the "qualli mod" I may be wrong, but I can not see how they could use tokens for that. Tokens are for actual mechanical changes to metal (or other) parts and the car goes straight into bond after Qualli, so nothing mechanical can be altered before the race. Especially if using the term "mode", ...

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Putin: Is it time to take our shirts off yet?

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I feel really bad for Vandoorne. Now they'll screw up his career too. Seriously, how many tiems are they going to string some young driver along and allow some of his best years to go to waste? If Vandoorne doesn't believe in McLaren he can go elsewhere. He's not a slave. I think after this GP2 cam...

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Bottas braked in the normal place, turned in the normal place after ascertaining that Kimi was too far behind to pass, Kimi was still 2 car lengths behind when Bottas turned into the corner. From that point Bottas is looking forward, Kimi basically didn't brake in order to get to the apex first als...

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Blackhander, Bottas came from the complete other side of the track to make that corner. That is a legitimate driving line but I really doubt it is either the standard or optimum driving line for that bend. As I thought you don't know what the racing line is for that corner, and I'm also guessing ma...

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And not Lewis but Nico was struck by bad luck today... I gotta think the luck is going to even out and Lewis will have a DNF or something else will happen to him before the season is up. The stars have aligned for him so far this year. His 2 worst weekends in Hungary and Singapore saw Nico have bad...

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If ever we go to 3 car teams...............Fernando, Lewis, and Seb. There would be a meltdown of catastrophic proportions if that ever came to be.

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Ref the "qualli mod" I may be wrong, but I can not see how they could use tokens for that. Tokens are for actual mechanical changes to metal (or other) parts and the car goes straight into bond after Qualli, so nothing mechanical can be altered before the race. Especially if using the term "mode", ...

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No. Watching TV doesn't make you a smarter better driver, going to a driving school does.

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There are a lot of factors that affect these stats - amusing that people get hung up on a driver's first season or two that will cover a small percentage of races by the time these drivers are out. Hamilton may have started in a competitive car but I think it is fair to say that he has also had ver...

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I'm going to go out on a limb here because not only do I expect Ferrari to be competitive next season I also think Red Bull will be provided they get a Ferrari engine. I'm not really a fan of Horner after the way he treated Webber (read did not reel in Seb's behavior), so I'd love to see Red Bull w...

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I hope they dont dominate anymore next year and we have a competitive next season hopefully with more teams in the mix Don't pin too much hope on Ferrari. Since 2008 they have struggled to improve their car in consecutive seasons: 2009 >improved> 2010 >regressed> 2011 >static> 2012 >static> 2013 >r...

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The angle of that video makes Kimis move look slightly less extreme, but it also shows that he would NEVER have made that corner whether Bottas was there or not and would have shot off into the run off area. Can you explain how the video shows he would NEVER have made that corner? The line that Bot...

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My argument is that the tokens have made little difference this season. Ferrari haven't been able to do much better on a Saturday lately than they did at the beginning of the season. Also, due to Merc not providing the upgraded engine to their customer teams, they have less competition. Where would...

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Brawn with much less resources took a car designed for a Honda engine and turned it into a WCC/WDC. The BGP-001 was developed on pretty much the biggest budget ever in F1 (at the time at least). The "much less resources" Brawn had didn't really matter at the beginning of the season but became appar...

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I think since we would be in Season 3 of the new engine formula the manufacturers are already starting to converge to the most efficient packaging/layout. I think Ferrari is about there and given a little bit of wiggle room for more testing/development that Renault and Honda will get there too, but ...

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^^^Thanks.

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And not Lewis but Nico was struck by bad luck today... I gotta think the luck is going to even out and Lewis will have a DNF or something else will happen to him before the season is up. The stars have aligned for him so far this year. His 2 worst weekends in Hungary and Singapore saw Nico have bad...

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Im with MAS on this one As I said, even when we can not take responsibility from RAI, we should not remove some from BOT Kimi was optimistic, but in my view Bottas tried too late to protect what he already lost, his best bet was a re-take at corner exit, we can not forget it was the last lap, and t...

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Exediron wrote:
PRFAN wrote:Suspension broke after contact, no grip no steering.
If he had no steering, how did he get back around the rest of the track?

With the right front wheel. Left front suspension on Kimi's car was definitely broken.

HawaiiF1Fan

To be fair to Nico..........why should he kill his chances to win a WDC to let Lewis win his 3rd?

Lewis is in the catbird seat, if anything Nico needs some help beating Seb off of him.

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Williams is still not a top team. Yes they are 3rd in the constructors for the 2nd year in a row, however they have not won a race for over 3 years now. I think McLaren might win a race before Williams do. I am expecting Honda to make a big step forward next year. I think a lot of Williams trouble ...

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When I had gone back and done a bit of research I would say the issue about reliability wasn't really resolved until somewhere in the mid-late 1990's. Not even in the 90's was it uncommon for 1/2 of the field not to finish the race. Ferrari raised the bar extremely high during their 2000-2004 winni...

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And not Lewis but Nico was struck by bad luck today... I gotta think the luck is going to even out and Lewis will have a DNF or something else will happen to him before the season is up. The stars have aligned for him so far this year. His 2 worst weekends in Hungary and Singapore saw Nico have bad...

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But could Honda be more competitive if they were supplying Red Bull, Toro Rosso AND McLaren? Three times the testing available. Lets face it, this is one team where Red Bull is not their biggest problem. The core engine seems to actually be OK, if they could fix the energy recovery. You would imagi...

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No. They did very good job in the past, but now team in quitting F1. And that's their fault? For what, wanting to ditch a failing supplier, like Lotus already have done one year ago? You think Mateschitz is going to keep pouring money in F1 if they don't have a chance to compete? Of course not - an...

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BTW congrats to Sergio for one hell of a good drive. Much of this is being lost on the Kimi/Valterie incident, but the podium is a well deserved spot despite the shunt.

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Every driver could make their wheels half way up the person in front if they come into the corner at the speed of light. Problem is by carrying that much speed you aren't going to stop. Kimi showed a kamikaze attitude and if that was Maldonado he would be getting slaughtered. Kimi is getting justif...

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I understand the points you make mikey and while I considered them myself, however my overall opinion of Ericsson is that he will find a way to grab defeat from the jaws of victory. I think the upturn in his performance will not last long.

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Congratulations to Mercedes. They have done a wonderful job again this year.

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Staying with Red Bull for F1 2016 would be tough sell for Renault http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/121239 Abiteboul insists Renault "want the sport to be healthy" and it has "no wish to see Red Bull out of the sport". "But frankly when you see the way we have been treated, it's going to ...

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