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Fantastic laps from Rosberg and Ricciardo today. Nico's lap looked inch-perfect on the Skypad barring maybe a bit lost in the first corner. It didn't look perfect on the Sky Pad to me. He kept freezing, jerking and going backwards! :D I wish that they could pause that Sky Pad in the right place ins...

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Verstappen is so impressive, and he is only going to get better. The rest should be afraid I think. Let's wait and see what happens in Q3. I've seen this before where Verstappen appears to be miles ahead in Q2 and then Ricc comes out of nowwhere and blitzes him in Q3. Dont' think it's gonna happen ...

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Lets hope Gutierrez will have have a good tyre choice for tomorrow and look for a points finish.

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kleefton wrote:Wow. Gutierrez and Palmer doing well.
Button outqualifying Alonso handily.

We start with that same word

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Wow that was close. Gutierrez was so close to making it to Q3. Even so, great performance from him.

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Is Kvyat the worst driver in Formula 1 at the moment? Haryanto has been tame in the races. He has had the worst luck of any driver this season. It is also normally quite hard going backwards from a good team to a car that isn't as easy to drive. Cristian Horner mentioned this. Anyway, many drivers ...

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Might Hass be capable of getting through to Q3? Since Gutierrez managed 8th in Q1, hopefully one of the 2 drivers will manage to get through.

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Verstappen apparently has no rear tyres. He says they have gone already. Didn't look like that to me, I thought they were still there

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I find the Sky practice coverage so irritating compared to Channel 4. They haven't been talking about the practice in the slightest for over 10 minutes. What they are talking about may be interesting but they may as well talk about this in the pre - race coverage or something. Channel 4 coverage of ...

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I would say this is quite easily the worst accident of Ericsson's F1 career. Probably the worst accident in F1 this year after Alonso's accident in Australia. At full speed, this looks pretty scary. Enough to force the steering wheel off.

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In China, he finished 3rd. This was when Red Bull were not as competitive as they are now so I think that was a good achievement. Ricciardo was leading the race in China before having a tyre puncture. The Bull was fine there and third place would probably have been second in Ricciardo's hands - he ...

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Kvyat did beat his team mate last year. I can't remember correctly but a lot of people have been saying he had much worse luck. I don't remember that being the case. Kvyat had quite a bit of bad luck too and still ended up beating Ricciardo. However, I would still say that Ricciardo is quite a bit b...

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I wouldn't vote for either Alonso or Hamilton. I am pretty surprised how many votes they both have. Alonso did preform well in terms of his position but spun in Q3 when it looked dry. He then in the race got his 3rd and final warning for track limits. I don't think any other driver got to their fina...

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Raikkonen sole DotD. Alonso DotW by far for me. Even though Alonso spun in qualifying? Even though he did well overall, I couldn't say he was driver of the weekend by far. He also got a final warning for track limits I believe. I voted Alonso and Raikkonen for drivers of the race. I don't know who ...

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So many people make it look like it was only Hamilton that was affected by the yellow flags. Bottas hadn't yet had the chance to set a fast run and when he eventually did, Alonso had gone off and Bottas had to reduce his speed, as did many others. I think Bottas could have managed 6th or 7th if it ...

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So many people make it look like it was only Hamilton that was affected by the yellow flags. Bottas hadn't yet had the chance to set a fast run and when he eventually did, Alonso had gone off and Bottas had to reduce his speed, as did many others. I think Bottas could have managed 6th or 7th if it w...

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I do agree that some of Verstappen's overtakes look very impressive. However, several of them will have resulted in crashes if the driver he was overtaking didn't realise he was there. An example of this was China last year when he was overtaking Ericsson. Verstappen braked very late and if Ericsso...

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I get puzzled by people saying things like "I haven't been that amazed by Verstappen" For an 17 now 18 year old kid to come into F1 and do what he has done is utterly astonishing. The lad is still only 18. Most drivers enter the sport around 22 towards the end of their single seater education. Max ...

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I do believe Verstappen does have potential to be a very good driver but I don't quite get what so many are amazed about so far. This is only his 2nd season. Bottas did really well and pretty much made no mistakes in his 2nd season and he seemed to get rated very highly then. Since then, people don...

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I do believe Verstappen does have potential to be a very good driver but I don't quite get what so many are amazed about so far. This is only his 2nd season. Bottas did really well and pretty much made no mistakes in his 2nd season and he seemed to get rated very highly then. Since then, people don'...

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I still haven't managed to decide who to vote for. It is between Perez and Bottas. Bottas may not be very exciting to watch but I think he is one of the most consistent drivers on the grid. Perez may be getting better but over the past few years, he has easily made more errors than Bottas. I do know...

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4 votes for Alonso and 1 for Button? Button started from further back and finished ahead. Alonso's mistake obviously did cost him that place but it was his own mistake. Button IMO did have a better overall race.

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Just why are Williams so weak in the wet? I don't believe that Bottas and Massa are both drivers that suddenly become much weaker in the wet. I feel it must be to do with their lack of down force. Probably something else too. It seems such a shame considering how competitive I expected them to be he...

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Lewis for me. Max Verstappen, far and above everyone else. Really? Wow. I'm not sure if I could even say he was one of the drivers of the day. He started 3rd and finished 3rd. Nothing that impressive. Some of his defending was good but there was one occasion where he did pretty much the same to Ros...

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DC is right, it's worth the gamble to give it to him and debate it afterwards Surely then Hamilton will argue why he was not told in Baku? I thought Hamilton's problem in Baku only resulted in a lack of pace. Rosberg's problem may have resulted in a retirement or at least finishing out of the point...

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Did Kvyat finish less than 5 seconds behind Vettel? Just before the end, he was under 5 seconds behind who was in 9th. If he still was within 5 seconds behind when he finished, then those places will get swapped.

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Webber and DC are much better to watch than Hill and Herbert. Webber was getting soaked. I think the channel 4 pre race coverage is way better than sky. The coverage after the race on channel 4 is also better IMO. Yeah I agree with you. I watch sky because I have too, when C4 is on that's the chann...

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Hamilton_Jar wrote:Webber and DC are much better to watch than Hill and Herbert. Webber was getting soaked.

I think the channel 4 pre race coverage is way better than sky. The coverage after the race on channel 4 is also better IMO.

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10 second penalty No change to his finishing position if that's the case. Right result in the end IMO. He was penalised by the result of his own actions, no need for anything more. Raikkonen was given a 30 second penalty in Sochi because of his collision with Bottas, I know the outcome was differen...

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Still no steward decision, 2 hours after the race? Very odd. I am thinking the most likely penalty is for the failure to stop the car or pit? You must immediately retire or immediately pit a heavily damaged car that is dragging debris over the track. Ironically, Mercedes could have pitted him, fitt...

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[/quote]For the umpteenth time there was no contact when Hamilton rejoined the track, in fact Hamilton avoided any contact as Rosberg seemed quite happy to hit Hamilton again.[/quote] I will quote my most recent message showing I have apolagized and agreed that I was in the wrong. I couldn't keep qu...

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Right I have seen a slow motion replay that shows he didn't make any contact there. So sorry to everyone who I didn't agree with! It was hard to judge as Hamilton really did look to have hit him from some angles as his car suddenly swerved as if he had hit Rosberg. It must have just been either the ...

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I am hearing that Rosberg had trouble with his brakes. That resulted in pushing Hamilton off if that was the case. Then Hamilton came back on track and walloped into the side of Rosberg causing more damage. Is Rosberg to blame for Hamilton coming back on the track hitting Rosberg and causing far mo...

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I voted for Button and Verstappen. Was going to go for Werlhein but his error at the start made me change my mind. I did find it strange that there was no penanty for that. They are fussy about drivers parking every so slightly out of position but nothing is wrong at all with parking 1 place furthe...

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I am hearing that Rosberg had trouble with his brakes. That resulted in pushing Hamilton off if that was the case. Then Hamilton came back on track and walloped into the side of Rosberg causing more damage. Is Rosberg to blame for Hamilton coming back on the track hitting Rosberg and causing far mo...

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I am hearing that Rosberg had trouble with his brakes. That resulted in pushing Hamilton off if that was the case. Then Hamilton came back on track and walloped into the side of Rosberg causing more damage. Is Rosberg to blame for Hamilton coming back on the track hitting Rosberg and causing far mo...

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I voted for Button and Verstappen. Was going to go for Werlhein but his error at the start made me change my mind. I did find it strange that there was no penanty for that. They are fussy about drivers parking every so slightly out of position but nothing is wrong at all with parking 1 place further...

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Sky seem to be asking why Mercedes have been unfair to Lewis with the pit stop strategy even though he won. I bet if it had been the other way around, they wouldn't be asking why that did this.

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I am hearing that Rosberg had trouble with his brakes. That resulted in pushing Hamilton off if that was the case. Then Hamilton came back on track and walloped into the side of Rosberg causing more damage. Is Rosberg to blame for Hamilton coming back on the track hitting Rosberg and causing far mor...

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Werlhein did do well but I don't understand why he didn't get a penalty for parking in the incorrect place and then reversing on the grid!

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