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Button only won the British formula Ford title before F1, remember they had to change the rules so as he could get a super license. He had shown to be a bit of a special talent though, and that promise eventually shone out in F1. He took a while to find his feet, and made some, in hindsight, questio...

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Well my summer tyres did about 2000 miles with 2 punctures. Then I fitted winter tyres and got my first puncture after 8 miles. It's just one of those things. When you have some cash I'd recommend a Lezyne pump. mine cost about £25 which is not cheap but it's amazing. Light and small which is alway...

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The problem is that to get a shot in F1 you can't be crap, no matter what a lot of people like to think, particularly with the lack of testing these days, you have to have shown potential at least. Quite simply you wouldn't get your super license otherwise. Anyway, a few that could fit the bill... K...

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Unfortunately, at the moment it does seem likely that they'll be out of F1 once the new engine regs come on stream. But, so long as they're able to secure their future as purveyor of high-end tuned, and race engines, they'll surely be back as some point or another, they're so intrinsically linked to...

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madchild wrote:
RunningMan wrote:Man Alonso is short.
and his girlfriend is FANTASTIC!

Indeed. No wonder he looks so smug.

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Obviously it's very sad that she's killed herself, but the outrage about the prank itself is outrageous, even prince Charles when asked, before the suicide, said he thought it was quite funny, and wasn't that bothered about it. They weren't trying to be malicious, even though yes, both to gain and t...

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In light of my previous, 10 puncture, nightmare I got myself some new tyres and inner tubes, and, as it's a bit Baltic at the moment, some cycling tights too. Never in the history of mankind has a bloke been so excited about tights, stockings, sure, but tights, must be a first. Anyway... Seeing as I...

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Some things on here are balls, it is an internet forum after all, but in general it's very good, great for keeping up with all the breaking news. Despite our many differences and opinions, in the end we're all fans of a great sport. What we have in common is greater than our differences, and if I wa...

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Lovely stats, nice work indeed, plenty good enough for the, "sometimes a bit like a ghost town", "in depth" part of the forum. Anyway, certainly backs up the main thing I'd noticed from the starts (and probably something the world and his wife had noticed), that the Ferraris have conspicuously good ...

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i suppose it depends on your time zone... http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3446/3901075049_83776b99ba.jpg but seeing as it's a "car" countdown.... http://www.roadandtrack.com/var/ezflow_site/storage_RT_NEW/storage/images/racing/gallery2/2399_-e2-80-93_aston_martin_racing_-e2-80-93_aston_martin_v-8_van...

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1986, Adelaide. Although I was very young at the time the sight of Mansels tyre exploding and him trying to keep it out of the armco, whilst in a position to win the title was by far the most exciting thing my little brain had ever witnessed. Suffice to say I was hooked.

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The Top Gear example doesn't really do them justice, unless you think about it. Because the limits of the Liana's capabilities are so very low, "mere mortals" can also reach them relatively easily, yet still the fastest of a hole bunch of "normal" people is 2.7 seconds slower than Vettel. That's a l...

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Personally although he's fairly subdued, on camera at least, I think he comes across really well. Maybe because I've lived in Scotland for a good chunk of my life I get him. Anyway, OT, he really never does at all. I'd never noticed before, but as soon as it's pointed out, you realise it was slappin...

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a lot of sense But just 2 little points, everything else is entirely spot on. This bit "...more money going to the teams would have tightened up the competition to make the racing even better...", would not necessarily be the case. Quite simply because everyone would have been getting more money, s...

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It was so farcical that I felt compelled to try and fight the situation. Could have been worse mind, at least it wasn't raining!

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Seeing as we don't know them, all we can do is go by how they come across in and are portrayed in the media, and various accounts of those that knew them. Even then we cannot be sure. The course of history seems to have put most WDCs from the past in rather a good light, but you'd assume that there ...

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I don't think I even know what the other competitors have achieved, and I watch a fair amount of sport. Judging by your avatar and indeed the posts in the cycling thread, you'd appreciate Sarah Storey. She's a British Paralympic cyclist. She's cycled with the able bodied team at international event...

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a small rant wow... did you really work your way through the entire thread at once without ending up either drunk or killing innocent people? you have my sincere respect... God, no. I'd have long since slit me throat if I'd done it in a oner. I may not post as much as I use to, but I still lurk lot...

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10 punctures! 10! Some knob nearly ran me off the road, I had to take swift avoiding action, unfortunately the only option was through a load of broken glass usefully swept towards the gutter, instead of removed from the road, after a car crash! Instant flat latter, I had to repair 10 separate holes...

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My god, this thread is the perfect example of why I made a conscious decision to drastically reduce my activity on this forum. Smashing your head against a brick wall doesn't quite cover it. Seb passed JEV after he passed a green flag (a green flag that is for everyone on track, if someone is coming...

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But, to take it further, I'll give you an example too, light board at marshals' post is flashing yellow, however, marshal at the post is showing green flag. Track is green. As I myself stated, this shouldn't ever happen, but, seeing as the light boards are a technical system, and technical systems ...

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Read ashley's reply. They never "contradict" each other. If you see a light board/flag that is yellow, you slow down till you see a green light board/flag and then you're free to race. They are completely equivalent but two separate systems. To give you a different example, consider three points on...

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As has been mentioned, they have no "aversion" to German drivers, and have indeed tried to sign a couple over the years, but, again, as has been mentioned, before Schumacher came along there weren't any. He inspired a generation of young drivers and sponsors, and now there's thousands of 'em.

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Flags do not supersede light boards. Light boards are equivalent to flags. Hence, the first green (manual or light board) is the moment they can start racing, which is what Vettel did perfectly. Dash lights are not in the regulations so they don't count. About slowing and holding up drivers under y...

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Should be Wiggo in my book. What with winning the Tour, winning another Olympic gold medal, to equal the most golds of any Brit, setting up the womens' professional team from his own pocket, oh, and he seems a genuinely decent, fun bloke too. However, I also think it's be entirely justified if Mo, W...

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superuser wrote:

PLEASE try to read at least the first page of the thread before posting. How hard it can be?

Apparently very. Thank you for posting those pictures by the way, I don't know why anyone bothered continuing the thread at all after that.

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SteveC84 wrote:
superuser wrote:conclusive evidence
Mate Vette'ls dash said it was still under yellow so its a non argument.

Mate, flags supersede dash or light boards, so it's a non argument, the track was green.

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Yes, thank you very much MS, I pretty much hated you for rather a long time, due to your more than questionable conduct within the world of F1, but, although I do feel your stats flatter you somewhat, I never denied your more than obvious talent.

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some tripe while I agree that he wouldn't have been expected to finish much higher than 8th, it's the manner in which he has done it and the points he's clearly thrown away that raise the big questions. According to this he's completed fewer laps than anyone else on the grid, which is even more not...

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Personally, while I freely admit he's had too many incidents, the same can be said of many drivers who've gone on to be some of the best on the grid, everyone's long since forgotten that Massa use to crash all the time, I feel his general performance has been good enough, and I think they should kee...

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... I know what you mean: "Stats don't tell the whole story... but we do". For the life of me i can't remember who said what I'm about to quote, if I remember I'll edit this (edit - Aaron Levinstein), but someone quoted it in another topic quite a while back, and it is an important thing to remembe...

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[quote="the incubus"][/quote] I totally understand where you're coming from with that, but he was not meaning that the cars are easier to drive, but that IndyCar became a single make series, limiting the pace of the cars, whilst F1, although being restricted, has progressed to another league entirel...

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It's usually the one's that don't look very bad that are the worst, the spectacular ones dissipating the energy away from the driver, usually. I can't remember how fast it is through there, over 100mph if i remember correctly. Hitting the barrier like that was quite a sudden direction change, I assu...

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lots of good stuff, I just don't want to take up too much space Indeed, the only reason Moss never won a title was because he twice gave up his car for his team mate, whilst actually being in a title winning position himself. However, he was not obliged to do so, merely he did not think that to win...

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I saw an interview with Dario about a year ago, unfortunately I cannot remember what it was from, but he, himself, said that he could not be competitive in F1. He said that because he'd spent so long in IndyCar he'd not be able to adapt to F1 cars, that they'd simply progressed too far since he was ...

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I do also agree that people saying Senna would have won '94 is a nothing statement, although I think he probably would have, it is total speculation , and both Hill's talent and the quality of the Benetton are too often wildly underrated. Bit OT, but... It's amazing how Hill's career so mirrored hi...

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if I quote it all this will be even longer than it already unnecessarily is I only mentioned the cheating as a slight joke, admittedly sarcasm doesn't transfer well to the medium of text. However, he did cheat, and he benefited from others cheating, whether he was complicit or not (every single tea...

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...Bottom line is this poll is a bit flawed for many reasons and the one thing I think we can all agree on is that they mucked up the top 3 spots which SHOULD consist of Prost, Schumacher and Senna ... to quote it all would make my post even longer While personally I agree that the general strength...

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Personally I'd have had both Clark and Fangio above Senna, but who cares, it's all just opinions, not ever anything you could objectively prove in any way. Fun though, and lets face it, you could make an argument for virtually anyone on the list to be up the top.

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As someone on here pointed out once before, there is a world of difference between something being a "competition" and something being "competitive". By their very nature "competitions" are not necessarily "competitive". That's kind of the point of competitions, if they are competitive then that's j...

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