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Returning to the thread title, only the WDCs and three others have more than three(?) full seasons of experience.

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U have to consider the bad luck he's had. The points difference with Alonso flatters Alonso a lot more than he deserves. Kimi perhaps lost a good 20+ points so far from those incidents. Like it or not, Kimi is their most recent WDC and the first thing Ferrari must do is make the car 3rd best on the...

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Maybe they forgot to turn magic on? 8O Q1 11:03 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton So Lewis, you may be able to push for two laps, so think about that. Cancel the ‘magic’ and strat-5. Q2 Peter Bonnington Lewis Hamilton It’ll be strat mode eight. You’ve got brake magic on. You’ve got Magnussen and Butt...

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After round 7 in 2007 he was 4th in the WDC and had barely half the points of the WDC leader, after which the only time he finished off of the podium was a mechanical DNF. In 2012 after round seven he's lower than 5th with just 55 points. In contrast at round six in 2008 and 2013 respectively he was...

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I must be missing something. Has either driver really been that far off their team-mate? Both have been searching around for drivability, while Vettel's woes in particular have been compounded by misfortune. But both continue to show speed, and if their technical grievances can be overcome their fo...

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HawaiiF1Fan wrote:Seb 4X WDC getting smoked by DR.

Kimi, new team, new car, 2X WDC.

+1
I think people are answering two different questions in this thread.
Who is driving/performing worst? And, Who is driving worst relative to pre season expectations of their ability and where they were expected to be.

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Yes. But also not being allowed to beat him and being told to move over for him will have a detrimental effect. That's happened what 3 times? In 4 years? That's 3 times in a good 75+races? Why do you think Alonso's teammates have to move over for him? Because he's fighting for the championship and ...

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No, but hiring Alonso was a mistake if they wanted additional WDC and WCC championship cups. If they wanted bragging rights about how their driver beat his teammate for 4 years, then yeah, they are golden. Against better judgement, I'll reply to this one How exactly was hiring Alonso detrimental to...

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No, but hiring Alonso was a mistake if they wanted additional WDC and WCC championship cups. If they wanted bragging rights about how their driver beat his teammate for 4 years, then yeah, they are golden. Against better judgement, I'll reply to this one How exactly was hiring Alonso detrimental to...

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If you're asking what is Hamilton referring to: 2011 he tried to pass Button on the pit straight, Button didn't see him as he moved across to line up the first corner, contact, Hamilton retires with damage. 2010, just some hard racing from both after being told to turn engines down for a comfortable...

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If these do not work then I expect them to give up on this year as far big updates are concerned. But to put this into perspective, Mercedes sell in two days the same number of cars that Ferrari make each year, the only reason that Ferrari maintain their competitiveness is due to their high budget, ...

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RaggedMan wrote:Why is the Mercedes portion of the main site's team mate wars being discussed on the Kimi thread?

It isn't. The impartial and libelous portion is the subject of discussion, it being Mercedes is incidental.

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The 'problem' with so many tracks is that there is only one line through each corner, and if the driver makes a bad exit then that ruins the following straight, they can not afford to make a mistake on the exit. As such there is a little opportunity for overtaking as everyone is taking the same line...

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Anything which is not flat, has banked corners, and multiple lines through corners to aid overtaking. And no straights, or at least no straights preceded or succeeded by a slow corner. Interesting but how would you manage the start of the race without a straight? They manage at Monaco, the narrowes...

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Anything which is not flat, has banked corners, and multiple lines through corners to aid overtaking. And no straights, or at least no straights preceded or succeeded by a slow corner.

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My thoughts? I'm getting evermore depressed that GMM nonsense still gets published.

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I'm inclined to agree. I think they brought Alonso in to cover Massa, even if he was dropping away some. I personally think Kimi it only looked as though Kimi was holding Alonso up as much as he was due to Kimi staying back out of Grosjean's dirty air (this is something he's done plenty of times si...

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The major difference is that the bright red of the Vodaphone logos are gone, to be replaced by a black. It's really that simple. Which color stands out more and appears more exciting, red or black? ... If the rumours are correct and the team's plan had happened, they would probably have bright blue...

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Didn't Coulthard leave each team the year it became a championship contender, so that's three of the worst.

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Am I the only one that notice Alonso open a big gap over Kimi after he got past? I think one can legitimately claim that Alonso was held up behind Kimi. you mean on the last four laps of the race, when Kimi was on 20 lap old tyres? Yes, I noticed that And when Raikkonen slowed by over 2 seconds per...

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From Joe Saward on his blog when the news of Domenicali leaving was announced-

"I heard Luca was for the chop…"
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2014/04/ ... /#comments

Perhaps Domenicali leaving gave Di Montezemolo a temporary reprieve.

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So if the home crowd advantage gives the driver up to a second per lap, how fast was Raikkonen today still beating Alonso

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It seems to me that the documentary is the red herring. It's the same story that Christian Silt wrote late last year, Silt being Ecclestones's blatant propagandist until the story amusingly got edited into a negative article by the Independent's editors. That and the fact that it is the same story t...

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A quick question, if I already thought that Maldonado last year was as worthless as possible, he couldn't depreciate further, so is he still 100$? That wouldn't seem right or fair to rate him the same as some others.

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This is a straight fight. People have been waiting for it for years. There's nowhere to hide. The point some are attempting to highlight is that the straight fight hasn't actually been a straight fight yet. For example, in Australia Raikkonen's car had less power than Alonso's, a damaged floor, and...

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http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2014/03/in-depth-insight-behind-the-scenes-reading-of-the-australian-gp/ The lap chart shows Raikkonen lost places to Alonso during the safety car pit stop period, and actually gains time to Alonso from lap 39 and only started losing time when he and Bottas got stuck be...

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media questioning Kimi's motivation once again :L they just don't stop. http://www.autoweek.com/article/20140421/F1/140429984. Lopez is 'surprised' by Kimi's struggles: http://www.f1today.net/es/noticias/lopez-surprised-by-raikkonen-struggles-at-ferrari Both are yet again typically vacuous articles...

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Kimi is not a driver who is naturally 1 second slower then Alonso. Im going to wait untill Hungary to make any kind of judgement on Raikkonen vs Alonso If Raikkonen was the one thumping Alonso every week then his fans wouldn't be waiting that long before they started gloating. Raikkonen's form is m...

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You're over thinking it, just add one of these to the exhaust.

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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26866966
Roaming fees to be abolished within Europe

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Semantics. The stewards told RB to do something, RB didn't comply. As I said before; the stewards chose not to wave the black flag. That was a first class decision, because this way they kept the options of investigation, disqualification and appeal available. By keeping things civilized, I believe...

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Semantics. The stewards told RB to do something, RB didn't comply.

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They cheated because they were given an instruction by the stewards which they did not follow. Whether that instruction is without merit is irrelevant. Just as ignoring a drive through penalty instruction would be cheating, regardless of whether the penalty was for a reason they accepted as being va...

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What happens if the sensor actually fails during a race? Since it doesn't actually control anything the car will continue to run as it had been (Good or bad). The FIA have deemed that sensor to be the only legal way of measuring fuel flow is the car disqualified, or is the team free to turn up the ...

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My understanding (having read the stewards' report on the official F1 website) is that it's a calibration issue. Red Bull think that it was not accurate, but it was consistently inaccurate not fluctuating wildly, hence the offset that they were instructed to apply.

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dizlexik wrote: I like cats

Me too, especially with soy sauce!

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I think that the engines sound better and more fitting. In comparison, the previous engines sounded as they were, powerful and fast due to high rpm brute force. These, to me, sound like the more advanced technology that they are. Quieter due to less inefficiency and noise waste allowing other PU (an...

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Who do you want to win, not expect to win?
Please vote for three drivers and three constructors.
l have set the poll at six to enable voting for more than just one's own favourite driver or team, and with the hope that more data is better and that the results should give 'podium' result.

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I had the new, now back to the old background. I had assumed (in my ignorance of such things) that it was something to do with the forum being on multiple servers.

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Surprising that Senna features so little in those stats, or towards the top of many. Reading the Wikipedia Driver records page he doesn't impress as much as other drivers except for poles and pole related records, such as lead for at least one lap. The stats don't suggest that he was in the top thre...

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