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What's the difference between the two compounds meant to be at this track? According to the Lotus engineers, not very much at all...maybe 0.2 secs.. Anyway, the Aussies haven't lost out in quali vs their teammates so far this season: Webber 2 - Vettel 0 Ricciardo 2 - Vergne 0 Schumacher will be fig...

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Johnston wrote:It's not a bad performance but in their own words they are there to win and 3rd and 4thwith 2nd in the constructors isn't winning.

So are McLaren.

A top team is one that shows courage and continuity in the tough times. As in F1 there is always tough times at one point.

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Typical Schumacher. He annihilated Rosberg and First press conference since his come back and not even the slightest smile.

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Webber has the better strategy from this.

He can get rid of the stint of options while in traffic and run the rest of the race on primes.

Vettel hasn't come close to his form this year so far but there is always the "will RBR focus on Webbers strategy" question.

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I find it funny how since the ban of the Blown Diffuser Webber has out qualified Vettel both times. This sort of shows me Vettel gained the most of the extra downforce through the corners. Drivers like Hamilton, Button, Webber and more can handle the car a lot better with it. Which is what a lot of...

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I don't thing RB had any real reason to send Vettels out on the harder tyre. I think Vettels made the choice because he knew he wasn't going to be on pole, so may aswel try something different and hope for the best. If the harder tyre really gave that much of an advantage in the race do you not thi...

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Red Bull have a huge infrastructure. They own 2 teams and have a very well funded young driver program. They also arn't exactly going poorly here. Webber particularly was by far the fastest of anyone including the McLarens on the prime tyre. They arn't the fastest, but they are a confident second fa...

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The primes seemed faster on the Red Bull. Webbers time in Q1 was 0.2 seconds faster than his time in Q2 on options. Vettel doesn't seem to have any edge in Qualifying this year, not even over his team mate. You are also forgetting Vettel had already done a lap on the options, and he improved upon it...

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Yep, Lewis will have to remove his erratic behavior if he wants to match Button. Raw pace isn't everything.

I think Jenson will help to improve Lewis as a driver, he has alot to learn about racing and someone who can beat him will do him some good. Lewis has never really encountered this before.

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I think RB are easily capable of winning. (at least with Vettel). They are in a similar position to McLaren last year IMO but the difference is that I believe RB have updates pending that couldn't be implemented yet due to the 2 bad last tests and the rain in Australia. By Europe (race 5) they will...

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This is actually turning to be a determining race for many drivers. Lewis needs to win from pole today to start the season in fashionable way and get some much needed confidence. A major screw up like a collision or a DNF, a loss to Button or even worse, to Schumacher or Vettel might seriously dama...

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While it might not be advisable to post your first post in a 'conspiracy' thread, I think I might have something to contribute. Firstly, I find it hard to believe that an organization would deliberately sabotage their product. That isn't how billion dollar businesses like red bull are created. So, ...

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Will the conspiracy theorists answer a question I have about all this? With the field being so competitive this year, and McLaren looking like the better car, why would RBR intentionally concede the constructor's championship by sabotaging one of their own cars? . I agree, it won't happen. I think ...

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" Massa's had one bad race and everyone's saying he should be fired. " How about the entirety of last season struggling to reach Q3 and crashing into Hamilton most races? As far as AUS goes.. It's pretty unforgivable not being able to beat your team mate in Q2 when his car is sitting beached in the...

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Trulli is the the only recent driver i'd tip to be slower than Massa.

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Ummmm....RBR are being out-qualified and ~10 km/h slower on the straights. Not exactly the kind of 'cheating' one would lose sleep over, right? Thats why no one is making a deal about it. In F1 teams only care if someone is cheating when they are losing to them. I think the removal of the blown dif...

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F1zen wrote:When was the last time Ferrari replaced a driver mid season because he just wasn't cutting it? Interested to know.

Luca Badoer in 2009

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@freelittlebirds If I'm understanding you correctly, what you're saying is that Hamilton couldn't beat his Button because Button did a better job than him? Button isn't doing better becasue of Hamilton, he was always good, we simply never saw him in a car good enough to demonstrate it, and in '09 t...

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Time for Perez to get a call.

Massa should go back to a midfield team, i'm sure he could even be the #1 driver there.

Williams maybe? He's surely much better than Senna.

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ladd wrote: So is Martin Whitmarsh the biggest hypocrite of them all ? He must be for sure !

No we all know that man wears yellow and blue.

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In no possible way, even for Ferrari fans is this a good move. It's so blatantly obvious why that I dont even think it needs an explanation. In addition, having RedBull part of it is pointless. They have made it very clear that the second they stop winning, they will pull out. It's a promotional ve...

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Very interesting thread. I love psychology, especially the long-distance kind; Melbourne is about 12,000 miles from Europe. Driver fastest speeds at the Start/Finish line: Hamilton 302 kph Button 288 kph Driver fastest speeds at the main straight speed trap: Hamilton 314 kph Button 301 kph Did Butt...

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I remember how much of a fan I was of Red Bull in 2009. But during their blatently bias unfair treatment of Webber in 2010 they lost alot of respect from me. Hated them all through 2011 and I am enjoying very much their fall from grace. They got lucky (with 2 very good drives) from the drivers. Had ...

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Lap#, Lewis, Mark, Lap_Delta, Gap 42 1:33.630 [3] 1:33.812 [4] -0.182 -0.639 29 43 1:31.502 [3] 1:31.557 [4] -0.055 -0.694 30 44 1:30.535 [3] 1:30.724 [4] -0.189 -0.883 31 45 1:30.378 [3] 1:30.253 [4] +0.125 -0.758 14 46 1:29.865 [3] 1:30.175 [4] -0.310 -1.068 32 47 1:30.108 [3] 1:29.999 [4] +0.109...

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While it may have made sense in 2011 when it seemed to be a matter of when Red Bull took the constructors and drivers not if, I think this weekend we saw the team with their back against the wall and they needed both drivers to perform to an absolute top level to put together the result they got tod...

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Done and dusted.

He isn't going to come back from this for 3 years in a row he has been extremely problematic.

I'm sure as we speak they are working out whether to put Perez or Kubica in the car

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I liked it, that was such an exciting restart with the top 4 guys all there.

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When Webber got past Rosberg he was setting purple sectors often 2 seconds a lap faster than Vettel. Also Webber hung onto Hamilton easily when Vettel let Button drive away. Button was faster than all three of them. Webber had the use of DRS behind Hamilton all the time. Without DRS and Lewis using...

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Hamilton appears to have done a Webber from 2011. Good pace all around but lots of little mistakes which make a big difference in the end. Surely the only mistake he made all weekend was a little bit of wheel spin at the start. That lead to pitting second, coming out behind Perez, losing time and t...

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Brawn said they'd be aiming for 3rd in the constructors this year and that seems very likely based on what we've seen.

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Too many commercials.

Hopefully now that the Aussie round is over they will drop back.

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When Webber got past Rosberg he was setting purple sectors often 2 seconds a lap faster than Vettel.

Also Webber hung onto Hamilton easily when Vettel let Button drive away.

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There was no coverage but i think maldonado's williams and its associated debris may have triggered it all. Probably some drivers slowing more then others and getting tangled up. Hopefully the beeb will cover it later. It was on the aussie coverage. As the tangle happened Vergne went a bit to the l...

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Sorry if this is covered elsewhere (has a search and couldn't find it), but watching sky's post-race coverage and it wasn't mentioned. What happened in the midfield, we saw Rosberg and Perez come together which allowed Kobayashi though for 6th and Kimi though for 7th. Did this effect Vergne who the...

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I also would have liked to see if Vettel could get past Schumacher on track, that would have been an amazing fight to watch. But we didn't get to see it.

Hopefully the Bull's are weak in Quali again this weekend.

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The second we got to the race the Mercedes pace seemed to evaporate. I have no idea why that was. Vettel was all over Schumacher and Rosberg was holding Webber and Alonso up. That is a real shame too because they looked so promising in quali. It might have just been Nico's pace and comfort with the ...

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Webber had the better race pace today, it was just his start that allowed Vettel to get ahead. Shame really.

They seemed to have the issue fixed at the end of last year.

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Sebastian Vettel likes Petrov's antics very much.

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elektrobanks wrote:I did think it wasn't fair when alonso was close to vettel in the opening stages. Personally i think the FIA need to get involved before the big manufacturers start investing in lower teams to become moving chicanes!

We all know one recently retired driver who would be perfect for that role right?

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Algersuari held Webber up at Abu Dhubai 2010 and lost a place to Alonso

Anyway I think Vergne and Ricciardo have learnt, don't hold the Red Bull's up or you're gone.

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