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Oh dear, how sad is hamilton sky sports, already talking about how ferrari are going to rob kimi and get vettel ahead of him. The bias with this station borders on ridiculous.

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Mercedes were 1.2s faster than ferrari last year at this track and 1.1s faster this year, so not much has changed on the PU front, mercedes still dominating by a good margin. Certainly makes of mockery of perez and the fai saying renault are pretty much there with mercedes.

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Should be an interesting qauli, i think RB will get left behind again in Q3 when mercedes and ferrari turn the wick up.

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Thread mine! Linking a few dots together here, but it does seem to be fairly convenient that this weekend in Azerbaijan on a track that is pretty much spot on designed to suit all of Mercedes strengths over Ferrari and RBR that they are suddenly lacking in pace immediately after the FIA increased s...

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Thread mine! Linking a few dots together here, but it does seem to be fairly convenient that this weekend in Azerbaijan on a track that is pretty much spot on designed to suit all of Mercedes strengths over Ferrari and RBR that they are suddenly lacking in pace immediately after the FIA increased s...

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Oh dear, honda dead set!

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Black_Flag_11 wrote:*opens Sky app*
"Commentary for this practice session comes to you from David Croft and Johnny Herbert"

*closes Sky app*
*opens C4 app*

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Looking forward to seeing how Ferrari/Mercedes shape up here. My head says Mercedes will be the better car here and in Austria but I thought that about Russia too so who knows? I think it will be a Ferrari weekend. Hamilton struggled here last year and there are a lot of very tight corners which wi...

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Gotta say i found the race last year rather dull but let's give it another chance and see what this year brings. The track will suit that monster mercedes PU big time but i'm really interested to see how ferrari go none the less.

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TJI is one of the things that has to be addressed in the new engine rules. The difficult part of it is doing it within the rules because they are so restrictive. If the number of injectors or spark plugs or valves or any one of a dozen other 'set' parameters could be changed, it would not be anywhe...

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I am shamelessly stealing this from a comment over at motorsport.com, it's a gem ... Changing it to Forced Extradition

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Yet another abysmal qualifying performance from stroll, somehow taking the 4th fastest car out there and making it seem a real battle to beat sauber. I feel sorry for any patriotic canadain fans paying money to watch him race. The worst part is I suspect it's actually the 3rd fastest car at many tr...

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Yet another abysmal qualifying performance from stroll, somehow taking the 4th fastest car out there and making it seem a real battle to beat sauber. I feel sorry for any patriotic canadain fans paying money to watch him race.

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The power unit elements for the teams heading into the Canadian Grand Prix weekend: https://www.pitpass.com/59258/Canada-GP-Power-Unit-elements Somewhat surprising to see how reliable Force India & Williams are compared to other teams. Yeah they are both plotting along quite nicely with their alloc...

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Toto has already come out and rubbished this rumour.

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mds wrote:
You think it would be the first time a driver didn't see out a contract?

Basic premise, as has always been: there is no use in keeping an unhappy driver.

It's quite simple really, horner has stated this on many occasions, Ric and Ver are going nowhere while they contracted to RB.

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Like I've just posted Kvyat brings money, with Kari no way do I see him jumping in front of Gasly. I've never heard that Kvyat brings much money, but it wouldn't matter if he did. Red Bull still calls the shots on Toro Rosso's drivers, and if they want Gasly in that seat he's getting it. He has his...

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Great onboard action: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/features/2017/5/video--the-best-onboard-action-from-monaco.html Had Perez made a clean pass on Kvyat as well & finished in the points, it would've been a supreme drive by him. He was 1 of the very few drivers to make overtakes. He overtook St...

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An interesting read: https://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2017/05/insight-key-indicators-that-show-whether-ferrari-favoured-vettel-in-monaco-f1-gp/ Kimi lost the race - instead of passing the back markers he came upon, he cried about the Blue Flagging - with that Ferrari pitted him so he wouldn't lose fu...

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I have only heard about Hamilton giving the place back on here. When I check the transcripts I can't see it. He definitely mentioned it; the context was that Lewis felt he was being held up by Bottas and wanted to be let past, if it turned out that Hamilton wasn't any quicker than Bottas he'd give ...

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Pretty embarrassing that radio call and clearly illustrates how far out of his depth he really is in F1.

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Crofty's position on Ferrari "team strategy" vs Crofty's position on Mercedes "team strategy" is amusing to watch. Oh yeah it's just pathetic, a very butthurt hamilton fan crofty is. Never really thought of Crofty as much of a Hamilton fan, but he is an idiot. There is just nothing else to explain ...

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Black_Flag_11 wrote:Crofty's position on Ferrari "team strategy" vs Crofty's position on Mercedes "team strategy" is amusing to watch.

Oh yeah it's just pathetic, a very butthurt hamilton fan crofty is.

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Congrats to kimi, well done. Verstappen owned dan once again.

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Lojik wrote:Palmer nearly a second slower than Hulk, pretty dismal.

Stroll even worse.

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My guesstimate for top 6 in quali:
Vet
Ham
Kimi
Ver
Bot
Ric

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Poor button, has a 15 place grid penalty for replacing some PU parts.

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He's out of his depth. His father's wealth may have bought him a competitive advantage in the junior series but now he's at the highest echelon and on a level playing field with everyone else he's being found out. He is still young though and regardless of other factors you don't win in the lower s...

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Lotus49 wrote:Unbelievably Brundle dropped this nugget in during the interview with Horner. Apparently he was told yesterday that the big Honda upgrade due at Canada has been cancelled because it's not working.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_q4hYGCQbM&t=8m16s

Oh dear

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I think Ricciardo and Hamilton were dead even last year in the dry, Hamilton just didn't get a proper lap in with 1 disjointed run. I hope Red Bull can join the battle this weekend but they don't seem as strong or capable as last year. Make of it what you will, but Red Bull was actually closer to p...

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Something has to be done in the next formula about the PU situation, it's just simply not possible for a non works team to win the championship anymore. Why would a team like RB want to stay when they know they are zero chance of ever winning if things stay the same? The PU's are so complicated now...

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Something has to be done in the next formula about the PU situation, it's just simply not possible for a non works team to win the championship anymore. Why would a team like RB want to stay when they know they are zero chance of ever winning if things stay the same? The PU's are so complicated now,...

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Big congrats to sauber with a great strategy call and some much needed points for them.

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Verstappen absolutely owned dan there. Impressive lap from vettel.

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That is seriously impressive from alonso, well done!

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mikeyg123 wrote:
rivf1 wrote:Suprise suprise, stroll and palmer didn't make it out of Q1
Closest they have ever been to their team mates though.

This track always compressors all the times though compared to a lot of other tracks.

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Suprise suprise, stroll and palmer didn't make it out of Q1

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What is the go with bottas? Does he have to use an old spec engine now for quali and the race?

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10 mins in and one mclaren (alonso) down for the count already.

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kleefton wrote:The Mercedes should have been called the B spec, not the Redbull.

Yeah RB and the media greatly exaggerated what they would be bringing, the chassis is completely unchanged and it's only some aero parts.

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