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Can anyone seriously imagine these penalties being awarded even handedly between the top drivers and the back markers? Really... I don't think so. I really can't imagine the stewards having the balls to stymie a final race showdown if it came to it, or even taking any of the title contenders out of ...

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Are the engine manufacturers going to be free to develop these engines or will they be frozen from the start of the season? It may be a silly question, I just haven't heard it mentioned. Since I work in the industry it will be better for me if they are free to spend money chasing bhp! Engine manufa...

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Are the engine manufacturers going to be free to develop these engines or will they be frozen from the start of the season? It may be a silly question, I just haven't heard it mentioned. Since I work in the industry it will be better for me if they are free to spend money chasing bhp!

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I don't understand how Red Bull think they can replicate the test/circumstances. Crucially Merc had some sort of nod from Whiting, without that they would have been screwed. How does Horner think he's going to get that exactly?

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It would be interesting to hear the discussions between Pirelli and the FIA now. If the FIA are saying they are going to clamp down on testing even further and that even a two year old car is not necessarily okay. How are Pirelli supposed to test the tyres at all? Perhaps they can stick them on an o...

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Surely more satisfying for Kimi to win a WDC in a Lotus than at RBR?

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Compulsory tyre usage and pitstiops? Just let teams race and stop however often or as few times as they like. I could not agree more POB. Fangio's greatest drive, and one of all time was when he went to a tire change strategy, unique on that day. He made a strategy call based on his estimate, while...

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While I'm enjoying all this as much as everyone else, I can't help thinking that.... what if instead of Webber and Vettel it was Alonso and Massa? What if Massa was having a really good day and stormed up behind Alonso and stole the win? I can't help feeling that I would a) think it was hilarious, a...

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Does it not rather suggest that the best strategy would be to use the best tyres first and worry about fuel later? If everybody is cruising after their final stop then there's little point in saving anything for the last stint... seems like it to me anyway. The only way to rid ourselves of this prob...

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Funnily enough, I was asking a friend about this because he's into cycling and all that... thinking of the Schumacher example I asked if that means the guy who came second in each year was now declared the winner. Apparently not, because apparently they were all cheating! But the others got a deal i...

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Webber seemed to make the same mistake over and over today, turning in on a car that could not disappear... can't believe he got away with causing Massa to spin.

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Heard yesterday that Macca have offset their $100m fine for espionage against tax, can't believe there isn't a thread about this already - have I missed it?

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I must admit it (and the old Hockenhiem) where tedious as hell on the Playstation...

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Usually these sort of situations make you think one thing and then another happens. Right now, if I was Martin Whitmarsh I would be thinking, offer Lewis a new contract on the same money as Button, call his bluff, he's got nowhere to go. But you just know this won't happen, and soon Lewis will have ...

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The difference is no one will look back at the end of the year and say Maldo cost Lewis the title.... but if someone takes his nose off at the start in the last race....

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I like Massa, but there's no doubting that since his accident he's not the same guy who Ferrari cost the WDC. On the other hand, this forum is all over the place, Alonso is apparently leading the WDC in the 3rd slowest car, Massa is right next to him on the grid but he's useless? Hmm.... Massa has c...

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That's always been the case.... the annoying thing about those kind of situations is that some drivers feel/get told to stay out of the fight, which is wrong. They should drive as normal. Say Alonso and Hamilton end up going head to head in the last race and Alonso gets in the same situation that Ha...

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Fonsie is looking very strong and improving with every race. Lewis has to overcome his own Pitcrew every race and that is emotionally draining. All credit to him for the way he upfronts after these disappointments. He certainly has matured a lot in the last year. He will need to think VERY HARD abo...

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I agree with Blake, there is an unbelievable amount of snobbishness amongst F1 fans towards other motorsports. That aside, while you might contend that Alonso, Hamilton, Schumacher, maybe even Vettel are amongst the best drivers in the world, what about Maldonado, Massa, etc... considering how much ...

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You didn't fix it, you turned it into a load of fairy cakes and made it so I had to fix it. He wasn't pushed off track. Lewis had the inside line and had every right to that corner. Maldonado attemted to gain a position while off track. If you don't know the rules then please don't waste time posti...

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I see Button's now playing the 'people will get fed up of unpredictability' card. Is that so. I can see why Button, Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel and Webber might see it that way, but I doubt any one else does.

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Donington Museum, hundreds of F1 cars in there.

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I want amazing displays of engineering I can recommend Robot Wars to you :-P Personally I want amazing displays of entertaining racing, and thankfully we're getting that this year! Yes, me too... I'm deeply suspicious of people who get wood at the sight of a technical drawing of a wing endplate.

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I still can't really understand why MSC came back. He didn't need the money, his wife didn't want him to risk his neck all over again, and he's got absolutely nothing out of it besides devaluing his first career and undermining his stats. As a 7 time WDC his legend was untouchable, but now people wi...

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I loved the look of the cars back then, and especially the big fat rear tyres. http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2245/2326643033_1f3176ab8e.jpg Keke Rosberg Williams Honda FW10 F1 1985 British GP Silverstone by Antsphoto , on Flickr The current cars aren't nearly as good looking http://cdn.images.autos...

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The more teams we see being competitive the better positioned we are to see who's the best or the most talented. Before this and last season the championship was usually a 4 horse race at best. Is seeing 4 drivers out of 20 being able to show their mettle a good indicator of who's got talent? The m...

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Like someone else said, there's a definite case of rose tinted glasses when it comes to the 80s and before that too. It wasn't all banging wheels at Dijon. A lot of the drama came from cars blowing up, breaking down, punctures and tires wearing out... My dad used to tell me that F1 is rubbish these ...

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WDC Standings after 5 Rounds 2012 1. 61 - Sebastian Vettel / Red Bull 2. 61 - Fernando Alonso / Ferari 3. 53 - Lewis Hamilton / McLaren 4. 49 - Kimi Räikkönen / Lotus 5. 48 - Mark Webber / Red Bull 6. 45 - Jenson Button / McLaren 7. 41 - Nico Rosberg / Mercedes 8. 35 - Romain Grosjean / Lotus 9. 29...

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As the fragility of the wings go, why does F1 always have to take a difficult solution to a problem? People mock Indy for their 'simple ways', but sometimes I think it wouldn't hurt to take a look at their common sense approach. They wanted to limit the air intake so they gave everyone a mandatory l...

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DRS.... if it's so terrible how come Alonso didn't breeze past Maldonado? Surely it's good that faster cars can get past slower ones, isn't that what people used to moan about, how Trulli used to wreck everyone's race cos he always outqualified the car? Has there really been that many instances of D...

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The 2-3 teams and 3-5 Drivers (at most) fighting for the top places is the F1 is all many people know, but that doesn't necessarily make it the was it should be. You say "front runners" like it's a given who the front runners are. I'm not sure it is any more, and I think that's a good thing. Absolu...

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How I wish Massa could have been WDC for more than 10 seconds...

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They need to increase the number of sets of tyres available. The current tyre allocations were based on the more durable Bridgestones, it is clear that the drivers simply don't have enough sets of tyres. I think an extra set of each compound would improve things massively without losing the strateg...

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The whole Hamilton saga has hidden the true issue yesterday where we saw drivers sit out or just set sector times in q3 again. How can we fix this. I like the points idea. Hmm, you might want to think about that. The NHRA get points for round wins but they also get points added and deducted for var...

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I totally agree with the OP. There is nothing random, there is no luck involved with the tyres. All teams have the same tyres and the same opportunity to learn how they handle and develop their cars to suit them. Formula 1 has the most advanced research, data gathering and simulation technology out...

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I think it maybe highlights that there is little between all the drivers and the car is the single most important factor. But then again you look at team mates and some do much better than the other guy, so that has to point to one being significantly better than the other. When you see results lik...

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I think the early 80's was the best racing I have seen, and i think this is a close second. Some drivers take ages to get past, some don't, isn't that the whole point? To do well over a season you need to be a good overtaker. Kobayashi was awesome, he was diving up the inside wherever he could I ag...

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Pastor Maldonado’s victory in yesterday’s Spanish Grand Prix as well as strong showings from Grosjean in the last two races and from Sergio Perez in Malaysia is highighting an important point about F1 and the relative state of the drivers. Do we often not give enough credit to the drivers in midfie...

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twigg2324 wrote:Schumacher is entitled to make any moves he wants if he is behind another car. He has the whole track between the white lines.

And yet he chose the piece right in the middle that Senna's car was sitting in...

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DRS has made what was once the most boring race on the calendar, exciting to watch. Fan or not, that's not bad Exactly. This has to have been the best Barcelona GP I can remember. It's all very well saying it's fake and this and that, but wings create the problem in the first place, if F1 won't giv...

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