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F this S, I'm back off to bed.

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I suspect 20 if Korea disappears (as looks likely).

I fear the Rodriguez circuit will be butchered for this to happen. Not just Peraltada either, a number of the Esses would need to be tightened.

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Hmmm, that means 1 GP in June, 1 in July and 1 in August.

For a sport that is primarily a summer activity.

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Since Glock appears to have departed because Marussia weren't going to be able to pay his salary, I imagine it will be a driver who brings money, which is either Petrov or Senna.

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If I was Paul di Resta I'd be getting a bit worried about the lack of an absolute official confirmation re: his seat. cf. Jos Verstappen and Pedro de la Rosa before him at Arrows.

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The Speed TV "progress report" from early 2010, in which it was revealed that Ken Anderson's barely-cohate son Jason was working in the design team in a barely-lit office, were a very clear sign that something wasn't quite right. Indeed, the video in question was uploaded on Jan 12th. According to K...

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I often like Jody Scheckter but I find his reasoning on Alonso to be stupid. For one, it's 2012 not 2007. For another, Alonso's alleged actions in 2007 have little to do with on track performance. Finally, Alonso isn't allowed to talk about 2007 because of the afore mentioned NDA. So the full story...

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I often like Jody Scheckter but I find his reasoning on Alonso to be stupid. For one, it's 2012 not 2007. For another, Alonso's alleged actions in 2007 have little to do with on track performance. Finally, Alonso isn't allowed to talk about 2007 because of the afore mentioned NDA. So the full story ...

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Yes, at Austin Alonso ran with upgrades that quite clearly didn't work (and that Ferrari should never have been trialling at that stage of the season anyway) and at Interlagos Alonso set faster lap times than Massa for two thirds of the laps. I've yet to come across any convincing argument that Alon...

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It should be remembered that Ferrari brought a new floor and front wing to Austin, stuck them on Alonso's car, didn't stick them on Massa's car, and it appears to have made the Ferrari worse at a circuit where aero performance is particularly critical (and we all know how outdated their wind tunnel ...

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Is it a possible fore-warning that he will sell them if they don't improve soon? Who's he going to sell them to? There's not exactly a queue of eager investors waiting out there to snap up F1 teams. As long as Red Bull feels an urge to have a junior team then they can be right at the back and they'...

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I remember in late 2004 when someone started a thread entitled "Is Alonso a falling star?"

Purported clairvoyance, particularly taken on the basis of fully 2 races, is a perilous exercise for those engaged therein.

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Proper Alonso bash-fest, this. Re: 2007 - it seems to be largely forgotten that the entire McLaren team was aware that Nigel Stepney had informed Coughlan of the "sprung floor" device that Ferrari had run at Melbourne. Given that the entire hierarhcy knew this, it cant have been too much of a surpri...

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JohnnyGuitar wrote:It's weird that a high camera shot showed that bit of road during the race several times and I thought to myself that I couldn't remember seeing it before. Then later in the race Kimi drives up it and we get a close-up of it.
Bizarre.

It's the original Juncao corner from the pre-1990 circuit.

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I haven't noticed di Resta's presence for several months now. Suspect next year is a bit "make or break" for him now.

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Just out of interest, why is that particular lane blocked off anyway?

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The 2013 cars are going to be much the same as their 2012 counterparts. I have a feeling that Red Bull 2012-13 could be like 2003-2004 with Ferrari, unfortunately.

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Imagine where Ferrari might have finished this season without Alonso.

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Glock is having some fun, eh?

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It hardly makes him a "psycho". IIRC no one thinks Sutil deliberately set out to ram a glass in Lux's neck, it was a careless thing to do and could have had serious consequences, but we all do stupid things from time to time. Nobody's perfect. As far as I can see, the only person to have been making...

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The next *new* WDC nay not even be in an F1 race seat yet. Maybe Robin Frijns? IMO he's the only one of the new lot who looks like he means business. I can't see Perez as a WDC. I don't know why, I just can't. Rosberg? No. Hulk? Maybe. Maldonado? Perhaps. If he can string a season together properly ...

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To be more precise: they were sold a 40mn budget cap, and planned their operation accordingly, before any such thing was agreed with any of the other teams, and during which the other teams threatened to break away and set their own series up unless (among other demands) the budget cap was eliminate...

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To be fair, the Sky coverage is excellent and is clearly aimed at the hardcore fan in a way that I assumed it wouldn't be. It's miles ahead of anything the BBC have ever done, even when they had all the races to themselves. But I wish they could offer an "F1 channel only" subscription for a tenner i...

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Grosjean had a similar sort of race at Silverstone, remember. He seems to find speed on the harder tyres in sooler conditions.

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At the end of the day I don't think Ron is really all that much good at managing drivers. All his best ones have ended up going off to drive for a rival, other than Hakkinen and Lauda. And Lauda was of retirement age anyway.

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Well, at least they were open about it.

Thinking back to 1982, the likes of Ron Dennis were preaching the virtues of water as a genuinely effective means of cooling brakes. Which was a bald faced lie.

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Remember that before Indianapolis came along there was a very serious effort to organise a race around the Presidio in San Francisco.

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Mosley's new team selection process in 2009 went well then, eh? One team didn't even make it, another is on its last legs and the third is £49mn in debt.

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Fishy wrote:Can you imagine the fireworks if he was to be going to McLaren

Well, I can imagine the pole positions. The more I think about it, the more I think McLaren should have signed him and not Perez. Maybe if Maldonado hadn't had such a torrid mid-season then they would have done.

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Perez decided to drag his car from a point where all four wheels were off the outside of the circuit in a hard diagonal line straight to the apex of the impending corner. Absolutely moronic stuff, the worst piece of driving of the year outside of Maldonado's assault at Monaco and Grosjean's Spa dive...

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He has lost something that might be described (vaguely) as "sharpness".

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I'd personally like to see him win the race, quite frankly.

He gets a lot of stick, but his collision rate is no worse than, say, Hakkinen's in '94. And he ended up a double world champion.

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Wow, the usual lot have emerged from hibernation even faster than ever. They must be proud.

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I don't know, but it's as if he hasn't even been there for several races now - an utterly anonymous presence. When was the last time di Resta produced a performance that was worth talking about? He's currently being passed-by in favour of more exciting talents, I'm afraid.

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More like Piquet would never countenance someone coming in who might not only be faster than him, but (crucially) sufficiently charismatic to drag the focus of the team away from himself. Patrese, for example, was every bit as fast as Piquet but also a kindly and largely contented individual happy t...

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Sector 2 is quite interesting. But otherwise, it doesn't work.

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Ratty Mouse wrote:
kimisdabest wrote:
cmax wrote:Come Lewis, lets get alonso
not possible in this oh great track
Long straights, wide enough for 3. What is wrong with the track?

The slow corners at T1-4 have very straightforward exits with only a single line, so it's all a bit "follow my leader".

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Probably Maldonado.

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Decent race from a very promising driver who has been unfairly maligned IMO.

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Alonso's point was very, very obviously that the Ferrari wasn't good enough for 2nd in the race without the carnage at the start, whether in his hands or Massa's.

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