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Maldonado did a senna-esque drive in spain a few years ago. Team mate qualified 18th him second. WOWWWW. That is Senna-esque. In race pace that car was clearly nowhere near the fastest. He had Alonso the best driver in F1 right behind him with a much much quicker car trying every trick in the book ...

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I didn't mean for anyone I meant the title race in general. I'd rather see it go on to a cracking finish than see it die out like a damp squib. Well, the most interesting thing for the title race would be: Rosberg takes out Hamilton: Banned from next race Hamilton DNFs: 0 points Ricciardo wins: 25 ...

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TheDamus wrote:I have no idea how to imbed an image but I feel this one needs to be captioned

Click the Img button in the advanced post thingy, then put the URL between the [img] tags. It should look like:

(img)http://www.f1news.com/img/2014Sep/90509.jpg(/img), except brackets instead of parentheses.

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I see Merhi posted a faster time than Ericsson... Yep its rather embarrasing I think the Swede is approaching the twilight of his F1 career. I think the Swede began his career in the late evening, and will finish it before the sun has a chance to rise again. What confounds me is how anyone expected...

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Vettel has had a brand new chassis built for him for Monza with updates on it which he is happy with so far. He has a very good chance to get on the podium on sunday as the redbull is looking very quick. Hard to tell as maybe the williams might have some good updates also. Looks to me like the Red ...

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Actually in the context of the post I was replying to - referring to the three drivers who could have won the title - it was the best man who won it in the end. He went into the final race a distant 3rd in the title hunt. His two main rivals crumbled , while Seb put in a great performance to steal ...

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Yeah, frankly when you get right down to it it's pretty arrogant of a bunch of people on a forum - maybe 1% of whom have ever raced a car, 0% of whom have raced an F1 car - to make judgements about the performance of F1 drivers. Alonso on the other hand actually knows what he's talking about.

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Sure, if everyone else does it and its standard practice as part of the Ballon d'Or, then fair enough. If there was a prize that worked in the same away for F1 drivers, then I won't mind. But I don't see Lewis saying Alonso is better than Vettel , Ricciardo saying Lewis is better than Alonso, or Ve...

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... I'm note sure if you're intoxicated or how much of this is serious, but... Newey is great and all, but he's not magic. Webber was driving a Newey car all those years, he and DC were driving a Newey car before that - and before that Newey was designing McLarens that didn't win very many champion...

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There would probably have been a penalty had the drivers involved been from different teams. No one asked for an investigation or demanded a penalty in this case. Also the team told Lewis right after the contact that it was a racing incident. Personally, I read that as Lewis asking 'did he hit me o...

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Who took a selfie? Edit: Based on who went into defense mode I have a pretty good idea... You'd probably be right, although who else from that lineup was likely to? http://38.media.tumblr.com/6942c202b1f2ff4739d82c72613c0d97/tumblr_nbdyb61RKx1s9dcnmo1_500.jpg About 3 seconds in, before anyone reall...

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Well, Monza is typically reserved as the weekend to announce big, important things at Ferrari.

... such as Ross Brawn's return?

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There is no such thing as an avoidable accident. Either a collision is deliberate, or it is unavoidable. Or else it didn't happen. Avoidable accident: Suzuka 1989. Driving into someone: Suzuka 1990. In all seriousness, an avoidable accident would be where if a driver had taken a different course of...

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Alonso has said Hamilton is best and Vettel is not many times. It's cool for him to have his opinion, but repeating it so often starts to look bad on him. I doubt he likes getting asked that left and right either, but people won't leave it alone. Do you think next time someone asks 'Alonso, conside...

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It is still a fact, you can spin it however you want. I take you think Hamilton is miles better than alonso then, considering he matched him as a rookie during alonso's 7th full year? Heck no, but I see what you're saying. At the time I did think Lewis was going to turn out to be better than Alonso...

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nixxxon wrote:Wait, what? I thought Monza was in Italy, not USA (those hats?)

I think I'm missing the context here, too; a quick search on the internet revealed nothing. Why the hats?

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Hamilton is not consistent enough to be seen as king imo. He also has a much more dominant car than vettel ever did and he is not getting anywhere near the level of performance Seb was hitting. This against a team mate who was beaten quite comfortably by webber. In his debut year, when it was Webbe...

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nixxxon wrote:Having so many followers on social media is relevant/important because.... ?

Hush, you - next thing you'll be saying the Emperor doesn't have any clothes on either...

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So let me get this straight... after the way this year has gone, there are still people who seriously think Vettel is the best driver? Besides, Alonso has always said that from the start; Lewis did too (remember his comment about Vettel missing apexes left and right during his pole laps?), and Alons...

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To be, on average, 7 tenths faster than your team-mate over 2 years is quite telling. In fact it's an absolute drubbing. I doubt Bianchi would have the same margin over Chilton even. Not far off; Bianchi was -0.585 over Chilton in 2013, and to date in 2014 is at -0.599. On four occasions this year ...

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That is a very generous get out clause, I would be surprised if Ferrari would agree to that. Put that into perspective Hamilton is 29 points behind the championship leader and he is in the same car. They'd only agree to it if they were desperate, so I have my doubts. The other version I've heard wh...

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No indeed but still a bold thing for a rookie to say and now Vergne is on the verge of losing his place in F1 so how many drivers could have actually done better than Webber? I'm going to get flak from the Webber fans for saying this, but... probably a lot. Webber was never more than second tier in...

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In 2011 after testing the Red Bull did not Vergne brashly say he could do at least as good a job as Webber in that car? Indeed he did , and he may have known what he was talking about. But he didn't claim to be able to do as good a job as Vettel. Remember, that was 2011, and Webber wasn't doing so ...

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I've just watched Monza 2008 on Classic F1. I refuse to write off Seb as an average, overhyped, champion. In the context of this season, the obvious question I suppose is 'where would Daniel Ricciardo have been in that Toro Rosso'? Anybody can win a surprise race in a less-than-stellar (but still s...

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I think that F1yer has a point in that people's opinions are heavily swayed by surface impressions, whereas upon digging deeper a different story may emerge. Agreed. Which is why some Vettel fans should not point to the 4WDCs as definitive proof that Vettel is the greatest driver on the grid/an all...

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HulkStrong wrote:PF1 PICK 10 COMPETITION - The Belgian Grand Prix!

Impressively finishing third in his first attempt in this competition, taking the "Breakthrough Bottas" trophy

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Woo-hoo! Bring on Monza!

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Heikki also matched Lewis in quali. Granted he was usually pretty close to Lewis positionally, but over the period when they were teammates Lewis out-qualified him 26-9 with 11 poles to Heikki's 1. So he was about as close to Lewis as Jenson in qualifying, although not in the races. Not quite match...

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Football is too important to disrupt for a petty little thing like an invasion

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2014 ITALIAN GRAND PRIX
01: L. Hamilton
02: N. Rosberg
03: V. Bottas
04: F. Alonso
05: F. Massa
06: J. Button
07: K. Raikkonen
08: D. Ricciardo
09: N. Hulkenberg
10: D. Kvyat

Lewis can't keep letting me down forever...

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I agree with almost all, except want to point out that some of us still believe Prost to be among the GoATs -- "among" only because I find it useless to compare Nuvolari to Fangio to Prost. Some? Anyone who believes he is not one of the Greatest drivers of all time is delusional or heavily biased. ...

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I don't know how you can surmise what ability Vandoorne has? Just going by their time in Formula Renault they always looked pretty close to me, but I grant you that you never really know until you get someone into an F1 car. Simply on the basis of FR3.5, I can't see Vandoorne being much better than...

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I also think this is going to be a good weekend for the tyre savers among the drivers . With the amount of torque and lack of downforce, managing wheelspin is going to be a factor. Given the conservative tyre choice of Pirelli, I can see guys like Sergio Perez go for a one-stop strategy here. Don't...

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And Bianchi going to Ferrari? I can't see McLaren dumping Magnussen. Nor Button actually, unless they are 100% certain they get another top class driver instead. I'm expecting Bianchi to Sauber first, but if Raikkonen (or Alonso, less likely) unexpectedly leaves then Ferrari isn't impossible. As fa...

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I think some people are coming at this as though the title was 'has your opinion of Vettel changed forever this year', which isn't what it's about. Vettel's reputation, built up over four incredibly dominant - and two virtually unchallenged - years was, until the start of 2014, that of certainly one...

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But surely, if you can say with such confidence that Vandoorne WILL do another year in GP2 and McLaren WILL expect nothing less than champion you must be either A) An executive at McLaren B) A psychic (although one that wont tell me what my future holds) C) Eddie Jordan For a quick tip on being les...

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vikke wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Via1P2FZt6U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_irUPwPoaA

ENOUGH SAID.

Now just imagine that with Maldonado and Gutierrez

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I was dubious of doing a demo when you haven't even driven the car in a race, and it turns out I had a right to be. What I'm worried about here is that Red Bull really seem to be pushing the kid way too fast and it could very easily end his career prematurely (heh-heh) if it doesn't turn out, which ...

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Henri Royce wrote:Name me 2 epic wheel to wheel battled Alonso has driven and won

Versus Ricciardo in Germany this year and the classic 130R move with Schumacher are the first two that come to mind, but I'm sure I can find more if I look more. I think Raikkonen is just a little bit better (in that regard) though.

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actually i was a little surprised that they werent faster in Montreal this year They might have been, if there had been a healthy Mercedes around towards the end of the race to set a representative fastest lap. Remember, nobody except for Mer was faster than last year in Spa, either. I was expectin...

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I suppose what I'm not really sure about with Sauber is how bad is the car really, and how bad are the drivers? Comparing last year to this year and looking only at the driver (Esteban) who was there both years, it doesn't look so different: 2013: 13, 12, RET, 18, 11, 13, 20, 14, 14, RET, 14, 13 201...

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