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Nope.

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Aaahhh... Chabal, Jerry Collin's punching bag.

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Considering how well matched he is to his team mate, he has the edge over Dixon but doesn't eat him alive, I'd say most of the F1 field would have his way with him. He's close to Scott and F1 has always been Scott's dream. Nearly got a test once with Toyota when Chip's outfits was using Toyota engin...

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They give feedback and some are better than others which is important for set up. As for much input they have to car design, it's questionable. I wouldn't have thought it it could be that much but I wonder about the F2012's front suspension, the first car with pull rod front suspension since the Min...

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Was bound to be an official statement saying they were naughty boys, surprised it took nearly a week though.

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Nah it was crap. Coming out based where you finished the last race meant that the faster cars got a cleaner and warmer track.

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It does not look like carbon fibre to me don't know what tho certainly does look bendy. My automatic thought was it would flex down at speed ? Couldn't think how that would help so then thought this. The regs state the nose has a max height, so what if its built to that and somehow at speed flexies...

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Cracking under pressure, there are a heap more eyes on him now.

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No it's not over, 50 points to play for but the RB8 is strong as hell. It'll take something special for Nando to walk away with the championship but it's doable. Austin has some long straights which won't suit the Redbull and the teams have no real world data to work with, so set up will be a crapsh...

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Yeah, the camera did seem to wipe the smile off his face in a hurry.

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So the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation wrote a story about a Brit huh? Those bastards! Or to use a media term, they 'localised' a story about a race by talking to a countryman.

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He's not as quick as the drivers in the other top teams, so why walk away from the fastest car on the grid? Ferrari shows some interest at one stage, but as a number two only. Number two in the fastest car or even pegging in a midfield car, there's podiums and race wins available in one, or scrappin...

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big ducking deal ...

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Tomorrow provides Seb with a chance to silence a lot his critics.

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Having an engine problem so they need to shut down for technical reasons only to not have enough fuel for the sample, considering you're supposed to get back to the pits under your own steam in qualifying is fishy as hell. RBR is the Renault works team, so nearly one and the same so their word is as...

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^^ This. Or use your arrow keys, they work thusly:- The right arrow pans the camera right, the left one pans the camera left, the up arrow pans up and the down arrow looks down funnily enough. All explained before you start the video ...

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Hearing news of Episode 7 delighted I was, but when I learned Lucasfilm had been sold to Disney I dropped on my knees, threw my arms in the air and let out the second least convincing "Nooooooooooo!" ever.

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Mr-E wrote:Sure.. He could possibly get a seat in a HRT or Marussia but it sounds like he thinks he could be competitive, and that's a no.

Bwahahaha

Too true

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I don't think it's their biggest secret though. Nearly started a thread on this a couple of times but that slot in the front isn't being tunnelled into the cockpit for cooling the drivers. The bulges on the top outside of the nose are pipes, but where they're piping to is a mystery. If it were sucki...

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Crashing linux is ezpz, especially if you could never configure it right in the first place (Sabayon), which is why I went back to windoze :> Was so much quicker but decayed really fast. Was a Compaq AMD based laptop though with nvid chipset and GPU which needed custom Compaq written drivers for win...

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scuderia_stevie wrote:Massa, he's showing he's consistently finishing with a few places of Alonso and has the momentum. Helping Alonso push for the WDC and Ferrari for 2nd place in WCC is his motivation. I still say we ditch him after 2013 though. We need a stronger #2 for the WCC.

+1

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We're not racing argy-bargy tin tops, they're open wheeled speed machines which is why F1 is a non-contact sport. Someone is always to blame when there is contact, the debate is where it fits in between a range of "an acceptable mistake, aka racing incident" to "plain stupidity". A lot of stupid arg...

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It doesn't bode well for Merc when both of their customer teams can put their engine in a better chassis. But the 2012 car is a lemon designed around the DDRS, fingers crossed for a better chassis next year.

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Ja'a wrote:Great car is nothing without the great driver.

Yeah, cause JV was a 'great' driver

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Boobins and Eddie Irvine at his Ferrari, Ralf Schumi at Williams when they were part of the 'Big Three'

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Webber will get a poor start as usual holding up button. Vettel, Hamilton, Nando, in that order out of turn 1, which will also be the podium

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Sure would be nice to not lose a GP next year.

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Agreed he has no right to next year's car, but they didn't need to mention it to anyone. By doing so they've admitted that they compromised Lewis's weekend (he would have spent the session trying to set up his car for the race with parts that won't be on it) and even made him look the fool.

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They get to test new parts for next year, keep it from the guy who's leaving in four races as engineers say he started to get nosier than normal about next year's car around the time of the Merc announcement, and slap him in the face to reinforce their pedigree. It's the ultimate 'f**k you'.

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According to the FIA rules posted, this is not political discrimination so therefore not disallowed. And why is everyone jumping on Italy on this, the facts are VERY different from each side and it wouldnt be hard to prove many of them but they havent even been given a day in court yet and they hav...

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Ferrari's main concern, every year, is not the WCC. Yes there is more money to be paid out from F1 the higher up the WCC you place but they're a manufacturer who sell cars to run their racing programme. Having a world champion driver is more marketable than having being the WCC. A driver has a face,...

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I love it when two opposing sports teams pray before a game. I mean seriously, does the victory go the team that prays the hardest?

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The Drag Reduction System does just what it says, reduces drag. It doesn't eliminate drag created by the rear wing so there's room for improvement by creating a system that reduces drag further.

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No new information ... not surprising considering the the story was written 3 years ago.

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He's an atheist. There's an interview on Ferrari.com where he was asked if he believed in God, he said no.

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In spite of being the best specialist qualifier since Senna not a chance with out a dominating machine. World champs don't give away podiums by falling asleep.

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mcdo wrote:Alonso to get that damn third world title

This

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But not everyone was cheating as not everyone had as much money to throw at it and getting away with it. I do however see your point. Ben Johnson is considered one of the worst offenders of all time, even though there was only one of eight people on the starting line of that final that wasn't using....

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