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This is what they have at COTA http://youtu.be/WMaykUKLejA

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That's some serious karma at work. Kyle rather rudely punted another driver off the makeshift short track the other night to take the win, a lotttttt of people had words about that.

Glad the 500 narrative is no longer all about Danica but this is soooooo not a good alternative.

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From the pit lane. http://youtu.be/0bKuUqKMo8w

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Some graphic photos here, including the injured fans. http://www.ajc.com/gallery/sports/daytona-race-ends-frightening-last-lap-crash/g77q/#3139121 Watched it live, got that awful Las Vegas speedway type feeling again. I've been a Brad Keselowski fan for all of 6 days and I was in absolute panic mode...

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I know they weren't willing to do or offer enough to keep him, or he'd still be there.

There are a few more positions available in the NBA than in F1

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Methinks Marko has nice things to say about Carlos Sainz Jr, AFdC, Daniil Kvyat.

(And Andy Damerum is the Driver Development Manager at RBR. Marko is an advisor to the team, and plays a role with the Red Bull jr team, which none of the RBR or STR drivers are a part of)

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Hamilton is a top driver,and as long as he is a top driver with backing,there would always be vacancy in a top team,he may have to bide him time a bit but they'll move mountains to make way,that's just the way it the real world works,it's all politics,it who you know and what you have to offer. Lik...

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PM me, I can help you get testing coverage.

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If a team breaks cover on a completely different car next thursday, trying to rationalize the data from prior test days is impossible for outsiders - you don't know the correlation like the team does. And that's not like, totally out of the realm of possibility. Further, how many people actually go ...

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There is no indication that it isn't legal, but it isn't required to test in legal trim, so you never know. Any of the cars could have bits that will be deemed illegal by the time the green flag flies in Melbourne. Its just another example of an unknown factor that makes it impossible to compare tim...

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I don't know if anyone said they hope it doesn't work out for Merc, but I didn't. I would laugh if Lewis ended up seat-less when the music stops, but I'm not like, actively hoping for it.

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Hamilton is not bigger than any team. He can drive his heart out this year and never put a foot wrong - but if the team still sucks and stays where they are, or worse, takes a step back, the board could pull out. As good as Hamilton is, he isn't guaranteed a walk-on role at any other good team. If h...

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"not bad" is an inherent comparison (there is no magic "good" number at a circuit, there is only what others run and what you run)...only you have nothing to compare it to, so it doesn't make any sense to label a lap "not bad" If another car/driver can do that lap a second and a half faster, does th...

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Until the season preview show (which hasn't officially been announced yet) the closest you get to F1 coverage in the States is the Mobil 1 commercial with a couple of seconds of JB, the Merc commercial with a car that sorta looks like an F1 machine driving on an oval, and the World of Red Bull spot ...

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They said it was for continuity. Media whispers say a) maybe his check hasn't cleared yet, and/or b) Papa Chilton is acquiring a stake in the team each year of Max's contract, and thus Max shall be the favorite son, literally and figuratively.

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1) Rosberg says he thinks the car will be capable of wins, Hamilton says the opposite. What? One would have to presume that Lewis is aware any comments he makes will deconstructed with far greater scrutiny than those of Nico. And expectations from others are probably higher. I guess he's just manag...

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For once Marko has a point. But Danica has never struck me as the type who sees F1 as the be all and end all anyway. Blake - you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of my post, again. What I said about money and sport has nothing to do with which category is the top or best or any of that, ...

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1) Rosberg says he thinks the car will be capable of wins, Hamilton says the opposite. What? 2) Wet weather data isn't THAT important. Usually when its wet you don't have much of a choice in what you run - the crossover times dictate full wet vs. inter, and its been somewhat rare to have wet qualify...

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Id rather have the feedback than have the driver who ignores a problem and pushes past it. If he doesn't tell me I need to make something better, I don't, and that turns into a dead end where it could have been an open door.

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You cannot tell from long runs on random tires in freezing cold temps whether a team will be able to one stop ANYWHERE or not. Impossible. There is no adjustment coefficient available to figure that one out.

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Losing total communication with the car is not using a sensor out of spec. They are either having a software glitch prevent them from receiving the data or there is a problem with the fibre/antenna system. If MES is going around doing updates or reverting back to 2012 spec, its the former.

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Blake - you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of my post, again. What I said about money and sport has nothing to do with which category is the top or best or any of that, nor is it about who would do well in what. I said that given how many people around here post about how they think som...

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I don't think they are having individual problems like sensors out of range...it sounds like a more fundamental issue that is cutting off communication from the car.

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I make a point never to be concerned with whatever Ted is concerned with. He's a sensationalist, and a guesser. And is wrong a lot. There is a lot of analysis out there by folks who aren't selling a product (coverage) and it always seems much less alarmist this time of the year.

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I cant believe on a board rife with posters who think F1 drivers should move to lesser cars to prove they can win in them, that so many people are hung up on the earning potential in different sports. Is it not possible that Americans might want to wander elsewhere for the actual sport and not the p...

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The kids who get started in karting here aspire to F1 just like kids in the rest of the world. And plenty of them move abroad to pursue it. The only difference is we ALSO have kids who start arena racing, midgets, dirt track stuff...and they often aspire to NASCAR instead. Its not one or the other h...

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She has won ONE race in her entire car racing career. That alone is a good enough sign for me that she doesn't have what it takes for F1. She DID follow the F1 ladder though. Karting, Formula Vauxhaul, Formula Ford. Everybody did Formula Ford then. But then instead of BF3 or the like, she came home ...

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lol of course it is McLaren's fault...its just a different part of McLaren from the formula 1 team. The FIA tells them what they need to include with input from the teams, MES says okay here is how we will do it, then they get the go ahead to build it. Sounds like they need to bring some development...

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There were a lot of very strange stints today. If I had to hazard a guess I'd say its intentional. Keeps everybody guessing except your own guys, because they know when and where you could have gone faster, and roughly how much.

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They test in Europe to save money. The difference in sending trucks and sending air or sea freight is pretty massive. Plus you want to have the chance to send the car home between Jerez and Barca to make changes if necessary, and its less taxing on your personnel than flying back and forth to somewh...

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Forgot to mention... I'm comparing avg time change per lap over long runs in testing, and avg time change per stint, to avg time change per lap and avg time change per stint of 5 drivers across the grid at 3 races from the beginning, middle, and end of 2012. Obviously there are factors other than ti...

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Okay nerds, the number crunching has started.

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While Checo talks about surprising tire deg, Kimi says the opposite, “A year ago we had similar problems when cold and no rubber on circuit. I don’t expect similar problems in the races.” Remember that Checo is Mr. Tire Life. Maybe his McLaren isn't so good for that as his Sauber was. I was thinkin...

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While Checo talks about surprising tire deg, Kimi says the opposite, “A year ago we had similar problems when cold and no rubber on circuit. I don’t expect similar problems in the races.”

Remember that Checo is Mr. Tire Life. Maybe his McLaren isn't so good for that as his Sauber was.

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Endurance and sports car racing includes balance of performance, for starters, which is not part of F1. Many men sit in a room and calculate how to slow down one type of car and speed up another. That's as pure as britney spears' singing voice. And endurance and sports car racing is fuel limited. Th...

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I don't really like the Pirelli's. That's my opinion. This isn't how F1 used to be (flat out racing). Instead, the drivers having to babysit their tyres, which is incredibly silly if you think about it. With the bridgestones, you had to look after your tyres, but also there was a window where you c...

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F1 wanted more pit stops, Pirelli gave them a plan for how they would change the tires to ensure more pit stops, and were given the go ahead to make the new tires accordingly. Why should Pirelli be booted for doing what they were asked for, the way they said they'd do it? I think the teams are happi...

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The Merc hasn't always been terrible over a lap in comparison to the front runners - its race pace that has been miserable all these years. They are still seeing the times fall off more steeply than everyone else on long runs.

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they were doing race sim - someone probably didn't get a wheel tight when he came in for the pit stop or something. They are testing the traffic light system instead of the lollipop.

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