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Ferrari appear to have brought a fairly comprehensive upgrade package to Bahrain: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-brings-major-upgrade-to-bahrain-gp-893523/ Geez they are not stuffing around. Hopefully Kimi and Bottas can lift their game and we get a real 4 way battle at the front, that ...

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Bahrain

1-Hamilton
2-Vettel
3-Bottas
4-Raikonnen
5-Ricciardo
6-Verstappen
7-Massa
8-Perez
9-Sainz
10-Grosjean

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Colesy917 wrote:
Blackhander wrote:Man... I guess I'll give it a crack if they get really desperate?
Just take it easy and hope for some standard Monaco chaos.... "And Blackhander crosses the line and collects McLaren-Honda's first points of the year..."

Haha that or I'll teach even maldonado a thing or two about crashing

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Man... I guess I'll give it a crack if they get really desperate?

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The only car I've noticed producing tip vortices so far is the RBR pair. Are they running a higher downforce rear wing and making more drag because of that, or could it be because they aren't running a T-wing and therefore there is nothing to interfere with the vortex there either?... I've still got...

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So does everyone think that Ricciardo is balls to the wall right now or holding back to stretch his tyres out?

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Very disappointed in Malaysia dropping off the list, it's actually one of my favourite tracks and is very well balanced overall. Also Malaysia is simply an amazing place and now a lot of people won't get to experience that and the local economy will miss out on that yearly influx of foreign cash whi...

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China

1-Hamilton
2-Vettel
3-Bottas
4-Raikonnen
5-Ricciardo
6-Verstappen
7-Massa
8-Perez
9-Sainz
10-Hulkenberg

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The MGU-H is the one part of the engine that I see having the MOST road relevance. With practically all car manufacturers moving to lower displacement turbocharged motors it is a perfect fit. Work a generator attached to the turbo there is no need for an alternator any more meaning that electrical ...

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Sounds like maintaining the current regulations unchanged meets most of the requirements mentioned. Significant changes will in almost all circumstances conflict with lowering costs as millions will be spent on development. By 2021 increased knowledge and understanding of the technology will make t...

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I don't see a way that they can possibly achieve all objectives at the same time. It will clearly have to be a turbocharged core engine supported by an electric hybrid system. Now the core engine there isn't really a whole deal that they can do to make them cheaper or simpler, they simply are what t...

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I doubt that they would be able to make it fit without significant chassis changes, the engines this year are completely redesigned from the '16 models like Sauber are using, which would probably cost more than just continuing to use the engines that they are using already. On the other hand the mor...

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Well 9th is better than my traditional rubbish first few races so I I'm happy about that!

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Forgot to swap out Alonso and replace him with Hamilton before the race. Misplaced confidence cost me a little there.

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So it's all been fairly quiet on the oil front. FIA were monitoring it over the weekend, anyone heard any results from that yet?

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Vettel and Giovinazzi for me

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Start of the race should be excellent! You have the Mercedes on one side who are historically terrible starters against the Ferrari pair on the other side who for years have been the best starters on the grid. That will be a fight well worth the wait. The only other thing that I hope is that none of...

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These cars WILL NOT FORGIVE A lot of grip but when its gone its gone I've got a suspicion that a lot of this is due to the majority of the downforce coming from the massive diffuser. Once the car rotates airflow is disturbed, the vanes don't work and air is swept under the sides of the floor and fo...

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I think Ferrari is closer than it seems. This track suits more Merc than Ferrari. True. Mercedes has had a much larger advantage in Australia than average for both 2015 and 2016 - if Ferrari is actually close in the race (not 10+ seconds behind) then it might very well mean they'll be able to chall...

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Hi guys, Ive just signed up Ruste13 Do you have to make different picks for each league or do your picks apply to all of the leagues you are part of? Your picks apply to all leagues. Essentially your picks are your "team" for that race and the leagues rank your team against everyone's who has enter...

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Not the worst thing that can happen. Generally if I miss fp1 cut off I'll wait until after fp2 to get a better idea of what's going to be happening that week. I've often contemplated waiting and receiving a penalty on purpose for tricky races, but i don't think that would have any advantage in real ...

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Hi guys, Ive just signed up Ruste13 Do you have to make different picks for each league or do your picks apply to all of the leagues you are part of? Your picks apply to all leagues. Essentially your picks are your "team" for that race and the leagues rank your team against everyone's who has enter...

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So one of my mates is down at the race with a general admission, where should he be on race day?

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Oi so is it just me or has Toro Rosso ACTUALLY painted two kangaroos on top of its car?...

sauce:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6aVdpmXQAMkwq4.jpg

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Ok so it's only practice one so it means absolutely nothing... But it looks like I might have been right about the Ferrari. I really hope not though, we need them up the front

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If you had to place a bet on the next engine formula, what would you bet on? I think V8 turbos without the expensive and complex hybrid tech makes the most sense in terms of controling costs. The manufacturers might want to keep the hybrid stuff though for the sake of maintaining the illusion of ro...

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People can still sign up without losing any points

Predictions don't close until the start of qualifying

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Changed my predictions slightly, replaced Alonso in 10th with Hulkenberg. Was going to do something different but chickened out and decided as everyone else had hulk in their picks that it would be better for me to just cover you all off.

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I'm in the league now, under Raziel

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Does anyone have an update regarding the weather? It is Melbourne so weather predictions aren't really a thing down there. It can go from 38 and sunny down to 6 degrees, storms and winds of 80km/h then back to the 30s in about 2 hours... But for now they're predicting mostly sunny today, showers to...

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Straya!

1-Hamilton
2-Vettel
3-Bottas
4-Raikonnen
5-Ricciardo
6-Verstappen
7-Massa
8-Perez
9-Sainz
10-Hulkenberg

Now traditionally my first 2 or 3 races of the year are absolutely terrible, so as a community service just keep that in mind if your predictions look at all similar to mine

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Ill be playing again, I really find the graphical representation very helpful

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A friend of mine sent me this article. http://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18874&start=6870 Interesting read. From what I read it does look like the Honda engine has improved from last year, but the others have made larger gains, and TJI is causing them most of the reliability issu...

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FIA will be inspecting the oil systems of each engine this week as well as monitoring oil consumption over the course of the weekend to ensure that oil isn't being burnt as a non-regulated fuel. Should clear everything up, hopefully they continue to monitor oil consumption randomly throughout the ye...

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I remained sceptical of Ferrari's testing pace, but this could definitely change the order at the front, or at least cement Ferrari's apparent advantage into a real world advantage. It would be interesting to know how much time it will costs Mercedes and RBR, but that will largely depend on how much...

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I second the proposition for the Kitzbuhel GP season opener

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I'm hardly an expert, but doesn't "oil" in the combustion chamber of a gasoline engine have the effect of reducing the fuel's octane rating? I remember reading a paper about WWII Daimler Benz aero engines using an inverted "V" configuration. One bank of cylinders was intentionally set with a slight...

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Assuming that born don't suffer catastrophic failures I think at least one should slot into the 10-15 category.

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Always keep in mind that Ferrari will generally run their testing and practice about 30kg lighter on fuel than Mercedes and rbr and you have proof that they had done so this time as well? It seems as though many knowledgeable people are not seeing it that way. Not yet, no one knows one way or the o...

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Rare moments when colour-blindness is a virtue. Didn't even notice it was pink. Interesting. A co-worker of mine is colour blind and also had trouble seeing the pink. He actually held up the photo on his phone and asked us how much of it was pink. He also had trouble seeing the grey stripes beside ...

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