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cmberry20

I dont think they would want him. I might be wrong as they dont call it the 'silly season' for nothing.

I think the only team that Massa would fit back in to is Sauber. I just dont think he will get treatment he is used to from any other team which in turn will really effect his performance.

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lol! Massa has only been mentioned twice in the line ups - once for Lotus (not gonna happen) & the other for Sauber (probable).

Funny how he's gone from almost a WDC to a forgotten driver!!

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I cant see Mark actually hitting Seb on purpose, but if the WCC is already in the bag, I dont see him moving over for him either. If Redbull can activily 'switch off' his car from the pitlane, I can see this happening. Or just screw Mark over at a pitstop.

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I've been thinking about this & if there was a similar situation to what happened in Brazil last year (2012). In that race Vettel finished 6th & Webber 4th. If Vettel had needed 5th or higher to win the WDC, Webber could have pulled over & let Hulkenburg (who was 5th) & Vettel through. However, what...

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I thought it was mandatory on every single circuit to name part of the track 'The Senna S'

Heck, I sure there's one on the A Road on the way to Hereford where I live!!

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My only worry is that is might spread the field out like it did in the 80s.

Teams used to qualify SECONDS ahead of the the next best team, not tenths of a second. It may be that one team has a massive engine advantage & the entire season will become a snoozefest!

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^ Exactly.

Guys, just chill. The cars will sound like they did back in the 80s. I dont remember many people moaning about the sound then.

Can imagine the forums next year.......
'Wow, amazing race, loads of passes & the closest finish for years,..... but the sound of the cars ruined it for me!!'

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The way I read it is that the Ferraris were a lot slower that the front running cars in the first half of the season but caught up & matched the in the second half!

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I can't really see which arguments support that Ferrari was on par with Red Bull and McLaren in the latter half of 2012. If i'm not mistaken Ferrari qualified in the top 3 once during that period. Doesn't seem like a car on pace with the frontrunners to me. Ferrari finished behind a Red Bull 7 out ...

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Last season, during the first half the 2012, the Ferrari was very difficult to drive & the only fact that they got results was that Alonso was driving the wheels of the thing! (Credit where credit is due). Massa's best finish for the first half of the season was 4th in GB, but was 6th or lower for t...

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Can someone ask Eddie Jordan whats going on. He normal knows!!

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Fun fact - air quality in planes was better when people smoked. The air in planes is now much worst now that smoking is banned.

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I do think that their approach generally is worng. Here are some points I don't like about SF. Firstly, the way they treat their drivers is very sadistic and unfair. They Clearly define 1 & 2 and this is just unfair, it's not sporty. This gives route to choosing linear design approaches when it com...

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A major near death accident like Massa had screws with your head, some people more than others. For people to say that it had no effect on Massa then you dont know much about Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, if Massa thinks it didnt effect him then he's deluded - stuff like that effects you at a subc...

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Maybe Ferrari should hire a Spectrum 48k as their number 2 - they tend to crash a lot less!!!

Bu-dum....tish!

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^ Funny you should say that as I work as a Design Engineer using Siemens NX and got to know some people working at Williams (who also use NX) & they absolutely hated working with Sam Michaels - said he was a horrible person that threatened people with the sack on a daily basis. This hurt team moral....

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Maybe the thread should read 'race car' as during qually the Merc it seems it the best, but the Ferrari really struggles.

However, at race pace the Ferrari holds its own against the Mercs & Red Bull

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If Massa wants to stay at Ferrari, then he's an idiot. Nothing more than a whipping boy that has to do as Ferrari commands like moving over & take penalties. Unless Ferrari build an all conquering 2014 car there's no way Massa will win again while Alonso is there. Also I don't think he has the all o...

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@greenwizard13 - Wrong. He told Eddie that he was going to fight Ralf if he was allowed to pass him. This put Eddie in a corner - either he let them fight & run the risk of losing his first ever win for Jordan (and it being a one/two) or order Ralf not to pass to bring the cars home. To me that show...

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Keke Rosberg ran a completely different color scheme to his team mates Alain Prost McLaren at the 1986 Portuguese Grand Prix. While Prost drove the normal looking Red & White Marlboro McLaren, Keke ran the Gold & Yellow colours of Marlboro Lights. This is the only race this happened as it thought th...

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^ Very interesting - I'm surprised a team would 'stop' a driver from winning his first WDC. Hence the reason I started this thread.

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Lets add a bit of fuel to the fire then: In Scenario 2, the team is Ferrari. The driver leading is Alonso & the second place man is obviously Massa. Currently Massa' career is pretty much over, he's never going to win the world championship while Alonso is at Ferrari, once he leaves Ferrari he will ...

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I read this "His spine was broken in Germany 2010" & immediately thought 'I dont remember that accident!!'

Then I realised what you meant.

Yeah, Germany 2010 broke Massa - not the crash imo. To me is was like 'Well if that's the way its is, then why bother'

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Here's an interesting scenario (apologies if anyone has come up with this before) We always here are how F1 is a 'Team' sport & that team orders are used to get the best result for the team. (Multi21 anyone!) So, consider these scenarios - and what do you think might happen: Scenerio 1 It's the last...

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Fun fact.... Marlboro is still one of the main sponsors of Ferrari. I don't understand why. They must make too much money!!! Marlboro actually make money from this. They buy up the main advertising space on the Ferrari, they then sell that space to several other sponsors for more money than they pa...

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Fun fact.... Marlboro is still one of the main sponsors of Ferrari.

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I see teams being underdogs rather than drivers, its always great to see a lower tier team win or get close to winning: Senna/Tolman, Hill/Arrows, Button/Honda, Alonso/Renault(08/09) People are saying Massa as an underdog - i dont see that at all, all i see is someone who isnt as good as his team ma...

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Came across this on YouTube, some really good 'laugh out loud' moments

Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... -rFSLtgzPY#!

btw - sorry if its been posted before.

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I dislike them all 'cos they all earn 100 times more than me for going out for a Sunday drive!

But I just bitter!

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You can't use DRS at any point in qualifying only the same places as in the race.

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Angel De La Muerte wrote:
and of course 1995 he won the title,

hhmmm, not sure if your being sarcastic or not! (oops my fault -it was 1994 that Hill lost out by 1 point to a certain German & all lot of people still think Hill was robbed)

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OK, I know I'm gonna get some stick for this but I'm going to ask the question anyway... I know its wrong, I know its dangerous, I know its bad sportsmanship, but.... Did Piquet 'break' any rules by crashing? He didn't crash into another car, he did away from everyone else & he did it to help his te...

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oh alright then....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Formula_One_season

{spoil sport}

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As per title. Not the fastest top speed, but the overall speed, over a full lap or race. Its always hard to judge the speed of cars nowadays as even old tracks have been altered so 'Lap Records' become somewhat redundant. So, theoretically speaking - If you took the best car from every year since; l...

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Apparently the Red Bull is going to have an extra wide cockpit to accommodate Sebs ego!

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Worst grid: 2005 US Grand Prix!

End of thread!!

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ok, maybe 'inventing' was a bit misleading. I was more interested in the introduction of the technology to F1.

Eg. Did one team introduce the 'Anti Stall' system & everyone else copied. On was it a full introduction made by all the teams; a bit like DRS.

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We all know of the designs that can help win championships - the double diffuser, the flexi wing or the F-Duct. Usually a single team is responsible for these innovations & other teams copy them to keep competitive. However, certain innovations seem to creep in without any single team 'inventing' th...

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I have no idea if Massa got screwed over in the race to let Alonso through, And we will probably never know.

But what I do know is that is always the Ferrari's 'No.2' driver that has all the issues - bad pit stops, bad strategies & poor reliability. Its been like that since Schumacher days.

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Was going to use Sky Go to watch practice but Sky dont allow the app to work on rooted android devices. ******* idiots!!

Way to pull an 'EA' there Sky!!

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