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It doesn't matter even if Hamilton comes ahead and claimed that the team had the fastest car... like McLaren did for some of the years he drove for them, some people here still suggest that they know better, and i think they wouldn't change. Of course there is PR and there is an outright lie, but i...

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Martin Whitmarsh, you have not only failed to win any championships in the last five years, at times with the fastest driver and the best car, due to the teams bumbling of pit stops, strategy, and poor reliability...now you want to hire this guy back? Yes, he is very talented, but it was his and ce...

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I'll copy and paste what I said in the official Jenson thread as I feel it is also applicable here... I don't think Jenson has a contract for 2015. He said yesterday he 'can't say' whether his deal extends beyond 2014. I think Whitmarsh really is waiting to see what happens with Alonso. Whitmarsh i...

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PacificBeach wrote:
tmzxaar wrote:PacificBeach, you are the one living in denial
Please be my guest to correct me whenever you can. I just listed last years results, nothing more nothing less....

Just the facts are getting increasingly more difficult to bear for some...

Hey... don't mind tmzxaar. He's just hurting a bit...

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Mark Hughes just wrote it on his Twitter: Mark Hughes ‏@SportmphMark Stood trackside turn 1-2-3. Hamilton mighty. that time more him than car. Red Bull looks way fastest. https://twitter.com/SportmphMark/status/381020498437472256 But of course some people still are willing to write that when Merced...

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What is a Kimi style car? Not the fastest, but making less mistakes like in '07... the year when Alonso clearly had the best car. He also did for most of '06, but one step at a time. No I mean what specific features of a car would make it a Kimi style car? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOhgI1hQA68...

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Jokes apart... i wonder how Ferrari will fare next year. Ferrari have a bunch of geniuses (Byrne, Tombazis, Fry, Allison etc) working various bits. They do have a competent team and i'd be sad to see Ferreri flailing about as they're now... I want the good ol' days of 2000-2004 back, and soon enough.

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TheThirdTenor wrote:What is a Kimi style car?

Not the fastest, but making less mistakes like in '07... the year when Alonso clearly had the best car. He also did for most of '06, but one step at a time.

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TheThirdTenor wrote:Wow, some Vettel fans are really paranoid.

You'd be paranoid if you, sorry Alonso were being targeted.

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I thought Lotus ran out of ice-cream

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But surely when you talk of the best car you should factor in reliability, nobody would question that at many races the McLaren was the fastest, but it was unreliable and unpredictable Unpredictable? That was for but a few races where they had to alter their car mid-season. Yes... even after factor...

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I think McLaren gets the edge for creating the fastest car last year. I've seen some polls and write-ups by analysts and I have seen most of them proclaiming the Mclaren as the fastest. So I'm asking again: what influence does the designer have on reliability and operational errors? Operational err...

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We saw how Newey turned Mclaren around when he joined. Most of the paddock were shocked at Melbourne 98. Now look at Mclaren. No podiums this season. Do you remember any of last year? McLaren had by far the best/ fastest car... Newey was secretly working for them??? Best car and it came 3rd in the ...

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We saw how Newey turned Mclaren around when he joined. Most of the paddock were shocked at Melbourne 98. Now look at Mclaren. No podiums this season. Do you remember any of last year? McLaren had by far the best/ fastest car... Newey was secretly working for them??? Best car and it came 3rd in the ...

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Designers who are not Newey can be easily replaced (see costa being Replaced by fry at Ferrari). However Newey can not be easily replaced. Look at how Williams fell off the map after he left. I remember Williams still fighting for wins and all till '04... Their problems were in multiples, and a des...

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We saw how Newey turned Mclaren around when he joined. Most of the paddock were shocked at Melbourne 98. Now look at Mclaren. No podiums this season. Do you remember any of last year? McLaren had by far the best/ fastest car... Newey was secretly working for them??? Best car and it came 3rd in the ...

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Newey for sure, Vettel can be replaced by any middle field driver and redbull still can get WDC. :uhoh: LOL! I've been taking a look at it, and I would bet that, without Vettel, and each driver as number one, probably half of the grid would be capable of wining the WDC with the Red Bull. I don't be...

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Designers who are not Newey can be easily replaced (see costa being Replaced by fry at Ferrari). However Newey can not be easily replaced. Look at how Williams fell off the map after he left. I remember Williams still fighting for wins and all till '04... Their problems were in multiples, and a des...

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TheThirdTenor wrote:We saw how Newey turned Mclaren around when he joined. Most of the paddock were shocked at Melbourne 98.

Now look at Mclaren. No podiums this season.

Do you remember any of last year? McLaren had by far the best/ fastest car... Newey was secretly working for them???

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GordonSmith wrote:Newey for sure, Vettel can be replaced by any middle field driver and redbull still can get WDC.

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Luca di Montezemelo said in an interview with Motor Sport magazine a couple of months back that he thought Alonso was better in the race than Schumacher. Team principals and team mates bigging up their drivers is routine, but the favourable comparison with Schumacher has been made a few times by pe...

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Bob Bell, Appointed technical director at Renault in 2003, 2005/2006 they win the titles, Appointed technical director at Mercedes in 2011, not winning titles yet but its not hard to see they have come a long way since 2011 & expected to be a championship contender next year. This guys results cert...

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Ok, let's put this thread to bed once and for all.. I can't tell if you factored in the fact that Byrne has been missing in action since 2006 or so and hence races since then shouldn't be factored in, if you're measuring Byrne against Newey that is... apologies if you did so already I wasn't measur...

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Ok, let's put this thread to bed once and for all. Also, having read back through the thread, it's obvious the OP had an agenda to gang up on f1yer throughout, so :thumbdown: for that. For those who doubt how important Newey is to a team, or indeed to anyone who thinks drivers contribute more to su...

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I can't begin to address the ignorance of it all... though ATH was very polite, i guess my patience is wearing thin for various reasons, so excuse me if i sound too curt at times :P RBR is a ducking team, a team which is ducking led by a very capable man in Horner. As much as some here will claim o...

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But Byrne's not been around for how many years? Byrne was simply a glaring illustration of How far does Newey brilliance goes. Certainly puts a shade on the "Master of Aero" title. And Newey has lost to other design teams as well just for completeness sake. In fact , if I remember correctly 4 years...

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I can't begin to address the ignorance of it all... though ATH was very polite, i guess my patience is wearing thin for various reasons, so excuse me if i sound too curt at times :P RBR is a ducking team, a team which is ducking led by a very capable man in Horner. As much as some here will claim ot...

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Massa's best period clearly was in 2006 to halfway 2009. Ferrari was except for 2009 always a top 2 car. If he wasn't part of Ferrari program I doubt however he would have gotten a chance (or should I say so many chances?) in a top car. His record pre Ferrari doesn't look too good and he hasn't rea...

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He earns about 6-8 million a year... can't say if that is pounds or dollars though, and this from a couple of years or so ago. Do not forget that RBR also has bonus for drivers... and i'm thinking there may be some for designer too. All this though takes nothing away from a driver who's on to winni...

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... Schumacher on the other hand, he was asked to race alongside Kimi or to retire... ... Schumacher didn't go along with it, as there were rumours (well, noises from those who know him) about how he didn't want Massa to suffer for the general stupidity that was going around at Ferrari at the time....

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Schumacher I think is when he said to luca in 2006 "Its either Kimi or me for next season" so ferrari picked Kimi. Another rumour with no substance. Thanks for clearing that up, so Schumacher did not veto anyone and Senna did. I cant speak for the Senna one, im not sure why he would though...... pe...

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They hadn't started to be anywhere near the top until Vettel sat in that car. RBR started winning when Vettel arrived. Why is it always one-way? RBR started being near the top in 2009 because everyone started from zero again after the rule changes. Vettel also happened to join in that year. You see...

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You know what, TTT has got you all on that one. So what if it was 1996, it was the same bloody team. If Alonso was de facto No.1 Massa would have been asked to move aside that day. They never asked him. Virtually every professional motoring website has had at least one article recently saying it wi...

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It all depends on the cars he's given for the rest of his career. If he keeps on getting top machinery he could well break Schumacher's record. But there's just as much chance he could stop winning at all after this year. Alonso was said to have a good shot at breaking Schumacher's records after 20...

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But it was never Massa > Kimi in the first place :) Yeah I agree, I only meant using some peoples reasoning it would be. i think any combo of the top 4 not involving Alonso would have no problems Im not so sure, Hamilton certainly played victim in 2007 from what I gather & id say Malaysia showed us...

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Both Alonso and Raikkonen have grown as drivers, so obviously these two would be a stronger pair...

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I don't think the Macca was really better than Redbull in Singapore last year and it definitely was not better than redbull in Texas. In Singapore Vettel dominated the practice sessions and everyone thought he was going to get pole but he had a bad performance in qualifying and Lewis and Pastor qua...

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I liked the t-shirt... the tweets... oh, and don't forget the ice-cream

I love it that they have a sense of humour and not all black and white all the time. I wouldn't mind working for their PR team

and i bet i'm not alone in this.

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Well we know more about Alonso than we do Vettel, we know Vettel is better than Webber and thats were his history against teammates starts and ends. Well no, we know he's better than Bourdais and Liuzzi too. As for Alonso, we know he's better than Marques, Yoong, Trulli (well, 1 of 2 seasons...), F...

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Media loves to pick on Alonso, especially the British kind, where some haven't forgiven him for McLaren's stupidity half a decade after...

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