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Why isn't Hamilton just catching and passing Vettel?

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Is this scripted?

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G926 wrote:I didn't think they were doing stop and go penalties anymore? I thought it was times if they pitted or added to the end of the race?

Good point. Maybe you have a choice to take the time penalty, pitting for tyres or anything else or not - or get it added at the end.

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Ocon wrote:What? 5 sec for Vettel?

Ten!

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Right penalty for Vettel but for the wrong offence. He should be getting one for overtaking before the restart - probably in addition.

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Now that race control know that Merc are aware of the headrest problem, does that make them liable, more so than if they pretended not to know?

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That headrest isn't nearly as loose as it looked from the cam behind Ham's head. But is it a safety issue for him personally if he were to have an accident?

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When are they going to decide on the Vettel/Hamilton incident. They've announced it's under investigation.

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That restart was exciting!

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TedStriker wrote:Did Seb technically overtake under the SC? He was definitely ahead after he side swiped Lewis.

Yes he did (or at least before the restart). His nose was ahead of Hamilton's so that's an overtake. He is going to get a penalty.

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Has this got to be a safety car restart and not a standing grid start?

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Hamilton does have a history of unusual behaviour behind the safety car going all the way back to when Vettel and Webber ("It's kids, isn't it!? Kids who haven't got enough experience to do a good job and they f**kit all up") collided when following him in the rain (I can't remember if Japan or Chin...

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Without even considering whether either of the collisions needs to be penalised, Vettel overtook Hamilton before the restart so that's a drive through or a time penalty.

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So I keep hearing people say that she was the first female F1 team boss. Can somebody tell me what Carmen Ziegler was?

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Seems like utter claptrap to me and sounds like the kind of thing an anti-Rosberg person or a Hamilton fan would come up with. As a Rosberg fan, I'm going to defend him. From everything I saw last year, Rosberg was at his best and getting better. He'd begun to take Hamilton on at his own game and wa...

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What's the weather doing?

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Why can't the teams just use whatever tyre pressures they want?

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Brundle isn't the lead commentator.... Are you sure you're not thinking of Croft? To be fair, Simon Lazenby usually introduces them as "Commentary comes from Martin Brundle and David Croft" (in that order). That's a TV broadcasting thing. They name the person who is going to speak as a cue for him ...

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Sounds to me more like Hamilton is the one suffering psychologically from this in the way he said that [of both Vettel and Raikkonen it's true] "He should have finished where he started". I didn't hear which driver he named but surely it would have been to Hamilton's benefit if Kimi had won rather t...

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Don't know if it was answered already but how come an overcut seemed to be the thing that was happening at Monaco when the undercut is what always works everywhere else?

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Which TV stations are showing the 500 in UK?

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I found it interesting that, when Hamilton came on the radio to say "That was dangerous!" after Seb held his line through turn 1, the Channel 4 commentators both agreed it was exactly the same move Hamilton had been doing to Rosberg for the past three years and just what he would have done to Vette...

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I found it interesting that, when Hamilton came on the radio to say "That was dangerous!" after Seb held his line through turn 1, the Channel 4 commentators both agreed it was exactly the same move Hamilton had been doing to Rosberg for the past three years and just what he would have done to Vettel...

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Ross Brawn once said in an interview that Schumacher was unusual in being one of the drivers who wasn't out of breath on the radio.

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Everyone is so happy for that little kid, Thomas. His day turned from joyful expectation to tears of sadness when Kimi went out and then turned again into joy when a Ferrari representative went and invited him to go to the motorhome. Nearly had me crying with him! I was also expecting to see 1 comm...

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Everyone is so happy for that little kid, Thomas. His day turned from joyful expectation to tears of sadness when Kimi went out and then turned again into joy when a Ferrari representative went and invited him to go to the motorhome. Nearly had me crying with him!

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First was a slip of the tongue, the second was clearly meant to be you cant tell the identity of a driver by looking at the car from behind, and the third is nothing worse than some chap called Walker thrust upon us down the years. Non event So, 'You can't tell it's Massa because the Mercedes doesn...

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on the states broadcast they showed a very young fan in the stands and in ferrari gear crying when kimmi crashed in turn. one. later, they showed the young fan and his mom in the ferrari hospitality area getting pictures with kimmi. pretty cool What a guy, Kimi. A touch of class and something that ...

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I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on a few mistakes Martin Brundle made today. He was saying that Lewis in the McLaren (sic) had an advantage with his tyres over Vettel in the Ferrari. Then he was saying that Vettel did well to tell it was Massa he'd caught up to because you can't really see an...

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Keke Rosberg came out of nowhere, in terms of his 1981 results in F1 to become a champ in chaotic 1982 championship. Tough he kwas kind of leveled with Emmerson Fittipaldi in 1980, and won the 1978 Race of Champions, albeit with a few contestants, and in rain. Someone mentioned Nigel Manell who at ...

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Is the Red Bull driver's name Citrix or Aston Martin?

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Fantastic to see Dani continue his run of at least one win every year of his MotoGP career!

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It's bank holiday Monday. A lot of people may be out at the garden centre or away in their caravans. I've gone for watching the world snooker championship with a lot of wine.

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@Alien, that's so cool and thanks for the detailed explanation. I only watched that programme because of Hannah Fry and the ostensibly maths related content. If I were single, I'd probably have signed up to be on it (my thing is actually TV quiz shows).

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Alienturnedhuman, you WERE on a TV show about speed dating weren't you!?

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I've always thought karting to be the most dangerous of all motor sports because of the very exposed and vulnerable driving position with almost no protection from ingress or collision. I'm constantly surprised that there aren't more of these kinds of accidents or that this category of racing has be...

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I wasn't aware that this happened at Donington, or that he was in the same hospital where I had surgery last week. Seeing his picture, I was shocked how young 17 year olds look. I imagine car racing drivers not looking like children.

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cmberry20 wrote:Still curious about the penalty. Can you get a penalty for driving too slow on the track if you aren't swerving all over the place?

Well, if Alonso can get a penalty for holding up Hamilton during quali at Hungary in 2008 by just sitting in his pit box, it seems like the same offence to me.

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I'm wondering why so many people think Hamilton's pit entry behaviour was even necessary, other than as a ploy to slow anyone close behind him. He could easily have stacked himself behind Bottas without backing off until he'd got much closer to his box. He and everyone else knew what he was doing an...

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Looks just like Spain 1981

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