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Top teams keep offering seats to Alonso but I doubt they want the turmoil that comes with signing him. Alonso requires a team that treats him like the king he thinks he is. It's no surprise that he won his two titles with Briatore, who treated him just like that. When he left for McLaren and Ron De...

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Mercedes is still the car to beat in qualifying. Hopefully Ferrari can mount a challenge. They looked quite even here. Maybe Merc has a qualifying edge but I'm not entirely sure. Ham's lap looked quite faultless although the car itself was still not always compliant. Bottas wasn't exactly much slow...

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Shame that the other teams were so far behind in quali, but at least Merc and Ferrari were close!

It'll be interesting to see race pace.

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Top teams keep offering seats to Alonso but I doubt they want the turmoil that comes with signing him. Alonso requires a team that treats him like the king he thinks he is. It's no surprise that he won his two titles with Briatore, who treated him just like that. When he left for McLaren and Ron De...

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F1 has never been about wheel to wheel racing and will never be! Uh, so the wheel to wheel battles through all those years must have been fake, or from another racing class. 2010-2013 was so full of wheel to wheel racing thanks to the regulations to encourage it, and besides Red Bull domination in ...

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I really don't understand why some people think driver conflict adds to anything. All the idiotic shenanigans at Mercedes these last few years have been an irritant. Really don't want to see that back again As to more races, I believe I remember Brawn mentioning sometime ago it could be fairly easi...

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After '07 and '13, they'll have their work cut out persuading the top teams to partner Alonso/Seb/Lewis!

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Interesting that some are thinking that Vettel is making the difference in spite of him admitting that he made a couple of mistakes and Arrivabene is furious that Ferrari are not on pole. :) You misunderstand. As far as I know no-one is claiming that Seb was "making the difference" - just respondin...

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The Mercedes and Ferrari are pretty even. Lewis making the difference! I sincerely wish that could be true... But looking at all the times from the top 4, looks more like Mercedes is still a bit faster and Vettel is the one making the difference :? I agree, Mercedes is definitely faster than the Fe...

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It's gonna be close. Merc have the edge in qualy but the race might be closer. Based on the numbers, I come to the opposite conclusion. Mercedes stronger in race trim IMO. Ferrari need to out-qualify Mercedes to win races barring strategic/pit-stop errors. I sincerely hope you're wrong! Another dom...

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Flash2k11 wrote:Is it that hard to think that maybe Vettel and Hamilton are both 'making the difference'? The absolutism in here is nuts.

There's no "absoutism" on my side - I was just responding to a quote that was so biased that it needed to be challenged!

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F1Tyrant wrote:The Mercedes and Ferrari are pretty even. Lewis making the difference!

Or Seb "making the difference"....

At the moment, we don't know.

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I've left it very late to post on this thread as I didn't know what to say. I still don't, but fortunately others have made it clear how much Patrick was liked and respected by everyone on this forum. His children have made it clear that he was the same in 'real life' - a rare gentleman who who will...

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To make it 9 wins for Barrichello you would have to assume two things - 1. Button would not have beaten him on any of those occasions 2. Schumacher in the BAR would not have beaten him on any of those occasions. Two fairly massive assumptions. I think the BAR was probably closer to the ultimate pac...

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The racing in the 2000's were largely boring, Trulli train etc, the cars may have been more exciting to drive in the V10 era for the drivers but for the fans the races were largely a borefest, and of course we also had the domination of Schumacher and Ferrari plus the terrible qualifying formats of...

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You may not have noticed this, but the problem wasn't between Hamilton and Rosberg. It was between Hamilton and Mercedes... You might have worked that out from the thread title. So why you talking about Massa then? You might of worked out the problem was between Hamilton and Mercedes. Alesi talked ...

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Reading the comments by Merc saying they got it wrong in AD, I was quietly pleased that they have seemingly seen some sense. In my view, they were totally out of order to even consider any kind of team orders in that race under those circumstances. FFS, the pair could have crashed out with proper h...

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Personally, I think Alonso and Lewis as team mates would become very toxic far more quickly than the Nico/Lewis partnership - which is why I'd be suprised if Merc sign Alonso even if he is contractually available. But I've been very wrong before (Ferrari re-signing Kimi and Alonso going back to Mcl...

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Does anyone know roughly when Stepney passed the info. onto Mclaren? And when the FIA found out what was going on?

I can't remember

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Bottas IMO is a steady, top of 2nd tier driver - ideal for Merc as a No. 2 to Lewis.

I'm more interested in whether Williams are going to make it clear that they have zero aspirations to become a WCC contender next season - as this would be the case if they let Bottas go and end up with 2 rookies.

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I will be massively dissapointed if Bottas will get the seat. He seems like a pretty quick and steady driver, but lacks the winner instinct of ALonso/Vettel/Hamilton. He will end up being a good number 2 driver and happy with that. Lets just hope Mercedes doesnt have a dominant car next year, if th...

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They did it with max and Rio last year mid season, but I think there is a limit (3?) A team is only allowed to use 4 drivers per season. I've no idea why. The reason was to prevent a team to have a different paydriver each race (so to say, auctioning the seat for each race weekend). It was introduc...

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Fernando would crush Hamilton into tiny dust particles if he joined the dream team. But I think Mercedes must have a German driver in the team, and there are some very good options to make that happen. So if Fernando joins, Mercedes must fire Hamilton for his dirty tactics in Abu Dhabi and then the...

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Williams reject Bottas move, Bottas seems like first choice... Lowe also going to Williams it seems... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/38282791 This just proves that Mercedes aren't comfortable in putting Wehrlein in the 2nd seat atleast for 2017! I'm inclined to agree, but they may have little...

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Briatore mentioned again the other day that Mattiacci and Ferrari were trying to get Alonso to sign that 3yr extension to 2019 before their fall out so I guess LKS1 could be referring to post fall out. Yes i read that too. Which surely indicates that Ferrari were trying to keep him? Allison is also...

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Alonso and Hamilton would be a toxic gamble but both have shown signs of maturity and mutual respect/admiration since their collective petulant antics gifted Kimi the title in 2007. However Alonso would still be less of a gamble than an unproven Wehrlein who they could gamble with in a continuation...

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I’m curious – do people (Lotus49, Zoue, others…) genuinely believe that the change in tyres for 2007 gave more room for improvement for the likes of Alonso and Kimi as the season went on, than if you were a novice, and it was your first season in F1? Surely the majority of testing that Lewis had do...

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Did I sleep with your mother or something? What on earth is your problem? Not everything is about Lewis. I mentioned four drivers above, yet somehow for you that must make it an attack on him? Good grief. This is the trouble with a sub-section of Hamilton supporters: they simply cannot countenance ...

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U can say the same for Max n Dan when the top teammates couldn't put them away. Not saying Lewis is inferior but lots of people, perhaps yourself forget he did lose to someone n I'm not referring to Rosberg. Well, is Button better than Alonso? You mean Button "outscoring" Hamilton ?. Had you actual...

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Alonso must have read your post, because he's saying the same thing: “The car was winner immediately. Starting from scratch was the way to g because 2007 was the year of change as the Bridgestone tyres had different characteristics and the car was very different car to drive, with a lot of overstee...

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Mclaren fuelled there cars with the same amount of fuel and whoever was ahead got to pit second, that was what they did in the later season. This was the over cut era, so you went as long as possible until you ran out of fuel, opposite to now. So you can easily tell how much fuel the cars qualified...

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This sounds odd, but I think subconsciously Lewis lacks self-confidence - which is why he's always trying to justify why he lost. I'm not only thinking about this WDC title, but also tweeting car telemetry a few seasons ago to justify Button beating him (in quali IIRC). He doesn't have to justify w...

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Fiki wrote:
2fast wrote:Max Verstappen should get the seat.
Why would Red Bull let him go? It would make much more sense to allow Ricciardo to go and annoy Hamilton.

Max would 'annoy' Lewis far more! They have similar driving tactics.

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Sorry to 'hog' the thread - but I'd bet money that Lewis is praying for Wehrlein or Bottas! Depends, really. On one hand he would be as it would certainly boost his WDC hopes. Yet on the other hand, I'm sure he'd quite fancy beating Alonso to the WDC, a feat which would certainly elevate his status...

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The team bosses would be in a better position than us by I doubt they put anything like the amount of thought into it. Usually it seems just a quick glance over the championship table. Why else do they suddenly think Alonso and Button have got a lot worse after 2014? Do they genuinely believe that ...

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Sorry to 'hog' the thread - but I'd bet money that Lewis is praying for Wehrlein or Bottas!

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Hello all! Haven't posted in ages but I had to once I had a thought. Of course everyone knows the three options are: 1) Pick a very fast driver who will trouble LH and give them the best chance of a Constructors crown. 2) Mercedes stable, Ocon or Wehrlein. 3) Nice number 2. But I've thought of a Me...

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I like Bottas but I'm getting a Kovalainen feel from this Same here. But then again there are only a few 'top' drivers on the grid and Seb has already ruled himself out. So we're left with the possibility of Alonso - and I doubt Merc would want the 'theatrics' between the coupling. I hope I'm wrong!

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Bottas... For me he's the only choice. Experienced, quick, readily available with a sweet engine deal to Williams, and they get to put Pascal in a decent-ish car for a year to see if he's the real deal. Admittedly he has been rather anonymous in 2016 but a change of scenery could be exactly what he...

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2fast wrote:Max Verstappen should get the seat.

Agree entirely as it would be two like-minded drivers!

But its not going to happen.

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