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Klauss,

I think if you re-read my post you will see that I am at the same conclusion that you are, maybe I got there differently, but same place.

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Senna by a country mile. Hamilton unsettled Alonso with his speed. Hamilton is very fast. Senna was the fastest ever (although an arguement could be made for Clark). Senna would cause a complete melt down in Alonso - not toys out of the pram - melt down. If we assume that did not happen - Senna was ...

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Hamilton looks quick. Could be worth keeping an eye on him this season. It's only testing, you can't go making early conclusions from it. ;) :lol: :thumbup: Well, all the 5 races we just had were only testing too. :lol: There's still more than 10 races left. With half the race over, that means ther...

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Ferrari need to win next year for Alonso. He is not getting any younger. Commitment to winning is great but you can't help but wonder if he might be wishing he'd have gone to Mercedes. I don't see him as having any particular loyalties to a specific team.

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I marked NASCAR not because I like it but because its the only one besides Indycar that gets decent coverage here. I wish the others did. Indycar is just a version of F1 with heavier cars, longer braking, and inferior drivers.

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Even if Red Bull catch them at the mid point of the season if Mercedes continues to rack up points until then - it won't matter for this years championship. I think we've seen before in 2006 & 2009 that having the best car early on and racking up points can easily make up for not having the best car...

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Talking about victory margins is silly. We saw a glimpse of what the victory margins might be after the safety car at Bahrain. In other words they aren't running the cars as hard as they can for the race distances. If they get a big enough margin in the WCC we may see them start to, but to argue tha...

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I remember reading somewhere After 97 or 98 Luca wanted Mika at Ferrari but Todt and Schumacher said no.

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I don't agree with the above. I think of the current drivers Hamilton is the best at handling oversteer and the fastest.

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I've been wearing a armband due to tennis elbow for the last two months... as it is black, today I am wearing it on the outside of my dress shirt rather than the inside as I have been doing.

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At what team? At Renault with the too small swimsuit wearing fraudster playboy, in charge? Alonso. At McLaren with Ron Dennis in charge and equal treatment? At peak performance probably Alonso, but if Hakk started outqualifying him and could be ahead after a 1/3rd or 1/2 of the season (which I'd put...

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Alonso - 2007 Blackmail.

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Alonso- Hamilton is in a different league than Vettel.

Hamilton - Alonso is the best I've raced against.

Senna versus Schumacher who would've won in 1994 had senna lived?

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Hamilton's 2008 McLaren was no where near as good as the Ferrari that year.

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My only conclusions are : 1- The 2007 and 2008 Ferrari may well have been the very best car of the field. 2- Too bad for Webber that he was not promoted from the RBR nursery. I was thinking about point 1 last night. Is Alonso currently proving how much better the 2007 Ferrari was than the McLaren. ...

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My only conclusions are : 1- The 2007 and 2008 Ferrari may well have been the very best car of the field. 2- Too bad for Webber that he was not promoted from the RBR nursery. I was thinking about point 1 last night. Is Alonso currently proving how much better the 2007 Ferrari was than the McLaren. ...

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I think its hard to argue against Rosberg and Hamilton based on results. Yes, they clearly have the best car, but drivers can either take advantage of that or make a mess of it. Other than Lewis' DNF they have taken full advantage of it - and the DNF was not driver error or being hard on the machine...

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Well, with the vast knowledge of what not to do, how not to do it, and who needs to be fired .... it is obvious, Ferrari needs to look within the PF1 forum for the Domenicalli replacements. Ah, the expertise we have here.... quite impressive really. ;) I'll offer some sage advice, Ferrari should hi...

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Full Disclaimer: McLaren fan here. I think only completing 12 laps today was another brick in the wall of what will be a long season for Ferrari if something large doesn't change. (Now you can post about how aweful we were last year) (Then in my next post I agree with you). Here is the thing. I do n...

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Hamilton!

I thought he was toast on those mediums.

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If he wins this year with Mercedes and McLaren bounce back next year with Honda, he'll be ok with it.

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They aren't that good on single lap pace. Fernando was very happy with fourth - yet all three drivers ahead of him made mistakes in qualifying. Formula 1, more than any other racing series has always placed a premium on qualifying. If its gotten easier to pass with DRS and ERS, you still have the is...

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I really think it is as simple as single lap pace.

There is a bit more to it but lack of single lap pace is at least 50% of their problem.

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I think they lose out in the mid year development war and in qualifying. I'll go back to something Ron Dennis said to Michael Andretti after one of his qualifying sessions in 1993 - "what are you smiling about your only fifth." The only grid positions you can consistantly win from in F-1 are the top...

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I agree, the difference doesn't seem to be all that big. Fuel usage figures were shown periodically during the broadcast and Mercedes was in the same range as other teams even quite late in the race. It was actually Williams that used noticeably less fuel than others - I guess they were playing con...

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How in the hell did this turn into an Alonso thread?

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Thanks Blake, its good to be here. I tend to lurk during the off months as I find arguing over what pre-season testing results mean to be tedious. If we all agreed on everything all the time, life would be boring. :D Its been good chatting with you also, wish there were more of the old school people...

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Fair point, I think 26 is the most cars I can remember on the grid in recent memory. I'm just having a go at NASCAR because I am bummed out over Gordon not winning after I invested so much time into watching the race. That doesn't mean my concerns are baseless, rather that I am over emphasizing them...

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The old Bristol, Darlington, and the current Martinsville I like - and those are ovals, but Talladega, Daytona, Chicagoland, Charlotte, Kansas, Las Vegas, ect they can blow up. Restrictor plate racing is the most contrived bastardized form of racing known to man, basically they spent hundreds of mil...

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Yeah,

Well I don't like the Chase and I HATE restrictor plate racing.

I think they need more road courses and less 1.5 mile ovals.

Of course I am a Jeff Gordon fan so...

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Three Points I'll make: 1st: I think the fuel flow benefited RBR to the extent that they would've finished below the McLaren of KM had they not had it. DR may have finished behind Fernando without this - no way to know. 2nd: I don't think Ferrari threatens to quit every other race, but supposing the...

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So basically, if Red Bull don't get their own way, they will just leave? They are starting to sound more and more like Ferrari. Rules are rules and if it was any other team RBR wouldn't care less, when will these teams realise that if you have any troubles its best to go to the FIA and get it all o...

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Michael version 2 was not the same as Michael version 1. He wasn't a bad driver in version 2, but he no longer stood head and shoulders above the rest. I beleive he could win after Senna's death and Mika's retirement/disinterest in not the best car in version 1 as long as it was a decent car. In ver...

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F1yer wrote:FIA went too far with their anti RB campaign this time.

Time to face the music

I'm with the 14 other people that find this quote defies logic.

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I watched it (for the most part), first time in many years watching a NASCAR race. I thought Gordon was really the dominant car speed wise but the stupid donkey cautions ruined the race for him and for the viewers. I won't be watching another NASCAR race soon after that. They throw cautions way too ...

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I don't think Ferrari's influence is too much now. If you asked me that question in 2002-2005 you'd have got a different answer. Was I wrong then? Maybe, maybe not. Am I wrong now? I don't think so. Ask a Ferrari fan if McLaren had too much influence from 85-91. You'd get a very different answer tha...

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If Ferrari were to leave to start a rival series they would need McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull, or Williams to go with them. For any racing to be sucessful over time it requires tight competition at the top. It would require Ferrari (or any other team) to NOT win all the time. For Ferrari to not win I...

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Before I answer that question, I would need to know why Ferrari left F1. If they just lost interest and sought other racing series, that would be one thing. However, if they left over controversy or perceived unfair dealings, that would be another. I think there is an important difference between a...

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I'm a McLaren fan. I wouldn't like it. It would be tolerable if there were a team that could consistantly compete with McLaren over decades. It would be no fun if we won everything all the time without good competition. Now obviously since 2005-ish there have been teams that have competed well with ...

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I think Ferrari's problems are the faulty wind tunnel and the in season test ban, which create negative synergy when coupled together. Add to that the change to a single tyre manufacturer instead of a tyre manufacturer who focuses solely on Ferrari and those things result in Ferrari not being domina...

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