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Very strange strategy from the team today. When he made his final stop I was completely shocked - his gap to Alonso was over ten seconds, and he was (slowly) catching Seb. He was running in clear air so probably not doing too much to hurt his tyres - his times were showing no sign of falling off, a...

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Too many tweets could be a problem....I can just picture it... Tweets.... 1. In front and doing well but Alonso is right behind me 2. How did Alonso get past! 3. Now Button has got past as well, I do not know why this is happening! But the reality is I do not think Lewis has been using twitter durin...

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As I said earlier in this thread, Mark has tended to fall away in the latter half of a season. It appears your pet theory but it isn't actually accurate: First half of 2009 average finishing position: 5th Second half of 2009 average finishing position: 5th First half of 2010 average finishing posit...

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The blue flag rule stops slower cars interfering with faster cars. Without the blue flag rule cars unable to match the pace of the leaders to the extent they drop a lap must not interfere. Without this rule deliberate interference by a car that is not competitive would be possible. But the blue flag...

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........ I do not for a second believe that Red Bull would intentionally sabbotage his car for the benefit of Vettel....... I could maybe imagine Red Bull sabotaging Webber if they could realistically believe it would be to the benefit of Vettel, but that is simply not the situation! If Webber was ...

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Webber was in the wrong place for Vettels lap, and that damaged Vettels time. Vettel was 'upset'. Understandable really. Webber was not on a flyer...he was getting ready for one. Vettel cools down and realises with the spray would have made it almost impossible for Webber to have seen Vettel. Vettel...

iano

The problem is not with Vettel. So he waves. Do you notice that the other driver very rarely waves back? So who is being unfriendly!

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he had no kers for most of the race and those Saubers were possibly the fastest car out there today. I think its understanding why they beat him. If they had been close to the front they would have won the race. If the Saubers could have just got past the other cars then they would have won for sur...

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Webber used to out qualify the second drivers at Jagaur by 2 seconds sometimes. I'm not saying they were particularly good, but he absolutely thrashed them. Yes, well said. Webber has been competitive with so many drivers. Not until 2011 did anyone EVER demolish him. To appreciate how good Vettel i...

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Supposedly Alonso was thrileld Webber won the race. So many events can be interpreted multiple ways. Alonso and Webber spend a lot of time together and Alonso would not be 'thrileld' by a result that was bad for Webber. On the original theme- relative reliability. I would suggest they have been tea...

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Another foolish 'Webber is great, Vettel is hopeless' or 'Vettel is great, Webber is hopeless' theme. Guys, get over it! Either they are both great...or both rubbish. Their results have so often (ok, 2011 aside) been sufficiently similar that their ability to drive is not that different. You can arg...

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Where are the webber bashers? :) Ok....I accept the challenge! Webbers drive on Saturday was ok....but for the race he was clearly out driven by Vettel! Exactly the same equipment and Vettel manages to improve his starting position by 5 places while Webber fails to gain a single position in the who...

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Vettel was faster in P1 + P2 + P3 and Q1 ... Sorry to be so pedantic, but Webber was faster in Q1. http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2012/868/ Too much is made of the charts from practice. So what if one driver runs on softs and empty fuel right at session end and posts a faster time. From qua...

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I do cars and horses. And yes, the top ranking equestrians in every discipline are pretty much a 50/50 mix gender wise. That's interesting. I tried Googling "top jockeys all time" and stuff like that but no list I found contained any female jockeys. When you say you "do" cars and horses, do you mea...

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It seems strange that all ladies either
1) have not interest
or
2) have tried competing (either with or without support).

I would have though there would be some who have an interest but have not had the opportunity to try competing.

iano

That was in reference to using the local Karting track to get girls into motorsports. Most of the guys in F1 started racing at what 8? Because their parents actually bought them karts etc. If you think taking a girl to a karting track is encouragement, well our local one has a height restriction. T...

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@MikeyMoos67 Why are you being so quiet all of a sudden and removing all your posts? My guess is he got wrapped over the knuckles for being a bit too forward with his inside info - I doubt any of the parties involved would be happy about seeing it hit the media, especially if it is true. It is a sa...

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Epic head to head are Hamilton and Alanso, Hamilton and Weber and many more where both racers give each other room and race for corner after corner without crashing into each other. The crashing part doesn't hold for Hamilton and Massa no matter who's fault it is. So I am guessing that you would no...

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The Age from today: http://www.theage.com.au/sport/motorsport/webber-to-ferrari-20120501-1xx82.html Seems like there is something going on, the chances of musical chairs to start moving again have largely increased. Also consider Schumi unhappiness with the tires sounds, another potential musical c...

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It's perfectly reasonable for faster tyres to degrade more, since they're made with softer compounds. There always has to be a trade-off here. If there is a problem, it's not the degradation, it's the speed. I had to read this a second time. On first reading I thought you were suggesting that all t...

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Seanie wrote:People actually died. So yeah "hilarious thread"

From wearing spandex?

oh....and i prefered the image of Olivia Newton John to Freddy Mercury

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Harpo wrote:
iano wrote:I am afraid I paid little attention to f1 during the year I was born and failed to notice who was competing, let alone who actually won
It's called history...

You mean you are allowed to look it up? And here was I thinking this was a question for the true born F1 fans!

iano

A problem with any list like this is that drivers change over their career in their one lap speed, and it has been suggested (with respect Vettel for example) just how well their current car works for them. Vettel vs Webber in 2011 would produce a different ranking than in 2010. But also how about S...

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I am afraid I paid little attention to f1 during the year I was born and failed to notice who was competing, let alone who actually won

iano

Electing for a three stop strategy in a race where others are on a two stop means committing to try overtaking the people on two stops. So we would expect all the the stoppers to have made overtakes

iano

No, the question was not answered. Not because Vettel did not drive well, but because the two stop strategy called for saving tyres, not charging thru the field.

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Red Bull have every right to be upset. Granted that in another context this whole thing would be seen as 'track rage' (cannot call it road rage because if it was on the road the police would be charging the offenders as well as the one accused of careless driving), however this is not the normal sit...

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sgt.hartman wrote: Every time Webber has a mechanical issue, are you going to claim it's a "we need Vettel to out score you" conspiracy from the team?

Yes, ok, I can do that for you

iano

It seems crazy to have to stop the race for rain, and also crazy to follow the safetly car around and around while it rains. As several has said, the moment the safety car came in, the right tactic was to switch from full wets to intermediates. Either the safety car stayed out way to long...or there...

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It is quite useless.

I tried downloading 'angry vettel' to my phone but first it crashed and then it refused to do anything!

iano

I think you could argue that Vettel staying out and finishing the race was actually the honourable thing to do. Clearly his car wasn't mamed enough to have to retire, but RBR wanted to exploit the gearbox regulations. Vettel didn't agree, so thumbs up from me. Agreed. Team orders are so often again...

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So he changed his chief mechanic. Vettel changed his personal trainer, also due to sabotage ! But thats top secret actually and i cant give any names without endangering their lifes. ;) Oh.....come on-- please name names! Then if something happens we will know it all started here! But of course eve...

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I take the actual lap times of each driver over the entire race. Take their fastest lap and rank them against lap 1 (as would be shown in the fastest laps chart). Then I take each one's second fastest lap over the entire race and average everybody's first two laps. The one who is still the fastest ...

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Didn't Bruno Senna pits on lap 1 too? Did he also go to full wers? His times were also better than Vettel's and Webber's. Didn't they see that? Hamilton was crazy fast through the 1st 4 laps on the inters. He was faster than Perez on full-wets (thanks for the correction) in lap 3 and almost as fast...

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Lets not be to quick to assume such a big swing in the Red Bull dynamic. Yes, Webber quailified ahead of Vettel in 2 out of 2 . But in the 1st race Vettel went from 6th on the grid to 2nd place while Webber went from 5th to 4th. In the 2nd race Vettel had gone from 6th on the grid to 4th at the time...

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Did they know radio wasnt working and Seb couldn't hear? They didnt work that out in 58 laps? How did Vettel know when to pit? I'm confused cheers pear-shaped pete Two way radios that work individually for each high speed formula 1 car are actually relatively new technology. Before this technology ...

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Except horner is saying the emergency was brakes, not gearbox. I can imagine another version -- of what they would not say at an interview! Q: so what was the message to Vettel? A: oh - it occurred to us that since he was outside the top 10 if he retired the car we could change things like the gearb...

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I watched the start today (hadn't seen it properly as I was at the track for the race) Mechanically his start was not horrible, they did mention after the race that something went wrong with the clutch not human error. The main issue was that he lifted off the throttle approaching the breaking zone...

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Infact in the last 20 years, since Mansell won the opening race of 1992, the winner of the first race has only failed to win WDC on 4 occasions. 97, 99, 05, 10 and none of those were really due to a change in performance, just unusual circumstances. JV probably would have won easily at Oz in 97 if ...

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