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Thunder, lol

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Would love to see some onboard shots of the first attempt at Spa '98 without the spray bluring the view. I've found this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykKLi3u8SSI At 0:20 you see Ralf Schumacher's front wing appear on the left (from Irvine's car). Ralf somehow escaped the carnage without a den...

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I hate the triangular bit just after the hair pin. It's everything I dislike about Tilke circuits, awkward and angular it doesn't seem to flow. The apex just sticks out into the track like a thorne in your leg.

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This is what the Ost curve looks like today

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No I just don't see the point in him sticking around when there are exciting drivers like PDR, Perez and KK all deserving a drive in a decent car. Schumacher has had his day, won many races and many Championships. There is nothing he can do which will improve his legacy, even if he wins another hand...

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I'd like it to go a bit like Rubens' 300th GP. Smacking into the back of Alonso like an Exorcet at the end of lap 1.

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Damon, Michael is out, Michael is out! You're leading the race, you're leading the race! Michael is out!

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The Merc was hopeless in the dry. If it weren't for the incidents with both Saubers and Pastor, they'd have had 2 perfectly healthy cars outside the points in an otherwise dry and uneventful race. You could say the same about Mclaren really, nowhere near the top 3 teams this weekend and probably beh...

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I wouldn't call 2 errors from KK "too many mistakes." Certainly nothing worth dropping him for. The Massa incident wasn't ramming at all, he tried to overtake after the SC, didn't have enough grip and pumped into the side of him. Clumsy, but not deliberate or wreckless. He wouldn't even have been th...

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Heidfeld has been fairly unspectacular for best part of a decade in F1. Yes a decent steady driver, but he wouldn't really be an exciting driver to push the team up the grid. Sutil I think deserves another chance. Rubens is well past his best would just be a rather for-lorn shaddow of his former sel...

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I do think Pastor should have been heavier punished for his earlier misdemeanours, but I think today was more of a genuine mistake. He tried to push Perez to the outside, but he just lost rear end grip and slid wide into him.

Haven't seen the replays so it's hard to say.

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Alonso is going to be visitng the stewards I fear. I will like to see his sector time during the yellow compared to the previous laps. AFAIK 6 ms is the difference. If it was 6 ms, I suspect he'll take a grid drop. But he was 6ms slower when he should have been maybe half a second faster in that se...

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F1master wrote:Sauber hype fails to deliver.

That was a complete lottery, you can't make judgements on a teams performance from that session.

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Pretty unlucky there, there wasn't an awful lot he could do in those conditions.

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I want a photo of Kobayashi going through that puddle. Would make a great wallpaper.

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I've been working on combining the Standard model with gravity for years and I think I've finally nailed it! Here it is: Standard Model + Gravity = Grand Unified Theory Let me know when you want me to come to CERN and give a talk on this. Can't do it next week though as I'm building a patio at the ...

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Has anyone got a copy of today's Sun? I want to know what Katy, 23, from Salford thinks of this discovery.

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Give it a few days, these Higgs Bosons will end up on eBay, just like the Olympic torches.

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Anyone got any experience with the Elephant campsite in (well, fairly near) Francorchamps? I've just booked a plot for this years race... I think.

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I would give one of my balls to keep Spa on the callendar.

Christ knows, they hardly get used anyway.

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I can see this incident being a catalyst for introducing canopy covers into the sport as that is the only way to provide any form of protection against this type of impact - not even the front roll hoop, which the FIA was rumoured to be leaning towards, would be able to fully protect against an acc...

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Congratulations too to Poland and Ukraine for hosting a fantastic tournament. After all the negativity and talk of racism etc. before the tournament I've heard nothing but positive stories from the England fans who traveled to either Kiev or Donnetsk. The people were friendly, cheap food, cheap beer...

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How many drivers do you have to have to form a chain back to the first grand prix? Fangio started the first grand prix, he also started a race with Brabham, Brabham started a race with Ickx, Ickx with Patrese, Patrese with Schumacher and Schumacher is currently driving. Schumacher is questionable b...

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Ok, this shouldn't be too hard. What links these guys? Juan Manuel Fangio, Graham Hill, Niki Lauda, Carlos Reutemann, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Michael Schumacher, Eddie Irvine, Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso. Something about being able to keep wins after cheating? I know Hamilton, Schumacher an...

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2005 French GP 2001 British GP 1997 German GP 1993 South African GP 1994 European GP The winners of the races had all missed the previous race? Schumacher banned in 94, Prost had sat out the 92 season etc) I hope it's right. I reactivated my account after six months of inactivity just to guess :lol...

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2005 French GP 2001 British GP 1997 German GP 1993 South African GP 1994 European GP something about first points? all I can remember about any of them that is interesting was that Germany '97 was it was Trulli's first points. i think. maybe that was '98... Nope. This is a fairly large clue, but it...

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Banana Man wrote:2005 French GP
2001 British GP
1997 German GP
1993 South African GP
1994 European GP

These might not be the only examples by the way, but there is a common link.

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huggybear wrote:
Banana Man wrote:2005 French GP
2001 British GP
1997 German GP
1993 South African GP
1994 European GP
Hmm... f1 lap records at those grand prix?

Nope.

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2005 French GP
2001 British GP
1997 German GP
1993 South African GP
1994 European GP

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A bit of fun between races I suppose! Feel free to add your own once the previous one has been answered. I'll start things off: Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, Mario Andretti, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Michael Schumacher, Damon Hill, Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel. What do they have in c...

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Spa 2008. Hamilton eventually got the pen for cutting the chicane. If Kimi would've just nursed the car home after that instead of challenging him further and putting the car to the wall he would've gotten the win and the whole title battle endgame could've been different. Brazil 2008. What if Gloc...

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:] OT (and to bookmark) Shouldn't you update your signature with Vettel's current helmet? You know, I should. But I couldn't find a usable image (must be a manageable size, must be on a white background, must be facing the right way). Perhaps you could help me with that? You know what would be bett...

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A: Fernando Alonso, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Giancarlo Fisichella and Jackie Stewart. Most recent winners for a team (Ferrari/Renault, BRM, Jordan, Matra) You lot are TOO GOOD! :] It's scary! First thing I always think of when someone mentions Fisi's career is Brazil '03, I just worked from that. :]

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Guia wrote:Right, well, I think he's gone. So you'll all just have to take my word for it.

ANOTHER...

A: Fernando Alonso, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Giancarlo Fisichella and Jackie Stewart.

Come on, easy one this.

Most recent winners for a team (Ferrari/Renault, BRM, Jordan, Matra)

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Laura23 wrote:Ok another one,

A. 1997, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2010

(For the Kimi one I just thought it would have been obvious with the ten!)

Easy.

Winner of the first race didn't win WDC.

DC - Irvine - DC - Fisi - Nando

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A: Fernando Alonso, Alberto Ascari, Tony Brooks, Jim Clark, James Hunt, Nigel Mansell, Stirling Moss, Carlo Salamano, Michael Schumacher and Ralf Schumacher. All won their GP's once? (Ralph won the German GP once, that's why!) Nah-ah. You need to think more like a... European. :] They all have girl...

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Webber to Ferrari for 2013, Raikkonen to Red Bull. Webber retires for 2014, Vettel goes to Ferrari and KK or Perez takes the second RB seat. That would make the most sense, but by the time politics have had their way it will be: Everything stays the same for 2013 with Massa at Ferrari Vettel replace...

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What's all this nonesense about not being fair to fans. I'd wager most of the F1 viewers accross the globe don't speak English so they would need a translation anyway, be it from English, Italian or Klingon.

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Gutted for KK today, he should have had a podium. If Senna hadn't knocked his front wing off, he'd never have been back down the field fighting with Massa. Good pace from Koba once again ruined by other people's mistakes, just like Monaco.

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This is what this circuit looked like this morning. 32 degrees before midday, a bit windy though.

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