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KingVoid wrote:FIA need to ban any aero devices on the halo.

Most likely it will happen in 2019. Not to mention teams themselves have admitted, it makes very little difference and they wont be affected much by removing it.

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Did it save Leclerc today? If I recall it was designed to deflect a flying tyre, not an entire flying car. There's no definitive evidence that it made any difference, all we can see is that Alonso's car made some level of contact with it as it flew by. I stand by my previous points. I'm not opposed...

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Only thing i can think of that will not ruin it for the spectators at the track is have better designed walls (softer, more impact absorbing ) followed by a thick acrylic composite laminated curtain followed by the catch fencing as last failsafe. Thick laminated multi layer acrylic will still allow ...

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Kimi at the moment is driving better than he has in last 4 years. His form in recent races has been good but he is not going to win you championships if Vettel for some reason has bad run for one reason or another. They can keep him for another year or two if they want. At the beginning of this year...

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Regardless of what has happened in his career and mistakes he made including leaving Ferrari which I think was the biggest mistake of his life, Alonso will still go down in F1 as one of the best ever. Anyone who thinks otherwise is blinded by their bias or hate. Period. I am still somewhat angry at ...

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Only drivers with no other option will go there. I have no faith in Vandoorne, I know its tough to be teammate with and then compete against world class driver like Alonso, but still. I think Sainz was always overrated, said so when he was at TR, but at the end of the day McLaren is $#ittier than th...

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Max angle has been overplayed. He has successfully raced against Max and came out on top for majority of his career making much fewer mistakes. I dont think either one is definitely better than the other to be honest. Also I dont think this is final destination for Ricciardo at least its not set in ...

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I think people put too much emphasis on the car, if the remainder of the season is like the first part then the most important things will be driver/team errors, luck, reliability and car speed all quite equal in importantance. Luck - In 12 races so far the leader has lost the lead due to VSC/SC. A...

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I think people put too much emphasis on the car, if the remainder of the season is like the first part then the most important things will be driver/team errors, luck, reliability and car speed all quite equal in importantance. Luck - In 12 races so far the leader has lost the lead due to VSC/SC. A...

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Good for Dan. He had to get out of RedBull. He might not win as much in 2019 or even 2020 but will be in great position to decide what he wants to do come 2021 negotiations. He will know the Renault progress on new regulations and he can stay or switch again depending on that information. Who knows,...

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Getting back to the title thread. Hamilton was 40 points down on Vettel this time last year. Vettel has made 2 errors so far this year with Hamilton suffering from Mechanical errors.... Now Hamilton leaves on his summer break with a 24 point gap advantage. There are some strong Mercedes tracks out ...

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I think people put too much emphasis on the car, if the remainder of the season is like the first part then the most important things will be driver/team errors, luck, reliability and car speed all quite equal in importantance. Luck - In 12 races so far the leader has lost the lead due to VSC/SC. A...

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Its going to be development and reliability race now in the remaining races barring weather playing role like it did in last 2 races. If Mercedes does not catch up in raw performance that Ferrari has shown recently, with the number of power tracks that are coming up, Vettel will find a way to not on...

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stupidity by ferrari.

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Flash2k11 wrote:http://www.skysports.com/motorsport/new ... four-races

Well.... wow.

WoW indeed. Not the ban but the fact that he isnt booted out of the series and Haas yet. What a douchebag on the track and from the news that is coming out now, racist douchebag at that.

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Vettel and Kimi for me today. Kimi for looking really determined and pulling off some great proper overtakes even after that 10 second penalty. Would have loved to see how far up the order Hamilton would have got without the 2 safety cars, but it was not to be. Hulk drove well but he was helped a lo...

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Mclaren does not need Alonso, should Alonso leave Mclaren will continue function and at a high level, this was said at Ferrari as well, but lo and behold Ferrari went up a gear. Should Mclaren say bye to Alonso today his F1 career is done. Ferrari got Vettel to replace Alonso. Another top tier driv...

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Dont really think the first one was a big deal. They made a mistake and race engineer owned up to it. Nothing wrong in that. But the second message felt little odd. But hey, who are we to feel good or bad about it? If they are cool with it, so be it. Its not like it makes any difference to us.

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Llotyhy wrote:This aged well.

All points at that

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Who would have though that Ferrari after all that happened this and last weekend would be leading Championship. Little slice of luck going their way finally after lot of things going against them. Even though they should have swapped in the end, its fair game by Ferrari. I dont think Vettel would co...

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This Leclerc 2yr contract is absolute nonsense, it's just the way F1 journalist just speculate rubbish and people lap it up. Leclerc is already under Ferrari contractually so it's just about moving him up nothing more so it started from him replacing Kimi after the break now its he's signed a 2 yea...

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Not that I'd mind Kimi to McLaren and I do see some advantages for McLaren themselves, but I don't see him wanting to do it. He's always said he's only interested in a front running car Hope he doesn't take it as it would be a waste of a seat IMO. Would rather see a young driver take it. I dont wan...

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What a day for Leclerc. P8

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Leclerc and Sauber, take a bow

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Kimi has looked much better this year, but at the same time his tendency to make mistakes when it really counts is still there. We saw that again in Canada. It should have been Ferrari 1-2 or at least 1-3. I like Kimi but I think its time to put someone else in that seat for Ferrari. Leclerc will be...

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They should not use the chicane on the straight, it ruins the soul and flow of the racetrack. If Fuji had that long straight, why not Paul Ricard? Another hit in the spine with axe to the historic racetracks. Safety. After Turn 10 the runoff is there but its not long enough to not have that chicane...

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hence why they should have pitted Hamilton a second time for ultras. He would have finished 6th. Yup, None of the top 6 behind Vettel could gamble 2nd stop. Mainly because they had seen what Ferrari can do on old tyres. Nobody would have risked falling behind Kimi after seeing Vettel punch in fast ...

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Ferrari should also be leading in the WCC but they are a one car team unfortunately. At this stage, Kimi being on the team is a joke. Before pitting, he was 20 seconds behind Vettel on the same tires after the first stint. That's just too much of a deficit. Honestly, Ferrari should be looking to re...

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I propose also give driver ability to send fart sounds to their team mates. So when someone yaps in their ears and you want none of it, you can push a button to play fart sounds. Every fart sound conversation automatically gets broadcasted on air.
Will be some entertainment at places like Monaco.

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I think 3 DRS zones proved counter productive this year. One way or other, the DRS benefit was neutralised for car behind because the car in front was getting DRS from the cars ahead as well as back-markers later in the race.

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Great race for Ferrari and Vettel. But it was not a great racing at fast end of the grid.

Some good racing in mid field (though not a lot of overtaking) and Charles Leclerc deserves all the praise that he gets for that drive. Great result for Sauber.

Not great race, still miles better than Monaco.

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Meh, Just scrap it. Give it to Formula E. Those are better suited to race at Monaco than Formula 1 cars. Seriously, just get rid of it from F1 calendar or bring back the non championship exhibition races and make sure Monaco is not part of F1 championship round. Thats the only way to fix the Monaco....

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Rosberg by country mile. Don't get me wrong, Bottas is ok driver but he is not WDC material. Not yet at least. On the other hand, my opinion of Rosberg (which was bad initially with his big talk and how he aint worried about Schumacher regardless of his 3 year break ) changed immediately after seein...

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Taking nothing away from Daniel, he drove brilliantly. But this races serves as perfect example of why I hate Monaco. No other track will allow a car with 2 sec a lap performance disadvantage to still easily keep its place. He knew all he had to do was keep it away from the walls to win. Also really...

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I had a little snooze, woke back up, made some lemongrass tea, missed nothing

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So the question I ask is this. Hypothetically, lets say Makino's car survived the impact with nothing more than a damaged Halo & a few scratches to the body work and was able to carry on racing as normal. Would Makino have been shown the black & orange flag, been forced to come into the pits and re...

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So the question I ask is this. Hypothetically, lets say Makino's car survived the impact with nothing more than a damaged Halo & a few scratches to the body work and was able to carry on racing as normal. Would Makino have been shown the black & orange flag, been forced to come into the pits and re...

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Now this is perfect example where race should be Red Flagged. Let them clean the track properly and then start again. Too much debris on track.

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Yeah, tyres are weird. And its clear that only 1 team from championship and race win contenders really benefited from these new construction tyres and it was Mercedes.
Rest all did their best times on Softs.

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And this is why I said, ignore FP times yesterday. Ferrari is fast. Looks like my prediction of we going into 1:16s will come true. Already at 1:17.0xx.

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