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2. An American consortium involving Indycar team owner Michael Andretti and Pieter Rossi, the father of former F1 driver Alexander Rossi, who now races for Andretti. This would be by far the best option, IMO, if Force India has to go under. Getting the Andretti name back on the F1 grid under a comp...

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I don’t know if I inadvertently hit the “subscribe” link for the main forum or not but it got toggled on so the inbox of my personal email was jammed with message alerts when I got home from work. So I came to the site unsubscribed but continued to get message alerts by email. I tried logging out an...

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With Ocon possibly coming free with the FI fiasco it’ll be easier for Renault to pick him up if they want to. If that’s the case and Haas decides to drop Grosjean (I’m not convinced they will) I’d rather see Sainz take that seat than Perez. Between the way Perez races his team mates and the way Eri...

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With Ocon possibly coming free with the FI fiasco it’ll be easier for Renault to pick him up if they want to. If that’s the case and Haas decides to drop Grosjean (I’m not convinced they will) I’d rather see Sainz take that seat than Perez. Between the way Perez races his team mates and the way Eric...

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Technical director doesn’t necessarily mean that he’s going to pick up a pen and design the car. Being able to manage the technical staff in the various departments and getting them rowing in the same direction is important and that doesn’t require the manager to know everyone’s job as well they do....

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They actually do destroy unused tires after a certain amount of time. I can’t remember where I read/heard it but it basically comes down to a matter of the materials degrading over time and not being able to guarantee performance after awhile. It probably happens to an extent with normal road tires ...

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Hope he recovers well. Sounds like he picked up some sort of sepsis after shoulder surgery.

Manley on paper is a good pick to pick up the reigns at FCA. Haven’t heard anything about the guy who’s taking over Ferrari other than he’s another that also worked at Phillip-Morris at some point in the past.

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Rosberg seems quite surprised seeing the body language of Hamilton today. He said he's never seen such a body language come off Hamilton. https://www.planetf1.com/news/rosberg-worried-about-hamiltons-body-language/ Maybe Rosberg will now be allowed to do the podium interviews - unless Hamilton gets...

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Johnson wrote:
Fiki wrote:How clean Vettel was, especially on the final corner. Well deserved.
Good lap but he lost 0.150 in S3 compared to run 1

He went purple in S3. I think you mean S2.

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The gap between Ericsson and Leclerc seems to be growing over the season. 0.8 today on a very short track. Ericsson can't be back in that car next year surely. With the extra money coming from Alpha/Ferrari they might need the money he brings as much. And knowing that they won’t have Leclerc much l...

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That’s been Ferrari’s MO all season.

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One thing that’s working in Hulks favor is next years rule change where it’s driver+seat weight instead of driver alone which helps a taller driver like him.

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just like remembering your pin number, i dont get how it's hard for people to understand 8 different tyres. you get told which ones are on offer the race weekend, and then you do the conversation in your head of "oh so that's the soft version, medium version and hard version". If this is hard to co...

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The problem is how much more ridiculous forum arguments will become. One poster will consistently use the hard, medium, and soft regardless of track as what’s been announced. Another will use the actual compound names. And a third will use them both interchangeably. Others will miss the point all to...

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Nice one Exediron. I was thinking along the same lines. Phase 1: 2 years learning the ropes and paying my dues at Sauber. Phase 2: Move on to Haas where I hone my racing skills in the midfield. Phase 3: I don’t have to change teams because between great development and my driving Haas is the team to...

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Blake wrote:All of which has WHAT to do with Boullier leaving McLaren???

That’s what I was thinking.

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That link took me to a story about Gasly complaining about the Honda PU.

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I find it curious how Ocon has in fact stepped up his game against Perez this year, to the point where I would not consider him the clearly superior driver... but no one is talking about him anymore. Is Perez's reputation simply that poor, or is it that the newest Wonderkid (Leclerc) is taking all ...

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Why did This require a new thread? There’s alrready a Merc/Ferrari/Red Bull thread where this could’ve gone. Agreed - Merged into the appropriate thread. RaggedMan was that guy in school that reminded the teacher they'd not set any homework this week. How does that situation equate to my post? Sorr...

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That was a fun read!

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Why did This require a new thread? There’s alrready a Merc/Ferrari/Red Bull thread where this could’ve gone.

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France and Austria the Ferrari’s were on the softer compound and today Lewis got a bad start.

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I always watch live timing on my iPad during the race and come here to scroll through the race thread afterward. Looks like I missed a lot of action around page 6 this time. I have to doff my cap at those who made posts that didn’t get deleted. I fully expected to see at least a few posts accusing K...

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I’d rather see him take it on merit.

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KingVoid wrote:Someone outside of the top 3 teams will get a podium somewhere.

One of the Haas tomorrow!

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kleefton wrote:
Llotyhy wrote:That would explain it. The difference was 4-5 tenths in each q session
Supposedly the problem would be fixed for his second Q3 lap. Horner commented on it during Q3.

He said that DRS wasn’t working on one of the straights and thought it was a software glitch and his car wasn’t detecting the zone.

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While I don’t have a problem with the current system it does have a big flaw in how it determines who finishes ahead when there are more than 1 teams that finish the year with no points. Currently it goes to which team had the single highest placing over the course of the year. Which means that 1 te...

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Of course Sauber is much better this year. They have a current PU instead of the previous years model. Haas is going to be better just with another season under their belt to develop their car more. Of course the PU improved but they probably also look a bit better than last year but they’re also fl...

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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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For some people anything other than praise for their favorite is the same as rubbishing them.

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About time, he should pay back all his bonus and salary back for wrongly pointing the finger to Honda only and losing all that sponsorship money. He has only taken mclaren backwards. Now hopefully someone will put things right. But I fear systemic issues take time and pain among staff to resolve. I...

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I disagree, quite strongly! Red Bull have shown that they are always there, or thereabouts. It's pretty clear that the main thing holding them back has been their PU, but chassis-wise they have a top-performer. Renault have the funding, but there again so do McLaren, and look where that funding has...

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That was also with exhaust blown diffusers that the Red Bull/Renault combo had mastered.

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They wouldn’t need an Alonso caliber driver to be ahead of Renault right now, just a second Magnussen. RoGro has thrown away enough points with his unforced error in Baku and at least one other occasion this year.

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Add active aero, adjustable ride height, and bigger battery while nixing the fuel flow and rev limit on any of the current top 3 F1 cars and it could be possible.

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It's always interesting to actually get the full context of the driver's comments by comparison to the way the media attempts to make them sound. I think we recently had a discussion about this with regards to Alonso's comments and how the media edited them to create a negative perception of him. F...

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I bet he's more interested in winning than impressing us with his awesome skill.

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Good thread. Hamilton has simply not been the same driver since the Brake by Wire sytem was introduced in F1 around 2014. Compounded with the computer like Mercedes(FRIC at the time) suspension he has lost some of his strength which is braking. He may not admit it, but the Mercedes despite giving h...

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Can we get Alonso to add it to his retirement bucket list? This. Zak's a PR man, send Alonso out there in the 2012 McLaren, please. Not sure about the 2012 McLaren... Given that around Spa, this 919 Tribute beats a 2017 F1 car, I don't think the slower 2012 cars would beat this one. And wouldn't F1...

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VSC had no impact on the final result.

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