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Very nice, as long as the tax man doesn't repossess it before the ceremony and they have to give the winner a dinner plate or something

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purchville wrote:Webber starting on mediums could shake things up tomorrow...as long as he gets a good start

I hope he does get a good start, but this tickled me a lot

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For me Lauda was always just as cool as Hunt, just very different.

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It's interesting, but: ...we need to move on from this nonsense of wishing for old liveries to return. What we need to to focus on getting teams to design great, modern liveries that will become cherished in twenty years like all these ones have been. Don't live in the past, create the future. :thum...

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This is curious. Especially since yesterday David Croft said Huelkenberg to Ferrari, Alonso to McLaren. Chilton to Force India and Magnussen to Marussia. I wonder who is closer to the mark? It's 'Hülkenberg' by the way. You can't win this war :-P As much as it would be great if everyone knew the al...

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From a career point of view, he might have been better off letting Alonso through when they told him to and then complaining about it afterwards when Alonso finished ahead of him. As opposed to ignoring team orders, getting overtaken fair and square and then have Alonso finish ahead of him. I guess ...

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I would say definitely. He's been really impressive for quite a while now. Also, it's refreshing and rare to see a driver have a proper old fashioned career trajectory. He was given a decent amount of time in one team work on going from inconsistently quick and crash happy to fulfilling his potentia...

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I got the impression it was related to him wanting backmarkers (ie. Perez) running on fresh tires (who might be running at a pace not far off his own) to still let him through. It would be odd to tell them to get Webber out of the way when Webber wasn't actually anywhere near being in his way at the...

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Andrew Benson tweeted: "My reputation rests on" Hulkenberg going to Force India, EJ says as a final word on the subject. EJ also thinks Massa will drive for Lotus. Jordan hasn't been wrong about these things for a while.... But the strong inference on SKY F1 was that he was going to Lotus. If he di...

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I don't understand the GUT votes, surely he can't be the star of the race when his teammate did better? He was just better than what he usually is. Hülkenberg started 7th, Gutierrez started 14th. Hülkenberg is very highly thought of and far more experienced. I didn't vote for Gutierrez personally, ...

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Too late.

ERS will be so important and ubiquitous next season that limiting it like that would be totally unfeasible.

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If it's a level playing field, over the course of a full race distance, a few pitstops and on a similar strategy, I really struggle to see Webber beating Vettel even if he gets through the first corner in the lead. For all the issues with favouritism and reliability, I just think all things being eq...

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I suppose you take it on the very first lap??
Taking advantage of the field being tightly packed, so they'll holding each other up fighting for position and he'll lose less time than taking it once they have spread out a bit.

It is a very odd decision.

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Sky Commentator getting information (that we didn't hear)... But we did hear it...from Sky commentators at least. It has been reported elsewhere too according to a previous post. Perhaps your Sky feed is different to mine, although I think it unlikely. Did you not hear them saying that Vettel had h...

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Alonso was having serious trouble with that corner all weekend. Although it's difficult to claim he didn't gain an advantage in some way over slowing right down, it also didn't seem like predictable consistent understeer that he dealt with by picking advantageous line through that corner and stuck w...

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As long as he has one simple job and is keeping most of his attention down the pit lane on what is coming, he's probably safer than most of the mechanics and media that are frequently doing something complex or facing away from the action.

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Why is this all of a sudden such a big problem? Would they not just have an overall minimum weight of driver and car? Thats what the do have, but if the car weighs 200KG less than the minimum weight, then with a driver that only weighs 80KG you have 120KG of ballast to put in advantageous positions...

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I quite like the combined driver + seat weight idea, seems like quite an elegant solution to the problem. ... Indeed. Even if the seat weight idea isn't feasible (maybe due to safety? I recall the seats are designed to be removed with the driver in the even on an incident) then equivalent standardi...

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crespo wrote:Y'all are reading way too much into this. Nothing of interest happened in that video.
Have to agree with that one, even if Kimi was still number the 1 golden boy at Lotus he probably would have walked past in exactly the same way.

"Kimi in standoffish body language shock!"

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I think relative to their respective cars capabilities, Alonso has got on top of the tire situation just as well a Vettel this season and has usually been just as impressive in my opinion. It's a rather silly and petty thing for Paul Hembery to say. "Well x can do it, so why can't you?" when x is in...

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Malaysia - racing incident, still finished second. Not exactly bad luck. Bahrain - racing incident. Monaco - 3rd place? I don't get it. Nothing, that was just where he finished. The pictures are in chronological order Canada - racing incident. Silverstone - racing incident. Korea - racing incident....

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lamo wrote:Grand Chelem does not include leading every lap does it?

I think it does.

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I definitely saw some in Korea.
In america they use massive ones mounted on the back of trucks. Presumably because they are American

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Captain Context to the rescue! Permane praised the job that Grosjean had done in Korea – qualifying in the top three and looking set to finish second only to Vettel before Raikkonen was helped by the safety car phase. "Kimi got lucky, but Kimi puts himself in a position to make the use of that luck....

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A tie between Hülkenberg and Räikkönen (again Räikkönen!). But I'm so happy for Nico, I had to vote for him. A question, why do so many people write his name wrong? It's not that difficult. Even the BBC commentators pronounce it incorrectly. Just like Räikkönen's name, by the way. Simple as alt+025...

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Team: "Keep racing" Grosjean: "Nooooo Didn't sound good on the radio Is this Grosjean's new thing? http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/2263/82uc.jpg I don't actually have a problem with drivers asking. I think it's a fairly natural thing to do if you believe you are faster than your team mate and th...

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... If a driver had been incapacitated, he'd have died waiting. Compare it with Berger's fire at Tamburello which was dealt with much more effectively. ... Looking at the Tamburello crash it's interesting to see that the fire car was on the scene far long before the track was neutralised. As I said...

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Excellent race from Kimi. Helped out by the 2nd SC but did great to put himself in the right positions to get on the podium. Maybe this can put to bed the notion that Lotus are trying to favour Grosjean over Kimi as well. :thumbup: It doesn't put that notion to bed: it's pretty obvious that they'd ...

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I think OP has a point. I suspect the head fire marshal was looking at Webber not getting out of the car immediately and no marshals with extinguishers coming to his aid. Seeing this he might have thought getting the fire car to the Webber without delay was the lesser to two evils even if it meant s...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_World_Drivers%27_Champions I won't do a spreadsheet but at a glance, in the recent past where we have had a greater number of races there seems to have been a greater proportion of final race deciders. Obviously this could be for other reasons than nu...

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It would be one of the following drivers - Michael Schumacher - Jacques Villeneuve - Mika Hakkinen - Jean Alesi - Damon Hill - Gerhard Berger - Mika Salo - Ukyo Katayama - Ricardo Rosset - Pedro Lamy - David Coulthard - Martin Brundle - Eddie Irvine - Rubens Barrichello - Pedro Diniz - Jos Verstapp...

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Another really good qualifying for Grosjean, helped of course with Webber's penalty. He's come onto a really good bit of form, outqualifying Kimi in 4 out of the last 5 races, I think. He was very unlucky in Singapore so hopefully things will go right for him this race and he can pick up a podium! ...

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It's a meeting of the Grand Prix Driver's Association, which I think means no Hamilton, Raikkonen or Maldonado.

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The biggest villains in F1 are those determined to turn the whole thing into an X-Factor style popularity contest. So "other" I guess.

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1080i is interpolated, it comes from 720p and I think it´s the televisor in your house what do the interlacing 1080i and 1080p are totally different resolutions, 1080i is not full hd while 1080p is ... The "i" actually stands for "interlaced", not interpolated. It means that each field in the signa...

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With 22 races next year, I really don't miss any non-championship race. But since the last one was held in 1983, I wonder, why they stopped with that practice. I'm pretty sure more fans are going to be interested in a Championship race, so more money. Unless it's a race where all the cars are the s...

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As far as I can tell Kimi just sleeps at any given opportunity whatever the time of day

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Yet as I recall we've had quite a few wet qualifying sessions.

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Well if he's not the hero he must be the villain... Because this isn't a sport, this is the pantomime that a lot of the media would like to help turn F1 into

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Elderly?! He's 66 and retired in 2006. Also, it hardly reads like a conspiracy theory or an accusation. There is no suggestion it is anything other that conjecture based upon personal observations (as he makes clear) from a man with a great deal of experience. His interest seems to be describing and...

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