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Yet in Singapore he was a wopping 3 seconds slower than his opening final stint lap. Considering he is always quicker unless the 2 extreme situations before. That means he was up to 4 seconds off his usual opening lap time. Just like everyone else. Singapore is very demanding on the tyres. There's ...

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In the first stint Vettel pulled away from Alonso and Ricciardo easily. In the 2nd stint Vettel fitted used tyres to save his newer supersofts for later on the race (that's why Alonso caught up). In the final stint Vettel was on tyres 2 laps older than Ricciardo's which is worth over 2 tenths per la...

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I'm no Lewis fan, but i'm surprised Rosberg wasn't penalised. His terrible driving wrecked another car. A bit like Grosean wrecking everyone at spa a few years ago, or crashing into Webber at Suzuka. Maybe not deliberate but causing a crash is causing a crash so Rosberg should have received a drive ...

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I reckon the extra 200+kg of weight on LMP1 cars slows them down more than the tyres. Might be a different story if f1 tyres still had 2010 or 2006 levels of grip. The 2014 Pirelli's are conservative, value grade and there primary focus is to avoid exploding, not take corners fast.

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1st place? 2nd place? It's all irrelevant. All that matters is where the Merc drivers finish in relation to each other.

The only story that matters is Rosberg could not manage to overtake Hamilton on the last lap with a 3 second per lap advantage.

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Vettel needs to stop letting Alonso past. That's 3 races in a row now.

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Hamilton should not even think about letting Rosberg through. Mercedes have already won the constructors. Hamilton needs Rosberg to get as few points as possible.

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Alonso reckons Pirelli's tyres are "too hard" and are slowing down this season's cars.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/27569094

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Blame Pirelli. They have gone super conservative with the tyres this year to avoid embarrassments. If they focused more on performance the 2014 lap times would be fine.

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No way it was Vettel, he just drove a fast car too where it belonged.3 stops was the quicker strategy and if Alonso had clean air he would of beat Vettel. Hamilton by a mile,withstood tremendous pressure and a car that wasnt to his liking. Due to having no speed on the straights Vettel still had to...

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It's potentially one of the most damaging rules to the sport ever. Rosberg would feel embarassed rather than proud to win in that manner. The WDC would become severly devalued.

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Anything can happen. A mechanical failure in the final race will wipe out 7 in a row.

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Ricciardo has no chance of staying 3rd before turn 1.

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The cars look like snails out there. Really slow in the turns.

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He will smash the record for the biggest points lead lost in the final race. After a fantastic season outperforming Rosberg at all the lengedary f1 circuits Hamilton's 49 point lead will be wiped out due to a mechanical failure at Abu Dhabi.

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I'm surprised RedBull aren't throwing money at them.

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I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with this. If Webber said this you would all be saying "respect the man for taking a stand". Most people don't hate Vettel because of anything to do with his behavior. They just hate Vettel and have a story built up in their head of him as the bad g...

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Strange performance from Vettel. He finished 40 seconds ahead of Webber here the last 2 years.

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Horner reckons they are losing 1 second per lap on the straights. If that's with an "unfair advantage" then they Redbull need to start worrying about terminating their 2015 contract with Renault, not 1 result of what will be an irrelivant season for them.

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Albert Park is a pretty low top speed track so the cars were never going to reach anywhere near their top speed. We'll have to wait until the long straight at China for some meaningful numbers. From what i have seen so far it looks like Williams have went with much shorter gears than Mercedes and Mc...

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My gut feeling is that RedBull and Ferrari have race winning chassis, but the engines are holding them back. It's a bit frustrating because with the millions of regulations in place i don't think anything can be done about it. Also some great drivers are going to be at a major disadvantage when figh...

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1. Vettel
2. Alonso
3. Hamilton
4. Raikkonen
5. Hulkenberg
6. Rosberg
7. Button
8. Ricciardo
9. Grosean
10. di Resta

Notables: Perez, Bottas and Bianchi

All these guys deserve to be in F1 next year

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Alonso finished 40 seconds ahead of Vettel at Spain, and now he's finishing 40 seconds behind. A lot of that time is surely down to the tyres, however on paper Ferrari should have had the fastest car in the race at Silverstone. Either the other teams made a huge step forward or Ferrari put downgrade...

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I'm struggling to understand the motivation behind this decision. Perez has overtaken Button multiple times this year in equal conditions. When is the last time we have seen Webber do that to Vettel, or Massa do that to Alonso? Sure he lacks consistency, but i think that will come with time. If this...

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Who rattled your cage? Mark is a valuable member of RedBull and contributes a lot to the aerodynamic setup of the car, whereas Vettel focuses more on the mechanical setup. He ripped in a lap on Saturday and proved he has the talent. Overall he's just not on top of all the variables like Vettel is at...

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Happy for mark. He really banged that one in. Best final sector he has done all weekend by a mile.

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Webber needs to sort out his final sector

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Great time from Ricciardo

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Lewis Hamilton has been very much a disappointment over the last few years. Billed as the best natural talent since Senna after what was a sensational first few years, he has not moved on from that and is regularly outpaced by drivers not considered to be super talented. Button was often very close...

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In Ferrari beating Alonso. I truly believe that. Driver of the 2010 season imo.

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I think di Resta is slightly better overall, so for now Force India should keep him as a baseline. I don't really see the point in them signing Sutil. He's not young anymore, never going to win anything and clearly the worst of the 4 German drivers on the grid. Bernie seems intent on bringing in dri...

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Mark's strategy may have worked out if Grosean had stayed out a bit longer and held Seb up.

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This was the only choice. If Vettel had pitted first Lotus could have pitted Grosean the next lap and avoided the undercut.

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iceman_fan90 wrote:I have never been this disgusted watching a race since all those engine failures from lead that Raikkonen had in 2005

I don't get it. What's the problem? Would you rather the RedBull just followed RG the whole race?

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To be honest i highly doubt Vettel had KERS. It seemed to me like he was trying very hard not to toot his own horn in the press conference, maybe in an effort not to undermine Webber's pole position. He was very reluctant to admit to any driving mistakes even though he lost 0.4s through sector 2. A ...

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can't believe they didn't pit hamilton

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Wrong Hulkenberg was always ahead. With this decision the stewards are basically giving the leading car 3 options. A) Turn in and be spun, B) Lift off and wave the guy through, C) be penalised. In my opinion none of these are acceptable. If the driver behind can't get his car fully alongside he is n...

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Turkey was pretty good.

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This is just Luca's payback. He does not like being made to look weak. He needs to realistically be able to fire Alonso.

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Monaco, Nurburgring and Hungary, Vettel made mistakes on his q3 lap and didn't get the maximum from his car. Sure.... That is why he is 12-0 against his teammate and Alonso and Lewis are only 8-4. Vettel admitted those mistakes himself. That may be true, but Rosberg admitted that his lap was at Mon...

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