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When I was talking about Button beating Hamilton I was just talking about 2011. I'm well aware that over their 3 years as teammates Button fell a fair bit short of Hamilton regardless of what the stats suggest. Last year perfectly exemplified the comparison. Anyway, I was just saying that Nico is g...

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Caterham hiring GVDG has made me lose all respect for them. Petrov was the obvious choice having driven for them for a year and showed up Heikki, as well as earning them their 10th place in the last race of 2012. While he doesn't seem to come with as much sponsorship as he used to, I think he still...

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Not sure but hulk is dekra is it who is now with sauber di resta has whyte & mackay. Probably don't bring too much maybe just cover driver wages who knows but they both brought at least one each, in fact isn't hulkenberg the one that gets sponsors tattooed on him as well? Whyte & Mackay sponsor For...

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potter84 wrote:Both di resta and hulkenberg have sponsors...

So how much sponsorship do they bring?

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Well it doesn't look like money is a factor because F1 India were looking to run 2 sponsorless drivers this year, di Resta and the Hulk, Bianchi then coming on board in 2014 along with the Ferrari engines it would seem. Short term they could run either Sutil or Senna who have sponsorship or bring Bi...

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Ahhh. I want the channel but don't want to go for Sky. Why is there no other way :( Virgin? (Please note I am refering to the TV/Broadband supplier and not trying to insult you). I should have said, why is there no reasonable way :D Thought I'd go on the Virgin website and find out their latest pri...

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Such a points system goes against what i like to see, that being drivers being rewarded for race wins and podium positions, i even think the present points system errs to much towards collecting points on a consistent basis

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One must wonder how many of the criticisms of Wolff found here are based off of numbers on her Wikipedia page. As opposed to people saying she is better than Deletraz, Rossett or Ide based on absolutely nothing? We've seen what Deletraz, Rossett and Ide could do in Formula One. Why not wait and see...

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The extra ballast for the lighter drivers should be applied to the seat and not evenly distributed throughout the car. Just throwing it out there. Maybe but no other spot goes to any effort to be size neutral. In basketball for example there are no rules to help the little guys. horse racing That d...

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I can't help but agree with this.. You can say she was with a lower Merc team in DTM but the fact is that her teammates were scoring points/podiums while she could barely break the top 10 Except they didn't look at the 2012 results for starters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_DTM_season Her team...

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Just because she doesn't have a pair of actual *Definitely True* doesn't mean she's any worse than any other pay driver we have ever seen. No, of course not. Her totally unremarkable record speaks for that. And comparing her to the worst drivers in previous decades is stupid. The level of talent in...

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I thought that instead of complaining because someone with a vagina will be driving an F1 car on a bloody shakedown test, you'd think motorsport fans would be up in arms about the near-death of the British F3 championship. You know, the hallowed championship that all the F1 greats have competed in?...

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Almost like she knows someone at the top of the company. Wolff wasn't involved. He wasn't at the table when the board discussed it. Imo, though an attempt at fairness, you probably still want to appease Wolff regardless of his presence in the actual discussion or not. I do not believe she'd have go...

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ob1kenobi.23 wrote:
pokerman wrote:Well the penalty was a nonesense

At the the time I remember thinking that both penalties were unnecessary.

I agree

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Just by going by last seasons results he has to be favourite, depends on what progress other teams can make but Red Bull will always be competitive

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Well the penalty was a nonesense

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Kobayashi won GP2 Asia Webber was F3000 runner up. Raikkonen Blitzed FR2000 winning 7/10 races. Wolff hasn't won anything and hasn't been close to being competitive in any series since finishing 5th in FRUK nearly a decade ago. Kobayashi was rubbish in GP2 proper though. Showed no merits for an F1 ...

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She may be ok test driver. Luca Baoder wasn't amazing race driver in 2009 or eralier, but he must have been really good test driver as he had that role at Scuderia Ferrari for over 10 years. Luca Badoer was European F3000 champion, equivalent of GP2 nowadays Doesn't mean a thing when you get to F1....

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Going to be interesting to see what both say when/if they run into each other at some point (on track!) When has that happened in the last 3 years? Malaysia 2011 comes to mind. We can discount Spa last year as someone else was the catalyst. Yes i remembered after posting, that didn't seem to cause ...

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The talk was of Friday testing not simple shake down work She may be ok test driver. Luca Baoder wasn't amazing race driver in 2009 or eralier, but he must have been really good test driver as he had that role at Scuderia Ferrari for over 10 years. Luca Badoer was European F3000 champion, equivalen...

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The talk was of Friday testing not simple shake down work She may be ok test driver. Luca Baoder wasn't amazing race driver in 2009 or eralier, but he must have been really good test driver as he had that role at Scuderia Ferrari for over 10 years. Luca Badoer was European F3000 champion, equivalen...

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It would be quite embarassing though, if you're going to put a woman in a F1 car put one in that won't be laughed at How do you know it would be embarrassing? Got a crystal ball? She hasn't done a timed lap in one and you reckon it would be embarrassing :uhoh: Supposedly her times in the sim etc ar...

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It's a straight line test. No biggie. But if your tiddled about that you are going to be well tiddled off when she starts driving on Fridays. I doubt that would ever happen I wouldn't be surprised, there was talk last year of her taking Bottas seat if he moved up a step and then of course she's dro...

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It would be quite embarassing though, if you're going to put a woman in a F1 car put one in that won't be laughed at How do you know it would be embarrassing? Got a crystal ball? She hasn't done a timed lap in one and you reckon it would be embarrassing :uhoh: Supposedly her times in the sim etc ar...

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Off the top of my head: Giovanni Lavaggi Yuji Ide Ricardo Rossett In fairness, Toto Wolff's money will be helping significantly. Chanoch Nissany, Jean Denis Delatraz as well. Tempted to say Domenico Schiattarella, but only remember him from the F195 game. Throw in any number of the rubbish one off ...

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It's a straight line test. No biggie. But if your tiddled about that you are going to be well tiddled off when she starts driving on Fridays. I doubt that would ever happen I wouldn't be surprised, there was talk last year of her taking Bottas seat if he moved up a step and then of course she's dro...

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Going to be interesting to see what both say when/if they run into each other at some point (on track!) When has that happened in the last 3 years? Malaysia 2011 comes to mind. We can discount Spa last year as someone else was the catalyst. Yes i remembered after posting, that didn't seem to cause ...

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I think everyone wants to see Vettel in the same team as either Alonso, Hamilton or Raikonnen. That would be an epic season indeed It won't happen though, much like you would never see a true topliner matched against Schumacher during the dominant years at Ferrari It will happen, Webber won't drive...

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A shakedown just makes sure all the wires are connected and it isn't going to go *kaboom* if the race drivers apply the throttle slightly. If Suzie Wolff gets a little exposure, then good on her. There's been worse drivers given a race seat . Such as? Off the top of my head: Giovanni Lavaggi Yuji I...

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Johnston wrote:It's a straight line test. No biggie.

But if your tiddled about that you are going to be well tiddled off when she starts driving on Fridays.

I doubt that would ever happen

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I'd like to see more pro drivers take part, but other than F1 there aren't that many high profile drivers who would be worth booking. Loeb, Solberg, Rossi, Toseland, Montoya, Villenueve, Jimmie Johnston, Dario, McNish, Shedden, Plato (5th Gear isn't on now), Neal, Prialux.... All non F1 guys who ha...

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Well last time he didn't have the best conditions and still set a competitive time. Not checked, but iirc Button managed the same time with a 'hot' lap to Lewis on a 'damp/oily' lap. As much as I'm looking forward to it, I'd much rather see some new blood taking part - Maldonado, Grosjean or Perez ...

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stevey wrote:I think everyone wants to see Vettel in the same team as either Alonso, Hamilton or Raikonnen.

That would be an epic season indeed

It won't happen though, much like you would never see a true topliner matched against Schumacher during the dominant years at Ferrari

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AnRs wrote:
A2jdl wrote:and Vettel has the journey man webber and the rocketship of the redbull
And the statistics, trophys, wdc, wcc titles that noone in the 2013 field can match, poor guy

He's certainly made the most of the opportunity given to him by Red Bull

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Oh, here they come... the Vettel crowd is tiddled again. Now that is a surprise. :nod: I wonder if there is any chance each of the two drivers just really do believe that the other is the best, and it is not a political attack at Vettel at all? It is possible you know. It is possible Blake but know...

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BrazilLastCorner2008 wrote:Going to be interesting to see what both say when/if they run into each other at some point (on track!)

When has that happened in the last 3 years?

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I find their constant complimenting pretty funny, they keep doing it and Vettel keeps winning titles. I do genuinely believe that they think highly of each other, but does Hamilton really think Alonso is the best driver in the world? Doesn't he think he's better than him and vice versa? I think tha...

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I find it odd how poles on this forum show that most people think the two best drivers are Alonso and Hamilton but if either of them think that they must be playing mind games! Could be that they actually agree with the majority. You do realize this is a British forum..Hamilton fans will have no pr...

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I wonder if there is any chance each of the two drivers just really do believe that the other is the best, and it is not a political attack at Vettel at all? It is possible you know. This is only my opinion: maybe they aren't politically attacking Vettel like you said. They're just saying about eac...

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Not this fairy cakes again. Prepare yourself for months of threads like this one every time Alonso and Hamilton praise each other. It's a pathetic attempt to annoy Vettel. Oh, here they come... the Vettel crowd is tiddled again. Now that is a surprise. :nod: I wonder if there is any chance each of ...

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