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Playing devil's advocate there are a few problematic things that come to mind. Various people have said it isn't financially viable to design, build, develop and service a simplified V8 hybrid if the price is to be capped at 8m. If you think about it this makes sense. It's about what a company like ...

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Maybe because the press would have made it something it wasn't? Just a thought. Maybe, but imo stupid excuse is worse: "It was a result of heavy partying and not much rest for 10 days," . Come on, simply : 'I made mistake and had little collision' would be better. I suppose owning up it being tired...

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The USGP at Indy started at a fee of $22 million... then bernie raised to over $30m. They werent making money at $22m. ... no way in hell they were going to survive at the new fee... so they did the smart thing and told bernie to screw himself. Track hosting fees are a killer unless the track is go...

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I was talking to a colleague about this a while ago. I work in the film industry and was wondering if I should have been collecting autographs all these years! Apparently it's all a bit tricky nowadays and inevitably there's a lot of trust involved. Certificates of authenticity are no longer of much...

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Palmer snr has been very successful with Motorsport Vision in the UK, much to some people's surprise. Their business model is basically defined by completely ignoring F1, Palmer sees it as a hugely overpriced liability that can't make money for a promoter and will inevitably become an albatross roun...

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I'd be happy with your choices, but I think Weherlein is more likely given the new Mercedes connection and Stevens might be retained depending on how much money he brings and how much they need. I agree. Ultimately they're as desperate for investment as ever so money will talk. What else are Merc g...

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Lauda's role was originally defined as the bridge between the Mercedes board and race team. In practical terms I don't really know what that means, given Tonto (that's not meant to be offensive, I just like the way it sounds!) is Mercedes' executive director of Motorsport. I wonder if it's somethin...

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Verstappen reminds me of Vettel in 2007 and 2008 but he has made less mistakes. He has looked quick all year and his overtakes were mega but he was still missing that big result to really separate him from Sainz. In Hungary we got it. But the jury was out to see if it was a fluke, just a result of ...

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Bernie's idea of an all-female series is not a bad idea. Why can other sports run parallel men's and women's championships but not motor racing? Set up a female series and run it alongside GP2 and GP3 on GP weekends. What's not to like? Because other sports have a physical element that dictates mos...

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Lauda's role was originally defined as the bridge between the Mercedes board and race team. In practical terms I don't really know what that means, given Tonto (that's not meant to be offensive, I just like the way it sounds!) is Mercedes' executive director of Motorsport. I wonder if it's something...

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The report comes from Kevin Eason at The Times, a chap who's usually quite reliable. His article is behind the Murdoch firewall but there's next to nothing of substance in it. Essentially he claims there are rumours Lauda is not happy and will leave, possibly as early as this year. His only other cl...

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I think it's pointless to compare drivers at Manor, this year in particular. You never know who has what spec of everything, who's been properly prepped, what we're not being told, who the favoured son is, what the benchmark should be etc. Stevens seems like a text book pay driver to me. He'll spend...

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I'm a big fan. Obviously she didn't have the talent for the upper categories, I don't think she won a race even in the junior categories. But she brought a lot to the sport and could always be relied upon to have something considered and intelligent to say. As Herb says, she was key to highlighting ...

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The limits on development are a massive red herring, that isn't the reason Honda and Renault have been unable to close the gap. For one thing Renault have used their tokens far more sparingly than Ferrari and Mercedes. If they knew how to improve the PU and had the resources to do it, but weren't ab...

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Alternative link, the original isn't working for me.

http://www.foxsports.com/motor/story/ma ... ers-103115

In my experience proper journalists aren't dispatched to deliver awards called 'The Cup of S#!t' to international sportsmen.

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To me honours are like the royal family in general: they're anachronistic but harmless. They don't impress me but they don't offend me either. When they're given to civil servants, political cronies, or even sportspeople and celebrities, it's usually just kind of irrelevant to me. It's not as if the...

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I was chatting to my dad about this yesterday. Neither of us are 'into' honours and so on but he was adamant john Surtees should have been knighted by now. I've often thought Ron Dennis deserves one too. He may be a bit of a tool but he's done an amazing amount for the economy and motor sport. That'...

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Having read the thread I'm no wiser as to what a Royal Rumble Ring is. Given the popularity of Maldonado as an answer I'm guessing it's some sort of Boris Karloff lookalike competition...?

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Kimi 2005/2003 In hindsight, knowing where Raikkonen and Alonso stand, via their direct comparison in 2014, an indirect through Massa and Alonso from 2010 to 2013, don't you think, for 2005, Raikkonen actually seems less impressive now and Alonso even better? Same thing for 2003. Raikkonen = Massa....

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Did we ever establish how has bought the Honda F1 team?

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Montagny's cocaine dealer guest star appearence

Traces of a cocaine derivative were once found in his blood. It's a big (not to mention libelous, misleading and unfair) jump from there to class A drug dealer.

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grossly arrogant. Grossy grossly arrogant, and like spoiled kids. They've shown incredible lack of respect towards Renault, a motorist that won much more than Red Bull and provided them an engine to win 4 straight years both titles. Just unbelievably ungrateful, arrogant and disrespectful. And lets...

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I can see the logic that says Nico should move on. He's not beating Hamilton at Merc and it's going to get to him eventually, if it hasn't already (I don't think Nico's performance has suffered - yet - as a result of being beaten by LH). But ultimately the problem is he's not as good as Hamilton. Le...

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Red Bull would help Honda with their ERS is the carrot being dangled. Ron will be so tiddled if this happens but Red Bull need an engine next year otherwise Bernie will sue them for $500m and they already have/had a valid Renault contract for next year so Dietrich Mateschitz will have to pay that m...

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I don't see the female WDC as that long a shot. 30 years is time enough for enough change to be had where F1 might be less of a sausage-fest. I'm not sure it will happen within 30 years, but if the series is still going strong in 50 years then yeah. As long as F1 racing keeps on being a physical sp...

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I'm just translating that through Google and don't fully understand what the proposal is. Who is supposed to be collaborating with whom to develop a better energy recovery system? And how is McLaren's contractual veto (which they'd obviously use to prevent RBR getting Honda engines) suddenly not an ...

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There's a way I can see their return. Under the current regs I agree it isn't feasible for them to be an independent. But if a European car manufacturer wanted to enter F1 as an engine supplier, buying a stake in (or all of) Cosworth would be a very sensible move. They'd probably have more of the re...

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We'll all be arguing over whether Bernie gives the small teams a big enough slice of the revenue.

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I don't think anything has changed. As I remember it they were on board for the initial 'new engine concept' (back when the whole idea was to attract Audi). But once the V6 eco engines were conceived they knew they wouldn't have the resources and didn't try to remain in the game. Since then they've ...

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I found a few archived threads. Here is one, https://web.archive.org/web/20070220072701/http://forum.planet-f1.com/index.php?t=msg&goto=1242265&#msg_1242265 Interesting reading the comments thinking Kimi would have beaten Schumacher, per Feb 2007 wisdom! It even starts with Eury having an argument ...

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I don't have BT Sport so I'm stuck with the ITV show on Monday nights and have only just seen the race. Incredible, as many have already said. What got me in particular was the helicopter shot that followed the leading pack for about half a lap just before the end. In the same frame you had Lorenzo/...

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I just don't think even Pirelli is happy with the product they put out. I think they feel they can do so much better, but with the limited testing their hands are tied imo. But why do they just keep swallowing all of it? They should take a firmer stance in this. They should demand more testing and,...

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I just don't think even Pirelli is happy with the product they put out. I think they feel they can do so much better, but with the limited testing their hands are tied imo. But why do they just keep swallowing all of it? They should take a firmer stance in this. They should demand more testing and,...

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Joe Saward has a small piece on this https://joesaward.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/rules-2/ Saward's quite right. Ultimately the rules are so vague, contradictory and unenforceable anything can happen if the right people have the right will. I'm not saying we won't lose a race. Just that there's no wa...

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Sorry to have to be the one to come here and say it again, and must insist I am not pro Pirelli paid by them or in anyway connected with then, but it always seems to be me :D They make the tyres they are asked for by "the power that be". It is extra work and cost for them to do this, it is not shod...

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You rightly call Arrivabene's post-Monza comments a 'PR blunder' (rather than management or team blunder), and that says everything. The reason team bosses can't criticise their drivers is the media, and by extension we fans, will inevitably blow it out of proportion. That can impact on commercial c...

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mas wrote:Bottas. Kimi was at his side for seconds as he was turning in, plenty of time for him to be aware of him and not turn into him ruining both their races but I suspect he wanted to play chicken and lost.

Say no to drugs, kids!

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I was just reading an article on Sky about Pirelli tires for 2017 onwards. http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/10027386/pirelli-rethink-tyred-out-formula Something that really stood out to me which I didn't know: Heat degradation is deliberately engineered by the use of thermally degrading compo...

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The argument that Bottas left the door open or didn't give Kimi enough space doesn't apply. Bottas can't be expected to have made such considerations when Kimi was that far back. It looks like Kimi would have made the corner but that isn't a valid defense when Bottas can't reasonably have expected t...

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As I'm sure you know, Force India and Sauber have jointly lodged a complaint with the European Union claiming the sport's revenue-sharing mechanisms are 'unlawful, unfair and harmful'. There's been a lot of talk about blowback from Ecclestone, but also some quieter rumblings that he might actually b...

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