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Ennis

Vettel can't choose his setup?! Ferrari is inherently a draggy car, and the high downforce package is simply better than the low downforce package. You can't have it both ways though. If it is a disadvantage for his top speed, its his advantage through corners, following cars, and I assume to overa...

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Had the need occured, I don't think Lewis would have had a massive issue in moving over. He knows he has Bottas covered most weeks so play the team game. Or do a Schumacher - be so far in front that it's impossible to issue the order lol. I get the feeling that these numbers have started to become ...

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Seems Felipe has been caught up in the Verstappen hype too. How many times could he possibly have come up against him on-track to know he's one of the top five rivals he faced in 15 years of racing in the series? I'm fairly sure F1 drivers, and others inside F1 (and even fans), can form an opinion ...

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Hamilton had 4.0 kph on Vettel at Spa. Do you remember what happened when Vettel pulled out of the slipstream? 3.8 kph is clearly makes a significant difference in F1, to deny this is idiotic. It maybe idiotic not to realise that the Mercedes was set up to be fast on the straight at Spa, also Hamil...

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Not 8ths no but its about 15-30bhp as I understand it which isn't insignificant around Spa. Its about the deficit between Renault and Ferrari for example. The 5ths mds puts forward sounds more in the ballpark but we've got to remember the mode itself only brings some of that while the car's improve...

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It's a product of both. There's a reason to why Red Bull feel disadvantaged by their less powerful engine. Of course it is, the point people are making is you have no idea how much of both in any single instance. How many times did we see Manor top the speed charts? How often did we see Williams hi...

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Not 8ths no but its about 15-30bhp as I understand it which isn't insignificant around Spa. Its about the deficit between Renault and Ferrari for example. The 5ths mds puts forward sounds more in the ballpark but we've got to remember the mode itself only brings some of that while the car's improve...

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All drivers improve their pace from their first year to their second year. This is mostly down to taking the time to adapt to the unusual characteristics of F1 (namely the unbelievably powerful brakes and the tremendous amount of grip generated by downforce). Some may even see improvement in their ...

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Siao7 wrote:Wanna see these against the Devel 16 though...

I'd like to see it against the Piranha P.666.

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I don't know how to post pictures but I went to the show and in the flesh the Valkyrie looks like it's from the year 3000. The project one and Koenigsegg don't even compare I think the Valkyrie is ugly as sin though. It doesn't appear as bad from eye level, but when you look at it dead on from fron...

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I have a backwards reason for not wanting stupid amounts of noise. Firstly, it is wasted energy. To think unregulated teams wouldn't come up with some way to harvest this wasted energy is madness. My main reason though is, I'm only 31. I want to be watching F1 when I'm 81. In the year 2067, petrol e...

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Alonso for me. Honourable mention to Massa.

Vettel didn't do enough to really mark it as a dominant weekend. Bottas gave it up at the first corner. Hamilton drove in to a wall. Kimi is Kimi. Neither Red Bull driver had a particularly good weekend.

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I understand, although disagree with, how people wouldn't have Hamilton as DOTD. But c'mon, with Kimi included? Vettel did exactly what he had to do. Bottas screwed his start, and didn't ever really trouble Vettel on track. Kimi finished off the pace of his teammate. So yeah - I understand the peop...

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I understand, although disagree with, how people wouldn't have Hamilton as DOTD. But c'mon, with Kimi included? Vettel did exactly what he had to do. Bottas screwed his start, and didn't ever really trouble Vettel on track. Kimi finished off the pace of his teammate. So yeah - I understand the peopl...

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There seems to be a lot of people on both sides stating their own opinion on what fans want as a near 100% global consensus. To that end, I thought it would probably aid that part of the discussion to try and get an indication of what fans want, and started a poll on the matter. You can take part h...

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Poll doesn't really do it for me. Everyone wants the dream land of power, noise & every manufacturer queuing up to take part but its not going to happen. There is a trade off, much of which we are not privvy to, to get the combination of power, noise & manufacturer backing all in place. The point o...

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Poll doesn't really do it for me. Everyone wants the dream land of power, noise & every manufacturer queuing up to take part but its not going to happen.

There is a trade off, much of which we are not privvy to, to get the combination of power, noise & manufacturer backing all in place.

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James Allison talked quite a bit about teams honing their weapons for next year. In the terms he talks I don't expect a complete overhaul but maybe half measures which narrow the concept gap between themselves and Red Bull (as the furthest other extreme out of the three top teams). I get the impres...

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Trump does the same thing, he uses his lawyers to find ways to evade paying taxes. Don't know about Trump but Lewis isn't evading tax he is avoiding it. One is illegal one isn't. Both of those individual's methods are identical. When one with assets retain lawyers and tax experts, they have the opt...

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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/06/lewis-hamilton-avoided-taxes-jet-isle-of-man-scheme-paradise-papers This article has the best graphic explaining how the tax was reclaimed I do not grasp the 'everyone would use loopholes to pay as little tax as possible if they could' argument at all. E...

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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/06/lewis-hamilton-avoided-taxes-jet-isle-of-man-scheme-paradise-papers This article has the best graphic explaining how the tax was reclaimed I do not grasp the 'everyone would use loopholes to pay as little tax as possible if they could' argument at all. E...

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Has Mercedes going for a new design been confirmed?. There was good reasons they went with this one, they lost too many points of d/f with their simulated swb design last winter, and outside the 3 highest d/f tracks they've been competitive at the other 17 (Assuming they don't have a nightmare at B...

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He took advice from a professional and acted accordingly. Anybody who's ever taken out an ISA has taken steps to minimise their tax bill and the rich just do it on a different scale. Whatever the outcome, the focus should be on the professional tax advisors, not their clients. But I doubt that will...

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It's amazing how many excuses were made for him to explain a 4 year period where he barely scored a podium while his team-mate won 11 races and nearly won 2 titles. I think that it's clear that he was a second driver in the team with zero chances for a victory. "Fernando is faster than you" was app...

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All that said, I think he is one of the most radically overrated drivers in recent history. Who actually rates Massa though? I don't think the consensus has had him in the top 10 drivers on the grid for any period other than 2007-2009. He holds the all time record for most seasons lost to a team ma...

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Merc need to be more than just holding back a bit to be ahead of Ferrari I think. One thing I'm wondering about is their qualifying pace. We know that Merc turn it up for Q3 so I can envision a scenario where they outqualify Ferrari but only have at best equal race pace to begin the year, and there...

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Again, you are missing the point. I do not care one whit about fuel efficient hybrid engines. They are abhorrent to motor racing as far as I am concerned. I want engines that, as several others have already described here, are *fearsome*. The sound should instill awe, and yes, fear. They should be ...

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Wonder if this will actually come to pass... so often F1 announces things and then later on changes it's mind. In fact sometimes it's hard to believe that F1 is actually a professional entity! https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-f1-future-974190/ And here we go... "...it needs to be absolute...

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Wonder if this will actually come to pass... so often F1 announces things and then later on changes it's mind. In fact sometimes it's hard to believe that F1 is actually a professional entity! https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-f1-future-974190/ And here we go... "...it needs to be absolute...

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Regarding Hamilton/Vettel, I personally don't think Hamilton likes or trusts Vettel, even a little bit. I also doubt Vettel likes Hamilton either. They are both too media savvy to say what they really feel publicly. This season has shown us more about the two as men than we knew from the past. In m...

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The point being missed is that while FUEL EFFICIENCY is paramount on racing, that should not be the main focus in developing a RACE engine. The point is to make it FAST with reasonable fuel efficiency. The current formula is far beyond reasonable and has crossed the line right into an absurd extrem...

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paul_gmb wrote:I do hope people in here understand irony in some phrases.

As a working class Scotsman, it has taken me years to attempt to adjust to how sensitive people on an F1 Forum can be to written words.

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The only real genuine bad blood on the grid is between Alonso and Vettel. Alonso didn't respect Vettel's achievements from 2010-2013, he said on multiple occasions that he was fighting Newey instead of Vettel. There have been several times since Alonso has joined McLaren-Honda where he's ignored bl...

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I think Hamilton is very happy he doesn't have to compete against Nico again this season. One thing nobody can deny, Nico would be right in the thick of the championship battle if he was still racing. If Hamilton is as great as his fans proclaim, then the fact Nico was almost always no worse than o...

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Agreed, the MGU-H was probably a bit too soon. Only Mercedes and Ferrari could make it work well enough, and it took Ferrari quite some time. A little dissapointing that there will still be only 1.6L, they could increase that to atleast 2.0. An increase in RPM is welcome though. The sound they make...

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Seb was incredibly gracious in defeat, slowing down after the race to wave/applaud Lewis and accepting Lewis' embrace in the interview pen afterwards as well as outright exclaiming that Lewis was "the better man" this year and "did the better job". Lewis said to Seb in the interview pen: "Next year...

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Every time I think of this, I'm in work and can't research.

Can someone provide an example of the actual content on the videos?

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I agree with Christian Horner...the hybrid engines are the worst thing to happen to F1 in recent memory. They (his words) have done *nothing* but damage F1. http://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/21193057/christian-horner-says-f1-scrap-current-engines-soon-enough I'm massively surprised that Christian H...

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It's not just those two. I've heard comments from Button, Ricciardo, Verstappen and others. I think people who are directly involved in F1 mostly see Vettel as behind the Hamiltons and Alonsos of the world in terms of ability. They think of him as someone who has always been in the right place at t...

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Flash2k11 wrote:Hamilton's piercings look dreadful today, last time I saw a look like that was on teenage girls in the mid 90s!

It's a new world my friend.

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