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While it's not ideal to have missed Q3, Kimi will start 11th due to Kvyat's ICE change and grid penalty. Furthermore, I'm not sure he would have qualified better than 9th had he made it anyway. He can start on the medium compound and perhaps he'll make a one-stop race work for some good points. But ...

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Rest in peace, Roland.

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Maldonado - Deliberately dangerous and usually blames the guys he crashes into. He has no business being near F1 machinery. Happily blows through money that might better be used to alleviate the plight of his country. He of course thinks all is swell I'm sure. Sutil - I cannot believe this jerkoff i...

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It's fun watching the drivers actually have to use a bit of effort to drive the cars.

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I certainly hope Haas goes through with this. As an American, I'm a tad biased by the prospect of an American team, but I don't think enthusiasm should be tempered by the experiences of the backmarkers the last few seasons. Personally, Haas has the money, experience, and infrastructure already in pl...

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Assuming you didn't buy these a kind of a joke, I'd hang on to them at least for the first few races. The Renault cars are going to be on the back foot for at least a few races and I'd imagine a points finish in Melbourne would ensure the price doesn't fall. If one of those cars finishes in the top ...

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With a putative grand prix probably not happening until 2016, I'll bet Bernie will have lost job by then. Frankly I think this is just more typical Bernie bullshit. He'd sooner hold a new race in North Korea than in a location where the fans will want to show up. At the least he could count on a pac...

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Considering new sponsors Martini, Petrobras, Genworth, and Banco do Brasil, they should have the funds for a few seasons to right the ship. I think there are more good reasons to think they are definitely improving than otherwise. The disastrous Cosworth and Renault years are behind them and they've...

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Ferrari won't be putting out a lousy car I don't think. They introduced new wings on the last day and I'm pretty sure it wasn't magic that Alonso went 1.2s quicker than Kimi's best time from the previous day.

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The day that an F1 team tosses it in early for the day for the purpose of trying to lull their rivals into complacency, I'll eat my entire collection of hats and pair of trousers to boot.

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This has to be one of the bigger misnomers is F1. Why would any team think they can lull the 10 other teams into complacency? It's one thing to maybe hide some gizmo you think will gun down the grid but it's going to be quite useless without any testing. People keep referencing Ferrari as "hiding" t...

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Anyone happen to know what tyre compound Alonso set his best time on?

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At this point I'd say there are more reasons to think the FW36 will be a strong car than not. I think one could only confidently say that Mercedes and McLaren have a better package but that's pure speculation. Eliminating the Renault-powered cars, plus Marussia and Sauber, it's not hard to imagine t...

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Isn't the whole point of subliminal advertising getting your product recognized WITHOUT viewers having to bend over backwards, tut-tutting over still images? Jesus, I'd wager nine of my digits that more youngsters that are into F1 associate PMI products merely with a Scarlet-liveried Ferrari than wi...

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What do you guys think of the supposed allegation that Ferrari have been deliberately holding back? I think I'd quite like to believe that actually. It may or may not be true, but who cares? Merc's fast run last Saturday only confirms their testing has pretty gone according to plan; they made every...

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Pretty impressed with Felipe Nasr on the last day. Guy pretty much gets the Williams reserve job, the next day jumps in a completely foreign car, and manages to put up a time only 4.2s off Rosberg's time. Not too bad for a pay driver. I think the performance could really underscore the potential of ...

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I'm glad they didn't. There are so many restrictions already in F1 without adding more for the sake of beauty. I would rather have a collection of various interesting looking noses than 10 very similar pretty ones. id rather have 10 pretty girls over 10 ugly ones. atleast it has a nice rear end. ht...

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FWIW on the topic of 2013 driver rankings, here is ESPN's top 10:

Vettel
Alonso
Raikkonen
Grosjean
Hulkenberg
Hamilton
Rosberg
Ricciardo
Bianchi
Bottas

http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/140177.html

I tend to agree with this list as far the top 10 are concerned.

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Vettel is not the first one obviously. Why exactly? Why america and why not other countries? I'm American so I get that we kind of arrogant with our flag's image. But placing some iteration of the Stars and Stripes on a helmet is just a tip of the cap to the country that F1 would surely like to exp...

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Basically says he's pondered the opening at Lotus, but doesn't really want to move him and his family to Europe. He would have to come into a competitive team. So basically he almost certainly won't be back. I'd like to see him get back into Indycar personally.

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If this turns out to be true, I think we can be pretty hopeful about the car Ferrari builds next year. I suppose it's rumored so far the Mercedes engine he looking the best for next year, but I can't imagine the Ferrari will be much worse, if at all. Aerodynamic influence will be a bit reduced, whic...

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Kimi also got off lightly for poking Perez in the first corner, I don't think their incident was reviewed.

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Remember last year around this time there were lots of calls for Ferrari to replace Massa with Perez following some of his great drives in the first half of the season. Luca didn't even blink and said Checo wasn't experienced enough for the seat, and he seemed to be vindicated as Perez had some erra...

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I've yet to see evidence that it's getting more popular because of broadcast on NBC Sports. On the aside of the broadcast crew, I don't like Varsha because he can't pronounce anyone's name correctly and doesn't really add anything of substance to the broadcast. I like everyone's enthusiasm, which is...

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Schumi wanted a piece of DC at Spa in 1998.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZc4k53Xwc

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I wish I had a good answer. As an American, probably 98% of any motorsport in the media or news is NASCAR related; it's almost mindblowing at times how popular it is. Personally, I hate it and think it is to motorsport what WWE is to wrestling, so for me it's quite frustrating to see this junk all o...

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Chilton has no room to talk. He's gotten his donkey handed to him in every race weekend by Bianchi. For someone who wouldn't be anywhere near F1 machinery but for his dad, he ought to be grateful he's getting his current opportunity.

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This won't change anything; it doesn't even remotely address the issue related to Webber's incident. Instead of implementing a pointless reduction in pit speed, they should simply make it a penalty to release a car before each wheel is attached. I'm not sure what the penalty should be since this oft...

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I'm bad, but not that bad...its a sim there is no threat of death carrying too much speed into a corner, why drop the revs and speed that low? I was going to say it's not hard to think that one would find a sim more difficult initially because there's no real body or real car to wreck - thus implor...

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Going on codemaster's f1 efforts to date, this game should be playable some time in 2018 after the standard 3 patches have been released. My thoughts too. Last years game was terrible IMO compared to 2011. I really have never understood why CM didn't take some of the classic EA efforts from the las...

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It all depends on what happens with the tops teams, meaning his destination will probably be heavily dictated by who replaces Webber at Red Bull. If Kimi replaces Webber, I'd say it's almost certain he goes to Lotus; that of course is no certain sequence of events. If Massa leaves Ferrari, then he w...

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No it wasn't. It was 9 seconds. I had the live timing in front of me and remember very clearly. Comparing Kimi's pace to others at that time he would have been passed by Vettel well before the end and would have probably come 4th behind Grosjean and Alonso. As another poster has pointed out, I thin...

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So I went back and watched the parts of the race again this evening and I'm quite convinced Kimi could have made it to the end and taken the win without stopping. He had just over 14 seconds in hand over Vettel when he made his last stop, meaning Vettel would have had to eat into his lead to the tun...

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Coverage starts on CNBC @ 7:30AM EST, race begins at 8.

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They should have gunned for pole. Who knows what else the Ferrari boys could have pulled out of the bag in Q3. Ferrari have moaned for ages about a lack of qualy pace and starting too far down the grid... Then they get the car capable of 5/6 (4th with Nico out of the picture) and they dont use it t...

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I too almost ruined the race for myself. I didn't know it was being broadcast on CNBC until the end of qualifying when the commentators mentioned in passing that the race would be on CNBC, which kind of inexcusable because this was the first race that was to be broadcast on that station rather than ...

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Sure there's always the potential for gaining a strategic advantage by manipulating how you handle your retirement, but that risk is really quite small, and Vettel's actions were probably the safest he could have done given the circumstances. Like several have mentioned his transmission failed into ...

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The race will almost certainly be dry, temps will be about 23* C come race time this afternoon, so I don't think we ought to worry about the E21's fairy cakes wet abilities. What I am worried about for Raikkonen is that his grid position could screw him if he doesn't get past the slower cars in fron...

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FWIT the commentators on NBC Sports apparently had a special screening of the film the other night and they each were very impressed with it - at least it was Hobbes and Buxon that had a few words for it during the broadcast of FP2. Being an unfinished film (assuming some edits are still being made)...

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Maybe and not just because of hindsight. The things that made Sauber good last year were James Key and Peter Sauber, both these have left leaving Sauber with a less proven designer and much less proven Principal. Although saying that there were rumours circulating about possible financial problems ...

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