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Well, Ferrari believes a pseudo-manly image caters to their target market. Because men are neanderthals who need a lot of loud screaming noise, destruction of nature, and that's the kind of man who'll want a Ferrari racing car, apparently. I've been a Ferrari follower since I saw a poster of their ...

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At this point, it's already far too late to get an indy PU manufacturer (;)) in the mix to supply units for 2017. It took almost 3 years for companies to manufacture their hybrid units and unless the FIA is going to force current manufacturers to divulge information and secrets to speed up the proce...

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I think the better bet would be RoGro going to Ferrari before Ricciardo for a few reasons… First, Ricciardo seems to be the better driver at RBR and he is still pretty young. Second, Grosjean is is a VERY good driver and is currently driving for a Ferrari backed team. Third, Ferrari do not want 2 dr...

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That was very cool! Goes to show Ricciardo and Massa are pretty good friends outside of F1. Felipe Baby is one of the nicest guys in F1 as well so I think their friendship might've been inevitable. As for those little drifters, I do design work for a buddy of mine who owns a hobby shop and he and hi...

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^^^ What???

LOL

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Felipe baby is still awesome and holy hell is Kimi still ever so popular around the globe.

I guess it pays to have an IDGAS attitude.

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I think Vettel lacks spacial awareness. We've seen this in the past with incidents vs Webber in Turkey 2010, Kubica in Spa 2010 and Karthikeyan in Malaysia 2012. I remember with the Kubica incident he had a rant over the radio, claiming Kubica forced him onto the grass (of course, no such thing hap...

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In all actuality, Williams' issues stem from a few of their principals, that at one time worked but as time has passed their way of thinking exceeded its shelf life, and is what caused their downward spiral. The main one being Frank & Patrick's ideology that Drivers don't merit tons of money which i...

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Let's wait and see before we praise Pirelli. I've Find their F1 product quite consistent with their Consumer products and have never bought into the claim they did as the FIA requested fully. Was not at all pleased with the 2 sets of Pirelli I've owned. Chunked up and wore out completely inconsisten...

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All, and by all I mean EVERY SINGLE DRIVER (outside there Manor duo who simply don't have enough speed to do so) exercises the squeeze move when exiting a corner and it forces the driver caught on the outside to either lift or go wide, allowing the driver with the inside line to shoot past exiting ...

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"I will keep on risking like this and everyone should expect that." Well said by Kvyat! That is his job. To take advantage of EVERY opportunity afforded to him and in this case it was a beauty of a move. Yep. And so we may expect to see more spectacles of car crashing into each others. Next time it...

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"I will keep on risking like this and everyone should expect that." Well said by Kvyat! That is his job. To take advantage of EVERY opportunity afforded to him and in this case it was a beauty of a move. Yep. And so we may expect to see more spectacles of car crashing into each others. Next time it...

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All, and by all I mean EVERY SINGLE DRIVER (outside there Manor duo who simply don't have enough speed to do so) exercises the squeeze move when exiting a corner and it forces the driver caught on the outside to either lift or go wide, allowing the driver with the inside line to shoot past exiting ...

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https://www.formula1.com/content/fom-website/en/latest/headlines/2016/4/vettel-diffuses-kvyat-row.html Vettel sees it differently now he has had time to reflect. Case closed. "Kimi locked up in Turn 1. I tried to go inside to pass him. Daniil was behind me. He had a better start and was lining up f...

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Vettel's camera reveals to me more than Kvyat's. It appears like that he was "scissored" in by the two cars closing from the left and the right, and that the only available option to him in order to not have any contact was to brake hard (which he did not, and then quite likely Kimi and Kvyat would...

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I disagree with this. For me it's Schumacher, then Prost, then possibly Senna but his ranking is and will always fluctuate because although he had supreme ability, he wasn't always clean and had no qualms with bullying his way. The fact that Schumacher had great cars is in great part due to his abil...

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But isn't it possible Rosberg overcooked it to ensure Hamilton couldn't get around going into turn one and then found himself a bit too far inside for the speed he was carrying and in order to maintain the line he braked a tad harder than if he'd been on the prime line? It's detrimental to stand on ...

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I don't see him saying he braked "too late", just late. Then pull up a chair and listen. At the 24 second mark: "and maybe I braked too late as well" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFG0KEsscOU As for Hamilton, he is merely being politically correct. He's all too aware of how immediately he is look...

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Sorry but Alonso was a bully here.. The worst things have been said to Lewis when he abandoned McLaren for Mercedes but i don't remember him been this disrespectful to any of those folks. He is paid tens of millions also to accept criticisms and "haters", but it seems he sees himself as untouchable...

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Sorry but Alonso was a bully here.. The worst things have been said to Lewis when he abandoned McLaren for Mercedes but i don't remember him been this disrespectful to any of those folks. He is paid tens of millions also to accept criticisms and "haters", but it seems he sees himself as untouchable...

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Sorry but Bottas may have been better aligned to hug the apex initially , but he was carrying too much speed to hold the line. Had hamilton not been there he would have drifted way wide I don't really see any indication for this. Then you're not looking or don't know what you're looking at and/or h...

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Agreed 100%. I think however, what would've made them sit fine with the masses is a spine tingling sound. While their tone is awesome, their lack of decibels makes them too placid and tame for F1. Think a real lion vs the cowardly lion. Which one do these engines sound like? And I do like them, it's...

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I never spoke to them being more efficient, just that what they could do factoring in fuel efficiency as opposed to when they were first engineered, and producing even more power, not too far off the current hybrid PU's, but FAR superior sound to them while being considerably more efficient that ev...

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Excellent interview and great information and insight but holy cow, could it be any less exciting?

It was almost somber at times.

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Sorry but Alonso was a bully here.. The worst things have been said to Lewis when he abandoned McLaren for Mercedes but i don't remember him been this disrespectful to any of those folks. He is paid tens of millions also to accept criticisms and "haters", but it seems he sees himself as untouchable...

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I don't understand why anyone would object to the Haas methodology of building an F1 team... except those, like Williams, who feel threatened by them. What Haas is doing is perfectly legal, and has it has been pointed out in here, many teams, including Williams, also started off buying virtually ev...

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Sorry but Bottas may have been better aligned to hug the apex initially , but he was carrying too much speed to hold the line. Had hamilton not been there he would have drifted way wide I don't really see any indication for this. Then you're not looking or don't know what you're looking at and/or h...

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Diesel engines on road cars have to be turbo charged. There are however lots of brilliant non turbo charged NA engines out there. Going to small turbocharged petrol engines is not moving with the times imo. Brilliant but not as fuel efficient as the turbo ones and not very affordable for the common...

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Sorry but Bottas may have been better aligned to hug the apex initially , but he was carrying too much speed to hold the line. Had hamilton not been there he would have drifted way wide and lost positions as those behind would have been better positioned to taker the corner faster as he'd be working...

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Beat me to it Blinky. Well said. Hell, even Enzo bought or borrowed cars to enter races before making his own (sure it was before the official advent of F1, but he was no different). The one tradition that rings true in F1 is that almost every possible scenario has tried and though most prove unfrui...

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This is F1 and the ability and craftsmanship is absolutely second to NONE. They could revise their cars in no time to accommodate the 2016 unit.

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The gap was there and, from the overheads, it simply looked like two cars aiming for the same piece of tarmac. In other words, racing incident. Bottas' on-board does show him having to correct into the corner and that may well have been a contributory factor in the collision. Whether that's simple ...

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Racing 101: If a car defends the inside and thus is on the inside line going into the corner, that car cannot be as fast at the apex because a car taking the correct racing line and approaching from the outside-in will carry more speed into that same corner. Yes, Rosberg was going slower than Hamil...

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Diesel engines on road cars have to be turbo charged. There are however lots of brilliant non turbo charged NA engines out there. Going to small turbocharged petrol engines is not moving with the times imo. Brilliant but not as fuel efficient as the turbo ones and not very affordable for the common...

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Kaltenborn has been a horrendous team principle. I will feel so sorry for Peter Sauber if he has to watch his team go under. That's not true. She was handed the keys to the car but the car already had a bit of carburetor trouble. Add to that the significant INCREASE in costs from he PU brain fart a...

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That's not the entire story. As you are dismissing the considerable SPEEEED at which Bottas closed at the very last minute to pull up alongside hamilton. According to your "findings" any car can drift to the inside of another car and so long as it's alongside, regardless of the timing at which the t...

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Racing incident. The punishment was pathetic. If we're going to put drivers off from having a go at passing when there's that much room , we're in for a very dull season. As for either driver being slightly in front, we've got to get away from that. Nobody has a right to any bit of track imo. You h...

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Racing incident. The punishment was pathetic. If we're going to put drivers off from having a go at passing when there's that much room , we're in for a very dull season. As for either driver being slightly in front, we've got to get away from that. Nobody has a right to any bit of track imo. You h...

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No, you've explained that you don't feel they should have used code, not that there are actually demonstrable problems with it. With thanks to Peachbuns, whose link you perhaps ought to have read: Source: http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12475/8603859/christian-horner-there-was-no-conspiracy-and-ma...

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Well goddamn :( I wouldn't begrudge Alonso having retirement thoughts http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/7c/7c9b03d033a74176fd88bd99864ab7d728a3e3502ed83f1f848348ef6d1afd8f.jpg http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3sbvv1 Nonsense. It's just precautionary and the right call by the doctors. What he has are hairlin...

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