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No the car is not as bad as some people are making it out to be. It was a bit of a handful at the beginning of the season but they have sorted out any stability problems and the car has good pace. There's 12 different cars on the grid and the Ferrari is certainly in the top 6 by any measure of what ...

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Senna moved to the right so Schumi chose to dive down the left. At that point he was commited to a dive I think. Then Senna starts moving left and Schumi thinks Senna is going to continue moving left to block the outside so he switches to dive down the inside. However Senna doesnt block the outside ...

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Different tyres. Pirelli didn't just make a compound before the season and stick with it. They show up with different tyres every race.

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During the race they have enough grip to go significantly faster than they currently do. But they would destroy the tyre in a couple of laps. They don't drive to a tactile limit of adhesion any more. They drive to a lap delta that the engineers are telling them. The engineers have calculated the ide...

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This tall building seems like such a waste of space.

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Maybe Kimi doesnt want to test? When Lotus signed him, they knew he was a driver they need to keep happy to maximise his performance on the track. Minimise the boring stuff like PR and interviews and maximise the fun aspect of the team. This is a strategic decision because it is the best way to keep...

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Hamilton is still young, only 27. If he races til he is 40 I would be amazed if he was still at McLaren. That would be very boring and unadventurous of Lewis. He is in too much of a comfort zone there.

I think he will definitely move to another team, maybe in 3-4 years.

becker

Artifical rain is the dumbest idea I have heard in a long time. Is he suggesting some sprinklers above the tracks?

I do think a couple of races on the calender should be deliberately scheduled so there is a good chance of rain. Although Malaysia is a step too far.

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Yes- I had a close call with flying debris in this crash test myself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4WcjFt8K1I watch out for the screw heading straight for the camera... and this is from the windscreen which is meant to protect the driver- 8O :lol: Yes but that is some kind of crudely constructed...

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Jet fighter canopy seems to be the best idea for protecting driver from flying debris.

It should improve visibility as well because you could move the drive higher or the bodywork lower. And that would improve wheel-to-wheel racing with less amatuerish crashes.

becker

I really have no clue what I am looking at. It looks pretty though.

Why not just a simple graph of actual lap times for each driver? It would be easier to interpret and more interesting, we would see who is most consistent and how the tyres fall away etc.

becker

It's probably a double-bluff, they are spreading the rumours that it is cancelled so the protestors go home for a quick cuppa and then bam they will close all the roads to the venue and shut down public transport.

becker

They should have a secret word (like 'petunia') and when they hear a commentator say it, whoever is fastest on that lap gets double points. It would add a strategic layer to the races because the teams would never know when it was going to happen. Also the driver with the overall fastest lap would g...

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What a bizarre comment.

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I think he came out of retirement because he was bored and probably the wife was driving him crazy and asking him to paint the house etc. When you are used to racing at high speed, and then you retire and spend your Sunday reading the paper instead, that must be pretty depressing. That's why he star...

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I remember one year some team or teams used the false start detector to automatically launch the car. There was an electromagnetic sensor in the tarmac under every grid slot, it was used to detect the car moving before the lights went out (to detect a false start). Some teams figured out that when t...

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Its hard to preserve tyres when you are attacking guys in front or defending guys from the rear.

2 stop was a dumb strategy. Worked for Nico because he was out in front with no attacking/defending and could go easy on the tyres.

becker

There is plenty of males in F1 for reasons other than speed or talent so really who cares.

becker

Is this the Lotus with Kimi Raikkonen or the other one? Honestly it was such a balls up to have 2 Lotus teams in the first place

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They should be allowed to use DRS wherever they want in a race, as much as they want. I think it would cause more errors and give more opportunity for overtaking. It would add an extra element of driver skill, who can stay off DRS as late as possible into a braking zone, and who can get on it as ear...

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Who is that driver that wears diamond earrings, a pinky ring and female-styled sunglasses? Can't remember her name...

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Did the video from the nightclub ever get publically released? I remember hearing that people who saw it said it painted a different picture of what happened and Lux was not as innocent and he claimed.

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It means that on average, Alonso won the race.

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I take the actual lap times of each driver over the entire race. Take their fastest lap and rank them against lap 1 (as would be shown in the fastest laps chart). Then I take each one's second fastest lap over the entire race and average everybody's first two laps. The one who is still the fastest ...

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If they're going to run it late they need to get some lights in there. the tv was very deceptive because it was getting quite dark

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Fastest laps, averaged over race distance? I dont mean to sound dumb but what exactly does that mean? I know what fastest lap means - it was Raikkonen at 1:40:722 And the race distance was 310.408km So if I divide the fastest lap by the race distance I get 0.3246. How do you turn that into a chart w...

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Im all for safety, but a wet race in a monsoon country and only 2 DNFs? This means the conditions were fine. They should have kept racing with no safety car.

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He has the speed but I think he gets over-excited during the race, trophies get given out at the end of the race not the start.

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It wasn't Narains fault this time but it is still a farce to have drivers like him and teams like HRT in the supposed 'pinnacle' of motorsport.

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How many hours til the race? I will be setting a timer rather than alarm..it says 9hrs 20min on PF1 homepage but I think it is only 8hrs20 because of daylight savings?

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BBC keep playing the mic feeds of people who arent supposed to be live. Can hear the cameramen etc saying stand over here Gary (Anderson), lets do a practice run of that etc. Very amatuerish, must be a new team/producer.

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Kimi is clearly tired, asks for coffee. Then some interviewer asks some really dumb questions - 'what is the difference between driving on the road and racing in F1', 'do you have a phone in your pocket' etc In the second video he is talking quite normal to the Proton CEO. It contradicts the claim t...

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OP you just sound like a spoilt person throwing a tantrum because your money or connections can't buy you the friendship or respect of Raikkonnen. Seriously?? It sounds to me like somebody who had a great opportunity, and shared his experience a little. Great opportunity? He went to a PR event beca...

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OP you just sound like a spoilt person throwing a tantrum because your money or connections can't buy you the friendship or respect of Raikkonnen.

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I have always thought that the F1 working group should get together and think of something to allow better wet weather driving. There is nothing worse then watching a bunch of whiners send radio messages to Charlie saying it is too wet to drive and the race should be black flagged. You might say it ...

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In Ireland, eircom (isp) customers can view a live stream from setanta. With the BBC commentary

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I have a channel called Setanta which I think will be showing it live with BBC commentary.

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