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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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Sorry but very little rivals Spa Francorchamps and Monaco is about a quadrillion Kentucky miles from that. Hell the Russian GP last year was light years better than any race at Monaco since the 1980 race. Monaco relegates F1 to being a very fast round of WRC. So much downforce used due to the lack o...

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My favourite circuit is Monaco, I don't need constant overtaking to be entertained. That's a pretty lonely island you live on. While constant overtaking isn't, nor should it ever be the goal, merely having the opportunity to do so is paramount. Monaco is a race that continues to be held because of ...

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The thing is that it's all about how much money F1 yields in profit for the new owner. It's not about it's physical value, rather how much money it rakes in for everyone invoiced with it after it makes its money back. Same goes for the NFL or any other Pro-Sports league. Hockey is a prime example of...

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Why the notion that it's going to the guy in the dirty raincoat? I see no mention of that. Are you implying he's one of the vaguely mentioned "interested" parties that has indeed met the asking price? No, its a saying from car auctions. An un-known or un recognised bidder is usually addressed as " ...

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Haas is really growing on me. They feel like they have done their homework and so far they feel like a stable team. And with RoGro they have a really good driver. Hope they can score some good points this season. Imo RoGro underestimated. :thumbup: Agreed. I've long been saying Grosjean is one of t...

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Reference my post at the top of this page. The order Multi-12 had been issued several times before this race and this time around Red Bull was leading comfortably with mark in front and Seb leading the championship and the results with them finishing in this order would've seen Seb stretch his lead ...

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Why the notion that it's going to the guy in the dirty raincoat? I see no mention of that. Are you implying he's one of the vaguely mentioned "interested" parties that has indeed met the asking price?

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Seems pretty clear to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-U5KpPGZvo This is further evidence that Multi-21 was indeed a team order and nothing more and Mark even speaks to turning his engine down so there is no way Multi-21 can be mistaken for anything else. THEN… pay attention to the numbers on t...

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Pole position at the Spainish Grand prix has a large correlation, although Hamilton got that in 2012 I think it is good for nearly all the years since 2000 and all the way back to 1992. So Hamilton was 'on statistic' to win the 2102 WDC until some botched pitstops ruined his chances. I thought he w...

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Bernie certainly is not responsible for the hybrid engine travesty. The initial proposal from the FIA was 4-Cylinder Turbo units and if memory serves my right, it was Ecclestone and a few others who persuaded them to at least go to a 6-Cylinder Turbo as a compromise so I think he had a little to do...

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I just had a thought for Proper Qualifying that is fair for everyone across the board and each and every team and driver would receive fair and equal TV time. For Q1 & Q 2 everyone gets a 3 lap run… One to get things set up to their liking and then a flyer with no assistance from any of the cars' ad...

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That was well worth posting. Maybe a thread should be created after each race with a link to this. Reading what Verstappen said through the race looks a bit unreasonable. If he thinks he was faster than his team make then it should have been up to him to go past instead of fussing, swearing and sho...

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He needs to be running a Bingo league in some retirement home, really. So we will have this garbage system in place for at least one more race and then the teams and the FIA will again revisit it and convene to decide whether to keep it, revise it and try again, or go back to last year's system. The...

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Ecclestone regrets selling to CVC CVC are reportedly so frustrated with Ecclestone that they want to sell up Everything Ecclestone says and does has a detrimental effect on F1, and therefore the value of F1 Beyond the foil hat brigade proper journalists have floated the theory that Bernie is trying...

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They could easily reduce the lap time by the same amount by reducing weight and improving tyres, or improving fuel flow limits Yeah that's the thing, their whole idea about reducing lap times is based on aerodynamics. This is almost shockingly foolish. Have we already forgotten the racing from 10-1...

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My hat down to Haas, this was not seen in F1 for some decades ! Bravo! :) Toyota want to have a word with you ;) Circumstances for Toyota's finish were down to lots of attrition. Remember could've been last and still come in 8th place. Sometimes it all comes down to who is running things and how we...

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Personally, though I like both Hobbs and Matchett at times, i have longed for an American representation on the broadcast team. There is no reason why it can't be done. I preferred Varsha to Diffey by a lot. There is no justification for every member speaking with a foreign accent. Even the pit rep...

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Agreed Darko. As to the Toro Rosso livery, It's rather nice, Red Bull, ok it's a bit meh, but certainly not ugly. The one I find so many people went bananas over that I don't get is the Williams Martini Livery. Outside of the nostalgic element, it's really nothing special. This Renault however is a ...

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Personally I felt that the previous (now current seemingly) qualifying format was boring and I had stopped tuning in. The reason for this was Mercedes domination so it mainly came down to whether it was Lewis or Nico on pole. I did not care much as Lewis is so much better that he would win most rac...

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This was a golden Jewel to watch on TV his weekend. Some of you nitpicked it when it was unveiled and complained about how overtly plain it was and how the design it self was lackluster but every time it flashed on the screen it was gorgeous and my TV and my eyes were pleasantly content. The color i...

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No different than many other well respected drivers in the past. To call him out like this is perhaps indicative of your not liking him much to begin with. He was the faster guy and did plenty biting of tongue and his team definitely cost him time and his teammate made a mistake and caused their col...

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Just able to sit down to watch qualy (was racing RC Cars with my son all day) and I have to say that this new format is a travesty. The absolute worst brainfart the FIA geniuses have ever conjured up. Just awful! On top of that the rules were arbitrarily applied. Both Haas drivers were on flyers whe...

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I was watching FP1 last night and I had to stand up and rewind because the car looked so white! Lol I was wondering if it was my TV settings or of it was going bad on me! I absolute love it even more but would be happier if it dawned a bit of blue. Hopefully that is where they are going with it, but...

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I was hoping Ayrton Senna's "When you no longer go for a gap you are no longer a racing driver" quote would be in there. You have no idea how happy I am that it's not. Ditto. He didn't even look for gaps. In his mind if you were on the ideal line in front of him he'd be upset and wouldn't hesitate ...

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Well the 7-Up livery, while run for just a single season, is one that is iconic for several reasons… Mostly because it was gorgeous, but it was also the very first F1 car the world's Greatest F1 Driver EVER piloted, which is a story in and of itself as it is often misstated that it was a simple one-...

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Keep dreaming on the 7-Up livery coming back to F1 Amon. LOL As for the Marlboro livery… For me having been a C.A.R.T./ChampCar fanatic this livery isn't synonymous with McLaren exclusively as Roger ran it for almost 2 decades on his cars and it is more synonymous with Team Penske really. Plus, that...

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That black bit at the back looks rubbish. The reason teams are doing this is to hide details so it's more difficult for rivals to copy them. Doesn't bother me one bit. and B'sides… Go Steelers! Hehe Which is completely silly. Use of infrared and other frequency sensitive cameras can show that detai...

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Fair point on the historical references but not so fast! I doubt Schumacher's educational achievements were any better than Hamilton's, so how come we didn't hear about this "intelligence" when Rosberg raced and comprehensively defeated Schumacher. Was it his "intelligence" or because he was simply...

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ALESI wrote:That black bit at the back looks rubbish.

The reason teams are doing this is to hide details so it's more difficult for rivals to copy them.

Doesn't bother me one bit. and B'sides… Go Steelers!

Hehe

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Well, if we're to talk about how much technical know how and natural driving ability (even one derived from hard work abssessive determination) contribute to a driver's we should speak of the most technically gifted and mechanically inclined driver of all time...Piquet Sr. He was the quintessential ...

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Short answer is NO. Rosberg is an intelligent guy but we've seen and heard him call on his team to provide information regularly with the team denying his request due to regulations. The issue is that regardless of how intelligent you are, the stresses of driving an F1 car on the limit with EVERYTHI...

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His first year was promising in FI. He has beat Vettel too in junior formula and said anyone could do well in RBR in some interview. But after saying all that he could not separate him from Sutil, who is also a solid and very underrated driver meant that di resta got ignored. Another driver who was...

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My cousin is a police officer and of all things… he gives seatbelt seminars in schools to teach kids to wear their seatbelt but the idiot NEVER wears one. His excuse is, and I quote… "My man, if you saw as many accidents as I do you would know you should never wear a seatbelt." I tell him well I've...

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He simply wouldn't have a choice. It's no different than drivers complaining when the HANS device came in. They might not have liked it, but they don't get a choice in whether or not they used it. It's a safety device, you don't get to opt out of safety Which in some cases is a bit daft . HANS devi...

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Though their name is Force india, the team is based in Silverstone. Makes perfect sense for him to abscond to the UK. Out of the reach of Indian Authorities (for now) and free to work with the team unless Diageo have banned him from any interaction or dealings with the team, which I've not heard as ...

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You are correct sir. It was indeed Petrov. I remember Alonso giving him the Italian upwards pinch to the sky after the race. LOL
I wonder if he called him sadambambish as he did so.

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You are correct sir. It was indeed Petrov. I remember Alonso giving him the Italian upwards pinch to the sky after the race. LOL
I wonder if he called him sadambambish as he did so.

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It seems perhaps the car maketh the man, it's a fact that for the last 7 years Alonso has had an inferior car to the likes of Vettel, yet you would be wanting to pitch the 4 titles of against the 2 titles of Alonso to show how overrated Alonso is? Regarding qualifying, the qualifying monster in 200...

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What happened is that once upon a time, regular ole news personalities were called up to anchor or serve as guest commentators for a wide variety of sporting events, many times knowing little to nothing about the sport, and for a very long time it went well. Then broadcasts the likes of ABC's Monday...

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