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I think it's an error. IMO. The driver briefing needs to be a time for frank discussion. Not people concerned with how they are seen by the outside world. According to Alonso (in the last race with Ferrari documentary), nobody speaks up in the meetings anyway. So on that basis, I suppose it doesn't...

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I'm moderately hyped, and happy to see that the circuit actually looks pretty decent!

Sadly, I won't be able to watch it...

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Not quite :) https://i.imgur.com/TIQ6eas.jpg Doesn't this clearly show the tyre touching the asphalt of the track? The part of it that's painted white, sure. For the rest, it's a matter or perspective and contact patch. I think it's not, but I suppose I can see why you think it is. It's pretty acad...

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Jenson's Understeer wrote:but those who could still back a Red Bull might well be wishing they'd been a little braver!

Jenson's Understeer wrote:I shall also be using my DG3 joker on Ricciardo

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Larger footage and frame-by-frame controls here: http://rowvid.com/?v=-zwehPTcO9I I can't find a single frame where his wheel doesn't touch the track. Apparently it's more of a matter of interpretation than I thought, then. To me, he's clearly off track from 33.54 - 33.66. But if you don't agree af...

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In a Gazillion years this wont be true. At Spa Vertsappen was WAAAAAAAAAAAAY off track and almost into the wall. Verstappen was never off track in Spa and he held his line as well. You sure about that? DuASR2piadE At just past 0:10, he clearly has his entire left wheel outside the track as defined ...

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Give it a decade or two and what the series is about will become more important in F1 anyway, so they'll either naturally evolve past F1 or F1 will start becoming more like FE. I think it's entirely possible that Formula 1 will overcut Formule E and skip electric battery technology entirely. I pers...

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I haven't seen anything to suggest that's FE's goal That may change in the future but for now they're very much doing their own thing. And it appears to be working well for them People are responding to this post, not to any belief of their own that Formula E is trying to replace Formula One: Even ...

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I've thought he had a good chance since early in the season when it became clear Hamilton was having worse luck with reliability, so the question of how much of a lead does he need before I believe he can win is 'he already has enough'. Out of the remaining 5 races, Nico should win two of them based...

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DOLOMITE wrote:Vettels fault but no penalty 31%
Vettels fault should have been a penalty 31%
Racing Incident 31%

Well I'm glad the forum is in complete agreement!

Well, we're in agreement that it wasn't Max's fault - that's more than you sometimes get!

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/2016/10/02/lewis-hamilton-turns-on-mercedes-after-malaysian-grand-prix-disa/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/formula-1/2016/10/02/110164034_lewis-hamilton-sport-large_trans++9u0NJEm8lEC6whyuSATqhRcRzQESR5aJt1Fiexiwo3I.jpg 2016 MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX RESULTS...

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mcdo wrote:I feel that if it was Lewis and not Nico I'd be hearing that stupid Senna "if there is a gap" quote all day

ReservoirDog wrote:I loved the move. If there's a gap, you must go for it.

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I always thought it was insane of Ferrari to sign Vettel for 50 million a year. When his dominate Red Bull lost EBD and he drove against a competent teammate, he lacked pace and his race craft was less than stellar. Vettel makes too many mistakes and is only slightly quicker than Raikkonen. It make...

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I feel that if it was Lewis and not Nico I'd be hearing that stupid Senna "if there is a gap" quote all day :thumbup: Not the Lewis part, but the quote. Of course this was the ideal sort of gap for the quote's actual context, which is to say it didn't exist at all and a collision was a certainty. N...

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Ricciardo, for some of the best defensive driving in recent memory; Palmer and Alonso for putting their cars ahead of where anyone expected them to be.

Honorable mention to Verstappen, Hamilton and Bottas.

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Vettel's fault, but he already paid for it with the DNF. I didn't like Max moving in the braking zone any more than I usually do, but this was a classic example of going for a gap that - while it exists in the instant you commit to the move - was always going to close. This is hardly the first time ...

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Doesn't mean he wants to leave one of the most successful teams of all time while they're still at the peak of their powers I don't know, he did it before - Hamilton's whole reason for leaving McLaren was supposedly because they kept letting him down mechanically, and they were (and still are) a mo...

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Hamilton for me. Too bad he didn't get anything for it.

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Going against both the competition and my own intuition this time just for the sake of the competition 8) 1. Rosberg 2. Hamilton 3. Vettel 4. Räikkönen 5. Ricciardo 6. Verstappen 7. Bottas 8. Perez 9. Hulkenberg 10. Alonso Is that because you were going to post exactly the same thing as me until yo...

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Funny you should mention Hungary, where Rosberg was catching Ricciardo at some 3s a lap in the closing stages. Let's not pretend the car was struggling particularly there. The SC messed things up for them. I'm finding this conversation getting ever more surreal. If it's your position that it's only...

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To be fair we've seen Rosberg lose 2s a lap to Lewis when it's slippery before(Japan,Monaco) and Nico was awful after the SC so it could well have been capable of going something quicker in that range in Lewis's hands that day in Hungary. Not a given though of course. That would just come back to t...

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I think you forget races like Bahrain, where with just 10 laps to go after the SC pulled in the Mercs pulled out a 24s gap. 10 laps at racing speed. An average of some 2.4s per lap, which was more than double the closest gap between the Mercs and their nearest competitors in qualifying. And it was ...

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I've decided to go bold!

2016 MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX
Revised Podium Prediction

1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Nico Rosberg
3. Max Verstappen

EDIT: Changed it again! If this bold strategy pays off, No Limit Excedrin Racing will be back in the fight!

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Kev627 wrote:Is there anybody who doesn't think Schumacher is the greatest driver in the 200 club?

If Alonso had gone to Red Bull instead of Renault in 2008, I think there would be quite a few.

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The main point of my argument is that it so improbable as to be be virtually impossible that any driver in the W05 wouldn't have finished at least 2nd. I'm not sure I agree with that. If you take mds' figure above (Average advantage of W05 to next best competitor in 2014: 0.612s) as true, which I'l...

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Going against both the competition and my own intuition this time just for the sake of the competition 8) 1. Rosberg 2. Hamilton 3. Vettel 4. Räikkönen 5. Ricciardo 6. Verstappen 7. Bottas 8. Perez 9. Hulkenberg 10. Alonso Is that because you were going to post exactly the same thing as me until yo...

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It's finally going to happen!

2016 MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX
Podium Prediction

1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Nico Rosberg
3. Sebastian Vettel

I mean, we can't have a whole year without this cheeky trio being reunited on the podium in their proper places, right?

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I may or may not have time to post something tomorrow ahead of FP1, so here go some preliminary picks... 2016 MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX 1. Lewis Hamilton 2. Nico Rosberg 3. Sebastian Vettel 4. Kimi Raikkonen 5. Daniel Ricciardo 6. Max Verstappen 7. Valtteri Bottas 8. Sergio Perez 9. Nico Hulkenberg 10. F...

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And the part about it being dominant only with one driver is unequivocally backed up by results, so somewhat unclear about what you define as hearsay and conjecture. If the Red Bull was dominant with only one driver, doesn't that introduce the possibility that Mercedes simply employs two drivers of...

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As I understand it, the potential Apple interest is purely for the non-F1 side of the operation - the sports cars and the applied technologies. That said, I think Apple and McLaren have a certain brand synergy and I could certainly see them as a major sponsor. Both espouse a very clean aesthetic, an...

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No, I don't agree. The RBR was definitely one of the best but there will always be an argument about how much was car and how much was driver. It's generally accepted that no matter who Mercedes put in the W05 they would always have finished on the top two spots (barring issues). Starting in the pi...

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/rant I would just like to give you a :thumbup: for actually ranting a bit before calling your post a rant. Too often I'm assaulted by single-paragraph, sub-300 word tidbits that are passed off as rants to a Twitter-fed internet. This had the makings of a proper rant about it, and I will give you k...

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This doesn't make sense. Clearly there was an issue as demonstrated by Verstappen's start. There's no need to look for conspiracy theories for everything. It's a fairly straightforward case here. I don't see how that's clear. Was there clearly an issue with his clutch at Spa and at Monza? He made p...

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Anyway it will be even once Lewis does a run on the hard and Nico the medium to determine what strategy is best. Precisely. They split the tyres so the drivers run a different one in practice and end up with an equal selection. We saw this in Singapore, where Lewis was supposed to run the SS, but w...

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Going back to this most great drivers get a F1 drive before they reach GP2/F3000, I can't think of any off them that had to pay $35M to get into F1. The presence of money does not disprove the presence of talent. Just because he has $X amount of money does not mean that he would be unable to advanc...

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I think Dan is up there in the top 3 drivers, he is a complete driver and he done to Vettel basically what Hamilton done to Alonso and shook up the driver market overnight. Actually, in every objective and measurable way, he beat Vettel far more conclusively than Hamilton did Alonso. And yet the 'b...

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I don't agree that P6 was always on the cards. Before the race everyone was saying how Singapore is so hard to overtake and it'd be a small miracle for Seb to get in the points, now all of a sudden it's a foregone conclusion? And to finish only 27 seconds behind the leader, when Verstappen, who sta...

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2016 SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX RESULTS Another terse update - sorry! I forgot about it until I was about to go to bed, but I promised the update for tonight, so here it is: Race Result 1. cm97 +8 Points 2. robins13 +5 Points 3. TypingChicane +4 Points ~ 4. Icemanjee1 +3 Points ~ 4. Remmirath +3 Points ~...

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Just letting you all know that I haven't forgot about the competition, and an update should be coming later tonight! I'm very busy with a project I'm trying to finish off this week right now, but I should have time tonight. Unofficially, cm97 won the round, robins13 is second and practically everybo...

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I'm a bit confused as to why millennials will supposedly be more bothered by a lack of competition than anyone of any other arbitrary age? We've got plenty of fans around who started watching during the Schumie days. They saw a sport where one team always won, and they got hooked. We've got people f...

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