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j man

Got my Masters in Mechanical Engineering 2 years ago and despite having to find a job in the middle of a recession I managed to land one, after numerous rejections (one of which was an optimistic application to McLaren), landed myself a job at an engine manufacturer. I've (hopefully!) got a whole ca...

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I think the main reason for the records being so affected by the current crop is the amount of races we now have. By the end of this season Hamilton will have competed in more GPs that Jackie Stewart. I think this is the key point here, and it is skewing all the F1 records. Vettel is only two victo...

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Makes sense for them. Its not like they have any reliability issues to work out. They have been pretty reliable so far. And they dont have any new parts to test. It will be waste of precious money for them. Track time makes sense when you have something to test or improve. They have none at the mom...

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He shouldn't have thrown his toys out of the pram at McLaren. If he'd just accepted that the team wasn't going to revolve around him as it did at Renault then I believe he would have won the title in '07 and '08. He missed out in '07 by a point, and that was despite losing the moral support of the t...

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The Germans winning a penalty shoot out? Whatever next?

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Lewis Hamilton. In an era when F1 drivers appear to be little more than mindless robots, both in interviews and in the super-smooth-car-on-rails way that they drive, I just love watching a driver who shows his human side more than any of the others on both counts. He's brilliant and frustrating in e...

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Venomal wrote:"An active lava spewing volcano can grow out to become an island whereas a dormant volcano with a sudden eruption only ends up destroying its cone/auxiliary tubes."

Analogy of the year right there!!

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Of course he can still make a defensive move. He just can't swerve across the width of the track. Rosberg's move left Hamilton no option but to go off the track as he had nowhere else to go at that point. If there hadn't been tarmac run-off there then he would have had a monster accident. It was ve...

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Well done to Chelsea, that was just superb! When the second Barca goal went in I was expecting a real trouncing

j man

Of course he can still make a defensive move. He just can't swerve across the width of the track. Rosberg's move left Hamilton no option but to go off the track as he had nowhere else to go at that point. If there hadn't been tarmac run-off there then he would have had a monster accident. It was ve...

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John Terry is scum. Good riddance.

What a beauty from Ramires though

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The issue was magnified because the Bahrain track is so freaking wide. Basically all that Rosberg did was move over to his right, so that any passing attempt would be forced to the outside. At any other track like Monza or Spa, the same move would be hardly noticed, because the track is only about ...

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I thought the original decision not to run either race driver in the test was a little strange. Given their struggles at the weekend this seems to be a no-brainer to me.

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The issue was magnified because the Bahrain track is so freaking wide. Basically all that Rosberg did was move over to his right, so that any passing attempt would be forced to the outside. At any other track like Monza or Spa, the same move would be hardly noticed, because the track is only about ...

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I just watched a documentary on what holds ships together. It was riveting.

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How about we just go back to 2005 tyre regs, and give each driver 1 set of ultra-hard tyres per race, with only changes allowed in special occasions. Then they would hardly have to pit at all, and the cars would be forced to pass each other on track. This situation is a difficult one to solve, I th...

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I have had a Google, cant find out who the Stewards were Anyone ? Yep, here they are and with the ruling. Rosberg cleared on all counts. Stewards - Garry Connelly, Radovan Novak, Emanuele Pirro and Mazen Al Hilli '1) The driver of Car 8 commenced his move to the right after the exit from T3 and mov...

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He's made a promising start, I've been pleasantly surprised by him. I was quite sceptical of the decision to hire him but I've clearly been proved wrong, he's a very different driver to what we saw in 2009. Says a lot about Flavio Briatore's driver management - maybe Piquet Jr might have forged a re...

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Well he's shown plenty of killer instinct in the past. He probably could have made that move stick on Vettel today if he'd gone for it but that's easy for me to say from the confort of my sofa. The way see it it was good defensive driving by Vettel: he did enough to deter Raikkonen from making the m...

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Once upon a time they used to have tires that were more durable and consistent. There was also a lot more testing and as a result tire performance and degradation was much better understood. But that applied to everyone and as a result, we all saw everyone running the same strategy, and passing and...

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It's been fantastic so far. 4 races in, and I have no idea what the pecking order is. There's also been some superb wheel-to-wheel racing all through the field, and some surprising results. This season is shaping up to be a classic.

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Appalling driving from Rosberg in both instances, and an equally appalling decision from the stewards. If that wasn't deliberate crowding beyond the confines of the track then I'd love for the stewards to show us an example of what is. At least with the Alonso incident Rosberg moved earlier so Alons...

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I'm sure even the most incompetent terrorist wouldn't publish running updates of their plans to the entire world. I shouldn't be too concerned about this.

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best quote, surely, surely, has to be Kevin Keagen "I will love it if we beat them" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXpUdBlRZe8 This one from Henry is pretty special: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwrTA4by3S0 And when Redknapp was at Pompey and the BBC tried to interview him while one of the player...

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Johnston wrote:Dunno I've seen some pretty venomistic stuff aimed towards Lewis over the years.

Especially after his massa incidents.

Get with the times. Hating Hamilton is so 2011.

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So what does the OP think we have all failed to do? If we have the power to prevent this from happening then we really screwed up last year!

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I think he's just being brutally honest. The standard question every driver is asked after qualifying is 'what are your hopes/expectations for tomorrow?'. Alonso is merely answering the question put to him. I think it's also important for him to keep the fans' expectations in check; the tifosi tend ...

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Superb performance, I have no idea where that came from! Toro Rosso have generally been nowhere near the top 10 in qualifying this year. I hope he maintains that sort of pace tomorrow.

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Well it certainly sounds pretty dodgy. However I'm going to naively cling to the belief that FOM would never do anything so petty and pathetic.

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They know they are at the back of the grid and yet everyone works very hard on a shoestring budget. They pretty consistently make it within the 107% rule, so they have earned their right to race in F1. Good luck to them! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: As I've said many times before, they a...

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Not really a football fan, but the Premier League is doing a thing for best goal, save and celebration and the videos are excellent: Goals: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17735667 Saves: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17735314 Celebrations: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/177353...

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I thought last season was fantastic. OK the championship battle was very one-sided but some of the individual races were brilliant. China and Canada were among the most enjoyable races I have ever seen in 16 years of watching the sport. However this season promises to be even better as the field is ...

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I'm getting pretty fed up with Bernie's crazy ideas. I hope this one goes the same way as his medals system and his idea to have the track split in two at certain points to help overtaking.

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Can I say Button's dad? DO YOUR BLOODY SHIRT UP!!!!

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DRS did have an effect as it allowed drivers to close right up on the back straight. This didn't directly lead to a pass, but it did culminate in numerous passes into the turn 6 hairpin (the next biggest braking zone). Quite often the cars were side by side going into the last corner, causing the de...

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Perez. In a Ferrari.

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The McLaren pair. If you watch the laps times during the races there is rarely more than a tenth between them. Recently they have only been separated by who comes out into more traffic during the pitstops (or by one of them running into someone). Hamilton has a clear edge in qualifying but on race d...

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I think Vettel is doing just fine so far this year. He did well in Australia to get 2nd, and to come 5th in China just behind Webber is a decent result given where he was on the first lap. OK he's not as dominant relative to Webber as he was last year but he's doing no worse against him than he did ...

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I don't think there'll be a mad rush to copy the system. I don't think the benefit justifies the expense, and I'm not sure if it can be easily incorporated into a car that was designed without it in mind. The teams would reap greater rewards by spending their resources elsewhere.

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It's been long overdue. I've always rated Rosberg and knew that he would mix it with the best once he had a good enough car. Now that Mercedes seem to have sorted their race pace Rosberg could be a real title contender this year. A well deserved win and I've no doubt it will be the first of many.

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