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Source? Sorry about the missing source (and thanks to shoot999 for providing it), I was going to write a longer OP overall (including the source obviously) but had a poop-related incident with my 2 month old son who was in my lap at the time. :blush: It's a strange change in your outlook on life wh...

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Schumi's last podium. It wasn't his best, it wasn't my favourite race or my favourite drive of his or anything like that. But you somehow knew this was the last one, this was the final glow of a such a bright career. I couldn't believe it was actually happening or the way it was happening. Then for...

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Does it look like the left rear(?) only made contact with the surface as he crossed the kerb in this photo from last page? Not sure if that implies anything in particular.

Hope he's OK and will make a quick recovery.

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Rosenqvist stays in F3, that guy sure can't have a cent in funding, he should really go on to GP3 or something. Switches to Prema Powerteam, make or break for him now after a mediocre -14.

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Too bad Nasr managed to break the rear wing on his Sauber since it's apparently a new part. Hope they've built two!

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I'll continue sometime when I'm bored at work. The only way, seems to me, is to go backward one year at a time! The trickiest part is people like De La Rosa etc who race a few times some years and are gone for several and turn up for a full season, so I try to keep track of those instances and carry...

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I was browsing wikipedias lists of F1 driver records and went into the driver list to check some people who don't quite make it into the top 10 for ie wins, poles etc and I had a look at number of races started. I was a bit surprised that for example RIC has more starts than GRO, I guess forgetting ...

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Alienturnedhuman wrote:nor did the cats have the hardware needed to given it.

But HOW?

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Q&A with Valtteri at the official F1 site: http://www.formula1.com/news/interviews/2015/2/16809.html I think I feel some similarities between Bottas and Ricciardo, not so much in their personalities, but perhaps their mentality and how they handle success as well as disappointments. Rising talents w...

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I actually miss when Melbourne qualy was at 5AM or something in GMT+1. It was sort of a ritual setting your alarm for 4.50, jumping out of bed as soon as you heard it to put a pot of coffee on, turn on the TV and feel the utter bliss of hearing your commentators welcome you to the new season after a...

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It's funny how a lot of these races turn into the ending of aGP2 feature race during the last 5 laps, people colliding, locking brakes and generally trying stupid and optimistic moves all over the place. Di Grassi pulled off some clean ones before he retired, and I think Bird on Da Costa. Those susp...

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It's not a minimum speed, but a minimum time. They must take at least a certain amount of time to get through a sector, and thus cannot go at whatever speed they want unless they choose to stop completely at some point. And since 41.3 No car may be driven unnecessarily slowly, they won't. It does no...

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Spa looks like a Ski resort. How old is that photo? The buildings on the left aren't there anymore and I don't think the new pit complex is there either? Is the first one Monza? Found this on the living room table at my friends place yesterday when we were celebrating New Years. An FIA 110 years ann...

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You all forgot Luca Badoer. Though I only remember him for his stand in for Massa in 2009, he raced in 95-96 and 99 as well.

Also Pedro De La Rosa, who even managed a podium as late as 2006, and did a full season in 2012! Or maybe you just don't think he's obscure enough to include in the vote :p

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I read in a kind of crap motorsport magazine that Alonso has a shot at a 2016 Merc deal, no source on that, but if that's really the case, could it be McLaren can't decide whether it's worth having him if it's only for the one year and they have to boot one of their drivers to do it? Kind of hypothe...

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Yes. I was commenting on the Joe Saward blog post.

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Sad to read how Sepang is overshadowed by Singapore, and how Korean or Indian GPs would be better for F1, because Sepang is a pretty nice track in my opinion. I guess Buddh is pretty nice too though, and Korea wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the dreary backdrop, it's got those interesting fights...

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They've tested it at different FP sessions late this season, I've read some comments from a few drivers. What they tested, iirc, was a delta time through a particular VSC sector, not around the entire lap as they've decided on now. How it worked was the driver would get a tone in his ear similar to ...

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If I assumed all was static I'd just say Grosjean is a nut case who crashes into people at the start. And that's what makes teammateology crap, anyway. My comment was tongue in cheek but I realize that doesn't work on the internet. You can compare Bottas and Maldonado last year and you can compare M...

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So Grosjean would beat him, despite that Grosjean lost twice to his, at least according to the seeming consensus here, on-par-with-Massa team mate where Bottas beat Massa, and despite Bottas taking 6 podiums in a non race-winning car to Grosjeans 6 podiums in a race-winning car (0-2-4 vs 0-1-5 at th...

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Why do so many people claim that Williams had the 2nd best car? They had at some races, and certainly towards the end, but I don't believe it was better than the Red Bull over the entire season. It also didn't help Bottas that Red Bull were a functionally better squad. I thought he had a great seas...

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I got a Toyota Aygo together with my girlfriend in 2008 or so. Lived in the city and barely even needed a car to be honest. 67 brutal BHPs, overtaking even on the freeway can be incredibly frustrating, you really have to plan your overtakes on country roads! Pretty fun to drive even so, incredibly e...

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Nice drive from Vandoorne yesterday, had to make some overtakes quickly to make his strategy work. Today I think I'm watching the most boring sprint race I've ever seen. Man is this track crap in every conceivable way. The only action is Nasr and Vandoorne fighting over fastest lap... Ok now the las...

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Let me translate the recent offerings in the media by the various top-teams' bosses into English: Wolff: We're winning and we like not having any competition at all and would like to continue doing so. We might have competition if you change the rules so we're going to pretend it would kill the spor...

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mcdo wrote:
Mr.Wojo wrote:In my opinion Alonso is a lousy team leader but his need to win should never be questioned.
If drivers are meant to be team leaders then name me a better one on the grid

How about Felipe Massa? He's such a great team leader he even makes his team mate good enough to beat him.

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I want this to happen, and for Webber to thrash Alonso and for Kimi to thrash Vettel and the Internet will implode with the following argument: Vettel is faster than Webber is faster than Alonso is faster than Kimi is oh wait what just happened? Pretty sure that would rip a hole in time and space. ...

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Quite an impact for Senna there, joining the other driver with an illustrious relative in the last lap brain fade club.

Montagny putting Heidy in the wall etc wasn't very pretty, but I have to say this series is pretty damn entertaining to watch.

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The entire engine cover on Bottas' car detached at the end of the second back straight, on his left side iirc. There might've been a piece of Massa's that flew off as well, it looked a bit odd at the front end of the side pod.

Ocon did OK in the Lotus. The other rookies, well, hard to tell I guess.

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As I'm tired of the same old endless arguments about who is the top driver or in the big four or what have you, I though it would be fun to argue about which one of our two latest one-time Grand Prix winners is the better driver. As a side note, who is the most deserving GP winner? There have been m...

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That's what thieves do, too.

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Big pile up first lap of the race involving some big names... Airborne Japanese lands on top of a tire wall, what a mess. Coletti meanwhile manages to get through an entire corner on his return to F3 before clobbering the wall. Shame for Verstappen about his mistake in quali yesterday, amazing drive...

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Macau GP, F3 Verstappen ruins his fron suspension somewhere, decides to limp back with that plus a rear puncture and almost parks it in that ultra-tight hairpin. Clever. Meanwhile they have still not managed to show any images of what happened after 4 pace car laps. Rosenqvist who did so well last s...

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Most 15-year-olds with no money have parents with a bit of money, maybe even a 70-year-old grandpa with lots of money.

Who does he think buys all those Bieber albums?

Even if they can't afford paddock club tickets, who's gonna buy the rights to air the races if no one pays to watch them on TV?

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You know, I kind of think this battle for 4th will be more interesting than the WDC fight going to Abu Double Doo, because the three cars that are in it have had such varying fortunes at different tracks. Also, since they're all so very close together, whoever finishes ahead will pretty much take 4t...

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He was going out the support race pit again, but this time they'd closed the entry gates too! Blast!

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Jesus Nico, I've been cheering for him as the underdog but he just doesn't deserve it.

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Euro F3 Imola race 2 was really entertaining.

Verstappen started 11th due to an engine penalty from last round, raced to 2nd place, last overtake right before the finish line.

And what a final GP2 Sprint race lap, messy but nothing major at least.

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Verstappen also pulled off a really intelligent and beautiful overtake before that, though. As the commentators said, it was all or nothing for him in terms of the championship. It all started going south after that overly optimistic move into the chicane.

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Swedish commentator Eje Elgh, ex F3 driver and from what I understand speaks to Ericsson frequently, says Caterham has gotten some kind of simpler brake by wire settings or something like that lately and that it's right up Marcus' alley but doesn't fit Kamui that well.

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ART lets Vandoorne down again. Not sure how long they had to react when the SC was announced, but damn.

Sector 1 looks pretty great in a race, though, so that's cool I guess. Still not exactly a fan of Sochi.

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