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He needs to be a lot closer but he's got his contract so he wont be nervous. As sandman said because Ferrari have gone with Kimi it means Mercedes best bet is to back Lewis and have a driver good enough to beat Kimi and take the odd win away from Seb than it is to have a line up like RB and take po...

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Well the simple fact of the matter is that there was enough space, so technically he did leave it at the time the accident happened. Anything else is just supposition Yeah, and a skydiver who’s parachute didn’t open, technically still has time to try and save themselves while 10 feet from the momen...

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Boy is this a 9 page train-wreck: Ricardo is 4th in F1 Championship points and Verstappen is 6th, nearly 100 points behind Ricardo; but yet some folks think he is doing the better of the two team-mates........... :lol: If you don't make it to the checker'd flag no matter how well ya did in the race...

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I've never liked the 'forcing another driver off the track' part of F1. I don't think it should be acceptable. They are supposed to race on the track - that's what it is there for. They could automate things to some extent. The outer edge of the white line could be the visual indicator of the outer...

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The OP confuses Alonso's cars' 'natural position' with Alonso's public statements about his cars. Calling the 2012 Ferrari the 4th best car is beyond ridiculous. If you make the massive assumption that Raikkonen was as good as Alonso in 2012 then you could make a case for it being 3rd best. I see t...

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It just seems unlikely that Nico was the 'more vicious instigator' in the team - bearing in mind it took him a long time to mirror Lewis' aggressive race tactics (against his team mate!), not to mention AFAIK Nico hasn't fallen out with other drivers previously? On the other hand, Lewis has 'played ...

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Difficult one, as (as others have pointed out), all those on the podium were there due to bad luck on the part of their team mates. Simply for putting in a genuinely good-paced and consistent performance, having been slated for so many races - Lance Stroll. For the same reason, I eventually voted fo...

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Lewis has a history of driving deliberately erratically behind the safety car. He doesn't accelerate out of corners intermittently and appears to try to cause chaos behind him. This goes back all the way to the 2007 Japanese GP, when Webber and Vettel (then at Toro Rosso) were behind Lewis. Lewis d...

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It is reasonable to expect a driver to accelerate coming out of such a tight corner. Hamilton's actions left a sour taste in my mouth. Vettel's response was unacceptable, he deserved the penalty. His response to the penalty smacks of poor theater, no one was fooled. Just like Hamilton, he is an exc...

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LKS1 wrote:This quali result brings us back to the original thought behind the thread (albeit from the opposite direction) - Ferrari must back Vettel, now?

I apologise for repeating my own post - but now would be a good time for Lewis supporters to declare whether they think Ferrari should back Seb.

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Didnt Hamilton say he didnt want to share set ups this year.... Ah yeah maybe it's backfiring. :nod: :lol: But don't worry - Hamilton will soon assure us that it was down to something entirely different. Perhaps tweeting telemetry to 'prove' that he was somehow disadvantaged. Nonetheless, it would ...

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This quali result brings us back to the original thought behind the thread (albeit from the opposite direction) - Ferrari must back Vettel, now?

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Much as I enjoyed this race, it was more than annoying that the producers have decided to only show race order - i.e. only rarely time/gap differences between drivers.

It makes it far more difficult to keep track of what is happening on track.

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For some reason the 'quotes' are messed up when trying to reply to Laz-T800, but I agree - Seb's pass couldn't have happened without newer tyres and DRS.

But you're missing the point that even WITH these advantages he couldn't overtake without using feints.

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I've no idea who to vote for this race as I was paying little attention to anyone other than Lewis and Seb. Edit - largely because it was impossible to keep track of what was happening as time gaps between drivers was shown very rarely x( . As the Force India drivers ended up P4 and P5 I assume its ...

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Incredible pass by Hamilton! I don't get you Hamilton fans. What was special on this move? That Hamilton did it? Quit your whining. It was a great pass because the Ferrari is a very fast car and this is a track that is VERY hard to pass. Jesus christ. I wanted LH to win, but that wasn't really a "p...

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Covalent wrote:
LKS1 wrote:Have to admit that I'm happy to see Red Bull 'behind' - after the heir killed a man in his car/tried to blame an employee/is still enjoying his privileged lifestyle, as if nothing had happened.
What's this?

Google it. The facts aren't hard to find.

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Have to admit that I'm happy to see Red Bull 'behind' - after the heir killed a man in his car/tried to blame an employee/is still enjoying his privileged lifestyle, as if nothing had happened.

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I missed Alonso's "great racing". As far as I could see stayed pretty much where expected? He wasn't last, so no, I don't think he stayed where expected. This wasn't as good a race as the first two from him, but fighting a Toro Rosso is certainly punching above that car's weight at present. You mea...

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So will Merc give bottas another chance to demonstrate he can live with vettel and Lewis in the race or do we think Merc will act immediately i think they will give him another shot but I think after that if he doesn't improve then its game over It would be VERY interesting to find out the reasons ...

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Vettel was in his own league yesterday. Got ahead of Lewis at turn 1 and then executed flawless race with good pace. If Bottas was not as slow as he actually was, he would have probably beaten the Mercs by bigger margin in the end. Gotta feel for Alonso. That was some great racing in a car that was...

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And I'm going to moan again about the race order list on the side of the screen as I can see no reason whatsoever to just show the race order without including the timing gap x( . I totally agree with you here. It was very frustrating. Yes, very annoying. It used to be FAR better when it just had a...

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Whilst I agree with the that is probably the case, as I previously mentioned I also think that 'the leading car pits first' policy needs sorting. It assumes that the leading car is the fastest driver. Where this is not the case it removes the possibility of the undercut, (for Hamilton in yesterdays...

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I suspect both Merc. and Ferrari have already decided to designate No.1 and No. 2 drivers in view of the way Kimi let Seb by easily, and Bottas did the same for Lewis twice during the race. It seems likely Ferrari realised their mistake (not letting the faster driver by) in China, and Merc. realised...

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Voted for Seb, Massa and Perez.

Seb was obvious, but Massa and Perez because they were very impressive for quite a while until Ric finally took over his 'natural' position.

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And I'm going to moan again about the race order list on the side of the screen as I can see no reason whatsoever to just show the race order without including the timing gap

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Both Lewis and Bottas looked extremely unhappy after the race/on the podium.

Presumably they're both blaming the team - although probably for different reasons?

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Totally agree with Pole2win and Pullrod, great posts. We really have no idea if he would even be competetive with the top drivers of today. It's easy to overrate Alonso in recent years if you don't consider Kimi is/was way past it when they were teammates and arguably Button as well even though But...

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Totally agree with Pole2win and Pullrod, great posts. We really have no idea if he would even be competetive with the top drivers of today. It's easy to overrate Alonso in recent years if you don't consider Kimi is/was way past it when they were teammates and arguably Button as well even though But...

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Personal thoughts about the race:- 1) Great to see some 'proper' overtaking again, rather than overtakes reliant on tyres/DRS :) . 2) I miss the 'running' order at the bottom of the screen, which nearly always showed the time gap between drivers - making it far easier to keep track of the progress ...

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2) I miss the 'running' order at the bottom of the screen, which nearly always showed the time gap between drivers - making it far easier to keep track of the progress of those drivers in which we were interested. Nowadays, the list on the left hand side of the screen more often than not just shows...

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2) I miss the 'running' order at the bottom of the screen, which nearly always showed the time gap between drivers - making it far easier to keep track of the progress of those drivers in which we were interested. Nowadays, the list on the left hand side of the screen more often than not just shows...

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2) I miss the 'running' order at the bottom of the screen, which nearly always showed the time gap between drivers - making it far easier to keep track of the progress of those drivers in which we were interested. Nowadays, the list on the left hand side of the screen more often than not just shows...

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2) I miss the 'running' order at the bottom of the screen, which nearly always showed the time gap between drivers - making it far easier to keep track of the progress of those drivers in which we were interested. Nowadays, the list on the left hand side of the screen more often than not just shows...

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Personal thoughts about the race:- 1) Great to see some 'proper' overtaking again, rather than overtakes reliant on tyres/DRS :) . 2) I miss the 'running' order at the bottom of the screen, which nearly always showed the time gap between drivers - making it far easier to keep track of the progress o...

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And now they are saying Vettel isn't on pole because he didn't have the perfect quali lap.

Don't worry, I'm now going to turn the TV off until the Sky (?) commentators take over 15 mins before the race start

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Bloody hell - the commentator on the pre-race show in Thailand just said that Lewis' quali performance showed that he's becoming more and more like Ayrton Senna

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I knew it was a mistake turning on the TV before the actual race....

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Top teams keep offering seats to Alonso but I doubt they want the turmoil that comes with signing him. Alonso requires a team that treats him like the king he thinks he is. It's no surprise that he won his two titles with Briatore, who treated him just like that. When he left for McLaren and Ron De...

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Zoue wrote:wow, just noticed that 5th place was 1.3s behind. 6th was 1.8s!

Yes, hence my comment about the other teams being so far behind in quali.

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Invade wrote:@TheGiantHogweed

Absolutely.

We should see only fully live footage in all its glory and dynamism so that we're really "in" it and they can show all these fancy replays after. How hard can it be?

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