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Rosberg pole!!

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Of course it does, the RB loophole had the lens stuck in a recess, meaning the shrouding was obstructing the view, the new way has the lens free of obstrusive shrouding. The only problem with the recess was the way FOM mounted the camera. You'd have the exact same "issues" if FOM decided to point w...

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I think you are right as to the reasons but I also think it's unnecessary. As stated before they had much more power in the past and with today's increased safety I think they are being excessively cautious. These guys are supposed to be the best drivers in the world - let them show what they can d...

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Yeah, Lewis got one in himself, didn't he? He figured it out how Nico's privileged upbringing plays the relevant role in Nico supposedly having now a lesser motivation for top success in F1 than his own good self. Yeah, it's very funny, especially seeing this unknown guy called Ayrton Senna who was...

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British car manufacturers may now be owned by foreign companies but the design, engineering and production is still pretty much based in Britain. Is it? I was under impression everything of value was pillaged. Like BMW bought Rover group to get Mini brand, then dumped pieces of it afterwards. And a...

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This is how it looks now (Source: RB Twitter):

Hole in side wing is 1/4 size of old nose hole, but suddenly it gives perfect picture

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Oh good grief. Why? If the images were acceptable then they wouldn't need to change, so why bother faking it? And all RBR would have to do is pull out other footage showing the image was OK. Go look at 2nd photo in the thread (how big the hole is) then 3rd photo (showing image from camera) and tell...

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Now back to item#1, the First Amendment (Freedom of Speech). This is a huge deal in the US and while many abuse it, it should not be taken for granted. When you erode the Rights it erodes freedom of the Citizens. That is completely wrong. 1st means government can't prosecute you. It does not mean y...

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Anyone from 2-5th in WDC, then string of DNFs from LH as he tries way too hard to show up the team in the next several races

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Perhaps it's more efficient than the externally mounted cameras, but that opening is considerable enough that it interrupts air flow to some degree. Yeah, I wonder why Newey didn't cover the opening with a plexiglass panel - then they could make it even larger to show FIA they have no case. Or even...

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In that case, Vettel and Alonso must have great marketability as well.......... look at all the talk about them over the past few years... especially Vettel. Yeah. And both Germany and Spanish speaking area are larger than UK. Seriously, anyone who claims F1 is well known - I can bet you that there...

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Oh Dear! Why is Hamilton constantly misquoted and made to appear egotistical. Misquote? I am afraid you're wrong, he really doesn't need it, his own actions suffice. See say squatting on China Cup as if it was a toilet seat. What a way to endear new fans after designer went out of his way to decora...

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Apart from his win his results in F1 have been pretty awful tbh. But then again, how many drivers can say they won GP? A very tiny minority? And that win wasn't in "no competition" 1996 style or "Max Chilton wins in this car" 2014 style either. That was in second to third best car at most, against ...

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Kinda sad that they've sold the names to the highest bidder., and cast aside the countries greatest drivers. It's funny you say that about names, seeing A1 in old circuit name was pure highest bidder sponsorship. As were most corners on it. Really? :-P And anyway, they kept Rindt corner, which is n...

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You are seriously overestimating the interest of F1 around the world. It's a niche sport in most countries and the viewer figures thrown around are at the very least highly suspicious. Football is the most watched sport in China and it has the most Premier League followers in the world for example ...

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I'm just wondering who all these people are? Vettel was easily voted driver of the day What, you missed quite loud minority calling someone who cried for engineer's help whole race driver of the day? :lol: Anyway, if Vettel's chassis was warped... does it mean he almost put it on pole in Malaysia d...

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Gregwil, don't you think it possible that the whole 2014 Mercedes car is good? If it was not, the engine could not overcome major deficiencies. Just as the previous Red Bull-Renaults were the best cars overall (2012 excepted). They certainly had the best aero-induced grip, which could in some way b...

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That's right, but based on the color, they could be quickly differentiated from Mercedes only by the shape, or rather, funny shape of their nose. Mercedes have these horrible blotches of sickly greens, so not really. yea very bland this year- go back to the very bright colour and white - all ways w...

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it's not gonna be Vettel's season if he can't even do practice, he goes into the GP not knowing his car and the track as well, since it is different than last year and what he is used to. Well, if he can do that even with ruined practice and quali... Maybe, just maybe the detractors will have to ea...

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And to think he had a team capable of fighting for wins, or at least certainly second place with regularity. A team that was willing to tell other driver move over for Kimi in an instant. Oh, wait, that was in last two years, and he jumped ship due to Ferrari bri... money before season even ended. I...

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This is stupid, Hamilton easily beat button over 3 years Yeah, so easily he had much less points and was completely crushed in 2011 :lol: I don't know what you're watching, but in this reality, Alonso and Button were the only drivers to score 2nd in WDC over last four 'Vettel' years (and of course ...

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It's up to the others to catch up just like the competition had to catch up with Red Bull the previous years. Yeah, coming up with better engine (that outside of two teams you have zero influence on) is going to be trivial . Not like in the RB "dominant" days when they won on aero everyone could ha...

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C'mon, Vettel setting fastest lap in the race when it should be easily the Mercedes? Yeah. There are really people who would rate someone who whined at his race engineer whole race, to the point commentators who normally love him started to make fun out of him? " Imodium helps with that "? That was...

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nothing beats an open championship nothing! For 5 years? :uhoh: You don't remember 2012 and 7 different winners in 7 races? Alonso and Button coming really close 3 times, only end of 2013 being a walkover? Vettel having to FIGHT for wins? x( Seriously, there is no way anyone not being a fanboy of c...

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I think it was quite well done, actually. Not everybody only wants to watch Mercedes. We had the Ferrari battle shown, the fight between Seb and Kimi etc. And we didn't miss anything from when Nico finally got close enough to actually challenge Lewis. +100. These actual battles were far more intere...

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If anything, it would have saved this race. It's not like he didn't have massive gap to third place to coast past the finish line even if he totally demolished tires.

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wolfticket wrote:Unless I'm mistaken no driver has ever not won the WDC having won 4 consecutive races in a season

Isn't that exactly what LH wants? To be very first in everything?

That is one record I wouldn't mind to hand to him on silver plate

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Did Vettel just shown a finger to pretty big group today?

I love how haters shown up with 'unrealistically' high expectations setting up another bash yet Vettel smashed even those, expect big bowl of sour grapes excusing today's results

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Spoiler alert: prepare for another 1-2 x( Oh look! I have prophetic powers! :? So, what excuse will we see today from last remaining holdouts still claiming Formula Mercedes is in any way exciting and/or not boring? If you exclude Vettel storming through the ranks, it was one looong procession x( S...

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Bacus wrote:I can't see how that Renault engine could overtake the cars in the first half of the grid...

Yeah, people sure forgot fast how Alonso was effortlessly pulling away from RB with DRS open. Of course, who expects logic and consistency when you can have good ol' baseless bash?

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Spoiler alert: prepare for another 1-2

Anything, just anything that would change this will make this race more interesting than last 3.

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I wouldn't call him untalented - far from it - but I would call him an insufferable pickle. Yeah. Were JV and DH bad drivers? Not really, no, but seeing how quickly they fell of results cliff once not given rocketships, they were nothing special, either. And both turned out to be bitter, jaded men ...

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Search function? It was still on first page

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Of the current bunch, re-allocate the WDCs as you please to reflect how good a career each driver has actually had and how many they deserve. There are a total of 9 to hand out. Reality has given us. Vettel: 4 Alonso: 2 Hamilton: 1 Button: 1 Raikkonen: 1 Simple: Vettel: 4 Alonso: 2 Massa: 1 Button:...

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So would the other teams (works ones at least) be able to test their 2015 engines too? Seeing thanks to badly thought freeze ideas they are the same engines, with one or two tweaked parts, no, they won't be even allowed to touch them at all x( Of course they will test them, what you expected, cars ...

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The reason I was querying it is that if a driver is changing teams their contracts usually run until the end of the year rather than the end of the season so cannot test for their new team until pre season testing starts, I assumed that the same applied with engines, I guess the fact that Honda are...

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Is that one of Mercedes 'filming days' tests or someone will have to don black helmet again?

Mercedes (at least on poster) looks like 2014 car, so no '2 year out of date' clause.

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Red Bull took 11 poles last year... Regardless of how often it's repeated, it's still not true . We had 4 teams fighting for podium last 2 years, and more often than not, only 1 Red Bull. Webber was beaten by virtually everyone, and almost every pole/win Vettel had was preceded by challenges from o...

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pubpokerplayer wrote:Eh? Seb surely wins that one?

Vettel had BMW and Toro Rosso, so nope. Had he started in cheated car with set-up copied from Alonso, you can bet he would have been debiut WDC or at least smashed all 'youngest ever' records.

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*yaaawn*

1-2 again? Oh look, it is! Who could have guessed?

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