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Sulman posted:I think the last thing F1 needs at the moment is dogshit Ferrari, as amusing as they are. Too late
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nsaP posted:http://www1.skysports.com/f1/report/22058/9538348/what-was-said-when-lewis-hamilton-quit-mclaren-to-join-mercedes “Lewis Hamilton does not know much about racing history and so cannot learn from the mistakes of others. Perhaps he thinks that if it fails he will at least have the consolation of earning loads more money and being a bigger star, thanks to his hustling management that will sell his image here, there and everywhere. That might make him an international celebrity on a bigger scale than he is, but it will not make him a racing legend. Perhaps Mercedes will pull it off and then Hamilton will look clever, but I fear that this will be a move similar to James Hunt joining Wolf; Emerson Fittipaldi joining Fittipaldi, Jacques Villeneuve moving to BAR or Niki Lauda’s ill-fated move to Brabham. History relates that you do not leave a winning team in F1 unless it is to go to another proven winner…” - JJoc*
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I'd do it and do it with all the dignity my driver deserves
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Flayer posted:I'll do a bio. Fingers crossed for some random unknown with no history. We can't all get Vettel
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Nov 25, 2014 21:42
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Sashimi posted:The drivers for any of the following teams should be given honourary MWDCs for putting up with such awful cars all year: Caterham, Marussia, and Lotus. Sauber don't count because they still somehow managed to be even worse than a team that couldn't show up for the last races of the season. Not Our Jenson?
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Dudley posted:HeikkiBahrain.jpg  Also:  When I think muscle, I think Hamilton
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HJB posted:The lad's a four-time champion yet looks completely overawed by the whole thing. To be fair he did used to work in Milton Keynes
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JingleBells posted:DHR in #f1 pointed out it's in championship order too which is quite snazzy. No Caterham or Marussia ones - presumably the gloves are assets which could be sold Also if he didn't get one from Bianchi...
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Tsaedje posted:A380s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya , pity there's only one
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The FIA has released their report on Bianchi's crash - two important points being that Bianchi didn't lift as much as he should have during the double waved yellows, and that Marussia's design of their breaks made the failsafe (that applying the breaks and accelerator full on, together means that only the breaks get engaged) not work for Bianchi's car.
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Alain Post posted:Late 2001 Minardi had Fernando Alonso and Alex Yoong, which seriously might be the greatest disparity in teammate quality in F1 history. Our Dan vs the Fraud???
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drgitlin posted:I actually can't work out why Button wants to stay. McLaren have built complete dogs the last few years, and failed dismally to develop them over the season so they're even worse by year's end. Add that to a new engine and I'd be surprised if they manage to finish 5th next year. Button seems to actually like challenges, he actively chose to go up against Hamilton the year after his WDC knowing full well everyone thought Hamilton would destroy him - but he didn't. Now he gets to go up against Alonso, the other guy rated as highly.
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Brainwrong posted:In his defence though, no decent drivers have come up from smaller teams for a LONG time. Vettel was the last person to progress from a crap team to a good one with any real results. Everyone else who has been given the opportunity has been dogshit. There have lots of people who haven't been given the opportunity and may well be good - JEV, for example. And they just aren't being given a chance - there's only been two drivers from inside the sport that have moved to McLaren/Merc/Ferrari at the start of the season having not won the world championship in at least the last 5 years, more for McLaren and Ferrari (if you don't count in-season changes to deal with Kimi sulking and Massa getting whapped in the head) - and they've been Nico Rosberg (when Merc wasn't very good) and Perez, who was immediately out on his arse for KMag. Hamilton, Button, Raikkonen, Alonso and Vettel have been around forever and until they all retire (which in the case of Button, Raikkonen and Alonso will probably be pretty soon) there's just not enough seats at the top teams that can open up.
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Alain Post posted:I reckon Ryan Hunter-Reay has WDC-level talent. Specifically Vettel
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Whitey Ford posted:Which team is he infecting now? He's gone back to Australia
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:Button didnt, and I will always hate that fact! That was the year that Ryan Giggs completely inexplicably won it, right?
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Alain Post posted:We'd be saying "Sebastian Who?" for sure. Don't you mock Bourdais
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gret posted:That's Sebastien. Not Sebastian. I'm never defending Bourdais again Imagine I said "Don't you mock Buemi" above 
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Toro Rosso needs to up its game significantly, there's been a significant Sebastian gap in the last 3 years.
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I got a Lego F1 car for christmas, the thing's two feet long. It's fantastic.
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ukle posted:I would be surprised if it is, given a lot of Sounds quite appropriate to be honest
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simplefish posted:I've never heard anything about a ruling like that. That was number of races. The "number of cars" thing is that there is a gap between "Minimum number of cars such that the tracks keep the same contracts" and "Minimum number of cars to force teams to run 3 cars to up the numbers"
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poopzilla posted:That Ferrari looks like a winner. WDC # 2 for Kimi incoming. Yeah but who's going to actually win the title?
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keevo posted:You don't think Vettel the Fraud would demand that the car be designed around him? You think Ferrari are capable of reliably doing that?
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RALF posted:Wouldn't it be even more effective if the whole car was asphalt colored (serious but stupid question)? You could still see details clearly, the point with dazzle camo is that there's so many random bits of lines and shapes going everywhere it's difficult to tell which bits are actually features of the thing and which bits are just paint. MrL_JaKiri fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Feb 1, 2015 |
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POCKET CHOMP posted:What does #SizeZeroF1Car mean, please explain to me Wicka or somebody thank you. Based on a look at McLaren's twitter it's because the car has a fairly small profile?
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Yeah,quote:"Dennis has been waxing rhapsodic about the quality of design and workmanship on the new MP4-30. 'The rear bodywork of our car has been brilliantly shrink-wrapped around a fantastically advanced and incredibly compact Honda power unit,' he said. 'We've even invented a new phrase to describe its design philosophy - the size-zero F1 car.' (Boullier)
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NtotheTC posted:Remind me again what happened the last time the Italians and Germans joined forces? Vettel won a race at Toro Rosso?
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Brainwrong posted:I think if that happened then both Alonso and Vettel would give up. Button would also retire. Leaving F1's future in the hands of Rickydickydongo and some kids with pube-beards. One of the pube beards won last year's WDC so
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be nice wicka posted:running over double the mileage of anyone else on the first day of testing is the opposite of sandbagging "Going a long way but slowly" is sandbagging in a speed based sport
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be nice wicka posted:i don't think you know what sandbagging means Deliberately hiding your ability, in this case only going pretty fast not very fast?
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RALF posted:Jean Alesi Seb Vettel
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Tsaedje posted:I feel let down that Heikki Kovalainen was mentioned without someone posting fastheikki.jpg 
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Jon Von Anchovi posted:I've seen this a few times - what was actually happening. Did he cock it up and exit stage left at great pace? Heikki was the best driver by a factor >2
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krushgroove posted:At least it's not as extreme as the TV rights for Premiere League football - £10mil PER GAME going to the Football Association, I have no idea how the broadcasters will even make money at that price. And the FA has the same problems with lower league teams that FOM does with distributing money to lower teams, but it's multiplied by dozens (hundreds?) of small teams. The FA doesn't have the same problem - because the money isn't going to the FA, it's going to the Premier League which is a separate organisation.
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McLaren are great, like the England cricket team
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Payndz posted:I searched for this (I like the idea of a billionaire's mental no-limits racing car so much I might put it into my next book), but couldn't find it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_X2010
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Shiruan posted:Which confuses me, since I can't imagine a situation where a person in the car itself would be the shortest/easiest path between KERS and ground. Or am I just being dim and missing something obvious? Shortest path between a point of high potential and a point of low potential.
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Carbonate posted:Race cars crash sometimes. Sometimes they do it in weird and pretty dumb ways, but they still do crash. Initially people were confused that Alonso was hurt as the car was essentially undamaged, without realising that Alonso was hurt because the car was essentially undamaged. Plus nothing happening, yeah.
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