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Old 22-09-2013, 11:06
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Lewis has a new dog by the way.

http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/189201...his-life-coco?

Probably only a matter of time before he walks around the paddock with a full pack.

Kimi sore back doesn't sound good apparently it steems back to a testing crash with sauber in 2001.
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Old 22-09-2013, 12:50
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What a shambles from trundle. I think the grid walk has really had its day.
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Old 22-09-2013, 13:11
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Unlucky Lewis didn't get away with the off track pass that time.
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Old 22-09-2013, 13:16
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So 6 laps in, Vettel already 6 seconds ahead of Rosberg. Anyone surprised at that? Thought not.
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Old 22-09-2013, 13:35
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Thread pretty dead this afternoon. What with a Vettel win seemingly inevitable, can't say it surprises me.
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Old 22-09-2013, 13:35
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So 6 laps in, Vettel already 6 seconds ahead of Rosberg. Anyone surprised at that? Thought not.
Nope. I'm using the BBC text commentary as an indication of whether I should bother watching the highlights later. At the minute it's a resounding no...
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Old 22-09-2013, 13:41
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Nope. I'm using the BBC text commentary as an indication of whether I should bother watching the highlights later. At the minute it's a resounding no...
Been a few decent overtakes further down the field, but that's about it so far. Nothing has troubled Vettel since the first corner.
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Old 22-09-2013, 13:49
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This race is so utterly boring. So predictable.
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Old 22-09-2013, 13:52
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And there is the inevitable safety car. Hope that shakes things up.
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Old 22-09-2013, 13:55
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And there is the inevitable safety car. Hope that shakes things up.
Just as I said this race was boring, my interest has been piqued again. This safety car should liven up the race.
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Old 22-09-2013, 14:08
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Just as I said this race was boring, my interest has been piqued again. This safety car should liven up the race.
Vettel 3.2 seconds ahead after a lap of racing. Great.
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Old 22-09-2013, 14:11
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Just as I said this race was boring, my interest has been piqued again. This safety car should liven up the race.
Or not, it seems.
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Old 22-09-2013, 14:17
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Seems we're back to how it was before. How lovely. Vettel 2 secs a lap quicker than Rosberg...just ridiculous.
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Old 22-09-2013, 14:19
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Seems we're back to how it was before. How lovely. Vettel 2 secs a lap quicker than Rosberg...just ridiculous.
Makes you wonder just what is in that Red Bull car. It's just so easy for Vettel. Great for him, annoying as hell for the rest of us.
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Old 22-09-2013, 14:32
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I can't see how anyone not involved with Red Bull watching this race could possibly be enjoying it - I'm bored just following the live text!
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Old 22-09-2013, 14:32
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Makes you wonder just what is in that Red Bull car. It's just so easy for Vettel. Great for him, annoying as hell for the rest of us.
How can a car be having such an advantage in race trim? Just wow. The car looks like it has all the grip in the world, it's just glued to the track, has no understeer, perfectly balanced, it looks like a rocketship.
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Old 22-09-2013, 15:05
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Looking at the domination of the Red Bulls over the last couple of races, I think it is time to write off this year's championship and start looking at 2014. ...
And so the Vettel domination continues unabated today. Been listening to the commentary on the radio, and have decided not to even both watching the TV highlights. 2014 can't come quick enough. Maybe they should rename the thread "Bore-mula one"
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Old 22-09-2013, 15:07
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Will Vettel become the inevitable GOAT at this rate?
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Old 22-09-2013, 15:18
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Boos again for Vettel?
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Old 22-09-2013, 15:27
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I've never warmed to Vettel as I find him quite unlikeable for some reason. I think people actually might not like him and not because that he is winning most of the time.

I don't remember Schumacher getting this type of treatment and he kept winning and winning.

So it could be people are booing him because it's become/becoming the norm or people really don't like him and find him boring (or have an unlikeable personality).

But I do personally think he is a very talented driver but he has to show how good he is in another team.

Alonso is for me the best driver on the track. How he keeps managing to make poor qualifying into a decent race result is amazing.
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Old 22-09-2013, 15:30
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This race is so utterly boring. So predictable.
Not according to Crofty and Brundle. They must think that if they say it's exciting often enough they'll make it true.

It's kinda like commentating on tortoises playing football. You can probably make it sound exciting but that don't make it so.

Didn't bode well that it was lap 5 when Webber was first being told to maintain the gap to Alonso, rather than challenge him.
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Old 22-09-2013, 15:43
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If the BBC think a small detail like Alonso giving Webber a lift back to the pits at the end is worthy of inclusion in the post-race report, then you can tell it was a terrible race. And when I think that might be the only thing worth watching the highlights to spot, then I know I'm bored with the current state of F1!

I've never warmed to Vettel as I find him quite unlikeable for some reason. I think people actually might not like him and not because that he is winning most of the time.
I think that's true. I also find him unlikeable, always have done - he comes across as quite arrogant in my opinion, and not showing the same respect the likes of Alonso and Webber do.

But I do personally think he is a very talented driver but he has to show how good he is in another team.
He's certainly talented, but I refuse to consider him a 'great' driver until he's gone from a great car to still getting results in a bad car.

Alonso is for me the best driver on the track. How he keeps managing to make poor qualifying into a decent race result is amazing.
Agreed!
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Old 22-09-2013, 16:01
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I think that's true. I also find him unlikeable, always have done - he comes across as quite arrogant in my opinion, and not showing the same respect the likes of Alonso and Webber do.
Yeah he does seem arrogant and he doesn't have any warmth to him. Also the issues with Mark didn't help his likeability.

He's certainly talented, but I refuse to consider him a 'great' driver until he's gone from a great car to still getting results in a bad car.
Put him in a Marussia then we'll see how good he is.

I'd like to see how he'd do if his qualifying was lower as being at the front he doesn't have to do much if any fighting against others so it just seems like he's cruising around.

But I do wonder why Webber hasn't had the same success as his teammate.
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Old 22-09-2013, 16:18
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Must say,speaking as a Hamilton fan, I don't have any problem at all conceding that Vettel is a bloody superb driver and, from what I've seen of him during different events, a thoroughly likeable young fella too.
In fact, I think that he's the sort of bloke who, if left to his own devices, would quite happily be out clubbing, shagging groupies, setting off fire extinguishers, locking people in toilets and filling hotel air-conditioners up with talc' rather watching his diet, living like a monk and bicycling a thousand miles a week.
And F1 needs more people like that IMO.

I'm sure that there are certain miserable bastards who are genuinely so rabid in their worship of a specific driver (usually one in a red car) that they specifically dislike Vettel for preventing the chinned-one from taking another WDC but, for the most part, I think there's little dislike for Vettel, himself, and it's more a dislike of the dominance that his continual victories represent.
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Old 22-09-2013, 16:22
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Watched the race on RTL and they seemed more keen on their constant ad breaks and hardly had much to say. The track is pointless for F1 to continue there and it's a perfect indicator of money over common sense.
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