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Old 06-06-2015, 18:25
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http://m.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/119329

See Hamilton made to take the blame.

Also in todays sky coverage Martin Brundel crofty etc really saying hamilton percipitated the decision to pit for tyres at Monaco. Anybody want to call blatant racial discrimination on it?
Clearly the decision to pit was not in anyway racist, I unfortunately cannot comment on yourself being racist but I have my opinion.
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Old 06-06-2015, 19:08
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Shame about vettel, think he would be the only car to race the merc's

Anyway, hopefully LH can win and extend his lead
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Old 06-06-2015, 20:50
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Intetesting picture of the force india garage with what looks like heaters on the wheel hubs plugged in to the gantry. Are the team preheating the brakes and hubs now?
Yeah brundel confirmed they preheat the brakes. That is a practice which should be abolished I think.

Also that extra set of tyres everbody is given in P1 they should give that to everybody in Q1 it will make it harder for the faster teams to go through q1 running only once on the prime.

If they did that and came everybody another extra set for the race then you can move the grid together.

The faster teams get an advantage by saving tyres just providing enough tyres takes that away.
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Old 07-06-2015, 18:48
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My god, where did they get her from singing the anthem, terrible
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Old 07-06-2015, 19:05
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Wasn't as bad as Martin Brundle having no idea who Brian Singer was.
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Old 07-06-2015, 19:14
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Wasn't as bad as Martin Brundle having no idea who Brian Singer was.

. True
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Old 07-06-2015, 19:39
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I really need to do something about this sport, it is so boring💤
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Old 07-06-2015, 19:43
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This is a disaster for Ferrari
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Old 07-06-2015, 19:49
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This is a disaster for Ferrari
Which is GREAT
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Old 07-06-2015, 19:52
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For who
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Old 07-06-2015, 19:55
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Seriously, for the people who don't like Ferrari ,

We are not all blinkered red
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Old 07-06-2015, 19:57
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Seriously, for the people who don't like Ferrari ,

We are not all blinkered red
who do you support
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Old 07-06-2015, 20:00
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who do you support
MacLaren and the Merc

Hamilton and Bottas

You do know not everybody supports Ferrari
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Old 07-06-2015, 20:03
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I really need to do something about this sport, it is so boring💤
Yep, been a big fan for years but I am struggling to enjoy it at the moment.

The midfield racing is good but no competition up front at all. Plus getting fed up with the drivers having to go slow to save fuel.

I mean ffs, this is F1...yet they cant drive at full power due to fuel saving
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Old 07-06-2015, 20:37
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Nice one Hamilton
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Old 07-06-2015, 20:42
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Yep, been a big fan for years but I am struggling to enjoy it at the moment.

The midfield racing is good but no competition up front at all. Plus getting fed up with the drivers having to go slow to save fuel.

I mean ffs, this is F1...yet they cant drive at full power due to fuel saving
Yeah another borefest. Can't wait for Le Mans when there will be some real racing.
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Old 07-06-2015, 20:43
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Why couldn't they tell Hamilton how far behind Rosberg was over team radio? Is that information prohibited?
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Old 07-06-2015, 20:45
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It wasn't that. They were not allowed to tell him how Rosberg was doing on fuel consumption.
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Old 07-06-2015, 20:51
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MacLaren and the Merc

Hamilton and Bottas

You do know not everybody supports Ferrari
Dont be so defensive i was only asking a question
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Old 07-06-2015, 20:53
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No mishaps for Lewis and nothing from Ferrari.

Canada can be a decent entertaining race but besides Vettel and Massa coming through not much happened.
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Old 07-06-2015, 21:00
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Dont be so defensive i was only asking a question
Defensive, never, unfortunately you may be the nicest Ferrari fan in the the world but you are tarnished by Forza Ferrari, who you seem to be friendly with.
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Old 07-06-2015, 21:15
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Why couldn't they tell Hamilton how far behind Rosberg was over team radio? Is that information prohibited?
They told Rosberg they couldn't give him information about hamiltons fuel fine. I can't quit remember who said it but at one point they described Rosberg's brakes as more critical than hamiltons.

Was that a team radio or an update from Ted?
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Old 07-06-2015, 21:33
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With all the controversy from the race, the interesting bits coming out of the strategy group meeting before the weekend have got somewhat lost. It sounds like the mood has swung against refueling again as team bosses realise that it did little to improve racing before and was just expensive and dangerous.

The more interesting stuff has been around customer cars. Bernie has proposed a change whereby the three teams who receive the most money (Ferrari, McLaren and currently Red Bull) would build 2 extra cars each which they would donate to customer teams should the grid fall to 16 cars. However Lauda told Sky he suggested to the group that they shouldn't wait until 2 more teams die, do it now!

Apparently this is actually about equality of money. Mercedes don't expect the grid to fall to 16 anytime soon. They also think the three big teams would rather change how the money is shared out rather than build extra cars for others, but while the risk of that happening is remote nothing will change. If Mercedes could force through customer cars now they hope to get the three big teams to change their view on money earlier. They want this sorted now because by the end of next season Mercedes should be in a position to replace Red Bull as one of the big teams (as it's worked out on a rolling 5 year basis who's been most successful) and they definitely don't want customer cars (ironically). Bloody F1 politics.
interesting comments from Bernie this weekend outright said franchise cars won't happen.

Then he said that we won't ever have four competitive teams again until everbody had a similar power unit again.

As for how the money is split up he says that it how it has always happened and it is in everybodies contract and so get on with it.

The EU want to flex some muscle because it was the Americans who have got to FIFA first. Much of F1 takes place outside of Europe so I wonder how firm their remit is or what might be done by F1 bodies to change registered offices etc to frustrate intervention.
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Old 07-06-2015, 21:44
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“I didn’t agree that the first part of the race was the part of the race where we needed to save fuel. In the end, we didn’t even need to save fuel as we didn’t finish the race.”

Unrelated exhaust problems caused the double DNF for Mclaren today. They appear to be getting more problems as they use more of the potential of the engine.

Would be a great team radio message we need to fuel save but don't bother with lift and coast as we won't finish anyway. Seriously Alonso has a point with their record try and do 75% of the race before they think about needing enough fuel.

Some great post race comments from Alonso.
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Old 07-06-2015, 23:06
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does anyone care about who has the best fuel economy in the race?.One of the many regs that are killing F1
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