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Old 14 Dec 2017, 16:26 (Ref:3787056)   #101
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Fuoco and Deletraz confirmed at Charouz
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Old 14 Dec 2017, 22:48 (Ref:3787118)   #102
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Fuoco and Deletraz confirmed at Charouz
The 2 drivers in the field you'd say underperformed the most, particularly Deletraz. Will be interesting to see how they go getting another shot.

What's Fittipaldi doing though? I thought he would have moved across to F2.
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Old 15 Dec 2017, 20:50 (Ref:3787328)   #103
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I really have absolutely no idea what Ferrari see in Fuoco, having said that, nice bit of business on the face of it for Charouz getting the Ferrari tie up.
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Old 13 Jan 2018, 17:54 (Ref:3792498)   #104
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As expected, Fukuzumi in with Arden. Actually he''ll do, also as expected, double duty with Super Formula.
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Old 15 Jan 2018, 16:14 (Ref:3792917)   #105
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Aitken confirmed at ART too
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Old 20 Jan 2018, 23:55 (Ref:3794069)   #106
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Old 21 Jan 2018, 00:54 (Ref:3794073)   #107
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that halo is absolutely irretrievably hideously ugly.
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Old 21 Jan 2018, 16:38 (Ref:3794139)   #108
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that halo is absolutely irretrievably hideously ugly.
Bella, i am with you 100% there, absolutey awful!!!
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Old 22 Jan 2018, 10:51 (Ref:3794266)   #109
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Yeah, but the FIA know best, despite so much opposition to it. Hope it doesn't come back to bite them
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Old 23 Jan 2018, 01:23 (Ref:3794439)   #110
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Yeah, but the FIA know best, despite so much opposition to it. Hope it doesn't come back to bite them
Unfortunately what could come back to bite them if they didn't implement it would be a massive lawsuit. The Halo is what legal due diligence looks like. Unfortunate but true.
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Old 26 Jan 2018, 08:20 (Ref:3795209)   #111
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It doesn't save your head when the spring your helmet. It would have more sense with shield along it.
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Old 30 Jan 2018, 16:31 (Ref:3796927)   #112
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Ghiotto in at Campos
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Old 31 Jan 2018, 11:05 (Ref:3797130)   #113
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Jeez what's he thinking. First Mitch Evans makes that terrible move to try and cling on to F2 joining Campos and it nearly kills his career until that lucky FE pick, now Ghiotto... the guy that won 5 races to Ocon's 1 in 2015 GP3 and took it right to the last race - this despite Ocon being with the dominant ART team and Ghiotto with Trident. That was Tridents best finish in points as well in 6 years of competition. Then switches to Gp2 with Trident and showed more speed in the car than anyone else in their 11 years in Gp2 (with the exception of Cecotto winning a couple of races but he's too inconsistent over a season).

A fairly subdued 2017, finishing only 4th in points but behind Markelov, and he's now Campos material where he'll be fighting hard with to get into the top 10.

Hey is De Vries now confirmed with Prema? I see it's on wikipedia... well there's the 2018 champ then.
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Old 31 Jan 2018, 11:27 (Ref:3797133)   #114
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What’s he thinking? MONEY.

De Vries. Not sure he’s good enough. Also a new car and engine and some of Prema’s bought in advantage may be gone. Also being effectively a one-car team is going to hurt them.
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Old 1 Feb 2018, 07:51 (Ref:3797368)   #115
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Yeah although they were sort of a one-car last year anyway, since Fuoco was a backmarker apart from a couple rounds late in the year.

I think De Vries is a bit underrated since he got beaten to the Gp3 title in 2016 by Leclerc (in fact only finished 6th in points). But he did win a couple of races and did have speed but had bad race craft; ie. would use the tyres up early, do something stupid to let someone through etc.

He dominated 2014 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and last year really got the best out of Rapax and Racing Engineering. He's no Charles Leclerc, but he could replicate Gasly I think. Gasly's title wasn't exactly impressive, he nearly got beaten by his rookie team mate.

Re Ghiotto... Yes he could have no money left, I think that's what happened to Evans he couldn't come up with the $3mill+ anymore so had to go with the free drive at Campos. I guess Ghiotto is in the same boat. Except Evans absolutely caned Markelov, whereas Ghiotto kind of couldn't keep up with him when it came to raw speed and passing people. Amazing how Markelov has improved over the years, I wonder where he'll end up this year. I think he must have learned a bit from Evans especially in using as much track as possible, and in passing people.

I sort of find F2 and the drivers changes make it more exciting than F1. F1 is just going be another of Merc domination while Ferrari and RB have to make excuses.
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Old 1 Feb 2018, 19:40 (Ref:3797532)   #116
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De Vries at Prema has the ring of Ericsson's year at DAMS about it. Even though he's in the best team, something tells me that he'll be beaten to the title
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I's go along with that. Nyck seems quick but he's never consistently so.
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Old 2 Feb 2018, 13:51 (Ref:3797732)   #118
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I'll triple that, I might extremely wrong, you could lough, but I have strange feeling De Vries will have tough time with Gelael. As above, I am probably wrong, but... Nyck, I don't even see him as title protagonist! You have new boys, which is exciting, you have Latifi and Ghiotto back. This will be exciting championship, just don't thnk PREMA will crack it.

Ghiotto needed a car, he has a car... he is my title fav, but closely challenge byt British lads.
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Old 5 Feb 2018, 16:35 (Ref:3798731)   #119
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Prema already revealed their livery : https://i.imgur.com/Yj80lMN.jpg
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Old 8 Feb 2018, 17:16 (Ref:3799622)   #120
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Rapax is out too then
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Old 8 Feb 2018, 21:35 (Ref:3799698)   #122
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Rapax had been out from the very beginning. Quite disappointed to see RE and Fortec bail out at this stage - we were looking at a bumper grid (well, 24) but not the case now. I wonder if its in part due to a lack of suitable budgetted drivers?
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Rapax had been out from the very beginning. Quite disappointed to see RE and Fortec bail out at this stage - we were looking at a bumper grid (well, 24) but not the case now. I wonder if its in part due to a lack of suitable budgetted drivers?
bruno michel implies that it is in the official press release:
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i'm not sure conditions *will* be more favourable when your series costs that much to participate in..
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That’s a shame about racing engineering, 2017 was their only bad season really. I’m glad that Russian time are back though, it feels a bit wrong losing the reigning teams champion
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Old 9 Feb 2018, 08:03 (Ref:3799792)   #125
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I wonder if its in part due to a lack of suitable budgetted drivers?
Of course, I thought it was going to happen, and I think this are not only teams the will "bail out," scale down to one car later in the season, in seasons to come.

I think a lot of you had same feelings.
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