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I really hope that doesn't happen. There was criticism from the outset about this and now F1's got enough headaches to deal with.
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Great race by the Lotus guys, I think many (including me) thought they'd bring up the rear here at a high speed circuit without the usual backmarkers present, but instead I kept seeing them fighting with McLarens and Ferraris. It was all very tight for the minor points positions today.
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That race turned out pretty decent to watch. Few guys were
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It's very possible that Hamilton asked for it and Rosberg didn't and that it didn't affect his car.
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It was said during the race that Hamilton requested this, specifically two clicks on the front wing.
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That race will probably mean the end of button in F1 a few flashes but overall a woeful performance
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I wouldn't go as far as to call it woeful. His battle with Alonso was much better than Magnussen's. I wasn't impressed by Kevin's defence. He just moved to the inside before Turn 1 and got himself a bad exit, immediately getting overtaken, whereas Jenson resisted Fernando for much longer.
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It was a weird performance from Button really. The last lap where he let Grosjean through (in an absolutely buggered Lotus let's not forget) in his desperation to let the leader through was weird and can't have impressed Ron Dennis particularly, even if it was ineffectual in terms of points. All weekend he seemed creepily happy, like a man who has accepted he won't have a McLaren seat next year and has, perhaps, got a belting sports car option on the table. His performances have been pretty good this year, but not really consistently good enough. He'll never recapture that 2011 form, which was possibly much helped by a pressure free situation anyways (Vettel unbeatable, Hamilton busy pumping lead into both feet), and has been on a bit of a drift ever since in terms of maintaining a high level. I will be sad to see him go, but the time is surely right. |
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he was on it, in the same way jev was when he made up all those places in a couple of laps at the end of a race. i wish he was a little more controlled in his lunacy, but i guess that's just something that's going to take a long time to do. fair play, pastor. i think it's a bit rubbish that grosjean could run wide on so many corners towards the end to keep his pace competitive and not get a kicking rather than slow down to stay inside track limits. if it was proper grass and not tarmac offline he'd not have been able to do that... |
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I've said it before, but I really don't see the point in posting to (effectively) criticise something you didn't watch.......I mean, I hated "The Apprentice" this week - didn't watch it of course, as I hated it.......difference is I don't post about it There were in fact plenty of battles in this race - in fact we almost missed Hamilton's pass on Rosberg as we were busy following another scrap - director just cut back to Turn 1 in time. |
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Grosjean went a bit mental after JEV ploughed through as if he'd shot his bolt and then went completely to pieces, albeit with a car that apparently wasn't steering properly!!
That was JEV's second highly convincing display of controlled and attacking driving, and you have to say if you take tyres and strategies out of the equation, has absolutely hammered Kyvat in the last few races on balance? T'is true despite the lack of runners (even more so after Checo's naivety on lap 1) there were some stonking scraps. I think Perez had a decent idea but totally failed to realise at the point he would need to get round the inside of that sharp left hander on the inside, he would inevitably meet another car coming across from the right on it's normal line. Cerrasshhhhhhhhh!! Reminded me of a few of those end of season Interlagos races over the last few years where everyone's just decided to go balls out and have a laugh! |
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He did keep his head after wards as well and I think that despatching Romain and Jense is successive laps was pretty ace. One of those periods when a driver clearly decided it's now or never! I do wonder sometimes why some pedallers all of a sudden take on a totally different in car attitude!! |
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Exactly. I was under the impression that the driver and team discussed changes before they take place rather than it just simply happening without input from the driver. Whether it's the driver asking for the change or the team looking at data and thinking the change would help, either way I expect that both ends discuss it first.
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The older engines had a shrill edge, top-loaded with (painful!) high frequencies aswell as a guttural bottom end which made your trousers & bones shake. The newer engines are turning more of that wasted energy into motive power - the amount of energy needed to get a sound at (say) 15KHz to still be painful a couple of hundred yards away is *immense*. Personally, I still like the new sound. I fully appreciate that makes me a bit bonkers, however. |
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