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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 10/7/2018 5:04:00 PM   
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Come on Lewis - almost there!

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 10/22/2018 5:22:13 AM   
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Great drives from Kimi, Max and Lewis. Mercedes made a huge mistake not bringing Lewis in when he had a 17 second lead and Pirelli had said the tyres would not go to the end. But it made for great entertainment - I was out of my seat, and with my heart in my mouth when Lewis attempted to overtake Max! Lewis showed great maturity not to risk a collision and to instead think of the bigger picture.

So the title race moves on to Mexico.... Lewis 70 ahead and just 75 left to play for.

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 10/22/2018 2:39:22 PM   
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Vettel turned into his own worst enemy this season.

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 10/22/2018 6:06:06 PM   
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A great big Ditto on that! The first corner looks like it's straight up.

Vettel turned into his own worst enemy this season.


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Vettel blew the last 3 races in the first lap. 3 first laps, 3 collisions. Lots of points lost.

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 10/29/2018 5:48:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		Lewis Hamilton equals the great JM Fangio on 5 World Driver Championship wins. So pleased for Lewis. It's been a great season. No one can say he's had the best car over the season (close with Ferrari and on at least two occasions the Red Bull has been out of sight), but his drives have made the difference. Not a mistake worthy of the name, some stunning qualifying laps (which really made the difference on race day) and some superb race craft and really mature driving. Top man, top driver!!!!




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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 11/25/2018 6:37:06 PM   
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Many have commented that this was his best season to date. I think they are right.

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 11/27/2018 12:39:43 PM   
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Farewell to Alonso and Raikonnen!

Lots of driver changes for the next season. Will LeClerc be the Ferrari challenger that Vettel wasn't?

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 11/27/2018 5:33:38 PM   
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Lewis scored more points than any driver in history along with setting several other records. Truly phenomenal!

Farewell to Alonso and Raikonnen!

Lots of driver changes for the next season. Will LeClerc be the Ferrari challenger that Vettel wasn't?
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Interesting. My money is on Alonso being back next year - 2021 at the latest. And don't write Vettel off just yet.. he's had a really bad year but he had one of those in 2014 and came back strongly.

That said, I can't wait to see Vettel vs Leclerc next year. Hulkenburg vs Ricciardo will be worth watching too.


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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 11/27/2018 7:05:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		To clarify, Lewis scored more points in one season than anyone else. I think it was 402.

Yeah, I hope that Renault gives Danny Ric and Hulk a car that can compete.

Meanwhile, this just in:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/fernando-alonso-apos-very-impressed-162617123.html

Maybe Jimmie should call Haas?

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 1/15/2019 6:44:10 PM   
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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 1/16/2019 1:47:48 PM   
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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 1/30/2019 5:06:44 PM   
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Autocourse 2018/19 should arrive by the weekend - hussah. I hear the top 10 in controversial.... we shall see...
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Mmmmm, less controversial and more...well.... dumb. Fernando, great driver though he is, was not the second best driver last year. Sorry, that's just silly.


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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 1/31/2019 12:19:34 AM   
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https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.why-ferrari-rolled-the-dice-and-removed-arrivabene.4uF715OrLaGMwcMIkUQcKi.html


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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 2/16/2019 3:40:03 PM   
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This looks like it may have been shown previously on Netflix but I've never heard of it until now....

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 2/18/2019 3:19:09 PM   
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https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.testing-day-1-vettel-spins-ferrari-in-opening-stages.2VQrQT7HuV229qrOT4y4ZW.html

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 2/21/2019 3:06:32 AM   
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Status: offline 		Everyone seems relaxed about the Mercedes in testing. I know this is testing and we don't know what teams are running what programs, what fuel loads etc, but all the same the Ferrari engined cars seem strong and I still think that Red Bull are going to be contenders this year - making McLaren's early bale-out from Honda look even more the wrong decision....



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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 2/21/2019 4:00:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Mercedes advantage is a gearing issue in the first 3 gears. somehow they get a little more power in those gears than anyone else I saw last year. This gives a Grand Prix driver a heck of an advantage. If the other guys are figuring this out (and I'm sure they are, they have to be seeing what I was seeing and there are some SMART people there), it should get a lot more competitive soon. But this little trick must be a bear to get right. We are talking microns here.

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 2/28/2019 6:32:27 PM   
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There is a documentary on the Williams Team tonight - almost 2-hours long so I am really hopeful that this will prove worth watching.

This looks like it may have been shown previously on Netflix but I've never heard of it until now....
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And it certainly was. Thoroughly recommended as you don't need to be an F1 fan to get something out of this incredible story of not only Frank Williams but his late wife too.


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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 2/28/2019 6:33:21 PM   
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Everyone seems relaxed about the Mercedes in testing. I know this is testing and we don't know what teams are running what programs, what fuel loads etc, but all the same the Ferrari engined cars seem strong and I still think that Red Bull are going to be contenders this year - making McLaren's early bale-out from Honda look even more the wrong decision....


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Damn it looks like I was right. Mercedes are in trouble this season.....


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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 3/2/2019 8:25:45 PM   
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https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.f1-pre-season-testing-vettel-and-hamilton-split-by-0-003s-on-final-day.4CGAAAwnxvxtPET5I0ZT7W.html


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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 3/3/2019 6:02:58 AM   
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Perhaps Mercedes read your post. Sepp's lead is down to 3 milliseconds.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.f1-pre-season-testing-vettel-and-hamilton-split-by-0-003s-on-final-day.4CGAAAwnxvxtPET5I0ZT7W.html

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Yes but as you know, that gap means nothing. Ferrari were not running at the time so different conditions applied and moreover, we don't know engine modes or fuel at the time.

The analysis done so far by the experts over the course of the 8-days of testing (and this is caveated for the same reasons as above) are that Ferrari are about half a second up on race pace....


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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 3/3/2019 2:37:43 PM   
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Can Ferrari go an entire race? The car definitely has some issues. We'll know in 2 weeks. Chin up!

RIP Charlie Whiting.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.fia-f1-race-director-charlie-whiting-passes-away.3Su01LCNwgrPic2Ex8FBQP.html

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 3/17/2019 7:48:17 AM   
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2. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes + 20,886
3. Max Verstappen Red Bull + 22,520
4. Sebastian Vettel Ferrari + 57,109
5. Charles Leclerc Ferrari + 58,230
6. Kevin Magnussen Haas + 87,156
7. Nico Hülkenberg Renault + 1
8. Kimi Räikkönen Alfa R. + 1
9. Lance Stroll Racing P + 1
10. Daniil Kvjat Toro R. + 1

Well well, a dominant Merc weekend as expected, but with a suprise winner. Well done Bottas after such a difficult last season, dominated the race with a fastest lap there as well.

Another suprise with Honda powered Red Bulls, seems they've got the upper hand on Ferraris.

Edit: and of course well dome Kimi, the Iceman is still around, despite the global warming and all, no sign of melting there!

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 3/17/2019 4:17:15 PM   
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Once again, tough luck for Danny Ric. Good sign for Kvyat.

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 3/17/2019 10:07:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		A great race from Bottas. Lewis' race appears to have been compromised by the broken undertray - but this happened after Valtieri had passed him at the start.

Three battles I've really looked forward to over the winter:

The Hulk vs Dany Ric
It is I Leclerc vs Vettel
Nandos vs Sainz

Kvyat vs Albon and
Perez vs Stroll are also potentially interesting matches.

A great many questions will be asked about our 'accepted understanding' of the order of things if Leclerc beats Seb and The Hulk beats Riciardo.....

Just a word on Red Bull. Sorry but in my opinion there is no surprise here. Verstappen is a multiple WDC of the future, Adrian Newey is a genius, and all the signs last year were that Honda was starting to get its act together (McLaren what were you thinking???). Take those three things together and you have a mix that says Verstappen will win races this season without doubt.

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 3/23/2019 4:09:37 PM   
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https://www.popsci.com/f1-racing-steering-wheel-complicated

“If I look at a qualifying lap from last year, they are making something like 50 gearshifts over the course of a qualifying lap, they are steering through 17 corners, they are making seven or eight changes of rotary switches over the course of the lap and of course they are feeding back the information they are seeing on the dash to us as well,” said Short.



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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 3/30/2019 11:54:39 PM   
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But well done to Leclerc - he is going to be something special, that seems certain.

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 4/14/2019 6:32:58 PM   
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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 4/14/2019 11:01:27 PM   
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Well done to Lewis and Mercedes. Three 1-2's and 2 poles out of 3. That is mightily impressive - and unexpected - after the pre-season tests.


Agreed, but not so well done to Ferrari management. Leclerc should have been given his chance.

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RE: New Grand Prix Season Is Almost Upon Us!!! - 4/27/2019 4:34:10 AM   
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