Grand Prix Rejects

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To my knowledge, it was simply a brake on the inside wheel of a chosen side. So if a track had several low speed left hand turns (interlagos) then the left hand side was chosen.

On Montreal it would've been the RHS wheel.

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This is going nowhere. Unless they are serious in which case alcohol should be banned in pubs just like smoking is. Smoking is highly addictive and racks up huge medical expenses, alcohol is a mere nuisance in comparison. Should IT sponsors be banned too because of RSI and eye related problems? I k...

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Macau looks shitty from sattelite pics. But is an excellent circuit. Although you couldn't race f1 on it.

You really can't take much from sattelite photos or top down images really. The fact its a street circuit should be cause for alarm though, we haven't had a good street circuit since Adelaide.

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Wet tyres i know ragging on pirelli or tyres in general is so last year, but I have to wonder what's the point of the modern formula and wet tyres if they can't function at all in standing water, and when its safe to go, the tyres are already bested by their intermediate counterparts. Runner up wou...

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I can still hear the echo of dee are ess in his nasal Scottish accent.

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I liked it when Martin Brundle and DC were commentating together on the BBC, it felt like having two ex racers with good personalities in your living room. Having a nice jovial chat about their wonder years, and occasionaly talking about the race going on. They felt more relaxed and actually talked ...

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So yeah. I smell a fair bit of lewisteria here. The guys a douche, doesn't deserve a winning car, and in my humble opinion doesn't belong in F1 because his behaviour is unbecoming of a World Champion-level driver. You don't get anywhere in life without being selfish in some capacity. I don't know, ...

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Admire or ridicule her efforts in previous racing series, or the route in which she got into f1. We should admire the fact that her contributions (and Maria de Vilotta) have opened up the forum of discussion as to whether females can be f1 drivers at all. Over the years I've watched f1, there's been...

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Why not just turn up in 2015 with a 2002 arrows chassis and collect 12/13th place on the grid and a bit of sponsorship money.

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I've just had a thought: With Aba Dabby being double points and all, what happens if Hamilton is leading the championship by somewhere between 26 and 50 points heading into Aba Dabby, only to end up losing the WDC to Rosberg? The whole world will need earplugs to protect themselves from the colossa...

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About the topic, I fear that, for me, to achieve classic status the track must throw some memorable races and to be fair the Spanish GP has not been doing this that often... If we think about it and compare it with some more recent tracks, the Malaysian GP is in my mind, I can think of some classic...

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Only the regulations make them rev that high. If it wasn't for the limited fuel flow below 10500RPM, these engines would probably rev lower. In the 80's, the turbo's revved to 12K due to the 2.5Bar pressure limit. Limiting the MEP inside the cylinder. Nowadays, with the 3.5 Bar/fuel flow limit, you ...

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Probably lower pitched due to it having less power strokes per revolution.

As for actual RPM, depends on the bore:stroke ratio. But i'd say its more likely to be lower than the current v6's.

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Isn't Slav a derogatory term for Eastern European.

It certainly is in Australia.

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If Kobayashi won the WDC as a result of Double points. Id be stoked.

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Well, he's more honest that he has been in the past. I don't buy the whole 'respect for team decisions' thing. Just consider amount of times he's pushed the car at late stages just to beef up his tally of fastest laps. I can see why it's not in his interest to help Mark. There's been a mexican stand...

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Yeah, but that was only a michelin problem.

Tyres would be a unique compound specifically for the race i guess.

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Im wonder if f1 could host the annual indy 500 race as a non championship race. Offer 3 cars per team (the third driver can be completely optional, ie From US/Nascar/Indy), totalling 33. No Championship points Cash prizes awarded Waaaay more US coverage then say the US GP. I can't imagine f1 cars st...

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Like all conspiracy theories regarding favoritism. People forget one important thing. F1 is a business first, then a sport. Business has little room for sentiment, especially when theres money at stake. Mercedes may 'hate' Micheal, Martin Whitmarsh might 'hate' Hamilton, but why would they deliberat...

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Then there's Juan Pablo Montoya.

You could call him hyper aggressive, but then you'd have to call your current list of hyper aggressive drivers, something else.

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"Not bad for a number 2 airliner"

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Look on the bright side: at least we lose one dreary circuit. Compared to Catalunya, Valencia might be the greater of two evils, but I still genuinely believe that with a few minor modifications, it would be a great circuit. Like raising the bridge so that all the cars DNF on the first lap? Does th...

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Because Red Bull is almost a carbon copy of what Ferrari used to be in the Schumacher era, except that the team is leaning over to Vettel even more than Ferrari did to Michael. The car, and the team is entirely built around him, and he is the utmost priority in that team right now. I might have exa...

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S951 wrote:bar this one any other races come to mind that are mind numbingly boring? I couldnt even get excited by the pistops bringing things closer together

I really didn't fine catalunya interesting. Hungary is going to disappoint.

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At the latest by the middle of 2012, the effect of the new rules will have been neutralised. We haven't even seen the 2012 regulations, or the DRS zones, or witnessed any potential changes to the tyre construction. These types of cynicism in f1 is unwarranted. DRS was made out to be the devil, by e...

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I actually don't think he will, I think unlike in 2002, the competition is too close. The championship is over though - due to the change in the points system from 2009 - Button still had it all to do at this stage in 2009 becuase it was only a 2 point differential between 1st and 2nd, now it's 7 p...

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Im surprised anybody at all is satisfied with the present engine formula. They're basically a quick fix to the ever increasing power of the v10's. The engine freeze just makes competitive racing even more bland, given that you can basically ensure each car is within 0.3 secs of each other from engin...

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Most i enjoyed have been mentioned.

Schumachers valiant drive in Brazil 2006 (his last race, for ferrari, for now), after the puncture and so on. Every overtaking move by him in that race was worthy of a punch in the air.

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I think we're overlooking the major problem in f1 here. Which is, its hard to overtake, period.

A few self modifying wings wont prevent that from changing that dramatically at the end of the day.

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3rd) STR- Just a mediocre performance in such a developed unit. Its effectively a Red Bull advertising slogan that catches glimpses of air time every time one of its drivers ploughs into the barriers. Furthermore, the logo is too close to RBR, causing my heart to jump whenever they inevitably crash....

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Why does the delicious new Portimao circuit (algarve) in Portugal receive very little attention as a future f1 race.

Surely they 250M euro's spent aren't going to be wasted on racing series such as the mere WSBK and GT1 championships, surely.

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Vettel has to be ROTR not just for the incidents he caused. On every occasion when he looked like nabbing a couple of points he came up with a new incident which tossed him down the field again. Did any one else burn out a set of wets and have to pit again? So Vettel for playing Snakes and Ladders ...

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1) Probably not, no idea really. There's been no obvious team orders, parts seem to come two a piece, so i dont see it. All depends who has a better salary i guess. 2) Sure, why not, but i really cant see how, unless we have one part to share between two drivers. We dont have 09 style qualifying any...

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This isn't just because I'm a Button fan, it's because Vettel is lauded as this future champion... if he can't win it in the best car, what hope has he got when a Hamilton, Alonso or Button gets their hands on one (well we know what happens when Button gets one from last year)? These are the real t...

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http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news ... 9b085a1dc2

Anthony Davidson Hit a ground hog in 2007 at the Canadian GP.

Suck as the SA car was in 3rd at the time.

IIRC that was the race Sato overtook Alonso as well.

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http://newsonf1.net/2005/news/12/dec21fia.htm

They didnt just drop CDG wings, they dropped pretty much everything from those proposed 2008 regulations.

Sorta wish they did have 550kg f1 cars. But i imagine it would make them even faster in cornering and braking.

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Finally... I thought we settled this "wings should never flex" debate years ago? I really hope the new tests bring the performance of the Redbull and Ferrari back down to the McLaren. We have the best WDC fight since 1986 going on right now, and leave it to the same old nonsense to f*ck i...

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Jacques Villeneuve

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My RoTR goes to Ferrari and my local F1 broadcaster. Ferrari for obvious reasons and my local F1 broadcaster for tape delaying the race onto a major network to get 5 more F1 fans, right around the time I was supposed to go to a friend's world cup party. EDIT: TO be fair, they do this every year and...

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The f1 Media. When the race comes to Britain, the quality of the Journalism has to compete with the local offerings. Vettel - an unnecessary and violent chop on Webber, which if he hadn't have done, he wouldn't have got his puncture, slow on his new set of tyres and didn't really come alive until he...

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