Grand Prix Rejects

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http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6171479

Finnish GP just outside of Helsinki and close to former circuit at Keimola.

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I just hope he makes a complete recovery!

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Should've been a Alonso-Webber pairing at Renault in 2005, 2006.

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San Francisco Street Circuit

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6159291 Look at the elevation change

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Sauber should go with van der Garde in the second seat. He was the most positive surprise for me in 2013 as I expected absolutely nothing from him but once he got up to speed I think he could outperform his teammate from time to time. And even though he is not maybe the driver that will set the worl...

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2. HWNSNBM vs 63. Joachim Winkelhock Well, Winkelhocks race pace in Formula One was 0 kph since he never drove in one so HWNSNBM wins by default. 31. Tarso Marques vs 34. Bobby Rahal Rahal is a far superior driver. 15. Shinji Nakano vs 79. Bruno Senna My feeling is that Senna would've have scored a...

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Double points should be for Monaco, Spa and Monza to encourage the designers to design a car that is good in a low downforce setting. The distance should be raised from 305 km to 500 km.

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What is Matton thinking?

So if this Malcolm guy is smart he provides cars to Hirvonen and Kubica next year.

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As I said on the previous page, this double-points rule also takes away consistency as a factor for the World Championship as well as devaluing all races before the season finale. Now I'll say, it's DISGUSTING to see such a rule come into place. They already ruined historical stats with the newer p...

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I like that a budget cap is now seriously a work in progress (it is to be implemented for the 2015 season) and I also kind of like the new driver numbers thing. However, the double points thing is taking things way too far and I think it won't happen. Every world championship round has been of equal...

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Great insight in this thread! So basically we could've had a result of 1. Herbert 2. Badoer 3. Trulli 4. Barrichello 5. R. Schumacher 6. Häkkinen which means that Irvine would've been champion and Minardi would've been 8th in the Constructors, ahead of Sauber, Arrows and BAR Talking about 1999 lets ...

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F1 awards Race of the year: Australian Grand Prix Most improved driver of the year: Romain Grosjean Most anonymous driver of the year: Paul di Resta Epic fail of the year: Quantum / Infinity Racing deal Drive of the year: Nico Rosberg at Monaco Other Driver of the year: Sébastien Ogier Deadbeat team...

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http://www.urheilulehti.fi/moottoriurhe ... iurheilija

Basically a Finnish sport publication ranks the best Finnish motorsportsmen in order!

I started thinking about Häkkinen, then Vettel.. so if Vettel only has won his championships because of Newey the same could be same about Mika. However, that is not the case for me, both are great drivers.

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Apparently the Sahara group has bought more shares in the Force India team and that brings some much needed liquid funds. Good for Hülkenberg to secure a seat, even though it was more or less obvious he would be on the grid. At the end of the day, the Force India car, with McLaren technology and Mer...

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1. Australian GP @ Albert Park 2. Malaysian GP @ Sepang International Circuit 3. Chinese GP @ Shanghai International Circuit 4. Turkish GP @ Istanbul Park 5. Spanish GP @ Motorland Aragón 6. Monaco GP @ Circuit de Monaco 7. Canadian GP @ Circuit Gilles Villeneuve 8. Austrian GP @ Red Bull Ring 9. Br...

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Joe Saward just wrote a great piece about budget caps in Formula One. I fully agree with everything in that post!

With that said I don't recommend starting the budget cap too low but gently working the cap down as the years go on.

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- I found it incredibly difficult to qualify well at Monaco and Silverstone; even if I'd followed the technical director to the letter, my cars would always be around the back. I don't know about Silverstone but at Monaco the quickest lap in quail or practice was the outlap (!) and since the pits g...

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Benetton's Predictions 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix 1. Webber 2. Vettel 3. Massa 4. Grosjean 5. Rosberg 6. Hulkenberg 7. Alonso 8. Hamilton 9. Kovalainen 10. Bottas Pole: Webber Fastest Lap: Bottas First Retirement: di Resta ROTR: Maldonado for crashing with Sutil, again! IIDOTR: Bottas DBTMOTR: Maldon...

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Another what for the WRC: Having just seen Top 10 out of control I ask what if Francois Duval accepted the multi-year deal with Ford he was offered rather than accepting the single year at Citroen? In 2005 the Focus was becoming outdated (it was the 2004) compared to the Xsara and a case can be mad...

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I played this a lot a couple of years back but never advanced past the 2001 season because of the "lack of realism". Most annoying was the massive spread in lap times and that there was no rain! Instead of using data on the completely irrelevant "video game graphics" they should'...

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This is what I want to happen:

Vettel is 1st and Webber is 2nd and then Vettel has a "problem" at one of his pit stops and gifts the win to Mark. I think it would go a long way in repairing some damage done to Vettel's popularity.

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As a current student of financial economics I feel obligated to nominate... Lotus' Financials Not managing to secure decent sponsors (not an excuse btw), or at least not enough sponsors in correlation to their spending. BlackBerry was available, but it went to Mercedes. Lotus has clearly overspent t...

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Surprised there was no thread made yet so couldn't post this piece of news elsewhere: m Edit) Okay I kind-of-see-the-point now since Heikki has run in many P1 sessions (thought it was just a few here and there). However, the car is still unfamiliar and Valsecchi has at least some simulator experienc...

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Absolutely thrilled to see Magnussen get the McLaren seat! Three Scandinavian/North Europe drivers next year! Niceness. I was absolutely sure that Magnussen was going to McLaren at some point in his career but this came out of the blue; a nice surprise though. I am a Sergio Perez supporter but if it...

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Red Bull Racing-Renault 1. Sebastian Vettel 2. Daniel Ricciardo Mercedes 3. Lewis Hamilton 4. Nico Rosberg Ferrari 5. Fernando Alonso 6. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 7. Romain Grosjean 8. Nico Hulkenberg McLaren-Mercedes 9. Jenson Button 10. Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 11. Paul di Resta 12. A...

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What I don't understand is why Ferrari doesn't opt for a Alonso-Bianchi lineup for 2014.

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Good article. However, no chance that they put da Costa straight into the RBR seat.

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1. Jean-Eric Vergne - Very strong weekend all round.

2. Paul di Resta - Good tyre management and race craft.

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Lotus - So from being the closest challengers to RBR at the beginning of the season they now look a quite clear 4th best with maybe even Force India challenging them in the next races!

Adrian Sutil - Can't string together a clean race since Australia.

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1. Romain Grosjean 2. Sergio Perez. I side with Raikkonen on this one. Raikkonen was entitled to coast (drift) to the left, defending. What Perez does is a banzai lunge from way too far when the gap was already disappearing and he would never have turned in successfully from that radius anyway. Pere...

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1. Adrian Sutil

2. Jean-Eric Vergne

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2013 Monaco Grand Prix

1. Räikkönen
2. Alonso
3. Webber
4. Massa
5. Sutil
6. Vettel
7. Rosberg
8. Grosjean
9. di Resta
10. Hamilton

Pole: Rosberg
Fastest Lap: Massa
First Retirement: Maldonado
ROTR: Maldonado
IIDOTR: Sutil
DBTMOTR: Gutierrez
MLP: Bottas
DNQ: None

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Pirelli changing the construction of the compounds is just wrong. The Lotus is designed with THESE tires in mind! You can't change the rules in the middle of the season just because they make 4 pit stops! bathplug all who have complained about the tires! Red Bullshit!

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This is really good news for the sport! Hopefully Lotus switch to Honda as well. Then we'll have McLaren-Honda and Lotus-Honda

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1. Henri Toivonen - We Finns rate him highly. We perceive him as one of the greatest driving talents of all time. He is our Senna.

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Jocke you forgot this

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Your country: Finland First Hungarian GP you watched: 2001 What were your feelings when finding out that Hungary is/will be part of the Formula One calendar: To be frank, the Hungaroring is in my bottom five circuits on the calendar as I feel the tracks doesn't bring anything special to the calendar...

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1. Jenson Button

2. Mark Webber

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