tbh I think the question was very interesting. In short "do you think you have too many buttons, and do you think it affects your driving?", just said badly.
Anyway, I can't imagine rosberg did not even smile. Moreover, he was biting his fingers throughout the press conference. Seems like a lot of pressure there .
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F1 regarding this race, here is a good one by Jackie stewart:
"there s another driver with an umbrella driving around the circuit" :D :D :D epic
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F1 marcl schrieb:
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> Tbh it was the same last year, towards the end of
> the year they all seem to get bored or just tired.
I see your point Marc, and indeed after a 20 race season it makes sense that the staff get tired.
In my view, though, those guys (the SKY staff) are paid good money, to travel around the world, drive the co
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> Despite reporting on the rumours Sky are doing
> @#$%& all and just chatting among themselves in
> the paddock. They've even interviewed Rob Smedley
> after that report and didn't ask him anything
> about it. Sky's pre-show is as bad as the BBC's
> at the moment (Ted Kravitz e
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nico seems to have a sweet spot for Hamilton's rear tyres :p
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F1 marcl Wrote:
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> Tbh I put nico in the same league as dc, Rubéns,
> Webber etc.
>
> A great number two that on their day no one can
> stop them but they just lack that extra bit to
> make them be able to beat their better team mate.
>
> I was impressed with Nico in some races but on
> paper he really has
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F1 It is great to see Sauber signing 2 good drivers. In all honesty their lack of points this season has primarily been due to bad drivers. Guttierrez was pathetic last year, scorin only in 1 race a total of 6 points or something for the whole seaason.
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F1 On another note: Ted Kravitz made a really good point in his notebook last time around. This is why I love the guy - always has an interesting perspective about things.
In this case he said that since the ban of driver coaching rosberg has had zero wins. Hmmm.... if you combine that with rosberg's words after the US Gp "it took me too long to find the right way to drive the car"
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F1 On another note, let's talk about ted kravitz.
I used to love the guy and his job output (interviews , insights etc). However, I am increasingly getting annoyed at ho he is trying to ALWAYS provoke conflicts. I may be wrong but I am having the impression that Ted is increasingly trying to put words into peoples' mouth.
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> it seems no one in the Sky pundits team remember
> that Brawn GP had Merc engines. Brundle said in
> his Mercedes GP history piece in the pre-quali
> show "the Honda powered Brawn...", and Johnny
> Herbert said a few races back that JB knew how
> good Honda were as he used a Honda engine to
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F1 adelaide had a fantastic layout to its longest straight - a 3th gear corner. No wonder no passes happened onthe start/finish straigt. after all it had a 90degree corner leading to it , which made overtaking there virutally impossible.
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F1 I dislike the fact that all corners to te straights are 90 degrees right/ left handers. It makes the straight as useless as rosberg's square tyres.
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F1 as much as i feel sorry for jules, I would like to bring the topic back to the race.
hamilton make two fundemantal errors today, one at spoon and one into T1, yet lost a total of around 1 sec. This is why I do not like the new run off areas. Hamilton made unforced errors, but there was not an infrastructure on the track to ensure an appropriate penalty.
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F1 Morbid schrieb:
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> mitadumapaga Wrote:
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> > actually red bull pointed the finger at Mark
> > Webber. This pretty much tells you that there
> was
> > a favoured driver in the team. Mercedes did
> > exactly the same with nico, namely, point
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F1 gav schrieb:
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> Vettel didn't get this much stick for crashing
> into Webber.
actually red bull pointed the finger at Mark Webber. This pretty much tells you that there was a favoured driver in the team. Mercedes did exactly the same with nico, namely, point the finger straight after the race, withouth team meetings, without review, nothing, just as RBR did it back in 20
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F1 or button for crashing into alonso in canada 2011...actually i remember BBC comentators saying it would be unfair to take j.b.'s win away for that. and rather than booing he got cheers. i think it is basically that since there is not a huge f1 interest in US, the one remaining english speaking media to controll the public opinion is the british. and when you have a brit vs. a german for the
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F1 i know that there are many other drivers and interesting topics around f1, but since no one else starts them, i will keep going on with the one that is most interesting for me.
"there is much worse than that that can happen".................well it did.
rosebrg has always been disliked. i can remember how no one even assumed that NOT schumacher was a complete turtle on the tra
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F1 i talked to a friend (who is also kinda pro-rosberg for the title) and we discussed how probably hamilton will walk over because he is simply the faster driver and in a calm place now. And my friend added that also the only people cheering for rosberg are me, my friend, and rosberg's girlfirend :DDD
although exaggerated, this statement kinda feels pretty close to reality. on saturday the
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F1 btw. Rsoberg's retirements this season have all been so agonizing, that I thought itwould be awesome to have a youtube clip which shows highlights of them. I mean, in silvestone the guy was driving for minutes before turning the engine off. He even parked aside and tried to get repushed. This scene is so stucked in my memory - the unmovable mercedes in the field, with low reving engine and t
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F1 OMG. and all this for a mere 1 point. guy has balls, no doubt about that.
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> > rosberg will be stunned if he finds out that he
> caused the problem himself.
>
>
> That's not what he meant. They changed some
> things on the wheel (likely just display options
> and a couple of button remaps). What he's
> referring to is whether the wires connecting it
&g
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F1 very interesting:
Q: Could the cause be the team radio regulation changes, as they also meant changes to the dashboard?
NR: I indeed made changes to my dashboard but I doubt that this is the reason - but then who knows.
rosberg will be stunned if he finds out that he caused the problem himself.
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F1 i think it was an impressive drive by hamilton. he pulled a gap when he needed to and he passed vettel fair & square.
i would kill to see how he would have coped with the situation had he rejoined behind ricciardo, though, even better, behind alonso.
Now I believe, it is all fair between nico and lewis in terms of reliability problems. from now on it will be head2head and the pressure
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F1 thank you Morbid.I told her that and she said: " why do we assume that what gets orchestrated is always set up by the suffering party (the team that bears the consequences)?".
Indeed, cars get into par ferme and anything can be done on them by fia bodies whatsoever.
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F1 my girlfriend told me that she thought what happened to rosberg was part of the show. she believes that since it is all media stuff, things like that get orchestrated. Actually, she believes that rosberg's car was set up to break at some point during the race - to induce more drama - but they just did not set up the breakage of the car properly.
Now as much as i do not believe this, I cou
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F1 i saw that it was raining post qualy at the track.wonder if that would eliminate the advantage the drivers in p1 p3 p5 etc have from being on the "clean" line
also, does anyone know on what tyres will nico and lewis start ? i mean,lewis must have the less used set, right? after all nico did 2 runs in q2
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F1 how about grosjean's team radio ))
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F1 the weather forecast for singpore is ... STORMS!!
and while it sounds like just what might spice up the action, I remember that for the past what? 2, 3 ,4 years the FIA website always comes up with such a forecast but the race ends up being bone dry.
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F1 hey Marc,
I agree with you. Indeed ham was faster in those races' free practices etc, but so was rosberg in spain and bahrain.
My point here is not to establish causality of events, but rather only correlation. Correlation between tyre compound and raceresult. And it is a fact that there is an established pattern of race results depending on the tyre brought to a race.
I still thin
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F1 for those of you who bet on formula 1, here is an interesting statistic which I created myself.
The statistic brings together the tyre compound brought by pirelli to a certain track, and the performance of Rosberg vs. Hamilton on that particular track. Here are a few findings:
If pirelli brings MEDIUM & HARD compunds to a race we have so far:
1. Malaysia: Hamilton destroyed Rosberg
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