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Another interesting article

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/f1/let-them-eat-cake/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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This could be the most boring season ever :cry:

Everyone knew the top 2 and could have guessed positions 3-6 but Mclaren - last and last but one ? :shock: Five and six seconds off the pace.

That's woeful :cry:

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Didn't Button say they would be second fastest given time? Lack of mileage in testing seems the main issue.

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That seems a bit optimistic.

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Alonso might not be in too much of a rush to get back for the next couple of races, at least...

Always going to be a tough ask for a "new" engine supplier to hit the ground running in today's F1. And is the Manor-Marussia "return" just a charade to prevent them having to make two teams run a third car this season? Sauber might have been best placed to fill that quota :lol:

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Nothing will beat the boredom of 2013. At least Hamilton as some competition in Rosberg as oppose to Webber's diabolical challenge to Vettel :lol:

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Alonso's absence is no longer a mystery.....

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15 cars on the grid :shock:

Highlight was a sticking wheel nut.

My god I hope things pick up.

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Surely they got the tyres wrong if a one-stop strategy was possible?

Just hurry up and bring back refuelling so we don't have the stupid fuel conserving tactics. Also it's not a good sign that overtaking seems harder than in recent years even with DRS.

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errmmm... didn't know whether it belonged in FPL, so I came here

just found out this:
http://www.chelseafc.com/the-club/spons ... -team.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.sauberf1team.com/en/partner/ ... ball-club/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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MoSe wrote:errmmm... didn't know whether it belonged in FPL, so I came here

just found out this:
http://www.chelseafc.com/the-club/spons ... -team.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.sauberf1team.com/en/partner/ ... ball-club/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

comments?
This isn't new news actually as it is a relationship that goes back to 2012. Sauber had a phase in 2012/3 where they were clearly chasing money around Russia to try and keep running in the sport, including signing a Russian teenager with no obvious ability to a development contract.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... ber-826996" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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:oops: well, I watch (almost) every GP (since... well IIRC since Lauda & Regazzoni, and even before that, I have vague memories of watching Ignazio Giunti fatal accident)
and only noticed it now seeing a Nasr Sauber close up in a magazine with last GP pics

it must be that I wasn't into PL before this season, and could not recognise Chelsea logo at first glance, not before having played a few months FPL :mrgreen:

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Didn't mean to suggest you'd missed the story. It had largely been ignored by both footy and motorsports publications at the time as being fairly irrelevant and inexplicable to both sports.

Good knowledge re Giunti. I had to look that name up

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25 place penalties for both McLarens... there aren't even that many cars on the grid!

May as well just suspend the team for a race, surely?

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So far back on the Austrian GP grid they are actually sat on pole in Monaco

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And yet they've bothered to come out on track in Q1... may as well just stand around in the pit lane and eat ice-creams, Kimi style.

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forestfan wrote:And yet they've bothered to come out on track in Q1... may as well just stand around in the pit lane and eat ice-creams, Kimi style.
If they don't "use" all 25 places of penalties going back to the back then they get more time penalties in the race I think. Not sure exactly how it works but JB said he would have to pit for a 'stop & go' penalty early doors.

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Neither got past about lap 10 anyway... Jenson will be wishing he had switched to sportscars or something.

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Alonso was considering Sportscars for next year but then he heard Kimi wouldn't get a new Ferrari deal and might go to Sportscars so decided F1 was the safer option...

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He might even think IndyCars would be less dangerous after that...

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Fully expect to see Button and Alonso in sportscars within a couple of years.

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Mystery wrote:Fully expect to see Button and Alonso in sportscars within a couple of years.
I thought they were already driving TVR's, although TVR's are more reliable.

Let's hope the heavens open at Silverstone or else it's another snoozefest :?

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Mystery wrote:Fully expect to see Button and Alonso in sportscars within a couple of years.
Yeah, F1's a very young man's game these days. Once those two, Kimi and Massa go, Lewis will be about the oldest I think :shock:

Teenagers driving F1 cars just isn't right though. It should be too physically demanding for that to be possible, whatever their talent.

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Well they are doing something to prevent inexperienced and unsuccessful drivers joining F1. From next season there's an age limit and a points system under which drivers must demonstrate skill other than presenting a stuffed wallet.

It would have prevented Verstappen joining but would have also prevented Button and Raikkonen joining way back when as well.

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They should have to do at least one season in GP3 then at least one in GP2 to be eligible. Would boost the relevance of the so-called feeder series as well as the experience of the rookie F1 drivers.

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Sad news today but it's seemed inevitable over the last few months. A reminder that even in an era of remarkable safety improvements motor sport still is dangerous. RIP Jules

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Yes, given the fact he was back in the news this week, this was expected. RIP.

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Really depressing news. RIP.

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Yep very sad - RIP Jules

On a slightly positive note, he reportedly had a kind of "living will" with his family that he didn't want to be artificially kept alive with massive disabilities - seems like they honoured that and turned the machines off. Very brave decision (and imo the right one) but must have been so difficult for them.

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RIP Jules. At least the family has some closure now I suppose, rather than him potentially remaining in that condition for years.

F1 (or any other motorsport) will never be 100% safe, but this was a foreseeable and potentially avoidable sort of accident and hopefully the legacy will be that something like it isn't given the chance to happen again.

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