Aaron
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oooooooooo...tomorrow could be a good one. If Webber gets a traditional shite start then it'll be another Vettel borefest, however, if Webber can stay in front*, i'm looking forward to seeing it team orders come into play...and to see if Webber tells them to fuck off
*lets not kid ourselves though....Vettel will no doubt be in front by the time lap two comes around.
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Vettel without KERS during Q3, so lost about half second of true speed. Be under no illusion, Vettel will walk it if they can fix KERS.
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Kyle T
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I thought that they fixed it on his final run?
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JonnyJ
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Originally posted by Kyle T
I thought that they fixed it on his final run?
Nope, Horner confirmed after that he had no KERS for either run, you could kind of tell by the way he was ragging the living daylights out of it  dont see Vettel ever on the edge that often.
Pretty soul destroying for the rest of the field that even without KERS, him and that car are still faster than anything else that isnt a RB.
3rd is the best anyone can hope for at the moment (in quali), unless Webber has an off day, so happy Lewis could stick it there. I still expect Merc to drop in the race, cant see them holding back the ever improving Grosjean, give that boy a decent car and he could well be a title contender one season, very impressed with him. Again, hopefully they'll beat the Ferrari's and Lewis can finish ahead of Alonso/Raikonnen.
I bet Ferrari are looking at Alonso and Raikonnen's quali efforts recently and thinking "oh bollocks", each comfortably slower than their team mates. Its all well and good that they can make it up in the race but it makes getting race wins nigh on impossible if you cant qualify higher than 6th/7th.
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Can only see Webber having the usual poor start and Vet doing him like he does most drivers if he's on second but I guess at least Webber isn't 'I'll fuck it up somehow, Rosberg'
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Aaron
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Lets hope Webber and Ze German have a "coming together" on the first corner 
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Cavey
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I'll probably be up with the littlun at 730ish, so may as well get up a bit earlier and watch the first 10 laps or so
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Who's the Scottish bird? Kinda fit!
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Rob_Quads
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It does go to show just how good the RB is at the moment that webber can beat the field by a margin and Vettel can still beat them without Kers. With Kers it would have been another walk in the park.
I think Hamilton knows they are going to struggle with the tyres so can only see him going back.
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Kyle T
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quote:
Originally posted by fred7
Kyle u heard anything about brawn to mclaren/honda for 2014? Read it on twitter lastnite
McLaren have lured Redbulls Aero chief. Impressive catch by McLaren to be fair!
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/110552
It must be tedious being in Prodromou's position, four years of getting no recognition because of the mainstream spewing of "Newey's genius" in the media etc.
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Ben G
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Christian horner wouldn't confirm nor deny that when asked by ted before quali.
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Kyle T
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He's contracted until 2015, iirc Horner was being questioned on whether or not he'd let him go early.
Prodromou handed his notice in earlier in the season, so his departure is confirmed... Just no clarification on his destination yet.
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Kyle T
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Infact, Skysports news says he IS confirmed at McLaren
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Tiger
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Anyone else up early to watch it?
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Aaron
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yup. Missed the start though, but they're just played some re-runs
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Kyle T
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Yep I'm up. Mercedes 
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Cavey
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Got up for lap 18 and the reason I wanted to watch is already out 
Nice little battle between 5 of 6 of them now though
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Aaron
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I think the race at the front is going to come alive in the final 10 or 15 laptops.
Shitty tyres
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Aaron
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Race on now. I hope Vettel isn't taken out by the French 
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Aaron
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Webber on softs for the last 10 laps. 1st probably isnt possible, but 2nd is.
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Kyle T
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Nice to see some strategy at the front, but 5 in a row is just greedy. Come on Seb
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Kyle T
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I think Hamilton was relying/hoping on Championship mentality from Vettel, hoping he'd bail out once his mirrors/peripheral vision was full of silver.
Shame it didn't work out, as Rosberg had reasonable pace after his penalty etc.
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Rob_Quads
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I don't think it was that. He was in the gap and then webber did a dummy move across him. He had 2 options a) Hope it was a dummy move and if it wasn't he would have been wiped out or b) Hope you have enough over vettel behind you and move over slightly
Looking at the in-car I would have flinched like he did.
Today just underlined just how far the RB car is head of the rest.
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JonnyJ
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Lotus are going to nab 2nd in the constructors, well, they will if Kimi can get his head out of his arse and put the car where it can be in quali, Grosjean is proper showing him up at the moment. Lotus have enough quali speed and race pace to be sticking it at least 3rd/4th if not 2nd/3rd most races.
Im with Rob as well regarding Lewis/Vettel, Webber flicked it slightly right when he noticed Lewis was coming past him, that made Lewis turn ever so slightly reactionary right and that was just enough to rub against Sebs wing.
Another win for Seb, at least it was a mildly more interesting way to get to the same old result though
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Ben G
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Webbers a cunt for dummying lewis. Anyone who is not clinically insane would've done the same as lewis did at that moment.
The tyres don't exactly seem very durable either. Makes for more boring strategic racing.
Same old boring result though. Shame really. The scrap for the lower points finishes was a good one and far more interesting.
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