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Formula 1 2017 Pre-Season |OT| The Ferrari is good this year

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ramparter

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I wish Button hadn't left Mercedes, I'd like to see him fighting with Lewis for the title, less hot-headed than Nico, I believe he would have been a greater challenger. I liked their rivalry in McLaren but it was never for the title.
 
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ramparter said:
I wish Button hadn't left Mercedes, I'd like to see him fighting with Lewis for the title, less hot-headed than Nico, I believe he would have been a greater challenger. I liked their rivalry in McLaren but it was never for the title.
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2010?
 
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ramparter said:
I wish Button hadn't left Mercedes, I'd like to see him fighting with Lewis for the title, less hot-headed than Nico, I believe he would have been a greater challenger. I liked their rivalry in McLaren but it was never for the title.
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It's nice to wish things.

For me, I wish Schumacher hadn't been forced to retire from Mercedes and we could have seen him completely smash 2014, 2015 and 2016.
 
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ramparter said:
I wish Button hadn't left Mercedes, I'd like to see him fighting with Lewis for the title, less hot-headed than Nico, I believe he would have been a greater challenger. I liked their rivalry in McLaren but it was never for the title.
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LOL

Winning WDC in 2014-2016 V6 era has been all about who gets pole position and if Lewis' car can survive a weekend.

Button was almost literally never able to put his McLaren on pole despite Lewis making his name in being the fastest over one lap in the same machinery. It would have been a blood bath.
 
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GrizzleBoy said:
LOL

Winning WDC in 2014-2016 V6 era has been all about who gets pole position and if Lewis' car can survive a weekend.

Button was almost literally never able to put his McLaren on pole despite Lewis making his name in being the fastest over one lap in the same machinery. It would have been a blood bath.
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Button's only McLaren pole came from McLaren giving Lewis the wrong fucking wing in Spa.
 
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KARUN CHANDHOK: Been to see cars at Turn 3, 4 and 5 now. The Ferrari and Mercedes are in a class of their own. I find it really interesting that the Mercedes looks to have much less rake than the Red Bull or Force India who have traditionally had the higher rear ride height, but also less than the Ferrari. They're obviously still generating the front downforce somehow. At turn 5 it's clear that the driveability and traction from the Merc is still the gold standard though.
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oh man, can it be q3 in australia already.
 
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I think it's nice of McLaren to paint their car with orange as an homage to track stewards, seeing how much work they will give them this year.
 
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Could Ferrari really be promising, or...

Raikkonen fastest on the penultimate day of testing

FERRARI TESTING KIMI RAIKKONEN
03 Mar 2016
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen set the fastest time seen so far in Formula One pre-season testing on Thursday, as the teams completed their penultimate day's running at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain.

Oh.

Ohhh.

I guess testing means shit after all.
 
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nny said:
I think it's nice of McLaren to paint their car with orange as an homage to track stewards, seeing how much work they will give them this year.
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Don't be silly, they did it so it's the same colour as a flight recorder, to make it nice and easy to find after the engine fails.
 
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Even if Ferrari had the exact same race pace as the Mercs, the latter's ridiculous quali boost performance combined with the expected difficulty of following cars means it's all useless.
 
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Dutch Gronk

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brotkasten said:
Could Ferrari really be promising, or...

Raikkonen fastest on the penultimate day of testing

FERRARI TESTING KIMI RAIKKONEN
03 Mar 2016
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen set the fastest time seen so far in Formula One pre-season testing on Thursday, as the teams completed their penultimate day’s running at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain.

Oh.

Ohhh.

I guess testing means shit after all.
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To quote my friend Drake:

"I get it, I get it, I swear that I get it, I get it, I get it
We did it, we did it, we did it, we did it"
 
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I'd feel more sorry for Vandoorne. The most promising rookie since Hamilton and he gets put in a career ending shitbox.
 
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Zaru said:
I'm not saying they've got a killer package in hiding but Red Bull's fastest laps in the last few years of testing have been way down the order compared to their in-season performance.

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Their in season performance last year was way off Mercedes though.
 
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Zaru said:
Even if Ferrari had the exact same race pace as the Mercs, the latter's ridiculous quali boost performance combined with the expected difficulty of following cars means it's all useless.
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Honestly, I'd be happy with them occasionally being able to get ahead when Merc screw up their strategies, rather than 20+ seconds down the road.

Unrelated, I think someone will do a 1:18 tomorrow just for the fun of it.
 
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Roude Leiw said:
poor Alonso.
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I take no joy in seeing Alonso like this. The guy's a genuine talent, he deserves a better car than this, as does vandoorne. At this rate, I'd rather see Alonso driving for Porsche or Toyota in the WEC. Anything that's better than this fucking car that McLaren and Honda have.
 
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Vandoorne will probably say that his Super Formula ride was faster, and that's probably true.
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Super Formula cars are pretty fucking great for what they are. In 2015, they lacked a good 350+ bhp to a Mercedes F1 engine but lapped Suzuka only 5 seconds slower - putting them well into the 107% rule.
 
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Honda should stick an old CART or IRL engine back there and see what happens.
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If they stick a CART engine in there, they'd probably break every lap record. If they stick an IRL engine in there, you probably wouldn't notice a difference.
 
nekkid

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brotkasten said:
Could Ferrari really be promising, or...

Raikkonen fastest on the penultimate day of testing

FERRARI TESTING KIMI RAIKKONEN
03 Mar 2016
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen set the fastest time seen so far in Formula One pre-season testing on Thursday, as the teams completed their penultimate day’s running at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain.

Oh.

Ohhh.

I guess testing means shit after all.
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Ssshhhh...don't point that out, you're likely to be lynched around here.
 
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