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Formula 1 2017 Season |OT2| A Dutch Horror Story - Sundays on Sky
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DarkJediKnight
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And when it's all said and done he might end up being considered the greatest ever.
Oh, I always thought that Jenson was a really nice guy. I'm surprised...
About Lewis, I don't think he's an asshole, but some of his attitudes in the past rubbed me the wrong way, like when he was clashing with Massa every other race and not taking responsibility, and (specially) when he lied about Trully getting in front of him under safety car in 2009 to name a few. But he seems to have grown a lot. I'm certainly rooting for him against Seb, one I used to like but started hating because he whines too much.
theignoramus
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Lewis is still being punished in certain quarters for the all around poor showing he had in 2011.
I think the narrative that came from 2011 is dead in the water now, anyone still hanging onto it is just some anti-fan with an axe to grind.
I think the narrative that came from 2011 is dead in the water now, anyone still hanging onto it is just some anti-fan with an axe to grind.
JadedWriter
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endlessflood
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Well the London no show is probably still fresh in people's minds too.
Fox Mulder
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StopMakingSense
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Lewis 'DK' Hamilton
StopMakingSense
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Drift King... that was a straight up Mario Kart skid (it's a Tokyo Drift thing, edited to be clearer...).
Just busting your balls m8
StopMakingSense
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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/132031/fia-f1-technical-chief-resigns
I missed this news. Sky reckon he's moving to Renault in January.
StopMakingSense
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Damn Grosjean
edit: jaysus that drain cover
edit: jaysus that drain cover
Elvin Atombender
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That was dangerous.
If that happens during a race and several cars hit that cover and it goes flying into the air...
If that happens during a race and several cars hit that cover and it goes flying into the air...
Insane.
Damn.
Elvin Atombender
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I doubt that the airflow around a bike can pull that cover loose like an F1-car can.
Merc's pace is bemusing, but I'm optimistic that they just went the wrong way with setup and they'll have it fixed in time for qualifying because there's no way a McHonda, even in Alonso's hands, is genuinely a tenth up around a somewhat power-dependent circuit...not to mention Force India and Renault being within a few tenths as well.
Just for them to change to quali mapping late in Q2 and be 8 tenths ahead.Mfw Merc is struggling in FP1&2
What year is it? This isn't sandbagging, it's a setup issue. Their relative quali pace will likely be their FP3 pace plus a couple tenths in Q3.
DHC-Shannow
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Yeah, losing a practice session to the rain has probably set them back as their car is very sensitive to setup. When Ferrari has struggled with setup they've had one of their junior drivers thrashing around on the simulator all night to try to resolve it, I wonder if Merc have something similar going on now.
Been reading this all season and it hasn't been true this year.
How hard is it to accept the fact that Ferrari have a good car that is more consistent than the Mercedes in general.
Mohonky
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Very much so.
Mohonky
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They had some special talking about the road to singapore where they were talking about what happens between GP's with Mercedes, worth watching to see the logistics that go on in the background and to give you a scale of how massive Mercedes GP squad is.
They work 24/7 on this sort of thing. Its mond boggling, I really would like to see what sort of facilities smaller teams like Sauber or Haas are able to run because I cant imagine they have even half of what the top teams do, it is little wonder the top teams just pull away and those that barely keep their heads above water financially just go backwards.
They work 24/7 on this sort of thing. Its mond boggling, I really would like to see what sort of facilities smaller teams like Sauber or Haas are able to run because I cant imagine they have even half of what the top teams do, it is little wonder the top teams just pull away and those that barely keep their heads above water financially just go backwards.
Fox Mulder
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Jezbollah
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Its a massive oversight if no NDAs were signed as part of his current role.
If he actually gets signed on by an F1 team next year and other teams' designs suspiciously make it into their car, there's gonna be a fucking riot.
Of course he has a NDA, but you can't force a man to completely forget what is in his brain while working on solutions, unless he makes a 1:1 copy, that is hard to rpove.
The reason he only has a three month gardening leave is because that is all you may legally impose.
It's the passive optimism or positive pessimism or... Whichever way you wish to phrase it. Convince yourself that the worst will happen (in this case Mercedes will come back strong) such that should they do so; you would have mitigated potential remorse by psychologically preparing for said situation. And should they not; then you're feeling even fuzzier than had you simply expected them to remain poor.
Sports psychology XD
Psychotext
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I'm sat having a drink with one of liberty's on demand / streaming top bods. 
They're complaining about Verstappen fans screwing with their load balancing / scaling.
XD
They're complaining about Verstappen fans screwing with their load balancing / scaling.
XD
Dutch Gronk
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Mfw Merc is struggling in FP1&2
Lewis still gonna win all the shit.
theignoramus
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Who cares? He's allowed to do that when he's winning Silverstone every year.
bobnowhere
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Formula One just died in Australia. All races bar the AusGP are now on pay TV only including this weekend's which was scheduled to be on Ten.
I have a feeling that with Massa possibly retiring and with no other Brazilian on the grid, the same will happen here next year.