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The Formula 1 2011 Season of Vettel Fingering the Competition |OT|
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Templar Wizard
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Psychotext said:
i think there has to be someway to work the actual salary numbers. Alonso gets more than 50% of the grid put together, but that isnt ratio'd to the other team members.
So there is some movement.
@Megateto, alas I am not Spanish, but an exiled Irishman
@Dilly. fucking A, the crew where in the high 4s to low 5s in the first half, now they are have it in the variable 3s
Prime tire is killing Alonso and he cant do anything about it, given the Cliff on the options.
he is king of the road for the first 2 stints then biting his nails for the Prime-countdown.
SunhiLegend
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Hopefully next year with the regulations not changing much we see a more even playing field between the top teams. I still expect Red Bull to be slightly faster due to Newey but Ferrari and Mclaren should be within a couple of tenths or faster, they can't have a non competitive car three years in a row in the first half of the season. And if its a straight battle between the top guys I fully expect Alonso to lead the championship. His outperformed the car almost every race since the second half of last year, he has a team structured purely around him to make sure all the team strategys favours him and he gets all the updates first, his in arguably the best form of his career, his has amazing starts and because his one of my all time favourite drivers.
Red Bull and Mclaren will have two drivers both going for the championship at the start of the season which in my opinion is not an advantage for the teams. Vettels only competition this year in terms of car performance is his team mate and Webber has been poor this season in the same car, no wins, which relieves all the pressure from Vettel. When Hamilton won the championship he had Kovalainen as his team mate and Button had Barrichello, Alonso would not have been leading the championship last year had Massa not let him pass or had the pace to out perform Alonso on more than one occasion. It would have been different this year if Webber was winning races in the first half seeing as he had the same car, although Vettel has been exceptional this season.
I could be completley wrong and Ferrari might still be slow the first half of next season and Hamilton could be winning most of the races, we'll just have to wait and see how 2011 unfolds.
Red Bull and Mclaren will have two drivers both going for the championship at the start of the season which in my opinion is not an advantage for the teams. Vettels only competition this year in terms of car performance is his team mate and Webber has been poor this season in the same car, no wins, which relieves all the pressure from Vettel. When Hamilton won the championship he had Kovalainen as his team mate and Button had Barrichello, Alonso would not have been leading the championship last year had Massa not let him pass or had the pace to out perform Alonso on more than one occasion. It would have been different this year if Webber was winning races in the first half seeing as he had the same car, although Vettel has been exceptional this season.
I could be completley wrong and Ferrari might still be slow the first half of next season and Hamilton could be winning most of the races, we'll just have to wait and see how 2011 unfolds.
Adam Scott Aukerman
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Templar Wizard said:
The RRA has nothing to do with driver salaries.
Jinjo
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There's an event going on right now where Button drives a few laps through a small village in the south of the Netherlands. Taking on a few guys who are doing the same in a simulator. There's a livestream here: http://www.rtl.nl/components/sport/rtl_gp/miMedia/livestream/insb.xml
Commentary is in Dutch though.
Commentary is in Dutch though.
Templar Wizard
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Xun said:I keep forgetting about how much next year will suck compared to this year.
There better be Sky feeds out there.
you are sure it will suck? I think you should just wait and see. I think Sky will throw big money at to ensure viewer numbers and the subscription. i believe they will have a level of interaction that will blow the BBC away.
hopefully keeping that 'tasty' loser Jake away from their team.
Adam Scott Aukerman
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Templar Wizard said:
They'd need to to justify £600+ on 10 races.
Templar Wizard
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surely thats the obivious logic?
although I can see The Sun headline:
'Pay-per-Race F1 drives Fans to sunday afternoon drinking'
although I can see The Sun headline:
'Pay-per-Race F1 drives Fans to sunday afternoon drinking'
SunhiLegend
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I don't have Sky and can't afford to subscribe to a Sky Sports HD package. Its fucking bullshit for people like me, how the fuck will I be able to watch half the season other than watching it on some crappy stream I have to look for on the internet which will most likely freeze or switch off a million times while watcing the race.
SunhiLegend
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Templar Wizard
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BBC would block that too i guess...
Foliorum Viridum
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Do you have fast internet/use torrents?SunhiLegend said:
Thebox.bz will be your friend if so for F1 in HD.
SunhiLegend
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Foliorum Viridum said:
Maybe I overreacted. I do have fast internet but I want to watch the races live. I don't want to have to download them and then watch them at a later time. I won't be able to stop myself from checking the results and then its kills off some of the enjoyment of watching the race. I just hope we get some sort of official live feed of the race by the time 2011 comes along.
There was a way I used to watch the BBC coverage live when I was in Australia involving a specially developed program which included its own Proxy. It worked brilliantly. Let's just say I'm fairly confident something like that will be available for Sky by the time the cars are on the grid in Melbourne.
Goldrusher
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Would've been funny if the cable snapped and the microphone hit Vettel's car.SunhiLegend said:
Your proxy merely delivered a free-to-view BBC stream through your filtered IP.Juicy Bob said:
The Sky Player stream is inaccessible due to a paywall rather than any regional IP filtering. No amount of internet cleverness is going to get you free access to Sky Player directly.
PjotrStroganov
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Momo said:I want this back.
With current tech those wide cars would seriously mess up the air flow for following cars, causing distance between cars to increase and races to get boring again.
Sleeplessnights
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As I'm watching the 2009 season review I got thinking as to what is the perfectly aerodynamic car in F1?
seattle6418
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Juicy Bob said:
You have official Nascar streaming from their website? Where?
I hate watching it every week on stupid justintv.
Edmond Dantès
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The FW14 and the F2002.Sleeplessnights said:
Edmond Dantès
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F2002 ====> F2004Ark said:
RomanticHeroX
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Hope he doesn't do for McLaren what he's done for Williams.Juicy Bob said:
Sleeplessnights
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Ark said:
Edmond Dantès said:
All amazing cars, F2004 wins over the F2002 though.
Foliorum Viridum
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I don't have HD so when I wait to torrent it I don't find it too hard to avoid results. I avoid the BBC and this thread and then within 3-4 hours of the race ending I'm watching it.SunhiLegend said:
Not too bad. Worth it for HD!
Really interesting paddock video by Ted Kravitz (UK only, sorry) from after the race on Sunday. Watch to the end though, made me laugh rather hard.
Sleeplessnights
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How was it that McLaren were numbered 22 and 23 on their car in the 2008 season?
Also, what do you guys think of Yas Marina? I know a lot of drivers praise it but I want to know what the fans do.
Also, what do you guys think of Yas Marina? I know a lot of drivers praise it but I want to know what the fans do.
Sleeplessnights
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F#A#Oo said:
Oh right, completely forgot about that!
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