Yep, I was thinking the same thing.
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The Formula 1 2015 Season |OT| Formula E Feeder Series
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Yep, I was thinking the same thing.
brotkasten
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Did you two steal from Wax's stash again?
Who's going to replace Kimi after 2017? Verstappen?
Carmen Jorda of course.
brotkasten
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Ah, that's where the Honda hype suddenly comes from.
A Honda spokesperson confirmed to GPUpdate.net that three of its allocated tokens for the 2015 season have been spent in the run up to the Belgian Grand Prix, with the focus on combustion, and the expected result is a 3% increase in power.
However, both Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso are likely to face grid penalties, with the Briton set for a five place drop and Alonso braced for a 10 place demotion.
This is due to the team exceeding the limit for the different number of components which they have used so far in 2015, with Button already onto a seventh version of several parts and Alonso likely to follow suit.
Honda stressed that further sanctions may follow across the remainder of the weekend at Spa-Francorchamps, meaning that both Alonso and Button may be forced to start from the back row of the grid.
A Honda spokesperson confirmed to GPUpdate.net that three of its allocated tokens for the 2015 season have been spent in the run up to the Belgian Grand Prix, with the focus on combustion, and the expected result is a 3% increase in power.
However, both Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso are likely to face grid penalties, with the Briton set for a five place drop and Alonso braced for a 10 place demotion.
This is due to the team exceeding the limit for the different number of components which they have used so far in 2015, with Button already onto a seventh version of several parts and Alonso likely to follow suit.
Honda stressed that further sanctions may follow across the remainder of the weekend at Spa-Francorchamps, meaning that both Alonso and Button may be forced to start from the back row of the grid.
#believeinmclarenhonda
Probably, but unless something bad happens with Verstappen (or his performance), they won't be the only ones making a play for the kid.
Psychotext
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Yeah... no, it really wouldn't. Thing is, lets say you believe the 180bhp down figure, and lets say they have 1000bhp now (they don't).
You're still only gaining 30bhp back.
You're still only gaining 30bhp back.
Psychotext
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Can never tell here. Some of the old posts on McLaren were mindbogglingly desperate. 
JadedWriter
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Norbert Haug gets his revenge for getting axed.Someone sat on the Mercedes wing.
What? That's completely wrong.
Is it? I think Hamilton's portrait rights would rank higher than the photographer's copyright.
Comes down to the agency for photo rights, for professional photographers, according to Jamey Price (pretty popular motorsport photographer) in his AMA.
Arai is delusional. With someone like him at the helm, they're getting nowhere. He already had the balls to claim it was the McLaren chassis masking the engine's progress.
Just like the pole award it'll be something nobody really gives a shit about.
He must be the most frustrating man to work with.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but from the replay it looks as though he managed to straighten the car but did a right hander unecessarily at the end...
To correct the momentum of the rear , but the right rear would've touched the wall regardless of what he did.
Yeah it would be either the front or the rear hitting the barrier.
Unless it involved part of the money that's shared to the teams.
However it's looking good for Renault. Maybe these ties tell nothing after all.Honda sure is looking good these days:
Mastah
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They should also add a column that distinguishes the on prupose crashes.
PS:
Oh and also one for speeding while serving a penalty for speeding.
I am still not sure if Arai is completely delusional, or just playing some weird PR game, or just trying to motivate his own crew. Or all of that at once.
Wax Free Vanilla
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The Honda PU was clearly turned down in FP1, it's their future penalty free PU so no reason to put it through unneeded stress and run at full chat.
In FP2 McHonda will comfortably be in the top ten.
In FP2 McHonda will comfortably be in the top ten.
frontieruk
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Can I get some of what you're smoking please?
So, what are we thinking Wax? Pole tomorrow? Half a second ahead of Mercedes? Two cars on the podium on Sunday?
So confident they are not even coming out yet...
nature boy
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So WEC is 6 seconds off a F1 car on a power circuit (Free pratice times)? Pretty amazing.
Fastest WEC went 1.54 in qualifying.
Honda underestimated the task of creating a winning F1 engine, they came too soon and they are too stubborn thinking it can be a testbed for their road cars, not to mention everything is done in Japan, so it makes it more dificult to recruit experienced personnel.
Fastest WEC went 1.54 in qualifying.
Honda underestimated the task of creating a winning F1 engine, they came too soon and they are too stubborn thinking it can be a testbed for their road cars, not to mention everything is done in Japan, so it makes it more dificult to recruit experienced personnel.
Wax Free Vanilla
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FP3, the pos iphone keyboard wronged me.
McHonda with fresh full powered PUs won't be out of the top 10 tomorrow.