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@atticus-2 I guess we’ll just have to wait and see but I definitely think there is more potential to be eked out of both the car and the drivers on Caterham’s side of the camp.

I only really think qualifying […]

@atticus-2 it is true that Bianchi was closing on the Caterham in the late stages of the race, but I think qualifying will be the difference and in that sense Caterham seem better. Also, their upgrade package is […]

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I’m a Ricciardo fan and I agree with you. JEV has had some really bad luck and as far as I can see they’ve been pretty close performance wise since being team mates.

But for whatever reason, […]

Of course, last year they had a slow start with the car/tyres while Sauber picked up points – In that respect, the plan went a lot better this time. But not perfect, no, @atticus-2, @omarr-pepper, I agree.

In […]

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I absolutely agree with this. It is not by any means intended to be detrimental to Vettel, it is just an effect of the successs the #1 package achieved.

You nailed it there buddy!

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a roundabout (hopefully with some point of interest in the middle of it, like the fountain of Long Beach)

The roundabout is the one in the picture, with the Democracy Monument in the middle of it.

@atticus-2 @andae23 I have payed attention to this as well … and as andae mention, you clearly have 2 sets of pics and what’s interesting is also that you can’t see the duct going from the intake to the rear […]

@atticus-2 if you look closely, you see that the car they launched is different from the car in the images above. The rendered car features additional inlet ducts above the driver’s head, which was part of Lotus’ […]

@atticus-2 I read in an article (which appeared in the F1 round up a month ago I think) that the difference of a DTM or rally car’s wheel with an F1 steering wheel is basically on 2 aspects: too many buttons in […]

@atticus-2, Several fans with equal or greater experience than COTDs author disagree, me for one. The problem with this debate seems to be “no in-season testing versus unrestricted 24/7, multiple drivers/cars […]

@atticus-2 I sniffed that out too. The fact he took the comment as praise rather than for granted suggests to me his expecting Ferrari to be out of touch with Red Bull yet again in terms of raw pace. Of course, we […]

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That’s in pounds sterling. In dollars that would be $550 million, $110 million more than Ferrari currently (not the other was round), and $150 million more than Ferrari in the […]

@atticus-2 Yep – turn ten. I always like seeing street circuits in their normal state.

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presumably with no camber and very little elevation change

Elevation is over-rated. Everyone points to it as being the defining trait that sets the great circuit apart from the mediocre circuits, and […]

@atticus-2, see above, should have done Latin.

@atticus-2 that depends on what the downstream effects on the airflow are, not on the front wing itself.

@atticus-2 I forgot to add. Front downforce is a lot easier to come by than rear downforce – so this is generally a non-issue. Remember that in 2010 the front wings were countering masses of rear downforce with […]

@atticus-2 it’s slightly counterintuitive. The job of some of the rear downforce-producers is to lower pressure and speed up airflow. That is in fact how some of them generate their downforce.

So what happens […]

@atticus-2 The cars rarely have front wings mounted that are made to be raced during the presentations though, right? Don’t they usually fit some leftover and simple front wing on there to prevent other teams from […]

@atticus-2 – I can understand how Vettel may be rated higher than Hamilton as his second half of the season was phenomenal but yes to rate him higher than Alonso wouldn’t be a fair representation of just how good […]