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    beneboy commented on the post, Alonso: Red Bull have had it “too easy” 9 hours, 58 minutes ago

    Vettel is a ‘once in a generation’ type driver

    Hamilton and Alonso are only 3 & 6 years older than Vettel so maybe it’d be more accurate to say he’s a three times in a generation type driver…

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    beneboy commented on the post, Lowe to start work at Mercedes in two weeks’ time 2 days, 19 hours ago

    Wasn’t there talk a few years back about engines being allocated by a sort of lottery system whereby the manufacturer makes them but the FIA then decides which engines go to which team (when a manufacturer […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, Lowe to start work at Mercedes in two weeks’ time 2 days, 20 hours ago

    That line up is getting close to matching the team of Todt, Brawn, Byrne & Schumacher, if they can match the improvements made by Ferrari after putting that team together maybe Mercedes could be the team to beat […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, McLaren say Honda deal reaffirms top team status 4 days, 16 hours ago

    @hohum & @scuderia29
    You are both correct, was thinking of the NSX concept they had at Geneva – god knows how I confused that with a Skyline…
    It’s either early on-set dementia or the fact that yesterday was my […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, McLaren say Honda deal reaffirms top team status 5 days, 19 hours ago

    @bendana
    Maybe they’ll get a Honda GT-R or something similar from Honda’s sports range, I certainly wouldn’t mind swapping a Merc for a Skyline ;-)
    Although given the choice I’d probably be asking for a new […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, McLaren say Honda deal reaffirms top team status 6 days, 11 hours ago

    I’m very happy to see the return of Honda, they’re one of the best engine manufacturers in the world and HRC are one of the biggest names in motorsport. Even though I’m a Ferrari fan I hope their return will keep […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, Boullier criticises Pirelli tyre tweaks 6 days, 14 hours ago

    @minnis

    No, but in football they don’t have different size pitches for different matches. If they did, I’m sure that once in a while they might get it wrong, and it gets changed.

    They do have different size […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, Boullier criticises Pirelli tyre tweaks 6 days, 14 hours ago

    No way mate, they should bring back Goodyear !

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    beneboy commented on the post, Pirelli keen to avoid claim of Red Bull favouritism 1 week, 2 days ago

    @john-h
    I am a Ferrari fan and other than getting both drivers on the podium I found very little else to get excited about after the first few laps on Sunday.

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    beneboy commented on the post, Button says McLaren form is “embarrassing” 1 week, 2 days ago

    @tdog
    Fastest qualifying time:
    2005 – 1:14:819 (just taking run one into account)
    2013 – 1:20:718

    Fastest lap:
    2005 – 1:15:641
    2013 – 1:26:217

    Race time:
    2005 – 1:27:16.830
    2013 – 1:39:16.596

    So in […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, Ecclestone: F1 put money into New Jersey race 1 week, 4 days ago

    @shreyasf1fan
    California, Texas and New York have a higher GDP and population than many other countries, including several that host F1 GP’s. The US is the single biggest market for companies involved with F1 as […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, Testing return voted down by teams 1 week, 6 days ago

    I’ve never understood why teams don’t do test days on the Monday after a race at one or more GP’s a season. They’ve already got the teams, drivers, cars, fans, marshals and media at the circuit. Staying an extra […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, Penalty points system for drivers moves a step closer 1 week, 6 days ago

    @bascb
    Which is the same penalty you’d get for exceeding the speed limit by 10-20 kph, which seems appropriate to me.

    Up until the late 90s we’d regularly see marshals recovering cars and debris from the track […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, Penalty points system for drivers moves a step closer 1 week, 6 days ago

    @timtoo
    The FIA have increased the cost of the superlicence, in return they agreed to bring in a penalty points system and do away with financial penalties for drivers.

    MotoGP have brought in a points system […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, Penalty points system for drivers moves a step closer 1 week, 6 days ago

    @bascb

    But this seems to penalize drivers double for some things

    That’s no different to the system for driving on the roads in the UK; break the speed limit and you get a fine and points on your licence, […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, Lotus confirm Allison to be replaced by Chester 2 weeks ago

    @todfod
    I wouldn’t think many people would disagree with you there mate, just look how many Championships Williams and McLaren have won without him compared to how many they won with him and the significant […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, Ferrari: ‘Six out of ten’ for season so far 2 weeks ago

    As ever, a great post I thoroughly agree with !

    Run-off & kerbs are a bit of a double edged sword, on the one hand I don’t want to go back to the days when lots of the cars were dropping out of the GP because […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, Ferrari: ‘Six out of ten’ for season so far 2 weeks ago

    How is it an ill judged move when he made up a place and did nothing worthy of a penalty ?

    Even Jorge has since said:

    I lost the second place and it was like this. Race Direction decided not to do anything and […]

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    beneboy commented on the post, Ferrari: ‘Six out of ten’ for season so far 2 weeks, 1 day ago

    @Tango
    If you put your username into the “Search F1 Fanatic” box on the top right of the page you can see every time you’ve been mentioned in an article, you’ve got quite a lot of them, and deservedly so !

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    beneboy commented on the post, Ferrari: ‘Six out of ten’ for season so far 2 weeks, 1 day ago

    On sunday lorenzo got pushed way at the final corner by an ill judged pass.

    No he didn’t, Lorenzo left a massive gap going into the last corner of the last lap and like every single decent MotoGP rider of the […]

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