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Don’t be embarrassed @bascb you make up for it by persevering :)

Happy birthdays to you people, enjoy it @Thed4N1El, @ned-flanders and Rui Pinto!

Well said @bullmello!

Prrobably not putting as much heat into the tyres @omarr-pepper!

Quite true @calum, and McLaren already is just a customer right now. Mercedes would prefer their own team to win a WCC/WDC, but where McLaren to do it in 2014 it still is better for the company than if Ferrari, […]

For an economic delict like this, a very heafty fine seems not unreasonable; especially given the suspects age, and lawyers, I am sure his health wouldn’t beat prison anyway @bascb ;)

Will be familiar territory for Button then! And another WDC at the end?

I doubt Honda would make the same mistake in how they freeze the engine, ending up behind the curve by being too close to the ‘spirit’ of […]

They hoped for dry weather today to test it all, I’d say @mike-dee

Sky (or was it bbc?) thought they made have been on heavy fuel;they did run slicks @sgt-pepper, @nick-uk

I like the principle, but worry a bit about the balance, and also see an issue that inconsistency by stewards now becomes an even bigger problem as it will haunt drivers for 12 months.

LOL @optimaximal, An argument that the team needed looking into quite some time before; hard to imagine the FIA, or drivers themselves, to let a team get there, more than every two races a season an unsafe release!

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.

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I think it might partly be that the drivers didn’t realise that they would be edging ever further into that run-off until only a tiny sliver of one the wheels on one side have to be on the actual track (well, on […]

@prisoner-monkeys, that is well put; I also agree for the most part, though I believe that DRS might be dropped without negative effect, that is only a slight difference in how we judge it.

@stefmeister Balance, indeed, and I see that lacking with DRS; witth the tyres it is imo. better, but I would like the FIA to be more aware of that need for a balance in most any rule.

I do agree that it is the current combination that makes for thosse bad cases @patrickl,but I also think this means that given the tyres, we would often be able to do without DRS.

Indeed @us_peter, @bascb and @magnificent-geoffrey, I can only agree whole-hartedly, but with a sagging feeling whenever I think of it. DRS could be a useful band aid, but currently it is not.

That is a good point @hairs, put that wat it certainly isn’t the biggest endorsement of a driver we have seen.

That reminds me that when Hülkenberg left I also had the impression they were feeling they lost the […]

@christian, @wsrgo, That was just to illustrate that results of several years ago aren’t representative of current skill in F1, so exactly, Vettel has shown his worth, Hamilton did as well; Sutil and Di Resta so […]

But those two are in the last two races @nomore, and it seems Massa has found some pace again since the middle of last season only, which makes those 2011,2010 results somewhat less useful as a comparison. Anyway, […]

I think the presence of kimi will hinder Ferrari, and possibly Vettel too if he can make those softs work long enoigh; his pace on mediums on Friday didn’t seem good though, so it might even help Mercedes if he […]