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@cyclops_pl – Pirelli have said that they conducted the test in Barcelona to gather data on 2014 tyre compounds. Unlike previous years, they collected that data using a current chassis. As such, that data has no […]

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Now as it seems that Mercedes gained something there is an outrage.

I don’t think there is an overwhelming feeling that Merc has gained something. If there is the possibility that the testing team […]

@cyclops_pl but then one thing I don’t understand: they said that 90% of the test concerned tyres for next year, and only 10% for Montreal. Next year cars will be different from this year, as 2011 were for that […]

Sure, @cyclops_pl, Mercedes was foreseen to be very strong at Monaco, and they were. It’s no surprise they won and probably not related to the testing (though, as VET pointed out, it probably did not harm them; […]

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COTD for sure.

@cyclops_pl Disagree.

Nobody will say this aloud but this year’s Pirellis were also targeted at preventing teams from regaining downforce

The reason why we have a single tyre supplier is so that tyres are […]

@cyclops_pl My point exactly…

@cyclops_pl – You misunderstood my point completely.

The ‘fastest car’, or alternatively the ‘fastest car+driver’, is not a universal truth: for instance in Bahrain, Vettel’s Red Bull was (arguably) the […]

@cyclops_pl it’d have been worse had he stayed down in 18th. He climbed to 8th. Those points could make or break…

@cyclops_pl – At least you added a wink. Some people actually believe that RB always possess such an advantage ;) I agree with Alonso as DOTW.

@cyclops_pl – absolutely it was only a humiliating blunder. It’s a shame for Webber agreed – maybe he could do a 2011 though? ;)

@cyclops_pl – so still, I fail to see how there was anything sinister about it which you were implying by saying Red Bull “screwed him”. Nobody said the same of Abu Dhabi…

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Garry Anderson said nicely that you need to have fuel in the tank to have fuel pressure issues

Who’s to say he didn’t? I wouldn’t trust the radio messages, as they could have just interpreted the […]

@cyclops_pl – well Webber went out much earlier on the softs than Massa, so that account for some of his deficit but I think Vettel could indeed have been “sandbagging” as he didn’t do much of a run on the softs: […]

(@cyclops_pl) Not so much condemn and praise – if you notice the PR coming from RB, at first it was ‘Vettel is completely wrong, he disobeyed orders’ to ‘well, if you look at previous experiences at […]

He just showed that he can @cyclops_Pl, but you are completely right, that it makes what he say as irrelevant as his instructions to his own drivers!

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Watch the race again and you’ll see that Vettel was faster for almost the entire race.

@cyclops_pl – I somehow doubt that. There is always a reason for such occurrences, be it fuel saving or for reliability.

@cyclops_pl – I’m inclined to entirely disagree here: were you a supporter of Rosberg being reigned in behind a slower driver, as would’ve happened to Vettel had he not taken matters into his own hands? I like […]