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@hairs – Do you honestly think McLaren would have switched to Honda if they weren’t confident they could get a decent engine?

@hairs – @tomsk has raised an interesting question: what if they used Le Mans as a test bed? That way since they haven’t gone straight into F1 they will also have much more reign in developing the engine based on […]

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The turbo aspect and the fact Honda are giving Mclaren a works partnership is why quite a lot of people are really happy with this deal. It’s Mclaren’s best bet now they are competing against 3 teams with […]

It was rather the Ferrari engine making the difference between the 2 @hairs Mid 2008 it was quite clearly the better package compared to the RB4 (aerodynamically the same)

@hairs, what’s the difference between F India now and Jordan then, even Minardi scored points so your theory about the mid-pack doesn’t hold water. An awful lot of viewers love to watch a dominant driver win every […]

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 […]

@hairs – I strongly disagree with that sentiment. Protesting somebody’s funeral, no matter how much you disliked them, is disgusting. The very fact they had to implement security measures at a funeral puts shame […]

Thanks for the link @hairs

Time is a harsh mistress, and eventually she makes fools of us all. But as that oft-quoted proverb says, it is far better to keep your mouth shut and be presumed a fool than to open […]

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How does the name of Sir Jack Brabham sound? :)

@hairs I’m not interested in straw man arguments. I never said Vettel was bigger than the team nor something other than an employee.

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So I take the admission of two sets of parts as significant.

Except they didn’t admit anything like that. That’s kind of the point. They say they have many upgrades, roughly along the two lines, but they […]

@hairs That’s not what they said. They are talking about routine upgrades (patch #1) and upgrades specifically addressing setbacks of the new car (patch #2).

There’s no mention of two separate, different […]

@hairs Come on. Did you even read the article, or are you just going by the headline? “Two upgrade paths” is not the same as “two different designs”. They just can’t focus on a single area, because there’s more to be fixed.

@hairs I personally think the final year or two of regs is the perfect time to experiment. You’d like to have a solid understanding of things like front pull-rod suspension, with all other regs staynig fairly […]

My thoughts on reading that article were much along the same lines @hairs, needed to be said

@hairs Heaven forbid he keep his employers best interests at heart. Rule regulation is the way to go.

@hairs Brilliant post. I particularly like your focus on the implications for the people on Mark Webber’s “side of the garage” instead of just the driver himself. Very astute observations.

I think that the way Webber handled himself yesterday was exactly that @hairs

Sometimes it takes bigger balls to be quiet

And he also knows that this is the best way to get as much out of it as possible, to be […]

Very good post @hairs, I saw the same transition from Seb from happy race winner, to getting to understand all was not well, to being worried.

I think the moment we all saw Marko, and then heard him being very […]

@hairs Awesome comment, easily the best I’ve read since the race, though it might be too long for COTD.