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What a fantastic qualifying session! I am looking forward in particular to see what Van Der Garde and Massa can do from their respective positions – this is a pretty good chance for a Caterham points score if […]

so… WIN IT for goodness sake Nico!

@peartree which means?

I think it’s going to rain @keithcollantine. The sky is looking pretty ominous on sky!

@omarr-pepper despite my atheism I consider this weekend to be a sporting Christmas: I don’t like the Indy 500 particularly, but Monaco and the champion’s league final is a pretty good weekend for me!

Vettel’s lap on the softs was pretty quick, and if I’m not mistaken didn’t he also set the fastest first sector time before he came across traffic on the supersofts, unless Rosberg beat that also?

I don’t entirely agree with this notion that Red Bull were wrong to not put mre resources into working around the tyres, as that’s easy to say in retrospect. Usually, downforce helps the tyres and this season is […]

Re COTD, I just don’t like ovals: they can’t race in the wet and the rules on defending make the racing just as boring as when passes are done under DRS. Personally it’s just not something I’ve ever enjoyed watching.

+1 @wsrgo ovals are both boring and dangerous. I know I don’t have the skills to drive on either F1 or ovals, but fan-watcher as I am, I like to see Monza for all the turns, not just the Parabolica (which isn’t an […]

Why did he have one set less of new tyres? Because he engulfed them in quali to get that high up the grid. However we look at it, I see little reason for him to be rated higher than Rosberg honestly.

He also ate through many sets of tyres to get there and so probably didn’t maximise his race potential, unlike Rosberg.

hahaha… yep, but as an atheist I am, it looks much the same as a religious holiday to me too… boring (I don’t like both Monaco or Indy 500)

@tmekt I was just looking for clarification, that’s all, as it could appear as double standards ;)

@kingshark I think it’s a fairly terrible idea: they cost far too much, they ruin the competition in most instances and the number one teams for each manufacturer will have essentially tailor-made tyres. It’s […]

He was still a good deal faster than Hamilton in qualifying.

@puneethvb it is rather insignificant in the end indeed but some feel the helmet is the driver’s idenity as that is about all you see of them driving the car – so some think they ought not to change them so […]

@tmekt forgive me if I’m mistaken, but didn’t you say on the Bahrain rate the race, after I commented on Kimi’s poor qualifying, that it doesn’t matter on the grand scheme of things?

He did really well to hold off Vettel in the first stint and to manage the three stop (keeping a charging, 4-stopping Di Resta behind to boot) and if Hamilton’s performance is any sort of benchmark, he did really […]

I don’t particularly like Ricciardo’s and I definitely don’t like Hamilton’s either, but the rest are all pretty nice (I like the novelty of Vettel’s, but Vergne’s wins it).