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I think they should keep DRS but reverse the rules – you can use DRS until you are within 1 second of the car in front. Then we’d still get the close field but no stupid motorway passes. That plus bringing back […]

@calum @timi

They might be at a disadvantage but how do we know that they (Honda) don’t already have an engine developed? It would be a big gamble for McLaren if Honda don’t already have a prototype in test to […]

What about Marussia? They have a technical agreement with McLaren and use (I think) McLaren gearboxes

@steco – I half agree:

DRS + Bridgestones + no refuelling
or
DRS + 2012 Pirelli’s + bring back refuelling

Then F1 will be close to being back to how it should be. driver on the limit each lap, every lap!

I think that the current tyres actually aren’t too bad grip and degraation wise, we are seeing faster quali times than in previous years. The biggest problem I have is that the tyres seemingly can’t cope with the […]

@pandaslap firstly, I love your username :)

I got the impression that Hamilton was more looking for it to be detrimental to performance to leave the track rather than people to get hurt or killed. There should […]

@jcost @nackavich FOM have kind of got a New Media Officer in the shape of Sky… if you have a Sky subscription AND an iPad at least anyway… the “Sky Sports for iPad” app contains a lot of the features of this […]

Is it me or does the front of the Mercedes look a lot like a Platypus?! The shape of the nose looks odd – I hope its brings lots of speed to Lewis

@scuderia29 this is all part of the fun – where would all the banter be without wild predictions based on almost nothing

for what it’s worth – I think Caterham for WCC and Hulkenberg for WDC… hmmm, based on […]

@yobo01 I might be wrong but from what I’ve read McLaren had developed the MP4-27 as far as they could so they have redesigned the car to make it more develop-able through this season… In theory this is a good […]

I really hope they do keep it in the HD pack – we’ll need to get the 4.5 million subscribers to complain if they do remove it form the HD pack!

@toiago I think it was something to do with putting the drivers off when they go past at high speed. I might be wrong though

Consistency is something that needs to improve but they should also have some “fixed-penalty” rules that say how certain things are punished.

i.e. if you overtake someone with 4 wheels outside the white line, […]

@keithcollantine good old trusty BBC Sports News was the source for that snippet :) I guess they just literally looked at the races called the “United States Grand Prix” which makes their fact pretty misleading if […]

Hamilton became only the second driver to win the United States Grand Prix in two separate locations. The Briton also won in Indianapolis in 2007. emulating Formula 1 legend Ayrton Senna, who won the race in […]

Austin will be interesting, if Ferrari get their gearing right like they did in Korea then then could be fast this weekend. On the flip side – Red Bull may have learnt a bit from the change of approach for Vettel […]

to add to this, he had endless hours of testing in McLaren cars to get used to them too

@looseasagoose I read this as well, RBR are the new Renault works team

@andae23 I’ve just been hunting through all these comments just to find your contribution to the stats :( how very rude!

I look forward to your additions after every race, you should be Keith’s co-statistician