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Is it just me, or does it look like Patrese has no front wing at 0:36?

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I suspect its due to how stiff the front end of this car is, wont be able to ride the bumps as well as say the Ferrari, which looks pretty supple.

9/10 for me. Couldve been a 10/10 if it weren’t for the pit stop errors for Schumi and Button, which I think would’ve given us a battle for 1st.

The reason noone was passing with DRS was because they were all […]

Don’t forget that this 8 tenths is for “dry qualifying performance “, and that is the delta to the McLaren. The Red Bull has a little delta too, but it’s clear that it has more than enough race pace to bring the […]

Perez speaks italian…. looking more and more like the Ferrari driver a lot of us want him to be :P

7th Jan 92.

Same day as Lewis Hamilton!

I think Raikkonen needs a bit of time. The Lotus pair are very difficult to judge, because Raikkonen blew his qualifying lap in Melbourne, and I suspect Grosjean’s flying lap was a freak lap

Surely that just […]

Gotta be Jenson, the only way he couldve had a better race weekend was to get the Pole on Saturday, but that’s a big ask considering the form Lewis was in on that day. Jenson was on it from the word go in the […]

I don’t think there was a problem with Hamilton’s attitude, and it’s strange how people are linking his bad pace to his mindset. You are doing him a disservice, he’s a professional at the end of the day and by all […]

Hear hear!

Would add a qualifying “race” ahead of the pace in option 5, and
8. Mercedes chew through tyres still, but have good qualy pace.

Methinks this supposed duct gives them good balance when using DRS.

The difference in straight line between Hamilton and Button is pretty interesting, surely the extra wing will help keep the tyres alive.

I suspect Hamilton was running less wing for a faster qualy pace,he […]

It’ll have to be Vettel if he goes for the 2 stopper.

On the other hand, Gary Anderson (?, the new BBC tech guy), suggested that a 4 stopper would be marginally quicker than a 2 – which I’m sure Webber would […]

What would be really interesting is some speed trap data Keith, i’m sure you’ll use it for your Race preview later but I’d like to see if the Merc DRS and Duct stuff is noticeable

Stop writing off the BBC coverage before it has even had a chance! Who really knows what it’ll be like, as with the true pace of the cars, until Melbourne Qualy.

Not sure I buy all this “we cant have a budget cap otherwise F1 wont be at the pinnacle” arguing. It’s a fact that the teams don’t have infinite resources, otherwise they’d never worry about getting parts to the […]

rather than a caption, i’d like to keep them silent and add a backing soundtrack.

[The good, the bad and ugly theme - basically the classic cowboy showdown one]

I think the new updates themselves deserve to make the main article (certainly as much as these times that we are repeatedly told do not mean much) – the Red Bull exhaust is pretty clever, and I find it quite cool […]