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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Ecclestone bribe case decision due 5 days, 15 hours ago

    Have you not seen the picture of his front tyre at the end of the race ?
    Worn right through the tread.

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Ecclestone bribe case decision due 5 days, 16 hours ago

    You might argue that’s not comparing like with like.
    So what about the winners’ Q3 times ?
    Maldonado 2012 – 1:22:1
    Alonso 2013 – 1:21:2

    Still think nothing has changed since last year ?

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Ecclestone bribe case decision due 5 days, 16 hours ago

    “Alonso’s total race time was 7 seconds slower than Maldonado’s 2012 time. That’s 0.1s per lap.”

    But the pole position time was a full second quicker this year.
    Which demonstrates that during the race drivers […]

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Rate the race: 2013 Spanish Grand Prix 1 week ago

    5/10
    In contrast to many here, I’m quite happy to follow a tactical race – but when cars are four stopping and still having to nurse new primes just to get through the stint (eg Hamilton “I can’t drive any slower […]

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Rate the race: 2013 Spanish Grand Prix 1 week ago

    Except the hard tyres weren’t any more durable.

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, FIA telemetry system to be fixed for Spain 2 weeks, 3 days ago

    “Today, it’s not the fastest driver… who wins…”

    … but the one with the biggest budget.

    Nice to see your concern for the purity of the sport, Dietrich.

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Button and Perez “clear the air” over clash 3 weeks, 4 days ago

    “the change he felt in the car was too drastic to be attributed to the cooler temperatures ”

    Switching from used options to new primes could well explain the difference.
    I’m still puzzled by his running two […]

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix tyre strategies and pit stops 3 weeks, 6 days ago

    (Edit)
    Hamilton’s second stint.
    (Though Rosberg also used only two sets of the hard tyre).

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix tyre strategies and pit stops 3 weeks, 6 days ago

    Why did Mercedes run their second stints on the option ?
    No other team did this, and it surely cost them lap time.

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Rate the race: 2013 Chinese Grand Prix 1 month ago

    Gave it a 7.

    Not a classic, as too heavily tyre determined, but full of incident.
    Alonso did not put a wheel wrong, and Ferrari’s race strategy worked perfectly.

    I’m far from sure that we saw Mercedes real […]

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Hamilton wary of threat from Raikkonen and Alonso 1 month ago

    “I can only picture HAM giving Macca 2 big fingers to them”

    Hardly.
    He gave Button a hug after the race.

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Webber to start from the back of the grid 1 month ago

    “It is the second time in six races Red Bull have had a car sent to the back of the grid for this reason.”

    Setting aside ridiculous conspiracy theories (please), how can the best funded team in F1 repeat a […]

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Hamilton on pole as Red Bull hit trouble 1 month ago

    Hamilton looking very good for the win, as I don’t think Ferrari’s ability to run longer on the options is going to help them enough to compensate for their slower pace on the prime.

    The Mercedes has enough […]

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Horner: Vettel and Webber have a “healthy rivalry” 1 month, 1 week ago

    “I doubt very much they’ll be spending the summer break together or Christmas but that’s not what we pay them for.”

    Obeying team orders, though ?

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Hamilton: Soft tyre “not right for this circuit” 1 month, 1 week ago

    Massa seemed OKish on the soft.

    Not an ideal tyre to start the race on, though.

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Hamilton: Soft tyre “not right for this circuit” 1 month, 1 week ago

    “In the Race situation the Top 10 will start on Soft Tyres”

    I’ll be extremely surprised if all 10 do so.

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Hamilton: Soft tyre “not right for this circuit” 1 month, 1 week ago

    “Qualifying 11th is the target then”

    Why would you say that ?
    There is no obligation to run in Q3, so at the very least, qualifying 10th would seem more sensible.
    Also, there’s no obligation to run on the […]

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Hamilton: Soft tyre “not right for this circuit” 1 month, 1 week ago

    Hamilton did 27 laps on a set of mediums, so 2 stops ought to be viable.
    The soft looks pretty gruesome, and I don’t expect too many runners to start on it.

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Massa: Red Bull’s team orders not “intelligent” 1 month, 1 week ago

    Nice to see Felipe not on the receiving end of the mind games for once.

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    Nigel Bates commented on the post, Webber: Quitting over Malaysia ‘certainly not in mind’ 1 month, 1 week ago

    Surely the point is that although we’ve all formed our opinions, many of us are far from ready to “move on” – as indeed appears to be the case for the protagonists in this.
    It is surely news that Vettel has now […]

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