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LOL @optimaximal, An argument that the team needed looking into quite some time before; hard to imagine the FIA, or drivers themselves, to let a team get there, more than every two races a season an unsafe release!

@optimaximal @vettel1 – Can’t say I agree to be honest.
2009 – Mclaren missed the double diffuser and the car as a whole was pretty awful – took them half a season to correct it and add in the DD.
2010 – […]

@bleeps_and_tweaks agreed with @optimaximal – if anything I think Lotus’ weakness has been precisely that: aero! They were one of the last developers of the Coanda exhaust and it makes frequent mention that the […]

That’s not true @optimaximal. With most drivers we saw them going off by the end of their quick lap – that is after 5 sectors done on them. But Alonso already tried to spare them a bit more and was quick in Q3 of […]

Yes, I felt much the same about it, decided to give him the benefit of the doubt, for now @optimaximal, but I still expect to see him do it again all too soon

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Yes LOOKS. I didn’t say he Is.

But to be fair to myself, I’ve never quoted neither Ricciardo nor JEV as outstanding young drivers, in my book Da Costa is way above average.

@optimaximal Of course is technically possible to use pullrod in a low chassis, but no one will use it because it would have the same angle as pushrod so the aero advantage is lost and you still have the hassle of […]

@optimaximal thanks, yeah I think I listened to that, but I can’t remember the details! Presumably linked to in a way that requires the mechanic to physically trigger the light, right (I.e. not automatically […]

@optimaximal –

Why is everyone reading into this as favouritism and team orders when it’s blatantly stated to be a combined case of ‘we can’t bring enough parts in short order’ and ‘what if the package fails – we […]

@optimaximal Newey did say last year that there was no such thing as the spirit of the regulations. What he failed to realise is that Horner was banging on about the spirit of the regulations when the double […]

@optimaximal I’m a college student so I don’t have huge amounts of money to spend. From free to 105 euros is quite a noticable difference!

@optimaximal although I guess it’s a moot point, but I don’t believe it has anything to do with HMRC (indeed I understand that technically it doesn’t count as a tax, although in practical terms it’s no different). […]

@optimaximal – it matters because there are drivers like Robin Frijns and Antonio Felix Da Costa waiting in the wings. Money doesn’t buy you talent, and talent should be the judge of who gets an F1 seat. It is […]

@optimaximal So does every other team, yet they don’t feel the need to make a fuss over a site selling a mug with characters on them that don’t have any branding on and only slight likenesses. It’s fairly petty if […]

I was not talking about now, but when they first used it (remember they took it off in some races) they confirmed that their capacity was less than what the rules allowed @optimaximal.
They never went into […]

@optimaximal – Except for their cars that finished 5th and 6th.

@optimaximal, you are right about the ERS, I have said so many times before and in this posting. I think it quite likely that teams like McLaren and Williams may develop their own ERS packages and may be prepared […]

@optimaximal – Yeah, obviously should have written Cosworth there. My bad. This is what happens when I have a go at multitasking. :)

@optimaximal, maybe Hamilton doesn’t care about the number when it isn’t a 1, and now it’s Rosbergs turn. Or he does care but ten has a 1 in :-p

@optimaximal – Teams are entitled to assign numbers as they see fit. Most teams prefer to award the lower number (in this case, #9) to the driver who placed higher in the previous year’s World Drivers’ […]