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Nice to hear Hamilton gracious in defeat, and not the spoilt brat we sometimes hear. However, he has reason to be optimistic, as he was also slower than Rosberg on Friday in China, but humiliated him in […]

Instead of a “street specialist” I’d say Mark is just track specific. He’s often excellent at Monaco, Silverstone, Sao Paulo, Barcelona, Spa, Malaysia, Suzuka and the Nurburgring, but not many tracks besides. Its […]

@bascb @nomore – Let’s not let context exaggerate Rosberg’s skill beyond actuality. Last year at Monaco, he had a car good enough to take pole and the win; he didn’t. Last year at Bahrain, he had a car good enough […]

@BasCB @makana – Strategically, all Mercedes need to do is avoid the undercut. That’ll happily coincide with their higher tyre degradation which’ll mean they’ll probably be the first cars to pit. Following this […]

@kingshark @vettel1

Rosberg will be a factor, have no doubt, but if you want a perfect, no holes barred lap around Monaco, a lap that is ultimately probably going to be 80% of the weekend, Hamilton’s your man. […]

Rosberg simply doesn’t have that ultimate level of speed that Hamilton has. When Lewis gets a bit lost on strategy, like in Spain, he can look somewhat average, but Monaco isn’t a hard track for setup so that […]

@keithcollantine – Thanks for my first COTD! This site rocks…

Personally I wouldn’t be surprised to see BMW return to F1. They are very much stealing Audi’s crown of the “Motorsport Masters” with their incredible return to DTM with the revolutionary M3 E96 DTM and the DTM […]

@keithcollantine – I know it’s somewhat off topic Keith, but who do you think is going to win? I was wondering whether you had some enlightening perspective on the general consensus on this forum – that of a […]

@mw As we saw last year in qualifying there are of course variables to consider (I don’t think anyone expected a Schumacher pole…I was expecting a Grosjean pole!) but in F1 there is occasionally the convergence […]

He was pretty awesome there in GP2, and managed to get the FW33 up into 6th place in 2011…before being taken out by Hamilton. Nonetheless it was a great performance in a car seemingly more suited to ornamental […]

Let me make this quite plain. Just because Rosberg has out-qualified Hamilton in the past two races, don’t think Nico enters the Monaco GP as Mercedes’ best chance for victory. Do not underestimate Hamilton, […]

The only reason anyone could fathom a good for Hulkenberg is because it is a driver’s circuit, and the Hulk, being one of the very best on the grid, can certainly make a difference. That is if Hulkenberg’s head is […]

Guess who I voted for…

Yeah, that’s it. In testing there were no DRS restrictions, and I think Hamilton set that on the softs. Throw in a bit of extra engine power and it all makes sense, and actually makes 0.6 seconds look relatively […]

Raikkonen is a good call, and is certainly who I’m putting my pound on.

Its much too easy to look at Bahrain and assume that that’s the form-book. Remember Australia? Red Bull were destroying their tyres, and that continued into Malaysian practice. Vettel got pole in Malaysia, but we […]

1:20.7 with four races worth of R and D, plus full commitment and 0.6 seconds lower than Hamilton in testing. I simply don’t understand that.