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  • Chaos81
    Hall Of Fame
    • Mar 2004
    • 17150

    #481
    Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

    Would have loved to see Ricciardo take P1, but P2 is still a great effort, especially considering how much Vettel was struggling. Hopefully we get a race tomorrow, and it's not just Hamilton driving off into the sunset.

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    • Chaos81
      Hall Of Fame
      • Mar 2004
      • 17150

      #482
      Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

      Would have loved to see Ricciardo take P1, but P2 is still a great effort, especially considering how much Vettel was struggling. Hopefully we get a race tomorrow, and it's not just Hamilton driving off into the sunset.

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      • woody2goody
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        • Mar 2009
        • 2097

        #483
        Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

        I still think Rosberg will win the race tomorrow.

        Apart from that it's hard to judge RBR and McLaren's pace.

        Practice says Toro Rosso should go backwards and Williams forward.

        Will be interesting to see if Kobayashi and Chilton can follow up good qualifying performances.

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        • Chaos81
          Hall Of Fame
          • Mar 2004
          • 17150

          #484
          Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

          So much for that Mercedes reliability.

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          • Chaos81
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            • Mar 2004
            • 17150

            #485
            Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

            Bottas is looking massively quick in the Williams. Climb up 9 or 10 spots, ran into the wall and had to pit, and has already climbed 5 spots in a few laps after the safety car.

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            • woody2goody
              MVP
              • Mar 2009
              • 2097

              #486
              Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

              Enjoyable race today, a much closer race throughout the field than expected

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              • Tovarich
                Hall Of Fame
                • Jul 2008
                • 10884

                #487
                Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

                Poor Ricciardo getting DQ'd for fuel flow. Hard to root against him, even though it's easy to root against Red Bull. Disaster for Lotus. Ferrari not off to a great start.

                Congrats to Kevin Magnusson though, that's a great start to a career.

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                • Mo
                  SSN
                  • May 2003
                  • 11425

                  #488
                  Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

                  bah totally forgot the season started.
                  Don't you EVER read my blog? It's gotten a lot better.

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                  • Tovarich
                    Hall Of Fame
                    • Jul 2008
                    • 10884

                    #489
                    Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

                    Total dominance by Mercedes. Poor Ricciardo again. Webber seemed to have so many more problems on pit stops and with reliability than Vettel, almost to the point that it made me suspicious sometimes. Ricciardo gets the unsafe release on the loose wheel, the wing gets damaged, he gets a penalty just to rub it in a little bit more, then he ends up retiring after all the problems cost them 2 laps basically.

                    Interesting new penalties. I don't know if the drive through still exists or not, Magnusson got a 5 second stop and go for clipping the back of Raikkonen on the first lap, but he didn't have to come in and serve it until his next pit stop, so that's basically just a 5-second penalty. Drive throughs tend to be around 20 or so depending on which pit lane you're in. That's an enormous difference from previous years. Bianchi got one for hitting Maldonado on the first turn, but he retired from the race soon after, so I never saw if he served that one or not.

                    (edit)
                    Ricciardo gets 10 grid spots for next week too. Ouch. I never thought I could feel bad for anything Red Bull, but none of the things that have gone wrong for him are his fault.

                    Raikkonen never recovered from the puncture on the first lap. Presumably there were other issues with the car as he never really threatened for a point. I'm not so sure Raikkonen wasn't the one who deserved a penalty. Probably neither of them deserved one, things just happen sometimes, although Raikkonen had no one below him, so he really didn't need to move out that wide.

                    Williams team orders...not surprised Massa ignored them. He was clearly tired of bowing down to Alonso for those many years. Massa was whining about Bottas early in the race, so on top of the years of playing second fiddle, I'm sure that was part of his reasoning. They told him twice to move over, I don't know if they had any other radio transmissions that didn't make it on, but they didn't seem to go on about it like it was too serious after he was clearly ignoring them.

                    Great race by Hulkenburg. Couldn't hold off Alonso, but well done by him.

                    More reliability issues. Both Saubers had issues, Perez never started. Vergne couldn't finish. Only 14 cars finished, some of the DNF's were from wrecks though. Perhaps this is the year where Marussia or Catherham can eek out a point or two.
                    Last edited by Tovarich; 03-30-2014, 11:58 AM.

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                    • superjames1992
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                      • Jun 2007
                      • 31382

                      #490
                      Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

                      Vettel not making it to Q1? IMPOSSIBLE!

                      But it happened (and for the second time this year). Meanwhile, Ricciardo qualified 3rd.
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                      • Chaos81
                        Hall Of Fame
                        • Mar 2004
                        • 17150

                        #491
                        Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

                        Heck of a start by Lewis.

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                        • Chaos81
                          Hall Of Fame
                          • Mar 2004
                          • 17150

                          #492
                          Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

                          Originally posted by superjames1992
                          Vettel not making it to Q1? IMPOSSIBLE!

                          But it happened (and for the second time this year). Meanwhile, Ricciardo qualified 3rd.
                          It's hilarious to see all the whining coming out of the Red Bull and Ferrari camps.

                          As Ron Dennis said:

                          "These are the regulations we all worked on. Let's just get on with it. Let's stop the whinging."

                          "Most of the moans are coming from uncompetitiveness. Just get on with it and develop your car."

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                          • Chaos81
                            Hall Of Fame
                            • Mar 2004
                            • 17150

                            #493
                            Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

                            That's gonna leave a mark.

                            Lewis isn't going to be happy. That probably just cost him the race win, as he still needs to run the primes while Rosberg can run the softs.
                            Last edited by Chaos81; 04-06-2014, 11:18 AM.

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                            • Mo
                              SSN
                              • May 2003
                              • 11425

                              #494
                              Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

                              Ooof. That was a wild ride
                              Don't you EVER read my blog? It's gotten a lot better.

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                              • Chaos81
                                Hall Of Fame
                                • Mar 2004
                                • 17150

                                #495
                                Re: F1/IRL/All Other Forms of motorsports Thread

                                Mercedes is like 3 seconds a lap faster than everyone else. This is insane.

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