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It's an entirely reasonable way to run a team to get the biggest paydriver you can in and use it to pay for the best driver you can attract in seat 2. Where it falls down of course is if that best driver is Felipe Massa.
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Practical concerns do kick in at some point though, Williams learned that one with Pastor, if your mechanics are constantly rebuilding the car then they burn out and they quit, or they don't have time to double check to make sure equipment that can burn down your garage is safe.
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Malaysia gone....Germany and France back in 2018. Where will the French GP be held? Ban anyone who says Paul Ricard
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julian assflange posted:Malaysia gone....Germany and France back in 2018. Where will the French GP be held? Ban anyone who says Paul Ricard They're apparently setting up temporary grandstands at the circuit which must not be mentioned for a race there.
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Apr 7, 2017 08:44
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They could borrow some of the ones China don't need
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Mclaren ran faster than mercedes in FP1, and ran as many laps as ferrari in FP2. Have they finally got their issues sorted? it certainly looks like it, i'm prediciting a nando podium in china.
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Powershift posted:Mclaren ran faster than mercedes in FP1, and ran as many laps as ferrari in FP2. Hahahahahahahahaaaaaa
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Spaced God posted:It might've gotten caught up in the FP1 Chat but this year is the last Malaysia race RIP a good track held at a useful time of day. As a mark of respect I hope Vettel holds up Hamilton as Kimi
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I can't get enough of are Dan
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Powershift posted:They're apparently setting up temporary grandstands at the circuit which must not be mentioned for a race there. Seriously? Fair enough.....
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Holy gently caress China is amateur hour.
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DoctorGonzo posted:Holy gently caress China is amateur hour. I can't understand why they won't just agree to make a police escort available to give an ambulance a reasonable chance of making it to the nearest FIA approved hospital in time. This seems like a basic rear end contingency plan to get venues to arrange, especially in light of Suzuka a few years back.
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So what happens if FP3 is cancelled too? They give up or people just give it their best guess on setup?
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NtotheTC posted:So what happens if FP3 is cancelled too? They give up or people just give it their best guess on setup? There's some talk of binning FP3 and running qualifying and the race tomorrow because the forecast for sunday is this same poo poo. It probably won't happen, but the race could be hosed up by smog/fog
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Powershift posted:There's some talk of binning FP3 and running qualifying and the race tomorrow because the forecast for sunday is this same poo poo. China is a great country and I for one would be sad to see it join it's smoggy-piece-of-poo poo brother India in being dropped from the F1 calendar.
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Theophany posted:I can't understand why they won't just agree to make a police escort available to give an ambulance a reasonable chance of making it to the nearest FIA approved hospital in time. This seems like a basic rear end contingency plan to get venues to arrange, especially in light of Suzuka a few years back. Drivers don't pull over for emergency vehicles in China, doesn't matter if it's police or ambulance. I used to live next to a hospital and every time I went outside I would see ambulances stuck in traffic. Also, unless something has changed since 2013, the FIA approved hospital is just about on the other side of the city, and Shanghai is a expansive loving city. In other words; DoctorGonzo posted:Holy gently caress China is amateur hour.
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fish and chips and dip posted:the FIA approved hospital is just about on the other side of the city You'd think that part of the FIA approval process would be "Hospital is not on the other side of a city that is impossible to cross in road vehicles in a reasonable timeframe"
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fish and chips and dip posted:Drivers don't pull over for emergency vehicles in China, doesn't matter if it's police or ambulance. 
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Too bad the consequences for developing races in 3rd world shitholes is coming after bernie left.
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https://twitter.com/1990sf1/status/850060470761529347 gently caress yeah old Hockenheim was rad
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http://news.sky.com/story/mclaren-honda-brings-3d-printing-to-formula-one-10828031 Too bad they can't 3D print a decent power unit.
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Theophany posted:I can't understand why they won't just agree to make a police escort available to give an ambulance a reasonable chance of making it to the nearest FIA approved hospital in time. This seems like a basic rear end contingency plan to get venues to arrange, especially in light of Suzuka a few years back. Maybe they will for qualifying and race, but not practice?
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I suppose. I doubt Liberty are about to let themselves look like billion dollar chucklefucks in front of a global audience by not sorting something workable out.
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I like the idea of frequent title changes (thanks IOS) but "F1 2017: PU trouble in little china" would be good 
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I'm legitimately surprisedthat I'm the first to comment on McLaren's abortion of a T-wing
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Tsaedje posted:I'm legitimately surprisedthat I'm the first to comment on McLaren's abortion of a T-wing You're not.
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I wonder if the radio gets better reception now with that thing on the car.
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Khablam posted:You're not. drat you for making me re-read the last few pages to discover that in fact there was no mention of McLaren attaching a coathanger to their sharkfin
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Tsaedje posted:drat you for making me re-read the last few pages to discover that in fact there was no mention of McLaren attaching a coathanger to their sharkfin https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3814128&pagenumber=81&perpage=40#post471091195 and https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3814128&pagenumber=81&perpage=40#post471092984
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wicka posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3814128&pagenumber=81&perpage=40#post471091195 I'll never recover from this
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Tsaedje posted:I'll never recover from this You're getting slow, old man.
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Funzo posted:I wonder if the radio gets better reception now with that thing on the car. Maybe, maybe not. But they'll certainly get fewer creases in their race suits after drying them on that.
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1500quidporsche posted:The overreaction to Bianchi's death, where the issue was literally don't have a loving crane that a car can submerge under on the runoff to a corner, is so god drat stupid. It was also dark as gently caress mate
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1500quidporsche posted:I'm just going to keep loudly saying how great my dad's snap-on one is until he caves.
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1500quidporsche posted:The overreaction to Bianchi's death, where the issue was literally don't have a loving crane that a car can submerge under on the runoff to a corner, is so god drat stupid. 
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Ignoring waved yellows is ingrained in every F1 driver http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39503827/jenson-button-disqualified-from-ironman-competition-for-speeding
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So no race on saturday. Mister helicopter will have to work on sunday or wont be a race at all.
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For once, F1 is worse than the Worst Thread.
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