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Crane
David Coulthard doing the Gangnam Style dance with Psy had made my morning
hjs
Crane
Slashman X
Vercoe
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Nexus
I dislike Vettel, but hats off to him, today was an awesome performance.
Raikonnen is a legend. "Alonso is catching up." "Leave me alone." "My team was giving me shit for not smiling last week."
Also, I'm a bit bored of the Gangnam Style, but watching EJ, DC and Jake doing it made me laugh.
bluemoon.
Mr Willy
ItsWoosey
Sunday's race was... weird. I thought everything that needed to happen for Seb happened. The first safety car was timed well for him even with the incident on the TR. He made up a good 20 seconds or so on the front pack. Yes the car is fast, yes Seb's a decent driver but the real winner was the second safety car. Another huge gap closed down at the perfect time. Red Bull called him in at the perfect time to get off the supersofts though and get him out before the 5-10 pileup which wouldn't of been possible without the safety car (Bumping him up on the time before the top 10's one stop pits). I don't think he'd of finished on the supersofts, let alone hang on to a podium finish as they'd done an awful lot of laps. There's also 3 cars in the race that were doing everything in their power to help Seb in and out of 8-12th-ish position and of course a stupidly timed pit from RB on Webber which put him back out in the danger zones.
He didn't have to take as many of the quicker cars as he would have as they'd already taken themselves out, too. Little things like contesting with late breaking on non-race lines (colder parts of track) really affect performance and he avoided much of this due to the lack of competition. It wasn't anything special in my opinion, he's still a gobby arrogant shite. The illegal take on Grosjean meant he have to give up his place, which he did forcing Grosjean to take a shit driving line into a DRS zone where he could easily take that back. There needs to be a rule on this and fast. If I was grosjean I'd slam on the breaks and rape the cunt on the DRS myself.
Also I don't understand the hate on Lewis. The guy's a wanker because he says the shit nobody else has the balls to say? He's genuinely raced a fantastic season. Just like at Singapore he bows out in the clear running. From engine failure, gearbox issues and minor failed tweaks costing him valuable time with weakened downforce, front wheel lock ups... Damn. Don't even get me started. Bring on Mercedes!
Glad for Kimi! Deserving win on season consistency.
Slashman X
Vercoe
Fantastic
Slashman X
Boone
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Slashman X
Slashman X
Vercoe
Slashman X
Fantastic
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Mr Willy
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Mr Willy
Pippadoc
It depends whether they think Kobayashi has reached his ceiling, and whether they can make big steps in car development relative to their competitors.
The increased money they bring in from sponsorship could be what they need to make the next step. They've got Hulkenberg who has shown flashes when he's had a car that's competitive (e.g. this weekend just gone) and they've lost Perez who was bringing in a big chunk of sponsorship money himself. So probably just to have the same budget as last year they needed to have a driver who was bringing in big sponsorship money, they lose income they probably end doing worse on the circuit and losing themselves income the following year. Starting a downward trend.
Really I think it should be looked as Gutierrez replacing Perez as their sponsorship driver and Hulkenberg replacing Kobayashi as their (presumably) paid 'No.1/established' driver. If you look at it like that it doesn't seem like such a bad decision.
Phoenix Arrow
I know but it's kind of a shitty way to treat someone who's been getting consistantly better over the years, he got twice as many points this year as last year and got on the podium and got the fastest lap at China. Not to mention he could've been much higher up the points table had the car been slightly more reliable and had Maldonado not been a raging maniac. It seems unlikely that he'll get a seat next year unless a deal can be done with Williams or maybe Lotus if they decide to get rid of Grosjean which they should. Both of those seem unlikely though. It also seems strange to me that Perez has managed to get a drive with McLaren. I mean he's talented, but apart from his 3 podiums, he's been largely poor. I'd have given it another season but I guess they needed someone.
Either way, Kobayashi has become a large part of why I watch F1. Not sure it would be the same for me without him. I know most people don't care, but I really enjoyed his driving style.
Jason
Brilliant race on Sunday too. Both deserved to win it, shame only one of them could.
Vercoe