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Dudley

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America has some fantastic circuits that, whilst maybe not up to FIA speck, are superb circuits for actual racing on. Lime Rock, Laguna Seca, , Road America (Elkhart Lake) and Watkins Glen all have history and more importantly Herman Tilke has been nowhere near them. Why can’t we go to these circuits? No one in Texas gives a monkies about F1 they’re all NASCAR red necks through and through. Even Indy car struggles down south these days. New York is all about the money yet again.

Lime Rock is a mile too short (and has been recently ruined with chicanes anyway) but more importantly it is legally prevented from hosting races on Sundays.

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Halkyon

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All the talk seems to be about turns 10-11 and front-left tyre wear, but in Codie's game it doesn't feel anything like as loaded as turn 8 in Turkey (and you have a choice of an easier but slower line) so somebody has got it wrong.

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JPR

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This actually looks quite an interesting track, it's not perfectly flat for one which is good to see. Plus it looks like more people in the stands for a Friday practice than some of the newer tracks get for the race, might just be the first race effect though.

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JPR

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From Autosport the double yellows where still being waved on track when he set his lap, so assuming he and Perez drove past as they where still being waved there's no excuse. The technology is great but surely it's the guys on the track you've got to pay attention to, if they're telling you to slow down you do it.

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myoozikk

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from F1 Tech...

The car had been cleared and the FIA signalled to everyone that the yellow flags had been removed. However it seems that some marshalls were still on track and there were waved yellows at that point.

To illustrate the problem here's a live tweet from one of the sites covering FP1:

autosportlive: Hamilton is pressing on again now the yellow flags are clear, clocking the fastest middle and final sectors to top the times in 1m27.261s.

about 1 hour ago by AUTOSPORT Live

The timing screens, steering wheel lights and track side lights were all showing the yellow flags and then showing they had been removed. As others have pointed out this is the first session ever on a new track, the drivers are still learning where the marshalling points are and will be mostly looking to the other systems to show when flags have been removed.

To me this is another case of the FIA cocking up the displays, as they did for Schumacher in Monaco, where they subsequently excessively punish the driver.

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JPR

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Maybe there was some room for leniency with it being new, but I think if you've got marshals on track showing flags you play it safe, what's to say a new incident hasn't occurred and the lights haven't been updated yet. The last week has served as a reminder of how dangerous motorsport still is.

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JPR

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Oh i agree, but i think giving out penalties in this case is very harsh.

Apparently Hamilton is on his second reprimand and the next one gives a 5 grid penalty, so this harsher penalty probably isn't as bad as a slap on the wrist in the form of a reprimand. So being harsher is more lenient, only in F1.

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Apparently Hamilton is on his second reprimand and the next one gives a 5 grid penalty, so this harsher penalty probably isn't as bad as a slap on the wrist in the form of a reprimand. So being harsher is more lenient, only in F1.

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JPR

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Could be something in that. I did think as it's the 2012 wing they're just trying different things to see where the limits are, but that's ridiculously flexi, just need to tap it in the factory and it would be all over the place

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