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People knocked Lewis in previous seasons and the impression was given that he was a loner but he generally seems to get on okay with other drivers judging from TV coverage of conversations with Jenson and Sutil.

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Fantastic race by Hamilton, although I would have expected him to overtake Sutil (who did really well). It just seemed that both Hamilton and Button suffered from tyre wear by the end of the race, even though they had fantastic speed on the straights.

If I'm honest, if it hadn't pissed down yesterday this would have been a pretty boring race. It seems there's no chance in overtaking the top 5 cars in the race, irrespective of how fast the car is. No wonder Bernie wants a rain button!

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It used to happen all the time, before the more advanced aero designs. Still common in lower forms of motorsport.

Speaking of which, those who like overtaking - full coverage of BTCC at Thruxton on ITV4 until 6. I love watching Thruxton especially as I've driven there myself :facepalm:

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I didn't even notice that: Vettel survives post-win stewards inquiry

Good race.

It was right at the end, Trulli waved Vettel past, Vettel slowed right down and waved back to Trulli as if to say what are you doing, then built up speed again.

I think at the time Brundle or Davidson (can't remember which I was on!) thought Trulli had waved him past but Vettel had an engine problem so was waving back as if to say I can't! Made the last lap super tense as we thought Vettel was limping home Mansell style.

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DarthSquirrel

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Totally OT but Matt Neal in the BTCC is a fucking cunt.

It picked up where it left off last season. :ph34r: Hopefully some more punch-ups to look forward to this season. Shame all the new liveries are so awful now (bar the CTR, and the new (old) Golf is sexy). I turned it on just as they were explaining the new regs before the last race but only caught the end of the BMW discussion - last I heard was that they'd banned RWDs for this season, so how come there were still loads of 3 series running today?

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I've not been following it coz I find the driving standards (Neal) to be disgusting. You'd think a FWD would get away pretty handy with the engine hanging over the driving wheels even taking into account the weight transfer to the rear.

All I know is the leader was taken out of what was shaping up to be a good race by a cunt who said it was the other guy's fault.

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Malaysia.

Well done to the Redbull boys. As Ferrari and McLaren forget that just holding their hand out of the garage is usually the best sign of “is it raining or not lad”, Redbull score a one two at long last.

Vettel has led the last two races but had nothing to show for it. This time Webber beats the rest to pole in a rain affected qualifying, but could do nothing as Vettel cruised up the inside of turn one and stole the win from the lanky Ozzy driver. Webber weaved around off the line far too busy trying to drive everyone else off the road. Maybe if he concentrated on driving in a straight line he’d have been first.

Vettel pretty much day dreamed to the flag in the end, Webber tried to make a fight off it, but got left behind pretty quickly and then a sticky wheel nut in the Redbull pit put paid to any chance Webber had. Could this be the start of the Redbull steam roller, quite possibly. No one looked like touching them all weekend. Vettel has the speed and consistency, but is he a car breaker.

Webbers 2nd was better than hitting the other drivers and bits of scenery. But really he should have defended the first corner a bit better. I can see Webber getting a win or two this year, but he’s not the complete package like Hamilton, Vettel and Alonso is he. He doesn’t have lady lucks kiss and has a habit of getting far too aggressive when better driver beat him.

3rd for Nico who once again beats his seven times world champion team mate. He took care of Kubica behind him, but didn’t look like touching the Redbulls up front. They cleared off after five turns and he didn’t get any closer all day. Nico is very fast and he’s in a pretty good car, he’s beaten Mickey three for three now, but you do get the feeling that a Mickey on form would have at least chased the Redbull down. Nico has been guilty of falling asleep on more than one occasion, is he getting complacent as Mickey fails to impress.

4th For Kubica again. Another good result. I may have to revise my opinion of the Polish chap. He’s no world champion, but he can be fast when he’s motivated.

5th For Sutil, like Vettel he’s had bad luck up to this point, so it’s a good result from the once back markers of Force India. Liuzzi has been making all the headline so far for the team, so Sutil will be glad to get a good points place under his belt. Expect more results like this at the rest of the high speed track this year.

6th for Hamilton and damn it all he is brilliant. 20th to 6th is just fantastic and not from passing people in the pits or picking up spots as people drop out either. He took eight cars off the line the chased down the top ten until he got to Sutil and couldn’t find a way past. Hamilton is the best race in the field right now and he’s getting better and better. He might not have that final race craft of Alonso or Mickey used to have. But he doesn’t give up and he gets pissed off when he’s not winning. That’s what I want from my racers. Not dullards happy to be picking up the points.

7th For Massa. Is he as fast as Alonso ? The team seem to think so, they didn’t tell him to move over. Massa seems to have the belief and now he’s leading the World Championship. But has he looked winning a race any time soon. That would have to be a big fat Nope, not something that looks like changing anytime soon either.

8th for Button who switched tires early again, but didn’t make the strategy pay this time and then Hamilton beat him into turn one after Hamiltons pit stop. He’d binned the car in Q1 and had to start down in 17th, he did well to get back to 8th, but not as well as Hamilton who beat him from 20th. So much of the new king of McLaren.

9th For Alguersuari, did all right and beat some big names, in an under powered Torro Rosso. Saying that he took his chances when they presented themselves, passing a bunch of better cars without too many dramas, a good result in the fight not to be last

10th for Hulkenberg and this weeks best of the Williams drivers. Barrichello stalled it on the line so the Hulk gets to pick up the points for Frank and co.

Of the Tail End Charlies. Virgin comes up trumps with Di Grassi beating Chandhok and Senna in the HRTs, Trulli in the Lotus was way behind five laps down on the winner. A very good result for the Virgin boys who haven’t had too much to shout about these last few weeks, beating the Malaysian Lotus on home soil will have made Branson happy. Or kept him interested for another week, now he’s not hob knobbing with the winners anymore he seems a touch more reluctant to be seen around the garages doesn’t he. Oh well.

There we go then. The young guns from Milton Keynes get both cars home with a great One Two. That’s what they’ll have to do from now on if they want to lift the trophy at the end of the year. Malaysia was a good race because the qualifying was mixed up by the weather. Once the big boys got back to familiar territory it was the same old story, with fast cars stuck behind faster cars.

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Sidewaysbob

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Spa is a easy to get to and beautiful.

Monza is chaotic and fantastic.

Turkey has nobody there so will be easy to get tickets for.

Both spainish races are dull but the tickets are reasonably priced

Germany has a great stadium section sthat will be going mad for Mickey this year.

Silverstone always has best fans but the worst camping imaginable.

I'd go with Spa everytime, but be prepared to get wet at some stage of the weekend. Then silverstone and then Monza.

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marsh

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Seems to have sailed under the radar but Ferrari are allready at engine number four of their eight for the year. Grid penalties applenty by the end of the season I think.

Reading Brundles comments about the weekend I think Alonso deliberately kept his toe down to piss off his engineer's. Pick the pieces out of that one.

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It's a limited number of engines, not a limited number of changes, which means that they can swap the sealed units in and out as much as they like as long as they dont start getting new ones off the shelf.

there are rumours, based on what ferrari did at bahrain, that couple of the ferrari engines in the set are qually-optimised motors, as opposed to the rest being "race" units.

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It always used to amaze me about engine failures in F1 cars. The whole thing is so tight that it's an utter bastard to even turn over, and when it is running it's effectively trying to rip itself in two, which in Alonso's case probably happened.

And who could forget mr Brundles Mclaren lunching itself on the grid at silverstone all those years ago.

Love the bit at 30 seconds 'we have ignition!'

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I don't think that's possible to have a qualy engine. Rules seem to say that any engine changed after qualifying can no longer be used for qualifying or the race, with the exception of the final race. I think Alonso has 6 engines left now, engine 1 was changed after Bahrain qualification, but could be used for practice if it still works, engine 2 Bahrain race, then engine 3 used in Australia and left in Malaysia.

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