2014 Petronas Malaysia Grand Prix
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Was anyone watching Sky just then? Did that forklift have on the back of it wong forklift? 
Poor Massa though getting almost exactly the same message as in 2010.
Congratulations to Lewis and Mercedes. They are really the team to beat.
Good job by the Caterhams as well.
Poor Massa though getting almost exactly the same message as in 2010.Congratulations to Lewis and Mercedes. They are really the team to beat.
Good job by the Caterhams as well.
I grew up watching McLaren vs Ferrari, Schumacher vs Hakkinen. Yes teams do occasionally dominate but most of the time it's closer. Hopefully the other teams catch up quicker than in 2009 and Brawn.
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"Hey, Ricciardo is doing too well... let's risk an unsafe release penalty, burn a few thousand dollars on that... then let's break our own car... carbon fiber is cheap, right? That's only a few tens of thousands more... And let's jeopardize our chances at a Constructor's Championship, too. What's a few million dollars, one way or another, right?
I mean, it's much easier than telling our rookie to slow down a teensy bit, on pain of losing his contract..."
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maybe ure right, but its easy to make yourself believe that someone else will bounce up, with so many cars - even the toro rossos - not being all that bad. And then there is lotus true pace of which we havent seen yet.
To be honest even if Merc continues to dominate it still could be one of the more exciting seasons based on the mid pack battle alone.
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Why only Ricciardo had the same sensor issue again. RB obviously want to prove it's not reliable so they can use their own. Knowing Horner and Newey I would call silly all those that would not even consider this one as a possibility.
I'm sorry for Ricciardo but here it is, Mark Webber 2.0.I don't consider any team sabotaging their own car on purpose a possibility, no.Why only Ricciardo had the same sensor issue again. RB obviously want to prove it's not reliable so they can use their own. Knowing Horner and Newey I would call silly all those that would not even consider this one as a possibility.
You don't know Horner and Newey and you have zero evidence of anything but coincidence and bad luck.
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You call yourself a F1 expert right? Have you heard Matesichtz and Marko opinion about this fuel thing, and fuel limitations in F1? "It's not good for our marketing" they said.
Well when it's "RedBull gives you wings" and not "Redbull makes you save fuel" they are kind of true from this point of view.
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I don't call myself an expert anything. I only watch F1 for the lulz.
I actually wouldn't put it past Red Bull to do all their engine mapping and possibly aerodynamic experiments with Ricciardo, rather than Vettel... against the chance the FIA allow them to ditch the sensor. Of course you're going to do that with your number two driver. Who was possibly only faster in the first race because he was running the more extreme, possibly illegal engine map.
I wouldn't put any mileage into any claim of them purposely sending Ricciardo out with a wonky wheel, because the millions they stand to lose in the Constructor's championship are worth more than keeping their boy Seb happy.
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Why only Ricciardo had the same sensor issue again. RB obviously want to prove it's not reliable so they can use their own. Knowing Horner and Newey I would call silly all those that would not even consider this one as a possibility.
How does Vettel's failure in Melbourne fit into this little theory of yours?
That a team can favour its number one driver is not unusual, but to deliberately take steps to compromise the reliability of their other car is not worth considering.
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It's happened already, last year with Pirelli tyres. Redbull knows F1 is not only about track it's about politics, and they do their own interests pretty well. They are in F1 for marketing not for 2nd place in constructor championship.
He had an issue with Renault power unit, not the sensor. And they are no longer happy with Renault but that's another story.
Exactly.
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I didn't hear anything but the British anthem.
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Add break? The Constructors anthem follows directly after the drivers anthem.
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Of course Red Bull are playing politics with the Fuel Flow issue. If you'd read the Flowgate-gate thread, you'd see where we're discussing this.
But to suggest they'd need to do anything besides tell Ricciardo to turn down the fuel flow due to some unspecified problem to slow him down (because he was like mad fast, yo, in the first race, due to having the possibly illegal fuel maps that Red Bull just happened to give him)... requires them to be petty enough to throw away millions in money just because they don't like Daniel's face.
Red Bull is just too annoyingly competent for that. You might be thinking about Ferrari.
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Of course Red Bull are playing politics with the Fuel Flow issue. If you'd read the Flowgate-gate thread, you'd see where we're discussing this.
But to suggest they'd need to do anything besides tell Ricciardo to turn down the fuel flow due to some unspecified problem to slow him down (because he was like mad fast, yo, in the first race, due to having the possibly illegal fuel maps that Red Bull just happened to give him)... requires them to be petty enough to throw away millions in money just because they don't like Daniel's face.
Red Bull is just too annoyingly competent for that. You might be thinking about Ferrari.
I see what you did there with that Ferrari comment, oh you sly dog. (For those not aware HKS is a massive Ferrari fan/supporter.)
