2014 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix
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- OutlawQuadrant
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- HamiltonMP427
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- PsuPepperoni
It's supposed to look like that
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- mikeerfol96
Νο, it's broken.
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- Whodoyouthink
You mean melted.
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- MRT_Cinnamon
I missed the second half of the race, how did Perez went from 16th to 7th???? 
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It was a close one. That Safety Car may, paradoxically, have saved him from being overtaken near the end... though Ricciardo had his own problems.
This was a rare (in-team) win for Vettel... he's been closing the qualifying gap, and he always gets terrific starts, but Ricciardo still has the better of him in full race pace.
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If Alonso had only one of the Red Bull cars to deal with, I think he would have had no trouble. Vettel's tyres were gone at the end and Ricciardo had power issues. But they were close enough Ricciardo got the benefit of Sebastian's power with draft and DRS, negating his own power issues enough to keep Alonso at bay, and Vettel had Ricciardo protecting him from Alonso. Win Win for Red Bull at the end.
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No, it gives it less drag
How else was Vettel suppose to one up DR this weekend
?Bit of interesting fallout from the Singapore race with McLaren believing that Red Bull went against the new radio communication rules. Honestly, I don't think further action will be taken by McLaren but I hope they do (take further action).
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Red Bull have said they consulted with the stewards at the time. Their argument was that even though "stay off the kerbs" was a banned message, it was the cause of and/or solution to Ricciardo's battery problem, and since discussing those issues is not banned, the context made it okay.
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In the post race lull, another site I work for has posted "The World's Hardest F1 Quiz"...
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"You will need to brake ten meters later in Turn Five, else your MG-UK will explode."
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- Peasantslayer
Although a Mercedes won that ^ doesn't reflect too well on them.
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Rosberg's car was contaminated by a "foreign substance", it sounds bad and a lot of F1 sites are making click bait titles out of it but the problem was caused by "a residue of a material used in pre-event servicing".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/29387429
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/29387429
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Imagine the uproar if it had been Hamilton's car that had been contaminated ...
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There is a bit of an uproar on Twitter but as Mercedes said it was caused by "a residue of a material used in pre-event servicing", it's not like something unusual was found but the phrase "foreign substance" makes it sound like that.
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No, I mean that if Hamilton had been adversely affected, there would be a full-blown conspiracy and comparisons to Nigel Stepney's actions in Monaco a few years ago.
The most likely culprit here seems to be carbon fibre dust. The damn stuff gets everywhere, and it's highly conductive.
The most likely culprit here seems to be carbon fibre dust. The damn stuff gets everywhere, and it's highly conductive.
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On 'Planet F1' there are conspiracy theories about Nico's steering wheel contamination. Imagine that...
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I think it would probably be worse if it had happened to Hamilton because of his mechanical failures prior to Singapore and the controversial incidents in Monaco and Spa, in addition to that it would have probably meant game over for his championship.
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Yeah that's no surprise...he has a fan base too. What PM is saying is that many from Hamilton's fan base have come out of the wood work to basically claim that Nico has been given this silver spoon and any failures Hamilton does have seem to be the inner workings of MAMG at play. More people seem to go crazy about a Hamilton issue and see a Nico issue as the universe balancing itself out. I'm a Hamilton fan and I don't see any conspiracy, what I see is two drivers doing anything to win. If that means doing a risky maneuver at Spa and consequently taking out said fellow driver and then winning when he was leading. Or opposite driver not allowing his team mate to pass through due to differing pit strategies at Hungary and with both cases basically telling the world I had to prove a point.
There is obviously more cases to draw from this season between them (Bahrain or Monaco for example), but the point is it is them as drivers making the scenarios and the team is background noise. Not some supplier of this grand conspiracy to help out one driver over the other. PM once again is saying that those who do believe MAMG is to blame usually are shouting out louder in favor of Hamilton then Nico, but both crowds exist he never denied that.
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That's ignorance.
Just like the people in the stone age, "everything is the result of mysterious magic dark forces".
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A failure for the Hamster would be "status quo"... you kind of expect his car to explode seven ways to Thursday any given race weekend. And if it doesn't, he'll overcook his first lap in qualifying and miss his chance at a second one, or overcook his second lap and get nicked by Nico.
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As it is... with Nico having gone... whoops... off the track to give Hamilton the lead in the previous race and this downright strange contamination issue (seriously, don't they assemble these things in an airtight room with surgical gloves?
) in this one... I think the air is pretty ripe for conspiracy theories.
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As it is... with Nico having gone... whoops... off the track to give Hamilton the lead in the previous race and this downright strange contamination issue (seriously, don't they assemble these things in an airtight room with surgical gloves?
) in this one... I think the air is pretty ripe for conspiracy theories.
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Yes, i understand all that. I was just merely pointing out that wacky headcases are on both sides of the coin...
True.. but with a comment like this:
It looks as though he's suggesting, that conspiracy theories are an exclusivity of just Hamilton fans, when in-fact they aren't.. as i pointed out there are conspiracy theories on other sites about Nicos' misfortunes.
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As if Nico has never went off track when he has had multiple offs in the last 4/5 races, in Germany he was really struggling to get a lap together in Q1 and Hamilton's brake failure brought a red flag out which enabled him to put fresh tyres on, he had an off in the Hungary race when no one was anywhere near him and he should have been coasting (Q3 as well but the conditions were terrible), Spa qualifying, Singapore qualifying/might have been P3. Of course he also had the offs in Canada and Monaco which benefitted him greatly and very nearly went off on the final lap of Austria when Lewis was coming at him as well as struggling to get a quali lap together at Shanghai and spinning at the final corner, Nico was under a huge amount of pressure in Monza and braking too late into T1 there isn't uncommon so surely Nico going off is "status quo".
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