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  1. Crashton

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    #1504 Crashton, Oct 28, 2014
    I love all racing. I don't see the change from the last dominant team to the current one a bad thing. The last team was on top for 4 years, yep change is good. More than one team has won this year & that is great.

    Too much stuff & crazy complexity on the current cars, yes there sure is, but it is what we have. I've enjoyed the racing this year in spite of the crazy tech.

    Big teams with boat loads of money running at the front while underfunded racers wallow around in the back, racing has always been this way from SCCA to F1. Don't see how that can ever change.
     
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    #1515 Nathan, Oct 29, 2014
    We now have our own pundit!
     
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    #1548 ScottinBend, Nov 3, 2014
    He's second in the points cause he isn't as good a driver as Hamilton is. If Hamilton hadn't had the bad luck he did early in the season, he would have a much bigger lead.
     
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    #1558 mrntd, Nov 5, 2014
    CVC Capital Partners makes enough money to spend a little more to keep the teams.

    I'm glad they did. If the 3 teams would have boycotted the USGP that would be the end of F1 in the US for a very long time.
     
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    #1570 Alan, Nov 10, 2014
    It was Hobbs that kept doing that - his math skills are dubious. He also makes me crazy calling tenths of a seconds hundredths or vice versa. Same with hundredths and thousandths of a second.

    I was glad to see Matchett jump in and correct him on a few things.
     
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    #1575 mrntd, Nov 11, 2014
    Kind of like Prost and Senna. Or Senna and Prost.
     
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    #1586 mrntd, Nov 12, 2014
    I don't know where the 92% came from the rules say that only 48% can be changed for next year.

    Nothing hybrid is cheap. Toyota just celebrated 20 years of it's hybrid. They won't have still been here if it weren't for politics and subsidies. Don't get me wrong I love the electrically assisted turbos. But the rest is just expensive electronics and added weight.
     
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    #1598 mrntd, Nov 14, 2014
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    Dam progressives trying to save us all from ourselves again. :crazy::mad5:
     
  9. Steve

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    #1601 Steve, Nov 14, 2014
    That also fits into what I think of as his view of F1 as a show for paying spectators rather than a sport.

    All you really need is a crew of employees to take the F1 Circus from venue to venue and put on a glamorous show (centered around a bit of racing) for the paying customers. But a crew of employees capable of a proper F1 show would cost a lot of money so you need to let others spend their own money on the racing side of things. Plus only the largest, most moneyed teams can afford to bring all the stuff that his best paying customers think is important so let them carry the load and let the teams with less money go back to GP2.
     
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    #1605 Zapski, Nov 14, 2014
    Pretty much. It seems we've gone straight past Silly Season and right through Stupid Season and beyond.....
     
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    #1608 Stinker, Nov 14, 2014
    Where does he think the new YOUNG drivers are coming from? How many 70 year olds are out there with that kind of money! (that like racing) Their spending that money on 20 year olds girls.
     
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    #1609 Steve, Nov 14, 2014
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    He should be trying to attract people to the racing, young AND old, for the sake of the racing, but he isn't interested in that. He may have been, decades ago, but not anymore. The racing is just a means to an end and only needs to be attractive enough to interest people who have money to burn and are already fans of racing (and/or fans of the glamor they expect from F1) so he can keep his big money sponsors happy. This also means F1 needs to have a particular type of appeal (as defined by Bernie and his rich cronies) given his myopic view of what "people with money" want to see at a race.

    Also, and despite what he says, I don't think Bernie hates new media just because he's old. Well...not entirely. I bet the main reason he's so anti-new media is he knows that's where many of us get information and other access in ways he can't easily control. TV contracts are simple (or relatively so) and guarantee big money while figuring out how to control access via hundreds or thousands of other media sources means lots more work and significant potential for less money with which to line his pockets, all collected at more of a nickle and dime pace.
     
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    #1610 Steve, Nov 14, 2014
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    Check out this snip (from this excellent article by Nigel Roebuck - long but worth the read) with a spot-on quote from Ken Tyrrell.

     
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    #1619 Crashton, Nov 20, 2014
    Both my heart & mind say Hamilton. :D
     
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    #1626 B.A.D., Nov 20, 2014
    New Blipshift shirt

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    #1643 Crashton, Nov 22, 2014
    The tobacco & alcohol ban at this race seems reasonable to me. We (F1) are having a race in their country so observing local customs seems sensible to me. Just my .02....
     
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    #1648 Nathan, Nov 22, 2014
    Nothing to really lose in trying.
     
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    #1654 minimark, Nov 24, 2014
    Sad and very anti climatic that ERS woes ended any chance of some sort of shoot out in the last race... With that me thinks Rosberg said it best, Lewis was just a bit better all season and that he needed to find that tiny bit more in his driving during the off season....

    Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton for winning the most races and the 2014 Driver's Championship!
     
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    #1657 Crashton, Nov 25, 2014
    Didn't matter that Rosberg had a problem. The race for the championship was over after the first turn. :yesnod: I wish the race for the championship could have been a battle to the last turn of the last lap. As it was it was great to see the championship lead go back & forth through the season.
     
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    #1665 Angib, Nov 29, 2014
    Actually, the women's news in Formula 1 is that Susie Wolff is having her test driver role at Williams expanded next year with regular Friday practice drives. She did practice at Hockenheim this year, getting within 0.2 seconds of Massa.

    And if this Scottish woman's surname seems familiar, she is married to Toto Wolff of Mercedes which must make for some difficult conversations at home.
     
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