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This was a great race!

I'm starting to understand how the Red Bull haters feel now that Merc is dominating.

 

What's that smell?

From motorsports:

Apr.8 (GMM) Lewis Hamilton claims teammate Nico Rosberg improved between the Malaysian and Bahrain Grand Prix by studying his data.

The 2008 world champion, still 11 points behind championship leader Rosberg despite winning two of the three Grands Prix in 2014, revealed that when the German arrived in Bahrain, he was handed a "big document".

A week earlier in Malaysia, Rosberg had been defeated by Hamilton by no less than 17 seconds, but in Bahrain the Mercedes duo diced wheel-to-wheel for the race win.

"Someone in the team did a huge study on my pace in Malaysia," Hamilton told British newspapers, revealing that the document received by Rosberg detailed "all the places I was quick".

"So I will do the same for the next round in China and hope I can capitalise," he added.

"I am going to study hard for the next two weeks and give it a lot of thought and digest a lot."

Hamilton finished just one second ahead of Rosberg in Bahrain, where the pair fought hard for victory despite team boss Paddy Lowe's radio call that they should "bring both cars home".

"It's great they allowed us to fight and didn't get in the way," said Hamilton.

But he warned that "if every single race is like that from now on, I can't always guarantee we'll both come out happy."

 

When Hammy comes out and says he can count his friends on one hand and Nico is on the list, I guess that would set the tone. Hopefully Hammy is going to get done to him what he did to Alonzo.

Sorry, no I'm not a Hammy fan.

 

I thought that was an interesting quote as well, but he did say that both of them could count their friends on one hand and neither of them were on the other's list.

 

It might have been a veiled reference to the fact that Nico didn't invite Hammy to his wedding next month.

Just got to watching the race last night. WOW.

There's a funny quote from Nikki Lauda that I'll post in a few minutes. Just gotta extract it from the feed, and upload to the youtube machine....

 

Hold on, the FIA just blocked the video. Let's see if I can make it audio only.

 

I'd read elsewhere that Mercedes had moved the compressor. Good to see it confirmed.

 

You know, I may indeed have picked it up from that video. My brain's a mess when it comes to remembering where I read / saw something.

Though now I think of it, the Lotus Ground effects, Williams Active Suspension, and Red Bull Blown Diffuser cited in the video are all banned technologies. Think they'll ban the relocated compressor?

 

This is good news, Haas could truly build an American F1 team that is competitive!!

Now could Ford be the engine supplier...... [emoji41]

 

With big Mac going to them next year, I also am surprised no one has declared, but I'd guess no one wants to tip their hand or screw up their current deal and start getting left over hand me down engines.

 

True but please enter the Ford Ecotech engines they are already racing, technology that could transfer to the F1 engine formula without inventing the wheel. A turbocharged ford Ecotech V6 won yesterday's Tudor race, albeit a 3.5 liter I believe....

And from the way Ferrari is running this year, not too sure that is a great direction either... The whole point me thinks of this new formula was so that more manufacturers could justify an expensive involvement in Formula 1...

 

Formula 1 will always be for marketing value to a engine manufacturer, and the present F1 formula would fit nicely for Ford's "Ecoboost" marketing strategy. Just spit balling here....lol

 

With such great drivers Ferrari has had, and considering where they are at.....this is long overdue.

Racing is about results.

 

Yeah, when we saw him shake his head at the last race, I knew someone was gonna fall on their sword.....

 

Thank god I never had a boss look at me like that, well except for that one

time in 1990. Glad that company went out of business!