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It is surprising that in an operation as well staffed and equipped as an F1 team, there wasn't a spare set of Mk I eyeballs to confirm the computer predictions for Mercedes.
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Originally Posted by vapilot2004
It is surprising that in an operation as well staffed and equipped as an F1 team, there wasn't a spare set of Mk I eyeballs to confirm the computer predictions for Mercedes.
Automation is only as good as the coding that was written (by a human).
We should all take caution.
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I was just thinking back to my first Grand Prix back at Silverstone in 1973. The cast list included Stewart, Cevert, E Fittipaldi, Peterson, Hulme, Revson, Scheckter, Regazzoni, Lauda, Beltoise, Pace, Reutemann, Mass, Hunt, Watson,Hailwood, Hill, Oliver, W.Fittipaldi, Ickx and the ill-fated duo of Williamson and Purley. A somewhat stronger field than today with rather more personalities than we see in the modern era !
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Did you forget de Adamich?
The race was stopped at the end of the second lap, before being restarted over the original 67-lap distance with 18 of the original 29 cars (
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LOL - ok, lets pop in De Adamich, Beuttler, Von Opel, Follmer and McRae just to be complete and whilst we are there lets add Alan Jones who was in the F3 race ! I make that 17 drivers who had won or would later win Grands Prix and most of them individually had more personality than todays grid put together......then again I would allow for Ricciardo, Alonso and Raikkonen who do amuse from time to time !
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Sanctions pending!
Looks like sanctions will be imposed this week to include Boris and his spider web of enterprises
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bori...vich_Rotenberg
CNN: The Trump administration expected to sanction “several” additional Russian oligarchs with ties to Putin over the 2016 election interference, according to two senior administration officials. The officials said the sanctions will likely come later this week.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bori...vich_Rotenberg
CNN: The Trump administration expected to sanction “several” additional Russian oligarchs with ties to Putin over the 2016 election interference, according to two senior administration officials. The officials said the sanctions will likely come later this week.
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"How on earth have Torro Rosso managed to qualify 6th and 11th?!"
With HONDA POWER!
What's Japanese for "Suck it, McLaren!" "それを吸う McLaren!" I guess .... Someone should have told McLaren to "remember Pearl Harbor" before they slapped Honda across the chops with a gauntlet.
Now we wait to see if Vettel has a slightly worse start than Raikkonen, followed by a very dramatic coming-together at the first corner.
With HONDA POWER!
What's Japanese for "Suck it, McLaren!" "それを吸う McLaren!" I guess .... Someone should have told McLaren to "remember Pearl Harbor" before they slapped Honda across the chops with a gauntlet.
Now we wait to see if Vettel has a slightly worse start than Raikkonen, followed by a very dramatic coming-together at the first corner.
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Originally Posted by chuks
With HONDA POWER!
But yes. I've wondered for some while whether McLaren might have made another catastrophic error of judgement in binning Honda. It might have made sense to cut their losses after one season of the partnership, but given they've endured a lot of pain over several seasons you wonder whether it might have been better to try and recoup something on the investment. Of course, their totemic lead driver might have had something to say on the matter.......
What puzzles me is that they claim the car itself is pretty good. So given they have the same donk as Red Bull they ought to be qualifying 4th row at the very least. Something doesn't seem at all right.
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Originally Posted by Octane
How on earth have Torro Rosso managed to qualify 6th and 11th?!
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There is a reason why Bottas will always be regarded as a No. 2 driver .. bluntly he didn't have the guts to try to take the win. He could perhaps have got past Vettel but really didn't try terribly hard to do so.
