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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by The Ides of March, Oct 24, 2016.

  1. tomw24

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    Problem is he needs to keep his lead in the race. Red Bull seem to have a stronger race car.
     
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  2. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Absolutely. And he needs Ferrari not to have a brain fart too.
     
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  3. tomw24

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    Perez could win the Championship. He's in the form of his life. And I would love him to TBF.
     
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  4. Le Tissier's Laces

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    For what it’s worth, I think this one is Red Bull’s to lose, with their straight line speed. But it shows how good Charles is that he nails pole after pole like this.
     
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    Catastrophe for Ferrari. Both out now!
     
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  6. Le Tissier's Laces

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  7. tomw24

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    Ferrari engines failing left, right and centre.
     
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  8. Number 1 Jasper

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    Red Bull will never allow it .

    Take today for example , Checo leads , max chases him , nothing said .

    Max gets past and checo keeps trying to get the place back , the team say No Fighting , no team orders my a$$e
     
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    i think it was because max had so much pace though. There was no point
     
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    Yes fair comment . I still don’t believe Horner or anyone who says there are no team orders ?

    If the team thought Max was that much quicker , why did they feel the need to tell Checo not to fight !
     
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  11. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Spanish newspaper here being...well...a little bit of over-translation going on, I fear....


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    Would 100% support if his name was Pedro Gaseoso...
     
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    Good ol' Gassy Pete.

    And to make it more confusing, they abbreviated AlphaTauri as Alfa, when there's another constructor whose actual name is Alfa.
     
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    FIA have decided to intervene on the porpoising on health and safety grounds. Be interesting to see how certain teams and team principals (cough, cough Horner, cough) react to this.
     
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    Honestly, he probably won't be too upset, given that the way FIA is most likely to react to it in the short-term is to mandate an increase in ride height, which teams like Merc don't want to do because of the loss of downforce, but Red Bull and Ferrari seem to have far less trouble generating downforce without having the car slammed to the ground.
     
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    In the short term I agree. It's the long term solution that he might not be happy with.
     
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    Leclerc taking a new power unit, so will have a 10 place grid penalty this weekend.
     
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    Great to see three guys go under 10seconds in the final of the 100m at the British Athletics Championships. Perhaps one or two of tehm could go under 9.8 in the World Championships when up against the US sprinters, Conversely, disappointing tmes in the men's 1500m final with no one going under 3.40 despite the fact that Wightman and Kerr can do 3.32 in competition, which is around 60 metres or more down the track compared to their fastest times,
     
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    Three under ten is really impressive!
     
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