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BTCC. It's the future....
Oulton Park isn't really though... it's nearly as bad as Monaco imo.
Poll: Canadian Grand Prix 2018, Montréal - Race 7/21
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Oulton Park isn't really though... it's nearly as bad as Monaco imo.
Soldato
Blasphemy!
Might not make for the best TV in the world however it's awesome as a spectator. It's spectacular to sit on the outside of Old Hall and watch them fling a FWD touring car in...
Might not make for the best TV in the world however it's awesome as a spectator. It's spectacular to sit on the outside of Old Hall and watch them fling a FWD touring car in...
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Have never seen so few overtakes. Sick of the DRS, undercut/overcut nonsense. Kimi needs to go to so at least there might be a vague chance of vettel being challenged within the team.
Rosberg says no big team wants Alonso because of his nature to introduce political intrigues in the teams he drives for.
What about Rosberg himself joining Ferrari?!
Soldato
also sick of acronyms for power plant things that have to be replaced or go wrong , you can't have an arms race when some competitors are billionaires and others have zilch.
I always watch every f1 session I can but it is seriously disappearing up its own ....
Oh and all the pretend hype at the start, even Ted was getting all shouty , Croft was diabolical.
Soldato
Nah. You could tell in the Monaco piece he did (on the version on his own channel anyway) that he was loving life away from the competitive side of the sport. He's obviously aware of the occasional Ferrari rumours as even he made a joke of it in that video as I remember.
Plus he was out of breath taking the new Formula E car around Berlin (was on C5's Swiss race yesterday), so he's not exactly been keeping himself in shape, which I'm sure he would be to some extent if he was planning a comeback.
He might consider Formula E or WEC if he really misses the racing, but I'm pretty sure he's done with F1.
Ferrari's next driver will almost certainly be Leclerc, which is why they pushed so hard to have him in Sauber this year (they could have kept him in F2 for another year). Whether they're considering that for next year or not remains to be seen, but he's got to be pushing himself further and further into their thoughts - he's been utterly superb so far.
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leclerc won f2 so can't go back, if I was them, I would get Riciardo but I'm not them, I wouldn't have signed Kimi in the first place.
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I knew that about the belts, they probably smoked a rolly during refuelling in the pits too 
Caporegime
How sad that McLaren are not considered a big team!
Soldato
I wasn't aware that a F2 champion couldn't defend it.
Soldato
Same rule applied in the previous GP2 series also.
So apparently a bird was stuck in Hamilton's wheel during Q3!
https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/reports/f1/2018-canadian-grand-prix-report
It's crazy that a bit of bad luck like that can have such an effect on the result. He can't use that excuse in the race though, unless the remains of the bird were there cause of the cooling issues he had before he pitted.
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Given that overtaking appeared to be impossible and if he had managed to start at the front........
Soldato
Was the bird there on Sunday as well?!
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Yup, could have been very different. Being at the front matters more than ever with the current aero setups.
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To be fair, Vettel swerved to avoid a seagull a couple of years ago, and joked after the race that he braked for animals. Clearly Hamilton didn't 
To be fair, Vettel swerved to avoid a seagull a couple of years ago, and joked after the race that he braked for animals. Clearly Hamilton didn't
For context! I love this interview