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When he is on it he has done a good job. But when he has had his mech failures he has been behind Rosberg. When Rosbergs car failed he was in the lead. But thats only a small part of it. The main reason for saying it as its not even a case of being out qualified by Rosberg, but more the point that he has thrown away 3 (?) qualifying sessions now by being a hack. I mean he has had woeful qualifying where as Rosberg has done everything needed from him. As Harry pointed out...I will refrain from criticizing Hamilton for the retirement in Canada but I think its important to credit Rosberg with how he handled the situation and bagged a second place. So just have to cross fingers that Lauda and Wolff let them continue to race each other

The other day i saw the McLarens V8 engines they are using in their MP4 & P1. Intersting to note the turbos look a hell of a lot like internal gate EFR turbos hanging off the manifolds

And you have to say Nico has been doing the better job. Lewis has been messy a few times this year....Nico just fets on with it and never makes a mistake of consequence

Renault are saying they will kick in funding as required. Easy to say If Button gets canned I think its rather ovvious who would be on the short list. Eric wont have forgotten about Romain....just needs to convince Dennis and Honda

I hear Renault are happy as frees up reaources to concentrate on RBR

No; the ability of teams to come up with effective low drag setups and watch the cars twitch everywhere.

Estoril is cool and all...but no Monza. Monza presents a different challenge to an F1 car. Estoril less so

The other thing to consider is like Vettel Kimi has had the bulk of car problems at Ferrari. No doubt he isnt where he wants to be but not sure after being hit by McLarens, car faults week in week out....I think I need a cleaner bucnh of races to actually guage how much behind Kimi is. Not to make excuses for the guy, but to actually try to read the relative performance differences between the two. One think Kimi has seemed to struggle with, even alongside Romain is his qualifying. No doubt in the past when he could rag on the car he was rather epic. These days where you have to be a car whisperer and you dirve in a performance window I think guys like Kimi will lose out to the guys who are given a quick car and told to drive it at 9.8/10s every lap.

Its rare a new driver joins a team, new engineers etc and matches a good-great team mate. For years we have seen Kimi struggle with how he needs the car. When its to his liking he is mega. But needs the feeling of the car. Something it took a while to achieve at Lotus too. He is priving to be more Button and a Trulli and less Hamo, Alonso who can drive around any problem. The back half of the year will be more telling once the car has had time to be developed and tweaked for him. The brake by wire has certainly removed some intimacy from the feeling a driver gets.

2L V4 engine called it quits

1,000hp means they get up and boogie! I love F1s and have been lucky enough to go to several Euroipean and Asian GPs but for sheer entertainment they cant come close to Le Mans as a spectacle and things to do

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What an epic event. was gutted to see car 20 fall over in the last few hours. But good to see they got 14 out for the last lap. Truly an epic event. $100 ticket makes Bernie look lile the thief he is. Definitely coming back...next time will need to work it into another cool car and track tour

Porsche looking quick at the moment. Come on Mark!

Disappointing for Williams. I think Perez was at fault but Massa showed today that he is past his best and really should have got the job done as soon as he arrived on the bumper of Vettel. Cant help but wonder the 2012 Williams would have had if they kept Rubens and this year if they had someone like Romain Funny to see Button in 4th...the guy is quick for one stint in 6

So glad I got up for that. Now off to the airport for Le Mans and see if we can get another Aussie across the line in 1st

Cheers, that suggests that Rosberg may have disobeyed the pit wall. Other quotes suggested that Rosberg was allowed to be in that engine mode and Hamo didnt understand why Rosberg was allowed to use a different setting...seemingly associated with Rosberg running the more conservative tune when on the harder tyre. I recall thinking that was odd as if my memory serves me right comign down to the last laps in Bahrain Rosberg had used more fuel so didnt really support he had been in a more conservative engine setting mid race

Interesting you say that. I am now reading on forums etc that Rosberg turned up his engine in Bahrain and in Spain Hamiltion turned it up to keep him behind. Everything I have read from Lower and Toto suggests that it was only Hamilton that played with engine spec against teams instructions. In Bahrain Rosberg was able to do so as it was his strategy to do it at that part of the race...so wasnt disobeying the pit wall in doing so. Seems Lewis saying Noco did the same thing in Bahrain is what people are remembering....and that is a statement out of context Does anyone have a link that confirms Nico disobeyed the pit wall in Bahrain?

I had a ride height of 325mm and when we measured the bump steer on the rear it wasnt great. Part of the reason why my new rear end is the more proven method of lowering the car onto the cradle rather than lowering the ride height as seemingly helps maintain more std like geometry. So , I am curious to know since these are referred to as drag links whether they are tailored to help maintain optimum geometry for traction on drag GTRs. Or whether they maintain the exact same geometry as std HICAS

Cusco list is as the Drag Rod and looking at them perhaps they move the rear pivot point. So the fact that they call it the Drag Rod can I assume that this setup addresses any bump steer issues with suspension travel?

Sure the BMS has a part to play, but I think the bigger issue with the difference between EVOs and Skylines is probably the pedal ratio. It is really the only thing left that would allow for why EVOs can run such massive caliper pistons and not have a binary brake pedal. So if you must run the EVO brakes on your Skyline I think it would be wise to invest some time in trying to dumb down your pedal ratio

The more I see and hear of Lauda the more I think I am starting to warm to him. He calls it as it is Versus the Horner approach of gently, gently it encourages Vettel to do what he pleases. I can't see Lauda being so understanding...and seems a lot of commentary our of Sky, Merc team etc seem to have the same reservations over Hamo and his bleeding heart / victim ways. http://www.planetf1.com/driver/3213/9326398/Lauda-has-issue-with-Hamilton-s-mood

Look, I blow hot and cold with Lewis. Right now its cold. VERY COLD! I don't get his head space. Rosberg, he is in a class above Lewis. he doesnt have the raw talent...but he is still damn good and he is a team player. Look at his conduct in Malaysia last year...never speaks out about the poltics of the team...uses disarming answers when retarded journos try to get a line because they seem to think F1 isnt F1 unless they are trying to find a Senna v Prost controversy. Rosberg disarms it...Lewis seems to love it. Right now Rosberg hasnt been rattled and was interesting to learn that he had Lewis beat in Bahrain except for Lewis turning up the tune of the engine disregarding the pit wall instructions. I am backing Rosberg mental toughness against Lewis's Everytime they shove a mic in Lewis's face he falls for it by giving them retarded statements to run off with. Then he will play victim when the press say negative things about him. The SkySport guys are doing a lot of apologising for him but past race Hill and Herbert seemed to get off the positivity train and not defending Lewis's acitons I don't really care but I would put money on Lewis's eye problem being just a sook for the fact he wasnt going to be able to get the job done so went for the excuse book. I seriously thought Dan was going to drop it. 1.5.-1.8 seconds a lap quicker over the last 8 or so laps...he was MOVING. But once again showed his class and maturity behind the wheel. And when the throw a mic in front of him...he is a team player that diffusers retarded journos trying to make something of the 5-1 quali record and points finishes vs Vettel's poor year to date. Was happy to see Romain fighting the car and bringing it home...despite car problems all week and good on Bianchi, Happy it wasnt his hack team mate that got points, but sad it wasnt Caterham and Kobi Oh, and I think this weekend was the first of what we are going to see a lot of from the half way point on. Engine failures and engine penalties. Ferrari and Renault runners have used almost their entire seasons worth of gear before the half way mark!