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F1: Alonso, Raikkonen or cunty Brit?

Old Oct 10, 2007 | 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by hustler
wonder how Lewis would have done without Stepney's Ferrari data?
Industry says he still woulda kicked ***, Stepney's espionage case was moot and Ferrari is a whiney bitch. of course i'm just a nobody and this is all just intarnet bench racing.
Old Oct 10, 2007 | 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by xturner
If Hamilton gets it, Alonzo will cry.
This wouldn't really bother me all that much.
Old Oct 10, 2007 | 06:39 PM
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Hamilton all the way.


Fooooookin great driver.

About time a Brit took the championship AGAIN.

Old Oct 10, 2007 | 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by TonyC
Raikkonen does his job which is to drive a car to finish line first. i don't give a **** if he looks like Rocky Dennis...
Bullshit, or he would have at least one championship. He can continue to blame everyone else if he wants to, or say he's just unlucky, but in my view the guy breaks cars. Not to mention that he is unable to communicate well with the engineers, which Schui was amazing at, and Hamilton being a company man excels at.
Old Oct 11, 2007 | 03:00 AM
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stephanie, as good as massa is in brazil, being his home race and that fact that he won there last year, I don't think ferrari would let him win, cause kimi's the one with the championship hopes. even though they're not supposed to give team orders, no on seems to listen.
Old Oct 11, 2007 | 03:28 AM
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I predict,

Hamilton and Alonso will take each other out battling for position, a la Senna vs Prost, Kimi will past them both, flip them the bird, and win it. I bet a six-pack of Fat Tire, anyone down???
Old Oct 11, 2007 | 03:55 PM
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Hamilton is the next F1 franchise... just watch, he has the poise of a young m. schumacher (if not better) and he has the skill to be a multi-time world champion. Now barring his win, I want to see Kimi get it, I just like the way the ice man parties!

Mark
Old Oct 12, 2007 | 01:15 PM
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from planet F1:
http://www.planetf1.com/story/0,1895...790234,00.html

all the permutations of the 3 way race in Brasil:

Hamilton, mathematically, stands the best chance of winning the title as all he needs to do is win the race or come second and his two rivals can't take the title away from him.


But if he finishes third or lower, the others can still win the title.


P-F1 takes a look at title permutations:


* If Hamilton wins or finishes second he is the World Champion


* If Hamilton finishes ahead of Alonso and Raikkonen, no matter the position, he wins the title


* If Raikkonen doesn't finish in the top two he can't win the title


* If Alonso wins, Hamilton has to finish second to win the title


* But if Alonso wins the race and Hamilton is third, the Spaniard retains the crown as even though they would both have 113 points, Alonso would have more wins the Hamilton


* If Hamilton finishes fourth, Alonso must win the race to win the title


* If Hamilton finishes fifth, Alonso also needs to win the race


* But if Hamilton finishes fifth and Alonso finishes second, Hamilton would win the title as even though they would be tied on points they would also be equal on P1s, P2s, P3s, P4s and therefore the title would go down to the most number of fifth placed finishes. And Hamilton's P5 in Brazil would be the one that won him the title


* If Hamilton finishes in the top five, Raikkonen cannot win the title


* If Hamilton finishes sixth, Alonso needs a P2 or better to win


* If Hamilton finishes seventh and Alonso finishes third, Hamilton would win based on a superior number of second placed finishes


* If Hamilton finishes eighth, Alonso needs to finish third to win


* If Hamilton doesn't score any points, Alonso needs a fourth or better to win


* But if Hamilton doesn't score and Alonso finishes fifth, the title goes to Hamilton as he has more second-placed finishes than Alonso
Old Oct 12, 2007 | 02:55 PM
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this is one of the best points races F1 has seen...right?
Old Oct 22, 2007 | 12:45 PM
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Well, I guessed wrong.... It's been known to happen occasionally.

Any word on getting BMW disqualified?
Stephanie
Old Oct 22, 2007 | 01:35 PM
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Who won Brazil?
Old Oct 22, 2007 | 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by firedog25
Who won Brazil?
been under a rock?
Old Oct 22, 2007 | 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Stephanie Turner
Well, I guessed wrong.... It's been known to happen occasionally.

Any word on getting BMW disqualified?
Stephanie
FWIW, I wanted Raikkonen to win, but never figured that McLaren could screw it up so thoroughly in the last 2 races.

I read a thing by Eddie Jordan this AM - he said that if there was sufficient evidence to DQ anybody they would have had it yesterday, and that F1 doesn't have sufficient thermal monitoring equipment for there to be proof, anyway.

Doesn't mean McLaren can't have a hissy fit, but they're pretty much done.
Old Oct 22, 2007 | 01:53 PM
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"Hamilton joins sport's greatest chokers":
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/211020...t-chokers.html

McLaren appeals:
http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=41157

even tho they didn't get penalized for running 2 sets of tires.. fuggin pussies.
Old Oct 22, 2007 | 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by firedog25
Who won Brazil?
+1, i was caught up in american lemans and champ car
Old Oct 23, 2007 | 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by xturner
FWIW, I wanted Raikkonen to win, but never figured that McLaren could screw it up so thoroughly in the last 2 races.
Hamilton was having major issues. I did not hear details, but what caused his major slow down? Other than running off the track.....
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Old Oct 23, 2007 | 11:06 AM
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After he ran off, he came back on around 10th place or so, but then developed gearbox problems that may or may not be related to off-roading. Apparently he had to run the rest of the race with the tranny in "safe" mode, which affected shift speed and shortened up the rev limit a bit, which cost him something like .2 sec per lap.
Old Oct 23, 2007 | 02:12 PM
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new update on cocky Brit's "tranny problem":

"My finger slipped on the steering wheel and I accidentally pressed the button used for the starting sequence," he reportedly told French-language daily newspaper La Presse.

"The car went into neutral and I had to reinitialise the system, that is, reload the gearbox management program."
Old Oct 23, 2007 | 02:46 PM
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whoa, that makes him sound like a fighter pilot or an astronaut or sumtin
Old Oct 23, 2007 | 02:58 PM
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these days F1 cars are just as advanced as a fighter jet or space shuttle.

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