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    Big Brake Kit zimbo's Avatar
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    Yes heres hopeing that this weekends grand prix in Australia is a lot more exciting than the Bahrain one was!!
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    Aye fingers crossed . Can't take another 2 hours of dreery motorsport :(

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    Melbourne usually produces a bit of excitement, so here's hoping indeed!

    I've been thinking about this a lot. Aero gets the blame for a lot of things, but I suspect the issue with it is really that the tyres really only work on the good line. Drivers don't make mistakes anymore as the cars are so grippy and you cannot really miss a gear.

    I do think though that the racing the last 3 years has been very good in the main, and it needed tweaking but refuelling seems to have killed the whole thing. But I recall some very dull races in the past as well when we had refuelling, so who knows what the answer is.

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    Lets hope so.

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    Here's hopeing Ferrari win again


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    Oh I really hope it's more exciting than Bahrain but I fear that without refuelling the races this year are going to be fairly dull......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crombers View Post
    Here's hopeing Ferrari win again
    Here's hoping they don't :-) championships are always better when a variety of teams win, monobrow could easily walk off with the championship as it stands. There are rumours that vettels "problem" was that they had turned the fuel mix down as he was going to run out of fuel. Who knows the real reason, they certainly won't come out and say that, but if they do then Alonso will have this won by the time they leave Europe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by euan View Post
    Here's hoping they don't :-) championships are always better when a variety of teams win, monobrow could easily walk off with the championship as it stands. There are rumours that vettels "problem" was that they had turned the fuel mix down as he was going to run out of fuel. Who knows the real reason, they certainly won't come out and say that, but if they do then Alonso will have this won by the time they leave Europe.
    So who would you like to see winning the championship?

    For me Ferrari is like my football team and as such I want them to win every time

    Interesting rumour re Vettel


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    No refuelling makes for a rather dull pit stop

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Gismo Man View Post
    No refuelling makes for a rather dull pit stop
    And no pitstop/pitlane fires...

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