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Yep I think you may be right bout Mark-but Flav owns him and if Flav gets the shits old Marky Mark will go to Renault. Renault has the better car for Mark but Sir Frank has the better team culture for Mark

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Thats true-sometimes old Flav is out of the loop-oh well he still got his 200 foot boat filled with expensive piss and naked euro models-tha bastard!!!

Id like to see webber go well this weekend

I'ma bit sus on what these cars are gunna sound like with the V8-bring back the V12!!!! Fark nothin like them especially the Scuderia V12 -Santa Maria!!!!

Mind you the cossies are punchin near the 20000 rpm mark so who knows

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the SOB used to bang Hiedi Klum!!!

But on a Motorsport note.... i think next year the V8 sound will be insane cause thay would of had over a year to develop the engines. considering these spec engines are relativly new they are just begining to understand them. Give these guys a year of R&D and they'll hav the engines reving well over that!!

when does webber's contract run-out with williams? he's always been "owned" by flav and renault in terms of contractual dealings etc... williams had to "buy" webber off flav. i believe he is still under contract to him..... mark will do better this year, cause the williams is a much better car this year than last year. im not sure i'd say that the renault is the car which would be better suited to him, just look at barrichello, changed teams and cant drive the honda for crap! but the renault is certainly the fastest......

did anyone watch practice this arvo? i did. i have to say, Wurz and Davison were bloody impressive. if the williams can get the tyre situation sorted out, which it looks like they might be on top of, they might do surprisingly well. Patrick Head didn't give much away when they interviewed him afterwards, but he was quietly confident.

Jenson looked the goods too, but i think the renaults are holding back a little.....

Well its raining at the moment..i personally feel Webber has more then average talent in the wet...will be interestign to see if the Bridgestons have any wet weather pace though...ditto Williams.

A wet race could be the variable Williams need to bridge that performance gap

looks like bridgestone havnt got shit this year, its a maclaren renult race i reckon... i wouldnt worry too much about Button

saying that those mclarens are amazing in real life!! they way the reflect light of the paint is just sexual

P.S the V8 supercar race was pretty fcukin good today aswell...

The last few mins of qualifying was good. Kept changing and changing. I was joyed when Webber slotted into P3 with a few mins to go then all of a sudded the Renualts and Mclaren and Button must've taken some super drug cause they just shot up the slots and Webber was back down to P7.

qualifying was awesome! drama and action packed, i thought. but what about the race??? damn shame about webber, i was so disappointed. he was on for a podium, 3rd for sure. lucky theres a 3 week break now until Imola, some teams are gonna have a long and expensive repair bill. have to feel sorry for Massa and Button. for once Massa didnt take himself out of the race and jenson's last corner blow-up was so unlucky. but how good was it to have Murray Walker back commentating? i loved it. he's still the best.....

i think the last corner was the place to sit this year. schmi puts it into the wall and then montoya puts in a 180km/h drift down the front straight and managed to catch it!!

if Kimi stays at Mclaren next year with Alonso they are gonna be an unbeatable team... did you see how they both swolled up Button with no dramas?? fcukin excellent

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