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The Japanise GP last year was a joke, it was the best race in ages, and ch10 chopped it up, and we only ended up seing 1/2 the race. And the worst thing is ch 10 are promoting http://www.savemysport.com.au/. I'd get pay tv if they gave good F1 coverage.

well i have the full foxtel package at the moment and love it. i hope F1 goes to fox. currently get to watch BTCC (ok, not great) DTM (awesome!) american le mans series (awesome), indycars (awesome), nascars (awesome). plus as much simpsons, family guy, american chopper, sopranos etc etc as I can handle. and plus being cable I get all the free to air channles with cyrstal clear reception. it's well worth the $$.

i've had foxtel since 1998....and i all gotta say now........how many commercial can paytv have.....its a joke....i'm paying like ~$90-100 per month for a shit load of commercials. other than that its got its good.

haha i posted the exact same thing in another thread only days ago

the idea of pay tv is that u pay for what companies normally would to have their ads on...hence the need for no ads.

we've had foxtel for AGES, and at first it was awesome, 15 second ads, only advertising other shows...not products. now the ads on foxtel are literally longer than those on free to air

Renault set to announce new main sponsor

03 October 2006

Renault is on the brink of announcing a new main sponsor for next season, F1Racing.net can exclusively reveal. A five-year deal with Dutch bank 'ING' is all but agreed and will apparently be worth as much as 50 million Euros a year. With the ban on tobacco advertising Renault's long-term deal with Mild Seven has come to an end and the future of Spanish telecoms brand Telefonica is uncertain, with Fernando Alonso's impending move to McLaren.

Alonso questions Renault loyalty !!!

Fernando Alonso has waded into controversy by suggesting that some members of his Renault team do not want him to win his title showdown with Michael Schumacher – because they can’t bear to see him take the coveted number ‘1’ to arch-rivals McLaren next year.

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it's official. he is going nuts under the pressure. if they didn't want him to win, why did they make fisi move over for him to grab second last weekend? what a loser. I hope schuey kicks his arse.

I think he finally snapped because for the second time in three races the pit crew has cost him a win. First Hungary with the rear wheel going AWOL & then China with the wrong tyre choice (Changing fronts only) & then the messed up pit stop. Critically Alonso could have won if only one of those two things happened, but not both. Still the speed the thing showed was killing the Ferrari. Hope he didn;t hurt the engine too much in those final laps.

I hope Alonso wins the world championship. I would hate to see Ferrari receive yet another trophy tainted by their dodgy ways.

Nice work by Webber too, btw. Two spins & he still managed to score a point. Jensen Button was only 30 seconds up the road in fourth. Hmmm.

well it wasn't a tyre choice. he said they had to put on new fronts as the old ones were knackered. as for the pit stop stuff up, when I watched it it only cost him 4 or 5 secs at most. after schuey caught and passed him, MS then got out to around 20 seconds ahead (which alonso caught as schuey just cruised around for the last 15 laps). Don't take anything away from Schuey. He drove the best race. He had the good strategy and he won the thing from 6th on the grid and 25 second down by lap 10. and he had to contend with fisi holding him up. bravo i say. as I said above I hope he kicks gonzo's arse. :ninja:

interestingly it was the same right rear that cost him hungary and china... im sure Renault have relocated that particular wheel man

i dont think he hurt the engine, i think schumi was managing his race by turning down the revs and allowing Alonso to catch him... had Alonso caught him too quickly, im sure he would have at least started pegging the gap

I am speculating to an extent in that the awful lap speed Alonso showed after his first stop was from a handling imbalance (Grippy front and or rears & no grip at the other end) rather than from a lack of outright grip. If it was an imbalance four new tyres would have fixed it. If it was a simple case of not being able to get the new tyres up to temp (bit like Kubica couldn't, although he was on slicks) then four new tyres wouldn't have helped.

Ferrari lucked into the win. More a case of Renault losing it than them winning it.

Alonso only finished 3 seconds behind at the end.

i'm not so convinced. we all know that in drying conditions the tyre to be on is a worn out inter. gonzo made a poor choice with the rubber he started on, and they were too worn by the time he stopped so he had no choice but to put on some different ones (obviously not brand new, but not as worn). it made no sense to change the rear as that would just rob him of rear end grip too, then he'd be left with nothing.

i wouldn't read anything into the 3 second gap except that MS was clearly just cruising around for the last 15 laps confident he was safe. gonzo was belting his thing to catch up.

i think only one compound, but they have a few sets. and by race day have some just scrubbed, some half worn, some qutie worn. etc. I think alonso either started with worn ones, or had a set-up problem (possibly set-up for more speed in the dry which hurt the inters?), either way I was just saying MS drove a great race, and had a good strategy etc. he beat gonzo fair and square and if not for team orders it would have been MS:1st FA:3rd.

I read that on the net today. Alonso must be losing it, he was sooo much slower than ms, and gf, and shu has the skill and balls to fire past both of them. And Fisi let him cruise past later in the race.

sounds like he's preparing to lose the championship, and getting some scapegoats ready...

Like Baron said, If not for team orders Fisi would have been 2nd, not Alonso.

Funny how everyone seems to overlook 'team orders' when its someone other than Ferrari.

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