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Alonso,Dan and Kvyat for me. Alonso is always a consistent performer and is still consistent so i would rank him up there, but those two (dan and Kyvat) have shown great success in early days and are killing their team mates consistently.

Commentators love the hulk :-)

Alonso,Dan and Kvyat for me. Alonso is always a consistent performer and is still consistent so i would rank him up there, but those two (dan and Kyvat) have shown great success in early days and are killing their team mates consistently.

Commentators love the hulk :-)

Well has pants his team mate, not that that is a huge achievement. Consistently out qualified him and scored far more points. Driven well, basically.

Perez has done a good job. To the point I say he has taken away some of the mystique of Hulk.

I would have to include Rosberg. Seriously, Homo's speed over a lap is pretty special. You would have to put Vettel alongside Homo as the best qualifier out there and the fact that Rosberg has been so close, matched and on occasion beat him. Then in races...has done everything right and say what you want about retirements etc but Homo has been behind home when retiring. Two times they have raced wheel to wheel Rosberg has left room and raced....twice now Homo has got the hatchet out and put Rosberg to the sword of either giving up or crashing. Bahrian when Rosberg had a sook and last lap in Hungary. Both were fair hatchet cuts and not the class that Alonso shows people when racing with other drivers.

So Rosberg is easily in the top 3 for me. Dan in there as well, but his consistant rubbish starts probably puts him behind Rosberg and Alonso for me.

There is a really good article about F1 engines in the current Racetech magazine. July 2014, # 164 with a picture of the Nissan ZEOD thing on the cover). Anyway the interesting observations are:

That Ferrari are using the same split turbo arrangement as the Merc but with the whole thing behind the engine and the MGU-H between the turbine and compressor. It also uses a water to air intercooler as do their customer teams. This is in the vee of the motor.

The Merc in the factory team car also uses a water/air intercooler but the customer teams do not. Says the water intercooler is in the back of the rear bulkhead which would marry up with the compressor. Also the engine has a log exhaust manifold.

The Renault in the Lotus uses a water/air cooler which sits on the floor under the exhaust but the RedBulls/TR’s air/air. RB has two intercoolers – one in each sidepod and the assertion is the Renault needs more intercooling than the other motors. The engines have a close coupled turbo with the EGU-H in the vee of the motor.

Anyway it is good stuff, a world away from Auto Fiction.

this popped up on FB last night...
Most valuable in terms of salary per point:

1. Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull): $8,396 per point
2. Valtteri Bottas (Williams): $15,000
3. Kevin Magnussen (McLaren): $39,000
4. Daniil Kvyat (Toro Rosso): $48,000...
5. Nico Hulkenberg (Force India): $84,000
6. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes): $86,000
7. Jean-Eric Vergne (Toro Rosso): $100,000
8. Felipe Massa (Williams): $145,000
9. Sergio Perez (Force India): $148,000
10. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes): $151,000
11. Fernando Alonso (Ferrari): $276,000
12. Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull): $360,000
13. Jules Bianchi (Marussia): $360,000
14. Jenson Button (McLaren): $385,000
15. Romain Grosjean (Lotus): $537,000
16. Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari): $1.17 million
17. Marcus Ericsson (Caterham): $216,000 for no points
18. Kamui Kobayashi (Caterham): $216,000 for no points
19. Max Chilton (Marussia): $290,000 for no points
20. Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber): $577,000 for no points
21. Adrian Sutil (Sauber): $2.9m for no points
22. Pastor Maldonado (Lotus): $4.3m for no points

Sauber throwing money away on drivers.

Ferrari deja-vu? They've paid Kimi to do nothing before.

Hamilton costs basicallly twice as much as Rosberg. And bitches and moans twice as much. That must be what it's for...

Dan is the bargain of the century. I hope he has BIG performance bonuses! They're paying him just 750,000 Euro - the same as what he was on at Torro Rosso I think...

Not sure how that works. How does Maldonado get paid given he brings in a heap of cash to the team? Do they just shove it around so he is basically taking a cut of the sponsors coin? Same for Sauber, arent they are both pay drivers? Massa brought coin with him to Williams aswell.

If I remember correctly Britney just signed a what, 3 year deal for 55 Million Euros?

Like the add on the tellie says past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. But it is an reliable indicator of how much someone is going to be paid.

LOL at Maldonado right at the bottom. Still sticking by his story about being happy he moved to Lotus too.

I imagine its a bit more of a fun team to be at............. but the drivers are there to win, and you have to say Lotus is alot further away from that then WIlliams. If he hadn't started going on about a conspiricy theory against him at Williams, just because he decided to crash into everyone, maybe he would have a chance

this popped up on FB last night...

Sauber throwing money away on drivers.

Ferrari deja-vu? They've paid Kimi to do nothing before.

Hamilton costs basicallly twice as much as Rosberg. And bitches and moans twice as much. That must be what it's for...

Dan is the bargain of the century. I hope he has BIG performance bonuses! They're paying him just 750,000 Euro - the same as what he was on at Torro Rosso I think...

If Disco Dan keeps on performing like he has been he will be easily be rewarded.

I'm also glad that for once finger boy's season is riddled with gremlins lol

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