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I just watched the race. That was one of the most exciting f1 races in a while. Good to see fez being able to stick it to the mercs a bit.

Dan was kind if lucky with that engine failure. Being able to cross the line and still hold position and get points.

Ferrari pitted Kimi a couple of laps too late by the looks of it. Lost heaps of time on those last couple of laps of that stint and looked like another lap or two might really have upset the Merc party with Lewis unable to defend with braking issues...

Good race too. It's nice to see a team close to Mercedes performance and who aren't afraid to lead on strategy calls to try and beat them or keep pressure on. That was totally missing from Williams last year when they were close enough in races to challenge.

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I get the strange feeling that the wheels are starting to fall off at Mercedes. Not for a minute suggesting they are going to stop winning etc, but things don't seem as straight forward as they did back in Australia

I think Merc will easily romp it. They've got the performance, and as with last year, a few reliability niggles but nothing like engines blowing up Renault style.

A piston going through the block is slightly more annoying than a couple of brake and electrical gremlins, and really the only time another team wins, even ferrari, are because there's an issue with the car.

It might get better towards the end, but it just looks like Merc simply change the strategy to cover the fezzas and that's it. There's no one else to worry about. Williams race engineers seem to lack any sort of vision or risk taking initiative, which is a shame.

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The only issue Mercedes had when Vettel beat them in Malaysia was not being fast enough in those conditions on that track.

Same in Bahrain. Kimi had the most ever fastest laps in a single race since Michael Schumacher. Something the dominant Mercs did not do last year. He was faster on the medium tyre than either Mercedes on the Softs all through that stint, and absolutely demolished their lead in the final stint when the tyres were reversed. The Mercedes only developed the brake problem in the last couple of laps. It does not account for the pace advantage Kimi showed in the Ferrari. He'd have beaten Nico without the brake problem I reckon. And the Mercs would not have had the brake problem if they weren't pushed so hard to the end by the Ferrari's sheer pace.

Toto Wolff has come out and said that their brake problems were caused by the setup changes they made to try and counter Ferrari's long run pace. Mercedes made changes to try and improve their tyre usage, and some of those changes made brake cooling marginal. It's totally down the Ferrari's performance and the pressure they are putting on Mercedes. Not an unlucky mechanical issue Mercedes suffered out of the blue.

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McLaren is dropping the chrome off the car next race.

Want to see. :)

+1

Imagine they will look much much better without it. Not that there is as much chrome as there was on the MP4-21 etc. Or was it the 22 when they went Johnnie walker then vodafone livery?

Cant change helmet colour, can change entire car colour!?

Am I the only one thinking this?

I dont think its just that simple. The livery change has to be approved etc and im sure they wouldnt allow teams to change the colour scheme every race. The helmet thing is for the viewers so its easier to tell which driver is which. Different when its a whole car/team

even helmets are hard to spot sometimes, the drivers are pretty well buried in the car. the red bull drivers have very similar helmets too.

they should mandate highly visible driver numbers in a couple of consistent places on the car - eg the bottom of the rear wing end fences, and maybe something visible from the front.

too late now, but ive been using Ace Stream, you install a program like vlc and it plays through it, you can go back to earlier footage if you want, i tend to wind back a minute so it has more time to prebuffer the stream. I think it does take a lot of download though so youll need a decent plan

for next time guys

http://www.livefootballol.com/channel/sky-sports-f1-acestream.html

Edited by MatthewT85

what a lovely little race... Homo must be distraught

Pretty dull race. Other than Ferrari screwing Tool around there wasn't anything much to keep anyone awake. Sucks to be McLaren Will take more than a new paint job to get some actual speed out of that thing. As for Torro Rosso....... went well in Quali but was hopeless there after.

Anyway mostly a race of screw ups rather than anything to impress. Britney will be pleased with his weekend but I cant think of anyone else who will be happy.

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