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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 12:34 PM
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Default F1 Season Starts today, live winter testing times

http://www.f1-direct.com/include/liv...emp/essais.php

Bring on this years excitement

Gwan the Brits!

And I hope Williams does well with the new Cosworth power plant this year, by all accounts its pretty good
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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 12:37 PM
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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 12:41 PM
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Whens the first race? Early March sometime?
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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 12:43 PM
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i can-not-fook-in-wait for this season!!!
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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 12:47 PM
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cnat wait to to see that damm german back in it
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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 01:49 PM
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i think this looks cool as fook!!
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I don't follow the F1, but is it true what I read that the F1 isn't broadcast in HD??!!
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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 01:59 PM
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That is the Brawn GP car from last year in 2010 colours.

This is the new MGP W01 - hard to tell but it is different I promise!
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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 02:00 PM
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I don't follow the F1, but is it true what I read that the F1 isn't broadcast in HD??!!
wot the hell are you on, bludy spammer
can't wait to see how they stack up, should be interesting- i've seen on the news that ferrarri are already worrying and have a set of mods ready to introduce 'just in case' lol
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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Christian and Beccy
I don't follow the F1, but is it true what I read that the F1 isn't broadcast in HD??!!


Yep, although think HD is being trialled this year. For all it's money F1 is hardly leading edge broadcast wise.
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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 04:22 PM
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First race 14th march,Bahrain.
I can not wait

Loving the tags
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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Christian and Beccy
I don't follow the F1, but is it true what I read that the F1 isn't broadcast in HD??!!
Been watching the last few seasons in HD, just not on itv or BBC as they are too poor to do it i suspect
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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 05:33 PM
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Really? Theres been upscaled picture quality, but no HD so id say someones lying

http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/index.p...verage-in-2009

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2010/01/0...ot-until-2011/

Anyway great to see F1 back, some great footage of todays testing on youtube if anyone can be bothered to search lol.

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Old Feb 1, 2010 | 06:26 PM
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Yeh there only is one company that films the races, Formula 1 themselves then other peeps use that feed.
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Old Feb 2, 2010 | 11:00 AM
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McLaren running high 1.12's on their long runs today......impressive, Ferarri are slow on their fueled up long runs.....
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Old Feb 2, 2010 | 04:28 PM
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Massa fastest again, not a great fan of his but its great to see hes made a full recovery after his accident last year

Today's times:
Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:11.722 124
2. Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari (B) 1:12.056 96
3. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:12.256 108
4. Kubica Renault (B) 1:12.426 119
5. Rosberg Mercedes GP (B) 1:12.899 119
6. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth (B) 1:13.377 102
7. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:13.823 107

The final day of the test is likely to draw big interest, with three world champions taking to the track - Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher.
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Old Feb 2, 2010 | 05:42 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcNYJ3fPZBI
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Old Feb 2, 2010 | 05:45 PM
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Good to see Rosberg has outpaced Schumacher so far.


I've got a dilemma this year who to support as I like Massa & Alonso but no the biggest fan of Ferrari... was a fan of Brawn / Honda but not too keen on two Germans lol

The Sauber car looks great though don't it.

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Old Feb 2, 2010 | 05:51 PM
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tbh I hope lewis wins it again in 2010, although I do like nico and did start to like schumacher untill he came back and turned into a big headed c*nt again. You should read some of the crap he has been coming out with in interviews. I think the mercedes is the best looking car so far the nose tip in carbon looks ace. Will be good to see how the virgin car and the lotus car look though.
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Old Feb 2, 2010 | 07:11 PM
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The Mclaren is looking class so far, nobody is within a second of it on long runs, the Ferarri seems to be just doing lower fuel short runs so far so comparative paces are unknown. It seems to be that Williams arent using all the revs on the Cosworth yet too so their times can be discounted. All interesting stuff
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Old Feb 3, 2010 | 01:03 PM
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virgin car launched

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81228
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Old Feb 3, 2010 | 01:27 PM
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Should be a cracker this year

WTF at the tags thou
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Old Feb 3, 2010 | 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by MadMac

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A mod that has no appreciation for F1.

Gonna be a cracking season this one.

So many people who haven't watched F1 for years have said they're going to watch this year because Schumi's back. Shame they missed the last few years of Hamiltons brilliance, in almost single handedly spicing up F1 again.
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Old Feb 3, 2010 | 07:15 PM
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New Virgin car looks great. Love the design on the front wing lol.

I don't think Schuey will have it easy and it'll be funny to see what tricks he has up his sleeve now, like parking in Monaco or driving into cars
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Virgin car does look nice
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Blimey.. i thought 2009 cars looked odd.. but they are crazy lookin this year!!!

Also.. WTF is that on top of the Ferrari?! lol

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Originally Posted by rsjonny
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Virgin car does look nice
My middle brother and his Team were the ones who did the designs for the Virgin car. They done the Lotus one too. The Lotus had a really nice British Racing Green, but the owner is a cunt and may choose a horrid Multi Coloured one they did for them

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Old Feb 3, 2010 | 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by pee vee
Blimey.. i thought 2009 cars looked odd.. but they are crazy lookin this year!!!

Also.. WTF is that on top of the Ferrari?! lol

Just some equipment to measure air speed or pressure etc, won't be on the cars at GP's.
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good to see all teh top teams rolling out comparable cars, Alonso blasted out yesterday and took the top spot for the session, quite a bit faster than massa but again fuel/settings etc are unknown.
hamilton seems awesome as usual and schumacher seems to have come back like hes never been away- watch this space as him and Ross develop an already quite quick car pre-season imo.
Button seems to be playing with settings and higher fuel loads, no suprises there as hes so fussy with his car lol.
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Originally Posted by Chris69
good to see all teh top teams rolling out comparable cars, Alonso blasted out yesterday and took the top spot for the session, quite a bit faster than massa but again fuel/settings etc are unknown.
hamilton seems awesome as usual and schumacher seems to have come back like hes never been away- watch this space as him and Ross develop an already quite quick car pre-season imo.
Button seems to be playing with settings and higher fuel loads, no suprises there as hes so fussy with his car lol.
Button had issues with his seat as hamilton is a midget and the cars designed around him. I think alonso did low fuel runs as around 25000 fans turned up to watch his first drive in the ferrari if they would have been slow it would have effected ferraris image. Virgin car did its shakedown today ahead of the next test should be interesting as that car was made entirley by computer simulation programs with no windtunnel testing.
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