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Old Mar 29, 2015 | 05:31 AM
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One for you early birds and did you remember to change your clocks lol

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Old Mar 29, 2015 | 06:49 AM
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Morning. changed the clock before going to the pub last night


no sign of rain today then. Hot hot hot!
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Old Mar 29, 2015 | 08:31 AM
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Good race so far, shame for JB, thought he may be on for a sneaky point at one stage.
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Old Mar 29, 2015 | 08:44 AM
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a win for Ferrari.
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Old Mar 29, 2015 | 08:47 AM
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Yep, massive strategy fuck up for Merc, Ferarri may still have won though, looked fast today. Alonso must be spewing ��
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Old Mar 29, 2015 | 09:53 AM
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take away mercs 3rd pit stop and they would have both won by 20s, why they changed tyres so early wasa total cock up
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Old Mar 29, 2015 | 04:15 PM
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It was a good race and great to see ferrari win again. Lets hope we see a great rivalry between Hamilton and Vettel, Rosberg is out of his depth with these two and will disappear from being a championship contender very soon.
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Old Mar 29, 2015 | 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by 3i Jim
It was a good race and great to see ferrari win again. Lets hope we see a great rivalry between Hamilton and Vettel, Rosberg is out of his depth with these two and will disappear from being a championship contender very soon.

i'm begining to think thatwith rosberg, he was on the radio when it was pissing down yesterday asking what lines hamiliton was taking due to him being one second faster than rosberg.

mercs dropped a bollock with the strategy stopping when the safety car was out, they knew vettel was pushing for a two stop and they had a chance to stretch their first stint and eek out a few more laps in order to stretch to a two stop (which would have also kept them track position) but they decided to come in to change tyres and effectively cut short their first stint and were then committed to a 3 stop. on top of that they more or less stacked both cars in the pits and that knocked rosberg back even more as well

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Old Mar 29, 2015 | 05:25 PM
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Who thought it would be a good idea to have that knobber Eddie talk to the drivers on the podium?

Can't stand him, he thinks his opinions are right and that's it.

Get rid of him!

Was a good race though.
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Old Mar 29, 2015 | 06:52 PM
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Who thought it would be a good idea to have that knobber Eddie talk to the drivers on the podium?

Can't stand him, he thinks his opinions are right and that's it.

Get rid of him!

Was a good race though.
LOL and that Suzy Perry pair of idiots
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Old Mar 29, 2015 | 06:58 PM
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LOL and that Suzy Perry pair of idiots
I don't mind her. Wouldn't say no.
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Old Mar 30, 2015 | 06:29 PM
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Merc did make a statagy mistake IMO but I honestly dont think it would have changed the result.. They still would have had to stop 3 times due to their higher tyre degredation so will would have been a pit stop behind the Ferrari although a little closer if they'd had three equal stints.. They got complacent and Ferrari expolited that but Ferrari also did make the call the go for top end speed as they were not that fast in the middle sector but fastest on sector 1 and 3. Hence Vettel breezing past the mercs on the straights.

I'm glad Ferrari won as it adds a little something to the championship but if we have 'normal' temps in China in a fortnight I think Mercedes will be dominant again but I hope not..

Rosberg is not at the party this year, Hamilton put him in his place in 2014 and he's not recovered from that so we are going to need Ferrari to give Hamilton a challenge or he'll just walk it.

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