View Poll Results: Who will win?
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Pastor Maldonado
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Kevin Magnussen
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Nico Hulkenberg
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Sergio Perez
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Adrian Sutil
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Esteban Gutierrez
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Jean-Eric Vergne
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Felipe Massa
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Valtteri Bottas
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Jules Bianchi
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Max Chilton
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2014 Grand Prix of China
04-22-2014, 02:09 PM
#76
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Is it true that the engine power plant designs have been locked in for the next few years? That Renault and Ferrari will not be allowed to change their designs for the next few years? If this is indeed the new reality of F1, it does not look very promising for competitive racing. Kudos to Mercedes for designing the superior product with their split turbo, but from a racing point of view is this what we really wanted? Will the Honda power plant when they return to the sport next season be able to emulate the Merc's split turbo or have they too already been locked into a design.
My thoughts are that the Mercs will definitely not win all the races this year. I'm actually surprised at how much Ferrari and RBR have improved since Australia. Remember how RBR said that they just wanted to finish the race in Melbourne? Now they are knocking on the door of podiums and that is with fly away races.
There's a 3 week period before the European leg begins and I still think the RBR has the best aero but is masked by the brute power of the factory Mercedes effort. The Ferrari in the hands of Alonso is much improved and I suspect it will get better.
Title still belongs to Lewis, but the gap will close and be very narrow by the end of this season based on chassis improvements by others and not power units.
04-22-2014, 03:22 PM
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04-22-2014, 03:25 PM
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Power unit (engine and KERS etc) has been frozen since February of this year. After the season it will be opened up again for enhancement purposes, but the general formula will stay the same.
My thoughts are that the Mercs will definitely not win all the races this year. I'm actually surprised at how much Ferrari and RBR have improved since Australia. Remember how RBR said that they just wanted to finish the race in Melbourne? Now they are knocking on the door of podiums and that is with fly away races.
There's a 3 week period before the European leg begins and I still think the RBR has the best aero but is masked by the brute power of the factory Mercedes effort. The Ferrari in the hands of Alonso is much improved and I suspect it will get better.
Title still belongs to Lewis, but the gap will close and be very narrow by the end of this season based on chassis improvements by others and not power units.
My thoughts are that the Mercs will definitely not win all the races this year. I'm actually surprised at how much Ferrari and RBR have improved since Australia. Remember how RBR said that they just wanted to finish the race in Melbourne? Now they are knocking on the door of podiums and that is with fly away races.
There's a 3 week period before the European leg begins and I still think the RBR has the best aero but is masked by the brute power of the factory Mercedes effort. The Ferrari in the hands of Alonso is much improved and I suspect it will get better.
Title still belongs to Lewis, but the gap will close and be very narrow by the end of this season based on chassis improvements by others and not power units.
04-22-2014, 04:13 PM
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04-22-2014, 04:29 PM
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04-22-2014, 05:40 PM
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+1 on all accounts.
Hopefully Renault can come up with some "reliability" enhancements soon to help bring the field closer together.
McLaren??? Too proud to lower their sponsorship rate, hemoraging cash and going backwards. Hope they get their shiate together soon as well.
Hopefully Renault can come up with some "reliability" enhancements soon to help bring the field closer together.
McLaren??? Too proud to lower their sponsorship rate, hemoraging cash and going backwards. Hope they get their shiate together soon as well.
I read an interesting article on the F1 website that opined that Ricciardo is better with the new RB10 because he has more recent experience with a low down force backmarker car than Vettel. It kind of makes sense. Vettel was used to slamming on the gas and going and the new cars don't work that way between the lack of downforce and the torque of the engine....ehem...power unit.
04-23-2014, 11:13 AM
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Newey at the Porsche garage........very interesting
I made the comment a couple races ago that Vettel was not figuring out how to deal with the low traction issues compared to Ricci and was ridiculed by a few on this board......
But how about that team jacket? Nice. Might have to scoop me up one.
04-25-2014, 11:54 AM
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