2014 Austrian Grand Prix - Red Bull Ring

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Breaking news: Alonso signs with Williams for 2015, Massa to retire

:wink:

Waywardism
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Ha, I don't even know what spss is. It's not suspicious anyway, why on earth would Mercedes gimp one of their drivers when they're fighting for position with another team. It's either sheer bad luck or maybe something to do with how Hamilton stops at the box.

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As an Alons fan, I always thought he would beat Kimi, but, sh!t, he's murdering poor Kimi and mailing family members the body parts.
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Juzh wrote:Funnily enough alonso is faster than both williams cars by quite a margin.
I reckon Fernando could get Williams to tell Massa to move over.

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JimClarkFan wrote:
Juzh wrote:Funnily enough alonso is faster than both williams cars by quite a margin.
I reckon Fernando could get Williams to tell Massa to move over.
:lol: :lol: :lol: =D>

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JimClarkFan wrote:
Juzh wrote:Funnily enough alonso is faster than both williams cars by quite a margin.
I reckon Fernando could get Williams to tell Massa to move over.
:lol:

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What was that all about?! Use Strat6 for both cars and on the final lap both cars were allowed to use the overtake button... To me both weren't allowed to race.

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I can't help but think those slow pitstops for Lewis really decided this race. Either way a great comeback for Lewis. Hats off to Bottas as well!

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Was it me or was that race very robotic?

sheesh, come on Mercedes allow them to use full power...yaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwn
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- Raikkonen - Alonso? That's how roughly Lotus would have looked like all the time not many times (Valencia, Korea, Japan etc.) had they ran proper racing team and not marketing circus with every possible way of disadvantaging one driver and giving all the advantages to the other. Spending money in an idiotic fashion in 2012-2013 and thus compromising preparations for biggest changes in history, what can possibly go wrong? It's refreshing to see that you can't BS forever even in F1, brilliant BMW copying - as predicted.

- boring track with little overtaking opportunities - a true classic; modern F1 = two laps not saving fuel for overtake #-o
- Perez - again brilliant, even despite penalty which was IMO unnecessary, they knew what they were doing giving it, it could have been much better with 11th at the start
- there was nothing wrong with Williams' strategy - they ignored Merc and run according to their plan and tyre management, maybe if it was Bottas leading, he was faster today and really messed up qualifying

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It was the pit stops that won you that race Nico. Not saying the team did it on purpose they didn't they just screwed up. Good race though. =D>
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anzx
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I think the Renault and Redbull partnership is over more or less.... This is unacceptable, 60 horsepowers less than mercs.... and so unreliable...

And why do I think that Williams let win to the Mercedes?... They had such a bad pitstop timing, after second pitstop of Mercedes, they should try with SS tires on Bottas or Massa. Williams is probably not allowed to win against Mercedes because they are using their engines...
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henra
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SilverArrow10 wrote:It was the pit stops that won you that race Nico. Not saying the team did it on purpose they didn't they just screwed up. Good race though. =D>
Could you enlighten us, what a 0,5s faster pit stop would have changed?
When Rosberg came back on track he was > 2s in front of Hamilton.

Edit:
Really happy to see Williams come back. I hope they can keep that momentum.
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Did he really say: "In their honor the German and Austrian anthems"????
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Don`t russel the hamster!

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Phillyred wrote:I can't help but think those slow pitstops for Lewis really decided this race. Either way a great comeback for Lewis. Hats off to Bottas as well!
Yeah, if you start from P9 and get to within 1s of the win, those pit stops could have made the difference.

Well done, Williams, I guess. I'm not sure Massa is happy with this, though. He could have been on the podium instead of Bottas.

Perez shows once again that he can be faster (by quite a margin) than the Hulk when everything works.

And Alonso has a reservation on table no.5. Always.