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Oh good.. We thought you might have fallen asleep painting your RBR nail design or baking RBR cakes.

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McLaren were a bit more consistent than Mercedes but appeared to be running more fuel. Both Nico and Raikkonen set pretty good quick laps at the end. The pace of the Mercedes doesn't look too bad. It looks like it's really going to be up to the drivers as the cars are close.

RBCake nearly killed me. It HAS to be easier to build a car out of carbon fibre than red velvet cake, has to be.




Tire performance looks all around more stable, as predicted. Situation normal for now, pending Caterham and Williams exhaust revisions.

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look at this



and then look at this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJybR-uW ... e=youtu.be

She is a women.

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I really, really, really hate what Pirelli is doing. Their "era" has been just about which car works the tires the best...and this season appears to be their ultimate nexus. In the sense that the tires now last no more than one lap, and the rest of the others will just be driving to deltas to preserve tire life. For such a storied tyre manufacturer, they're absolute idiots when it comes to strategising for F1.

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"A man should choose a friend who is better than himself"

Teams are getting used to tires. Last year Pirellis weren't durable, but more or less the same tires at the end of season were too durable in Austin for example. Teams by the end of season will find a way to make make them durable. It happens every season.

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They are just doing what Formula 1 asks them for. Pirelli doesn't decide what the end result of the behavior of their tires is, just how to get to it.

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That Ferrari system is intense.

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2013 PF1 Pick 10: 2nd Canadian GP

I still think the 2011 spec Pirelli tires were the best they have produced since they re-entrered F1, compared to he current tires they seemed durable and by the mid point the teams had got a good understanding of them but I don't seem to recall many one stop races, but I may be wrong

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Team Vettel, Ricciardo, Bottas and Button.

So they are idiots for doing what their customer (FIA and F1) asked for

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Disclaimer: The above post maybe tongue in cheek.

"I thought I'd get your theories, mock them, then embrace my own. The usual."

You need to actually read a bit.

Pirelli were asked to create a tyre that would degrade fast - they did exactly what was asked of them. If you want to moan at anyone, it should be F1, not Pirelli.

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I think they should sign Bianki and Sutil and get rid of Di Resta!

Very interesting!

Just watched the Sky 15 min testing program (with a dick presenting it who knows bugger all about F1 other than how to gherkin Kimi off), and Alonso looked pretty annoyed and/or ill. Certainly not himself. Should be on the sky website in a bit - take a look when it comes on.

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Kimi Raikkonen has got to be the most boring miserable person ever.

Expand please?

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dont know why fans worship him . the man looks bored of everything and ready to hang himself .

Just watched him on sky, was like he doesn't want to be there. Lotus must dread it every time he mumbles to the cameras.

Yup, agreed. Somehow his fans think its 'cool'.

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Kimi is probably the least boring driver on the grid. He just doesn't bother to put on a happy face while doing something he doesn't enjoy - talking to press.

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Without wishing to open a can of worms, as I get that we all have drivers we support for different reasons, but what makes him not boring, when he comes across (even when not talking to press) as a robot?

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well , he doesnt put a happy face when he is winning either ,

if i was watching f1 for the first time and see kimi winning and putting his usual face and speaking like he does , i would say what makes him so miserable and sad

I'd have a similar demeanor to Kimi with that idiot from Sky asking me stupid questions. I think Kimi actually showed a lot of patience up til that point.

He has interesting hobbies, is funny both when he intends to be and not, all interviews with his friends and family contain anecdotes that are either funny, endearing, or impressive, and he's authentic - that alone is interesting given the world he lives in. He just doesn't share his life with the public the way others do, which is something I can appreciate.

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there is definitely something that happened in his life that made him that way, that is not normal

Rubbish. Have you ever been to Finland? And I don't mean that in a bad way you finnish members.

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Made him what way? Please do some research into the available materials - first hand from him, or people close to him - before you judge his personality.

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Today lot of drivers were looking little murky. Maybe it was weather. Other than Esteban who frankly looks like a highschool kid, almost everyone was caught with gloomy face today. Alonso, Vettel, Paul in particular. It was cold and overcast today.
And come on, does Kimi being that way surprises anyone any more? Not to mention it is just matter of time until he does something weird on camera

He got stabbed in the throat when he was a child (by a pram I believe).
That's why his voice sounds the way he does (a bit scratchy, and more high pitched than most guys).
But I'm sure it's not why he doesn't like to talk to idiots.

I have a confession to make. I had completely forgotten that my nails were the wrong colors until I read this post. I had planned to do them yesterday but since it was a holiday here I was all "I'm doing NOTHING! today" and forgot. So I'm sitting at my desk a moment ago, looking at the slightly chipped pinky nail, thinking about what RBR nailivery I should do when I get home, when it dawns on me that the current colors - which I arbitrarily chose NOT for racing reasons - are in fact...Mercedes F1 colors. Nico was P1 today because of my forgetfulness Probably caused Lewis' Top Gear lap time too.

Nevermind that this is a picture of a picture of my grandfather serving a monkey in his restaurant, look at my nails and imagine that in real life they are just slightly more blue, and that I somehow...subconsciously...Merc'd my nails



Its test day test time. I can either go RBR, Sauber, Ferrari, Williams, Caterham, Marussia, Force India, or McLaren nailivery tonight. You guys pick, and we'll see if that team is fastest tomorrow

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FI. That would be awesome to see you try to do.

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Williams

On the 17th of March of course

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Disclaimer: The above post maybe tongue in cheek.

"I thought I'd get your theories, mock them, then embrace my own. The usual."

Please make them Williams. I would like to see them fastest.

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They're testing different rear end and exhaust parts. Also they did test runs on the new chassis # built. They said they had some telemetry issues.

I believe the Lotus car was the most consistent on the first day. Kimi did 14 laps all 1.23s and below. No other driver got close to those numbers. Also, Kimi was the only driver that did 4 back to back laps all in the 1.23s between 1:23.609 and 1:23.945. That's a .336 gap from the fastest to the slowest. Even as slower speeds, no other driver was able to produce that kind of consistency.

By looking at McLaren's long run data,

the softer tyres are wearing out between .150-.200 per lap

the harder compounds are wearing out at around .100 per lap but around 2 seconds slower per lap.

I don't know the how much fuel was on board but the number of laps was about the same between the compounds.

Also, there doesn't seem to be a "cliff" on these 2013 tyres. They have a constant degrade per lap instead.

Can't understand what Alonso's talking about, saying the tires are only good for 1 lap of testing -- sure they fall off, but when they're racing that's how it will be most of the time, so how is that useless for testing?

Maybe he's let slip that Ferrari is focusing mostly on improving qualifying performance, not race pace.

why do people keep saying this? i've not been to Finland but i know quite a few finnish people and i've never noticed this "boring" attitude in them...
Kimi just wants to eat his cake and have it at the same time,he doesn't like press,well suck it up and deal with their silly questions,it's just how many mins of his life which he gets paid for,i don't see the need for his boring condescending attitude towards the press.