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On the flip side, there's live BTCC & support package coverage from Snetterton on Sunday on ITV4
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figbat
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Has it been awarded as a Verstappen win then?
Alex321
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With the rest being docked points for not starting?
Doesn't look like wets are going to be enough...
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(Do you want your yearly Dan Cammish delivery?)
Yes I do!
Might be a bit harder this year, as he got hitched just before Easter...
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@Reynard How you recovered from your Cammish lust & do we need to hire protection for Ms Goodman after being able to sit down with him for so long 
Good racing, little artificial with it being controlled by tyres but it makes a good spectacle, nice to see the BMW's tripping over each other, wouldn't want to be in the debrief later.
Good racing, little artificial with it being controlled by tyres but it makes a good spectacle, nice to see the BMW's tripping over each other, wouldn't want to be in the debrief later.
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They're probably all bollards, but the volume of rumours linking Ramilton to a move to Fezza is growing. Talk is they'd release LeClerc to Merc to allow Hamilton in, and have offered him as much as £40,000,000 to join them. He's only human, right?
FishFright
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Earlier the only source was the Daily Fail so consider it click bait for now.
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Depends what is impotent to him, more money than he could possibly spend in a lifetime to give to his children he doesn't have on his death & never have the chance of ever winning a race again, or stay where he is, where he gets more money than he could possibly spend in a lifetime to give to his children he doesn't have on his death & never have the chance of ever winning a race again
figbat
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It would be naught but a vanity move to go to Ferrari - they are not going to compete any time soon until they can sort out their management structure and 'overseers'.
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@Reynard How you recovered from your Cammish lust & do we need to hire protection for Ms Goodman after being able to sit down with him for so long
Good racing, little artificial with it being controlled by tyres but it makes a good spectacle, nice to see the BMW's tripping over each other, wouldn't want to be in the debrief later.
*SNORK*
WSR normally don't get it wrong in terms of race prep and strategy (this going back to their F3 days too), but I have to admit I had a good giggle to see them make a mess of it with the tyres. You'd think they'd have split their strategy - especially at this stage of the season - rather than putting all their eggs in one basket.
I think three types of tyre to use across the weekend was too many - a soft and a harder default has worked fine. I do like the idea of a decent gap between the performance of the two compounds though, but the softs were maybe a bit too durable and the hards a fraction too slow. The medium was too close to the softs as we saw in race 3.
There will only be one type of compound at Thruxton though.
FishFright
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It depends on who he brings with him. If he goes over just for the glory then it's @Phaeton post happening, but if he brings with him a group of people with the sole plan of making a champion for Ferrari then the story could be interesting.
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Ferrari have a history of being a poisoned chalice. There's one exception.
When Schumacher signed for them in '96, everyone thought he was making an error of galactic proportions, but the reality is, he brought a whole load of people over from Benetton with him including Ross Brawn, this being after Tom Walkinshaw pulled out in a huff and went to Arrows instead. And Jean Todt also joined about the same time after the Peugeot world sportscar programme (of which he was the head honcho) folded when the FIA pulled the plug on Group C.
It was a perfect storm of engineering and management talent, and something which will never happen again. When both Todt and Brawn left, Ferrari went back to their usual levels of incompetence.
When Schumacher signed for them in '96, everyone thought he was making an error of galactic proportions, but the reality is, he brought a whole load of people over from Benetton with him including Ross Brawn, this being after Tom Walkinshaw pulled out in a huff and went to Arrows instead. And Jean Todt also joined about the same time after the Peugeot world sportscar programme (of which he was the head honcho) folded when the FIA pulled the plug on Group C.
It was a perfect storm of engineering and management talent, and something which will never happen again. When both Todt and Brawn left, Ferrari went back to their usual levels of incompetence.
FishFright
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When Hamilton went to Mercedes from McLaren most people thought it was a big mistake .