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Hmmmm, yes, but one is under braking, where as one is flexing all over the place over a small kerb. I'd like to see a slow mo McLaren/other car gif over a kerb. I'm sure someone will do that at some point.

Also that image is from 2011, before the current changes to nose dimensions for 2012.
Quote from CSF :Hmmmm, yes, but one is under braking, where as one is flexing all over the place over a small kerb. I'd like to see a slow mo McLaren/other car gif over a kerb. I'm sure someone will do that at some point.

Also that image is from 2011, before the current changes to nose dimensions for 2012.

The nose dimension changes aren't really relevant to this discussion.

Also, the McLaren is not under braking. The high nose position is just before DRS activation at the beginning of a straight, and the low position is at full speed with DRS. The dip in the nose is due to the extra speed and its resultant downforce on the front wing.
Oh, I always thought they took those gifs from the first braking spot, my bad. Doesn't change the fact I'd like a look at the other cars under similar loading to the Red Bull.
Yes, that would be interesting.
Quote from Storm_Cloud :0.5s behind Brawn and Red Bull at Turkey - which is as good as reference track as any.

Also, Kimi's debut year at Sauber had him in the 4th or 5th best car, not a Caterham which races in a sub-class of F1. Much more like a Mercedes or (LOL) a Sauber.

Kimi is a good driver, very quick when he has clear air. There's nothing wrong with him per se and he's a World Champion. What I don't understand is where this mystique that surrounds him has come from. Why do so many people cream themselves whenever his name is mentioned? That's nothing to do with stats or comparing him with other drivers, that's an emotional response and I don't see anything in him that would drive that.

Well, because there are fans (alot of fans), who look at a driver as a person, as well as his speed. He stands out in stuff he does (in F1 terms anyway), people see he does shit that "normal" people also do. That is appealing to people. And he is always the same. He is not like so many others who change their faces every time they are in front of a camera. Like Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel just to name the protagonists. Thats why Button and Vebber are such cool guys, when they speak you believe them. When Vettel or Alonso speak on TV, you just wanna punch them in their Fu***** face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1GnB331WQ
http://community.evo.co.uk/forums/thread.cfm?threadID=87917
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBMRsY_UI4E

Thats why Kimi has so much fans, and other shittards may be as fast they want to be, but they will always be just that, fast and nothing more. Like what you want, my 2 cents .
Which is absolutely fine - people like who they like. I see little more than a Nick Heidfeld that drinks and swears, but that's just my opinion.
Ugh, you just reminded me of the irritating Nick Heidfeld fans that sprung up when he was booted out of Formula One at the end of 2009. Suddenly some were claiming he was a superstar that was somehow unlucky not to have won multiple championships. The same people were thinking he was in with a shot of a Ferrari drive for next season.
Quote from CSF :Ugh, you just reminded me of the irritating Nick Heidfeld fans that sprung up when he was booted out of Formula One at the end of 2009. Suddenly some were claiming he was a superstar that was somehow unlucky not to have won multiple championships. The same people were thinking he was in with a shot of a Ferrari drive for next season.

in the end it all came down to Mclaren choosing Kimi instead of him that made them dream.
so much tl:dr, this damn thread is now a debate and there is no point going on
ALL these posts are dumb because apparently everyone is experts in formula one and even knows how good a car is by looking at it.
Having a debate on a forum! THE IDIOCY!

If its tl;dr for you then clearly you don't have the interest/attention span to be involved in the discusion so why post? Sometimes you have to make a long post otherwise you don't back up what you're saying with facts. But seeing as most of your posts are just a picture with nothing decent to add it would imply you're too stupid to be able to understand that.

Seeing as you act like a 5 year old on teamspeak on a pretty regular basis, I know this is true.
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Im a finn and I think that Räikkönen is a insolent brick. What did I win?

Sure he knows how to drive fast and I cheer for him every race but still sometimes his behavior makes me want to strangle puppies.
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still sometimes his behavior makes me want to strangle puppies.

What like getting drunk and failing to javelin throw a pole off of a boat?
Quote from BlueFlame :What like getting drunk and failing to javelin throw a pole off of a boat?

I mean him being a complete dick sometimes. Sure everyone hates media and he wants to concentrate when racing but he doesn't have to behave like that.
And giving a **** about his drinking is already too late since world thi-I mean knows that finns are drunks.
Quote from SCA-F1 :Seems like I'm really pissing off the Finns in their defence of world's greatest driver just cos he's a Finn, great success.

You're pissing off sensible people, because regardless of the validity of your arguments, you're unable to express them without coming across as a douchebag. Juzaa is clearly very biased.
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Well that's not really an explanation is it, that's again another simplistic way to categorise Kimi as a driver, and that doesn't tell the whole story. Take 2008 mid-season - he was frequently getting outqualified but didn't make progress in the race either.


He had a bad period? So what. Alonso had a bad period in 04, 07, early 08 and some periods of 09 too. Hamilton in 2011 too. Vettel in 2010 and 2012 had some bad periods too.


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Anyway, back to 2008 mid-season, let's take some of the races here:

Monaco 2008 (wet race) - qualifies P3, running P7 until he takes out Sutil.
Hockenheim 2008 - qualifies P6, finishes P5.
Hungary 2008 - qualifies P6, finishes P3 (after Massa and Hamilton retire from 1st/2nd).
Valencia 2008 - qualifies P4, running P5 behind Trulli until his engine blew.
Singapore 2008 - qualifies P3, running P5 and 25s off the lead before SC. Then he hits the wall with 4 to go.

I don't see much evidence of, quote: "great race pace" here. Even in races like Monza, Fuji and Interlagos he was nothing special and his race pace was overshadowed by Massa. If anything his qualifying performances are prolly more impressive from 2008, cos in the races he finished a long way off the lead, whilst he usually qualified in the top 4.


If you're going to make an argument, atleast make it 2 sided. I mean, you've missed out France where he was leading from pole until an exhaust issue. However, he's the luckiest driver in Formula 1 . He was also going great in Silverstone until the team made a strategy error with the tyres, they put worn intermediates on and it started to rain again, and after that he couldn't switch on the tyres - an issue that plaged the Ferrari all season in those conditions. He finished 4th on a day that Massa could barely keep his car pointing straight. If Alonso did that, he would be a god.

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And if u think Ferrari just developed that car towards Massa, explain why in the first 4 races Kimi had good speed (and led the championship by 10 points). For example, look at his pole lap in Spain - he's using very high amounts of steering lock even in medium/high speed corners which "supposedly" doesn't suit his driving style.


Thats a characteristic of modern Ferrari's. The amount they turn in the car doesn't have to mean anything, it could be just that they have different steering settings. Its a very "simplistic" approach to say someone who likes oversteer would use less steering lock

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As for Kovalainen comment.. lol, you're the first Finn I hear to mention his name. But anyway, don't tell conspiracy-esque shit as to why Kovalainen was owned in races and qualifying. IMO Heikki is a very good driver and better qualifier than racer, yet he frequently got beat by Lewis in both quali and race. No doubt u will say it's cos McLaren loved Lewis, just like Ferrari loved Massa. Yeah, that's why Kimi was paid 25 million € salary and started failing in only his 2nd season there, but world is against u Finns.

Put words into peoples mouths and say 1 persons opinion represents an entire country. Hate...

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Regarding Kimi in 2012 season - I don't agree totally with what u said. Afterall, he was fighting for the win at Bahrain (Round 4) whilst Grosjean was 15s behind. Don't use the argument "well most top drivers who come to F1 usually fail" cos it's extremely rare to see drivers do that, Schumacher and Kimi are the only examples from the modern era, and Schumi is 43yo ffs. As far as I can see, Kimi's only now started outperforming Grosjean regularly since Lotus have been prioritising new parts on his car seenas he's the one still mathematically in contention for championship.


So when Massa gets new parts over Kimi in 08, thats logical and Kimi's fault but when Kimi gets new parts over Grosjean thats something to hold Kimi back for?

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I can't deny he's done a great job this season, but I think people are overrating his performance, and he's had no bad luck at all.

Someone went into the pitlane while he was trying to pass them at Monaco, and it cost him a position. His team told him he had time for 1 more lap at Australia, and he didn't so he didnt even make it out of Q1. He had no KERS at the start of the Hungarian GP which cost him the first stint behind Alonso, wich arguably cost him the win. But ye, no bad luck

But you're an F1 expert, but yet got so much wrong in your post. Good job mate
Vettel and Raikkonen are the two most naturally gifted F1 drivers this millennium. One works at it, and will become, statistically, the greatest of all time. The other does work at it, but his James Hunt esque character will make him a favourite for many more people in 20 years time.

Massa will be forgotten.
Hamilton will be remembered by geeks, but not by normal fans
Schumacher will be considered like Fangio.
Alonso will be remembered as being one of the best all-rounders ever, a bit like Prost.
Vettel's records will be beaten within 6 years of him setting them.
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As for Kovalainen comment.. lol, you're the first Finn I hear to mention his name. But anyway, don't tell conspiracy-esque shit as to why Kovalainen was owned in races and qualifying. IMO Heikki is a very good driver and better qualifier than racer, yet he frequently got beat by Lewis in both quali and race. No doubt u will say it's cos McLaren loved Lewis, just like Ferrari loved Massa. Yeah, that's why Kimi was paid 25 million € salary and started failing in only his 2nd season there, but world is against u Finns.

Just to clear some things, Kovalainen was, if I remember correctly, once or twice in 2008 with the same fuel strategy as Hamilton. And those times he was ahead of Hamilton in the qualifying. At the time it was actually quite often calculated how much fuel was needed per lap and how much that weighted and how much that weight affected the lap times. No doubt you can remember this. Kovalainen lost to Hamilton in almost every qualifying because his car was around 0.5 seconds slower. His race pace is a completely different story but it is undeniable that Kovalainen wouldn't have won a lot more qualifyings. In Q2 Kovalainen was at least 0.1s faster than Hamilton 5 times, there were 6 races where their Q2 time was within 0.1s and Hamilton was at least 0.1s faster in 7 races. Kovalainen was very even in qualifying with Hamilton in Q2. In media it was often calculated that had Kovalainen had as much fuel as Hamilton he would've been faster in I think about 50% of the qualis. Kovalainen's tactics were shit and they never worked that was Mclaren's fault not his and his image suffered a lot because nobody looks at facts but only your positions in the grid and in the finish line. He lost his confidence and ended up with horrible 2009 season and losing his job. Also Hamilton had in at least half of the races newer parts than Kovalainen because for some reason they only had time or materials to make just one of the upgrades for the race. You know this as well as I do. I'm not saying Kovalainen was better than Hamilton as a driver but he was a lot better than any of you give him credit and I think he applies rather well to the context I used him in my previous post.
Juzaa, Kovalainen was outclassed at McLaren there's no way around it. He's a decent driver and maybe now he's actually a better driver than he was but at McLaren he was ungodly slow 90% of the time compared to Hamilton.

You don't like Hamilton anyway, maybe this is the reason why, but if you think McLaren <3 Hamilton then how did Button manage to come to the team and seem to mould the team around him no problems and Lewis seemed like an outsider (maybe that's why he left for Merc).
I think that's one of the overlooked elements of a really good driver. Honestly, I bet all of the drivers (at least the non-pay ones) are almost exactly the same pace if they have the car driving like they want it to. It's the ability to fix a car you don't like or adapt yourself to the car's style that makes good drivers truly great.

I feel like that's something Button did that Kovalainen didn't. As for Hamilton, I know the McLaren has been slow at times but I feel like he hasn't had the sort of experience with this that other drivers have. Hopefully we'll get to see how he deals with it at Mercedes next year.
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Quote from BlueFlame :Juzaa, Kovalainen was outclassed at McLaren there's no way around it. He's a decent driver and maybe now he's actually a better driver than he was but at McLaren he was ungodly slow 90% of the time compared to Hamilton.

You don't like Hamilton anyway, maybe this is the reason why, but if you think McLaren <3 Hamilton then how did Button manage to come to the team and seem to mould the team around him no problems and Lewis seemed like an outsider (maybe that's why he left for Merc).

Blueflame just check the numbers I gave. They are 100% correct and I stand by them. Mclaren learned from their mistake with Alonso and got Hamilton a second driver who was given completely different tactics. Kovalainen even said in few of the interviews that it'd be nice to once start with a light fuel setup.

You are right that I don't like Hamilton's character (I prefer Button a lot more) but I've NEVER questioned his speed. All I'm saying is that Kovalainen was about as fast in qualifying as Hamilton was in 2008. Statistics from that season support that statement. Check it if you don't believe me, you can find the qualifying times from Formula 1's official website.

Kovalainen's race pace was off (as I've already mentioned but you don't seem to read) which was as much his as the fuel setups fault since he suffered a lot from his tactics. He was slower in races than Hamilton but in no way did Hamilton make Kovalainen look like a fool. That was Mclaren, and Mclaren only.

2009, that is another story and is mainly focused on Kovalainen losing his confidence in himself and the team.

The reason why Button found home at Mclaren is as much about his speed as his character. Hamilton is arrogant and annoying while everyone likes Button as everything in him is what you'd expect from a British driver. Class, style, humility(at least compared to some other F1 drivers), consistency with tires and of course, speed. He's not as fast as Hamilton but easier to work with.

It's actually funny that here everyone who dislikes a driver seems to believe that driver is almost nothing and deserves nothing. Vettel, Räikkönen, Schumacher. I'm betting you don't dislike Kovalainen but you rather never cared about him or followed him which is why you don't know he always had large fuel load and was actually about as fast as Hamilton in Q2's in 2008 (Q2 times are easy to check through F1 webpage if you don't believe me).

It's the same if you ask about Heidfeld from me, I have no recollection of his driving, only some generic comments about how he was supposed to be the next top driver but lost his chance to go to Mclaren as Kimi was a better driver. That actually tells nothing about the guy but still shows some bias as I already have a way I think I should feel about the guy. Same with you and Kovalainen. At times the feelings are right and at times wrong, you just need to either dig to the facts or have someone to explain them to you (assuming you can admit to yourself that you actually don't remember much)
So what do you think is going on with the red Bull nose then. Looks strange to me saying it's supposed to be the strongest part of the car.

http://img.imgur.com/sbeeM.gif?1
Quote from speedykev :So what do you think is going on with the red Bull nose then. Looks strange to me saying it's supposed to be the strongest part of the car.

http://img.imgur.com/sbeeM.gif?1

The nose is designed to deform to dissipate energy. The strong bit is the tub.
No, don't say that, because it's nonsense. Nose cones are solid structures.

Nobody knows exactly what Red Bull are doing, but it appears to be a flexible skin over the camera pods and wing pylons. The wing and nose pass all the FIA tests, so what they're doing is very clever but currently within the rules. Maybe there are springs and hinges (unlikely as it'd get found out quickly), maybe it's a complex carbon lay up (very likely given recent CFD/FEA advances).

But it isn't cheating.

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