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Massa spilling the beans on Alonso.
So this year Ferrari has 2 drivers who don't work on the simulator...

Whats everyones views on the suppose Montezemolo comments that in effect, Kimi is Alonso's aide? I don't want to make too many predictions because 2014 could be so unreliable or favour certain drivers... ...but based on 2012-13 form, Alonso would beat Raikkonen and will be fine if he doesn't engage...

Pretty much agree with the top 10, except I wouldn't have Massa there. Id also have grosjean... above Hamilton. Everyone's entitled to their opinion! My view was that Grosjean was excellent in the second part but pretty sub-par in the first half of the year. To be honest, there was a clear P1, P2, ...

With 2 pay drivers, Total $ & PDVSA $, Lotus will survive for the time being.
The 2014 car won't be too bad since Allison's time they have already started developing it in the right direction.
Its whether they can continue with good upgrades during the 2014 season.

Massa was battling with Hamilton when he went over. The other drivers were alone and just got a warning. That's what I understand also. The other drivers were warned & didn't do it a 2nd time. And it seems Massa did. Sorry for Massa but he can't get special consideration just because its his home r...

Can't blame him, Lotus has already bomb his F1 career.
These days where F1 drive is so competitive & money talks,
if he is not given a chance as 3rd driver then unlikely he ever will in another team.

Can understand Valsecchi's frustration and disappointment, but to slag off Kovalainen was ungracious. He says "he's not a great champion", well Davide neither are you. You are a man who won GP2 in his fifth season. The fact you have not had an F1 chance this year is not unfair on you, but a said re...

So next year we will have 3 Finns on the grid.
3 French? 3 British? How many Germans? Russians?....

mikhailv wrote:

iceman1 wrote:

mikhailv wrote:No, Vettel HIMSELF was given the blower. Surely thats illegal?

He didn't even touch the car. So...

Drivers shouldnt be handed anything....

......on the race track.

But if you said it often enough, it could be illegal.

This Joe guy's comments are

phil1993 wrote:Vettel's radio message was actually against Perez - who he was lapping - rather than Webber. That bit got confused during the race broadcast.

That's what I understood as well.
But some people will choose not to believe this but...

Here is my take on the race in Japan. I know not all will agree with me on Grosjeans race. But it really has been hyped beyond reason. For instance, Edd Straw gave Grosjean a 10 for effectively losing 2 places and finishing 3rd. Kimi didn't even get that in the Australia ratings when he came from 7...

Horner is so terrible at his job that he's guided the team to three, almost four, successive double titles. There's been slip-ups, but they've been few and far between. If people actually care to delve into the race strategies and analyse the situation, they'd realise why certain strategies were ap...

phil1993 wrote:They split the strategies to cover Grosjean. If Webber would have got past Grosjean like Vettel did, he could have won.

The voice of reason.

Nah. Mostly car. All Ferrari need to do is make a car that heats the tires quickly and both Alonso and Kimi will be Qualy aces. Ferrari's reasoning was very simple: Massa has been no help to Alonso, nor the team. They would have traded Massa last yr, but like Alonso said... there was nobody proven ...