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[Hammer278]

Merc still seemed to be lacking when it came to the race. Clear victory for Alonso.

Yeah, fourth best team in terms of race pace but the drivers are making the difference.

[Hammer278]

Merc conducting pitstop practice in poor light.

[What's Burning?]

I don't think development of the car is the right word. The Merc last weekend was the fastest on Saturday by a country mile. The 'development' work is how does on Sunday, and how the car treats the tire on a given GP. The sport is no longer reliant on the fastest car.

[racechick]

It's not reliant on the fastest car and its not reliant on the fast driver, it's reliant on rubber. We may as well watch a contest for the best pair of washing up gloves, or the best sink plunger, or the best condom......ok that contest may be more interesting than the previous two, but actually I'd rather see car racing

[Hammer278]

It's not reliant on the fastest car and its not reliant on the fast driver, it's reliant on rubber. We may as well watch a contest for the best pair of washing up gloves, or the best sink plunger, or the best condom......ok that contest may be more interesting than the previous two, but actually I'd rather see car racing

How to be a contestant?

[darwin dali]

It's not reliant on the fastest car and its not reliant on the fast driver, it's reliant on rubber. We may as well watch a contest for the best pair of washing up gloves, or the best sink plunger, or the best condom......ok that contest may be more interesting than the previous two, but actually I'd rather see car racing

REALLY????

[andrew]

Being reliant on rubber can be a good thing in certain situations.

[stonemonkey]

It's not reliant on the fastest car and its not reliant on the fast driver, it's reliant on rubber. We may as well watch a contest for the best pair of washing up gloves, or the best sink plunger, or the best condom......ok that contest may be more interesting than the previous two, but actually I'd rather see car racing

So if either involved Lewis it'd still be the racing?

[racechick]

It's not reliant on the fastest car and its not reliant on the fast driver, it's reliant on rubber. We may as well watch a contest for the best pair of washing up gloves, or the best sink plunger, or the best condom......ok that contest may be more interesting than the previous two, but actually I'd rather see car racing

So if either involved Lewis it'd still be the racing?

you mean out of washing up, plunging sinks, racing cars or using condoms? I'd rather see Lewis racing cars

[stonemonkey]

It's not reliant on the fastest car and its not reliant on the fast driver, it's reliant on rubber. We may as well watch a contest for the best pair of washing up gloves, or the best sink plunger, or the best condom......ok that contest may be more interesting than the previous two, but actually I'd rather see car racing

So if either involved Lewis it'd still be the racing?

you mean out of washing up, plunging sinks, racing cars or using condoms? I'd rather see Lewis racing cars

Oh c'mon, you trying to say you wouldn't miss a race to see Lewis plunging your sink?

[andrew]

It's not reliant on the fastest car and its not reliant on the fast driver, it's reliant on rubber. We may as well watch a contest for the best pair of washing up gloves, or the best sink plunger, or the best condom......ok that contest may be more interesting than the previous two, but actually I'd rather see car racing

So if either involved Lewis it'd still be the racing?

you mean out of washing up, plunging sinks, racing cars or using condoms? I'd rather see Lewis racing cars

Oh c'mon, you trying to say you wouldn't miss a race to see Lewis plunging your sink?

Is sink a euphemism?

[What's Burning?]

Why would it be?

[darwin dali]

Why would it be?

Ouch!

[Hammer278]

Not looking good for a 3rd straight podium.

Mercedes has 'got to find some more time' - Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes has "got to find some more time from somewhere" or be braced for "a tough weekend" following Friday practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Mercedes was struggling with tyre wear and unable to match the pace of Red Bull as Hamilton ended FP2 with the 10th quickest time, some 0.8s off the pace. He said after the session that Mercedes was losing time but unsure where and would need to work hard overnight to try and find out how to get more from the car.

"Definitely it looks like it's going to be a tough weekend for us," Hamilton said. "We're working as hard as we can and we've just got to find some more time from somewhere. I don't really know where we're losing it, but still, at least we got through the day and there are still positives we can take out of it. So we're just going to try and analyse everything and try and see if we can find some more time somewhere."

With the high temperatures making tyre preservation difficult, Hamilton said the conditions were proving a real challenge for Mercedes.

"It sucks because you just sweat your arse off, and the other one is that it's so hard to look after the tyres. The degradation just gets very tricky and then I don't know how some people are able to do it better than others but definitely we're struggling compared to some others.

"Strategy-wise I've not spoken to the team about that, I don't even know what kind of strategy we'll be on this weekend; whether it's a three or a four stop, who knows? I anticipate it will be something similar to the last race but at the last race we had a lot of understeer and here we have rear degradation so we've done as many laps as we can to try and prove out the long run; maybe tomorrow we'll do some more."

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[What's Burning?]

Not looking good for a 3rd straight podium.

Damn you're more ambitious than Lewis!