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[Hammer278]

I'm glad for another Merc 1-2 to be honest, it's far better than what I expected when the cars were lining up. I just wish Lewis lost out to Nico while having SIMILAR pitstop timings though.....

But those first two laps.... that was just H.A.M!!!

[Hammer278]

That awkward moment....when it will be a sin to just settle for one.

[What's Burning?]

Good race today, clean with lots of action and seeing Mercedes having to manage their way to a non dominant 1-2. These mean more than the blowouts.

[racechick]

I'm waiting already for the post race investigations into battles occurring around turn 8. "He went off the trac!" " He pushed me off the track! "

stewards outcomes to be determined by the identity of the protagonists.

Hopefully they just dole out the same punishment to everybody, regardless of who it is!

One would like to think so.

[geetface9]

Hats off to everybody for an incident free race!!! Hats off to hamilton for an epic start!! It was alonso-esque for sure!! Hamilton definitely would have had this race in the bag if he hadn't done such a piss poor job in qualifying for the third time this year. Good job Nico for managing the brakes, the williams cars, and his tires so well. Hopefully he can better his fuel management to be on par with hamilton for the rest of the year. And an OUTSTANDING job by Perez!! I picked him to be 5th in the pool but 6th is just as good!! He may not qualify as well as hulkenberg but he is definitely smoking him in the races!! It was so nice to watch him pass the mclaren of magnussen!!! Talk about the ultimate "$#@! you!" What a race!!! Good job to maldonado for driving a nice, clean race for Lotus. If only they didn't have such a $#@! car he'd be beating grosjean, ferrari, and mclaren with EASE. But ultimately, mother $#@!%^& NICO ROSBERG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hammer278]

Hats off to everybody for an incident free race!!! Hats off to hamilton for an epic start!! It was alonso-esque for sure!! Hamilton definitely would have had this race in the bag if he hadn't done such a piss poor job in qualifying for the third time this year. Good job Nico for managing the brakes, the williams cars, and his tires so well. Hopefully he can better his fuel management to be on par with hamilton for the rest of the year. And an OUTSTANDING job by Perez!! I picked him to be 5th in the pool but 6th is just as good!! He may not qualify as well as hulkenberg but he is definitely smoking him in the races!! It was so nice to watch him pass the mclaren of magnussen!!! Talk about the ultimate "$#@! you!" What a race!!! Good job to maldonado for driving a nice, clean race for Lotus. If only they didn't have such a $#@! car he'd be beating grosjean, ferrari, and mclaren with EASE. But ultimately, mother $#@!%^& NICO ROSBERG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Props to Nico, he did what he could've done and won the race fair and square.

I'm wondering about this little point you mentioned:

Hopefully he can better his fuel management to be on par with hamilton for the rest of the year.

Has this really been a disadvantage? What's the point of finishing a race with more fuel than your teammate? Hamilton has consistently been lugging more fuel in the car till the end, this adds weight and time per lap...as we know, extra fuel per lap is detrimental to laptime. Won't you want to be absolutely on par with your teammate and have no more fuel on board? At certain races this year (Canada as well) he had more than 2kgs of fuel than Nico and carrying around, detrimental to brakes, laptime and no use when the race is over.

[Jabberwocky]

You are assuming that they start the race with the same amount of fuel

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[geetface9]

Hats off to everybody for an incident free race!!! Hats off to hamilton for an epic start!! It was alonso-esque for sure!! Hamilton definitely would have had this race in the bag if he hadn't done such a piss poor job in qualifying for the third time this year. Good job Nico for managing the brakes, the williams cars, and his tires so well. Hopefully he can better his fuel management to be on par with hamilton for the rest of the year. And an OUTSTANDING job by Perez!! I picked him to be 5th in the pool but 6th is just as good!! He may not qualify as well as hulkenberg but he is definitely smoking him in the races!! It was so nice to watch him pass the mclaren of magnussen!!! Talk about the ultimate "$#@! you!" What a race!!! Good job to maldonado for driving a nice, clean race for Lotus. If only they didn't have such a $#@! car he'd be beating grosjean, ferrari, and mclaren with EASE. But ultimately, mother $#@!%^& NICO ROSBERG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Props to Nico, he did what he could've done and won the race fair and square.

I'm wondering about this little point you mentioned:

Hopefully he can better his fuel management to be on par with hamilton for the rest of the year.

Has this really been a disadvantage? What's the point of finishing a race with more fuel than your teammate? Hamilton has consistently been lugging more fuel in the car till the end, this adds weight and time per lap...as we know, extra fuel per lap is detrimental to laptime. Won't you want to be absolutely on par with your teammate and have no more fuel on board? At certain races this year (Canada as well) he had more than 2kgs of fuel than Nico and carrying around, detrimental to brakes, laptime and no use when the race is over.

You know what? Idk why I even said that because around lap 66 when they showed the fuel levels, I said to myself in my head, "rosberg's car will be lighter so he will be able to run good lap times without burning his tires out as much as hamilton might." The NBCSN commentators have been lauding hamilton's fuel efficiency all season so I guess I was just drunkenly reiterating that I've been sipping on vodka and rum for 2.5 hours

[geetface9]

You are assuming that they start the race with the same amount of fuel

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Interesting point. If the mercedes engineers know that hamilton finishes with a few kilos more in his tank then why not start him with a couple kilos less? At the same time, mercedes has had a couple of very prominent issues in 2013 regarding fuel use. Silverstone for hamilton comes to mind very quickly. Both hamilton and rosberg have suffered on at least a couple of occasions from that issue.

Or was that when hamilton was still at mclaren when he and massa exchanged places on the last turn of the last lap? I'm DAF so pardon me. it

[Hammer278]

You are assuming that they start the race with the same amount of fuel

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Which they must do. I wonder what Rosberg would say if he asked why he's carrying more fuel than Hamilton at the start of a race in the same car and they tell him "You got a heavy foot"....don't think so.

[Jabberwocky]

The simple answer is because he needs it. It would just be part of the car configuration.

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[geetface9]

NICO ROSBERG IS SEXY

[ang4f1]

Hats off to everybody for an incident free race!!! Hats off to hamilton for an epic start!! It was alonso-esque for sure!! Hamilton definitely would have had this race in the bag if he hadn't done such a piss poor job in qualifying for the third time this year. Good job Nico for managing the brakes, the williams cars, and his tires so well. Hopefully he can better his fuel management to be on par with hamilton for the rest of the year. And an OUTSTANDING job by Perez!! I picked him to be 5th in the pool but 6th is just as good!! He may not qualify as well as hulkenberg but he is definitely smoking him in the races!! It was so nice to watch him pass the mclaren of magnussen!!! Talk about the ultimate "$#@! you!" What a race!!! Good job to maldonado for driving a nice, clean race for Lotus. If only they didn't have such a $#@! car he'd be beating grosjean, ferrari, and mclaren with EASE. But ultimately, mother $#@!%^& NICO ROSBERG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Props to Nico, he did what he could've done and won the race fair and square.

I'm wondering about this little point you mentioned:

Hopefully he can better his fuel management to be on par with hamilton for the rest of the year.

Has this really been a disadvantage? What's the point of finishing a race with more fuel than your teammate? Hamilton has consistently been lugging more fuel in the car till the end, this adds weight and time per lap...as we know, extra fuel per lap is detrimental to laptime. Won't you want to be absolutely on par with your teammate and have no more fuel on board? At certain races this year (Canada as well) he had more than 2kgs of fuel than Nico and carrying around, detrimental to brakes, laptime and no use when the race is over.

I remember at Bahrain?? Nico whining on the radio... ..how could he burn off/get rid of excess fuel ..to give him impetous to get past Lewis...I thought NR was going to jettison it onto the track
Fuel is weight to go..?..Wake up Lewis...

[stonemonkey]

NICO ROSBERG IS SEXY

Is that your conclusion after 16 pints?

[geetface9]

Naw that's my conclusion after him beating hamilton again