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| It'll be legen-waitforit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Calgary, Canada 
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			So what happened to the cckpit Halo thingy to protect the drivers?
		 
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|  02-22-2016, 04:08 PM | 
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|  02-22-2016, 04:10 PM | 
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| Registered Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: CA 
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			Barcelona Day #2 a bit like Day #1.  Tons of laps for Mercedes and Ferrari... Renault blew up but had a sense of humor about it - official tweet: "From our own special analysis (no tech. person involved), we think the car tried to tweet, realised it couldn't & reverted to smoke signals." Jolyon Palmer already sounds like a whiner / not much of a team player... Haas looking solid in midfield but on soft tires... McLaren did 117 laps!!!! That's like 6 race distances last year ;-) Rosberg did 152 laps - damn !!!! He''s in shape ! 1. Sebastian Vettel Germany Ferrari-Ferrari 101 laps 1m 22.810s 2. Daniel Ricciardo Australia Red Bull-TAG-Heuer 112 laps 1m 23.525s 3. Sergio Perez Mexico Force India-Mercedes 79 laps 1m 23.650s 4. Nico Rosberg Germany Mercedes-Mercedes 152 laps 1m 24.867s 5. Marcus Ericsson Sweden Sauber-Ferrari 96 laps 1m 25.237* 6. Valtteri Bottas Finland Williams-Mercedes 120 laps 1m 25.872s 7. Esteban Gutierrez Mexico Haas-Ferrari 67 laps 1m 25.873s 8. Pascal Wehrlein Germany MRT-Mercedes 46 laps 1m 25.925s 9. Fernando Alonso Spain McLaren-Honda 117 laps 1m 26.082s 10. Jolyon Palmer Britain Renault-Renault 42 laps 1m 26.189s 11. Max Verstappen Netherlands Toro Rosso-Ferrari 106 laps 1m 26.755s | ||
|  02-23-2016, 07:29 AM | 
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| Registered Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: outta here 
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 They've also drastically changed the qualifying process and introduced a Driver of the Day Award (actual award, TBD) in the interest of creating more excitement for those with short attention spans. You know who you are... JR | ||
|  02-24-2016, 03:51 AM | 
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			The big issue I see with the new qualifying deal (slowest driver out every after 90 seconds) is that Pirelli added a new softer tire....  some lower teams will run their super-duper-soft tires right away and force everyone to do the same. Or gamble. That could be interesting or effed up, depending....  I thought the current qually thing was OK....
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|  02-24-2016, 09:04 AM | 
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| Registered Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: MD 
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			Sounds goofy to me, the current qali is pretty intense. I like how you can wait until the end if you want but risk weather, technical issue, track spacing... lots going on.
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|  02-24-2016, 09:21 AM | 
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			Mix the new quali with the temperment of F1 drivers, and you have the makings of a giant chick fight every Saturday.
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|  02-24-2016, 12:24 PM | 
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			Good testing day for Haas, 2nd behind the Force India that was doing a Sponsor Seeking Special lap
		 
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|  02-24-2016, 01:30 PM | 
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			they are back on track testing 3-1 thru 3-4 F1 pre-season testing 2016 - Barcelona II (1 - 4 march) - Racing Comments - The AUTOSPORT Forums | ||
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