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Dennis Kalma Dennis Kalma is offline
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Personally the current Brawn domination makes me even more convinced that the majority of the difference between Team A and Team B or Driver C and Driver D is the car.....

Nothing against Button, he is by far a better driver than I wil ever be, but he did not magically become a better driver over the winter and neither did Hamilton magically become a worse driver since becoming WC.

Button just has a better car, took advantage of a bad rule definition in a positive way and his car is now a few fractions of a second faster per lap than Hamilton.

Makes me believe that while there are minor differences between drivers, some are a bit better about wringing the last bit of performance out of a car (e.g. Kovalainen vs Hamilton), Bernie and Nazi Maxie have a point.....the dominant teams win because they have been able to throw bucks at every minor improvement to get a few hundredths here and a few hundredths there, get acceptable drivers and then win 7 championships or whatever....

Makes the case for a budget cap, as much as it pains me to agree with two of the nastiest people in any business.....

Dennis
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