2013 Belgian GP - Spa

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Racer X wrote:You can't base anything off of last year. Last year we had the top cars taken out only reason Button had a good race.
Nobody would have beaten Jenson that day; the mclaren was dominant the complete weekend.
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Spa is not punishing for the tyres ? It has so many high speed corners and sustained high g cornering .....it does lack a bit heavy braking to near standstill ..save busstop and la source..
Spa will demand different compounds and higher tyre pressures compared to Hungary ..so if the choice in tyre allocation is different to hungary we simply don´t know if those fit to W04 as well as the hungary tyres ...
Anyone out there knowing which tyres were used in Hungary and what is scheduled for the coming races?

so it was orange(soft) and white(medium) in hungary and Red (hard) and White in Spa ... coming from that side it seems reasonable to think AMGMGP should do quite well in the following races as at Spa and monza at least one tyre the car likes ...plus the hard tyre ...question is how far the medium will take them in the race..which could be a plus for those who are gentle to their rubber trditionally...
I personally think W04 has now a set of tyres literally rubber stamped with a three pointed star on it so only technical issues and race incidents may spoil their party in the coming weeks.So let´s cross our fingers Hamilton can challenge Vettel a little bit in overall standings.
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Hungary was changed to soft and medium. Spa is still medium and hard
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I am expecting Vettel and RBR to be back to their dominant self again at SPA and for the rest of the season.

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CHT wrote:I am expecting Vettel and RBR to be back to their dominant self again at SPA and for the rest of the season.
RB's dominance again. Like they were said to be dominant in Hungary and Germany? RB was only dominant at one full race - Malaysia, at the height of anti-tyre propaganda. BTW it's funny and depressing at the same time, after Hamilton's win predictably enough no one's worried about not pushing 100% any more :lol: . Bahrain - no, Canada almost, hard to say with wet/drying track qualifying.

If you think that's how the rest of the season is going to look, I disagree. They are favourites for wins in majority of the remaining races. Nothing new considering the car, biggest resources for development and tyres, no dominance however. We've got three odd ones now, then Korea (and Japan) - if RB 'dominates' there - game over.

I'm not sold on Mercedes' race pace based on Hungary alone. OK, they were fast in Malaysia/Silverstone but with many different tracks and conditions I have doubts. I hope they are strong, it should be interesting especially with Rosberg.

About Spa - RB might win but it should be close. I would favour Mercedes but: see above about their race pace.

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Hamilton needs to watch out for those gravel traps and kamui. Alonso needs to qualify up front to avoid Barrichello and Grosjean incidents. Vettel needs to avoid Buttons radiators.

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Hobbs04 wrote:Hamilton needs to watch out for those gravel traps and kamui. Alonso needs to qualify up front to avoid Barrichello and Grosjean incidents. Vettel needs to avoid Buttons radiators.
The gravel trap there is gone now, it's tarmac run off. Which is a shame, because I'll probably be there trying to take photos.

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ROS/HAM pole (Vettel if pissing with rain, their package comes into it´s own because drag is irrelevant pretty much in rain)

HAM/RAI win

RAI/VET fastest lap
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I don't expect a raikonen win. He can't use his turn 1 trick again.
What i would love to see is a hamilton kim 2008 fight again.
For Sure!!

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Kimi should be a cert for a podium, he loves Spa and is Mr Consistency with his car and his ability.

I think the podium will look like Hungary pretty much, just maybe not in the same order. Even as a Ferrari fan, I have no illusion that Alonso will be on the podium, he will probably end up fighting for 4th or 5th sadly.

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I think Ferrari might actually be stronger than Lotus

There's quite a clear trend that Ferrari prefer low downforce tracks where as Lotus' performance is quite closely connected to the track temperature (both of these factors prefer Ferrari)
I reckon Ferrari will rebound in Spa & Monza only to be poor in Singapore and fall too far behind

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Throwback one of the best battles i've seen in F1 so far.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GfvNTgstwQ[/youtube]
Supporting: Ham/Alo/Kimi/Ros/Seb/Hulk/Ric/Mag

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And they gave the win to Massa. Instead they could have told Hamilton to give the place back if the first giveaway wasn´t entirely fair.
But no-no one of the most exciting moments that year was obviously going to be ruined by FIA.

I love the Fagnes incident where somehow they all manage to miss each other while all being passengers essentially.
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SectorOne wrote:I love the Fagnes incident where somehow they all manage to miss each other while all being passengers essentially.
The one at the Fagnes chicane, right? :twisted:
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raymondu999 wrote:
SectorOne wrote:I love the Fagnes incident where somehow they all manage to miss each other while all being passengers essentially.
The one at the Fagnes chicane, right? :twisted:
No, the Fanges Chicesse of course, god... some people o.O can't even tell the difference between a chicaine, an S and a chicesse.