Silly Season 2012/2013

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Do you have a link?
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If Hugo Chavez dont win the elections at Venezuela, Maldonado is out of Williams and maybe his dream with F1 is over. I dont necessarily want Maldonado out of F1, but i do hope Chavez not to win (for the sake of the people there in Venezuela).

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Nando wrote:Do you have a link?
To facebook...?

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Harvey wrote:
Nando wrote:Do you have a link?
To facebook...?
I searched for F1 Lotus team Facebook and came to a unofficial fan site, but saw it below, the real one i guess.
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Nando wrote:Do you have a link?
http://whatwillkimidonext.com/
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ElleMarie wrote:If Hugo Chavez dont win the elections at Venezuela, Maldonado is out of Williams and maybe his dream with F1 is over. I dont necessarily want Maldonado out of F1, but i do hope Chavez not to win (for the sake of the people there in Venezuela).
And Chavez winning that election isnt by any means certain.

I think if Maldanado is out, Williams will have to keep Senna nad his €8m on the car, however this may be diluted in 2013 as €4m from Proctor & Gamble is being split to €2m to Mercedes for Hamilton and €2m to McLlaren for Perez and Button.

If Maldanado is out, Williams may go and see if they can sniff arround Felipe Nasr as he has bucket loads in cash from Brazil.

Williams may be late to announce as well, but it is fair to say that Bottas is in the yellow T-Cam car next year.

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anyone else think hamilton is heading towards redbull?

could maldonado find a seat without the $'s he brings? he does seem mad but realy quick sometimes

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dan wrote:anyone else think hamilton is heading towards redbull?
For which season, you mean?
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Who else think's that Lotus GP should sack Romain Grosjean? Can this kid really learn from his misstakes? His stupid grin keeps haunting me... Hulkenberg is the obvious choice to replace him, I think, if he (Hulkenberg) does'nt gamble with a one year deal wtih Ferrari, beacuse surely they can't keep Masa after his first podium since 2010!
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No. The kid is quick and an immense talent. I can see him being a future WDC. But he needs to tame that talent. Not the first such case either. He'll learn. It's really only 1 area where he's weak - starts. He seems ok to go wheel to wheel otherwise.
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raymondu999 wrote:No. The kid is quick and an immense talent. I can see him being a future WDC. But he needs to tame that talent. Not the first such case either. He'll learn. It's really only 1 area where he's weak - starts. He seems ok to go wheel to wheel otherwise.
He seems to have a problem when there are multiple cars around him. He just isn't able to focus on more then one car. I don't know if he can rid of that problem; if he can't he should not be driving in F1, because he will be a danger at every start. It is the same reason why people with epilepsy aren't allowed to have a driving license: They can't help themselves, and it's a shame they are robbed of the right to drive by something they didn't want, but the bottom line is that they can bring alot of people in danger, including themselves.

I hope he can get rid of it. F1 starts do require a huge amount of focus. He'll need to train on that and see where it brings him.
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turbof1 wrote:
raymondu999 wrote:No. The kid is quick and an immense talent. I can see him being a future WDC. But he needs to tame that talent. Not the first such case either. He'll learn. It's really only 1 area where he's weak - starts. He seems ok to go wheel to wheel otherwise.
He seems to have a problem when there are multiple cars around him. He just isn't able to focus on more then one car. I don't know if he can rid of that problem; if he can't he should not be driving in F1, because he will be a danger at every start. It is the same reason why people with epilepsy aren't allowed to have a driving license: They can't help themselves, and it's a shame they are robbed of the right to drive by something they didn't want, but the bottom line is that they can bring alot of people in danger, including themselves.

I hope he can get rid of it. F1 starts do require a huge amount of focus. He'll need to train on that and see where it brings him.
He reminds me of an epileptic having absent seisures, he just seems to blank out and fly into people.

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raymondu999 wrote:No. The kid is quick and an immense talent. I can see him being a future WDC. But he needs to tame that talent. Not the first such case either. He'll learn. It's really only 1 area where he's weak - starts. He seems ok to go wheel to wheel otherwise.
Is he really that fast or is Kimi Raikkonen that slow?
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Donuts wrote:Who else think's that Lotus GP should sack Romain Grosjean? Can this kid really learn from his misstakes? His stupid grin keeps haunting me... Hulkenberg is the obvious choice to replace him, I think, if he (Hulkenberg) does'nt gamble with a one year deal wtih Ferrari, beacuse surely they can't keep Masa after his first podium since 2010!
Beside my anger over RG crashing into Webber today, RG is just too unbalanced to make a consistent dent for a team. He has shown qualifying and mid-race speed, but his starts are just too risky. As others have said, he just can't focus on more than one car at a time. It was shown here as he was side-by-side with Kobyashi, but then plowed into Webber.

I would replace Grosjean with either of the Force India Drivers or, if it is true Kamui's status is threatened (though I don't know how that would be the case after today), he would be a good driver next to Kimi.