2nd Test 2017

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tommunster10

1,128 posts

92 months

Wednesday 15th March 2017
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Rulle7 said:
As someone who reads more than posts I cannot help but noticing that any thread that starts off as an interesting read soon loses that quality upon your, tommunster10's, arrival. Your incessant and incorrect use of 'of' when you mean 'have' only adds to the cringe factor.
tommunster10, please, please, PLEASE stop posting twaddle.
Thank you.
No. I don't agree with Farage or much of what Trump says but I respect their right to say it and have opinions etc. I don't like people who try to shut down any conversation even if I don't agree with what the person is saying and much prefer people to use their debating skills to discuss it. I'm not saying i'm correct but It will take more than some no mark on a car forum to bully me into submission.
Something tells me that forums don't want a thread with 5 people all agreeing then the thread dies, they want this debate raging so long as it isn't going into vile language as it keeps people coming back and gets clicks and foot fall and ad revenue....

Your summary is based on your own opinions not being reflected by mine. So what? A forum really isn't for a snowflake who can't bare to read anything that doesn't fit in their shallow mind.
Plenty of threads on here and any forum where there is disagreements, so long as its within the forum AUP then deal with it.

So i suggest you just stick to reading threads, or jog on back to mumsnet.

tommunster10

1,128 posts

92 months

Wednesday 15th March 2017
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eps said:
tommunster10 said:
eps said:
tommunster10 said:
even Pastor wasn't that bad
I feel I need to quote this
You have won an F1 race then I take it?
Slag off Pastor but Stroll is a genius? Both are an example of why F1 isn't even close to the pinnacle.
Eh? I don't understand what you are implying now...

I was merely commenting on the fact that you said that "even Pastor wasn't that bad". I never said he hadn't won a race or that I had won a race or whatever else the voices in your head are telling you I'm saying.... He was that bad. He was.


(relative to the other F1 drivers - his contemporaries - you know the people we can compare him to - not made up stuff)
And Alonso has compared well to his contemporaries in that McLaren?

Fact is Pastor was funded because he was Venezuelan and they don't have a massive history of F1 stars. Stroll is funded by his Dad. Neither got drives based solely on their talent.
Either both are a bad example of how F1 choses its drivers or neither.

HustleRussell

24,724 posts

161 months

Wednesday 15th March 2017
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Rulle7 said:
any thread that starts off as an interesting read soon loses that quality upon your, tommunster10's, arrival. Your incessant and incorrect use of 'of' when you mean 'have' only adds to the cringe factor.
tommunster10, please, please, PLEASE stop posting twaddle.
Thank you.
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Big Al.

68,871 posts

259 months

Wednesday 15th March 2017
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Guys, please get this thread back on Topic or it faces closure!

M3ax

1,291 posts

213 months

Wednesday 15th March 2017
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2nd test is over anyway smile

tommunster10

1,128 posts

92 months

Wednesday 15th March 2017
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HustleRussell said:
Rulle7 said:
any thread that starts off as an interesting read soon loses that quality upon your, tommunster10's, arrival. Your incessant and incorrect use of 'of' when you mean 'have' only adds to the cringe factor.
tommunster10, please, please, PLEASE stop posting twaddle.
Thank you.
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tommunster10

1,128 posts

92 months

Wednesday 15th March 2017
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Big Al. said:
Guys, please get this thread back on Topic or it faces closure!
2nd test is over so probably best to close it?

TonyToniTone

3,425 posts

250 months

Wednesday 15th March 2017
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fuelracer496 said:
The assumption all along has been that Ferrari had to turn everything up to 11 to achieve the lap times they did - there's a belief that Mercedes are untouchable and the disorganised rabble from Maranello couldn't possibly have designed a decent car.
Who's assumption? Helmut Marko thinks Vettel was lifting rather than pushing to get a lap time.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-sandbag...

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 16th March 2017
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TonyToniTone said:
Who's assumption? Helmut Marko thinks Vettel was lifting rather than pushing to get a lap time.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-sandbag...
From what I've read, mostly the media in the way they report things - as the link you mentioned pointed out, the teams themselves are taking notice of how Ferrari went about their testing programme i.e. very differently to previous years, and they clearly had a lot left in the bag rather than putting it all on the table. Perhaps it's the Italian way, Ducati had a similar approach in Moto GP - make enough noise to get some publicity, but fail to turn up when the season starts. This year's pre-season testing was conducted rather differently though.

The media (particularly the Beeb) spent 2 weeks insisting Ferrari's pace shouldn't be taken seriously, and we might as well just hand Mercedes the silverware already. It's a pity they cant report things a little more neutrally. Viewing figures are on the decline (it would appear) and writing off the chances of anyone toppling Mercedes before FP1 in Melbourne doesn't help. Fortunately there's enough silly people who'll get up in the middle of the night to see it unfold smile

Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

153 months

Thursday 16th March 2017
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TonyToniTone said:
fuelracer496 said:
The assumption all along has been that Ferrari had to turn everything up to 11 to achieve the lap times they did - there's a belief that Mercedes are untouchable and the disorganised rabble from Maranello couldn't possibly have designed a decent car.
Who's assumption? Helmut Marko thinks Vettel was lifting rather than pushing to get a lap time.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-sandbag...
Read 80% of the thread - their assumption!

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 16th March 2017
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"Do not presume to assume that my assumptions of pace or lack thereof are anything more or less than presumptive assumptions. It shall make an ass out of you and I, should you assume that I assumed or presumed this. But that red car looks nippy."

The good doctor, after many shots of vodka mixed with his favourite energy drink...

KevinCamaroSS

11,641 posts

281 months

Thursday 16th March 2017
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TonyToniTone said:
fuelracer496 said:
The assumption all along has been that Ferrari had to turn everything up to 11 to achieve the lap times they did - there's a belief that Mercedes are untouchable and the disorganised rabble from Maranello couldn't possibly have designed a decent car.
Who's assumption? Helmut Marko thinks Vettel was lifting rather than pushing to get a lap time.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-sandbag...
Also never forget that Vettel is Marko's 'golden boy'.

CraigyMc

16,422 posts

237 months

Thursday 16th March 2017
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fuelracer496 said:

"Do not presume to assume that my assumptions of pace or lack thereof are anything more or less than presumptive assumptions. It shall make an ass out of you and I, should you assume that I assumed or presumed this. But that red car looks nippy."

The good doctor, after many shots of vodka mixed with his favourite energy drink...
He has a glass eye after a stone came in through the visor in an F1 race he was competing in.

budgie smuggler

5,392 posts

160 months

Thursday 16th March 2017
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This article seemed pretty good to me. Covers deg on the tyres as well as the teams relative performance.

https://f1metrics.wordpress.com/2017/03/14/2017-pr...

tommunster10

1,128 posts

92 months

Thursday 16th March 2017
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CraigyMc said:
fuelracer496 said:

"Do not presume to assume that my assumptions of pace or lack thereof are anything more or less than presumptive assumptions. It shall make an ass out of you and I, should you assume that I assumed or presumed this. But that red car looks nippy."

The good doctor, after many shots of vodka mixed with his favourite energy drink...
He has a glass eye after a stone came in through the visor in an F1 race he was competing in.
And?

Vocal Minority

8,582 posts

153 months

Thursday 16th March 2017
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CraigyMc said:
He has a glass eye after a stone came in through the visor in an F1 race he was competing in.
I think fuelracer is referring to him being slightly less than coherent, rather than the stare.

anonymous-user

55 months

Thursday 16th March 2017
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Vocal Minority said:
I think fuelracer is referring to him being slightly less than coherent, rather than the stare.
That's the badger. I'll get my coat... smile

TonyToniTone

3,425 posts

250 months

Thursday 16th March 2017
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Vocal Minority said:
Read 80% of the thread - their assumption!
Ah tongue in cheek, missed it but makes total sense on second reading. getmecoat

gibbon

2,182 posts

208 months

Thursday 16th March 2017
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Edited by gibbon on Saturday 18th March 18:40

HustleRussell

24,724 posts

161 months

Thursday 16th March 2017
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gibbon said:
I read these threads passively, in bits, when i have time, as I deeply love formula 1 for many reasons. I dont however have time to read them all, and almost never feel compelled to reply, but I have to say, my overwhelming view point of this thread has to be, even when joining the dots of diving in and out of reading various pieces, is that tommunster10 is surely an angry little teenager sat in the back bedroom eagerly trying to wind people up and revel in the reaction and spout the next bit of contrite nonsense, or, even worse, he really is a man of very limited intellect, wit, or charm.
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