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well next year 1.6 litre turbos should be fun. I remember the 80s, when the turbos went bang, they went bang.

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RedBull has brains and Seb can drive which he can whether people like it or not but they are not ruining the sport. Their setting a benchmark to date which no one else has caught. Up the qaulity in F1 ruling and teams then may be we'll get sonewhere. until then i can only look at the other teams in disgust. What exactly are these 'professionals' doing? Anyone would think it was fixed. Infact it would be less embarassing if it was. The drivers have suffered on multi million pound deals. boo-hoo. the backroom bods have suffered on mega contracts.

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Fans boredom and consistent booing = Red Bull dominance. Naturally they didn't intend it but they're still the cause of it.

The same would happen with anyone that wins 4 times in a row.

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RedBull didnt cause the problem. the blame is firmly at the door of the other teams. if they cannot get a car together to compete in the top tier of motorsport then bore off, get new people in.

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We're not booing the rest of the pack. We're booing RBR and Vettel. We'll continue to cheer for Mark Webber though. We're bored of Red Bull not the rest of the grid.

If it was alonso for the past 4 years he'd get the same reception. After the Webber incident Seb deserves all of this anyway, He could quit tomorrow and I doubt anyone bar the Germans and a select few would actually care.

He's the John Cena of F1.

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:LOL: you lot are harsh. dont know who John Cena is though :erm:

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He's been sat at the top of WWE and some Holywood movies despite people growing bored years ago. Basically same as Vettel. Except F1 is a legitimate sport and you can't punish someone for winning if they won fairly of course. WWE could remove Cena from the gold pile at any minute but don't. Leading to negativity every time he's seen.

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All the mucking around with rule changes never improved anything, why should 1.6 Turbo be any different, - unless the old engine is actually superior, and the minnows are allowed to keep it.

Oh and, must cut costs to get more teams in, but Caterham and Marussia are just not in the same race - at least in the old days when turbo and non-turbo ran together, there was effectively a second championship among the non-turbo runners.

I'd also favour a handicapping system, success ballast, or maybe drivers with no points exempt from the "use both types of tyre requirement" - though I'd rather they scrapped that altogether - it doesn't "mix things up" in the way that having two tyre suppliers did.

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Unlike other cockpit/steering controls that currently manage the existing engines in a limited fashion the turbo boost will play a more major role especially with limited fuel. Too much boost and although you gain major speed you guzzle up the petrol so it'll be a trade off between speed and actually finishing the race. Just look at F1 in the 70/80's to see what sort of racing was achieved which to me was some of the best racing going.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/24725406

Brawn to leave Mercedes at the end of this season

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Kimi Raikkonen threatens to boycott races over pay dispute

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/24776816

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Don't blame him. Millionaire or not, nobody should work for free when they have a contract stating a wage. I think we will be back to just 20 drivers next year, Lotus seem to have serious cash flow problems according to that article.

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Sebastian Vettel takes crushing Abu Dhabi GP win for Red Bull

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/24795236

Alfonso cheat his way to 5th, and avoids penalty, well that's FIA (Ferrari International Assistance) for you.

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They were at Ferrari world after all.

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Alonso apparently taken to hospital for precautionary checks on his back after going over kerbs at high speed. Will not pretend that I am his biggest fan, but I wouldn't wish paralysis on him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/24798485

Nice to see them taking health seriously though.