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Lets hope and pray that he pulls through.

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FIA need to look at themselves, it was known that conditions were going to be rubbish, why did they not consult about switching the date for the race? FIA responsible for this accident, hope Bianchi is not too badly injured.

Gutted Hamilton won, about time someone took him down a peg or two. Getting too arrogant for my liking.

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We don't know what happened yet - it was yellow flagged at least, and the FiA did try to get the race moved but Honda refused. Hope Bianchi's ok. His points at Monaco are still the difference for Marussia this year.

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Bianchi is currently in surgery after suffering a severe head injury.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/29496295

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Doesn't sound like a happy outcome will happen, a shame. F1 is so much safer since Senna's crash in 94.

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He hit the recovery vehicle :(

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Picture I saw of his car, I'm amazed he wasn't killed on impact tbh.

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L'Equipe are saying the operation is finished and he's not on life support.

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They're now saying the hospital won't issue any further statement about his health this evening n same link.

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Jules Bianchi out of surgery and breathing on his own.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/29499545

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Bit of topic but he was a F1 driver

Former Formula 1 driver Andrea De Cesaris has died at the age of 55.
The Italian was killed in a motorbike accident in Rome, the official F1 website confirmed.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/29501069

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Blimey this has been a bad day.

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So sad to hear of his death.:(

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Seems Jules Bianchi isnt breathing on his own and is still critical :(

http://www1.skysports.com/f1/report/...-head-injuries

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Just seen video of Bianchis crash. He was lucky he wasn't decapitated, the fact he's alive at all is nothing short of a miracle.

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Its on facebook, looks awful,

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Was the footage shown on tele ?

Best wishes to him.

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No.

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No, TV generally never show the footage, or if they have shown it once will not show it again. When Eduardo had his leg broken against Birmingham, they showed no replays of it on Match of the Day, or when discussing it after.

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Mail have a video on their site. Had a look, Bianchi was damn lucky not to have his head taken off the speed he went into that JCB.

From what has been said, it seems that Massa and a few other drivers wanted the race postponed because of the typhoon on the way but Mercedes and Red Bull vetoed that. If true, then I imagine they must be feeling awful now.

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But there wasn't a typhoon, just rain, I dont think red bull and mercedes should feel any guilt

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It's not for MAMG or RBR to veto a decision to abandon the race - that simply hasn't happened. They might have been happy to continue, they might have even voiced that, but that's not the same thing.

And Massa's protests must be taken in the context of the fact that he was until Sunday the most recent high profile serious casualty, imo. Nobody else seems to have had a problem with carrying on.

What did happen was before the race the FIA wanted to move the race to an earlier time but the race organisers (Honda) refused on three occasions. But the race would have been wet whenever it was run, and the severity of the crash was a result of many other factors combined, including the bad light according to Adrian Sutil. The real question is whether or not a safety car should have been deployed to assist with the recovery of Sutil's Sauber. But there was a spin under an earlier safety car so it's hard to argue that this crash was completely preventable.

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Going forward I think the technology exists to implement pit lane speed limiting near to an incident, meaning we wouldn't need safety cars and drivers wouldn't lose or gain advantages as they do currently when they are deployed. I don't follow Endurance racing but apparently they have slow zones when they have marshalls on track.

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Just been watching practise from Sochi, Russia.
The new circuit is very futuristic with some fantastic backdrops of the surroundings.
The design is going to catch some drivers out, in places the Tecpro barriers are very close to the track with not much room for error.

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And apparently Marussia are only running one car. Will have to have a look at SKY to watch highlights.

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One of the best moments of this season was Bianchi's opportunistic points at Monaco. Those points have Marussia ahead of Caterham and Sauber in the WCC - a position that will be massive for the team if they are to maintain it. They are only running one car in Sochi, and will have a race ready car in Bianchi's side of the garage, in tribute to him. Which is a lovely gesture. I sincerely hope they don't come to regret the gesture, and that the decision to run only one car leaves them unable to defend their position currently based on Bianchi's 2 points. Doing everything possible to ensure that his points still had value would have felt to me like a better tribute, personally.

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Agree. Is there any further news on him? Last I heard he was not breathing on his own. I hope he survives.

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If he survives, I fear he will be badly brain damaged.

But, the brain is an amazing thing so you never know.

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I read somewhere that because of the type of injury it will be weeks before they can even begin to make any predictions about future quality of life so I wouldn't expect any news for a while now unless the worst happens. No news will literally be good news for the foreseeable future.

It's amazing how after a sombre start in Sochi we're almost back to business as usual after a couple of practice sessions. Ted Kravitz was in the fia press conference and he said they were shown the circuit cctv footage of the crash, and it was obvious that almost all of the drivers were ignoring the yellow flags. They apparently plan to take control of how much the drivers have to lift off for yellows away from them (drivers) starting this weekend.

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No but I saw it on YouTube and I showed the guys at work, I can't say the word they used.

I can't believe his 650KGish car moved a vehicle weighing at least 6500KG.

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Whats this I hear about the poisonous dwarf BE moaned that Putin had a better parking stop than him. WHO DOES THIS DICK HEAD THINK HE IS. Russia deport him PLEASE.

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Lewis Hamilton wins Russian GP.:cleader::cleader:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/formula1/29040537

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Excellent drive although a boring race.

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I think "uneventful" rather than "boring", but after last week I also think that's probably for the best. It's certainly obvious that a lot of teams were relying on a safety car which never materialised.

Rosberg trying too hard again, although he did well to recover to 2nd place. Mentally it must be all over for him - he just doesn't have the stuff. Reliability is Hamilton's only real challenger now.

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Crap. Not been a good weekend for sport. COME ON ROSBERG. Take that arrogant twit down a bit.

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So much anger in you lol.

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Alonso to Lotus???

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I hope we find out soon, there is even a rumour he may sit out a season.

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:D

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Nah, I predict Alonso will join McLaren again. Or Rosberg will leave Mercedes and they replace him with Alonso lol.

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He's apparently told Will Buxton that he won't be in a "Mercedes powered" car. If he meant "Mercedes powered" that obviously rules out Lotus. He may well have just meant "Mercedes" but I haven't seen the video/read the transcript so I don't know.

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I think Alonso would be better off not driving than going there!

Lotus of course have a bad engine this year but that car is an utter dog and with the internal turmoil there I can't see a turnaround just yet even with a Merc.

As for McLaren? Well the car is starting to look not terrible, FINALLY, so as long as that Honda engine isn't utter crap it may be an upgrade from the Ferrari. I don't think it'll be as fast as the Mercedes but if there's anyone who can make the car better than it should be it is Fernando. I just hope Button keeps his seat too for a final year and asks Magnussen to sit out 2015 with a long term deal to make up for it.

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And there's the rub. Regardless of how good a job Honda have done, it won't be as good as the power unit it's replacing. McLaren may well have to take a step back before they can start moving forward, but if Fernando goes there, they're initially uncompetitive while at the same time Ferrari make gains...

As it happens Alonso's now been doing the rounds suggesting that it isn't true that he's leaving Ferrari! In other words I'm staying out of it until there is something concrete!

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If i was alonzo id stay with ferrari, kimi hasnt performed well this season

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Caterham now fully in the hands of the administrators meaning the whole lot can be sold as a going concern, and Bernie has given them permission to miss America and Brazil...watch this space. If Marussia decide to only run one car again we'll have a couple of races with a grid of fewer than 20 cars.

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http://www.theguardian.com/sport/201...-miss-f1-us-gp

I hope this doesn't result in Sauber overtaking Marussia, but an 18 car grid for Austin.

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Marussia also goes into administration

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-29784602

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Well, this is a sad situation.

What do we need to happen for action to be taken to get the sport to take cost cutting seriously? Or is Bernie going to shove the big teams into running 3 cars instead?

If that's the latter, then so be it, but for me half of the fun of Formula 1 is seeing the "small" teams prove themselves by taking points off the teams with far bigger budgets and as a route for young drivers who don't mind a bad car because they can prove themselves. Look at Bianchi, Alonso, heck even Schumacher started at a team that if the big teams have their way with scrapping cost caps would never have existed.

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Often wondered how today's "Minardis" survive - maybe a dual specification is needed, like in the old days of turbo & non-turbo, when there was an interesting battle among the minor league non-turbo teams - pretty sure there was actually a separate championship among them.

It was a sad day when they lost the lucrative tobacco sponsorship, and for WHAT?
I knew the Malboro McLaren, the JPS Lotus, the Benson and Hedges Jordan, Lucky Strikes (I forget which one they were) - knew they were brands of cigarettes, but it didn't make me want to go and smoke any!

I'd vote, right now, to bring back tobacco sponsorship, after all, alcohol sponsorship is allowed (though Labour want to ban it!) - still if they ban that, maybe they can go for porn site sponsorship instead.

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Lucky Strike was BAR, but they're now Mercedes so I'm not sure that helps your point!

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Trouble brewing among the smaller teams left.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/29858916

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For all the talk of cutting costs, nothing has been achieved - in fact, probably the greatest cost cutting measure I can recall was the season when KERS was permitted, but by "gentleman's agreement", none of the teams implemented it.

Surely this seasons exotic turbo + energy recovery engine INCREASED costs.

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Gerard Lopez made a good point in the team principal's press conference - he could run a gp2 car for a season for €4 and only be 5 or 6 seconds behind Mercedes' €300+ championship winner. It's hard to argue that a 5 or 6 second advantage for more than €296 represents good value for money, or even that it couldn't be achieved for a lot less.

Of course the point he misses is that as a marketing exercise, €300 for a world-wide car manufacturer to associate themselves heavily with the champions of the pinnacle of motorsport is a drop in the ocean.

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I hope this seasons championship isn't decided by double points in the final race as that would be terribly unfair.

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+1

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IMO, if it means that Hamilton loses the title then I am all for it.

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I expected a comment like that.......

In my opinion the race points still need to be the same in every race even if someone doesn't want that person to win the championship.

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Oh dear Mr Grumpy is in great today it seems.:D

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It will be a tainted result if decided by the double points meddling - a desperate attempt to keep things alive until the final race, a win by double points will be a false result, whether it's the driver you support, or the one you don't.

So I hope double points does not make a difference!

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Whatever happens, the title almost certainly is going to be decided in Abu Dhabi. Which means for double points not to be the deciding factor we will now head for the final race of the season hoping for no drama, but instead for a boring race won by whoever is leading the championship coming away from Interlagos. You couldn't make it up.

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I will feel a little sorry for Rosberg if he wins on double points. Obviously I'm sure he'd take it (!), but he'll forever be known as the driver who won on double points, just as his dad is still known as the World Champion who only one won race. Just like his dad I don't think he's got another title in him either so it would be a tainted win, especially as Lewis has won more races this season and is only really not already champion because of reliability.

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Lewis wins Rosberg second.

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Rubbish result. Not happy.

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Now definitely going down to the last race. That was really good today. Maybe we don't need a full grid after all!

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If Lewis wins the next race and Rosberg is second, Rosberg could still win the championship if Lewis doesn't finish i am told...........

So ridiculously not fair and the person who came up with that double points rule needs to not be in this sport.

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l am.:)

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It was put forward by the f1 commission (fia, Bernie, Pirelli and a few other interested parties) and then unanimously accepted by the Strategy group (Merc, Williams, Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and currently Lotus).

In other words Toto wanted it.

On the plus side for Lewis he only needs second places now.

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FIA publish provisional 2015 F1 entry list featuring 11 two-car teams.

http://www1.skysports.com/f1/news/12...-two-car-teams

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Hmmm. No Forza Rossa then.

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Gutierrez and Sutil out and Ericsson and Nasr in at Sauber for next year. Quite excited by Nasr, and he's well backed so he could and potentially should be around a while. Not sorry to see the back of Sutil.

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Marussia F1 team fold after crisis talks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/29954250

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But Sutil's contract doesn't finish until end of 2015.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/29945378

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I read somewhere on the web (using phone) that things ain't looking good for Shuey.

Months was mentioned :(

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My understanding is that Banco Brasil are backing Nasr and have paid up Sutil's contract. Any comment from Sutil is likely to be sour grapes - he has got form for that!

Monisha Kaltenborn has made it quite clear that Ericsson and Nasr are their drivers for next year.

Sauber will probably also end up with Marussia's prize money in light of the news posted by Den above. Caterham have started a crowd funding exercise for £2.35m to allow them to get to Abu Dhabi, which feels like a rather cynical attempt to pocket some prize money before folding themselves.

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Rosberg on pole Hamilton second.

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If Rosberg wins the title because of the double points BS I might give 2015 season a miss.

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Yes l certainly won't be very happy with that scenario.

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Shock horror I would be EXTREMELY happy if that happened. But at least this season has gone pretty much to the wire.

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Its only up to the wire thanks to Lewis Hamiltons 4 DNF.

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Well its nice to know thy leopard never changes his spots.:)

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Go go go go!!!!!

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Hamilton must finish second in last race to win the title.

IMHO NR doesn't deserve the title, totally out classed by LH

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All we have to do is keep the faith and thy deliverance will come.:cleader::cleader:

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Yep, Nico will totally outperform Lewis in Dubai.

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Even today Lewis was fastest. His own mistake cost him 7seconds and the gap at the end was about 6 tenths. I just hope there aren't any mechanical issues in Abu Dhabi. If his car finishes the race Hamilton will be the World Champion for the second time, and Rosberg's best chance will be past him. And that would be the right result for the driver who has won the most races and would already be Champion if it weren't for mechanical failures and his teammate's cheating.

Pleased with Massa's podium today - I wasn't sure he still had that in him, but a bit gutted about Bottas in the other car. Still, 3rd is well on and would be a great result for a proper team.

Whatever happens in two weeks time this has been an incredible season - best for a long time. Interesting new formula, a break in the Red Bull dominance, excellent racing throughout the grid, the reemergence of Williams as a competitive force, the breakdown of the relationship between the Championship contenders, the cheating in Monaco, the pressure telling in Spa, the high of Marussia's first points thanks to Bianchi's opportunism in Monaco (has there been a better result ever), the low of his crash and the subsequent folding of Marussia, the bizarre goings on at Caterham, every race bar perhaps Sochi and maybe Austria being good, Bahrain and Canada in particular being amongst the best races of all time, and, best of all, a driver's championship that's going to the last race of the season in spite, not because, of double points.

All that and I took my boy to Silverstone for his first time.

Crisis? What crisis?

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l somehow doubt it Mark.

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Alice Powell could make her F1 debut with Caterham at the season finale in Abu Dhabi

21-year-old's grandfather paying for practice outing; Powell isn't ruling out taking part in qualifying and race



http://www1.skysports.com/f1/news/17...ampaign=buffer

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula-one/30020798

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Some good news as at least he has come out of his coma.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/30120317

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Good news, hopefully he will have a better outcome than Schumacher. Although have a horrible feeling that both will be left in wheelchairs for the rest of their lives if they do come out of the coma completely.

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There is a report today that Schumacher is in a wheel chair and paralysed, if true i hope he improves.

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Bianchi family statement in full:

Almost seven weeks after Jules’ accident at Suzuka Circuit, and following a challenging period of neurological intensive care, we are able to announce that Jules has made an important step.

Jules is no longer in the artificial coma in which he was placed shortly after the accident, however he is still unconscious. He is breathing unaided and his vital signs are stable, but his condition is still classified as ‘critical’.

His treatment now enters a new phase concerned with the improvement of his brain function.

Jules’ neurological condition remains stable. Although the situation continues to be serious, and may remain so, it was decided that Jules was sufficiently stable to be repatriated to his native France. We are relieved, therefore, to confirm that Jules was transferred aeromedically last night from the Mie Prefectural General Medical Center in Yokkaichi, Japan, to Le Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice (CHU), where he arrived just a short time ago.

Jules is now in the intensive care unit of Professors Raucoules and Ichai, where his care will also be monitored by Professor Paquis, Head of Neurosurgery Service.

We are thankful that the next phase of Jules’ treatment can continue close to home, where he can be surrounded and supported by his wider family and friends. We have nothing but praise for the outstanding care provided by the Mie Prefectural General Medical Center since the accident. We owe the medical staff there an enormous debt of gratitude for everything they have done for Jules, and also for our family, during what is a very difficult time for us. In particular, we would like to extend our thanks to Doctors Kamei and Yamamichi, and also to Mr Ogura, all part of the team of personnel caring for Jules in Japan.

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Vettel to Ferrari, Alonso expected to join McLaren.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/30128844

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As much as I want Button to stay in f1 I think he should tell McLaren to poke it, personally.

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Thought he had already announced he was retiring?

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l hope he stays in F1 but obviously with another team one hopes.

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No. He's said he wants to remain in the sport, but intimated that this might not mean f1. He's being heavily linked with WEC. Meanwhile McLaren have said that they won't make an announcement on their drivers line up until at least the first week in December, with obviously brushing strong expectation that this will be Alonso and one of Button or Magnusson.

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I read that Webber wants him as a team mate or rival where he is racing.

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Well he said the following to f1.com:

Q: Should you risk a view into a crystal ball, what other future is out there for you in racing? Didn't Mark Webber write that you should join him in endurance racing...
JB: I've had some good chats with people about racing in WEC. Who knows! It looks very interesting and you obviously give it a bit of a thought. I am not stupid. I want to race next year. I want to be in a category that is competitive. And yes, it could be an exciting challenge.

Q: Have you been contacted by teams?
JB: Maybe.

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Not sure if this has been raised already. What the hell is this boring circuit in Abu Dhabi doing as a final race. How interesting would it have been if the final race was in Texas! Just one track off the top of my head that is entertaining. The circuit has ruined it for me. I wouldn't mind going to Selhurst Park on Sunday to cheer on Palace.

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Money. Bernie. That is all. Bad isn't it?

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He doesn't need to sell his soul though. Abu Dhabi would throw the money regardless.

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Red Bulls to start from back of grid

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/30161617

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Well, firstly he makes out that he wanted double points for the last three races, but was voted down to one by the teams. Whether or not this is true the teams definitely did approve double points in its current format, so he might be right. Secondly he no longer owns fom, but is employed to run it by the hedge fund he sold it to, so he does have a duty now to maximise profit on their behalf.

The impact on today's race is that Hamilton can't settle for a midfield finish and Williams might still finish behind Ferrari in the WCC - both of these issues would pretty much have already been decided without double points. I suppose if you ignore the inherent unfairness of double points to Hamilton who deserves the championship and Williams who deserve their third place, both on the basis of their performances over the course of the season relative to their rivals, it's hard to argue anything other than they've worked as intended and kept some interest going towards the end of the season. It's just that for a sport which has often found a way of serving up last round drama it's all beginning to feel a bit false.

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:cleader: :cleader: Delighted with that result , well done Lewis , Great season :)

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Lewis Hamilton wins and is crowned 2014 F1 World Champion! :)