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I was referring to Benetton that morphed into Renault. Williams have always fielded two strong cars it's just a few of late have been a bit duff

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Ah OK, still 1996 for Benetton though. Alesi should have won a couple of races, as could Berger.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08...e_chad_hurley/

Wonder if the cars will suddenly stop mid lap while it buffers the rest ;)

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Rule changes for 2010: refuelling's banned, KERS allowed, qualifying will chuck out 8 cars from Q1 and Q2, and Q3 will be run on low fuel. Minimum combined weight of cars plus driver is 620kg to encourage use of KERS. No budget cap, no two-tier rule system, no medals that Bernie wanted either! :D

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headline...20143836.shtml

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Some good, some not so good changes there IMO, i used to like refueling as it played a part in the teams strategy both for the race and during qualifying. There was allways the chance of an incident as well, like the hose getting jammed or similar.
I hope it doesn`t become even more sterile....

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banning refueling is great as now it means we get more action on track although we still get the two tyre compounds so will still have pit stops.

KERS is allowed by the FIA but FOTA have said they won't use it, so only really the non FOTA teams who might run it but as that will be the new teams plus Williams i'm not sure it will be back

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Badoer not doing to well in first practice today, but he's probably not taken the car round a circuit since testing in closed season..

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Really feal sorry though for the refuelers who have thier job taken from them... BBC did a segment on them at the last GP..

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they are usually the truck drivers as well so they will still have a job, most of the pit crew have other roles throughout the weekend

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Yep, but normally the amount of mechs/techs are dependant on the minimum number needed for the pit-stop especially on the smaller teams..

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A few transfer rumours floating about...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/8214450.stm

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I think Martin just wanted to let off steam personally, he seems happy enough with Lewis and Heikki. If Massa or Raikkonen are out of jobs, they're both deserving of other drives, but I can't see Ferrari replacing both at this stage, unless Raikkonen is genuinely dis-interested with F1 at the moment. He was world champion with them though.

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Barrichello won, Hamilton 2nd, Raikkonen 3rd.......Button 7th, crucially scoring points when neither of the Red Bull's did.

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I wonder if Hamilton's chasing his pit crew round with a shotgun after the last pitstop??

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Martin Whitmarsh seems to think that two seconds isn't important, it's one of these rare occasions where i find myself agreeing with Eddie Jordan.

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Raikkonen looked amazingly happy on the podium didn't he...

Looked like he'd rather have been elsewhere.

Good win for Rubens, and I think Eddie was right about that terrible pitstop for Lewis