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Well it will have to change soon or else he has no chance of a 4th title this season.

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I have a feeling they will wait for Rosberg to be so far ahead in the title race that he can't be caught before Hamilton will be in a reliable car. Nice to see a different driver winning, shame it is still Mercedes.

Nice to see Alonso in 6th, about time McLaren had some good news.

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Toto was highly offended at the Nico favouritism comment

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It was obvious that Mercedese slowed Lewis down. Although Lewis was catching Nico while Nico was overtaking back markers, Lewis was doing a better job at and would have caught Nico, after all he had cut the lead to about 7 seconds, no doubt about it at all. The only way they could stop Lewis catching and possibly passing Nico was to slow Lewis down, they could afford to do that and still get a 1 - because Kimi was quite a way back.

Once the lead went back to 13 seconds they had to let Lewis pick his speed up because Kimi had begun to catch him.

I heard the race on Radio 5 Live, and there was an interesting comment from Toto, he told the Radio 5 Live reporter that near the end Nico had got a power problem, however, when I watche dthe interview on Channel 4 Highlites Nico said that near the end he was able to push faster and keep getting faster laps and never mentioned any problem, so make your own minds up.

There is more to this than meets the eye.

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I reckon they are letting Nico win the title this year after last year, it is yet again going to be a Mercedes procession. Come on McLaren or Williams, wake up and get a car that will dominate for seasons.

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Had similar thoughts since the start that Hamilton has been sandbagged to give Nico the title from the offset. Nico has always come off as passive aggressive to me when finishing up second. Who knows though, i just find it hard to believe Mercedes that get it so right nearly every time suddenly can't get it right for Hamilton at all.

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Daniil Kvyat demoted to Red Bulls sister team Toro Rosso and replaced by Max Verstappen in a swap for the rest of the season.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/36206848

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Lets get this into perspective.

Max Verstappen is promoted to Red Bull and had less that 6 hours in the car (Drivers get a whole winter testing to feel the car involving 100s of hours) and only bloody wins :D

His is the youngest to win a F1 race, and it will NEVER be beaten as the rules have changed as to the age of a race driver.

Also the first time the Dutch anthem has been played in F1.

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Not seen the crash, whos fault was it?

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Well depends who you ask, but having read the rule book Damien Hill says Nico.

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I guess we will have to wait to see what the stewards say.

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That's what l hear.

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Personally, Hamilton was at fault which I heard lots of other pundits say. However, the stewards have given no penalties to either, hope Rosberg responds in kind next race.

Well done young Verstappen.

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I reckon there was an interview without coffee!!!!

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Well Rosberg was in the wrong engine mode, thus slower than Hamilton and left a gap the Hamilton took, but Rosberg pulled into him.

So technically his fault.