2015 UBS Chinese Grand Prix

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He was doing alright until he got half way round drawing the track and then remembered he forgot to plonk some perfectly lined straights with a ruler and 40mph hairpins at the end of each one.

Placing some varied, smooth kinks here and there or something other than a 1st gear hairpin at the end of every long straight would just be too exciting for him to deal with. Why would you want variety when all your tracks can basically look the same?
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His hands were kinda tied because it had to look like the Chinese character 'Shang'.
 
Robin.
His hands were kinda tied because it had to look like the Chinese character 'Shang'.
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Not really, that was always a very loose connection I thought :)

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Shang, Wiktionary.
 
I've always thought it looked like a cartoon dog/rabbit sat on a chair smelling it's own paw!

Hoping for another great Ferrari performance but I can't see anything other than a Mercedes win on Sunday.

On that note, according to the BBC gossip column Bernie now says Mercedes are Killing F1! In the same way Red Bull did? Or Ferrari? Or McLaren? Or Williams? Or any other team that has won a championship and went on to win another!
 
Cap'n Jack
I hope Sky aren't going to complain about the removal of the gravel trap at pit entry. It's not even a big deal, they're almost treating it as if a famous corner on a classic track has been altered for the worse.
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They'd probably cheer the removal since it won't be able to hinder Hamilton's pit entry if he attempts to dump it off track again. Although it's been 7 years now... :sly:
 
prisonermonkeys
Yes, but he's TALENTED. He told me so himself. And you know someone is serious when they use all-caps in their everyday speech.

He also told me that EVERYONE thinks that he is TALENTED, but that they were all too busy to confirm it just then, and could I come back in half an hour? So I did, and I met another Lotus driver named Julian. I don't know if you've seen him, but he wears horn-rimmed classes and a Groucho Marx moustache that's a different colour to his hair. He was wearing Jolyon Palmer's racing overalls, but that's because it was laundry day. Anyway, Julian told me that Jolyon is TALENTED, and that EVERYONE thinks so. In fact, he also told me that they think the grid would be incomplete without him.

He seemed legit.
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Are you a fellow GP2 champion/racer?
 
GTPorsche
Because GP2 is such a talent pool when it comes to their champions...

Rosberg and Hamilton are the exception.
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yeah you are right, Nico Hulkenberg, Romain Grosjean, and Timo Glock are terrible talents.

Nasr finished third in an equally good team, behind Palmer in the standings. Yet in F1 he is being praised. Surely Palmer would therefore be potentially as good. He might be terrible, but he worked his way up, won a championship against some good drivers. Also Nasr only secured the Sauber seat basically due to his €18 million of sponsorship. If he didn't have that he probably wouldn't of been in any of the teams.
 
GTPorsche
Because GP2 is such a talent pool when it comes to their champions...

Rosberg and Hamilton are the exception.
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Sorry but this is stupid.

The reason people don't take some of the GP2 champions seriously is they win the championship after being in the series for over 3 seasons giving them a huge Familiarity advantage, the Big talents win at Rookie level(Rosberg, Hamilton and Hulkenburg and Grosjean if you count the full seasons he did).
 
mustafur
Sorry but this is stupid.

The reason people don't take some of the GP2 champions seriously is they win the championship after being in the series for over 3 seasons giving them a huge Familiarity advantage, the Big talents win at Rookie level(Rosberg, Hamilton and Hulkenburg and Grosjean if you count the full seasons he did).
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Aside from Hamilton, and Rosberg to an extent, the others went on to be average in F1, so how exactly was what I said stupid?
 
prisonermonkeys
Well, it's not as wild as the theory that I'm actually Daniel Craig.

Palmer might be a GP2 champion, but that doesn't mean he's great. After all, Valsecchi and Leimer were also champions ...
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Well you are heavily criticising him because he says he is good, and Nasr has said he is good enough but I bet you don't disagree with Nasr because he doesn't get as much media coverage as the champion. Just because he says stuff that you don't like does not make him less talented. Driving a single seater quickly isn't easy. Winning a championship must be harder, considering we have the "great" Nasr whom he raced AND beat.
GTPorsche
Aside from Hamilton, and Rosberg to an extent, the others went on to be average in F1, so how exactly was what I said stupid?
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Yet Hulk has been praised so many times? Arguably one of the few drivers who lets his driving secure the seat rather than big money. I think it's ridiculous to say he has been average, considering he always out performs his team mate and the car.
 
Des2
Well you are heavily criticising him because he says he is good, and Nasr has said he is good enough but I bet you don't disagree with Nasr because he doesn't get as much media coverage as the champion.
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Interesting that you should bring Nasr up. It took Palmer four years to win the GP2 title, but it only took Nasr two years to get to a point where he was considered a viable option for a team.
 
GTPorsche
Right, but it means even less if they move up the ladder and accomplish nothing after being rookie champions.
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Who did you have in mind as an example?

My previous point was people don't think Palmer is talented. Yet he won a championship in a DAMS car, best Nasr in an equally good team. Nasr failed to win a race in a DAMS car while his team mate won the championship in 2012. Nasr was good in GP2 but never the best in the three season with two of the best teams at those time. Palmer managed to win a championship, so I think he is allowed to feel upset by losing out to Nasr because it's only money that really won Sauber over.
 
GTPorsche
They'd probably cheer the removal since it won't be able to hinder Hamilton's pit entry if he attempts to dump it off track again. Although it's been 7 years now... :sly:
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I'd say that, Sky being Sky, they're bitter that it's taken so long. :sly:
 

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