Second Barcelona Test - Day Three
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With regard to the poll, I'd say that a Single team dominance is not bad, as long as we have two competing racers at the front. It isn't fair to compare the Merc situation with the Ferrari era nor the Redbull Era. In both cases, Schumi and Vettel ruled the roost with little / no fight shown by their respective team-mates despite having the best car. That has not been the case with the Hamilton/Rosberg duel, and as long as that continues I would be very happy with how F1 currently is.
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@lawrence you are right , but Ricciardo won three times when the Mercedez had reliability issues but this year Mercedez is the most reliable car on the track and even they set a new record on their first test session in Jerez, My question is will any team can stepup to give a real challenge to Mercedes? Ferrari is looking 1second or so slower than Mercedes
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Whenever a new drastic rule change is implied, a one-team domination is inevitable. It raises the bar for every other team in terms of technology. Racing might not be fun in the first 2-3 years, but when teams start catching up and leaders reach a saturation point, things get interesting. Make massive rule changes only once in 6-7 years. Else one-team domination will keep boring people off.
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@Canuck: True, we've been through this several times today. But Mercedes and Renault have said they want to spend big for the opening round, whereas Ferrari have said they will spend "only a few" at the start of the year. That was Mattia Binotto at the launch, so it is possible their plans have changed during testing.
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That's a century! 100 laps on the board for Nico who keeps putting mileage on the VJM08. And on he goes... #FeelTheForceby SportPesa Racing Point F1 Team via twitter 2/28/2015 2:43:15 PM -
@siddhesh the only reason you think Merc domnance isnt boring its because you must be big Merc supporter......RedBull maybe had one driver so dominant but it had its rivals a lot closer....Alonso was so close to win a champinship in couple of years and 2013 season had Lotus coming up realy close to RBR
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I think Kimi has just completed his race simulation. After I mentioned how consistent his times were he dipped into the 1:29s and never got out again - it seems the tyres went off slightly at the end of the stint.
His final six laps:
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for all the people against one team dominance..where were you over the last 5-6 years ..mind you, merc are atleast letting thier drivers race ..when redbull were dominant, all we had to watch is the battle for third and bellow ....where were you when ferrari and my man shumi were destroying teams for years ...you guys simply cant see the fact that merc put in more effort and simply have a better PU and a better package ..they worked for it ..dint drop out the sky
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@noski, Not really. Just a supporter of good racing. 2013 had Vettel win the last 9 races, and I noticed you conveniently missed out 2011, which would go down with 2004/2002 as the most boring seasons in History. At least last year threw up Bahrain/Canada/Hungary/Abu Dhabi/Brazil to name a few. The only people who must have hated the dominance would have been redbull/Ferrari fans to be honest.
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Most teams concentrating on race simulations, so we're unlikely to see anything really quick until the end of the session #F1BarcelonaTestby Pirelli Motorsport via twitter 2/28/2015 2:53:12 PM -
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