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Thread: Rosberg retires !
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6th December 2016, 19:41 #61
I'd really like to see Valteri at Merc. It is a good match Imo..
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6th December 2016, 19:58 #62
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6th December 2016, 20:01 #63
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It boils down to this: he is a coward. He finally won with a huge amount of luck so he has decided to run. He knows as well as everyone else he can't beat Lewis in a straight fight so he is quitting now that luck finally went his way, with a little Mercedes help.
The emotional and mental drain is part of it too but it's all the same reason, he isn't man enough to defend the title.
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6th December 2016, 21:41 #64
Yes Nico required a bit of luck to win but reliability is part of the equation for every WDC and he actually did very well against a top drawer opponent.
Quitting on the crest of a wave doesn't make him a coward. You are coming across as being very butthurt and bitter. I'm no Nico fan but give credit where credits due... and it is due.
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6th December 2016, 21:54 #65
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1989 was in the same way that 2014 was. Changing from a normally aspirated engine to a turbocharged engine, or vice versa, changes the whole shape of the rear of the car.
What the hell does constitute a "massive rule change" in your book, if changing both the configuration of the engine and how it breathes does not?The Old Republic was a stupidly run organisation which deserved to be taken over. All Hail Palpatine!
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6th December 2016, 22:57 #66
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I started to think back in history and there have been 2 times in F1 history when domination has been stopped by massive rule changes - 1961 with rules changing to 1.5 engines and 2014 with the new hybrids.
Banning the active suspension comes close but Williams had still very much a dominant car until 1998.
Other times (like banning sideskirts in 1981 or ground effect completely in 1983 or even 2009 did not have one team dominating at all previous to the changes)
Maybe new engine rules in 1952 that made Alfa quit stopped a domination
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6th December 2016, 23:13 #67
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I would also like to add that both of these times, in 1961 and 2014, the massive rule changes were related to the engines, when one manufacturer, Ferrari and Mercedes respectively, got a POWER UNIT advantage for some reason.
That is why, if Mercedes domination ends in 2017, the reason is not in new aero or tyres, it is because other engine manufacturers will have caught up with the all-dominant Merc PU.
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6th December 2016, 23:39 #68
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1983 is interesting because it marked the first season where turbo cars were sufficiently reliable enough not to explode at every outing. Renault's yellow teapot was the first but even so, that was 6 years earlier.
I think that it was Alboreto's in in Detroit where they all basically clanked around on a tight street race, that was the last normally aspirated win until the end of turbocharging?The Old Republic was a stupidly run organisation which deserved to be taken over. All Hail Palpatine!
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6th December 2016, 23:50 #69
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Yes. And it wasn't due to the turbos being unreliable but that the NA cars were just fast on that particular day. And Piquet had a puncture from the lead 9 laps to go.
The turbos were reliable already in 1982 (at least the Ferrari was) but that season was a freak one in pretty much every way.Last edited by onemanband; 6th December 2016 at 23:54.
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24th December 2016, 12:22 #70
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