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Eugene, are you even listening to me?
Right, its a week away so its time to go on record with your predictions.

I think Ferrari will win the drivers again, Williams, then Mclaren. Jordan will make a spectacular recovery, BAR will be great, but Renault will lose ground.

Champion: Schumacher
Constructors: Williams

and for the Melbourne race I think Montoya will do it.
 

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WDC: Kimi Raikkonen
WCC: Williams

Biggest dud of the year I think is going to be Jaguar(do they count anyway?).

Melbourne, Im going for Raikkonen.
 

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Keane16 said:
What is it with you and Raikkonen?
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He's my favourite driver??

Surely everyone has his own favourite driver?
 

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WDC: Michael Schumacher
Runners Up: Ralf Schumacher

WCC: Ferrari
Runners Up: Williams
 

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Gotta be the red Schumi again, with Raikonnen a close second....constructors Ferrari no doubt, with Willaims and McLaren fighting for 2nd place
 

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All the constructors' cars:

Ferrari


Williams


MCLAREN


Renault


BAR


Sauber


Jaguar


Toyota


Jordan


Minardi


Prettiest car?
MCLaren is great with side view pictures, BAR has a nice car, renault has fantastic sidepods
 

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I'm warming to the Williams, but BAR gets the nod.

Bit of a novelty for Melvyn next weekend, as for once we have to get up at an arsehole time of the morning to watch a sporting event.
 

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Keane16 said:
I'm warming to the Williams, but BAR gets the nod.

Bit of a novelty for Melvyn next weekend, as for once we have to get up at an arsehole time of the morning to watch a sporting event.
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Raceday starts at about 10am here I reckon
 

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Williams, WHAT A PIECE OF feckING SHITE!

Nose looks absoultely horrible
 

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Keane16 said:
Stick to the thread Melvyn, we don't care about your big nose.
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And I was obviously referring to Williams nose
 

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Eugene, are you even listening to me?
or your imaginary friends.



Do you not think McLaren will suffer from unreliability in the begining at least? Its a completely new package and has not been trouble free in testing - although testing means nothing.
I can see Monty winning in Melbourne with Jordan getting a point, possibly Webber on the podium or maybe Button.
 

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Webber has no cahnce, the new Jaguar is a donkey(surprise surprise), and is having loads of aero problems.

Williams I think will struggle to tweak their new car into race pace IMO, regardless of the testing times, as it is such a complex car.

McLaren are playing mind games I suppose, with Raikkonen coming out and saying that the car is bad and horsepower blah blah, while the rest(FErrari, Williams and Renault) are being extremely confident that they would be on the podiums and all in australia.

I think Ferrari could nick it in Australia, the new car from Ferrari seems to win every year on its debut.

I read somewhere that Williams are struggling a bit on the aero side as well.
 

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Testing means nothing. 3 years ago Prost wiped the floor with everyone - then were crap and went out of business with a Ridsdale in sight. Drivers don't go for it either, and even if they do, they'll go quicker at the meeting.

Therefore, until after qualifying at Melbourne, where there will be a surprise pole (Trulli), I don't think its possible to put down Webber.

nearly at your 10000.
 

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Testing will porbably mean ALMOST nothing, but you can't really say it means nothing.

I reckon that Webber and Jaguar will have a torrid season, JAguar is a team that doesn't know where it's going, and with Klein on now, I don't know what they're doing. For Webber's sake I hope he goes to Williams in 05, maybe Reanalt as well.

I reckon there will not be any suprise pole, reckon it'll be JPM.
 

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Webber will end up at Williams. I think that is almost for certain. At the end of this season Monty will leave and I think Ralf is unstable enough to throw a hissyfit if things don't go his way either, which will leave 2 seats at Williams. One for Webber and one for Button.
 

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Keane16 said:
thought you'd be a rally man Boring, being Norwegian

Give us your predictions then..
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I find F1 dull as hell, but one of the teams is one of my largest clients, and my wife is the marketing manager for another team.

My predictions:

I'll get pissed on free champagne :D
 

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An Extremely Boring Man said:
I find F1 dull as hell, but one of the teams is one of my largest clients, and my wife is the marketing manager for another team.

My predictions:

I'll get pissed on free champagne :D
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You can't beat going to races in my opinion so much better than the telly - like an OT game. Its the totty that does it for me though, nice birds all round.
 

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ManUinOz said:
Bring back the turbos. Boring as shite since they got rid of them.
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yeah and all the launch control and all has taken away the driver's part.
 

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Driver - Juan Pablo
Constructor - Williams

would have liked to have gone for Kimi but McLarens reliability and power needs serious work and not sure if they have the time to get it sorted.
 

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Mercedes is producing OK power, not up there with BMW and Ferrari tho.

I think McLaren's problem is Adrian Newey.

Yes he's a great designer from an aero point, but very very poor in the mechanical side, is not very good.

Patrick Head possibly made Newey look better, as he was the leader in the deisignng department, when Newey's designs were really bad from the mechnical side, Head corrected it.

1998, where McLaren was the best car, Newey had little input, while in 1999(the first Newey McLaren), the car was great but very difficult to drive and to set up.

I think McLaren have to get someone in soon rather than Newey
 

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Driver - Juan Pablo
Constructor - Williams

would have liked to have gone for Kimi but McLarens reliability and power needs serious work and not sure if they have the time to get it sorted.
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They are sandbagging cnuts.

I'll be surprised if the Mac isn't on the pace and/or one of them finsihes.
 

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Ferrari dominated the first session with good shows from Renault and Button also.

Other than that, nothing of interest. The Big Macs and the Willies didn't do anything special

1.M Schumacher (Ferr) 1:24.718
2.R Barrichello (Ferr) 1:24.826
3.J Trulli (Ren) 1:25.757
4.J Button (BAR) 1:25.786
5.F Alonso (Ren) 1:25.853
6.R Schumacher (Wil) 1:25.882
7.J P Montoya (Wil) 1:26.206
8.D Coulthard (McL) 1:26.215
9.M Webber (Jag) 1:26.312
10.K Raikkonen (McL) 1:26.579

They are expecting rain apparantly.
 

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Keane16 said:
Right, its a week away so its time to go on record with your predictions.

I think Ferrari will win the drivers again, Williams, then Mclaren. Jordan will make a spectacular recovery, BAR will be great, but Renault will lose ground.

Champion: Schumacher
Constructors: Williams

and for the Melbourne race I think Montoya will do it.
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I think Williams will win constructors, and Montoya the drivers title.Another Schumi and Ferrari win would make the sport a total bore.
 

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Keane16 said:
I reckon the reds were running light, with Button a bit on the light side too.
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It's worrying to see Ferrari being two seconds up, athough I would expect some of that advantage to come from being the easiest car to set up, as it's pretty much the same as last year's car.
 
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