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Post by Eff One on Nov 21, 2018 10:47:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2018 10:57:19 GMT
Great news, albeit an unbearably shit website. I loathe ones that spend an age jiggling about as the load their ads etc, shifting what you are trying to read from pillar to post. I always depart rather than wait.
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Post by Tim on Nov 21, 2018 11:07:36 GMT
Brilliant.
Hopefully Williams can provide a decent car.
I'm sure I saw the story a couple of days ago on the BBC website.
Maybe it was still just specualtion at that point.
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Post by Eff One on Nov 21, 2018 11:18:55 GMT
Great news, albeit an unbearably shit website. I loathe ones that spend an age jiggling about as the load their ads etc, shifting what you are trying to read from pillar to post. I always depart rather than wait. Ah - yes, I'm a subscriber so don't see any of that. I usually link to the Beeb on here, but the story hasn't appeared there yet. Incredible feelgood story though. Whether he can perform at the level he did eight years ago remains to be seen, but there's nobody more single-minded about making a racing car go quickly. This is interesting from Mark Hughes: www.motorsportmagazine.com/news/f1/robert-kubica-secures-f1-comeback-williams |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2018 11:19:42 GMT
Well, if he's going to be pootling around at the back of the field anyway he has the right car for the job.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2018 11:24:57 GMT
Great news, albeit an unbearably shit website. I loathe ones that spend an age jiggling about as the load their ads etc, shifting what you are trying to read from pillar to post. I always depart rather than wait. Ah - yes, I'm a subscriber so don't see any of that. I usually link to the Beeb on here, but the story hasn't appeared there yet. Incredible feelgood story though. Whether he can perform at the level he did eight years ago remains to be seen, but there's nobody more single-minded about making a racing car go quickly. This is interesting from Mark Hughes: www.motorsportmagazine.com/news/f1/robert-kubica-secures-f1-comeback-Williams
I hope he does well, but there was a Matt Prior endpiece in Autocar recently where he had asked Mark Webber how he thought he'd have fared now, and Webber reckoned he'd be a second slower, purely due to the aging of the eye. Kubica must be a similar age, I'd have thought.
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Post by Eff One on Nov 21, 2018 11:31:15 GMT
I hope he does well, but there was a Matt Prior endpiece in Autocar recently where he had asked Mark Webber how he thought he'd have fared now, and Webber reckoned he'd be a second slower, purely due to the aging of the eye. Kubica must be a similar age, I'd have thought.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2018 11:32:27 GMT
Ah, must be his youthful good looks, eh?
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Post by ChrisM on Nov 21, 2018 13:38:51 GMT
Excellent news indeed. Even if Kubica starts the season by trailing round at the back of the grid, I'm sure he will provide valuable expertise into developing the car.
Didn't he come up with some pithy remarks about the car when he tested for the Williams 2018 drive ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2018 16:00:55 GMT
There was a suggestion from the c4 team at some stage that Kubica had given Williams some 'feedback' that was not exactly welcome but then again bad news seldom is greeted with a smile.
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Post by Eff One on Nov 21, 2018 16:55:00 GMT
I don't think anyone at Williams would argue that the 2018 car is anything other than terrible. They've apparently got on top of the reasons now, here's hoping that they give RK and George Russell something to work with.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Nov 22, 2018 11:07:58 GMT
I hope he does well, but there was a Matt Prior endpiece in Autocar recently where he had asked Mark Webber how he thought he'd have fared now, and Webber reckoned he'd be a second slower, purely due to the aging of the eye. Kubica must be a similar age, I'd have thought.
No, Kubica turns 34 next month - exactly a month older than Hamilton. Webber is 42. It's easier to remain at that pinnacle of sporting excellence at that age than to try and get back up there again after years out. I think a combination of injuries, age, and an uncompetitive car will relegate him to a feel good story only. I hope I'm wrong though. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2018 11:41:39 GMT
Well, they dropped the ball when they failed to retain Felippe Massa imho. He was better than Stroll on any day you care to mention and if RK does no more than Massa, he will still have a positive influence even if only for a while. Hoping they get the car working better next year.
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Post by Eff One on Nov 22, 2018 12:40:08 GMT
When they ran all four drivers over the Abu Dhabi GP weekend and subsequent test last year and crunched all the numbers, Stroll was the slowest of the four and Massa the fastest. Dropping Massa had nothing to do with speed and everything to do with funding. I'm glad that Stroll Snr stepped in to save Force India, but nobody outside the Stroll camp wants Lance in that (or any) seat.
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Post by Big Blue on Nov 22, 2018 12:43:25 GMT
I bet F2 guys like De Vries, Mehri, Gunter, Camara and Fuoco are overjoyed that they don't get to cut their F1 teeth because some old twat is taking a spot. I bet even Mick Schumacher, Aron, Habsburg, Ticktum, Sato and Palou in F3 are wondering what the fuck is the point of climbing the ladder.
Mind you you could say the same about Kimi but at least he managed not to nearly kill himself when he took a year off to go rallying.
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Post by Eff One on Nov 22, 2018 13:24:58 GMT
Kubica is the same age as Lewis! And you could hardly argue that F2 drivers aren't making the step up - Norris, Russell, Giovinazzi and possibly Albon will all debut in 2019.
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