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  1. 16 hours ago, RJS1977 said:

    That's effectively the situation Mercedes have now with Hamilton and Bottas.

    Bottas will never be world champion, not unless Hamilton pulls out due to injury mid season, if Hamilton hangs up his gloves they will bring somebody else in to go for the championship. Bottas is a journeyman not a champion in waiting, he's not consistent enough, he didn't finish 2nd enough times last year.

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  2. 3 hours ago, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

    Those who thought him the business are likely to miss him I should think.

     

    I am glad he didn't retire with his 4x Red Bull powered championships. That allowed a realistic appraisal of his relative standing. Good enough driver to win races in sufficient quantity for the championship when the lead driver in a team with the stand out car in the field. Not able to win sufficient races for the championship when faced with equally capable competitors, both in the same car and in other equally good cars. So not in the top level, drivers that win the season from among a significantly competitive field, but next one down, very well able to make use of a car which has net competitive edge during a season.

     

    So the same as Jenson Button, Damian Hill & James Hunt then?

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  3. i am surprised Ferrari want the internal competition, Sainz will not 'seed' to LeClerc he believes he can be a champion. Ricciardo to McLaren could be a good move as long as they can still go forward

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  4. 15 hours ago, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

    You mean like Lewis at McLaren, Fred at Mclaren, Verstappen at Red Bull, Ricciardo at Red Bull and Renault, Leclerc at Ferrari, Raiko at Alfa?  It happens naturally, doesn't need to be specially arranged.

     

    Yeah but it's a Doodle idea they like to make simple things complicated to make themselves look good.

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  5. On 20/04/2020 at 13:51, 34theletterbetweenB&D said:

    That is, unless major governments and the WHO decide that the economic impact of travel restriction is too severe to bear

     

    I give you Mr Trump, what's a few millions deaths as long as world trade continues, collateral damage.

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  6. 17 hours ago, Andrew P said:

    I see this as the first step in Mercedes removing themselves from the front line, they will still remain an engine/KERS supplier as they can use the development in their own cars, but their demographic customer isn't an F1 fan, unlike Ferrari's. Will Lewis jump to the seat if offered British driver in British car?

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  7. On 19/04/2020 at 09:25, Jonboy said:

    How about a straightforward one lap race from Silverstone to Brands hatch and back.... a couple of off/on chicanes at junctions to make sure it isn’t just a drag race, jobs a goodun I reckon ;) 
     

     

    I take it you are a suvverner so don't want the cars to come Norf, how about start line at Silverstone, out on the A43 to the M1, up the M1 to Donnington, lap around Donington, then back down the M1 across the A14 to the M11 to the M25, M2, round Brands, out on the M25 still clockwise round Larndun, up the M40 with the finishing line at Silverstone.  

     

    Looks about 350 miles, so there would have to be refuelling but it should be possible at Donnington & Brands, it just needs a bit of imagination to make it work.

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  8. 22 hours ago, Pete the Elaner said:

    Have you been to all 3?

     

    Yes, ridden & driven all 3 (although not the GP at Brands), yes they have moved on, but you are thinking with your 21st Century in normal times head, there is no reason why they couldn't put limits on team members etc. don't forget there will be no spectators so hospitality will not be required.

     

    As a complete aside I think F1 ought to go the way Nascar do for pit stops, limit the number of bodies in the pit lane from 20+ down to 6, 2 to steady the car & be there to restart in case of stalling & 4 to change the wheels, no more are needed.

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  9. We have Silverstone, Brands Hatch & Donnington all with circuits & possibly facilities to host a F1 GP, not sure Brands & Donnington are quite up to the full standards but must be fairly close, so how about a 9 race championship over 9 weekends, one race at each track in rotation. The 3 outside UK teams could be quarantined to not mix with any other personnel from any other team they may have to change pitbox's to keep separation, Silverstone even has a 2nd set of pits.

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  10. On 16/04/2020 at 13:39, ELTEL said:

    I agree with you that non essential international travel needs to be kept under strict control, and only lifted when the world has a effective and proven vaccine 

     

    Terry 

     

    If non essential International travel had been severely limited earlier & all people coming into the UK had been quarantined earlier we wouldn't be in this mess, the UK Government didn't act quick enough & I'm still not convinced they still are. We are a small island we could have been through this & out the other side by now, but we are where we are. But just like F1 it's all about the money, how long can the teams survive without the sponsorship money, which if they aren't racing then you have to assume they aren't getting, although logically the expenditure is well down as well.

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  11. 17 hours ago, Mike Storey said:

    Just what on earth do you think everyone is going to do post the apocalypse - make more toilet rolls??

     

    Not sure I'm at them moment concentrating on being here to find out

     

    16 hours ago, class26 said:

     

    and let`s remember that even such a huge debt can be inflated away over the years to the point it is insignificant. i remember my father telling that in the last year of is mortgage his monthly payment was £4. That no doubt was a big sum when he first borrowed the money and he was earning less than £10 a month but by the 1980`s it was peanuts relatively speaking.  Same for the national debt. 

     

    But that only works if we continue down the invisible money no manufacturing route, but it's just not sustainable, at some point the bubble must burst & the sand that all this wealth is built on will shift, 2 bedroom terrace houses changing hands for over £500,000 in London is just crazy, but this is what is driving the commuting society, if we solve that problem then people won't need to commute. The biggest help to all of this would be birth control, stop the population explosion, stop each of the religions going for domination by having more bodies than the other. China did it well with their 1 child policy, okay they held onto it too long, but it should be what we all aspire to.

  12. 18 hours ago, 96701 said:

    Fine, but with no crystal ball, all the pontifications on future scenario merely sounds like news hounds spouting stuff to fill some space. What does this have to do with HS2 as a project? It will either happen or it won't. Nobody knows at this stage.

     

     

    Because it has never been needed, it's not needed now & it won't be needed in the future, it's a vanity project to put money into the Governments friends whose wallets are the only thing that is going to benefit. Last estimate was 120 Billion wasn't it? which means it won't come in under 200 Billion, the UK Government after this pandemic will just not have that kind of funds to give to their friends or sell to them for a peerage.

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  13. 6 hours ago, Hobby said:

     

    I've noticed that most sports seem to be doing the "virtual" route recently (the Grand National?!!) but I just can't see the point, it's not like the Real Thing at all, give me old films/videos any day...

     

    Just watching GCN virtual cycle racing, now I can see the point of this, as in some ways there is little difference with the real thing, as it's man that is powering the machine, but not sure about F1 in pretend cars. As to Sky just looked on Sky GO & it's listed.

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  14. 9 hours ago, Hobby said:

    The MoT is the cheap bit, it's the cost of the repairs needed to get it through the MoT that's the costly bit!!

     

    The MOT is the absolute minimum requirement of safety for a car, if it can't pass such a simple test it shouldn't be on the road!

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  15. 14 hours ago, BoD said:

    My wife works on the till in one of the big supermarkets....

     

     

    Please give your wife my deepest thanks & ask her to pass my appreciation onto her colleagues, I do not know you nor her, but I & every other person in this country owes her & her colleagues a huge debt of gratitude, if they weren't prepared to go to work this country would have collapsed by now.

     

    I know the NHS workers are on the front-line & if people want to stand on their doorsteps & clap the NHS, I have no problem with that, but our shop workers should also be included.

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  16. 10 hours ago, Andrew P said:

     

    I thought F1 drivers were self employed & not actual employees

     

    9 hours ago, newbryford said:

     

    I wonder if Premier League footballers will do the same...………?

     

    Not a cat's chance, they will continue to screw as much money out of the clubs that they can, they haven't the intelligence to see they are likely to kill the golden goose

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  17. 1 hour ago, Pete the Elaner said:

    Do you really believe it was contracted on a market stall? I don't.

    If it was created in a lab by accident (which I suspect was more likely) wouldn't you cover it up by suppressing this?

     

    I honestly have no idea, I find trying to find the truth quite anxiety ridden so sometimes ignorance is bliss, however had I been involved in it's creation I personally would be screaming from the rooftop what I F-up I'd made & would be doing everything I could to stop it, but that's just me, but I know the size of my & don't need to get into waving contests.

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  18. On 28/03/2020 at 08:41, 62613 said:

    Possibly the only "major" city it won't serve is Stoke-on Trent. On your call centres in central London point; The call centre for the London Borough of Islington is located just up the road from me, in Ashton-under-Lyne, for all the reasons you mention.

     

    It doesn't go into Derby, Nottingham, Sheffield Doncaster nor Leeds 

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  19. 32 minutes ago, phil-b259 said:

     

    Yes and no.

     

    Unlike the immediate post-way era there will be no rationing going on and no real shortage of goods.

     

    Again, unlike the post war situation factories are ready to ramp up production as soon as travel restrictions are lifted (i.e. not bombed out) and with this pandemic, the people most affected are generally of the older generation compared to wartime deaths which generally impacted those of working age more.

     

     

     

    We now live in a Post Thatcher era, there are no factories (or not the same volume) to ramp up, we sold the family silver, this is still a Tory Government in power, they will support their friends in the square mile, the only difference is they may have to fall in line behind the NHS, but they will open its doors to their friends as soon as they can

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  20. I think it's likely to be mute discussion anyway, it is very likely it will get mothballed, there is only so much money to go around & the Government is currently digging so deep into it's reserves to fight the current virus there is not likely to be enough left over for vanity projects like this. We're (those that survive)  are all going to be paying for this current pandemic for many years.

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  21. 57 minutes ago, Rivercider said:

    We had small call centres dotted around the country, but it is more efficient to have one large one, so they were mostly closed/merged. The same applies to other sorts of office (like my final job on the railway!)

     

    cheers 

     

    More efficient for whom? The customer, the owner, the shareholders, the local economy, we have to ask are all these commuter miles the only way to do it. 

     

    I'm not a tree hugger, but we have to change the way we do things, every time a new road/bypass is built all it does is attract more traffic, it never solves the problem.

     

    Our first aim should be to get as many HGV's off the road, an integrated freight backbone would be the first step, so what if commuters are delayed, they do have a choice.

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