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  1. DF1

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    FRA - nice city with a really big airport :)
    #26 DF1, Dec 9, 2020
    There are still some question marks over who will be in the car this weekend in Abu Dhabi", said Toto Wolff in a Mercedes press release. "Lewis's condition is improving, but we won't know until closer to the time if he will be driving. We'll do everything we can to get him in the car.”
     
  2. tifosi12

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    #27 tifosi12, Dec 9, 2020
    Bottas offered to drive Lewis from Bahrain to Abu Dhabi in a Merc SUV. He'd do anything to put Lewis into that F1 instead of George.
     
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    #28 Nembo1777, Dec 9, 2020
    Well if he gets trounced by GR as badly as last week his winter in Finland will be a very dark one...
     
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  4. DF1

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    #29 DF1, Dec 9, 2020
    He cant - separate bubble.
     
  5. Mitch Alsup

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    #30 Mitch Alsup, Dec 9, 2020
    One spin per session {FP1, FP2,FP3, Q, R}
     
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  6. Mitch Alsup

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    #31 Mitch Alsup, Dec 9, 2020
    Bottas is already gone--he just has not been told yet.
     
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  7. ingegnere

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    #32 ingegnere, Dec 9, 2020
    Right back at you Seb. Don’t let the door hit you on your way out :)
     
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    #33 jpalmito, Dec 9, 2020
    The new castellet is very very boring too.
     
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    #34 moretti, Dec 9, 2020
    I'm with you that one mate, never liked him and he was over-rated
     
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  10. ktu

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    #35 ktu, Dec 9, 2020
    I hear there is talk that Toto has a seat open in the pace car for Bottas.
     
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    #36 piolaxo, Dec 9, 2020
    But wait, next year it's 50-50 split with Aston Martin, no? So will Stroll share the duties?
     
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  12. jgonzalesm6

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    #41 jgonzalesm6, Dec 10, 2020
    Mattia Binotto will not attend this weekend Abu Dhabi GP. He felt unwell and he is on his way to Italy. Nothing related to Covid19.
     
  17. jgonzalesm6

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    #42 jgonzalesm6, Dec 10, 2020
    Ferrari: the third MGU-K debuts and will be more efficient

    In the last race of the 2020 season, the Scuderia reserved the opportunity to mount the third MGU-K at the Abu Dhabi GP. The motor generator that recovers the kinetic energy of braking, delivers 160 horsepower by regulation. The solution that prefigures the 2021 version will be more efficient so it will be able to ensure a longer duration of power over the lap.
    Ferrari works for 2021 on the SF1000. And there is certainly an interesting aspect to highlight.

    The Maranello team and the two customers (Alfa Romeo and Haas) were the only ones to have covered the 2020 season with only two MGU-Ks of the three granted by the FIA, reserving the possibility of replacing the motor generator that recovers kinetic energy in braking just for the 17th round of the season, obviously without paying any penalty.

    According to rumors, both Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel will have a new MGU-K that will be the foreshadowing of the one that will be mounted on the Cavallino 2021 power unit and that is running on the test bench.

    Conceptually it will be an electric motor similar to the one mounted on the Reds, but the advantage is that it will be more efficient: the electric power that will be delivered will be the limit allowed by the regulation (160 horsepower), but the time of use should increase over the lap. , improving the performance of the power unit.

    The Scuderia, therefore, will have the opportunity to evaluate this new component in a race weekend, carrying on that slow and gradual process of change of the SF1000 in search of a competitive threshold that is able to lead it to fight stably for the podium in the next championship.

    https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=https://it.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-ferrari-debutta-la-terza-mgu-k-e-sara-piu-efficiente/4924484/&prev=search&pto=aue
     
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    #43 jgonzalesm6, Dec 10, 2020
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    #44 jgonzalesm6, Dec 10, 2020
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  20. 375+

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    #45 375+, Dec 10, 2020
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    He is attending the press conference as a Mercedes driver I believe. Mercedes still hopeful that Lewis will race possibly waiting until Saturday to make the decision.
     
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  21. jgonzalesm6

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    #47 tifosi12, Dec 10, 2020
    Ouch...and <rim shot>
     
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    #48 tifosi12, Dec 10, 2020
    Wow! I'm stunned. They actually still have parts for that car and they know how to tend to it? Are those special mechanics working on historic cars (akin to Ferrari's F1 program for historic cars)?

    Amazing PR stunt. I love it!
     
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  24. jgonzalesm6

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    #49 jgonzalesm6, Dec 10, 2020
    Yep

    Can't wait to hear this thing on track.....especially with Nando behind the wheel...hope he revs it up.
     
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    #50 tifosi12, Dec 10, 2020
    Yeah. It will be slower than the current cars but it will easily outshine them in the song of the engine. And it has no ugly halo.
     
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