2014 Chinese Grand Prix - Shanghai

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Press Conference

Thursday, April 17, 1500 hours local time (0700 GMT)
Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber), Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), Sergio Perez (Force India), Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull), Adrian Sutil (Sauber)

Friday, April 18, 1600 hours local time (0800 GMT)
Yasuhisa Arai (Honda), Andrew Cowell (Mercedes), Pat Fry (Ferrari), Rob White (Renault Sport), Charlie Whiting (FIA)
Lewis Hamilton #44
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Yasuhisa Arai (Honda) ???? !!!!!

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gray41 wrote:Press Conference
Andrew Cowell (Mercedes),Rob White (Renault Sport), Charlie Whiting (FIA)
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Only horner is missing :lol:

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Juzh wrote:
gray41 wrote:Press Conference
Andrew Cowell (Mercedes),Rob White (Renault Sport), Charlie Whiting (FIA)
http://i.imgur.com/NnoGhN1.gif

Only horner is missing :lol:
Do not be overenthusiastic, it's gonna be a press conference as dull as all the ones before ;)

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gray41 wrote:Press Conference

Thursday, April 17, 1500 hours local time (0700 GMT)
Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber), Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), Sergio Perez (Force India), Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull), Adrian Sutil (Sauber)

Friday, April 18, 1600 hours local time (0800 GMT)
Yasuhisa Arai (Honda), Andrew Cowell (Mercedes), Pat Fry (Ferrari), Rob White (Renault Sport), Charlie Whiting (FIA)
Why Fry, not Marmorini?

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I never watch press conferences because they bore me to hell.
Felipe Baby!

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Lewis Hamilton #44
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I just watched it. So.....350 + kph down the long straight? :mrgreen: Yes please :wink:
Nico should be strong here.
Supporting: Ham/Alo/Kimi/Ros/Seb/Hulk/Ric/Mag

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gray41 wrote:Press Conference

Thursday, April 17, 1500 hours local time (0700 GMT)
Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber), Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), Sergio Perez (Force India), Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull), Adrian Sutil (Sauber)

Friday, April 18, 1600 hours local time (0800 GMT)
Yasuhisa Arai (Honda), Andrew Cowell (Mercedes), Pat Fry (Ferrari), Rob White (Renault Sport), Charlie Whiting (FIA)
Looking forward to the Team Principles conference? I wonder when it is? Perhaps it's after the one with Charlle Whiting, Yasuhisa Arai, Andrew Cowell, Rob White and Pat Fry. Or does being a race director or a manager for an engine manufacturer count as a team principal? Pat Fry's the only one that works for a team. Should these people be forced to appear at a press conference. 4 of them have a product to sell and should freely give interviews all weekend. The FIA press conferences are mean't to grant us access to team principals who are otherwise too busy. Joking aside it will be interesting to hear from Charlie.

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Since this track is front tyre limited, Renault will fare much better here.
Caterham will also have some pace in hand to scalp the two Saubers here.
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Del Boy wrote:
gray41 wrote:Press Conference

Thursday, April 17, 1500 hours local time (0700 GMT)
Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber), Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), Sergio Perez (Force India), Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull), Adrian Sutil (Sauber)

Friday, April 18, 1600 hours local time (0800 GMT)
Yasuhisa Arai (Honda), Andrew Cowell (Mercedes), Pat Fry (Ferrari), Rob White (Renault Sport), Charlie Whiting (FIA)
Looking forward to the Team Principles conference? I wonder when it is? Perhaps it's after the one with Charlle Whiting, Yasuhisa Arai, Andrew Cowell, Rob White and Pat Fry. Or does being a race director or a manager for an engine manufacturer count as a team principal? Pat Fry's the only one that works for a team. Should these people be forced to appear at a press conference. 4 of them have a product to sell and should freely give interviews all weekend. The FIA press conferences are mean't to grant us access to team principals who are otherwise too busy. Joking aside it will be interesting to hear from Charlie.
that will be classed as the TP conference. Its actually rare now you get all TP's in this. They pick who is best to answer the questions most likely to be asked.

After this week its likely to be about engines, fuel flow etc.

To call is team principles conference is a little out dated and should really be changed

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The situation on the PU side:

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zioture wrote:Lewis Hamilton at the simulator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnfb4Xs ... e=youtu.be
You can literally hear (and see to some degree) how hard he stamps on the brake pedal.

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Kiril Varbanov wrote:The situation on the PU side:

http://i.imgur.com/g5hzHv0.png
Really? I'd be amazed if the Merc teams had not ever changed any of the parts. At least in the V8 days, they would fairly regularly change the engines out, not because they were dead, but because you need to balance the engines out, so that their duty cycle involves only on or two of the very high speed circuits, and then a bunch of low speed ones, preferably with the high power ones first.

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GrizzleBoy wrote:
zioture wrote:Lewis Hamilton at the simulator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnfb4Xs ... e=youtu.be
You can literally hear (and see to some degree) how hard he stamps on the brake pedal.
He's mashing the poor thing. Never quite realised the force required from the driver before.

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