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That means nothing though, mate. BMW did that last year and produced a bit of a dog and we shouldn't even talk about the 2008 Honda which began development week 1 2007.

Rumours are starting to raise their head that Kimi has signed for Mercedes this evening. I can't substantiate that, it's just on the grapevine.

How has she ended up younger than me? I'm sure she was older than me when the scandal hit...

He should be court-martialled, without doubt. Signing up to the army (I assume there's still no conscription in the UK) removes your right to protest about war. You sign up to be a soldier, a greased-wheel in the war-machine, not a broken sprocket. To be honest, "Will a war be horrible?" would be a question I asked before I signed up, not afterwards.

Embarrassing old men.

Put candles in the bottles for lovely Xmas decorations.

Button gets #1, Lewis #2, Mercedes GP will be #3 and #4.

Now confirmed. It's going to be amazing watching the Jenson fans of 2006 who became Lewis fans in 07/08, and went back to being die-hard Jenson fans in 2009, decide where their loyalties will lie at the start of 2010. You know who you are....

"...in his socks..."

Hartlepool is horrible. Have fun, everybody.

Kimi taking a year out, apparently.... http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80187

That's the end of a cheeky 65 on a country B road or a sensible 85 on the motorway then. GPS isn't just about location, it will always be able to determine your speed. If they bring this in then they might as well just issue everyone with a Johnny-Cab. Also, I don't want to be punished for living miles from a town or sensible rail/bus links.

Yes, Luca Di Montezemolo. Boss of Ferrari.

Tis true. I saw a guy with a black and purple flower on the dash of his Beetle in the Comet/Halfords carpark in Eastleigh, just this weekend gone. It reminded me of this thread.

Begs one or two answers... What was the best he thought could happen? Did Alonso's grandmother buy him that jumper? Does Alonso pick his nose and check out a bogey as he gets out of the car? Did Ferrari's designers model the front of the California on the last Toyota MR2?

Williams were the only team blocking a gentlemen's agreement not to run KERS but even they've caved now. It is supposed to be standard and compulsory in 2011 though. Still, time changes a lot of things in F!.

Nigel Pearson, by all accounts.

I suppose the only viable alternative was red, for Vodafone, and that might've clashed on the grid somewhat.

Well, in Macca's press release it states they're keeping the silver livery and in Mercedes' it says they're running silver for the former Brawn team.

Whoever wrote that piece never studied maths at Uni then.

Two "Silver Arrows" teams on the grid next year? What price on one being all German and one being all English?

Yes, to the 180bhp version, maybe to the 225bhp version but no to the 3.2 V6, 4WD version. Whether you think they're too "pretty" to be a man's car is another thing.

"Fair city"?

If it turns out to be so, I'll take that. Cheers.