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Old 2009-03-27, 01:47 PM   #129
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Originally Posted by skimonkey30 View Post
I cant believe its a race weekend!!
I'm totally fired up! I watched practice live last night... I find it hilarious that the new rules are supposed to give the cars 1/2 the downforce over last season... but because the F1 engineers are so good, this year's car has 17% more downforce than last year, so that plus the slick tires makes them more than 0.5s faster around Albert Park.

And then there's the whole rear diffuser debacle... I get the feeling that the 3 teams w/ the "illegal" diffusers are going to dominate the race, then get DQ'd a day or two before Malaysia after some BS appeals crap.
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