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  1. Alex Salmond is just exploiting the nationalism of Scottish people to try and further his own ambitions. @Herby007, I respect that opinion, but now is not the time for Scotland to leave.

    Firstly, Spain and other countries facing a break up will block your move to the EU, it could take years to get in despite what that lunatic Alex Salmond thinks. Becoming part of the EU will force you to take the Euro, the UK got a special deal, Scotland wont. Your finances will not be in your hands, your laws will be based on EU things wont they? 

    You wont get the Pound, even if you do, England controls your money(Tax, budget etc.). 

    You'll have little to no military, you'll have very few friends and your economy will be based on something which the world is running out of and is moving away from. And you'll be hit with a recession almost instantly apparently too. The UK is on the up right now. 

    In short, how "Independent" will you actually be? And think about this, 70% of English people want you guys to stay.

    Think very carefully before you vote "Yes" because there is a lot of unanswered questions and no guarantee of anything, Alex Salmond has consistently dismissed everything he doesn't like as fear mongering. 

    We've had Scottish PM's recently anyway, Labour is what most Scots vote for is it not? Think about what happens to your NHS, tuition fees for Uni, think about how well you'll cope without any friends and part of no alliances. 

    It just does not add up, to much uncertainty. They are giving Scotland lots more power if you vote "No". I would vote No too if England had one and it was this uncertain. It'd be cool to have an Independent England, but I like the UK anyway. British > English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish
    And no one under 18 should be voting on anything ever. I can't imagine what would happen if we get an EU referendum and people under 18 get a vote.

    With all due respect, if you become independent, you'll be just another small EU member state of 5 million people who gets told what to do by Germany or Brussels all the time.

  2. VetteIfan said:
    AMS97KRR said:
    Technology has moved on and unfortunately we can't have 1000BHP cars and little downforce. F1 needs to relaxs its rules a bit, bit more innovation would be great.
    I see what you're getting at but these two sentences don't really make sense written next to each other. By the way you talk about it I assume you like 1000bhp, low downforce cars etc (which is fine), but by relaxing the rules we're going to get further away from those type of cars. With looser restrictions the designers are only going to find more downforce, not less. 


    I did actually mean to put that on another line. I don't mind having lots of down force or very little. I just wish we had those insanely powerful cars again. My point with the high power low down force cars was that I know people liked that about the 1980's. 
    I just think a bit more freedom, to a point, in the design of the car would be nice.


  3. I echo the thoughts of GoldenClot and AMS. I think this is going to end up in a similar way the banning of team orders did, with teams giving their drivers secret codes, or differently worded messages, and in the end the rule will end up being over turned.

    With the new generation of cars being so complex with all the various systems running on it, such as brake by wire, fuel management, ERS, MGU-K, MGU-H, etc, as well as tyre wear, burnouts to the grid, gearboxes, brakes, etc, I feel the engineer's advice and comments are essential to the cars running smoothly.

    Lets take the scenario Mercedes saw in Canada. Both cars suddenly lost power and in the end I think the team ended up knowing it would effect braking, which ultimately led to Hamilton's retirement. Before the ban the radio would have been something like this, I guess:

    LH: 'The car's lost power, do you know what's wrong?'
    Enginner: 'Yeah Lewis, there's a problem with 'x' and that means it will probably effect your braking so change the brake bias to the rear to help conserve that and change the fuel setting to yellow G2.'

    Now what would the conversation be like?

    LH: 'The car's lost power, do you know what's up?'
    Enginner: 'Yeah Lewis, but we can't tell you as it'll break the rules.'

    That will be stupid, and obviously the team want to get the car to run as best as possible, so they will want to somehow get a message across to him telling him to change the brake bias and fuel setting.

    I am sure this rule will be overturned. Seems stupid.
    It will make the drivers rely on there instinct and get a feel of the car to know whats wrong just like the drivers from the 70s - 90s did.
    But we will see if FOM keeps this rule after the next race.

    Edit: Also Code words will be banned aswell For example: "Hammer time" or "Mix 5". And the team are not allowed to give their drivers information regarding other drivers with the exception about drivers who they are coming up behind to lap.
    Yeah but back then the wheel had less than 5 buttons right? F1 is more of a team sport than ever, when you lose communication in the race, it is always a bad thing, obviously. 
    But like I said and like Pete said, simple issues that can be resolved with a switch now can't be. Just wait until something happens like Lewis retires due to an issue that could have been fixed with a switch and loses the title. There will be out rage.

    Due to how things are now, you wont ever re create the what people loved about the 1970's-90's. Technology has moved on and unfortunately we can't have 1000BHP cars and little downforce. F1 needs to relaxs its rules a bit, bit more innovation would be great.
    At one time people got excited over innovations like fan cars, re positioning engines from front to rear, carbon fibre being used and big stuff like that, now you just have a slightly different nose cone. 

  4. Seems pointless to me, what if you just need to flick a switch to save your car from retiring but you don't know what to do and the team can't tell you? Didn't Hamilton get told at Monza what to press when he had issues? What happens if Rosberg has those issues next race and now cannot receive help?

    So cars that don't need to retire, might have to just because the driver didn't know what to press on the wheel and the team cannot tell them.

    FIA logic.

    Next thing you know, they'll be adding double points to the last race of the season! Oh wait...
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