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chic2pimp:
I guess what the result of this year's solidly proves is that any Half decent driver worth his salt would win a championship in a car which is clearly superior to the others in the grid.

Lewis and Mercedes
Vettel and Redbull
Michael and Ferrari

Anyhoo..... I still dey shayo in Abu dhabi. New York soon come!

A40:
Actually I should ask you what point are you making? Lol if my grandma had balls she would be my grandpa. Hamilton overtook him from the very start of the race so what performance cool story are you talking about?
It would have been a massive injustice had Rosberg won the title with a paltry 5 wins when someone else won more than double that amount

A40:
Which kin challenge? There was only a contest because both cars were the fastest

pickabeau1:
Except you r lewis or his fan boy

Palpitations of the heart

pickabeau1:
Season finale....

Just like Bernie wanted it

edoyad:
If a driver consistently finishing on the podium after over a dozen races is not ability then I don't know what is. There's no denying Hamilton is the more skillful and exciting driver, but like in every sport, skills don't necessarily win you the game.

‘Nico needs to build up to his limit, which is why qualifying suits him. Lewis can go to the limit immediately without build-up, and that helps when they race. He is more aggressive and better at knowing when to overtake. He makes it look easy. It is not so easy for Nico, who is more smooth, safe and consistent.’

pickabeau1:
What of a collision

pickabeau1:
Lewis just needs to finish the race in second at least
No crazy moves
Steady

pickabeau1:
We know the result already


Nico should just give up

pickabeau1:
FYI
Marussia has folded up
Up next Caterham

It's official: Arsenal are the most frustrating club in the world to support

Moments after Arsenal's extraordinary collapse this week, I tweeted my long-held view that they must be the most frustrating team in the world to support. Gunners fans were quick to agree, but others weren't so sure. A stream of Tottenham and Newcastle fans begged to differ, while supporters of smaller clubs, including my own Southend United, were just as dismissive. But while those clubs and others have problems far more serious than anything ever suffered by Arsenal, the point still stands.

Supporting Southend is not really that frustrating. Though they sit in an entirely respectable seventh position in League Two, generally they're not very good at football. Expectations are low and are only occasionally met.

Newcastle are frustrating in that they keep finding ever more inventive ways to shoot their own feet off, but no one really expects anything different. That's just what they do.

Tottenham's extraordinary habit of investing heavily in one ideology only to scrap it all at great expense and do the opposite two years later is certainly frustrating, but only one person has ever thought they were going to win the Premier League title and that, bafflingly, was chairman Daniel Levy shortly after the sale of Gareth Bale.

Arsenal exist on a different plane of frustration because, unlike those other clubs, great success is always possible. Indeed, great success for Arsenal, given all they have, is actually more probable than possible.

Yet they are so keen to squander their ambitions, and in increasingly ludicrous fashion. They were like the Wet Bandits this week. Bigger, stronger, more experienced than their pint-sized opponent, Anderlecht in the Champions League, they seemed certain to win out, but instead they found themselves being creatively and repeatedly assaulted in the last 20 minutes as they let a 3-0 lead slip away.

What separates Arsenal from the likes of Tottenham, Newcastle, Southend and all the other names that streamed on to my timeline on Tuesday night is that they have absolutely no excuses for this. Arsenal have everything in place to be the most successful, trophy-laden club on the planet and their failure to reach their potential is extraordinary.
http://www.espnfc.com/club/arsenal/359/blog/post/2132462/arsenal-are-the-most-frustrating-club-in-the-world-to-support-iain-macintosh

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Dangote Cement has applied for a licence to build a 75 megawatt coal-fired plant in Tanzania that would power a $500 million cement factory now under construction, Tanzania's energy watchdog said.

Sub-Saharan Africa's leading cement producer plans to roll out plants across Africa to reach an annual capacity of 62 million tonnes by 2017, up from a projected 42 million tonnes this year.

But any corporate expansion plan in Africa must contend with power shortages, which are common across the continent. Businesses often complain that poor or erratic supplies deter investors and push up costs.

"Dangote Industries ... applied for a 75 MW electricity generation licence to build, own and operate a coal-based captive power plant adjacent to its cement manufacturing plant," the state-run Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) said in a statement on Tuesday.

All the electricity would be "used to run the plant and machinery for the manufacture of cement, utilities and housing colony", EWURA said.

"Any interruption in power supply or unstable voltage/frequency causes extensive damage to the refractory and also to the rotary kiln parts. Refractory failures cause production shutdowns varying from 15 to 30 days and unscheduled use of costly imported refractory bricks," the regulator added.

Dangote Cement, owned by Africa's richest man Aliko Dangote, already operates in 13 African countries and posted $2.45 billion in revenue last year.

The factory it is constructing in southern Tanzania is scheduled to be commissioned in the second half of next year. With an annual capacity of 3 million tonnes, it will supply Tanzania's domestic market and export to landlocked nations in the region.

Cement makers in east Africa's second-biggest economy include Tanzania Portland Cement, which 69.3 percent owned by a subsidiary of Germany's Heidelberg Cement AG ; Tanga Cement, which is 62.5 percent owned by Afrisam Mauritius Investment Holdings Limited; and Mbeya Cement, 62.76 percent owned by France's Lafarge SA. (Reporting by Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala; editing by Drazen Jorgic and Jane Baird)


http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL6N0SU1KX20141104?irpc=932

pickabeau1:
^^^^ Bernie


At least it guarantee full TV viewing on the last day unlike the snooze fests of 2011 n 2013

nateevs:
Double Points - What a ridiculous sham. It's so ridiculous that if Lewis wins in Brazil and Nico has a DNF, Lewis' 11 wins and 49pts lead will count for nothing if he (Lewis) has a DNF in Abu Dhabi and Nico wins.

How can a system like that even exist?

chic2pimp:
Really thought Nico would get the job done and close the gap but hey as someone earlier wrote, the lad is not a natural racer and does buckle under any hint of pressure.

Surely now Lewis has the title all but wrapped up or does He not? He has been the best driver by a fair bit this season and really should kick on from here.

pickabeau1:
Without those jokers as u call them we will only have 3-5 teams
The competition will lose its attraction

pickabeau1:
F1 in trouble....high costs

Benie chopping all d money

Big teams don't care about small teams

No10:
It is a pity. Salary that can barely sustain these workers is still being deducted. On the other hand,thugs and cultists are being paid large sum of money to be used as tools in the coming election. An average thug in Benue state is richer than a lecturer (quote me anywhere). They bully and oppress people all around and commit criminal offences with impunity. They never get arrested by security agencies. Suswam is a pig. Am in Benue state,I know what am talking about.