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DaveStebbins

Not that F1 has the balance right by any means but it's not as black and white as it seems. I think costs are the bigger problem that the sport needs to combat. The teams shouldn't be dependent on these payments just to stay in business, but with current costs they are. The franchise system in the ...

DaveStebbins

Anyone with a notorious past can expect that past to be brought up over and over until they have built sufficient accomplishments to overshadow that past. Maldonado has not done that, so his past will always be a part of any conversation about him.

DaveStebbins

Wasn't it the EU that originally ruled that the FIA couldn't be both the ruling organization and also the commercial rights holder for the sport? Now that the FIA have given up their rights as the sole organization to make rules for F1 in exchange for money from FOM and also in exchange for owning a...

DaveStebbins

Maldonado has done OK this year and been very unlucky. The criticism that he receives is due as much to his past as to anything he does currently. Grosjean has managed to grow out of early-career criticisms, but Maldonado has not. Again, this may not be 100% fair, but Pastor makes things difficult h...

DaveStebbins

Might be going against the flow but I'm not sure what business it is of the EU, tbh. I don't see why they should have any say in how the sport is run? Not a fan of this latest development. That said I do think a more equitable revenue split is desirable. But I don't think complete equality is the a...

DaveStebbins

Yogi was one of the greatest ambassadors baseball ever had. Always smiling and fun to listen to, he wasn't full of himself like so many others. While most people today will remember him for his malaprops, which were a huge part of his charm, I would also like to highlight a couple things that either...

DaveStebbins

jimmyj wrote:Anyhow, for you Mr Stebbins. I have resisted the very tempting option of placing Sebastian ahead of Nico. This is going to be interesting.

Dude, you're battling for the Championship! Do whatever you have to do to win. If that means copying my excellent picks, do so unashamedly!

DaveStebbins

Congrats to specdecible and HulkStrong for both being in the top 20! Unlike that rude jimmyj who continues to climb up the standings, you can see that I was polite and have come back to meet you. Gothnak attempted to do the same but overshot. And, hey Spamjet, we're up here (waves). If Singapore did...

DaveStebbins

Liket wrote:Strange to extend Maldonado's contract and not Grosjean's if Renault are taking over, I'd have guessed they'd prefer a French driver and probably a French oil company (total) instead of a Venezuelan one, too?

Maldonado comes with huge backing money. Grosjean is rumored to be signing with Haas.

DaveStebbins

Quite disappointed at this actually, after a shaky start Merhi has made some good progress this year and has been outperforming Stevens recently. I would have hoped he'd done enough to hold onto the seat but I'm guessing there's a financial incentive behind this. I'm guessing it is money as well. I...

DaveStebbins

So, who will benefit from the safety car and who will it cost? There are at least three more drivers that I would like to stuff into the top ten, which means picking has been difficult. Singapore 2015 1. Hamilton 2. Vettel 3. Rosberg 4. Ricciardo 5. Massa 6. Raikkonen 7. Bottas 8. Hulkenberg 9. Kvya...

DaveStebbins

I am guessing this has been a large part of the ongoing negotiations, getting the creditors to release some of the debts so that they would receive more than if the team goes into administration. The creditors, of course, would like to receive everything they are owed and resist. Or they may also be...

DaveStebbins

Kind of goes to show that with this game it's all about consistency, scoring system works great. Assuming that's what you want it to do, yeah. I remember last year in F1 people were pretty annoyed that consistency almost got Rosberg a title... This is not exactly the F1 WDC I believe there is a say...

DaveStebbins

Out of town, missed the race, got my best result of the season. Second top ten finish all season gets me into the top ten overall. Still chasing jimmyj, and very happy to see Gothnak and spec in the top 20 (and hulk only one place out)!

DaveStebbins

I am not sure if they are planning on using those two engines until the end of the season, but if you have an extra engine in case one blows up, and you're already being penalized to the back of the grid, it makes sense to qualify the other for use in case you need it later on.

DaveStebbins

So, it looks like both Red Bulls will be taking 10-place grid penalties for using a new engine at Monza? (Edited to add: it is a story on the front page of Planet F1 at the moment. Really should remember to add attribution when I make statements like that. Sorry.) pokerman, this may result in even m...

DaveStebbins

Work is crazy, so I'll just toss picks up as it is better than getting busy and forgetting and taking a penalty. one of these days, I am actually going to have time to do some research on this. Monza 2015 1. Hamilton 2. Rosberg 3. Vettel 4. Bottas 5. Massa 6. Raikkonen 7. Grosjean 8. Ricciardo 9. Hu...

DaveStebbins

Maldonado has had some bad luck this year, but I was wondering how much of it was due to how rough he is on the car, even before reading the quote above. Sometimes, when you have lots of retirements and your teammate doesn't, it is bad luck. Other times, it points to you being rougher on the car and...

DaveStebbins

I take full credit for my trash-talking propelling jimmyj onto the podiumn and into the top ten overall. Great job!

DaveStebbins

What the hell, there is a GP this weekend and i'm in bloody America for work? Welcome to the dark side! If you're still here Sunday morning, the race will be on the NBC Sports Network channel with coverage starting at 7:30 AM Eastern Time. It looks like they will be showing FP1 live tomorrow and Qu...

DaveStebbins

Hey pokerman, I know you put entries in your spreadsheet as soon as you see them, so I wanted to let you know I have edited mine because I haven't been keeping up with things at all and am feeling wishy-washy.

DaveStebbins

(DaveStebbins is the one who should be panicking though) :D What? <Holds hand to ear> You'll have to speak up, son. You're still so far back that it's difficult to hear you unless you shout! :twisted: I am making my picks early this week because things are busy at work and I don't want to forget. I...

DaveStebbins

There's also the tiny point of the expected budget cap. That was the lynch pin. At least for the three that actually ever turned a wheel. That round of bids and selection were based on a premise that costs would be controlled and teams came up with plans that would allow them to operate within that...

DaveStebbins

I absolutely look favorably on any company that I recognize as an F1 sponsor. One of the reasons I test drove (and eventually purchased) a Toyota in 2005 was because I admired the way they joined F1 and started a team from scratch. I was very happy with that car (it lasted longer than the F1 team) a...

DaveStebbins

jimmyj wrote: By the way, it's a heck of a lot more fun when you beat your adversaries!!!!!!

Hah! Big words from a guy who is behind me! Granted, you are only 3 points out of 1300+ (0.23%) behind me, but still I wiggle my butt at your face!

DaveStebbins

Pokerman already covered the basics, but here are the number of entrants for every round this season. I had looked it up earlier when I posted my results for every race, so I was pretty sure of my numbers. Australia 70 Malaysia 61 China 57 Bahrain 57 Spain 51 Monaco 50 Canada 47 Austria 47 Great Bri...

DaveStebbins

One of the reasons that the F1 scoring system was changed was because people were bored with only 6 contenders scoring points out of a field of 20-26 cars. If we had 50-70 people competing and only ten scored, I would quickly become bored and leave.

DaveStebbins

Gothnak wrote:1. Gothnak 250
2. Spamjet 98
3. DaveStebbins 12

Now I KNOW this is a fantasy league.

DaveStebbins

So, maybe if Renault buy Lotus, they transfer the Mercedes engine contract from Lotus to red Bull. Renault and Mercedes end up supplying the same number of teams that way. And I think Mercedes has said recently that they (now) would be OK with the idea of supplying Red Bull.

DaveStebbins

Had a little more time, so for those interested here's the current (totally unofficial) alternate standings: So, by this method of scoring my entire season would have scored only two points by having only one finish in the top ten (a ninth place) over the entire season thus far. As opposed to my st...

DaveStebbins

I have now snuck into 9th place overall, which matches my best finish for any race this season. :D Keep up the podium streak, HulkStrong, you're catching us up! What a comeback. Good thing Gothnak chose beating Spamjet as his goal at the beginning of the season. (Having said that, I will immediately...

DaveStebbins

pokerman wrote:45 what a crazy race, I think I am in big trouble

My guess is that you will be far down in position, but you won't lose many points.

Informal addition tells me I got 55. What a crazy race!

DaveStebbins

I'd best get picks in before I forget. I am assuming the Hungaroring will be rough for Williams, but not as rough as Monaco. I'm also assuming the chassis of the Red Bulls and Toro Rossos will do well here. The only reason I put the Red Bull ahead of the impressive TR is because Ricciardo won here l...

DaveStebbins

The one big gripe I do have with it is the paltry inventory space you get - I am always having to destroy items or sell items. But aside from this, I am enjoying it a lot. Nothing particularly ground-breaking but what it has done is done well - although I hear the PC release wasn't so well received...

DaveStebbins

21 races would involve an extra payout to all the teams, I believe. No idea whether they actually have to run that many, or just schedule them and, if a race has to be dropped, the extra payment goes away. And I'm also pretty sure Abu Dhabi pays handsomely to be the last race of the season. Too lazy...

DaveStebbins

And a quick warning for anyone thinking of buying Eldar Scolls online - if you're planning on getting it play with you're friends, for some reason it's actually really hard to play with friends! You can play alone with randoms easily enough, but for for friends you need to be in the same faction an...

DaveStebbins

Interesting. I have never come anywhere close to a podium this year and only once did I squeak into the top 10, but slow and steady has put me on the cusp of the overall top 10. Nice to see that only once all year have I slid backwards in the standings. I wonder if I can get higher than 9th in the o...

DaveStebbins

So, if they decide to enact a penalty, it would have to be against the team, since the crew services both cars. There's no way this is bad enough to penalize two cars, so the worst they could do is reprimand the team or remove some WCC points, which has no effect at all. Like the McLaren tire thing,...

DaveStebbins

Massa has always been quite good at starts though hasn't he. But not that good. I dont think this has anything to do with Massa... Bottas start was about as good. I think it does apply. Massa has always been very good with starts and sometimes awesome. He really nailed it yesterday and Bottas also ...

DaveStebbins

If Bottas really did have the pace over Massa, then shouldn't they have pitted him before the Mercs? That way the Mercs would have been stuck behind Massa at the same pace and not had the chance to undercut like they did. Then Bottas would have come out ahead of the four of them. Either way, like t...

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