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Pullrod wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 20, 2021 7:43 am
It is that simple really. If you think a driver with no championship to his name is going to teach a lesson to a F3 champion, F2 champion and 7x F1 champion, you are the one dreaming.

Verstappen has 13 titles to his name according to a quick skim of his Wikipedia page.

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Aside from agreeing with Jezza, I've had numerous ideas how this could be adapted and made better. The best I can think of, if we must have a sprint and a GP, is a reverse grid. So Friday's qualifying session sees the grid set for both races. The sprint, however, reverses the entire field. Points a...

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Aside from agreeing with Jezza, I've had numerous ideas how this could be adapted and made better. The best I can think of, if we must have a sprint and a GP, is a reverse grid. So Friday's qualifying session sees the grid set for both races. The sprint, however, reverses the entire field. Points aw...

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I think some people need a visit to Specsavers.Lewis didn't drive into him. Watch the onboard. Max turned right into him Max turned right. In a right-handed corner. He left more than a car's width, which Lewis drifted wide in and hit him. Max turned right whilst Lewis was alongside him. He had plen...

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Max cut across in the full knowledge Lewis was there, no more complicated than that. Why do people continue to post lies even when all evidence is against them? There’s overhead pictures that show that Verstappen left Hamilton approximately two cars of width down the inside. The idea that Verstappe...

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There was no bullying going on here. False narrative. Verstappen gave Hamilton loads of room. Hamilton then went in too hot and understeered into him. Hamilton made a mistake was punished and that's really that. Hamilton passed both Norris and Leclerc into the same corner, they both realised the ga...

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To be fair both ways, I remember hearing (on the radio) from Hamilton shortly after the incident, "Is Max OK?" and the response being ~~"He's walking away from it." - a rather guarded comment from the Mercedes pit. He was told about Max being in hospital in a Sky interview, and his reaction didn't ...

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To quote Brundle 'let me decide what I would decide. Hamilton was enough alongside that he'd earned that space' He had, and he was given the space due to him and then some. He then proceeded to drive into the opponent who had left him more than enough space. I think some people need a visit to Spec...

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To be fair both ways, I remember hearing (on the radio) from Hamilton shortly after the incident, "Is Max OK?" and the response being ~~"He's walking away from it." - a rather guarded comment from the Mercedes pit. He was told about Max being in hospital in a Sky interview, and his reaction didn't ...

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If Verstappen has the faster car and collisions are 50/50 (unless pre-planned) then Hamilton does not have the luxury of hoping for a DNF every time he shunts into Verstappen. If Hamilton gets a DNF while being the #2 fastest car then his WDC chance is getting slimmer by the race. Who is pre-planni...

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SR1 wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 18, 2021 5:56 pm
After today, Verstappen no longer has that mental comfort that Hamilton will do the jumping out the way....

I agree, it'll be very interesting to see what happens next time they're wheel to wheel.

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Norris, Alonso, Leclerc. Alonso really showed his class today, although Alpine clearly had a good car for Silverstone. Norris managed to maximise his situation despite the McLaren not having the legs to match the Ferraris today, and Leclerc for basically controlling the whole race outside of Hamilto...

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Max has form when it comes to aggressive defending. This is a known trait of his driving, and Lewis even made a joke about it when he, Bottas and Toto did the feature at Silverstone, saying he gave Toto more space "like Max". Lewis backed out in Imola, and he backed out yesterday. At some point he w...

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You'll have to set up a pick 8 game

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Alternatively to the above post, does Red Bull need a junior-junior team? Vips and Lawson are both showing well, and Alpine probably need somewhere to put Zhou and Piastri next year. Two new teams on the F1 grid please :D Lundgaard, on the other hand, is having a woeful year. This is just another l...

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WTF1 suggest that they’re allowed to make changes to the car because he retired. Listened to the sprint review podcast and it was mentioned about applying learning from the Saturday sessions. Absolutely would have given Perez a penalty. Very much feels like you can rejoin the track any way you like...

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Would be nice but I don't think Mercedes has the pace.

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Alternatively to the above post, does Red Bull need a junior-junior team? Vips and Lawson are both showing well, and Alpine probably need somewhere to put Zhou and Piastri next year. Two new teams on the F1 grid please :D Lundgaard, on the other hand, is having a woeful year. This is just another lo...

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So Checo will finish somewhere between 5th and 10th. Mercedes will follow Verstappen home. Russell will drop back. If Mazepin emulates yesterday, Haas won't finish.

I really can't look forward to this race the same as most because we know the relative pace of these cars.

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There's been some good fighting here and there. Honestly I wonder if the loss of the rotating cars/engineers has eliminated some variety - and that's a good thing, this way the drivers and engineers can form more of a working relationship.

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Alonso and Max.

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So are we expecting a penalty for Russell, and for Perez?

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I've often wondered if it's worth Red Bull joining FE. Some of their rejects might be more suited to that style of racing. Daruvala, and whoever loses out between Lawson and Vips, for example.

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I expected to underbody downforce to be much more important than it appears to be to me, from the size of the huge front and rear wings. I can't help but wonder why that is. For years we were told that "ground effect" cars were much better for following cars, and now we see these huge wings... Perh...

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It was a fun show. That said, we now know exactly how the podium will be tomorrow, barring any crashes or tyre failures, and the WCC has been hurt by Checo taking himself out while Verstappen just cemented his claim to the WDC. What will the GP show us that this hasn't?

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Daruvala maybe bumping himself down the queue for the AlphaTauri seat. Assuming he was even ahead of Lawson and Vips to begin with.

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Or maybe the other Campos caused it...

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Not a nice crash at all for Deledda, Boschung gave him nowhere to go. By that point no fault of Boschung either of course, although clearly his fault initially.

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A nice set-up for Sunday would be a sprint collision between Verstappen and Hamilton ... ;) :-P On one hand I want that, but if it happens it just vindicates the sprint format in the eyes of Liberty. Ideally a crash that reduces the field for tomorrow would likely prevent it becoming a long term th...

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Comfortable win from Shwartzman in the end, surprising perhaps that Vips couldn't take the position. Looks like Robert has finally settled into this season. Too little, too late though?

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Looks like the timing system isn't talking to the broadcast system this morning.

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You can just think of it as more race 8) I think that's the general idea, honestly. Sainz said something (I think Thursday, but I saw it yesterday) about how the FIA/FOM have basically taken the most action-packed moment of the weekend - lap 1, turn 1 - and made it happen a second time in the weeke...

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Vasseur has also said they want to retain the Ferrari connection so I expect they'll still have a Ferrari junior next year. My guess is Ilott.

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Has to be George for me.

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I think those of us who leaned towards Max are regretting it!

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Did I read it right that only one set of tyres is allowed in Q3? Or did I misread and one is just set aside for Q3?

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In my experience leakage is rarely sexy

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I'm sure someone more skilled than myself with Photoshop will do exactly that sooner or later.

Incidentally I'm not sure why this thread is titled 'leaked' when it was an official unveiling?

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I'm starting to see why some are wondering if Lewis will even achieve 100 wins this year. Surely luck will give him a couple but I can't see him earning any outright in a straight battle. A bit of rain would not go amiss. :) I wouldn't even say Lewis has an advantage in the rain. Verstappen isn't M...

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Sky seems to have forgotten that they have F2 qualifying coverage scheduled now. They even have the cars trundling into the pit lane behind the pundits.

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