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Chunky

Three thoughts: No-one has ever won a WDC with 3 different constructors. Hamilton has nothing to lose, everything to gain. Lewis has repeatedly tied his future to working with Toto. Don't be surprised if he decides to "retire" at the end of this year. James V has been in final training at Williams. ...

Chunky

Well I'm several thousand hours behind you in P1 time and have never flown anything more slippery than a Duo Discus but I think we're very much in agreement on the main points. Just to clarify - there was no suggestion of anything as crude as turbulator tape on F1 cars but I'll wager that similar ae...

Chunky

Well I'm several thousand hours behind you in P1 time and have never flown anything more slippery than a Duo Discus but I think we're very much in agreement on the main points. Just to clarify - there was no suggestion of anything as crude as turbulator tape on F1 cars but I'll wager that similar ae...

Chunky

I too checked out emotionally from F1 after 2021 after having watched avidly since the Hunt/Lauda days. As a kid, I suppose late 60s/early 70s I used to enjoy the wrestling on TV on a Saturday afternoon, not realising that it was usually theatre, not sport. Today's F1 reminds me very much of that. T...

Chunky

....... The idea that they'd still be able to do it as well as someone equally talented who's half their age, however, is another matter entirely. If we're talking equal talent let's be honest, drivers with equal talent are a lot thinner on the ground than drivers who's daddy has got a heap of mone...

Chunky

We have periodic spells of discussion on this forum, basically about driver age. It's nonsense. All the best fighter jet test pilots and most of the top aerobatic pilots are 40+. They pull way more G, need faster reactions and have to think rapidly in 3D, not just roundy round. People are misled by ...

Chunky

You heard it here first, put a note in your diary for 2026 - Lewis will go to Aston Martin next. Hear me out before you get too judgemental. Ferrari would be reputational/legacy suicide and he certainly doesn't need the money. They're just too, well, too "Italian". A disaster for Alonso & Vettel, Ki...

Chunky

Could I respectfully ask that you two just get a room and entertain yourselves separately. It's supposed to be a thread about the merits or otherwise of Verstappen, not how many angels will fit on the head of a pin. Well over a page of " you said I said ", and " no I didn't, what I meant is........ ...

Chunky

Everybody bangs on about it being a team sport and we race together, blah, blah. Some people live and breathe it. Some people whinge and whine, eff and blind when they get a pit stop 2 seconds slower than they feel entitled to expect. It's a terrible burden to bear when you're never responsible for ...

Chunky

Okay, okay, enough of this rose tinted view of history. To be precise - The McLaren fine was because Uncle Ron picked up the phone and called his nemesis Moseley only when he was subjected to Alsonso's blackmail about team primacy. The size of the fine was a shocker, particularly when compared to th...

Chunky

Not to be picky, but very often and very much mis-used in the wrong circumstances (hence the bad reputation), correlation can indeed imply causation. It's been the underpinnings of much discovery since the days of the natural philosophers. The proper science gets bolted on once the causitive mechani...

Chunky

Like I said - unrelenting bad luck and let down by teams with insufficient budget, employee talent or management competence. Absolutely none of it has been under Fred's purview. If, Heaven forbid, Lewis, George, Charles, Carlos and Max were ever in the same plane crash it sounds like Alonso would ha...

Chunky

Just bad luck then. All perfectly timed, perfectly logical career decisions and behaviour. Nothing to learn along the way, different every time, failed by others at every end and turn. He's a great team builder who's always had inadequate people to lead. Not black balled by Honda in the US, RBR woul...

Chunky

If missing the Red Bull boat was Fred's only team mis-step we could maybe let it go. But against the bigger picture including red-cargate, Singapore crashgate, joining Ferrari as a hero and getting slung out once he'd blown the team apart, returning to a McLaren team foolish enough to forget the pas...

Chunky

I've counted 8 team switches for Fred so far, only the first one to Renault resulting in any success at all. Plus don't forget him turning down a Red Bull drive in the car that gave Vettel 4 WDCs; ironically because he only wanted a one year deal and RBR wanted two. But here's what I'm wondering.......

Chunky

I've been watching F1 since the days of Stewart & Hill Sr. and have followed all the great battles since Lauda and Hunt. Sometimes it seems that Kimi has been with us for most of my time. T.B.H. I was only briefly impressed by him and that was in the pre-2007 time. But anyone who can get kicked to t...

Chunky

When you have over a dozen back and forth posts arguing each of your own myopic vision of events, it's time to sit down and try to find something useful to do with your life. Calm down chaps. The poll has spoken, the result is in. Oone of you is outvoted, the other is with the majority, no-one reall...

Chunky

Nope, gotta' disagree there ATH.

MV got half points for 1st, LH got half points for third. No0one should have got any points for such a sham.

But it's all part of the show..................

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Chunky

The final race is going to be a replay of either Australia 1994 or Jerez 1997. And of course, the FIA will do exactly the same this time - let a cheat win a maiden WDC if his actions put his opponent out, but impotently punish him (albeit not with a season DSQ this time) if he puts himself out but h...

Chunky

I'm a simple man, so I'll just offer a few simple thoughts: Of course there will be no retrospective penalty. It's a can of worms. Toto is raising it now for no reason other than to reflect the RBR stupidity after Silverstone and maybe to stir the pot a bit. Expect stewarding decisions for the remai...

Chunky

Of course there shouldn't be a penalty. The stewards have been 100 per cent consistent this weekend, as they've been all year. Plus, he doesn't have curly black hair and has never taken a title from under the nose of a Brazilian hero on the last lap. Nothing to see here, move on. More seriously thou...

Chunky

There is nothing "pretty clear" on a cell-phone video taken from some distance away. The only thing that can be clear from such a video is the personal preference of whoever is coming to any conclusion. But if we put this in a rules/legal framework we know that: Red Bull reported MB wing to FIA Vers...

Chunky

I don't understand all the whinging about how Russel would be treated if brought in now. I bet he'd crawl across broken glass to get into the car early, even if his "only" job is to beat Verstappen into 3rd place. Bottas has failed miserably at that so far, it's time to get rid. George can't win the...

Chunky

Here's a prediction. Sometime this morning there will be a quiet chat with Bottas about that pass by Verstappen. It will go somewhere along the lines of, " We're paying you a shed load of money, do your job or you'll be driving a Williams for the rest of the season" . I'm very against the Ferrari/Sc...

Chunky

Am I the only one who's snot started to fizz when I read this morning's PF1 headline i.e. Uncle Helmut thinks a show has been put on for poor, injured Lewis? After all the whinging and whining about a lack of respect at Silverstone and " the penalty should match the implications of the incident "? I...

Chunky

Someone help me here, I'm an old man who's been watching F1 for far too long so my memory is fading. When was the last time MV stuck his hand up and said, "Yeah, that was my fault". And when before that? While we're at it, when was the last time Horner stood there and sold the world that Max got it ...

Chunky

The bottom line is that if you're allowed to get away with something you'll continue doing it until someone stops you. Schumacher won a WDC by running into Hill, but lost one when he got disqualified doing the same thing to JV. Even then, old habits die hard and he could have killed Rubens (Hungary ...

Chunky

Only one thing I thought when I first saw it. Before the slow-mo replays and being able to judge who was responsible ,the thing that struck me immediately was that after having parked his car on top of another, smashing up the air box in the process, Potty Mouth just walked away without checking on ...

Chunky

I have it on very good authority that RBR have already lodged their complaint with the FAI about the forthcoming race at Spa. Allegedly, all the Mercedes engined teams have been doing extensive prep work in the simulator. The plan is for Stroll to t-bone Russel, who will spin and take Ricciardo out,...

Chunky

Coulthard said Hamilton, Brundle said Verstappen, Lando tried so, so very hard not to say either of them. I guess that's because he's not sure if the next time the phone rings it will be MB or RBR. So that's one vote in each category. Horner threw a hissy fit, Wolfe said neither of them were going t...

Chunky

Wasn't '95 the year when Mansell was brought back to help a failing McClaren but the car was too small for him to fit in? Even after a few raaces off and some redesign it was still uncomfortable and he had a horrid time. As far as we know, Vettel fits in the car okay, didn't take time off to win the...

Chunky

Spa 2008. It's taken a long time for Hamilton to get back the win that the stewards stole for Ferrari. I've not seen any cockpit footage or telemetry yet, but unless Vettel kept his foot in and/or steered right it's a very unfair penalty, even if it's the rules. How this compares with Vestappen in M...

Chunky

Leclerc was faster in practice and qualy, duplicating the young Vettel style at Red Bull - quick, precise and clinical in the fastest car when there was no-one chasing him and no-one to pass. Very impressive. Then at the start of the race Vettel put the move on him to go P1 and I thought, " okay, no...

Chunky

I'm definitely no Vettel fan and this one was maybe 50/50 but all four drivers from Merc and Ferrari have had to excercise unecssary caution with Verstappen this season and last where they could expect better but still competitive driving from the more mature members of the grid. Something tells me ...

Chunky

You have it all wrong. He's going to get measured for a Shackleton's high seat chair. One of the big ones, with the grab rails and the electric motor to tip you out on to your zimmer frame. They just told him it was for Ferrari so they could get him to the showroom. Poor dear, it's terrible when you...

Chunky

Glorified go-cart jockeys. The best drivers are undoubtedly in rallying. The car control is incredible, the road surface is constantly varying and unpredictable, plus they don't get to hone it to perfection from lap to lap. If they push a bit too hard it's not a trip to the run-off and come back on ...

Chunky

Like many of Brawn's ideas, it's excellent and would cut down the cost of all the photography and subtle espionage at every GP and test. Of course, it would have to be limited to non strip down stuff, so no peering inside engines, but they could insist on the removal of covers and so on. I doubt tha...

Chunky

Option 1 - return to an open breather system like on my dad's Anglia 105E and belch grey fumes all over the place, on to the track and around the bodywork of the car. Just for extra spice, remember that it will be hitting the visor of the driver behind like in the good old days when they used to get...

Chunky

At last! A chance for Maldonado to get a drive that his sponsorship and ego so desperately deserve.

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Chunky

There's no point in an engine manufacturer being in the sport unless they can have their name on the bodywork and get some lower grade publicity as the cameras switch to the mid-field and back marker battles now and again. There's only two circumstances in which this would work: Firstly, if they can...

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