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TheGiantHogweed

Ugh. I don't know how much worse nowtv could get... Been watching it the past few years through my pc monitor as I don't have the space in my room for a TV and now it says HDCP error. From what it says, i understand what it means as it is an unrecognised device and they assume you could be illegally...

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I've looked at the lap times and retracted my vote for Kimi, the 2 drivers had identical pace in the race, I'm going to call it a draw. Based on what you are saying though, you are saying their pace is equal in the race, which likely would have given the higher position to Giovinazzi had he not los...

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Hamilton - This is quite straight forward although it has to be said that Bottas was very competitive. Verstappen - Again straight forward, poor qualifying from Perez but not his fault he had to start from the pitlane, good recovery drive but never on the pace of Max. Norris - Quicker all weekend b...

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Same here voted for Kimi because I was unaware of a pitstop issue for Giovinazzi, as for voting for Gasly he binned it on the first lap, I voted for Tsunoda. ^Good point about Kimi v. Gio, I didn't know about the pitstop issues. I voted the same as you except that I did choose Kimi (largely because...

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double post - meant to edit my other

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Most pretty easy even if some are close: Hamilton over Bottas Verstappen over Perez Norris over Ricciardo Stroll over Vettel Alonso over Ocon Leclerc over Sainz Gasly over Tsunoda - this was a bit harder, as gasly looked like he will have ben far better the whole weekend. But that one mistake right ...

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I am confused by the almost unanimous conclusion here that Max is the best qualifier on the grid. He has a total of 4 pole positions after 120 entries. He also has ten wins which says to me that that his race day performance is more than twice as good as his qualifying performance. Max did not take...

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Not too much to disagree with there, I might put Ricciardo nearer to Alonso and I think Russell will end up higher than his present position, Vettel's position would indicate that he's lost about 0.1s in the last couple of years, an indication of decline perhaps. Ricciardo has proven to be a very d...

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Since Invade brought it up, here is what my model suggests for the percent gaps between the quantifiable members of the grid. Tsunoda, Schumacher, and Mazepin are impossible to rate at the moment. For the purposes of compiling this list, I've assumed Russell has the same speed as Bottas. I fully ad...

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Funny how the last 15 posts or so in the official Hamilton thread seem to be arguing about how good Vettel was in a race 13 years ago. Some being relevant though and implying it isn't really worth bringing up this far.

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The votes are for the people who did not seem to deserve them are telling. As I write this: 2 For Bottas and Mazepin. 1 For Riccardo and Vettel, Alonso. I can see no reason any of these drivers earned a vote. Sure, Riccardo may have had floor damage, and Alsono's car failed which means making they ...

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Based on the performance in this race alone, i don't really see it as being that special. That car looked either 3rd or 4th best. Even with perez not getting through, Tsunoda didn't manage to either. He had a bad start which he admitted to and while he recovered to 9th the main reasons he got there ...

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Three observations from me: 2) Taken over the entirety of the weekend, when was the last time a rookie put in a worse debut performance than Mazepin? I think we might have to go back pretty far to find one... Looking further into his weekend, I didn't realise that his later spin in qualifying was a...

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Lewis, Norris and Perez for me. Lewis I mean what can you say the guy is still in the middle of this magical run. I thought that him catching covid might have put an end to this run that he is in but it was not to be. He still has the nose for the checkered flag in the most unlikely of circumstance...

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I'm going into this much depth as I was just so surprised that he got the official driver of the day vote Pretty much any driver of a top team who starts/ends up at the back and makes their way back to the top 5/6 always do well in the official driver of the day vote. It isn’t a surprising thing. W...

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Lewis, Norris and Perez for me. Lewis I mean what can you say the guy is still in the middle of this magical run. I thought that him catching covid might have put an end to this run that he is in but it was not to be. He still has the nose for the checkered flag in the most unlikely of circumstance...

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Bottas race pace was exactly equal to Hamiltons, funny how so many jumped on Bottas’ back for this race. I feel Lewis has more to come in this car. It usually takes him 3-4 races to warm up. It might take longer this year with no real pre season. http://en.mclarenf-1.com/index.php?page=chart&gp=105...

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I can accept your view on this. However I don't think yesterday was an example of him showing to be his usual slow self and not really trying. He looked more or less on hamilton's pace the whole race and lost around 4 seconds due to Leclerc getting an excellent launch and then a further 8 in the pi...

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Lewis, Norris and Perez for me. Lewis I mean what can you say the guy is still in the middle of this magical run. I thought that him catching covid might have put an end to this run that he is in but it was not to be. He still has the nose for the checkered flag in the most unlikely of circumstance...

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While Bottas has shown to not challenge Hamilton often, he hasn't only won when hamilton has had an "off day". There was nothing wrong with Hamilton's performance on race day in the USA in 2019 and the same goes for Japan and Baku that year. Hamilton had bad luck/penalties in Austria 2017 which won...

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Do the leaders still get DRS from lapped cars? I noticed that Lewis did not open his DRS when lapping an Alfa as make had DRS on him. I also noticed it on another occasion. From watching the channel 4 coverage, Hamilton wasn't close enough to the alfa to get DRS open ( or at least from that they sa...

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Three observations from me: 1) With both Norris and Sainz performing better than expected in the race against their respective teammates, we might be trending in the direction of both having been underrated 2) Taken over the entirety of the weekend, when was the last time a rookie put in a worse de...

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RBR v Merc is interesting. I don't think many people would say Verstappen is BETTER than Hamilton, so presumably it means Perez is considered better than Bottas. Unless people have factored in the team aspect and consider a VER/PER line up more effective overall than a HAM/BOT line up even if HAM a...

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https://www.racefans.net/2021/03/28/tra ... says-masi/

More on the track limits. Apparently every car but one did the right thing...

Questionable how they manage it.

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I thought Vettel looked as good or better than Stroll today until his incident. The incident played a big part obviously, but I don't think vettel's pace was lacking at all and I think yesterday was a little hard to judge. But he can have yesterday taken against him regarding the yellow flag incide...

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hmm, yea, i means loss of concentration or blank moment. Or anything else that would describe it. I can't defend him for the incident. I can't say it was a good weekend as a whole, I just thought he looked more comfortable with the car than he did most of last year in the early stages of the race. ...

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Norris. I wasn't expecting him to put Ricciardo in the shade. I was actually a little disappointed with Tsunoda. I think Gasly's 5th place in qualifying showed what that car is capable of and if not for his first lap mishap he would've made Tsunoda's result look rather underwhelming. Still, it's on...

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hmm, yea, i means loss of concentration or blank moment. Or anything else that would describe it. I can't defend him for the incident. I can't say it was a good weekend as a whole, I just thought he looked more comfortable with the car than he did most of last year in the early stages of the race. ...

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Well, I can be corrected if they added this in after midway through the race. But I still have to say that no matter who the driver is, it is pretty stupid if you take a chunk of the lap off the track! This basically shows Hamilton in total will likely have spent around 30 seconds off track, in whic...

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You seem to be totally ignoring what i state right after what you have highlighted. It is the fact that he still shows great skill a lot of the time. That is why I concider it a few to many as if he didn't put in these solid performances in between, then i wouldn't have put it this way. Last year c...

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For the love of god please retire already Are you actually that desperate for him to retire. This was a pretty big mistake, but his race really wasn't bad at all until this point. The way he was fighting was excellent and brundle pointed this out. He had excellent defending with other drivers too. ...

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You seem to be totally ignoring what i state right after what you have highlighted. It is the fact that he still shows great skill a lot of the time. That is why I concider it a few to many as if he didn't put in these solid performances in between, then i wouldn't have put it this way. Last year c...

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For the love of god please retire already Are you actually that desperate for him to retire. This was a pretty big mistake, but his race really wasn't bad at all until this point. The way he was fighting was excellent and brundle pointed this out. He had excellent defending with other drivers too. ...

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Hard to judge how good Ferrari are, but Sainz just seemed ok at best this race. He made a questionable move on Stroll where he literally rubbed his car on Strolls for several seconds while trying to recover from his bad launch. A bit of a gentle push and shove. I don't think there was any effective...

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For the love of god please retire already Are you actually that desperate for him to retire. This was a pretty big mistake, but his race really wasn't bad at all until this point. The way he was fighting was excellent and brundle pointed this out. He had excellent defending with other drivers too. ...

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@ Hogweed Do you reckon Hamilton's utter mastery of F1 rules won him the race today? According to them, he successfully abused typical track limits which presumably gained him crucial seconds of lap time throughout the race distance. Verstappen, ignorant to the rules, was not taking advantage of th...

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Hamilton is the main one for me. Also think verstappen was very solid, then Norris and Leclerc being the others I'm thinking about. Perez had a solid recovery, but with another safety car just after he suffered, he didn't lose out as much as it initially looked. And in the best car, it probably won'...

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If we had a driver of the weekend thread, i think I would give it to Hamilton today. I do think he maximised it in qualifying and I still think red bull had the edge in the race. verstappen was very solid, but I think Hamilton did a better job to beat him as i would say Mercedes isn't quite there. I...

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hehe verstappen would rather have had a 5 second penalty and thought he could make that up had he stayed ahead. Which is incredibly unsporting of him. And Hamilton abusing track limits all race isn't? Can't blame Lewis for doing it if it's not being enforced. But it's enforced as soon as Horner get...

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mercedes are still rubbish in the pits when the pressure is on. That looked quite silly on Bottas. It wasn't a wheel being stuck exactly, the car had been dropped to the floor! He looked well off the pace in the first stint, but actually not all that much slower than Verstappen and Hamilton for most...

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