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UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:08 pm
This was a season of silly seasons:

Source - Postimage

To be fair, Albon missing the Brazilian GP was his own fault

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DOLOMITE wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 22, 2024 8:51 pm
First impressions? I'm scoring it 1-0 to Lawson.

2-0 now I'd say

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Could someone educate me, why do many commentators have a problem with this now, but in 2021 they didn't? Sky in particular with Brundle were very quick with judgement yesterday but I don't ever recall the same thing with any of the same 2021 instances. I lmean, rolling off the breaks and getting a...

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As said before, a bug bear of mine is keeping a bit of a car hanging on the outside and expecting space. The concept of space is a 2 way thing. The inside driver should give space when the outside driver has done enough to warrant it. However the outside driver also has a responsibility to give him...

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That was an interesting and well written post. A good point, to be on track still at 35+ usually means you are at very least a multiple race winner and usually a world champion . So even if these drivers lose a couple of tenths they can usually still be upper midfield or even around top level. Don'...

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The WDC is done. When the season has finished the gap will be small enough for everyone to know it's the one that got away from Norris and he will be gutted behind closed doors while Brown tells everyone how great is to win the WCC. Norris should be around equal points at this point tbh. I would sa...

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I'm actually quite excited by this.

If Newey gets the '26 regs bang on, we've got RB, Ferrari, McLaren, Merc and now Aston Martin scrapping for wins (that's also dependent on the others getting it right as well though). Can only be good for the sport if that's the case.

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Can't believe it's been 6 years since I was there. Still feels like yesterday. I'll never forget standing at the exit of the first chicane when Kimi took pole and literally every single person around me screaming.

Best atmosphere of ANY venue.

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Good to see another Argentinian on the grid after 20-odd years. I am puzzled as to why they didn't go for a more experienced driver (Schumacher/Lawson) until the end of the season and give Colapinto some FP1 outings to assess him before deciding on 2025. Although we did see how well Bearman did in ...

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Good to see another Argentinian on the grid after 20-odd years. I am puzzled as to why they didn't go for a more experienced driver (Schumacher/Lawson) until the end of the season and give Colapinto some FP1 outings to assess him before deciding on 2025. Although we did see how well Bearman did in J...

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cmberry20 wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 22, 2024 3:23 pm
I've got one - fairly easy though, more like a riddle than a quiz question......

What is always brought to every F1 event, but never ever used.

My first thought was full wets as well

I'd like to say common sense from the stewards...

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In the same vein - and borrowing the style from Jenson's Understeer - the tenth round of the 1984 F1 season was the first time in F1 history it happened. But what was it? Oh god not another one! :lol: Has it happened since? Yes, and I would say quite regularly ;) Completely forgot about this :lol: ...

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In the same vein - and borrowing the style from Jenson's Understeer - the tenth round of the 1984 F1 season was the first time in F1 history it happened. But what was it? Oh god not another one! :lol: Has it happened since? Yes, and I would say quite regularly ;) Completely forgot about this :lol: ...

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This is frankly bizarre. First of all you tell me there were no overtakes. Then you ask me to prove there were overtakes. Now for some reason you need to "analyse" the overtakes. I tell you I like it when overtaking is difficult and that I loved this race. How do you think you prove me wrong by arg...

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Anyway, I saw one stat where Mercedes in the last 5 races has earned the most WCC points, even more than McLaren. So Wolff has a lot going for him to lure Verstappen, if that contract isn't signed yet. I'd say that's more to do with Perez's form, not the car. EDIT: It's actually McLaren who's score...

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Team comes first. Always.

Although you'd think that they would have discussed all possible scenarios in the briefing prior to the race. If not, then the blame for the fallout lies with the team.

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Strider wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 28, 2024 4:38 pm
In the same vein - and borrowing the style from Jenson's Understeer - the tenth round of the 1984 F1 season was the first time in F1 history it happened. But what was it?

Oh god not another one!

Has it happened since?

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If it is, that's just a happy coincidence and not the answer I'm looking for! All point scorers were from different teams? This has to be it... I like this! Is it the correct answer? I have no idea if that's the only occasion where that has happened (although I do now feel like trying to find out!)...

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Fri Jun 28, 2024 12:37 am

Jenson's Understeer wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 27, 2024 4:18 pm
Okay, here's one: the second round of the 1994 F1 season was the only time in F1 history it happened. But what was it?
2 races in Japan in the same year.

They had 2 races in 1995 as well.

Is it that some drivers finished 5 laps down?

I'm flummoxed!

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Reading the Motorsport.com article it does mention that the email in question was sent to the same list of people who were sent the Horner WhatsApp leaks.

No idea who it could be but it's petulant beyond belief.

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Being champion in 1994 would have been hard for Senna but not impossible. Without Senna's death things play out differently and Schumacher doesn't end up DSQ'd from 25% of the season. I think it would come down to how reliable his Williams stayed. It certainly would have been a closer contest in th...

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I'm sure it was Hungary '94 where Schumacher allowed Verstappen to unlap himself, which led to Jos then passing an ailing Brundle for P3 on the last lap. I know they were teammates and all, but it goes to show that sometimes it's better to push and not care about being lapped if a scenario like that...

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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say Senna to Williams. Not that he would've won anything in the McLaren-Peugeot shedbox of '94, but the fact that he joined a team that was dominant due to their electronic gizmos which were then subsequently banned (partly due to his own lobbying) made the start ...

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Newey's book is absolutely brilliant. I've read it three times over the years!

I'd also love to see both Senna's and Mansell's onboards from Monaco '92.

Also the Berger/Andretti first corner crash at Brazil '93.

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Personally I think blue flags should be banned. All - and I mean all - 20 drivers are technically in the same race (as in the driver in P20 is trying to catch the leader) so if the leader comes up behind last place he shouldn't get an automatic wave past. If it was multiclass racing then fine. But ...

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I was watching Spa '98 highlights on YouTube over the weekend and realised I've never seen an onboard shot of the legendary pile-up. And it got me thinking... if we had today's onboard footage quality and availability, what incidents/action from years gone by would you love to see? Just off the top ...

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Personally I think blue flags should be banned. All - and I mean all - 20 drivers are technically in the same race (as in the driver in P20 is trying to catch the leader) so if the leader comes up behind last place he shouldn't get an automatic wave past. If it was multiclass racing then fine. But i...

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Maybe but I'm just trying to get my head round the fast that Red Bull offer Sainz a 1 year deal, and then sign Perez on 2 years! Yeah me too, maybe they were over cautious about the driver dynamic aspects and the risk of a fall out between teammtes. According to another site it wasn't a fall out be...

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A mention to 1995 as well. Alesi's one and only win!

The race itself was a bit of a damp squib, apart from Coulthard spinning off early on and the Ferraris being better than Hill's Williams.

Alesi's ride on the back of Schumi's Benetton is iconic.

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Who can forget Brundle's head swaying violently after being hit by Verstappen's Benetton in Brazil too? We were lucky not to lose another driver that season, IMO. Whichever way you look at it (and ignoring the kneejerk reactions to safety that season), the Imola weekend paved the way for how F1 is t...

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Thinking about it, my memory of that weekend is that F1 seemed to suddenly have turned into a nightmare. Not only the 2 deaths, but a bad accident to Barrichello in practice, and the start-line shunt which caused the re-start sent wreckage into the crowd, injuring several spectators . Quite why so ...

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2003 is worth a mention. Michael and Ralf's mother passing away the morning of the race yet both still electing to take the start.

Seeing Rubens give Michael a massive hug at the end really welled me up.

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I watched the race live. I remember looking up Ceefax every 20 minutes for updates. (For those not in the UK, it was text based news and information service that was broadcast on terrestrial TV and accessed via a button on the remote - I imagine other countries had similar) I was 10 and didn't unde...

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I wonder how many (including myself) have ever seen this. This is explanation I found: During practice for the 1992 Belgian race, Erik Comas crashed his Ligier and lost consciousness; Ayrton was the next one, stopped his McLaren to help while the rest of the field raced by. Erik did not want to sit...

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Flashbulb memory is such a strange thing. I was 10 years old at the time and can still recall events like it was three days ago. I'd travelled to Anfield to watch Liverpool lose 0-1 to Norwich on the Saturday so I missed Roland's accident/news until I got home that evening. The following morning I h...

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Is it really the same if we look to match up the points to where they are today the points would be, 27-18-12-9-6-3, instead we have 25-18-15-12-10-8. I'm afraid it's even worse. If you'd convert that system into today's, you'd get: 1) 36.36 2) 24.24 3) 16.16 4) 12.12 5) 8.08 6) 4.04 7) 0 8) 0 9) 0...

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I grew up on 10-6-4-3-2-1 and would happily go back to that format. When they brought in the 10-8-etc in 2003 I felt it devalued a win, especially during 2005 where Alonso could rely on P2 when Kimi won, whereas had it been the old 10-6 format it would've made it way more interesting. I've always ha...

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I voted retirement but won't be surprised if Audi throw their hat in the ring for his services too.

Head says retirement, heart says Ferrari.

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- Simpler cars, no aero gimmicks, single or double element front and rear wings - ICE engines (V10s preferably but I'd take V8s - or even V12s) - More teams - Less races - No more sprints - Bring back refuelling - Better tyres to push for the entirety of the race (none of this C1/C2...C5 nonsense - ...

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I just Googled that story and... wow.

#HasJustineLandedYet

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