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McLaren have been faster all season long, on most tracks , but Max has been able to stay with them and match their pace or even beat them on low deg tracks (Japan, Jeddah, Canada, Silverstone pole in the dry, Spa sprint in the dry). Max easily pulled a gap when they both were on new mediums to star...

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First, because McLaren has been the faster package all season long on hards, and second, because of McLarens improved performance come the end of races. Fuel loads were way down by that point ands as you pointed out, Lando was chipping away at Verstappen's lead. It's not a definite that Lando would...

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First, because McLaren has been the faster package all season long on hards, and second, because of McLarens improved performance come the end of races. Fuel loads were way down by that point ands as you pointed out, Lando was chipping away at Verstappen's lead. It's not a definite that Lando would...

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First, because McLaren has been the faster package all season long on hards, and second, because of McLarens improved performance come the end of races. Fuel loads were way down by that point ands as you pointed out, Lando was chipping away at Verstappen's lead. It's not a definite that Lando would ...

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McLaren had nothing to lose trying the more extreme strategy. Verstappen had them covered on a conventional strategy. I fully disagree. If you go back and rewatch and pay close attention to the lap times, Lando was getting quicker and had they pitted him, they keep him at least within the same wind...

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McLaren had nothing to lose trying the more extreme strategy. Verstappen had them covered on a conventional strategy. I fully disagree. If you go back and rewatch and pay close attention to the lap times, Lando was getting quicker and had they pitted him with Max, they keep him at least within the ...

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McLaren had nothing to lose trying the more extreme strategy. Verstappen had them covered on a conventional strategy. I fully disagree. If you go back and rewatch and pay close attention to the lap times, Lando was getting quicker and had they pitted him, they keep him at least within the same wind...

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elite are you watching the same races as me. lol one of them loses places at the start at the majority of the races and seems to bottle it all the time in qualy. the other got destroyed last year by that guy. i think norris is having a terrible season i think the pressure has got to him and its mak...

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Verstappen is peerless in F1 at the moment. With Hamilton and Alonso aging, IMO he is as far ahead of everyone else as Schumacher was in the late 90s/early 00s. Peerless at this moment. Yeah I feel like Norris and Piastri are just so far behind i actually find it difficult to get excited for their ...

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Red Bull showing why they are the best team - what a comeback, back to dominance. Whopping 20 seconds ahead. Ferrari with show laps in free practice but in reality nowhere. Otherwise an utterly boring and uninteresting race. The only reason max won by that margin was because McLaren suffered from s...

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Badger36 wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 07, 2025 9:53 pm

mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 07, 2025 2:27 pm
Verstappen is peerless in F1 at the moment.
With Hamilton and Alonso aging, IMO he is as far ahead of everyone else as Schumacher was in the late 90s/early 00s.

Peerless at this moment.

Riiight? I mean that start is a shining example of that.

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For some reason I can't watch the official FORMULA 1 channel practice highlights today on YouTube via my phone or laptop because it has 'defected I'm using a VPN' (which I'm not). Anyone else from the UK getting the same? It's only the FORMULA 1 channel that is doing this - very very frustrating. T...

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Domenicali announces: - more sprints - shorter GPs - reversed grids - massive reduction of free practice - media trainings for use of simpler and less technical language - explicit message to fans of tradition: get used to it Autosport and elsewhere. Domenicali needs to be relieved of duty and remo...

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An interesting development with Hamilton's speeding penalty, it has been shown that Tsunoda actually went faster than Hamilton (seems like he didn't lift at all for the yellows) and didn't incur a penalty. Perhaps Ferrari can appeal the dumb penalty and have it removed for Monza? It's either that o...

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An interesting development with Hamilton's speeding penalty, it has been shown that Tsunoda actually went faster than Hamilton (seems like he didn't lift at all for the yellows) and didn't incur a penalty. Perhaps Ferrari can appeal the dumb penalty and have it removed for Monza? It's either that or...

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Sainz is going the have the moan of his life now... I like how it's never his fault, one of the most aggressive drivers on the track. This time he put himself in an excellent position and tried to stay clear of Lawson but Lawson opened up wide just because he didn't want to allow Sainz to hold the ...

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These are two different things. It's true that: A) F1 almost always DOES act as a finishing school for drivers. B) Antonelli requires more finishing than other drivers who entered F1 with more experience. A) Piastri was ready for F1. B) Antonelli was not ready for F1. There are junior classes to pr...

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https://eu.indystar.com/story/sports/motor/2025/08/25/alex-palou-red-bull-rumors-formula-1-news-indycar-silly-season/85808563007/ In this scenario I would be thinking that Tsunoda loses his seat, VCARB retain Hadjar and Lawson while Lindblad does another season in F2. And Tsunoda ends up at Alpine ...

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No penalty for Verstappen. The correct decision IMO. Not sure why it needed to be investigated TBH. Because rightly or wrongly according to the rules Hamilton was forced to leave room for him when he wasn't entitled to any or they would have a big collision and ended in the wall. This is why the ru...

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Does this mean, that is Vertsappen avoided Hamilton at Silvertsone in ‘21 by going off track - no penalty for Hamilton? These rules are a bit silly. Ofcourse, the rules are ridiculous as the defending driver youre penalised for avoiding a collision they need to punish irresponsible overtake attempt...

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Thanks for the heads up regarding Slater, however the Spa appearance is just a one off similar to what he did earlier in the season, the F3 season is actually nearly over there are only 3 rounds left, the last 2 rounds clash with FRECA I doubt that Slater is going to sacrifice the FRECA title for a...

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Do please explain. I think it is this "we know what we know and we don't know what we don't know and we know what we don't know we don't know, but know what is known and unknown which we know! Or something like that! :] I wish I knew a bit more about what I believe I know at this point. Which is: i...

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You need to understand that physics applied in a controlled environment do not translate exactly the same in uncontrolled environments because there are these things called modifiers which factor into the equation. Common sense… :lol: Weight is actually one of the most consistent and most easily mo...

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My apologies as I didn't have my computer glasses on. Regardless, the claims don't support the facts that in 1988 Senna was on average 1.5s quicker than Prost and in 1989 Senna was just over 1s faster than Prost. According to the math Prost should have been quicker over a lap and he simply wasn't. P...

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Teams didn't add weight. I can't say it never, ever happened but if it did it was so unusual as to not be worth talking about. ' Unlike in Prost's day drivers are now weighed with the car for the weight limit. So I modern day parallel with Verstappen cannot be drawn. They literally eradicated Prost...

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So you're claiming from 2017 to 2021 Hamilton was in decline…

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I don't think you can categorically state that Pérez was worse than Bottas in the last few seasons. We see how Tsunoda is struggling immensely at Red Bull, something that very few would have predicted apart from the usual suspects blaming Red Bull for making the car drivable only for Verstappen. Ev...

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Perez started off decent at red bull, then got worse to the point to of being terrible. To me that showed he was getting worse as a driver and not just because of how things are as Versts poem's team mate at this team. Otherwise he will have started terribly too. He's out of the sport this year, no...

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I very, very sensible signing. Basically a no brainer. That is just like saying Stroll is a good signing for Aston Martinin 2026. Both are underperforming pay drivers. You have to go back years to find a good season from Perez. As I said before, it would be like bringing Ricciardo back based on wha...

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Not wanting to be "that guy" (but going to sound like him anyway... 😂) but isn't this the 'F1 Gossip/Rumour/Inside news Thread'? There's probably a more appropriate thread in the forum to have a discussion about how much drivers weighed several decades ago. Sorry. I'll shut up again. And in that sp...

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POB's system did not account for the fact that Prost's weight in itself gave him a 0.3s advantage per lap, every lap, to Prost over his competition. Not just pace - this also massively helped with reliability in an era where reliability frequently decided championships. And everyone can see Prost c...

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Even an overrated driver like Prost "won" 3 (thanks to the unfair FIA rules which were conveniently only changed after his retirement - thanks Balestre :uhoh: ) and cheated his way to a 4th, so who knows? Maybe Colapinto might sneak one too. Your accusation of Prost being overrated is preposterous....

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If this rumour is true, his days are really numbered because burning of the clutch by a F1 driver doesn't shed a good light on the driver's skills & doesn't help justify his place on the F1 grid. And yet, that was what Schumacher did on his very first F1 race. So who knows, perhaps Franco is also o...

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Not sure if anyone has read the likely reason Horner was fired so abruptly, but apparently somehow the power struggle between the powers that be somehow finagled things to pull 2% of Yoovidhya‘s 51% stake in the team dropping his share to 49%, thereby making him the minority and Mintzlaff got his wa...

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If this rumour is true, his days are really numbered because burning of the clutch by a F1 driver doesn't shed a good light on the driver's skills & doesn't help justify his place on the F1 grid. And yet, that was what Schumacher did on his very first F1 race. So who knows, perhaps Franco is also o...

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Honestly, Alpine is the same team that on a shoestring budget and nearly bankrupt, consistently punched soooooo much higher than their weight class under Eric Boulder's leadership, and when Renault bought the team over again the budget was no longer an issue, but with inept leadership the likes of C...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qz4oMk3bUA

Horner's speech breaking the news to the team.

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This is a bad move by Red Bull! Fire the guy who's devoted his entire life to Red Bull and made it the most consistent well performing team since his arrival, and is in it for the long haul in favor of a prima donna driver who's constantly threatening to leave (his camp anyway), and his abusive dad ...

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Regarding being at Audi, you do wonder if the engines will be good or a disaster, so it is hard to tell how good the team will be. But the car performance has been improving massively this year vs last. Remembering that Audi enjoyed dominating many seasons in LMP running hybrid engines that are sim...

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Regarding being at Audi, you do wonder if the engines will be good or a disaster, so it is hard to tell how good the team will be. But the car performance has been improving massively this year vs last. Remembering that Audi enjoyed dominating many seasons in LMP running hybrid engines that are sim...

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