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A quick read of the posts and nobody seems to have pointed out that the Mercedes rear wing was damaged, I wonder if this now sets a precedent that having a car damaged during competition can now not be used as force majuere when it comes to passing scrutineering. If you’ve ever used digital equipme...

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Tue Nov 16, 2021 4:22 pm
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Nonsense, I was completely on-topic with every post but the last.
But thank you.

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Well now I've seen Max's onboard I think I'll stick my initial assessment. He didn't really open up the steering, he just ran deep to stay alongside Hamilton and then didn't really try to make the turn when he could have as he knew that would potentially allow Hamilton to carry his momentum round t...

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Max’s move is simply more of the same antics from him. He’s a danger out there and one day he’s going to seriously injure or kill someone with his petulant, bullying tactics! How the Ffffff was he not penalized for pulling such a grotesquely calculated bulrush off the track?!?!?? Either Masi is on ...

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Max’s move is simply more of the same antics from him. He’s a danger out there and one day he’s going to seriously injure or kill someone with his petulant, bullying tactics! How the Ffffff was he not penalized for pulling such a grotesquely calculated bulrush off the track?!?!?? Potentially libello...

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No they couldn’t/should’t Because the W series doesn’t provide a good enough assessment of their talent & skill level. They wouldn’t have earned points towards a super license, hence the need to go to F2 or similar.

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Jamie Chadwick has confirmed that she will not return to W Series next season, she wants to race in an FIA single seat series higher than regional F3 (presumably FIA F3), WEC LMP2 and Extreme E. That'll keep her busy! W Series are yet to announce who are the 8 drivers who are guaranteed a seat next...

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With a couple of exceptions the current formula 1 grid is not on the same level as the grid from the late mid to late 90s. Kudos for hitting something right on target for this thread, because I have a feeling that this is a very unpopular opinion! I tend to think the late 1990s was one of the weake...

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Does Horner shoulder any blame for Red Bull’s relative lack of competitiveness from 2014-2020 and Red Bull falling out with Renault? Of course he does, but, on his and the team's behalf, The Hybrid Renault engine was pretty abysmal for the time they ran them so he perhaps gets a bit of a pass on th...

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UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 14, 2021 12:49 pm
Surprising to see Norris at the top...Guess the 2 missing drivers from here....

Source - Imgur

Alonso & Tsunoda.

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Horner might be a bit of a whiner but the man has proven a successful leader since he was out in charge of the Red Bull team. He made them perennial contenders then winners and they have never not been relevant. Wolff on the other hand, while I’ve come around to actually liking the guy quite a bit, ...

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LOL! Verstappens "overtakes" Lap 48 Ricciardo runs wide and both Verstappen and Leclerc go by. Lap 48 Sainz spins and both Verstappen and Leclerc go by. Verstappen pits Lap 49 Verstappen overtakes Vettel who is on slicks (takes 20 seconds out of him in 1 lap) Lap 50 Perez, Alonso, Leclerc pit and V...

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Poor Lando! My heart sank for him! He took the exact same gamble everyone else did, only in reverse. Sadly things just didn’t work out. He took the information available to him visually on track and thought surely the rain couldn’t get that much worse in 1 minute and 15 seconds and given there were ...

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Fanboyism is the term in play. Can’t criticise Max and can’t praise Lewis unfortunately. OK, I'll bite. Could you enlighten me as to whose fanboy I'm supposed to be? :smug: I think you highlighted that when using the terms about your fellow semi countryman and not being able to see Max got lucky to...

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Sadly there’s this anyone but Hamilton approach being adopted by the media and its driving all of the opinion to favour Max in these instances, as they are so desperate for a new winner. Whilst I understand it’s good for the sport for someone else to win, it’s not sportingly just and isn’t how a ti...

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The thing with professional racing is that you can’t just go for every single gap. You have to make sure that available space is safe to traverse through in accordance with your speed and amount of real estate left for you to apply the brakes, downshift and feather the throttle. There are several t...

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Id forgotten about those initial years of coming close, before ultimately getting his third title. Also forgot how close that was, was it a strategy blunder by mclaren with hiw michael got ahead in the second stops? I also forgot just how dirty his move on villeneuve was ! Strange man in many ways,...

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This documentary seems like an exercise in confirmation bias for Schumacher fans in an effort to deify him like 'Senna' did for Ayrton. Then again, an officially authorised documentary that painted him as anything other than a hero wouldn't be officially authorised. Call me a cynic but a nuanced ap...

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The thing with professional racing is that you can’t just go for every single gap. You have to make sure that available space is safe to traverse through in accordance with your speed and amount of real estate left for you to apply the brakes, downshift and feather the throttle. There are several th...

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I see this as the beginning of the Max era, I hoped it wouldn't be like this but always thought it would, an era of uncompromising driving to rival that of Schumacher's, in the short term some may look to put as much blame on Hamilton but I think this will be a common theme for anyone that looks to...

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I see this as the beginning of the Max era, I hoped it wouldn't be like this but always thought it would, an era of uncompromising driving to rival that of Schumacher's, in the short term some may look to put as much blame on Hamilton but I think this will be a common theme for anyone that looks to...

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While I deem this incident to be 1,000% Verstappen's fault, the sausage kerbs need to go. They add an unnecessary element of danger and had they not been there he may have been able to pull further over without losing control. The actual launch was caused by the rear wheels touching, but maybe if t...

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As so often before, I find it frustrating that there is supposed to be a "rule" that the driver ahead at the apex can run the outside off the track. The stewards don't refer to that rule with a reference, they do somehow decide Verstappen attempted his manoeuvre too late to have "the right to racin...

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Alonso mainly for the R25 & R26 which are the most beautiful F1 cars with my favorite liveries of all time (for me), the MP4-22 from 2007 which was beautiful (as were most cars that season), but then there is the Minardi he drove, and while it didn't drive as well as their coffee tasted, it was cert...

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While I deem this incident to be 1,000% Verstappen's fault, the sausage kerbs need to go. They add an unnecessary element of danger and had they not been there he may have been able to pull further over without losing control. The actual launch was caused by the rear wheels touching, but maybe if th...

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It exactly because of him not being penalised is why he keeps getting involved in incidents and it wont stop till he gets some serious penalty. Until Silverstone it had become very rare for Verstappen to "get involved in incidents". Do you really believe this or what? Everybody jumps out if Max's p...

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[quote="mikeyg123 That's not true. He crashed into Ricciardo once. Twice if you count Ricciardo running into the back of him in Baku. Ferrari I remember Vettel running into the back of him in Silverstone. Can't think of any crash he got a penalty for... Verstappen's so called wreckless driving is ve...

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Hamilton has taken out Red Bull's more often than Verstappen has taken out Mercedes. This isn't just a Verstappen/Horner issue. In the last two actual races Verstappen AND Hamilton have both been guilty of causing a potentially dangerous crash. What arbitrary period of time are you using to determi...

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I completely disagree that it's not fair and feel it's more the fact of you get out of anything what you into it. In this case it's money and money buys more highly skilled personnel and affords teams to pay their employees more overtime in order to refine designs and systems more thoroughly. When t...

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My favorite era of cars is the 1960s; I think they're beautiful, and the way they slide makes it very difficult for a driver to find the limit and drive consistently at it. The 1980s are often seen as a golden era, and there's some objective reasoning to go with that. Multiple strong champions figh...

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Siao7 wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:56 am
Crazy to think that only 10 days ago we had the last day of the Olympics there...

Shame, but safety first.

The Olympics brings in hundreds of millions of dollars so they wanted to cash out and NOW Covid is too great a risk to host an F1/Sporting event.

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They should still hold the race without fans in the stands.

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Congrats & Welcome to the new Mods! I'm sure the current mods made excellent selections. As for traffic around here at a low, I agree, but that's merely due to the ever evolving world having brought computers to literally everyone's hands. This made it so that there are so many more things easily a...

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Aston Martin just don't like to be penalised for anything, the car ran out of fuel but no it was a fuel pump failure just after the car finished the race, very convenient. Is it any different than when a car fails on the last lap? It does happen and issues are all always random. It's quite possible...

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What Hamilton did to Rosberg is similar to what Max did to Hamilton in Imola, what Max did to Leclerc was different, what's interesting is I believe that Rosberg got penalised twice on that same corner for doing the same thing, once with Hamilton and then again with Max, Max does it and it's nothin...

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https://twitter.com/mrdavidhobbs/status ... 41409?s=21

‘Nuff Said!

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This is Max being Max, not willing to give an inch even when it's clear he's at a disadvantage and relying on intimidation to force the other guy to lift because there's no way he's going to yield, but in this instance, he tried to intimidate the wrong driver on the wrong day, whilst helping said d...

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This is Max being Max, not willing to give an inch even when it's clear he's at a disadvantage and relying on intimidation to force the other guy to lift because there's no way he's going to yield, but in this instance, he tried to intimidate the wrong driver on the wrong day, whilst helping said d...

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