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There are plenty of websites where you can find raw data about circuits: a map, length, etc. However, I haven't found a website that explains how those data affect the racing and why. For instance, a website that explains why Monza is best for Ferrari (power) or Monaco is best for Red Bull (chassis)...

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Our first guest in the thread is a guy by the name Spoutnik from racefans.net who laughs at the idea that F1 teams might fix races now and then. In his own words "That you genuinely think teams could fix a race is really worrying". Hope he has a good time explaining to everybody how that is ridiculo...

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We've all been there. You know every single thing there is to know about Formula 1, and then some. You know exactly who's the best driver and team in history, in the past year, in this year, and also who will be the best next year. You have the perfect solution to every single problem in Formula 1, ...

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The current Mercedes PU is obviously very far ahead of the Honda. However, this is F1, even the weakest teams make great progress all the time. With three years of Honda development, I guess that the current Honda unit must be stronger now than the Mercedes was at some point in the past three (or fo...

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I was interested in having an interesting debate among people with different opinions who respect each other's views. As it turns out, some of the participants in this thread prefer to resort to mocking and insulting (daft, upstart, would have peed his pants...) instead of using rational arguments. ...

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...But if we sent one of today's drivers, say Pérez, back to the 50s, and he participated in one of those races, he would be lapping the field, Ascari and Fangio included, by lap 5. This highlights perfectly what I don't understand about these comparisons. Of course if you transplant a current driv...

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they didn't want to get fit because there was just no real need to. Certainly. Getting fit would have made them far more competitive, but was there a real need of being competitive? They were a bunch of millionaires enjoying a very expensive pastime for the thrills. They didn't take it very serious...

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No, they just didn't need to. If they were racing in later years and wanted to be competitive they would have had to be fit enough to take the demands of the quicker cars. That wasn't a problem in their day as shown. Exactly. They didn't need to be sportsmen at all. The competition was so weak that...

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if one could place a Fangio, a Jimmy Clark, a Moss, a Stewart, and other greats in today they would have the diet,the training, et al. The Formula 1 drivers of the 50s-60s had plenty of training and diets available. They just didn't feel like training or following a diet. This is what a sportsman (...

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Thank you again for your nice comments :) I havr a doubt here, in China, Perez achived 12 consecutive races in the points and media said he will hold this record among all drivers on the grid, altough the list indicates Raikkonen hold this record with 27 races. Does anyone has some precise idea of i...

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It looks to me like the best solution for McLaren is to get a Renault engine. Renault is the only works team who is happy to provide engines to a team that performs better than themselves (Red Bull). From a financial point of view, I'm sure it's better to pay for an engine that powers wins (as the R...

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Hamilton. A lot of comments saying we should expect Mercedes to beat Ferrari in the development race, but I can't see why. Right now Ferrari has the momentum after using the rule changes to recover from the disadvantage they had last year. If anything, we should expect Ferrari to keep developing fas...

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Sainz really is the forgotten man here. All the midfield credit is going to Alonso but Sainz pulled a blinder with his strategy call and finished the race in the highest position possible for that car. He has also, once again, demolished his teammate. Sainz is one to watch for the future and I thin...

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Thank you for your nice words! :proud: having Verstappen as 'Likely' to take his first pole this year. Pre-season I might have agreed with that, but the way the cars stand right now RBR is over a second off the top two teams. Outside of a rain-affected qualifying, I don't see him as having much of a...

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Thank you! Corrected the entries about consecutive wins and podiums without a win. I created this chart a few months ago and updated most of it now, but looks like I had missed a couple of things. Regarding the races before the first win, Hulk and Pérez seem equally likely to break it (both extremel...

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This is a list of Fomula 1 driver records that can be equalled or beaten in 2017. Updated after China 2017: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/2r3retlbxqfhfhi/F1%20records%201.png?dl=0 https://dl.dropbox.com/s/4fe1eq965394vi5/F1%20records%202.png?dl=0 Legend: Current holder: For records shared, like wins in a...

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WDC take away? Yummy! Can you give us the number?

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Nobody else understood this thread, either. The discussion is about whether Multi-21 actually means anything to do with car settings, or if it is a pure hold station order; the body of the thread essentially consists of Fiki trying to convince the other posters that Multi-21 refers to some real set...

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Max's antics that amuse today and are protected for drama value will become a liability in a title chase. I wouldn't call them antics. He's pushing the limits and sometimes going beyond them, like Ham often did in his first years (or maybe a little bit more). That's how you learn where the limits a...

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Red Bull have quite obviously stood behind Ricciardo in a way they never did with Webber, so I'd be very surprised to see Ricciardo sidelined. Also, I doubt very much that Ricciardo would put up with anything like that- beneath his smiley exterior I'm willing to bet he's got a core of solid titaniu...

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I have read a few messages of this thread and I'm confused. I just can't understand what the whole debate is about. It seems clear that "Multi 21" meant what Webber said: that the cars should finish the Malaysian Grand Prix in that order, car 2 followed by car 1. Fiki's stance seems to be that the ...

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Do you believe that was Red Bull's intention? No. I don't believe anything regarding this topic (or most other topics). Once again, it's my interpretation. That means that, among the three interpretations that I am aware of, it's the only one I find consistent with the facts. But it doesn't have an...

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I have read a few messages of this thread and I'm confused. I just can't understand what the whole debate is about. It seems clear that "Multi 21" meant what Webber said: that the cars should finish the Malaysian Grand Prix in that order, car 2 followed by car 1. Fiki's stance seems to be that the m...

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I see that actually your interpretation (and Lotus49's) is that the team order favoured Webber. While I fail to understand that view , I've updated the first post accordingly. What bit can't you comprehend? The bit where going from P1 to P2 favoured Webber. Can you how explain how Red Bull were try...

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Worst (best) case scenario: [Mercedes] build an average chassis in 2017. No biggie, their PU advantage is still big enough to make up for that, so they still win both championships. In 2018 their engine advantage is reduced further, but it's still there, and by then they already have a good chassis...

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So Red Bull ordering Vettel to hold station was part of a grand conspiracy to get Webber to slow down enough to allow Vettel to win? I can't see any conspiracy. Number 1 and number 2 statuses are older than F1, and using some degree of deception has almost always been a part of it. Regarding the gr...

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Yes, clearly Marko is very much in favor of Verstappen, but that doesn't equal Ricciardo having no chance. We've already seen Max get preference on the strategy calls this year, but if they were fighting for the WDC it would be Ricciardo walking away with it as things stand. Conspiracy theories asi...

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This is a fork from a debate in Poll: When will Verstappen become WDC? which is getting off topic. In that debate we discuss whether the purpose of the infamous Multi 21 was to favour Webber: Webber was getting team orders in his favor even in his final season. People seem to have forgotten this. I ...

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How big is Mercedes' engine advantage now though? 2014 Monza, the top 8 qualifiers had Mercedes engines in the back of them. Ferrari and Red Bull both outqualified Mercedes powered cars this year. Mercedes' advantage is the chassis + engine combo. Don't forget McLaren. They've also outqualified Mer...

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Yes, clearly Marko is very much in favor of Verstappen, but that doesn't equal Ricciardo having no chance. We've already seen Max get preference on the strategy calls this year, but if they were fighting for the WDC it would be Ricciardo walking away with it as things stand. Conspiracy theories asi...

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There was a rumour floated on Sky last weekend that the reason Red Bull were against testing in Bahrain is that they are very confident, believing they have a sizeable advantage over their rivals with next years car, and don't want to give the other teams the opportunity to test in representative c...

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While I'd hesitate to go that deep, there are certainly, from an Australians point of view, disturbing noises coming from Marko that bear an eerie resemblance to the Webber - Vettel days, as indicated from this news.com and the linked f1.com articles from early September. http://www.news.com.au/spo...

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Nobody has said anything about my guess that the strongest drivers (Alonso, Ham, Ric, Verstappen, Vettel) will stay where they are for a while, so I guess we more or less agree on that. The debate seems to revolve about whether (or when) Red Bull will catch up with Mercedes and whether Max will beat...

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Whether we like him or not, we all know the kid is so talented and most of us expect him to win the championship in the near future. At the same time, though, I find it hard to see him beating Hamilton. My wild guess: 2019. I see him in Red Bull a few more years. The other big teams already have lon...

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There's no point in arguing, guys, democracy has spoken. Haryanto is way better than Rosberg, and that's that. I bet his dismissal from Manor is a secret manoeuvre of Mercedes to hire him in secret to replace Rosberg.

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The system of grid penalties seems to be flawed, but, interestingly, only Mercedes seem to have been smart enough to take advantage of it so far. Last year, when a grid penalty was so high that there weren't enough positions in the grid to serve it (like a 30 places grid penalty), the driver would s...

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Are the rules specific about the meaning of "gaining an advantage" (assuming they actually use that expression)? As for the rules... “Drivers must make every reasonable effort to use the track at all times and may not deliberately leave the track without a justifiable reason,” says the new wording....

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Another thread about this, I think you need to read the race thread to catch up. Oops, sorry, my bad. Still, I'd like to answer Ted's question. Please let us know if it's better to continue the discussion in the other thread. What advantage did he gain? Please be concise with your answer. Keeping R...

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I'm quite surprised that nothing was done and barely anything has been said about the fact that Lewis gained an advantage over Ricciardo by going off the track. I'm no expert, but my understanding of the rules is that drivers are not allowed to do that, and if they do they must give up their positio...

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I've read so many negative comments about Bernie's new qualification ideas. While the reverse grid doesn't seem to make much sense, the time ballast idea looks like a great way of levelling the field, which is one of F1 biggest challenges. I know it would make things more complicated, but that's wha...

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