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Wonder if there's any truth to this?

http://en.f1i.com/news/261925-mercedes- ... ngine.html

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Fernando was pretty positive about every aspect of the McLaren aside from Honda. I genuinely wonder if, should Honda fail to make any real progress through the early part of 2017, we might hear stories about how Alonso has told McLaren he's only willing to stay at the team beyond this year if they ...

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At this rate McLaren are going to start the season nowhere near the points and fighting for 16th/17th position, when they actually get to finish, and at best move into the points towards the end of the season. Fully expect Alonso to retire from F1 soon. I suspect the same Never been a fan of the ma...

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I’ve gone for Ric. I've got a soft spot for Jenson and Filipe baby too. Not keen on Hamilton’s off-track antics but I respect his skills as a driver. With Ric, I think he’s the best out there.

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Jeez, the sandbags must be rather heavy in the Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari. A 1:19.726 from Massa! Massa WDC 2017 confirmed ;) Hope it's not for a mere 5 seconds a la 2008! Yeah, i watched a re-run of the 2008 season recently. The way Massa handled defeat in Brazil was commendable. Take my hat o...

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Herb wrote:
F1Tyrant wrote:Jeez, the sandbags must be rather heavy in the Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari. A 1:19.726 from Massa!
Massa WDC 2017 confirmed

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RiC improves to a 1m19.900s! But on ultras..

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Rosberg made a mess of a championchip that could have been so much more easily won by him. Yes, Lewis stole the momentum off Nico mid season, particularly in Germany I felt his season was over. The press had written him off, saying he was psychologically gone. HOWEVER, the fact that Rosberg came ou...

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Go back to brazil 2014 and see how lewis drove when he didnt have to win the race to win the wdc. He absolutely went for it, almost binned the car in the process. But it was nice to know that he was still going for the race win. And i have to think rosberg, at those final races of 2016, was going f...

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Rosberg made a mess of a championchip that could have been so much more easily won by him. Yes, Lewis stole the momentum off Nico mid season, particularly in Germany I felt his season was over. The press had written him off, saying he was psychologically gone. HOWEVER, the fact that Rosberg came ou...

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Once both drivers sorted there starts, it reverted back to first to turn one wins the race which was usually the pole man 2014-2015 and last 5-6 races of 2016. The races were decided on Saturday like they always used to be. In the last 40 races the Mercedes ahead at turn 1 finished behind his team ...

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I used the examples above to counter the point that Rosberg some how improved, he didn't. That's pretty clear and not really something anybody disagrees with. Well he did improve on starts relative to Hamilton. Maybe the W07 was harder to get off the line than the Mercs before and Nico did a really...

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Just a small nit-pick: I don't think it was ever declared legal, but it was decided to take no further action. It's a small but significant detail. I'm not convinced the end result would have changed, but I'm sure Rosberg would have approached the races differently had he not simply had to play for...

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I used the examples above to counter the point that Rosberg some how improved, he didn't. That's pretty clear and not really something anybody disagrees with. Well he did improve on starts relative to Hamilton. Maybe the W07 was harder to get off the line than the Mercs before and Nico did a really...

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That would just add to the mountain of conjecture. I'm OK with what actually happened, so I don't feel a need to imagine other outcomes. That's fair enough. But the race being decided by turn 1 isn't conjecture. I think it was Lamo who once posted some startling stats- that after turn 1 the trailin...

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Didn't Hamilton say that he wasn't too keen to drive in the wet today? He said I'll put some excuse of a leg cramp & let Bottas take the car out in the noon session. Arguably, Bottas needs more practice in the wet than Hamilton. Yet it doesn't explain why they didn't just run the Finn in the mornin...

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Yeah but, Rosberg wouldn't be a WDC if it wasn't for Hamiltons reliability issues. Even with all the issues Hamilton had he still was able to win more races. Rosberg made a mess of a championchip that could have been so much more easily won by him. Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but that's j...

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Yeah but, Rosberg wouldn't be a WDC if it wasn't for Hamiltons reliability issues. Even with all the issues Hamilton had he still was able to win more races. Rosberg made a mess of a championchip that could have been so much more easily won by him. Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but that's j...

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Fiki wrote: I hope 11/10's ban won't last too long.

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ElevenTenths has been banned for derailing this thread with attacks on Zoue [and their "ilk"]. At least one other member is skating on very thin ice by continuing to attack people despite them having done nothing wrong other than engaging the troll. Keep it on topic or more bans will follow. Engagi...

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. He has said and done some things when he was still racing that was cringeworthy, but which driver hasn't? Also in my (not so humble...) opinion he might take too much credit for beating Lewis, it was decided by reliability. But that is the way racing is, and he won it. This. IMHO, it's a little d...

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The observation by Zoue that Alonso had fewer dips in his performance than Hamilton (or Vettel), seems accuirate to me. Alonso would not have had the messy (4 collisions) off-form season Hamilton had in 2011. In 2016 Alonso would have worked as hard as Rosberg did and got his starts right. I think ...

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And his comments about it being easy to look good in the best car, he seems to have completely blanked Hamilton’s career in the less dominant, and sometimes average McLarens where he not only beat/matched Alonso, but proved his worth. Lewis has never driven an average F1 car in his life. The only t...

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I have a feeling some SJWs on here are this close from playing the racist card for JPM's view on European drivers. It's just his observation of the cultures, relax. Besides, Americans (continent) are much less morally snowflaky than Europeans and don't get bugged over tiny little things like we do....

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I haven't watched the full interview, and as a newcomer to F1, i confess to not being familiar with Montoya's career. But i am curious as to why he would think European drivers are mentally weak? It's an odd thing to say, especially when European drivers have statistically been the most successful i...

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How can a driver score more points than his teammate despite dropping off ? Quite easily. Had Lewis not had the disastrous last two races he would have outscored Alonso. Context Alonso may have had problems/disagreements with Ron Dennis but there were many many engineers on his side because if engi...

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2007: Hamilton 2008: Hamilton / Kubica / Alonso 2009: Hamilton 2010: Kubica (hardest one to call really, could be any of the title contenders too) 2011: Vettel / Button 2012: Alonso / Hamilton 2013: Vettel 2014: Hamilton / Ricciardo / Alonso 2015: Hamilton / Vettel 2016: Verstappen As a Hamilton fa...

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Got to be Ricciardo - Hamilton was in the dominant car - could make mistakes or at times have an extra pitstop (versus other teams) and still beat them - DR made no mistakes, was penalised for two wins by his team making mistakes, lost out another podium due to a puncture (prob 2nd as he wouldn't h...

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The one lap pace of Hamilton and Rosberg went in distinct waves of form with the odd track specific result that went against that current form. 2014: Hamilton 4-1 up (from this point on Hamilton loses 3-10) Hamilton 4-7 down Hamilton 7-8 down Hamilton 7-11 down 2015: Hamilton 11-1 up (from this poi...

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... except for this direct quote from Wolff: “ This year, clearly, Malaysia cost Lewis the championship. It’s clear. ” I think everyone on this forum; without fail, would wholeheartedly agree with that statement. I don't. Not even with only part of my heart. A championship is won over a whole year,...

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^^ For the third time, i reiterate that i recognise that was the original intention of the thread. Reiterate, as a side discussion, i was simply picking up on and agreeing with F1_Ernie’s comment, that he doesn’t think Rosberg was holding back in the last 4 races of 2016 – certainly not qual, start ...

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so what, rogue... the pressure of only needing to finish no worse than second is legit as well. If he needed to win one of those races to win the WDC, do you not think that he would have raced differently. Surely if he had to win one then the pressure would have been greater on him than it was alre...

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so what, rogue... the pressure of only needing to finish no worse than second is legit as well. If he needed to win one of those races to win the WDC, do you not think that he would have raced differently. Surely if he had to win one then the pressure would have been greater on him than it was alre...

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So it inconceivable that Nico could have won one of the last four races against st St.Louis. after all, that what the stats, the analyst, and our resident Hamiltonians tell us. of course, as Nico only won 9 races due to his great luck and Hamilton's "unprecidented" bad luck, we can hardly be surpri...

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I have read messages on this forum which have said Rosberg has held back. Whether it was held back, nerves or not had the pace we will never know because like I have said many times when you look at USA, Mexico and Brazil Rosberg was very close to losing 2nd place. All races he seemed to have a lac...

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So here's a recent article where Lewis says he doesn't mind who he races against, but urges the team not to pick a driver where they would create an "arch-rivalry." That suggests to me that he would prefer a number two driver, but what is (even more) interesting is the following: Hamilton confirmed...

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Personally, i couldn't decide between Ric and Hamilton for top honour. Both were equally "deserving" imo.

But this poll is done after each race, it's contemporary, so it's done while events are still fresh in the mind. More seem to participate too. Therefore, perhaps this poll is more reflective.

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Hunt was the ultimate racer where at times Rosberg was the ultimate speedster. I will take Hunt's exciting racecraft over Rosberg's above average speed and average racecraft every time nevermind his more ahem interesting off track personality/antics. 😁 I think you're a bit off on Nico as he is an u...

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Fernando would crush Hamilton into tiny dust particles if he joined the dream team. But I think Mercedes must have a German driver in the team, and there are some very good options to make that happen. So if Fernando joins, Mercedes must fire Hamilton for his dirty tactics in Abu Dhabi and then the...

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Ric & Hamilton are my top 2. Seriously though, how does this thread differ from this http://forum.planet-f1.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13950, and this http://forum.planetf1.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13924 and this http://forum.planetf1.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13951 ? Not wishing to sound curt, but how m...

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