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I am confused by the almost unanimous conclusion here that Max is the best qualifier on the grid. He has a total of 4 pole positions after 120 entries. He also has ten wins which says to me that that his race day performance is more than twice as good as his qualifying performance. Max did not take...

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I am confused by the almost unanimous conclusion here that Max is the best qualifier on the grid. He has a total of 4 pole positions after 120 entries. He also has ten wins which says to me that that his race day performance is more than twice as good as his qualifying performance. Max did not take ...

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“The advantage Hamilton has over Verstappen is his incredible” – Helmut Marko https://thesportsrush.com/f1-news-the-advantage-hamilton-has-over-verstappen-is-his-incredible-helmut-marko/ “I think the race has clearly shown that the two belong to a class of their own,” Marko tells Motorsport-Total.c...

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mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:18 pm
So with a full day of testing almost complete I think we can all agree that the pecking order going into the season is clearly -

1. Red Bull
2. Alpine
3. McLaren
4. Alfa Romeo
5. Alpha Tauri
6. Williams
7. Ferrari
8. Mercedes
9. Aston Martin
10. Haas

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https://i.imgur.com/6vK25mV.png Source - Imgur For me this is very much a local racer. Kent Prather's race shop is about 2 hrs. from my front door. He has raced that MGA since 1980 in SCCA club races and more recently in a number of vintage races. Kent has eight SCCA National Championships and that...

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If the pecking order remains the same as in 2020, I would expect Vettel to come 5th in the standings. Maybe 6th as McLaren have a stronger driver now. Yep, Danny will come fifth this season. Seb, Freddy, Lando, Charlie, & Carlos will fight it out for positions in the bottom half of the top ten.

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To get the ball rolling: Mazepin to score more points than Schumacher Ocon to be pretty even with Alonso McLaren to go backwards due to lack of testing time with new car/engine combo and drop back in the champiosnhip As much as I hate all those predictions, I have to say you could be right with a f...

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Ring up the totals again. 12/31/2020 Lewis Hamilton 7 WDC Titles. (Tied with MS @ 7) 95 Wins. (All time record) 265 Consecutive starts. (All time record) 53 Fastest Laps. (2nd all time behind MS @ 77) 14 Consecutive seasosn with at least one win. (2nd all time behind MS @ 15) (On going) 98 Pole Posi...

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Williams to beat Haas in the WCC Second time this has been mooted, I guess we would be looking at the Haas drivers? As I remember, Mick usually takes a season or so to get his legs under him in a new formula. Add to that the history of Mazepin and I don't see Haas scoring points this year without a...

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To get the ball rolling: Mazepin to score more points than Schumacher Ocon to be pretty even with Alonso McLaren to go backwards due to lack of testing time with new car/engine combo and drop back in the champiosnhip As much as I hate all those predictions, I have to say you could be right with a f...

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For the same reason that a lot of world politicians caught Covid early on, racing drivers are also more likely to be exposed to the virus. The key is how many people you are exposed to in the course of a day and how many precautions you take. Even if you cut out all of the "meet and greets" that an ...

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Hell his ego will not let him race this year... the only person to have 8 WDC under his belt. Come on now get real, Lewis has zero plans to not let that happen this year. You seem to have problems with the English language. You wrote, "Hell his ego will not let him race this year... the only person...

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J.U. Thanks for all of the effort you put into these polls!

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I am sort of expecting that Australia and probably Canada will be canceled. US, Mexico, and Brazil might be late enough in the year to benefit from the vaccination campaigns.

I would really like to see Sepang replace Vietnam in the April time slot.

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I am going to predict that Checo will be a much stronger team mate to Max than Alex or Pierre ever were. I am not sure that Checo will beat Max on merit but he should be close enough to take full advantage of any missteps by Max.

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Hamilton if he is in the Merc seat (he will be) - Comfortable but not all his own way . Unless of course he gets ill, injured or father time suddenly catches him. I'd say almost like 2020. Almost Expect Red Bull to be a bit more of a thorn but it will surely be a bit of a dead rubber season in term...

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The good team mate matches should be: Carlos Sainz/Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) Max Verstappen/Sergio Perez (Red Bull) Daniel Ricciardo/Lando Norris (Mclaren) Fernando Alonso/Esteban Ocon (Alpine) Pierre Gasly/Yuki Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri) OTOH team mate wars that should be blow outs will be: Lewis Hamilt...

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Here is how I voted in the poll: 1 Hamilton 2 Verstappen 3 Ricciardo 4 Leclerc 5 Sainz 6 Russell 7 Perez 8 Norris 9 Hulkenberg 10 Bottas 11 Vettel 12 Raikkonen 13 Gasly 14 Ocon 15 Albon 16 Giovianzzi 17 Stroll 18 Magnussen 19 Grosjean 20 Kyvat 21 Latifi 22 Aitken 23 Fittipaldi From about seventh or ...

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Whether Hamilton will ever tell us how confident he was in signing for Mercedes remains to be seen, but it does seem to have been much lower-risk than Ricciardo's, or JV's or Emmo's. I'd regard Hamilton's decision to move to Mercedes as a lower risk version of Schumacher's move to Ferrari. Mercedes...

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We all believe (mostly) Bottas is as good as Perez. A good car too makes a difference as it showcases the qualities of a driver (Russell in Sakhir). I may be biased but expect 2021 to have a 4 way battle which includes Perez. Question remains is Perez allowed to fight for the win or just be good en...

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If Checo beats Max over the course of the season it will upset the F1 pecking order in a major way. If he actually beats Max -- which is to say, proves himself the superior driver, rather than somehow finishing ahead due to massively different reliability -- that will mean that everything we think ...

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I don't really know. Max had five retirements in 2020. Some were mechanical and some were driving mistakes. When he was running at the end he had one sixth place finish and the rest were podiums. I think it will be very hard for Checo to beat Max on anything like a consistent basis. I will guess tha...

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If Lewis can get back to his pre-covid-19 form by March 21, I don't see anyone out there who will have much for him. Aside from his post-covid funk in Abu Dhabi I don't see him showing any significant signs of slipping. RBR's pairing of Max & Checo could be a potent combination and could cause the M...

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Hopefully we can add Alpha Tauri and maybe Ferrari to the mix in midfield runners . Wow. This is definitely something I didn't expect to read after the end of last season. Maybe we'll get a Williams/Ferrari battle for 9th in the constructors in 2021? 8) With Ferrari and Alpha Tauri running a distan...

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I am hoping for another round of this battle next year. McLaren will have a bit more advantage with the Merc engine although there may be some teething problems with fitting a new engine into the chasis. Alpine (Renault) and Aston Marting (Racing Point) should be back as strong as ever. Hopefully we...

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For me it's a toss up between George and Max. I think a lot depends on who has the better car for the new regs at the start of 2022. On the theory that RBR will make up most of the performance gap to Mercedes I will go with Max. I don't expect George to win a hotly contested championship battle in h...

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This is one of those recognitions that, while it may be deserved, is probably best left till a driver retires or is at least running his farewell season. Sir Jackie and Jim Clark are probably also deserving of having features of Silverstone named after them. OTOH there are not many features of the t...

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Final Standings for the year. 4 Sergio Perez Racing Point 125 5 Daniel Ricciardo Renault 119 6 Carlos Sainz McLaren 105 7 Alex Albon Red Bull 105 8 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 98 9 Lando Norris McLaren 97 10 Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 75 11 Lance Stroll Racing Point 75 There were two tie breakers this year...

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Max, Daniel, Lando.

Honorable mention to Carlos and Lewis. As fit as Lewis is, he had to have been wrung out and used up after the race.

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Maybe it would have been better if Russell had been in the Merc, Hamilton's not looked on it at in the race, he did admit today that he felt better, I would question if he's fully fit. What more could Hamilton do? I don't think he was 100% and he's just admitted as such in his interview. :thumbup: ...

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Well, the WDC points going into the last round for the fourth position are as follows: 4 Sergio Perez Racing Point 125 5 Daniel Ricciardo Renault 112 6 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 98 7 Carlos Sainz McLaren 97 8 Alex Albon Red Bull 93 9 Lando Norris McLaren 87 10 Lance Stroll Racing Point 74 11 Pierre Ga...

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I do like the new tradition of the number staying with the driver. Certainly in the US in Nascar one has only to see the #3 or #43 logos to evoke the drivers who made them memorable. I would rather the driver kept the number than the team though. #44 will be long remembered as the number of Lewis Ha...

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I will be very excited to see George and Lewis as team mates in 2022. George had the measure of Valtteri pretty much all afternoon.

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I wonder if Max and Charles can use their soft tires to advantage on the start over the mediums of Valtteri and George????

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tootsie323 wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 04, 2020 2:19 pm
Wasn't he Benjamin Franklin's team mate for a couple of years?

Fixerated!!!

It's been a while.

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Battle Far wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 04, 2020 3:23 pm
I'm certain that neither Racing Point nor Mclaren will be that far down this afternoon.

BTW, did I see correctly that Jack Aitken recorded his 0.4s slower than Latifi lap on Hard tyres?

If so that's pretty impressive

Looks like Aitken on hard tires and Latifi on Mediums for their fastest laps.

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Stroll in 11th and Perez in 12th.
Sainz in 13th and Norris in 16th.

Both teams have some work to do.

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Promising start for Russell in FP1. Valtteri's best lap was hampered by a bobble at turn 1.

Will be interesting to watch how Valtteri handles the pressure from George this weekend.

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cmax wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:21 am
Started following f1 at the start of the 2010 season and as a Lewis fan. Haven't missed a race thus far and this approaching weekend looks somewhat surreal to me. Don't know who to root for.

No need to root for anyone. Just sit back and enjoy the race.

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I should imagine Lewis is hoping he won't beat Valtteri by much! Only if he beats both Valtteri and Max soundly. If Valtteri has another mediocre race, trouncing him won't mean much. Gapping the whole field would be very impressive and would get Lewis' attention. Still I think Lewis would welcome h...

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