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Hands up if since reading / contributing to this thread, you've changed your mind over who's the best out of MS and LH? I've shifted from a position of it being a toss-up with Schumacher prevailing over time to a narrow but consistent Schumacher edge. Although, I'd put this down to team dynamics an...

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Well...... let's hope that sets the flavour for the season.

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For anyone over the age of 35 and growing up in the UK. His voice is just synonymous with motorsport. I won't say at 97 there is tragedy in his death, he played a long innings and one most will only dream of, but......... he was an icon of the sport and I cannot say that I can think of another comme...

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:uhoh: 8 It's all conjecture, but lets put it this way. They're close enough in real-world timelines to play with this scenario. What if we rewind to 2014. 1 x WDC 29 year old Hamilton lines up on the grid with a 29 year old 2 x WDC Schumacher as his teammate. Everything else is as it actually was i...

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It would make me very sad to see a "Williams Renault" propping up the back of the grid.

It was the era I got into motorsport, and those two words mean a lot when put together. A bit like McLaren Honda.

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He is super fit, but the fact is - generally speaking - major injuries take longer to heal the older you get, and..... it takes longer to get back fit and sharp once healed.

Depends to severity I guess.

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Even Rosberg has alluded to it a few times, as to how Hamilton likes to build the perception that he's the underdog or has to fight for everything, even when he's collecting virtually free titles in the all-conquering Merc. I don't dispute that Hamilton had easy runs to the title in 2015, 2019 and ...

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He is creating a record legacy that - so long as F1 is healthy - is almost certainly not going to be broken in his lifetime. I don't know what drives Lewis Hamilton, but that in itself is worth a hell of a lot. I know we said that about Schumacher, but after this Mercedes period of dominance, I can'...

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My own opinion is that Schumacher achieved 91 race wins in less races than Hamilton. Both drivers have been very fortunate in machinery at their disposal, and both eras of dominance were pretty boring. I do think Hamilton has had the best ever career long equipment of any driver in the history of th...

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Well Hamilton does have very impressive accomplishments which are in the same bracket as Schumacher's, so it seems like a reasonable debate to have. LOL...ok...Let's just ignore the most dominant car and team ever seen in F1 history... That is actually the difference: the Schumacher brigade thinks ...

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The fact that both Leclerc and Norris seem to have caught it in Dubai, a place that claim to have extremely few cases and almost no restrictions should also quite eye opening for those heading there. I lived in the UAE until Covid shut my project. For a while they were (apparently) only counting ca...

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Perez, Stroll, Hamilton, Norris, Leclerc have all caught Covid-19 over the last 8 months. That's 25% of the grid that started the 2020 season. Does that strike anyone else as well aboove what we may expect giving the averages of populations that have had it? That would be like 15 million people in ...

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:thumbup: Mercedes dominance makes it hard to assess for me in terms of where Hamilton stands as a tier 1 driver. Also different peaks too. I believe Schumacher peaked between ages 26 and 32, where has Hamilton probably peaked 32 to present. The performances in the 'wilderness years" are what cement...

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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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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.

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There is a different perception of Schumacher and Senna. The casual probably thinks cynical cheat with Schumacher, and flawed genius with Senna. My own theory on that is F1 is massively British based and Damon Hill is very much part of the motorsport establishment. If 1994 had involved a collision ...

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There is a different perception of Schumacher and Senna. The casual probably thinks cynical cheat with Schumacher, and flawed genius with Senna. My own theory on that is F1 is massively British based and Damon Hill is very much part of the motorsport establishment. If 1994 had involved a collision w...

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I hadn’t seen this thread until now, but Verstappen was clearly the unluckier driver of the two in 2020 and I don’t see any argument that can be made otherwise. Anyway, the amount of excuses Bottas gets made for him for being a thoroughly mediocre driver is staggering. Bad at starts, overtaking, de...

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I hadn’t seen this thread until now, but Verstappen was clearly the unluckier driver of the two in 2020 and I don’t see any argument that can be made otherwise. Anyway, the amount of excuses Bottas gets made for him for being a thoroughly mediocre driver is staggering. Bad at starts, overtaking, de...

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I don't think that Barrichello is underrated. This is merely brought up by Schumacher fans who want to deflect from how easy MS had it in the dominant Ferrari years. Barrichello was always on the level of Irvine, both as teammates at Jordan and relative to Schumacher at Ferrari. Moreover, a midfiel...

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I welcome this news, realistically something like this is what is going to be required for motorsport and heavier transportation - as electric will not do for these applications (at least with the current development path). As said before, no matter how far we develop current tech, FE as it is will ...

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I've seen it theorised that Jacques lost his edge after the Melbourne crash in 2001 that killed a marshall. It's difficult to know for sure with that sort of thing. Even so, he is probably one of the weakest world champions. One time champs like Farina, Alan Jones, Denny Hulme, Mansell, Damon Hill,...

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I do think some bigger names do get under rated and judged on performances when perhaps they had a competitive car but that car didn't suit them as well as their team mate (like Webber - who was a better driver than 2011, 12 and 13 suggests - but that is what gets remembered) Ralf Schumacher definit...

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Experience and age are two different things. Max already has the experience but does he have the maturity that age brings - it is no co-incidence that in most sports the modern day peak years are usually 28-34 - except in sports where athleticism is dominant (for example I'd say a sprinter peaks 24-...

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Kyvat has been treated pretty poorly in his F1 career.

But reality is - he is a good driver but never championship material. Plenty of guys of similar talent have never had the opportunity that he has.

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A bit of an enigma really. Had plenty of talent, but his application was questionable - probably, along with his opinionated nature being seen as part toxic, why he burned bright early in his career, then faded away. But if I rated the people to be WDC in my time watching the sport (1991), he ranks ...

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Used to live 15 minutes away from the circuit, loads of fond memories from the UAE. I've been to the last 2 grand prix, and driven the track a good few times (the grip on it is crazy)

Despite this. I still hate the Abu Dhabi grand prix.

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Unless there is a sudden decline in ability, he gets an unlucky season or has another 2011 - then next season will almost certainly be a Hamilton victory. Regardless, I think it's fair to say, with a big reg change on the way and development work focusing on that, no team is making a big leap forwar...

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You would have to be incredibly blessed as a person to be born into a super wealthy family and also be world class in your chosen sport so it is pretty exceptional that 20% of the current grid were born into super wealth and have managed to reach the pinnacle of their sport....... it's almost as if...

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You would have to be incredibly blessed as a person to be born into a super wealthy family and also be world class in your chosen sport so it is pretty exceptional that 20% of the current grid were born into super wealth and have managed to reach the pinnacle of their sport....... it's almost as if ...

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So i have 2 questions for y'all 1) Most impressive thing about his race at Sakhir? 2) Will the "Russell Hussle" stick? On no 1 for me. It was the 2nd pass on Bottas. That was massive. I know Bottas was on less-than-their-best tyres, but Russells pass was quick and commited. I nearly cried. Shoe on ...

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There is merit in more technically simple tracks on the calendar. I like tracks like Interlagos, Ostereichring, etc. Fairly simple tracks and tend to level performance to an extent. A good calendar would have a bit of everything. Technical tracks, fast tracks, simple tracks, bumpy tracks, tight trac...

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For a season that has been a procession for Mercedes, it hasn't half thrown up a handful of decent races.

Hopefully Liberty take note of the tracks which have worked.

Makes me wonder how good it could have been if the Mercedes wasn't just quite as good.

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Hard to draw any conclusions as Bottas is probably a little quicker once he gets it hooked up. But....... he knows the car and is the Mercedes driver - so really no shock. Russell has definitely shot an under par score today though. All things considered he has been quietly impressive without doing ...

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I think the where the blame lies it's debatable. It depends if you think being on the racing line means you can ignore another driver alongside you and turn into him basically. What is not debatable though is whether or not Kvyat could have made the corner. He ended up at the apex at a very slow sp...

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Detaching the HANS from the helmet is clumsy at the best of times. I usually attach/detach it with it off my head. As Fiki says the HANS is only attached the the helmet and sits over your shoulders and down your chest. It's held in place with the belts. Purpose of it is to limit how far the neck can...

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Simple solution, uncovered barriers should be X amount of distance from the track - barriers that are closer must have a rubber conveyor style covering. If Grosjean had even another 20m or so, he recovers that some more, and slows another 40mph. Proper covering on that barrier and that accident cann...

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Not seeing this much in the news, but the driver sits on a huge battery pack. Everyone is suggesting that it is the fuel that kept the inferno going, but what about that battery pack? Could it have added fuel to the fire? Or could it have ruptured and caused the start of a chemical fire (well petro...

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The fact the car submarines under the barrier. He is an incredibly lucky guy, and the halo save his life there. Testiment to how strong that structure is, it survived an impact that tore a car in half. It looked like a fairly innocuous crash - seen cars glance barriers plenty of times - up until the...

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Take Mercedes and Williams out the equation, and the other 16 cars seem very close.

Less than 0.9s between 3rd and 16th.

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