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As of today, Hamilton and Norris have completed the same number of races for McLaren - 110. I find that stat incredible. I still think of Norris as a relatively new driver having just progressed from the rookie era of his career....... Where as it seemed like Hamilton was at McLaren for a long time...

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The McLaren certainly seemed to work better on the hards. Probably similar pace on Mediums. Not sure Norris would have gotten past Verstappen had he not gotten the lead mind. The pace difference wasn't that much. I'm just excited McLaren had a car that was able to beat Red Bull on pace and hope it c...

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Luckiest win in a long time. Perfect SC timing. Lets see if he can win one on merit now one day The fastest driver in the race, Lando's sin seems to be winning the race. Lando can be both the fastest driver and having had a massive slice of luck in order to win. I don't think anyone is begrudging L...

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Very happy that Norris is a race winner now, lowkey I think he’s the second best driver on the grid. Now he has thinks monkey off his back, I can see him winning a few races this year. I think he's second best purely because of Max's consistency (and Lando bottles too many Q3 results even compared ...

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Has to be Lando

Honourable mentions for Lewis and Ocon

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Keeping tabs on DotD. Given we don't get reliable results on these polls down to 10, we're going to tally the points based on the 90's scoring system for the top 6. If drivers are tied on votes, then whoever was ahead in the classified result wins. 1st - 10 2nd - 6 3rd - 4 4th - 3 5th - 2 6th - 1 Ch...

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Happy to see Lando win a race. The McLaren was fast today!

Massive slice of luck with the safety car but still dropped Verstappen in merit thereafter.

Piastri got unlucky.

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Norris may well win this, but massive slice of luck to do it.

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I think drivers find their ultimate pace pretty fast. That usually starts to taper off later in the career. But generally you can tell a drivers fast pretty soon after they come into the sport, even if error prone. As Mikey said, race pace is more of the builder that takes a few seasons of experienc...

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My question would be: how much design autonomy would Newey have at the various teams? I could be totally wrong, but it seems to me like Ferrari might put him on the shortest leash and constrain his designs the most. E.g., "we don't have enough budget; that design is too far afield of our current de...

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Sargeant can't have any complaints if he is dropped.

He's had 1 and a bit seasons and is arguably still the weakest driver on the grid.

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I watched the race live. I remember looking up Ceefax every 20 minutes for updates. (For those not in the UK, it was text based news and information service that was broadcast on terrestrial TV and accessed via a button on the remote - I imagine other countries had similar) I was 10 and didn't under...

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Newey will be 67 by the time any of his work is being used by another team.

You do wonder how "full time" he will want the next move to be. Will somebody pushing 70 want to be steering the ship of a design team? Or will he want to be a consultant.

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Newey will be 67 by the time any of his work is being used by another team.

You do wonder how "full time" he will want the next move to be. Will somebody pushing 70 want to be steering the ship of a design team? Or will he want to be a consultant.

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Well Autosport/Motorsport are reporting Newey has now handed in his resignation and we could get an announcement as soon as this weekend. They're also suggesting he will have to stay in his role (not on gardening leave) until the start of 2025 at the earliest, which seems like it would be a bit awk...

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I think even here on this forum there were plenty questioning just how good Vettel was back in 2012/13. Vettel was over-successful for his talent level, and weirdly I think he'd be looked on more favourable with just a couple of titles and say 30 odd wins. Vettels dominance was very formulaic (i.e q...

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He is never getting a top drive again.

He has achieved everything he ever will in F1 and would leave the sport with a 12 season career, 10 race wins and be seen as a respected driver who was a step short of being a top driver.

Bottas could go to Indycar or something and be very competitive.

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Look, I like winner takes all systems. That may not be everyone's cup of tea and clearly on this forum it isn't. It is just how I feel about the sport, which honestly has gotten into a downward spiral for many, many years now and the trend just continues. P.s. In the same vain I liked the 1 hour 12...

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Ferrari is the obvious choice but he is 65, has had a legendary career, has a tremendous legacy, has more money than he could ever spend, and has achieved everything a designer could achieve in the sport. He might not have the universal fame of a top driver, but everyone who follows sport in the UK ...

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One thing about Max, I don't think I've ever seen a driver able to maintain such a high bar with such constancy - even Schumacher. He hasn't lost a race on merit in a year. Yeah, the car helps, but its not all the car. It's boring, but it is impressive. I might back Lewis on his best day to beat Max...

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I have to disagree. In the current system, the second placed driver can actually stay pretty close to the leader by scoring a bunch of second places and the leader DNFing once in a while. 10 x 2nd = 180 and 7 x 1st = 175. Before 10 x 2nd = 60 and 7 x 1st = 63. For the fastest driver/car, a DNF is m...

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The points only for the top 6 worked in the past, as probably up until the late 90s/early 00s there would always be a handful of opportunities each season for a team like Minardi to score points. In F1 today, you'd have a chance of half the grid finishing with 0 points under that scoring system. Op...

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The points only for the top 6 worked in the past, as probably up until the late 90s/early 00s there would always be a handful of opportunities each season for a team like Minardi to score points. Early 90s and beyond it was pretty regular. In F1 today, you'd have a chance of half the grid finishing ...

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Not sure what was wrong with Hamilton. He was good in Sprint race but in today's race he was competing in the midfield. Midfield is getting more interesting, Alpine seems to have better pace this weekend. But I think Bottas and Hulk were the best among midfield drivers. Ricciardo has a good record ...

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Ricciardo is right to feel frustrated. He was blameless.

At first I thought the penalty was harsh, but on seeing It back it was very avoidable from Stroll and ruined an under pressure drivers best race in a while.

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Keeping tabs on DotD. Given we don't get reliable results on these polls down to 10, we're going to tally the points based on the 90's scoring system for the top 6. If drivers are tied on votes, then whoever was ahead in the classified result wins. 1st - 10 2nd - 6 3rd - 4 4th - 3 5th - 2 6th - 1 Ja...

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Dull race with excessive laps behind the safety car.

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Hard to see past a routine Verstappen win - barring reliability issues, or some first lap contact.

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Watching the sprint.

The latter stages are one of the examples where you see that the cars are too big and clumsy when they are in wheel to wheel situations.

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This is probably the hardest DotD of the season so far.

Most of the front runners were good without doing anything noteworthy.

I guess to answer @Eprom question. Different folk see it different ways.

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Lewis often starts slow during the season, that in itself isn't unusual. However..... I have a slightly different gut feeling about this. But.... he is far too experienced and good to be written off as past it after a poor run of form over a handful of races. I agree we should be waiting until the s...

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As a slightly different take to team mate wars (my favourite thread on here)- thought it might be fun to keep tabs of the DotD. Given we don't get reliable results on these polls down to 10, I'm going to tally the points based on the 90's scoring system for the top 6. If drivers are tied on votes, t...

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Vettel had a short peak, and when on it - he was spectacular.

but.... he looked past it for at least his last 3yrs in f1 and will have had 2yrs away.

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I did race until recently, albeit at a club level. When you are racing you rely so much on trusting other drivers being predictable. If they are, you just flow. You don't really look all that much in your mirrors, as you are just naturally aware - you do glance a few times a lap to see. Corners like...

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I reckon I've seen the careers of 5 all time great drivers in my time watching F1. I only seen the tail end of Prost and Senna so never lived through it to judge the whole picture. In terms of overall attributes - I'd rate them: 1) Alonso 2) Schumacher 3) Verstappen 4) Hamilton (Some daylight) 5) Ve...

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Alonso still has the race craft, awareness and experience. I do think that relentless race pace has declined a bit though. I think the same maybe true for Hamilton. As you get older, speed of thought slows, and reactions slow and errors creep in. In boxing they call it the "trigger", when a fighter ...

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It's significantly easier to judge the white line limit on a bike than an F1 car. You can see all of your wheel for a start and you're head is centric with the wheels. Problem F1 has we are policing track limits to the millimeter, and the drivers will push the limit to the millimeter. You see two ca...

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Personally feel that Sainz is under rated.

Sure he isn't an elite driver, but he is a guy who could get a WDC in the right circumstances. His race awareness, race management, and defence is amongst the best on the grid. He just lacks a tenth or two and consistency that the very best have.

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The 4 elite talents to break through in my years of watching F1. Schumacher, Alonso, Hamilton and Verstappen. 3 of them showed up in F1 and you realised they were very special within a few races of their debut. Alonso took a little longer, but it may have been equipment. Once he had a decent car he...

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I'm not sure I'd describe any top driver in my lifetime as being totally fair. Hamilton has a great talent in judging how far he can push into the blurry bit about fairness, whilst rarely going over it. This is a compliment of him, not a criticism. I think almost all elite level sports folk in indiv...

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