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while in 2018 Verstappen scored 79 more but finished 4 more races (also note Baku incident). Also keep in mind that in addition to the retirements in 2018, Ricciardo also had grid penalties in: Australia - 3 places - failing to slow down for red flag Germany - 20 places - exceeding element quotas I...

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Given how close Bottas is in qualifying you're basically saying that there are presently 7 drivers that are as least as good as Hamilton in qualifying, I would say name those 7. I'm not saying that. I'm saying there are four drivers that are at least as good as Hamilton in qualifying, and three mor...

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while in 2018 Verstappen scored 79 more but finished 4 more races (also note Baku incident). Also keep in mind that in addition to the retirements in 2018, Ricciardo also had grid penalties in: Australia - 3 places - failing to slow down for red flag Germany - 20 places - exceeding element quotas I...

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Perez had Telmex backing from the early days of his career, when he first started at Sauber who becomes their main sponsor ...you guessed it Telmex. so you could call them his rich Daddy. Stroll has won more Championships he has competed in than Perez, so why does Perez deserve to be in F1 more tha...

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Don't know how I missed Abbi Pulling but the 17 year old, in her first season in British F4, has improved her competitiveness with every round culminating in a 2nd place finish in the 3rd race at Thruxton yesterday following a 5th and & 6th in races 1 & 2. Qualifying 2nd she followed teammate James...

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I find it quite interesting how many people think that hiring from the outside for Red Bull would be admitting failure in their driver program. Verstappen is clearly a pretty special talent and on pure pace hard to dispute that he is as good as any. I don’t think it is even particularly surprising ...

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Bottas in qualifying: 6th Bottas in the race: 9th I think that's a fair assessment. In other words, the rankings are actually just about right... This is a bit off topic but who are the seven you mention? Verstappen, Leclerc, Vettel, Russell, Ricciardo I’m guessing. Beyond that the two McLaren driv...

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Then actually replying to your post, Bottas gets 7.64 for finishing second whilst a midfield driver gets 8.85 for finishing 4th, but I'm sure you are still going to tell me that Bottas' ranking of 9th place is still overated. I'm not sure I'd say Bottas is overrated at 9th, but to be honest I don't...

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Then actually replying to your post, Bottas gets 7.64 for finishing second whilst a midfield driver gets 8.85 for finishing 4th, but I'm sure you are still going to tell me that Bottas' ranking of 9th place is still overated. I'm not sure I'd say Bottas is overrated at 9th, but to be honest I don't...

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Surely you see these facts prove what Exediron is saying? Finishing 4th in a car that is not a Mercedes or a Red Bull is almost always going to be more impressive than Bottas coming 2nd in a car that should comfortably beat all others. Another one not understanding what I wrote, I get attacked for ...

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Perez had Telmex backing from the early days of his career, when he first started at Sauber who becomes their main sponsor ...you guessed it Telmex. so you could call them his rich Daddy. Stroll has won more Championships he has competed in than Perez, so why does Perez deserve to be in F1 more tha...

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Don't create a strawman. What was said was you get a better score for the same performance in a better car. Not that you get a better score in a better car regardless of performance. Strawman, alright let's do some actual legwork rather than perhaps lazily making sweeping statements. The standard p...

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Well yeah, for most on the grid a top 6 would be much more impressive than Bottas coming 2nd. Which also shows in the rankings and goes against what was said about drivers in better cars getting better scores. Don't create a strawman. What was said was you get a better score for the same performanc...

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Strawman, alright let's do some actual legwork rather than perhaps lazily making sweeping statements. The standard performance of Bottas is seen as a second place, for that his average score is 7.64, if he finishes third the average score drops to 7.26. Now let's look at the average score for a mid...

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Apparently Mercedes tried to warn the FIA about the risks involved with the safety car lights going off so late, but they just shrugged it off and said it's better for the show this way. https://www.motorsport-total.com/formel-1/news/re-start-chaos-mercedes-war-das-problem-vor-dem-rennen-bewusst-20...

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And at the same time a bad day at the office still sees him on the podium and getting a decent score. He's 9th in the rankings so not really that decent, some drivers score more for top 6 or top 10 finishes, Well yeah, for most on the grid a top 6 would be much more impressive than Bottas coming 2n...

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Bottas' position makes him hard to rate. Given his car he almost always achieves the very minimum acceptable result. On the face of it that's less than Russell. However in order to improve that he has to beat Hamilton which is very difficult. Given we can deduce very little regarding Bottas' perfor...

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What's wrong with Russell being ahead of Bottas? He has Latifi as a teammate and I can't see what special he's been able to do in the races, he even trails Latifi in the WDC, against Bottas who has had a win and 6 podiums yet the ranking is supposedly weighted to drivers in better cars? Bottas' pos...

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... against Bottas who has had a win and 6 podiums yet the ranking is supposedly weighted to drivers in better cars? You've just nicely demonstrated how having a better car creates a bias in ratings. Bottas' win and podiums are purely a reflection of the car he's in, nothing else. I am 100% confide...

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Weighted toward drivers putting in good performances in better cars. That's clearly obvious. Had Hamilton lost out to Gasly at the first start, overtook him on the 2nd and finished just one place higher in the minor points he wouldn't be getting a score in the 8 or 9s. As obvious as Russell being a...

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Rosberg and Bottas drove different cars, still dont think this year is as dominant as 14-16 , plus Bottas is driving against a better Hamilton. Bottas would have picked up quite a few wins from reliability and better starts. Theres also 2015 when Hamilton qualified on pole 11 times out of the first...

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Yeah, and that reason is because there are only 2 top cars available, and you can only fit 2 drivers into them. There's nothing behind Mercedes except midfield this year -- they are the only top team. Which proves my point that they get down marked for that whereas it was said that only lower midfi...

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The problem with driver ratings is its based on perception, case in point Bottas V Leclerc, how has he scored more than Bottas I can't see any measure where he was better than Bottas he went backwards all race and without the red flag would have needed an extra pitstop compared to every other runne...

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I would say that midfield drivers are in midfield cars mainly for a reason but we can say they performed better because they beat some other midfield drivers, Bottas only gets a good score if he can beat Hamilton. Yeah, and that reason is because there are only 2 top cars available, and you can onl...

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I've said all along that I would sign Perez. I rate him slightly above Hulkenberg, and even if you say they're very, very similar, he brings with him both significant financial backing and a whole host of sponsorship opportunities for Red Bull in Latin America. I'd then drop Albon back down to Alph...

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Gasly because if they sign either Perez or the Hulk then potentially that could be the end of their junior program, if either Perez or Hulk do a good job then when are they going to risk promoting a junior driver? It took Webber to retire for Ricciardo to get his chance otherwise would Ricciardo hav...

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Exediron wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 16, 2020 7:46 pm
I checked the Vegas odds, and it says a lot that they currently have Marquez at about +200 to win the championship -- only slightly behind Dovi at +140.

I wonder if sat at home the penny has dropped for Marquez that he doesn't need to ride bat s__t crazy to beat these riders.

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I would say that midfield drivers are in midfield cars mainly for a reason but we can say they performed better because they beat some other midfield drivers, Bottas only gets a good score if he can beat Hamilton. Yeah, and that reason is because there are only 2 top cars available, and you can onl...

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I don't know the technicalities just the feed back from drivers, the first hybrid had 7 gears, I'm sure the V8s had at least 6 gears, Button said that with the V8's you wouldn't get wheel spin above 2nd gear but when he first drove the hybrid he found he could get wheel spin in 5th gear, for me that...

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I always take driver ratings with a pinch of salt as the car influences them so much. Whilst ultimately the order isn't that different from how I'd rate them, you only get good mark's for a lesser team if you do something outstanding. A solid job is only ever a 6/10 in the lower midfield, wheres it...

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Fantastic engines unlike the V8s. I really disagree with this. The V10's & 12's were certainly the absolute best sounding engines of all time, but the V8's sounded just as incredible in their own right and DID NOT sound bad at all. Different, but certainly not bad in any way. https://youtu.be/5jTTM...

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Gutless how though? The lap times completely refute your opinion. The cars were properly fast and quick just the same. I think you're grasping at straws. Given they were less powerful I would judge that as the cars themselves being quicker, they had to be over geared to make up for the lack of torq...

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I always take driver ratings with a pinch of salt as the car influences them so much. Whilst ultimately the order isn't that different from how I'd rate them, you only get good mark's for a lesser team if you do something outstanding. A solid job is only ever a 6/10 in the lower midfield, wheres it...

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In the past, Rosberg’s record against Hamilton was always discredited because Mercedes was more dominant in his days. Well now in 2020, Mercedes have matched their dominance from 2014-2016, so now Bottas is in a very similar position to what Rosberg was then. The excuses for Bottas are running out....

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If Dovi wins it then it shows none of the younger riders are really anything special, however the ones that I would say have impressed and would be higher if not for unfortunate circumstance are Morbidelli and Bagnaia, both lost 1 podium with engine failures, whilst Bagnaia also missed a couple of r...

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... I think Leclerc is already very close to the level of Hamilton and Verstappen with the (admittedly very significant) differentiator being that he throws in more catastrophically duff weekends. He doesn't yet have their consistency, though we might give him some leeway for pushing beyond the cal...

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How either of you come to the conclusion the 740HP+ or 290Ft lbs of torque is gutless is beyond comprehension and suggests you don't know what you're talking about. The extremely short stroke or travel of an F1 engine's pistons means the torque is always going to be rather low compared to the HP ra...

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It's not going to look good then if Perez doesn't get the upgrades after they've told us he will get the upgrades bearing in mind that you're adamant that we will find out anyway. If it comes to it they'll just say there is only one set and Stroll is ahead in the championship. Even I'm not convince...

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They also had a clearly dominant car in that 14-16 period. Since Bottas joined, that has not always been the case. That will skew results in Rosberg's favour. I do think Rosberg was probably better than Bottas is, but I'm not sure he is worth more than double the wins. True lots of factors at play,...

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The thing that gets me about Bottas is that he has 8 race wins since he joined Mercedes in 2017. Looked up Nico's stats[1], the last three he was there (2014 to 2016), and in that period he had 20 race wins. Then again clearly Hamilton has stepped up a level. One thing about Hamilton now is that he...

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