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Greg92

I would like that if somebody nominate you and you do it then they put money to the charity of your chosing. That would defeat the purpose of it trying to raise awareness for this specific charity though. The whole point of it is to help ALS or a similar organisation in your home country. You put t...

Greg92

Both the team and Hamilton were wrong and right at the same time. The team was wrong to ask one of the drivers to "help" his main title rival. BUT the team was also right to try and maximize the points gained from this race. Overall, it depends on what the true purpose of the request was. If it was ...

Greg92

What I mean Greg, is that I don't see any evidence to support the claim that Alonso, Hamilton, Button, and Rosberg are all equal in the same car... nor your final ranking. I am confused as to how you came to those conclusions. Don't blame me Blake, I'm merely using the same evidence that JMILAT was...

Greg92

Conclusion: Alonso, Hamilton, Button and Rosberg are all equal in the same car but if you have to split hairs and rank them it would be Rosberg, Button, Hamilton and Alonso being the last of them. Can you argue with evidence? What evidence? What do you mean Blake? Are you looking for the one you cu...

Greg92

Hmmm, interesting. I would say your first sentence is very much what you've been doing. I don't really have to prove anything. You're the one who wants to change history so the burden is on you, but so far all you've come up with is that Alonso's better so it must be so. But there are so many examp...

Greg92

I agree with the OP that you cant compare the dominance of RBR with Merc... however where we can look at the dominance factor is the winning margin of a driver over a season over the guy who came second that year... 2000 - 1st 108 Points - 2nd 89 Points - 18% Winning Margin 2001 - 1st 123 Points - ...

Greg92

Bullshit decision. The placement of the camera was another brilliant reading of the regulations by RBR Or it was bullshit placement in the first place. RBR knew all along it wouldn't be accepted. How else would they be able to get a replacement nose out so quickly? They don't just glue bits on ad h...

Greg92

Now it makes sense why Lewis is not happy simply by beating Nico and winning the WDC, but he wants to dominate him (yeah, ok, not 'dominate' but beat him with the big margin in every race) and why he thinks that it should be so. Well, he is much hungrier for success than Nico who got it all for gra...

Greg92

Yet another achievement for Vettel. Sports Illustrated has listed him among the 35 most disliked people in sports. (SI claims the list is not ranked)

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Greg92

There's no decade in F1 lacking multiple great drivers. No matter where you start counting there will be no decade represented by a single great driver. Except for 1994-2004. So either there was a unique anomaly and for 10 years F1 failed to provide more than one great driver, or there were actuall...

Greg92

Why buy a Dyson when a bargain brand sucks more for less money?

Greg92

There's no decade in F1 lacking multiple great drivers. No matter where you start counting there will be no decade represented by a single great driver. Except for 1994-2004. So either there was a unique anomaly and for 10 years F1 failed to provide more than one great driver, or there were actually...

Greg92

I think gregwil does raise ONE good point and that is: a single component beyond team control (like engines and tires) should never become a dominating factor because then it simply becomes a case of the luck of the draw. Sure, F1 history is full of innovations that led to dominance but for what it'...

Greg92

When the news first broke out I didn’t (and still don’t) give two hoots about an old rich man fooling around with his mistress. If anything I think it was just sweet instant karma for this stupid git. After the subsequent reaction, the NBA sanction and all the opinions on the media though, I also th...

Greg92

minchy wrote:My sex life is just like a Ferrari.....
Spoiler (click to show)
I don't have a Ferrari.

Reminds me of a stupid old one:

Difference between my girlfriend and Ferrari? Not that many people have been inside a Ferrari.

Greg92

The number 0.6 came from James Allen (I think). Assuming it's correct, by your own math Rosberg would catch Hamilton in the last sector of the last lap on tires that he had maxed out for the last 16 laps. Why isn't it true that he couldn't challenge because he went 'late'? The point is both strateg...

Greg92

Actually they merely made sure that both drivers knew that crashing was not an acceptable outcome. They allowed Lewis and Nico to fight for several laps in Bahrain. I'm not sure what race you were watching. Now if they had crashed in that scenario, the team would have likely tightened the leash on ...

Greg92

Greg, you're missing that Hamilton dragged more life out those tyres than he was supposed to. Remember his engineers thought he was conserving fuel and told him to speed up and his response was "I'm looking after the tyres man". Extra laps on a softer compound isn't always an advantage if the other...

Greg92

It (adaptability) absolutely is. You ain't fairy cakes if you can't move with the times Well, either you're utterly wrong or all the Vettel and Button critics (to say the least) are. The past five WDCs belong to two drivers that a significant number of people in this forum have labelled as incapabl...

Greg92

Greg, you're missing that Hamilton dragged more life out those tyres than he was supposed to. Remember his engineers thought he was conserving fuel and told him to speed up and his response was "I'm looking after the tyres man". Extra laps on a softer compound isn't always an advantage if the other...

Greg92

The romanticism behind the idea of a top team allowing their drivers to race is neither here nor there and Mercedes already showed what they think about it when they intervened twice during the race to make sure their drivers didn't fight each other , even to the point of telling them to be safe as...

Greg92

And btw, why is adaptability one of the most important parts of being a top driver? Do you really believe that or is it simply because it happened to be a good argument against Vettel? It absolutely is. You ain't fairy cakes if you can't move with the times Well, either you're utterly wrong or all ...

Greg92

The romanticism behind the idea of a top team allowing their drivers to race is neither here nor there and Mercedes already showed what they think about it when they intervened twice during the race to make sure their drivers didn't fight each other , even to the point of telling them to be safe as...

Greg92

The romanticism behind the idea of a top team allowing their drivers to race is neither here nor there and Mercedes already showed what they think about it when they intervened twice during the race to make sure their drivers didn't fight each other , even to the point of telling them to be safe as...

Greg92

The romanticism behind the idea of a top team allowing their drivers to race is neither here nor there and Mercedes already showed what they think about it when they intervened twice during the race to make sure their drivers didn't fight each other, even to the point of telling them to be safe as i...

Greg92

And btw, why is adaptability one of the most important parts of being a top driver? Do you really believe that or is it simply because it happened to be a good argument against Vettel? It absolutely is. You ain't fairy cakes if you can't move with the times Well, either you're utterly wrong or all ...

Greg92

And btw, why is adaptability one of the most important parts of being a top driver? Do you really believe that or is it simply because it happened to be a good argument against Vettel? It is absolutely a valid point. Imagine this, you (personally) have been driving the same car for years (or so one...

Greg92

And btw, why is adaptability one of the most important parts of being a top driver? Do you really believe that or is it simply because it happened to be a good argument against Vettel? It is absolutely a valid point. Imagine this, you (personally) have been driving the same car for years (or so one...

Greg92

Vettel's 'slowness' and Ricciardo's superiority must have something to do with the new car, suiting one driver and not the other. Remember what a difference the changes in RB diffuser, tyres had on both Webber and Vettel. True. Vettel did well in cars with the older V8's and that worked for him. Ma...

Greg92

In the first 4 races of 2010 Vettel was comfortably ahead of Webber but relinquished three wins to Button and Alonso. In the first 4 races of 2011 Vettel was comfortably ahead of Webber but relinquished one win to Hamilton. In the first 4 races of 2012 Vettel was barely ahead of Webber but relinqui...

Greg92

2009 went down to the penultimate race. And the Brawn looked almost as dominant as the Merc does now after Button won 6 out of 7 races. Yeah, it's not like in 2009 Brawn was all but bankrupt and in 2014 Merc has by far biggest budget. It's also not like others could have copied DDD but now no one c...

Greg92

Many people seem to regard Alonso, Vettel, Hamilton and Raikkonen as the top four drivers. I'd go one further and say that the most recurring order would be Seb and Fred (top 2), followed by Kimi and Lewis in either order. Looking back at the 2012 season, Kimi made his return, finished every race, ...

Greg92

Could Alonso achieve what Vettel achieved in Vettel's cars? Quite likely Could Vettel achieve what Alonso achieved in Alonso's cars? Based on current evidence, no What evidence? As for Sebastian Vettel, he is still trying to drive a car with the exhaust-blown diffuser. With that design, at the corn...

Greg92

mcdo wrote:Could Alonso achieve what Vettel achieved in Vettel's cars?
Quite likely

Could Vettel achieve what Alonso achieved in Alonso's cars?
Based on current evidence, no

What evidence?

Greg92

Blake I'm not taking the high and mighty road. The fact that I realize that "greatness" debates are pointless doesn't mean I don't engage in them. I participated a lot in the "God and religion" thread too even though I knew very well that it was even more helpless. We all need to communicate with ot...

Greg92

You cannot eliminate influence of driver. Right, it is impossible to exactly disentangle driver and car (package) performance. So would you say it is not possible to tell if Vettel was faster than Webber, Alonso faster than Massa, Schumacher faster than Irvine, Clark faster than Graham Hill, etc an...

Greg92

Enjoy no team orders while it lasts because with the present "run a way" the Mercs are enjoying it is one of the things that is keeping this interesting for me at least, it is going to lose something once Nico is told to stand down. In the first 4 races of 2010 Vettel was comfortably ahead of Webbe...

Greg92

What Vettel has already achieved Alonso will not do till his career so I think he is just sour about it. If the only measure is points & WDCs you may well be right. However, on the other end of things, I think perhaps the majority of F1 people and the more avid of fans think that Alonso is the best...

Greg92

What Vettel has already achieved Alonso will not do till his career so I think he is just sour about it. If the only measure is points & WDCs you may well be right. However, on the other end of things, I think perhaps the majority of F1 people and the more avid of fans think that Alonso is the best...

Greg92

But he won that Monza race for Toro Rosso and that proves he can win in anything and is indeed a great. Proves nothing because that was not a normal race...Qualify in wet,he make the pole in dry and all the "good cars" were in last positions...start the race with the car with the MOST powerful engi...

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