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Harpo

[quote="tootsie323 Edit: On a more serious note - I think that it will be a toss up between Albon and Gasly for 2021. Depending on whether they promote Tsunoda (or someone) from a feeder series, it's possible that Kvyat may be on his way out. [/quote] You may have noticed that I don't really take RB...

Harpo

One ready to commit a career suicide... The only hope for RBR very secondary driver, is that Verstappen is already too old to become the "youngest ever WDC" that the publicists were longing for. He will soon go elsewhere or be replaced by the next best advertising wonder they will imagine (the firs...

Harpo

One ready to commit a career suicide... The only hope for RBR very secondary driver, is that Verstappen is already too old to become the "youngest ever WDC" that the publicists were longing for. He will soon go elsewhere or be replaced by the next best advertising wonder they will imagine (the first...

Harpo

The Alpine racing cars (rallye, endurance and single seaters), as well as the ones you could buy as your daily bone-shaker, have allways been branded Alpine-Renault or Renault-Alpine. It makes no sense, especially for the French, to call them just Alpine... Except for marketing purpose (as usual).

Harpo

The second seat at RBR has always been an ejector seat... I don't think anybody can pass a fair judgement on their "very second" driver. Since the Webber years, I don't trust anything the team can say about their drivers. And it's not what we've seen and heard after Webber's departure that could ma...

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While, Spa 1998 probably had more cars written off than any other in the modern era, we can't forget inflation. Those cars 20+ years ago could be made for chump change compared to the current hybrid powered cars. One of today's cars probably costs at least five to ten times as much to produce as th...

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pokerman wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 13, 2020 6:01 pm
he's better than Stroll.

This, we'll know only next year... From what we see, it's not a proven fact (yet ?).

Harpo

The second seat at RBR has always been an ejector seat... I don't think anybody can pass a fair judgement on their "very second" driver. Since the Webber years, I don't trust anything the team can say about their drivers. And it's not what we've seen and heard after Webber's departure that could mak...

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Amateur hour... I don't think we!ll seee another Mugello GP. Or may be when the drivers get a true racing licence. I don't see why any of this is Mugello specific. Never said it was Mugello specific. But for a first it's a success, and I'm not sure the "powers" would want to renew the exercise.

Harpo

Amateur hour...
I don't think we'll seee another Mugello GP. Or may be when the drivers get a true racing licence.

Harpo

People have to be careful about how they word things regarding Vettel and Ferrari this season. Within a couple of posts, Vettel is either being delibratly held back with older car parts, worse strategy, brakes that catch fire (because someone seems to assume this is perhaps because Ferrari wanted t...

Harpo

Something odd with Vettel and Ferrari. Lots you can criticise Vettel for, but lack of speed rarely has been one of them. Like many others, I'm calling shennanigans. Yeah, and I think drawing any conclusions on Vettel's ability from this season would be shortsighted. No way is he getting equal treat...

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Badgeronimous wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 12, 2020 1:24 pm
Something odd with Vettel and Ferrari.

Lots you can criticise Vettel for, but lack of speed rarely has been one of them.

Like many others, I'm calling shennanigans.

May be it just shows the current level of Vettel compared to Leclerc (in this year car, not to offend the believers)

Harpo

I hope someone will think of digging up this thread this time next year...

Harpo

Time when you could make your way to F1 on pure talent, with a couple of friends doing the mechanics, stealing the tyres and sleeping in your van till you get a pinch of sponsor support, is over since a long time. Even Norris is there thanks to daddy's money. If the current Stroll Junior was called ...

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Invade wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 11, 2020 2:19 pm
And what the heck was Perez doing coming out of the pitlane and tagging Kimi.

An attempt to get his seat by boarding, may be.

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Invade wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 10, 2020 5:52 pm
Vettel. He's still a fair bit better than Stroll and will be going forward.

PS, Would very much like to know who have picked Stroll though. Not impossible but quite bold.

I was going to tell you to look 2 posts above yours, when I noticed somebody added a vote to mine...

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pokerman wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 10, 2020 12:34 pm
If Stroll beats Vettel then something has gone wrong in the universe.

Something has gone wrong in the universe anyway... It would just be a confirmation.
I voted Stroll, just to balance the over optimists who think it will be a walk in the park for VetteL

Harpo

The inevitable question They end up close, maybe even Stroll wins out. What's the verdict then? Confirmation that Vettel was a one-hit-double-diffuser Wonder? Stroll is a LOT better than he's given credit for? Or Conspiracy at Team Nepotism? I wrote it elsewhere : If the team was still named Racing...

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Am I that old that the second thing I do when facing this sort of news is nit-picking (the first one being smiling perplexedly).
Am I the only one (once more...) to think that the withdrawal of complaints in the RP/Ferrari brawl, just days ago, has something to do with this ?

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Andretti is one of the hardest champions to rate because he rarely properly concentrated on F1. If he had I'm sure he'd be in the conversation of top 10 of all time. As it is I have him around 20th. Just because you elaborate your lists from datas. I, who elaborate my ever changing lists roughly fr...

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Let's address the elephant in the room: the reason why FIA and Liberty are pushing so hard for reverse grid races is because of Mercedes domination. True, but who is at fault for that? Ferrari for all their extra money could only ch... adapt their interpretation to get parity, Its only now after 5 ...

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F1 history : an increasingly fast drowning from cherished gourmet restaurant to world wide fast-food junk. It seems like the only thing they can think of is adding show business promotional gimmicks rather than a far less show-off of drastic shake-up of the technical regulations (starting with reduc...

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Covalent wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 07, 2020 10:24 am
Congratulations F1, first non-big-three win since 2013.

Not even one of them on the podium...

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Albon out, Gasly in. I jest! Gasly has made it clear he has "unfinished business" with Red Bull, so I wonder if he'll have a choice message for the RBR gang after this result. "I'm ready." ... said Gasly with deadpan certainty. He's been one of the better drivers this season. Not sure where I'd pla...

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Am I the only one who thinks it stinks to high heaven ? What stinks? Joe Saward is very cautious and doesn't draw any conclusion from his piece of writing... But. In our current world and time, I don't see any hedge fund based in a tax heaven pouring more money than needed in the bottomless hole th...

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Am I the only one who thinks it stinks to high heaven ?

Harpo

For now, they have no reason to change the name (though Dorilton Capital Racing would be a great name, and in accordance with the world of today), but I would be very surprised if it's still called Williams in a next future, whatever they say or sign right now. I think they will keep the name. Simp...

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Are they selling the rights to the Williams name as well? No name or chassis name changes apparently, now that the sale has gone through. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/williams-teams-sold-dorilton-capital/4860536/ The announcement confirmed there are no plans to change the name of the team or ...

Harpo

Sometimes I'm not sure that what I like is the exact same thing that people around me like. Or at least that I like it the same way. Even attending a concert, I sometimes feel other people around me, not me of course, are there for wrong reasons. :smug: Motor racing is something that comes from my c...

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Fastest drivel of the past 40 years...

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I always thought it's very difficult to judge Vettel's stage ar RBR. All I can see since the beginning is that Red Bull is a one driver team entering 2 cars. Besides, Webber was better than what most people here seem to think (just like was Vergne). Had he been the "one driver" of the team in 2010, ...

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A more pleasant face, onctuous manners, and no thong, shouldn't deceive us : Toto Wolff is nothing more than an updated Flavio Briatore.

Harpo

A big name for Aston Martin publicity...
It doesn't even matter if Vettel ends getting spanked by Stroll Junior, I'm not sure motor racing is of any interest to people rich enough to buy James Bond's car (and drink only vintage Bollinger every now and then ?).

Harpo

At the end of last year, Vettel and Charles were quite closely matched. There was only 24 points between them but Vettel scored in less races. The qualifying wasn't a whitewash either. Obviously something has happened since then... For the first part of the season Vettel still enjoyed a N°1 status ...

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The only reason to hire Vettel is for publicity. We are Aston Martin and our leading driver is a 4 times WDC (note that if the team was still named Racing Point next years, the replacement of one driver by Vettel wouldn't even be considered). That could prove to be counterproductive, the 4 times WDC...

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UnlikeUday wrote:Hamilton will probably win. Excited to see what Racing Point can do.

For now they are doing today the times Mercedes was doing last year...

Harpo

My mistake... Stroll is not a top five driver, he's among the top three.

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I always thought Stroll was a top five driver... And he's only driving a 2019 Mercedes. At the wheel of a 2020 model he would be a top-of the top driver. To say nothing of Perez. If Vettel ever goes to Force Mercedes Point, whoever is the remaining driver of the current line-up, he'd better have a n...

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