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Harpo

How dare you spoil this thread with facts? :-P I was so sure about Piastri, he looked as cool as a cucumber in the first half of the year. But now it really has turned 180, hasn't it? I feel for him, but also, it is up to him to get out of his slump. Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to be able to. To...

Harpo

Why would they act differently than the rest of the "powers" around the world ? They know the problems come mainly from the cars (size, aero, etc.) so they'll try anything to avoid to tackle them.

Harpo

Norris is a mile ahead of Piastri. Around a track like Mexico 0.7s is huge. On the onboards, Piastri just looked like he couldn't get grip. I am wondering if McLarens development has taken the car a little away from Piastri. However you need to adapt. If i remember well, Piastri was not doing wonde...

Harpo

If giving percentages I’d go something like: Piastri 40% Norris 40% Verstappen 20% Despite his momentum a lot still has to go right for Verstappen as it stands. A Piastri win and Verstappen DNF this weekend basically ends it for Verstappen. As it stands, the lot that has to go right for Verstappen ...

Harpo

I respect everyone's feelings on the matter and do understand that it is deeply personal matter. But thoughts and prayers in the public context is going completely overboard for me. I will now respectfully leave this thread alone. I realize you've said you're leaving the thread, so fully expect tha...

Harpo

Siao7 wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 29, 2025 7:44 am

Covalent wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 29, 2025 5:31 am
So.... Max is the only F1 driver to win in a Ferrari this year right?
Le Mans? With an ex-F1 driver

Giovinazzi also won WEC races at Imola and Spa...

Harpo

Let's see what it looks like using the "hat trick" (pole, win, fastest lap) instead of grand slam, so excluding leading all laps. Not surprising that Max and Lewis move up the list (as does Schumacher). This removes situations where they started on pole, and won but perhaps pitted before their team...

Harpo

Max is now tied with Lewis for the 2nd most grand slams in F1 history. https://i.postimg.cc/WpWTvWVq/image.png Note that, if the positions were established according a ratio "grand slam/F1 races entered", Verstappen and Hamilton would be ranked near the bottom (Clark started only 72 F1 races... a l...

Harpo

Max is now tied with Lewis for the 2nd most grand slams in F1 history. https://i.postimg.cc/WpWTvWVq/image.png Note that, if the positions were established according a ratio "grand slam/F1 races entered", Verstappen and Hamilton would be ranked near the bottom (Clark started only 72 F1 races... a l...

Harpo

Harpo wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 15, 2025 3:15 pm
Though not the highest probability, McLaren can also get another Canadian result and be outscored by its 3 pursuers...

Looks like I was right (thanks to another strategy magic, Ferrari just have to content themselves with the same number of points as Mclaren. Anyway...).

Harpo

Though not the highest probability, McLaren can also get another Canadian result and be outscored by its 3 pursuers...

Harpo

donr wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 26, 2025 3:02 pm

UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 26, 2025 12:30 pm
What could be the supposed colour scheme of the team's livery?
Probably bare carbon black like everyone else.
I would love to see a one off pink Cadillac livery at some point though.

Yesssss !

Harpo

Other than Horner not stepping aside when the scandal broke last year, which may have cost the team Newey and that would count as an enormous mistake , I don't really see what he has done recently which was wrong. Yes, the car has not performed, and ultimately that is his responsibility, but he doe...

Harpo

Other than Horner not stepping aside when the scandal broke last year, which may have cost the team Newey and that would count as an enormous mistake , I don't really see what he has done recently which was wrong. Yes, the car has not performed, and ultimately that is his responsibility, but he doe...

Harpo

Why did they have to fire him immediately. They did not even wait for the end of the year or Summer break. Anyways, Max is the most important asset of RBR, more important than people who make the car or the leadership. He is the only one that scores points for them. But I am not sure sacking Horner...

Harpo

Paolo_Lasardi wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 09, 2025 10:06 am
Newey gone, Horner gone - what about Marko?

Has Mekies the required quality? I am skeptical.

Looking at the state of the Little Bulls team since he's in charge, I'd say he seems to be competent enough.

Harpo

UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 01, 2025 2:42 am

That's for the reserve and the second seat, I guess ?

Harpo

No one thinks that a fourth thief could reap the benefits ? I wouldn't rule out Russell right now...

Harpo

What did you all think? I was open to it going in and initial impressions were it could spice up the ususal procession. Things went downhill pretty quickly for me when it became clear how much teams were going to use the "backing up" tactic. As a fan of the sport for 30+ years I found this hard to ...

Harpo

Liberty Media...

Harpo

From yesterday madness to today joke...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgd6F-i0JTs

Harpo

Is it completely outside the realm of possibility that Max is transferred to the Racing Bull car if Lawson out performs Tsunoda? Or in this budget cap era, is the second Red Bull car just not the same as the first one? I suspect that there are sponsors on the Red Bull car that might become quite up...

Harpo

pokerman wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 27, 2025 2:09 pm

UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:54 am
It's official:

All the best Yuki.

He already got the best : Being "promoted" from White Bull n°1 car to Red Bull n°2 car.
If it goes according the previous experiments attempted on the previous guinea pigs, it can only go worse from now on.

Harpo

Confirmation Lawson is out. Interesting . . . De Limburger reports power unit provider Honda was prepared to pay Red Bull an additional 10 million euros to guarantee Tsunoda a drive for this year. It is claimed the Japanese manufacturing giant already pays 10 million euros to Racing Bulls for his s...

Harpo

They should try something new at Red Bull. Instead of replacing the umpteenth n°2 driver by any other already convicted scapegoat, they should replace the second car by a repainted White Bull...

Harpo

So you can run a whole race with an "illegal car", as long as you pit on the last lap for new tyres. Question (that's a hole in the rules that need to be filled urgently) : If the driver defecates in the car during the last laps, does the weight of the poo, that remains in the car after the driver ...

Harpo

So you can run a whole race with an "illegal car", as long as you pit on the last lap for new tyres. Question (that's a hole in the rules that need to be filled urgently) : If the driver defecates in the car during the last laps, does the weight of the poo, that remains in the car after the driver b...

Harpo

Both Ferrari drivers on the first 2 steps and a surprise on the third.
It's a prediction from my crystall ball, not from my brain (that is only four years old, anyway).

Harpo

Welcome back.
Not so many forumers from this time are still here.

Harpo

It will be a wet race... And the result shoud have nothing in common with the qualies.

Harpo

Let's wait till the finish line... But is it possible that the White Bulls are better than the Red ones ? I mean, is it simply allowed ? Vettel says "yes!" ;-) "said", 17 years ago... As nobody from either team had won anything before, and didn't win anything for one year and half after, I guess th...

Harpo

Let's wait till the finish line... But is it possible that the White Bulls are better than the Red ones ? I mean, is it simply allowed ? Vettel says "yes!" ;-) "said", 17 years ago... As nobody from either team had won anything before, and didn't win anything for one year and half after, I guess th...

Harpo

Let's wait till the finish line... But is it possible that the White Bulls are better than the Red ones ? I mean, is it simply allowed ?

Harpo

"Number one is to survive..." Yet another Lotus 49 : Graham Hill at Montjuïc in 1969. The high rear wing broke before the crash... So did the rear wing of Rindt's n° 2 Lotus 49, with the same result. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a5/29/3c/a5293cd0cc6955f52bc53b64552fae3f.jpg And my contribution to this ...

Harpo

Another Lotus 49, and one more shot from the 1969 season. Rindt and Stewart at Mexico...

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Funny by the way how nobody has jumped on the fact that Perez is not even from South America. 🌎 :smug: Considering that 90% of the drivers apparently didn't realize Mexico had pyramids (as of the last Grill the Grid episode), I get the impression most Europeans don't know Central America even exist...

Harpo

My number 3.
Damon ready to take over...

Harpo

Bruce McLaren's McLaren in a street of Monaco that never was included in the track lay-out. I wonder why... After too many crashes (wait for my number 1 post), the high moving wings tied on twigs were banned, and replaced by lower fixed wings. If my memory serves me well (I won't bet...), they were...

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https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ab/8f/9f/ab8f9f80038fddb76df1997f8c625b4d.jpg The first year of the Lotus 49 - Jim Clark and Colin Chapman (Silverstone 1967, I guess). That car looks both terrific and terrifying! The cars of the time were mainly one engine, a light chassis, one tank and four wheels... Th...

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That's good news. Hopefully this is a step towards having a full grid again in a few years. Considering the size of the current (and next) cars, I'm not sure a 26 cars grid is desirable... I honestly doubt the size of the cars matters all that much, but a few more returns to normal would definitely...

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