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Still thinking on Oscar vs. Lando. Not too much between them in a pretty uneventful race, until the team intervened and over thought things. Oscar played a part in making sure Lando got out of Q2. I would have thought Lando was pretty clearly better all weekend, with the possible exception of his s...

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Ferrari finishing fourth and Vasseur talks about a good race and an encouraging weekend. x( With such a performance, Red Bull called in crisis meeting and changed things and staff - and see: they are back to domination. With a number of excellent updates back into their own class, some 20 sec ahead...

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Bortoleto and Hadjar look, at this moment, the pick of the rookies imo. I think we are far enough along now to start forming more solid opinions. Antonelli isnt the next coming of Hamilton. I've been impressed with Bearman as well. He's basically matched Ocon all season. Antonelli has suffered from...

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If they hadn't promised Norris he won't be undercut I think they wouldn't have swapped. A bit like damned if you do, damned if you don't.

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rbirules wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 03, 2025 1:46 pm
Sharing just so people can view it . . .

Yikes....

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While picking Bottas & Perez makes sense for Cadillac, I do have admit, on a personal level, I was very much enjoying not hearing or reading about "Checo" 100 times a weekend. Not the guy mind you, although i've never really be a fan of his, just the name. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. I pr...

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To be taken with a large grain of salt! I'm reading rumours that Ferrari are considering replacing Lewis with Camara after this season. The source is so tabloid-y that I won't even link it to prevent them getting any clicks they don't deserve.

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You are, perhaps unwittingly, proving my point. But taking it to extremes will clarify it further. Let's say you avoid an oncoming vehicle on your side of the road by swerving into a bush but end up hitting a tree. Chances are that you cannot reclaim the repair cost on the other driver. Dude where ...

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I wonder if he regrets his move to Ferrari. Not sure there is much pace difference between Ferrari and Mercedes but he doesn't seem to be able to extract as much out of the Ferrari.

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Just watched the sprint quali, has Hamilton said why he parked his car, making it impossible for anyone to improve? When he "parked", race direction showed green again and, for instance, Bearman improved. So, maybe it was on advice? I thought the brief green was a mistake or something, but good if ...

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Red Bull's motorsport advisor Dr. Helmut Marko also commented on Horner's departure on Sky Sport : "Oliver Mintzlaff made the decision. We informed Christian Horner of this on Tuesday in London after the Silverstone race, and at the same time officially thanked him for these 20 years, for these eig...

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Just watched the sprint quali, has Hamilton said why he parked his car, making it impossible for anyone to improve?

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mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 23, 2025 11:17 am
Hamilton in 6th, especially with Leclerc 5th is crazy to me. He's been beaten by Leclerc almost everywhere.

I have him 6th but Leclerc 3rd. I understand people ranking him lower though.

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It's not really a personal preference for me. I just want great drivers to have the best career possible. They can't all be Verstappen's, apparently Antonelli was greatly affected by his crash in Monza FP1 last year to the extent that going into any weekend he is over cautious and then has to play ...

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The biggest outliers are Lawson and Tsunoda, I think I take the difficulty of driving the second Red Bull more into account than others have. That's a fair point to make. Why Lawson ahead of Yuki if you don't mind me asking? Yuki had two pretty good performances in the VCARB (were it not for the st...

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The biggest outliers are Lawson and Tsunoda, I think I take the difficulty of driving the second Red Bull more into account than others have. That's a fair point to make. Why Lawson ahead of Yuki if you don't mind me asking? Yuki had two pretty good performances in the VCARB (were it not for the st...

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Here is how I voted in the poll: 1 Verstappen 2 Piastri 3 Leclerc 4 Norris 5 Russell 6 Hamilton 7 Albon 8 Hulkenberg 9 Alonso 10 Sainz 11 Gasly 12 Hadjar 13 Antonelli 14 Lawson 15 Tsunoda 16 Bearman 17 Ocon 18 Stroll 19 Bortoleto The biggest outliers are Lawson and Tsunoda, I think I take the diffic...

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Nice close duel between Verstappen and Piastri so far. Whenever I come back to this thread, the lead has changed. Also a huge gap after the top 5. Strange thing is that none of the revealed votes have Piastri ahead of Max. Why would that be strange? Edit: and another lead change! It's a little odd,...

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Paolo_Lasardi wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 20, 2025 8:04 am
Nice close duel between Verstappen and Piastri so far. Whenever I come back to this thread, the lead has changed.

Also a huge gap after the top 5.

Strange thing is that none of the revealed votes have Piastri ahead of Max.

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Exediron wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 11, 2025 4:14 pm
I'd be happy to see Horner purchase Alpine, if only so he can immediately sack that crook Briatore.

Indeed. Amazed to hear some people say Horner has been the least likeable member of the paddock for years with people like Briatore and Mallya there.

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1000psi = 69bar. I think the maximum braking pressure can exceed 100bar. But yeah this probably isn't the right thread for bringing up 2021 SA.

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I think it's possible that part of the reason they're cleaning the house is that it's been hard to find a good second driver because no one wants to go there looking at how the no2 drivers have fared the last 10 or so year.

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I have to say it would be pure guesswork on my part, don't have nearly enough insight into the inner working of the teams to know which team principal is doing a good job as it's such a team effort to get good results in F1. Of course the TP has an influence on what kind of people the team consists ...

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Horner has to be quite high up the list of longest acting team principals at one team?

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Johnson wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 09, 2025 9:50 am
First piece of the red bull tower falls. Probably the least likeable member of the entire paddock of the last 20 years. So long.

I don't think he's even been the least likeable team principle during that time, let alone member of the entire paddock.

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Yikes. Curious timing.

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I doubt either of these drivers would want to drive RBR against Max and ruin their career Does it even matter what Max is doing in the car? Yuki's results lately would look dire if he was alone, never mind Max. If both (or the only) drivers finish in P20 everyone would assume the car is the worst o...

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Loved how Hulk responded to Piastri in the cooldown room. Oscar was clearly trying to get some sympathy for his penalty during the SC and Nico said something like he almost ran into the car in front of him because of the braking.

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Race control should have the power to make everyone use the full wet tyres. Make the call during VSC to make sure no one gains or loses out massively and when everyone has made it back from the pits, green flag and everyone is again free to choose what tyre to run. It does seem pretty ridiculous th...

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Hulkenberg so far ahead of anyone else that he gets my only vote, honorable mention to Norris, Stroll, Gasly.

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Race control should have the power to make everyone use the full wet tyres. Make the call during VSC to make sure no one gains or loses out massively and when everyone has made it back from the pits, green flag and everyone is again free to choose what tyre to run. Why oh why would Verstappen / Red ...

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He's clearly going to demand that George goes to another team, Kimi is loaned to Alpine (or Williams) and then Bottas is promoted to be his teammate. Then we can get the prime Lewis vs. prime Max teammate comparison that we always wanted. ;) I honestly don't see it. It makes much more sense to Wolf...

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McLaren will bring a (Google) Chrome livery to the British GP.

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George Russell at Red Bull is such an unintuitive partnership. Verstappen for Russell is a pretty hilarious swap in fact, because it might be the teams on the grid I feel are the worst fit for both drivers in terms of company culture relative to how I perceive the drivers' personalities. Drivers sh...

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Probably is gonna happen, no smoke without fire as they say If Max already knows that there's a deal on the table for him to move to Mercedes then it might also explain why he was so calm with Kimi and so easy going in his interview - knowing that they'll both be under contract at Mercedes next yea...

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Johnson wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 02, 2025 10:46 am
50-70% chance of rain during qualifying and 30-50% during the race. Silverstone never disappoints. The UK has been dry for months as well.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2637827

Based on my expertise in British weather from watching Clarkson's farm, it should rain with a 100% chance!

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I think Yuki hit a new low in Austria and he has no idea what is wrong https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/red-bulls-tsunoda-baffled-by-lack-of-pace-as-he-issues-apology-after-austria-crash/10737752/ Lawson had his best weekend in comparison in Austria and I do not think he would want to go back to ...

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Why would it be all about Verstappen for me? I think you are honestly projecting here. I wouldn't be following a sport closely for 45 years if it was all about the one driver. At the point that Verstappen's title hopes look to be over we suddenly talk about either Norris or Piastri being unworthy c...

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1939579666446073950 unfortunately this trend comes to end this weekend Wouldn't count him out as he is usually better than the trend would suggest in Silverstone. Last year he was fourth in Austria just like this year but won in Silverstone. Last year at the trio of Britain, Hungary and Belgium he ...

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I also think that the merit of making the one-stopper work are a bit underestimated. Certainly by Ferrari. Well there was no merit at all for Ferrari. They finish 3rd and 4th either way. In hindsight yes but a red flag or safety car could have brought him on the podium with a one-stopper so I don't...

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