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My take for number 23. I couldn't find a poster with a number 23 car, so here's the poster of the first ever Le Mans 24 Hours, that took place in... '23. https://www.artcurial.com/sites/default/files/styles/840_width/public/lots-images/2017-09-08-14/2902_10570144_0.jpg?itok=9o7gx7Hz From https://www...

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Argentum wrote:

Most loved French car ever... I don't know one French driver of my generation or older who didn't drive one, at least once.

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I'm not sure what your post would add or detract from my post... They have simply tried to copy all they could see, that is basically what I said. The point I was making is that that doesn't make it "a W10 with a pink paint job". I would expect passing similarities between the two cars, but those h...

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Love all of your poster images. One day when i build my dream garage these will be on the walls! You can start your dream garage with the posters, it will be cheaper... Here's another illustration by Geo Ham. I couldn't find the 1952 Le Mans poster, so it's the program cover (and I fear what I see ...

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2, for missing yesterday...
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Oh wow I love this! Last year my main themes were Chaparral and Surtees, which didn't surprise forumers who were there when I regularly posted. This year I wanted to do a whole countdown with painted or hand designed old racing posters, but had no time before the end of last week to do some search....

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Neither Senna nor Schumacher get my vote... The least I can say is that I didn't revised my judgement since I'm part of the PF1 forum. That said, where is Surtees ? Good shout, but I'm not sure he'll be in many people's top 10 ever He's in mine, and couldn't vote for him... I usually don't add my p...

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Neither Senna nor Schumacher get my vote... The least I can say is that I didn't revised my judgement since I'm part of the PF1 forum. That said, where is Surtees ? Good shout, but I'm not sure he'll be in many people's top 10 ever He's in mine, and couldn't vote for him... I usually don't add my p...

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Likewise, of the minimum of 42 voters (248/6) so many (at least 12) didn't vote for ANY of Clark, Hamilton, Senna, or Fangio. Why divided by 6? You get ten votes each. The minimum number of voters is currently 27 (273/10), which is less than the number of votes received by any of the drivers you me...

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I think it's great Clark is topping the poll. I'm not old enough to have seen him (or many of the others to be fair) race, but his record is astonishing when you view it in context. He pretty much broke down or won , whatever and wherever he raced. Makes you wonder what his statistical legacy might...

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Neither Senna nor Schumacher get my vote... The least I can say is that I didn't revised my judgement since I'm part of the PF1 forum.

That said, where is Surtees ?

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Looking at the results so far, with 169 votes in, Stroll, Kubica etc are top with 9%?! Does that mean 91% think they would have won the title? Or is the poll not working as it should? 9% is the number of votes they have as a percentage of the total, not that 91% would think they'd win it. The more ...

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The question can be condensed to "who is worse than Bottas?" No, I addressed that in the OP. The driver of the second Mercedes will be inferior to the driver replacing Hamilton, the other 18 cars they are up against are the same field faced by Hamilton Bottas in 2019 (so the driver is replaced by a...

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No other WDC before F1, as we know it, collapses...

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1-Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains
2-Mercedes F1 design team
3-Mercedes F1 team management

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I haven't seen it yet, but will do soon. I don't expect to watch a documentary, I'm pretty sure the Ferrari/Ford political brawl will be looked at with bias, pretty sure the filming of racing will be done to please the average viewer (contrary to Le Mans - no story, no dialogs, and filming of the ra...

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I love that we still have teams in F1 that do this kind of thing just for the sake of doing it. They get good marketing out of it, and it's a bit of fun. IVMICgfzICs Getting good marketing "out of it" is the least they could do, when the whole thing was just marketing. It's not an F1 team doing thi...

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One question : If you manage to cheat by bypassing the fuel flow sensor, and so get a "much higher" fuel flow rate than allowed, doesn't it imply that your fuel consumption is higher than allowed. The total fuel consumption being limited and controlled, you should run dry before the end of the race...

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One question : If you manage to cheat by bypassing the fuel flow sensor, and so get a "much higher" fuel flow rate than allowed, doesn't it imply that your fuel consumption is higher than allowed. The total fuel consumption being limited and controlled, you should run dry before the end of the race....

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I think that, if Ferrari keep their current driver lineup, Lewis will likely still win the championship with or without a car disadvantage. Ferrari are unable to optimize their strategic approach with Leclerc and Vettel and this is a common problem when you have two top-tier guys who are both compe...

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You could hope Verstappen Junior inherited from his mother some additionnal neurons to complete the low stock he could get from his father... It obviously failed.

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I think it's fair to say we all enjoy a good wet race. Now why is this? I'm guess the lack of grip meaning cars struggling to accelerate and brake, getting all twitchy and the sight of drivers having to demonstrate serious car control. This leads to much more passing than usual. There, we actually ...

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There are a lot of reasons why no new engine supplier will enter the F1 club. That are the reasons why some (if not all) of the current engine suppliers will leave F1...
And I don't see any new team entering F1, to boot.

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When it comes to shooting his mouth off he is easily the fastest, and by more than 2 tenths...

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If it's not the car, nor Hamilton, then it's Vettel...

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I don't see it as an all-time great lap. Gave it a 7 on my spreadsheets along with Hamilton (out of 8 ) which is only a somewhat rare score and quite common for Hamilton and Verstappen... and Leclerc recently. It was notable that he put a couple of tenths on Vettel who put together a very good lap ...

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Not surprised that Hulk didn’t land at Haas. This is a guy who turned down Renault for one year. Why would he go to a weaker team? For him it didn’t make much sense going there. I think he is likely done in f1 unless Ferrari or Redbull miraculously give him a call. Haas keeping Grosjean is a surpri...

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Siao7 wrote:
Harpo wrote:
Paolo_Lasardi wrote:
Okay, I am curious: why wasn't there a German wdc until 1994?
Because Von Trips died at Monza in 1961.
Ah, I was too late!

Well, I deserve no credit for being that fast : the death of Von Trips is my eldest memories of motor racing, and one of my eldest memories of reading...

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Hulkenberg is certainly a more controlled driver than any of the current Haas drivers, but apart from that I don't think he is any faster than the best of them, which I think is Grosjean. If I was (which I'm not...) to make a choice, I'd fire Magnussen (I know, he seems to already have a contract fo...

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Paolo_Lasardi wrote:
Okay, I am curious: why wasn't there a German wdc until 1994?

Because Von Trips died at Monza in 1961.

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Gasly will win a race! There's bold, and then there's that... 8) I think he and Red Bull could come good, and if Verstappen has a DNF who knows?... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/49317809 Well even I don't think he'll win now.. The news is 2 weeks old, that's why everybody surprised at your b...

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I think it's a given that the OP meant about Formula 1. I mean. we are having enough difficulty debating whether Stirling Moss can be compared to modern drivers - if it's suddenly motorsport in general, then we have to start including rally drivers, Indy drivers etc... etc... - I mean, "motorsport"...

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A hypothetical question for the people who believe in results first and foremost when considering the all-time greats: If Prost had won all those near-miss WDCs - 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990 - and was the sole 8-time WDC, with Senna only a 1-time WDC from 1991, would that mean he would have to be ranked...

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I am always skeptical reading about "legendary" drivers with unfulfilled potential (Gilles Villeneuve being a case in point) - even more so when it's "one of our own". The British press is ridiculously biased (I suppose as all the other ones - the difference being I can read English, and most of th...

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