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Teddy007

Bump. So am I right in believing Hamilton > Seb? Seb is doing his best to prove me right. I don't know..... Sebastian and Ferrari are doing it again.. being their own enemy... I kind of get the feeling if Alonso or Michael was in that car.. they would be winning more. I think the Ferrari package ca...

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Surely Alonso would have an email or text message to back up his claims or are these types of discussions usually kept strictly face to face ? Horner didn’t deny there was an email, suggesting Alonso could be telling the truth there weren't any claims of emails to deny, AFAIAA. Alonso said there em...

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Ferrari have had the better car in the last 4 races but Hamilton has managed to get 3 wins and a 2nd through speed, some luck, weather and driver mistakes. His got to be well pleased, hopefully Singapore goes just aswell but im worried. Agreed. I was also expecting Ferrari to get their usual better...

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Is this really an issue? Mercedes openly admits that it will employ team orders, and everybody is mocking Ferrari in advance. Unlike Ferrari, Merc don't deny it. Unlike Ferrari, Merc are not the reasons why the team order rules came in to place originally and also got removed. Unlike Ferrari, Merc ...

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Horners wife apparantly likes Lewis Hamilton!.... :D Adding salt in to the wound I guess. Even before they were official, Lewis got dished a few critics by Horner... I guess Geri liking him has just added more fuel to the fire of his criticism. The funny thing is... Lewis and Vettel are more like e...

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I've not voted. I think RBR have been deceiving and have done it more than one occasion. They've often denied preferences inside the team which is a lie. They've even denied Marko having any real influence in the team which again is a lie. With the comments Horner made regarding Ric.. that he was af...

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Toto said it was fortunate, Hamilton said " "So for the heavens to open and for us to be in this position, it's such a blessing for us." " Nothing, absolutely nothing, in that may be taken as any kind of insult to his driving. Except to paranoid fans, of course. Exactly. When the team and driver bo...

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I totally acknowledge that all teams use team orders but there is a difference between how some teams use them and how others do. Nah there is no difference. You are a Lewis/Mercedes fan, therefore you automatically see any team orders in favour of Lewis (Bahrain 2017, Spain 2017, Germany 2018) as ...

Teddy007

There's no "new thing where the midfield don't fight the top 6". Disagree. These days when the cars are much more sensitive to the tyres/aero effects etc.. the drivers don't want to waste time or tyre deg fighting some one that will blitz through with DRS. And last I checked DRS hasn't been in F1 s...

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If we are going to go on about 'best' drives for cars well out of position. Special mention to Jenson Button. He had been in every place, back of the grid, pitted endlessly, over took, penalties (was it one or two?), flat tyre. What looked like finishing in last p-lace and maybe with a bit of luck 1...

Teddy007

He finally did it! A win from deep in the pack. he's had some great charges from the back in his career. 17th to 3rd in Brazil 2009, 22nd to 3rd in Hungary 2014, 20th to 3rd in Germany 2014, etc. He finally pulled off a win from way back! Long overdue and what a performance! That was fun to watch. ...

Teddy007

I have already said previously that I don't agree with penalties being tailored to suit consequence. I beleive penalties should be fixed for the incident involved, and I don't care if one the drivers is fightring for a WDC or not, they should all be getting the same treatment. There is some room fo...

Teddy007

Point system doesn't need changing.

Teddy007

Bottas > Kimi.

Teddy007

Bottas was 0.225 slower than Hamilton who "drove the lap of his life" not 0.325... And in F1 terms, it's still a large margin. Hamilton did not make up 25 seconds, that was due to the SC. Hamilton made about 5-6 seconds on Bottas once he got clean air over about 11 laps. Hamilton was maybe 0.3-0.5 ...

Teddy007

Maybe I should wait for today's race. But what the heck, I am not being paid to write predictions. It's all a bit of fun. So here it goes. Hamilton will win again this year's WDC for three simple reasons: 1. He is just better than Vettel. Vettel is not good enough to beat Hamilton, unless he has cl...

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I'm really taken aback that more hasn't been made of Mercedes allowing the chief strategist to self-flagellate so publicly like that on Lewis's radio. I'm angry at Lewis's sulking triggering it, but it is highly beneath Mercedes to have allowed that grovelling apology. The team should always come f...

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starting to sound like Ferrari's reaction to underperformance of the car, lets hope they get the turnaround Ferrari finally did... Yep. For the first time even I am wondering what on earth is going on (after defending them because they had better progress this season vs previous ones). I will say w...

Teddy007

With a drive thru penalty he would still have finished ahead of Bottas, its just Hamilton and his fans wanting more points. or perhaps it's just Vettel fans who think he should get away with taking out another driver? He made the mistake, Bottas was a passenger - the end. I believe in consistency r...

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The problem is most of the teams employ a star driver and a good driver, the good driver ultimately knows that he may be able to fight, but the teams are very good about keeping these guys on year to year contracts to keep them in check... thus the star driver is always able to take more risks know...

Teddy007

I thought the French Grand Prix was pretty decent to be honest. A mistake by one of the title contenders led to first lap chaos and subsequent charge through the field, while there was plenty of mid-pack action, even without the artificial DRS zones. Yet reading through this forum and twitter I see...

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Right now, is not the time to go to Mclaren. They need to get their issues sorted out. It's been an interesting last 2 races: RBR have really jumped in to the fold. Ferrari are ahead again. 2 races where Merc have struggled. The best of the rest seems to be changing every race. You got a few drivers...

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No There is more money in Formula 1 because more people watch it, and hence F1 earns more money from sponsors and TV deals than NASCAR or MOTOGP. If Ferrari feel that Sebastian Vettel is worth 60 million dollars to them, then he deserves to make that money. Agreed. They change their life style too....

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He had a wee smile after answering that but I'm sure the nuance will be lost and he'll be taken to task for it as if he actually really meant he'd headbutt someone. Also, the question was not "legitimate", it was a lazy, ill thought-out question. "Max, why have you had so many accidents?". If that'...

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There's too many accidents because of "cool" tires. Not as simple as that. A safety car is exactly that: safety. It's not just a fast car with a beefed up engine. It needs to be able to handle most conditions which include treacherous rain. This counts out about 97% of all fast cars. It also needs ...

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It's a shame there was such venomous hate towards him when he was a driver. Always struck me as a nice enough fellow, self-effacing over the Britney moniker, etc. And his F1 punditry is confirming that to me. He's well spoken, and is fitting in very well. And I like Hamilton too... I guess it's a b...

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Are they better off than they would have been with this years Honda and not having to delay packages due to changing engines though? Whether they are better off with Renault currently or not, I'm still of the opinion they would have been better sticking with Honda till at least 2021 than going with...

Teddy007

It is pretty interesting to see that McLarens deficits aren't much different in a Renault than they were in a Honda. The other thing that is interesting to see is that TR isn't all that far behind Mc. Kind of have the feeling that if TR were using RB chassis and drivers that they would be ahead of ...

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pokerman wrote: without the SC Hamilton was never going to win the race.

I love people who think the can predict outcomes for a typical unpredictable race. If one car doesn't create a safety car.. some one else can.. it was coming..

You never know what might have happened and that's why it was a good race.

Teddy007

It's a very strange one, tbh. I t's clear to just about everybody that it was Max weaving that caused the accident. I don't really understand why neither the stewards nor Red Bull management are willing to state that officially But it's not though is it? Lots of former drivers and pundits put the b...

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Having watched the replays countless times now, I really can't understand why Ricciardo is accepting any of the blame. If you take a step back and take a look at the context of the race they were fighting for 4th and 5th with no hope of catching the cars in front unless a Safety car. There was real...

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Of course this is just my opinion but Max is the first Karting Kid to make it to F1 with the Senna/Schumacher legacy imprinted in his driving DNA. As they did, he truly believes that he has a divine right to the piece of tarmac he wants to occupy and he has a total disregard of any other driver's r...

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I've noticed that safety cars (be they virtual or material) have essentially determined the outcome of 3 of the 4 races this year. With overtaking being so difficult and race pace margins among the top three teams being fairly small, using safety cars to get a free stop or change to quicker tires, ...

Teddy007

What's everyones thoughts on his position at the moment ?? My opinion on him hasn't changed from day one. He hasn't changed at all and most drivers don't. The thing is.. he has never done well at taking blame.. the recent one a prime example... Not a fan, I think he is just full of hype.. what's th...

Teddy007

http://www.planetf1.com/news/fia-open-to-using-more-drs-zones/ More DRS Zones. It might help a bit at a few circuits. They probably are already using the parts of the circuit where DRS could be the most use, though sometimes having 2 DRS zones close together can create another opportunity. If they ...

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UnlikeUday wrote:Soon it will be a bashing thread!

I was thinking this. I don't know why we bother with the whole crash kid. Every driver has a few off races. Max is under pressure, not helped by reliability and he has gained a reputation of going for it regardless.

Teddy007

I just read the article describing the "outrage" of Kimi not checking on the mechanic after stopping his car in the pitlane. I don't quite understand this. Putting myself in Kimi's shoes I am thinking about a podium, come in for a stop and boom there goes my race. Am I supposed to check on the man ...

Teddy007

Horner looking to re-write the rules yet again, also with the need to look after the engines this year why take away the option to be able to turn them down? Nothing changes. One team uses a trick within the rules, another team wants it banned. Anyone remember what Horner was saying during the RBR ...

Teddy007

I don't understand why all the controversy and interrogation if Merc used the party mode or not. As long as their engines and engine modes adhere to the regulations, they can use whatever mode they want and they don't even have to tell us anything about it. It was a hard pill for many to swallow. N...

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Great win by Vettel and Ferrari P1,P3 not a bad points haul. A few things 1. we now know Hamilton is a liar, he did use party mode in Q3 as admitted by Toto 2. Bottas used the same VSC in pit speed to jump Sainz so MB knew the advantage do not blame a computer 3.The smile got wiped off Hamiltons fa...

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