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I'm starting to see why some are wondering if Lewis will even achieve 100 wins this year. Surely luck will give him a couple but I can't see him earning any outright in a straight battle. I think it is a bit of overreaction. Max is fast, but he isn't 1.1 seconds faster than Perez. Likewise - the Me...

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On a Friday Mercedes seem to run higher engine modes/lower fuel than Red Bull, if that’s the case today then, gulp. Red Bull usually go more aggressive on a Saturday morning, perhaps they’ve gone aggressive here with this being the only qualifying sims. Hamilton sounded shocked by the the 0.7 gap. ...

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I welcome Brawns comments - A fuel like hydrogen makes more sense. Currently there isnt really a green alternative for high powered motorsport, or for heavy road haulage. The issue with electric, isn't how it drives - an electric motor is a vastly superior way of generating kinetic energy compared ...

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Anyway, we are digressing massively now. On topic - first time Max has a car capable of challenging, and he's showing them how it's done. It's you that came up with this timeline for determining when we can consider who was the best driver, me personally I would look at a driver's complete career, ...

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The time Verstappen had 5 years in the sport... you missed that one out. He is not at the level of Senna or Schumacher. But Schumacher and Senna had a title challenging and winning cars by then. So context is everything. Verstappen has not had a car even remotely capable of challenging for the titl...

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But then Schumacher was 32-32 with Irvine after Silverstone 1999. The guy saying "context is everything" comes up with this... :uhoh: Peak whataboutism, as Alienturnedhuman would say if this argument was made against Hamilton. That was exactly my point. All the great drivers lost a season or more d...

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Or Schumacher would have ended Senna's career (it was 3-0 to Schumacher before the unfortunate events at Imola) and taken the crown for himself, making his own legacy even greater - we just don't know what we don't know. I'd say given what we know about the competitive order from 1994-1996, I recko...

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The time Verstappen had 5 years in the sport... you missed that one out. He is not at the level of Senna or Schumacher. But Schumacher and Senna had a title challenging and winning cars by then. So context is everything. What a ridiculously unfair classification. 2015 - 7th best car 2016 - 7th/3rd ...

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The time Verstappen had 5 years in the sport... you missed that one out. He is not at the level of Senna or Schumacher. But Schumacher and Senna had a title challenging and winning cars by then. So context is everything. What a ridiculously unfair classification. 2015 - 7th best car 2016 - 7th/3rd ...

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The time Verstappen had 5 years in the sport... you missed that one out. He is not at the level of Senna or Schumacher. But Schumacher and Senna had a title challenging and winning cars by then. So context is everything. Verstappen has not had a car even remotely capable of challenging for the titl...

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Yeah 5 years can be seen as a somewhat made up number to determine the merits of a driver, it coincides with Hamilton's horrendous season in 2011 and Senna winning his first title in 1988 so we will set it up as some kind of standard. Of course it means nothing, Hamilton gave the reigning double wo...

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The time Verstappen had 5 years in the sport... you missed that one out. He is not at the level of Senna or Schumacher. But Schumacher and Senna had a title challenging and winning cars by then. So context is everything. Hamilton was in the GOAT argument for many after just half a season in the spo...

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No GOAT driver has ever been in such a situation after a decade in the sport. Schumacher would have been had Senna lived. The problem is that all time great candidates rarely overlap in careers: Ascari died before a proper battle with Fangio, Clark died before a proper battle with Stewart, Senna di...

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No chance this is a sabotage attempt. Mercedes probably gave their staff enough incentives not to jump ship, and Red Bull weren't as successful at it. Didn't Red Bull manage to hire a bunch of Merc engineers for their newly formed engine division? Merc might be using Aston Martin as they can't affo...

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Finally we can wave goodbye to the horrible step-noses. Nice and clean-looking... I wonder what the dimensions are compared to the 2021 cars? Here's Your answer: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/video.side-by-side-how-the-2021-and-2022-formula-1-cars-compare.1705356938022165796.html Do you know i...

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Not the article I read and this coming from Marko but with no specifics. https://www.planetf1.com/news/helmut-marko-best-driver-car-engine/ Found it, Mercedes in the form of Hamilton and Wolff merely say they are losing 0.25s with the new Honda engine and are surprised how Honda have made such gain...

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New to the game is the revelation that Mercedes are losing out to Honda as much as 0.25s per lap, Honda now have the best engine in F1, any notion of Max winning totally by his own steam surely is going to run out of legs, Max will his title similar to how most drivers win their titles, best car. W...

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New to the game is the revelation that Mercedes are losing out to Honda as much as 0.25s per lap, Honda now have the best engine in F1, any notion of Max winning totally by his own steam surely is going to run out of legs, Max will his title similar to how most drivers win their titles, best car. W...

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The time Verstappen had 5 years in the sport... you missed that one out. He is not at the level of Senna or Schumacher. But Schumacher and Senna had a title challenging and winning cars by then. So context is everything. Hamilton was in the GOAT argument for many after just half a season in the spo...

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The time Verstappen had 5 years in the sport... you missed that one out. He is not at the level of Senna or Schumacher. But Schumacher and Senna had a title challenging and winning cars by then. So context is everything. Verstappen has not had a car even remotely capable of challenging for the titl...

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New to the game is the revelation that Mercedes are losing out to Honda as much as 0.25s per lap, Honda now have the best engine in F1, any notion of Max winning totally by his own steam surely is going to run out of legs, Max will his title similar to how most drivers win their titles, best car. W...

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One for the grammar enthusiasts... " Was Red Bull... " or " Were Red Bull..." ? Hmm - I think "was" is correct in this case, as the sentence is "Was (the) Red Bull (team/car) better...". Now if the poster meant Red Bull "team members", then I suppose one would go with "were", but it looks unlikely ...

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New to the game is the revelation that Mercedes are losing out to Honda as much as 0.25s per lap, Honda now have the best engine in F1, any notion of Max winning totally by his own steam surely is going to run out of legs, Max will his title similar to how most drivers win their titles, best car. W...

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Based on just over 1000 households, F1 is not really that popular, that's such a low data set, surely they must rely on something more substantial than that? I don't like it because of how much it destroys the tradition of the sport, pole position for the records should be the fastest driver in qua...

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Out of interest would you define this year has Verstappen or the car? Do you think he's made a big step forward and wouldn't make the same mistakes in traffic again or just that he's driving away at the front so doesn't have those mistakes to make? I define it as Verstappen finally having a car to ...

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Prediction for this sprint qualifying/race thing, or 'the sprint' as The Race expect it to be termed: One of the top teams' drivers (Red Bull/Merc) is going to get punted off at turn one by an over optimistic move from a midfield driver, and there will be a lot of debate/outrage in the aftermath as...

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If you watch the sprint race then you encourage it to be the norm, it's future is dependent on viewing numbers, I will be vetoing it. Unless you are in the BARB panel, you viewing (or not) it will not affect the viewing figures. Like I have to explain to my nephews whenever they say they don't like...

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If you watch the sprint race then you encourage it to be the norm, it's future is dependent on viewing numbers, I will be vetoing it. Unless you are in the BARB panel, you viewing (or not) it will not affect the viewing figures. Like I have to explain to my nephews whenever they say they don't like...

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This is clearly not a case of whataboutism or trying to discredit the report - both OP and Siao7 have stated it could be broader in scope (without diminishing it - in fact OP has clearly said "The report itself is of high quality" ) - which is a fair comment. I literally mention that concentrating ...

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Robert Doornbos or the old David Coulthard for RBR, and Scott Speed for Toro Rosso would be the worst in my view.

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This is clearly not a case of whataboutism or trying to discredit the report - both OP and Siao7 have stated it could be broader in scope (without diminishing it - in fact OP has clearly said "The report itself is of high quality") - which is a fair comment.

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Max has been brilliant this year but it's nothing i wasn't expecting. Lando seems to have gone to a new, very high level which has taken me by surprise. I'd go for Lando so far this season by a smidge. Isn't that penalizing Verstappen based on your own expectation of him being excellent? Unless you...

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While Norris has performed very well, no doubt, it is Ricciardo's lack of pace that is massively flattering him. FWIW, I personally think Leclerc's lap in Monaco and especially Baku was more impressive than Norris in Austria qualy.

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...and hopefully his ardent fans (some of them anyway) realise just how much of it all was the car. I'm not so sure, us Hamilton supporters have a very easy get out clause because Hamilton is 36 while Verstappen is 23. If Verstappen sweeps Hamilton in reasonably matched machinery over until the end...

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Out of interest would you define this year has Verstappen or the car? Do you think he's made a big step forward and wouldn't make the same mistakes in traffic again or just that he's driving away at the front so doesn't have those mistakes to make? I define it as Verstappen finally having a car to ...

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You said that Max is one to two tenths quicker than Hamilton and what we are discussing here is race pace, if you're using that as your ideology then obviously I can see why you would think the 2 cars have been equal thus far, you've basically weighted things in favour of Max based on your personal...

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You said that Max is one to two tenths quicker than Hamilton and what we are discussing here is race pace, if you're using that as your ideology then obviously I can see why you would think the 2 cars have been equal thus far, you've basically weighted things in favour of Max based on your personal...

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I have the same. Silverstone will be the decider with MB having one 7 of the last 8 GP's there with 8 straight poles. If they can't pull it out there I think their season is done. Wasn't France also a supposed Mercedes track? The thing is keeping all the years since the hybrid era began, the RB16B ...

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No chance this is a sabotage attempt. Mercedes probably gave their staff enough incentives not to jump ship, and Red Bull weren't as successful at it. Didn't Red Bull manage to hire a bunch of Merc engineers for their newly formed engine division? Merc might be using Aston Martin as they can't affo...

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So Aston Martin hiring a bunch of senior technical folks is making the news recently. What struck me as interesting is that pretty much all of them seem to be from Red Bull (Dan Fallows, Andrew Alessi). We all know the relationship between them and Mercedes is especially close, and that Toto Wolff i...

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