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nixxxon

I think he's the most underrated driver in F1. You have to be very good to do so many podiums in midfield cars. Probably close to the top 3 Alonso/Hamilton/Vettel and similar to Bottas/Kimi/Button and such. I think he's better than Hulk too.

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Glorified go-cart jockeys. The best drivers are undoubtedly in rallying. The car control is incredible, the road surface is constantly varying and unpredictable, plus they don't get to hone it to perfection from lap to lap. If they push a bit too hard it's not a trip to the run-off and come back on...

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Even being a joke, he would do better than Stroll and probably better than Palmer aswell.

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They are the best road/tarmac/track racing drivers, rally for example is a completely different world, you just can't compare both

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I can just imagine putting some technology to use that will enable such interaction - just imagine watching a GP and seeing, say, Sainz's car suddenly go into a spin for no apparent reason, followed by the graphic 'Sainz55 has been tagged by oOoJolyon3548oOo.' With so many maldonados in online F1 g...

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Lol I was completely wrong, Hondas have been the best bike and the official yamaha team have been horribly bad Yeah that was a nightmare for Yamaha. As if the Honda 1-2 wasn't bad enough they were thumped by Ducati too Not only by the ducatis but also thumped by the satellite Yamaha Tech 3 team, th...

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Can't really compare onboards without knowing how many aero both cars have. Maybe the McLaren is again going lower on aero to limit the loss on the straights so they go also slower in corners, who knows.

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Lord Crc wrote:How would one handle interaction between the virtual car and the race cars? Without that, what's the point?

There would be no actual interaction, you would run along them like being ghost cars. Can't do it in any other way

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Lol I was completely wrong, Hondas have been the best bike and the official yamaha team have been horribly bad

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I can see a Wehrlein/Stroll swap in 2018 unless Stroll improves dramatically. Wehrlein would be a better fit for a solid midfield team like Williams, and Sauber would welcome Stroll money and Stroll would not finish much lower than his team mate because can't be lower than last (his team-mate being ...

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It's the spanish GP at Jerez this weekend. I bet for the Yamahas, this track has usually been more suited to them rather than the Hondas. Viñales for the win here, but Rossi will do well too I think, he won it last year.

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Good debut for Alonso!! Also killing 2 birds and dodging a 3rd one lol He hit every target in minimal time. The more knowledgeable IndyCar fans online have been impressed. They were saying that getting into 220mph+ would be a great day's work for someone who has never been in an oval before. He mana...

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I think "Brabham" and pink dont suit each other for some reason

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I wouldn't call them a complete failure, but so far they have mostly failed to achieve what they set out to achieve (2 or 3 second faster laps) while delivering the negative aspects as predicted (less overtaking). So not exactly a success either. As others have already said, the fact that Ferrari a...

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Incredibly dull racing, almost non existing wheel to wheel action, almost zero overtakes... the air turbulences are so huge that the drivers lose the grip even being 2 seconds behind. Should we go back to the narrower, smaller, 2016 cars? This is a serious question. Or else, what should be done to ...

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My point being, there always seem to be f1 fans moaning about some part of the sport but when something is done to address it, there's another issue that people complain about. It's an endless cycle of moaning, trying to do something about the complaints and more moaning. And in trying to fix fan c...

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Other people were overtaking in Australia so thats a Merc specific problem, now overtaking is back to what it should be rather than before when people just breeze pass due to the other guy on worn tyres. Sorry but in Australia there were hardly any overtakes either. Alonso was holding out the much ...

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Vettel could get close enough but other factors, including the Mercedes engine on the straights, meant he couldn't get into a position to perform an overtake. A few more laps and there probably would have been an opportunity. It actually made it more exciting for me. If he had simply arrived at the...

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I think the new group running the sport are moving it the right direction. Its 1yr in. Pretty sure these new regs were not decided by Liberty Media. Correct me if I'm wrong Serious answer: I think these cars are a huge success. The last few years have made watching paint dry a more attractive optio...

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Serious answer: I think these cars are a huge success. The last few years have made watching paint dry a more attractive option for me. And going back to the crappy tyres we've had since 2011 would be an absolute disaster IMO. This year is better in almost every way Better how? Cars can't follow ea...

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Incredibly dull racing, almost non existing wheel to wheel action, almost zero overtakes... the air turbulences are so huge that the drivers lose the grip even being 2 seconds behind. Should we go back to the narrower, smaller, 2016 cars? This is a serious question. Or else, what should be done to s...

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Alonso to McLaren, both times actually. And also, Alonso rejecting a Red Bull offer in 2008 to return back to Renault, however that was a logical move since Red Bull were just a midfield team at the time and Renault was an official works team that won the WDC two years ago Actually, I'd say the fir...

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Alonso to McLaren, both times actually. And also, Alonso rejecting a Red Bull offer in 2008 to return back to Renault, however that was a logical move since Red Bull were just a midfield team at the time and Renault was an official works team that won the WDC two years ago Actually, I'd say the fir...

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Alonso to McLaren, both times actually.

And also, Alonso rejecting a Red Bull offer in 2008 to return back to Renault, however that was a logical move since Red Bull were just a midfield team at the time and Renault was an official works team that won the WDC two years ago

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However, now that I remember, it might have been not such a luxury if we take in count that engines in theory were not allowed to be modified at all during those latest years, therefora Honda could try to copy the best designed one that resulted to be mercedes. They failed though

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I'd pick Hamilton over vettel because of a sole reason... Give hamilton a good car, bad car, average car or simiply a car that doesnt like, and he will do well (similar to Alonso) but Vettel, give him a car he doesnt like and he will struggle badly. Overall I'd pick Alonso over both because Alonso i...

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It's difficult to understand, really. Because Honda took a while to win their first F1 championship as an engine supplier in the 80s, as they could only do it in 1987, though their engine was already one of the best in the grid. When the turbos were banned, they made a great V10 engine off the bat....

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So, all the midfield and backmarker teams should leave F1 aswell? Since they wont be winning either.
Lets end up with a 6 car grid with the top 3 teams only.

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Sad to say that the recovery has not gone well - according to this Billy Monger has had both legs amputated. The family has set up a Justgiving site to help with his recovery - https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/billymonger23 Almost at £400K... Wow! I dont say its a bad thing, but, gotta tell ...

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They will be clearly the worst car on the grid once McLaren improves (they should improve a lot sooner or later). As for now, McLaren is right along with them. Except for Sauber, all the other teams including McLaren have shown pace to aim for some points. Renault, Haas, McLaren and Toro Rosso all h...

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Lt. Drebin wrote:
rivf1 wrote:McLaren have officially announced button will drive at Monaco. Best of luck to him, hope he kicks some donkey.
And they will give him zero time in the car until the race itself. What?

Practice and qualy?

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This looks to me as one of the worst decisions in strings of bad decisions Alonso made. Monaco could be the one of the precious few real chances for Mclaren to score well. Alonso does not know oval racing by experience, and he has no experience in battles and customs of Indy 500. Remember when Sato...

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This looks to me as one of the worst decisions in strings of bad decisions Alonso made. Monaco could be the one of the precious few real chances for Mclaren to score well. Alonso does not know oval racing by experience, and he has no experience in battles and customs of Indy 500. Remember when Sato...

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Win/Top 5 unless he has a car problem or a collision.
If Montoya won two times (last one with 39 y/o) and Alex Rossi won it on his debut, Alonso can do it too.

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All of the most successful drivers drove top cars and (unless you're Kimi Raikkonen) you don't get to drive top cars unless you're a top driver. :lol: genuine laugh out loud. Poor Kimi, but you are right he has been signed three times by a top team. Mclaren 2002, Ferrari 2007 and Ferrari 2015. He i...

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I'm gob smacked, first of all it shows a lack of commitment to the F1 project, secondly racing on a super speedway is far more dangerous than F1, Alonso could get injured. This reminds me a bit of Kubica's rallying exploits which finished his F1 career. However with Alonso in the field it's a race ...

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I'm gob smacked, first of all it shows a lack of commitment to the F1 project, secondly racing on a super speedway is far more dangerous than F1, Alonso could get injured. This reminds me a bit of Kubica's rallying exploits which finished his F1 career. However with Alonso in the field it's a race ...

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Wow, didnt see that coming.
Smart move to try to get the triple crown, since again McLaren is not competitive this year, although the Monaco GP could have been an opportunity for him to grab some points...

And yeah I guess Button should be the one replacing him for that race.

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Thats right, Kimi's numbers from 2014 to now are quite unimpressive.

Kimi's Podiums: 7
Kimi's wins: 0
His team mate's podiums (Alo/Vet): 24
His team mate's wins: 4

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The way I see it, there is men's and women's basketball; men's and women's tennis; men's and women's football; men's and women's track and field, etc. Men generally compete against men and women generally compete against women. So a women's racing series seems okay to me. I would not do it as a sup...

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