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by KingVoid
Tue Oct 03, 2023 12:41 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: F1 Gossip/Rumour/Inside news Thread
Replies: 1495
Views: 161759

Re: F1 Gossip/Rumour/Inside news Thread

2026 Regulations Update: - 30 Kg of fuel to be used to charge the battery - Width reduced to 190 cm from 200 cm - Wheelbase Length reduced to 340 cm from 360. A reduction to 330 cm is possible but teams have shown resistances towards it - 40% reduction in downforce - Overtaking will become easier wi...
by KingVoid
Mon Oct 02, 2023 10:15 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank the 3 time WDCs
Replies: 218
Views: 8145

Re: Rank the 3 time WDCs

Stewart has always been the biggest enigma for me. Is he in that top tier with other GOAT contenders like Senna obviously is, or is he a clear tier below like Lauda? He lost to Graham Hill when they were teammates at BRM, but Stewart was still quite inexperienced at the time, and he certainly didn't...
by KingVoid
Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:43 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank the 3 time WDCs
Replies: 218
Views: 8145

Re: Rank the 3 time WDCs

The reason why I criticize Prost has nothing to do with an emotional attachment to either drivers, I wasn’t even alive when they were teammates. Prost is criticized because he’s simply too slow to be an all-time great. 28-4 by an average gap of 0.643s alone is enough to disqualify him from this disc...
by KingVoid
Sat Sep 30, 2023 8:22 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank the 3 time WDCs
Replies: 218
Views: 8145

Re: Rank the 3 time WDCs

I don't think the amount of championship battle's Prost was in tells us anything other than the fact he was almost always in cars with championship winning potential. The only time when his talent took an undeserving car into the fight was 1986. Prost is for me one of the most-overrated greats, if ...
by KingVoid
Thu Sep 28, 2023 3:48 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank the 3 time WDCs
Replies: 218
Views: 8145

Re: Rank the 3 time WDCs

For me there’s two clear tiers here Tier 1 is Senna, Stewart, Verstappen - best drivers in the world for several years - over 25% win ratio Tier 2 is Brabham, Piquet, Lauda - usually overshadowed by someone in their own era - lower than 15% win ratio In my view the win ratio is not a very good indi...
by KingVoid
Thu Sep 28, 2023 2:58 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank the 3 time WDCs
Replies: 218
Views: 8145

Re: Rank the 3 time WDCs

For me there’s two clear tiers here

Tier 1 is Senna, Stewart, Verstappen
- best drivers in the world for several years
- over 25% win ratio

Tier 2 is Brabham, Piquet, Lauda
- usually overshadowed by someone in their own era
- lower than 15% win ratio
by KingVoid
Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:23 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank the 3 time WDCs
Replies: 218
Views: 8145

Re: Rank the 3 time WDCs

Here is how I voted in the poll:
1Senna
2Verstappen
3Stewart
4Lauda
5Piquet
6Brabham
For me the hardest choice was 2/3 and 5/6

Every other position picks itself IMO
by KingVoid
Tue Sep 26, 2023 1:58 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank the 3 time WDCs
Replies: 218
Views: 8145

Re: Rank the 3 time WDCs

Mod Blue wrote:
Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:57 am
KingVoid wrote:
Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:22 am
t2jd1967 wrote:
Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:05 am
Wouldn't it be better to have a poll with ranking options? That would give a better picture than having to select one out of quite a illustrious list.
I think only a mod can make that type of poll
Would you like it to be created?
Would be ideal tbh
by KingVoid
Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:22 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank the 3 time WDCs
Replies: 218
Views: 8145

Re: Rank the 3 time WDCs

t2jd1967 wrote:
Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:05 am
Wouldn't it be better to have a poll with ranking options? That would give a better picture than having to select one out of quite a illustrious list.
I think only a mod can make that type of poll
by KingVoid
Mon Sep 25, 2023 5:32 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank the Tilkedrome Circuits
Replies: 13
Views: 1168

Re: Rank the Tilkedrome Circuits

Here is how I voted in the poll: 1 Austin 2 Sepang 3 Istanbul 4 Bahrain 5 Shanghai 6 Jeddah 7 Baku 8 Singapore 9 Korea 10 Buddh 11 Yas Marina 12 Valencia 13 Sochi If I had to rank them into tiers it would probably be: T1: Austin, Sepang, Istanbul, Bahrain T2: Shanghai, Jeddah, Baku, Singapore T3: Ko...
by KingVoid
Thu Sep 21, 2023 4:29 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Winning Streaks in the Lewis Hamilton Era
Replies: 259
Views: 19026

Re: Winning Streaks in the Lewis Hamilton Era

Verstappen’s streak is definitely the most impressive in living memory when you consider the quality of his drives and how many times his wins were NOT straight forward. Miami - started 9th because of a red flag in qualifying Monaco - mid race rain, so so easy for something to go wrong Belgium - sta...
by KingVoid
Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:30 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

Separating Albon and Magnussen from the others in tier 3 was the hardest decision for me. Tier 3 is very congested because there are a lot of drivers on the same level. In the end I separated Albon and KMag because: 1. KMag’s qualifying performances are just too poor relative to Hulk, I know they ar...
by KingVoid
Mon Sep 18, 2023 4:40 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

At what point is Leclerc not in the big six or at what point does Sainz make it a big seven? I think at this point you either need a Big Seven or a Big Four. I can't see any argument at present for putting Sainz a whole category below Leclerc, and I also can't see a justification for putting Russel...
by KingVoid
Mon Sep 18, 2023 4:33 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

Tier 1: Verstappen, Norris, Hamilton Tier 2: Alonso, Leclerc, Russell, Sainz Tier 3: Hulkenberg, Bottas, Ocon, Perez, Gasly, Piastri Tier 4: Albon, Magnussen, Zhou, Tsunoda, Lawson Tier 5: Stroll Tier 6: Sargeant, De Vries Ricciardo is impossible to rank. In his prime he was upper tier 2, in his sec...
by KingVoid
Mon Sep 18, 2023 4:26 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

Just saw that my second post on here says Sainz and Ocon make a good case to be included in the list. https://forum.planetf1.com/viewtopic.php?p=917724#p917724 Ocon is a slippery slope, at that point you have to consider guys like Perez and Gasly, who are/were not really inferior to Ocon as teammat...
by KingVoid
Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:18 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank Hamilton and Verstappen's teammates
Replies: 469
Views: 10504

Re: Rank Hamilton and Verstappen's teammates

When did Bottas fail to qualify top 10 for five times in a row in a dominant car like Perez did this summer? Dominance in a dominant car just requires a weaker teammate and no bad luck. Vettel demonstrated this in excellence. The RB won 15 races in a row by now - that is the truly impressive record...
by KingVoid
Tue Sep 05, 2023 8:31 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank Hamilton and Verstappen's teammates
Replies: 469
Views: 10504

Re: Rank Hamilton and Verstappen's teammates

Looking at just teammates isn’t really enough. Hamilton spent one season with Alonso, and his longest lasting teammate is Bottas. Likewise, Bottas and Kovalainen were teammates for 5 of Hamilton’s 7 titles. These guys are no better than Perez. So if “teammates” is Hamilton’s excuse on why he didn’t...
by KingVoid
Tue Sep 05, 2023 7:55 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank Hamilton and Verstappen's teammates
Replies: 469
Views: 10504

Re: Rank Hamilton and Verstappen's teammates

Looking at just teammates isn’t really enough. Hamilton spent one season with Alonso, and his longest lasting teammate is Bottas. Likewise, Bottas and Kovalainen were teammates for 5 of Hamilton’s 7 titles. These guys are no better than Perez. So if “teammates” is Hamilton’s excuse on why he didn’t ...
by KingVoid
Tue Sep 05, 2023 3:41 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank Hamilton and Verstappen's teammates
Replies: 469
Views: 10504

Re: Rank Hamilton and Verstappen's teammates

I'd like to see how Verstappen performs with a better teammate. How he handles the pressure. He hardly crushed Sainz and lost overall to Ricciardo (despite the team publicly backing Verstappen from late 2017 onwards). So, he's not exactly been convincing against "tougher" teammate opposition. Durin...
by KingVoid
Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:24 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank Hamilton and Verstappen's teammates
Replies: 469
Views: 10504

Re: Rank Hamilton and Verstappen's teammates

I'm suprised to see everyone almost universally putting Kovalainen ahead of Gasly. Gasly was terrible as Verstappen teammate. Kovalainen was much closer to Hamilton. I think Gasly's time at RB coincided with the car being extremely pointy and nervous at the rear I agree but we are rating the driver...
by KingVoid
Tue Aug 29, 2023 6:25 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Ocon vs Gasly
Replies: 62
Views: 8613

Re: Ocon vs Gasly

Now we’ve approached the summer break it’s time to update this thread, QUALIFYING OCON 6 - 6 GASLY RACE FINISH OCON 5 - 4 GASLY POINTS OCON 35 - 22 GASLY My initial thoughts are that in terms of raw pace, there’s very little to split the two, but Ocon makes fewer mistakes and is a better points hoo...
by KingVoid
Sun Aug 27, 2023 6:16 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: What race this year can a team other than a Red Bull win?
Replies: 47
Views: 2852

Re: What race this year can a team other than a Red Bull win?

Today was another good opportunity lost IMO.
by KingVoid
Fri Aug 25, 2023 7:26 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: How many GPs will Red Bull win this year?
Replies: 120
Views: 11728

Re: How many GPs will Red Bull win this year?

One thing we haven't seen yet is how Red Bull deal with wet conditions. That may be an Achilles heel given how kind they are on tyres. I am still convinced that the RB19 isn’t as good in the wet as it is in the dry. Perez struggled so much to get heat into the tyres in Spain qualifying, Canada qual...
by KingVoid
Wed Aug 23, 2023 11:03 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: How many GPs will Red Bull win this year?
Replies: 120
Views: 11728

Re: How many GPs will Red Bull win this year?

One thing we haven't seen yet is how Red Bull deal with wet conditions. That may be an Achilles heel given how kind they are on tyres. I am still convinced that the RB19 isn’t as good in the wet as it is in the dry. Perez struggled so much to get heat into the tyres in Spain qualifying, Canada qual...
by KingVoid
Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:32 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

I don’t know about Räikkönen, but surely no one ever really rated Massa? He got thoroughly beaten by Schumacher and that should have been enough for everyone to see. I think Räikkönen was very good before his move to Ferrari, in hindsight (but it is purely hindsight) he was probably less adaptable ...
by KingVoid
Wed Aug 16, 2023 4:46 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

Same story with Hamilton. Given his race pace, if we had this year regulations at the time he was partnered with Rosberg and Bottas, he would have soundly beaten them 100% and would not have lost 2016. Overtaking was easier from 2014 to 2016 than it is today. Ground effect era cars are only better ...
by KingVoid
Tue Aug 15, 2023 5:45 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

As for win ratios yes... That's kind of my point. In Lauda's time it was harder to rack up a lot of wins. For lots of reasons - You could die Fewer races a season No era long dominant cars Worse reliability. Get a dominant car in the 70s and you might get yourself about 6 or 7 wins in a season. Do ...
by KingVoid
Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:19 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

When contemplating the greatest drivers I have 3 broad criteria points - Ability - How good they were, not just at their best but through the bulk of their career Success - What they achieved Legacy - What lasting impact did they have I try and put things in reference of a drivers own time so Lauda...
by KingVoid
Mon Aug 14, 2023 7:18 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

Tangentially related to the direction this topic has taken.... I saw a report a week or so ago that was posted on reddit where Horner said Verstappen was already an all time great. I commented that he wouldn't quite be in the top 10 of all time yet. I got absolutely torched. What do we reckon? If V...
by KingVoid
Fri Aug 11, 2023 5:10 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Top 10 Greatest Team Principals
Replies: 31
Views: 1913

Top 10 Greatest Team Principals

My criteria for what makes a great team principal is as follows: A) The amount of success they have had and the trophies they have won (this one is obvious) B) The difficulty of their achievement. Where was the team when they took over, and what did they achieve with it? C) How they were able to nav...
by KingVoid
Thu Aug 10, 2023 5:35 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

On this forum that is where Massa is rated. I don't think that is always the case elsewhere. The reason I'd pick Massa ahead of Kimi is that I do think Kimi was genuinely very good pre 2007. My reason for picking Raikkonen as more overrated than Massa is because I think that the ranking gap between...
by KingVoid
Thu Aug 10, 2023 2:20 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

If anything, the lens of hindsight suggests that the McLaren cars of the mid 2000s were every bit as much of Newey rocketships as the ones that came before. There was someone, on another forum (I don’t remember their username), who suggested that the only reason for the change in McLaren and Ferrar...
by KingVoid
Wed Aug 09, 2023 11:58 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

My rating of Bottas never changed between Williams and Mercedes, the data was close to accurate, I'm not sure who looked to big up Bottas? Strange how we may look to rate the likes of Kimi and Massa now, almost 3rd rate. Did you honestly expect Bottas to score 50% as many poles as Hamilton over the...
by KingVoid
Wed Aug 09, 2023 11:53 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

I for one have always, and I literally mean always going back to his first races with Williams, viewed Bottas as a second tier driver as best. I maintain that Bottas never really improved at Mercedes and now he is with Alfa Romeo I see Bottas right back where I expect him to be, barely beating Zhou...
by KingVoid
Wed Aug 09, 2023 8:44 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Will Red Bull still be dominant in 2024?
Replies: 132
Views: 5371

Re: Will Red Bull still be dominant in 2024?

Exactly HOW is it utter nonsense? Did you not watch the shenanigans that Verstappen did WHEN Mercedes finally got the car sorted out and Hamilton then had a car to take the fight to Verstappen and Red Bull Hamilton had the car to take the fight to Verstappen for the entire 2021 season, straight fro...
by KingVoid
Wed Aug 09, 2023 8:38 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Will Red Bull still be dominant in 2024?
Replies: 132
Views: 5371

Re: Will Red Bull still be dominant in 2024?

Complaining about Red Bull’s overspend in 2023 is like complaining about Mercedes’ secret tyre test in 2015. The idea that non-Verstappen fans wouldn’t be moaning endlessly if it wasn’t for that overspend is absolutely hilarious though. They would just find something else to complain about. Quit th...
by KingVoid
Wed Aug 09, 2023 4:11 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Will Red Bull still be dominant in 2024?
Replies: 132
Views: 5371

Re: Will Red Bull still be dominant in 2024?

Complaining about Red Bull’s overspend in 2023 is like complaining about Mercedes’ secret tyre test in 2015.

The idea that non-Verstappen fans wouldn’t be moaning endlessly if it wasn’t for that overspend is absolutely hilarious though. They would just find something else to complain about.
by KingVoid
Tue Aug 08, 2023 5:37 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Alonso & Verstappen on almost equal stats
Replies: 582
Views: 17298

Re: Alonso & Verstappen on almost equal stats

Yes, if you ignore the "when the field is close in Formula One". Not every season is going to be as one-sided as this one. Would you say that in every team the lead designer is the most important person in that team? 100%. If the lead designer gets it wrong he could have prime Senna and Schumacher ...
by KingVoid
Sun Aug 06, 2023 11:44 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The big 6 then the rest?
Replies: 889
Views: 20685

Re: The big 6 then the rest?

You think they would have signed Verstappen with no realistic chance of him driving the Mercedes car? Certainly not as early as 2016. Realistically, the best Verstappen could hope for was to be with Williams in 2016 and spend a few years toiling there, whilst Wolff was preventing him from joining M...
by KingVoid
Sat Aug 05, 2023 9:20 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Young driver dry spell
Replies: 12
Views: 1383

Re: Young driver dry spell

A couple of reasons: 1. There used to be many ways to get into Formula 1, but when Formula Renault 3.5 and GP3 folded in 2015 and 2018 respectively, the only way to get into F1 is by the F2-F3 ladder. 2. Ocon, Verstappen, Sainz, Ricciardo, Bottas, and Magnussen never drove in F2 or GP2. They all eit...