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The good news is that it is becoming clearer and clearer that diagnosed cases of Covid-19, represent just a fraction of the number of people infected with the virus. This is good news because it means the spread will not keep growing for as long as previously thought, and deaths will be less than th...

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Australia now cancelled. Bahrain - already McLaren cannot attend, and rest of the drivers will not wish to either. Vietnam is not better than Australia was 2 weeks ago.... so with an extra two weeks.....not going to happen From a previous post i made a few days ago.. -- China - postponed Holland - 8...

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Bahrain should go as per schedule. They are not even going to allow any spectator on the track :? Not sure about Vietnam. Hopefully rest of the season will not get affected. Probably they will need to have restriction on international spectators or something x( I doubt Bahrain will go ahead. It qui...

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Looking at the races and impact of Covid 19. Once there is local transmission of Covid-19, so far in most countries cases grow at a multiple of around 2.5x more cases each week. I will assume applying this growth rate to current local cases will calculate the maximum possible cases at a future date...

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I hate to pessimistic but this season is going to be a mess. Australia will go ahead, 3 team members are suffering from symptoms, i'd say probably unlikely to be Corona but how many team members are willing to take the risk going forwards. Most counties are seeing an exponential rise in cases, they...

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mikeyg123 wrote:I'm certain Mercedes won't appear dominant.

I feel it very unlikely Mercedes will win more than 4 races this season.

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How about we have Australia 1, Australia 2, Australia 3 and Australia 4? That would cover the first 4 races and they could probably cut some gaps if they don't have to pack up and move :) One could trial a reverse grid even if points were not recorded - or some other options Because F1 grand prix i...

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I think we'll lose a lot of the early races. Bahrain definitely. Vietnam, I can see them going to extraordinary lengths to try and keep the race on but ultimately not being able to. And then the early part of the European calendar has got to be under threat as well, given it's two months away and t...

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Looking at the races and impact of Covid 19. Once there is local transmission of Covid-19, so far in most countries cases grow at a multiple of around 2.5x more cases each week. I will assume applying this growth rate to current local cases will calculate the maximum possible cases at a future date ...

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Ferrari appeared to be much slower in a straight line in this last race. This has obviously raised a lot of suspicions with people, giving the timing of the technical clarification that Red Bull requested. Max Verstappen has outright accused them of cheating, but obviously whether they were or were...

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I've just looked it up and being biased toward someone means you are favouring them, it also says this is often used wrongly when people actually mean biased against. Well I didn't know that. I just took the words as individual entities. Well grammar wouldn't be a strong point for myself, I had to ...

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Ferrari appeared to be much slower in a straight line in this last race. This has obviously raised a lot of suspicions with people, giving the timing of the technical clarification that Red Bull requested. Max Verstappen has outright accused them of cheating, but obviously whether they were or were...

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Valtteri, Lewis, Ricciardo for me. Honorable mention to Lando Norris. Edit: Max also deserves an honorable mention. yes, Norris drove well. I also would have selected him, but Ricciardo was better in a car that is probably not quite as good. Norris was really close, it is his first year in F1, and ...

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I would love to see the protest, because IMO the Renault system is not illegal, but a novel way to improve the driver/car performance. I went over the regulations, and while such things as anti-lock are banned, this system is not actually anti-lock but just fine-tunes the braking balance dependent ...

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Interesting no one has considered Perez. Yes he crashed on the last lap, but the crash does not appear to be his fault, and his result still had him gaining 8 places during the race.. ok not quite as good as Ricciardo who gained 10 places, but still better than Sainz who only gained his two places d...

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I don't see the issue with what Mercedes did with Hamilton. He was giving it everything when Bottas had had his 2nd stop. Despite this, Hamilton was nearly as fast as Bottas. Implying he seriously was puc=shing. In all that traffic, although he was faster than Vettel at this stage, I seriously doub...

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Ruste13 wrote:I must be borderline dyslexic, everytime I read this thread title I see, "Verstappen needs his watch back"

The clock is ticking

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The new t-shirt: "What would Guenther Steiner do?"

Is it better than the "what would Putin do?" or others?

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Simply remove Hamilton, and yes, Mercedes would not be winning. But if you replace Hamilton with another driver instead of Bottas in one car and the other car without a driver, depending on who replaces Hamilton, Mercedes could still be winning.

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I have forgotten their names

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UnlikeUday wrote:Banana kerb installed at turn 5 to enforce track limits.

Source - http://www.imgur.com

The Banana kerb will probably be less of a problem than the witches hats and the disruption to allow them to be replaced by track officials.

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Option 5 - Hamilton

Self destruction would be the biggest risk - and still not that big as far as risks go.

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Ok. Vettel did not finish in the front runners.... but after everyone stopped looking he did eventually finish. No need to go out wandering around the track seeing if he is still out there.

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Personally, I think Toto wants to hire Ocon. I'd actually say the opposite, that if it was purely down to his personal opinion, he'd keep Bottas. He's had a much larger role in Bottas' career than he has Ocon's. Are you sure about that? Erm, yes? Have you forgotten that he was part of Valtteri's ma...

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The thing about contracts is that people always seem so sure when claiming certain drivers have No. 1 status but nobody seems to have the same kind of evidence or proof that other drivers are on equal status contracts. Truth is that 99.9% of the world don't actually have a clue. Hmm...no 1 status d...

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I was going to pic Vettel... but that option is missing

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First of all I don't see Vettel retiring this year, it's interesting that Alonso is being seen as totally out of the picture. With Ricciardo he's under contract to Renault so I can't see that happening , Renault stopped the Hulk joining Mercedes in 2017. On to Bottas I could see that happening in r...

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Austria: Q3: Russell Kubica Stroll Albon Grosjean Q2: Magnussen Kvyat Raikkonen Giovinazzi Perez Top 10: 1. Hamilton 2. Bottas 3. Leclerc 4. Vettel 5. Verstappen 6. Sainz 7. Gasly 8. Norris 9. Ricciardo 10. Hulkenberg I wonder why Hulkenberg would use the tires to get throught to the top 10... when...

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How fast is Verstappen relative to Hamilton? The Ricciardo/Hulkenberg and Ricciardo/Vettel cross comparisons basically suggest that Verstappen is around 2 tenths quicker than even Hamilton/Alonso tier [/u] I know sounds absurd, but that is what the numbers say. The reality is that even when drivers...

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Ban division 1. It you take the top three teams out, or just consider them a sideshow, then formulae 1 is quite interesting. Who will win division 2 this weekend is a lot more open than who will will division 1. This I can get on board with. Without the big 3 the championship battle would look like...

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Ban division 1.

It you take the top three teams out, or just consider them a sideshow, then formulae 1 is quite interesting. Who will win division 2 this weekend is a lot more open than who will will division 1.

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I think it's purpose is to find a F1 driver and it is a good platform for trying to do that, the more women you can cycle through the system then the better chance of achieving that goal. I just watched a women's football world cup match. Does it follow that the only purpose of that competition is ...

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KingVoid wrote:I want Ricciardo on the podium.

Unlikely but not impossible.

Take some mahem.... but that is not impossible. Perhaps Vettel and Hamilton can help there?

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If we assume that Hulkenberg = Bottas (not a bad assumption), then Max becomes the fastest driver in F1 almost by default. Would that make Ricciardo the 2nd best on the grid? It also depends which Bottas you use, the one of early season 17/18/19 that was in and around Hamiltons pace the last 2/3's ...

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Maybe Max for making it worth watching. Interesting one this. I thought, "yes but he also has two penalty points for causing a collision". The unsafe release was the team not him, but the collision was him. But then, collisions can make interesting watching. They almost always make the highlights r...

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Covalent wrote:
UnlikeUday wrote:The race where literally all teams get major upgrade packages.
Apart from Ferrari I reckon, who'll get a degrade package.

The degrade package is running behind schedule and may not be available until qualifying

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It is really difficult to compare drivers. If they have the same equipment, and the equipment is performing at its optimum, then you can make a comparison of relative performance on at a given race. But so many factors come into play, and drivers do not always drive at the same level. It seems peopl...

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Somebody did this last year and got it right, but they waited until a consistent pattern had emerged. I'm going bold and calling it after the second race. What we saw from Leclerc in Bahrain lived up to the promise I knew (certainly hoped!) he had, and once Ferrari start focusing their attention on...

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Tyres made out of cheese is not the end of it.... they insist on soft cheese.... I mean what did we end up with last year as a choice of tyres: 1: super soft 2: hyper soft 3: i have run out of adjectives soft Even 'Come on Bear' is too hard for wear out fast enough -- i mean is this really what raci...

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Hulk has managed to show there is some competitive pace available from the Renault car. McLaren have managed to show there is pace available from the Renault engine. Ricciardo has yet to really demonstrate either. Something hasn't clicked, or there is some underlying problem. It is early yet but he ...

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