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Just echo what most have said here. Overall he did a hell of a lot of good for F1 & while his private life was somewhat unique, it was his private life & should've remained so. We shouldn't forget that he was one of the few in the F1 fraternity to have the decency to attend the funeral of Roland Ra...

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I usually think that racefans is pretty accurate with this article, but it is a bit laughable this time. It lists drivers thought to be stand outs compared to very poor ones. The fact that verstappen isn't a star performer and hamilton isn't a struggler suggests that their performance wasn't drasti...

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Car size. Car aero. Car tyres. :thumbup: The cars are too big. Way too big. F1 car is 2000W x ~5700L My MWB 2013 Transit Van is 1920W x 5900L That is a van I use for towing my race car..... it is half van/half camper (side door enters living space - rear doors open into van space). I can fit all th...

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Car size. Car aero. Car tyres. :thumbup: The cars are too big. Way too big. F1 car is 2000W x ~5700L My MWB 2013 Transit Van is 1920W x 5900L That is a van I use for towing my race car..... it is half van/half camper (side door enters living space - rear doors open into van space). I can fit all th...

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Car size. Car aero. Car tyres. :thumbup: The cars are too big. Way too big. F1 car is 2000W x ~5700L My MWB 2013 Transit Van is 1920W x 5900L That is a van I use for towing my race car..... it is half van/half camper (side door enters living space - rear doors open into van space). I can fit all th...

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It's funny how if you read articles written at the time about Schumacher they read remarkably similar to the articles written about Hamilton today: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2001/sep/28/formulaone.formulaone2001 Shocker, JV has a bad opinion of MSC. JV says the same thing about Hamilton tod...

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Since you and I have gone back and forth on this a lot, I ask you - do you ever see Lewis Hamilton reacting this way after what happened to Schumacher in Suzuka 2006 - penultimate race which he was leading, while also leading the championship (thanks to his brilliant drive in China 2006)? I agree. ...

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Driver and team errors meant they couldn't capitalize on their pace, but the car was easily capable of winning. I can see you aren't amenable to being convinced but there is no evidence the car had the race pace to win. It's a blind faith assertion from you for no tangible justification. Here is my...

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Eh? Bottas was 0.025 seconds off Verstappen on Saturday, and comfortably running in second on Sunday - you think that's not a "competitive racecar"?? Bottas is fundamentally better than Hamilton at warming front tyres on low grip surfaces, it's been the only area he's held a consistent advantage ov...

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As for tyre wear - Hamilton said his tyres were great and he could have gone longer. Hamilton had managed the temperature but the set-up decision where they warmed the front tyres by really throwing the cars harshly into Sainte Devote absolutely destroyed the tyres throughout the race. It was not a...

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Monaco - 0.5-0.5 This is a really bad call. Mercedes had horrendous tyre wear and Bottas would likely have been overcut by Sainz if his wheelnut hadn't been machined. Red Bull or Ferrari was the car to have around the streets of the principality. Verstappen would have almost certainly overcut Botta...

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Just read comments from Toto Wolff that Mercedes raised the flexi-wing issue last summer, but did not receive any feedback from the FIA: https://www.racefans.net/2021/05/21/mercedes-and-mclaren-have-different-targets-and-tactics-in-f1s-bendy-wings-row/ Mercedes CEO Toto Wolff said yesterday the team...

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Since you and I have gone back and forth on this a lot, I ask you - do you ever see Lewis Hamilton reacting this way after what happened to Schumacher in Suzuka 2006 - penultimate race which he was leading, while also leading the championship (thanks to his brilliant drive in China 2006)? I agree. ...

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Interested to see how they go in Baku - the qualy lap analysis on Sky showed Hamilton gaining a lot on Verstappen on the straights, but Verstappen got it back through the slow corners. Now some of it can be explained by setup (although why would anyone be running anything other than maximum downfor...

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Since you and I have gone back and forth on this a lot, I ask you - do you ever see Lewis Hamilton reacting this way after what happened to Schumacher in Suzuka 2006 - penultimate race which he was leading, while also leading the championship (thanks to his brilliant drive in China 2006)? I agree. ...

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For what it's worth, I haven't seen any comments yet from Hamilton saying he shared the blame for the setup issue as was indicated by F1Tyrant and Tufty. JN24 linked earlier in the thread or in the qualifying thread. Am only saying I haven't seen it, atleast not on the qualifying thread that was fi...

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Interested to see how they go in Baku - the qualy lap analysis on Sky showed Hamilton gaining a lot on Verstappen on the straights, but Verstappen got it back through the slow corners. Now some of it can be explained by setup (although why would anyone be running anything other than maximum downforc...

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I just thought why not just let them race on softs. No hards or mediums. The softs are fast but degrade fast depending on driver's skill. That way there would be two or three pitstops but those who were fast but took care of their tyres would shine. The softs for Monaco are the softest tyre that Pi...

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A.J. Is over the top but it is fair to say that if Hamilton has a weakness, it's his attitude when a race isn't going his way. Thank you for pointedly calling me out for no reason - what exactly is "over the top" about what I said? I have consistently maintained that Hamilton is not a team builder,...

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Hello everyone. I am a new member and excited to be part of this community. I just recently started watching Formula 1 about a few months ago and I have to say I got hooked quickly. What an unbelievably cool sport! I have so many questions and I am still learning so many things. I've been reading a...

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And now the post race interview after Monaco: https://youtu.be/gU-J5JgCv5I Interviewer: Any lessons you can learn from today? Hamilton: For me, personally? No. For the team, sure. No "heat of the moment" excuses - this, very clearly, is the true nature of the man. In his 15th season in the sport, to...

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Was Kimi on Danny Ric also on lap 1?

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If you are basing this on Sainz going all out for 10-15 laps and killing his tyres to be 0.1s a lap on a cruising Verstappen, then sure, he didn't have the fastest car. Max had this race under control. He didn't put a foot wrong, but unlike Senna in '88 he knew to only use his advantage when he nee...

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Just went with the podium. Don’t really know what else to say. They all followed each other by about 1.5s for a bit, then some of them jumped or dropped a place or two in the pits. Basically you could vote for anyone who happened to have a bit of clear track around the time of their pit stop to put...

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OK, found a source which say that Schumacher was asked to move over for Mazepin because of a suspected fuel pressure issue: https://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/en/formula-1/race-monaco-gp-2021-team-quotes,159973.html Mick Schumacher “We had a small issue for a few laps and unfortunately I lost a lo...

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OK, found a source which say that Schumacher was asked to move over for Mazepin because of a suspected fuel pressure issue: https://motorsport.nextgen-auto.com/en/formula-1/race-monaco-gp-2021-team-quotes,159973.html Mick Schumacher “We had a small issue for a few laps and unfortunately I lost a lot...

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Schumacher had a big delay in the pits. having watched ted's notebook as well as looking at the official f1 page pit stop summary, can i ask where you even get this information from about him having a "big delay in the pits". I've seen others say this too, but it isn't true. His time in the pit sto...

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lets give credit to mazepin! I doubted myself when schumacher overtook him early on, but i did say yesterday that i had a feeling mazepin could beat him. THey both got black and white flags i think so we can't just be against mazipin here. Other drivers did too. Schumacher had a big delay in the pi...

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I do not disagree with this. However, this is not the same as comments in the heat of the moment during the race. Everyone who is so determined to win like the top stars will probably be emotional in such situations. And since we do not have that many pit radio broadcasts from Schumacher 's time pl...

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lets give credit to mazepin! I doubted myself when schumacher overtook him early on, but i did say yesterday that i had a feeling mazepin could beat him. THey both got black and white flags i think so we can't just be against mazipin here. Other drivers did too. Schumacher had a big delay in the pi...

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UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Sun May 23, 2021 4:58 pm
F1 live tv director's work summed up well:

Seriously, how bad does one have to be at their job to take the focus away from the *one* exciting moment of the race?

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Schumacher had the microphone on him outside the car a hell of a lot, he NEVER criticised the team so publicly, and he had a lot of ammo with which to do so in 2010-12 when his glorious comeback looked destined to be mired in the midfield (see the BTG interview linked earlier for how Merc brass saw...

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We can imagine a lot what Schumacher said or not said on the pit radio when things did not went his way - but at the end of the day we don't know. Pit radios were broadcasted much less back then and teams vetoed the broadcast of sensible parts. Given the famous meltdowns of Schumacher when things d...

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Nice to win a round, it's been a while! :D And in to the top3 too 8O Joint win, my good sir (or madam). :D Although I am a bit miffed that I'm listed second in the list even though I made my prediction before yours (and as per standard F1 rules the one to set the time earlier is listed as the winne...

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We can imagine a lot what Schumacher said or not said on the pit radio when things did not went his way - but at the end of the day we don't know. Pit radios were broadcasted much less back then and teams vetoed the broadcast of sensible parts. Given the famous meltdowns of Schumacher when things d...

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Think about Lewis today and how he would be as Schumacher's teammate while Schumacher is beating him. His head would drop and that gap in performance would only continue growing as Lewis slides further downwards and the team decide they actually love Schumacher's energy and team spirit and so rally...

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We can imagine a lot what Schumacher said or not said on the pit radio when things did not went his way - but at the end of the day we don't know. Pit radios were broadcasted much less back then and teams vetoed the broadcast of sensible parts. Given the famous meltdowns of Schumacher when things d...

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I think Monaco falls in the roughly equal category, as both team's number 1 drivers were close to pole, and the numbers 2's languishing towards the bottom of the top 10. 5 races in, I have Mercedes - RedBull at 4-1 Bahrain - 0.5-0.5 Imola - Merc Portugal - Merc Spain - Merc Monaco - 0.5-0.5 Bottas ...

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I think Monaco falls in the roughly equal category, as both team's number 1 drivers were close to pole, and the numbers 2's languishing towards the bottom of the top 10.

5 races in, I have Mercedes - RedBull at 4-1

Bahrain - 0.5-0.5
Imola - Merc
Portugal - Merc
Spain - Merc
Monaco - 0.5-0.5

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So why are the cameras there then if not to ensure there is no deflection? Why are the FIA implementing a rule change mid June then? The aim is to prevent variable aerodynamics. All the technical specs in the world strive to achieve that but they failed to achieve their goal so need to be changed. ...

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