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Number of races might help the youngsters but as mentioned the BC won't. If it works as intended and we get a more competitive F1 then those records will stand for all time because it could be so unlikely that a team stays dominant long enough for one driver in the future to benefit to the extent ne...

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Silverstone

1. Hamilton
2. Leclerc
3. Bottas
4. Vettel
5. Verstappen
6. Sainz
7. Gasly
8. Norris
9. Ricciardo
10. Hulkenberg

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Silverstone

1. Hamilton
2. Leclerc
3. Bottas

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Austria

1. Hamilton
2. Vettel
3. Bottas
4. Leclerc
5. Verstappen
6. Gasly
7. Ricciardo
8. Sainz
9. Hulkenberg
10. Norris

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Too high given the exemptions in my opinion but better than nothing. I was hoping for more like $125 given what is left out. Yeah it's definitely better than nothing but when 7 out of the 10 teams need to spend more than what they are now to meet any BC then it's hard to get too exited about it's a...

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Down to Andreas Seidl surely? That was my thought. The turnaround started once he came on board. He only joined last month, the foundations were layed last year with the development of this years car once the previous fault was found on the old one last summer. if we're dishing out credit then it s...

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2021 Regulations won't be fialised till October now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/48627700 What has been agreed though are the budget and financial rules - and the teams have all signed an agreement for them not to be changed. The budget will be $175 excluding driver salary, top 3 exec sala...

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Nobody should if I'm in charge of Mercedes, things literally couldn't be any sweeter. Anyone should if I'm a fan of anyone outside Mercedes or just of F1 in general. When the seasons being talked about along with the likes of 2002 you know it's bad. Max would be my "fan" choice followed by Alonso bu...

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Austria

1. Hamilton
2. Vettel
3. Bottas

Banker for Austria,not France like I first wrote lol.

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2021 Regulations won't be fialised till October now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/48627700 What has been agreed though are the budget and financial rules - and the teams have all signed an agreement for them not to be changed. The budget will be $175 excluding driver salary, top 3 exec sala...

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Down to Andreas Seidl surely? That was my thought. The turnaround started once he came on board. He only joined last month, the foundations were layed last year with the development of this years car once the previous fault was found on the old one last summer. if we're dishing out credit then it s...

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Is it again a coincidence that a team (McLaren) again has become competitive after Alonso left the team? They are only as competitive now as they were at the start of 2018. They are also full of people basically hired by Alonso, so perhaps he deserves some credit? Basically hired by Alonso? People ...

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Is it again a coincidence that a team (McLaren) again has become competitive after Alonso left the team? Bad teams with big budgets improving from poor years isn't really surprising though is it? He left them for a reason, they were poor in his last year there (2009+2014+2018). The teams he left wh...

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Hamilton is going to make this the most boring championship ever. Ferrari just cannot compete consistently enough and Bottas is fading. As a Hamilton fan it's enjoyable but I can see many people turning off F1 until next year. Leclerc stomped Vettel, who just doesn't look like he was on it all week...

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France

1. Hamilton
2. Vettel
3. Leclerc
4. Bottas
5. Verstappen
6. Gasly
7. Ricciardo
8. Sainz
9. Hulkenberg
10. Norris

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France

1. Hamilton
2. Vettel
3. Bottas

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Yeah it sucked for the #7 and Conway in particular, the #8 was nowhere all race. Congrats to Alonso and the #8 crew for the Championship though. Alonso got his 3rd World Title in the end, just not where expected lol. I was surprised that Nakajima is the first FIA World Champion from Japan though, I ...

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Shamelessly lifted from Marklar's post on AS... https://twitter.com/tgruener FIA presented teams with final budget cap numbers. From 2021-2025 teams allowed to spent $175m annually. Not as radical as smaller teams hoped considering many costs not included like driver salaries, engines, travel & mark...

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Canada

1. Hamilton
2. Bottas
3. Leclerc

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Canada

1. Hamilton
2. Bottas
3. Leclerc
4. Vettel
5. Verstappen
6. Gasly
7. Sainz
8. Norris
9. Ricciardo
10. Grosjean

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Hulk would be a good team mate to Verstappen. A bit like Irvine was to Schumacher. Head strong enough to deal with getting beaten and fast enough to get results. Reading a lot of reports here & there now. Looks like Hulk will finally get his podium in 2020. Gotta get past his team mate, 2 Mercs & 2...

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https://www.racefans.net/2019/05/29/the-storm-brewing-amid-f1s-2021-rules-wrangle/ Couple of interesting points raised in this article. Buried in it was the fact that the gearbox tender has been cancelled and it looks highly likely that the other standardization tenders will also be withdrawn. Acco...

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On BBC Radio 4 this morning MW said M-B best ever. I’m no fan of MW, but he might be right. Consider the dominance, the time period and also: no cheating, no nominating one driver for maximum points, no ‘magic’ advantage (double diffuser, f-duct, blown diffuser, etc.), no endless testing or wind-tu...

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I dunno. On the car side I doubt it would make a difference, these designs and faults within were done already under MA. On the team side it may have done but I think promoting Leclerc was the problem, however daft that might sound as he clearly is very talented. The problem is he's too close to Seb...

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It certainly looks a great place to watch it from, the noise,smell and speed of the cars must have been great from that close. Glad you had a blast.

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Big crash. Bourdais and Rahal, looks like Sebby at fault and Rahal not happy.

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Rossi isn't happy lol.

This could get spicy.

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Okay I hadn't seen this but now I'm putting Sainz in the mix. Admittedly I just assumed he'd benefited from others misfortune but that's a ballsy couple of moves and his stints were very consistent. Good effort.

https://streamable.com/t177m

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Did anyone see what happened to Ricciardo? He was in 5th early in the race but somehow he dropped down to 12th after the stops and never recovered. What happened there? He and K-Mag went on the same tyre strat as Lewis but they got stuck behind Kimi who was going long in the first stint. They pitte...

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Nice stint by Grosjean, 50 laps on the Softs, which helped him jump a bunch of people caught behind the Kimi train. Nice stint by Lewis too on the Mediums (60+ laps I think) and Max was as consistent as ever this year pace wise but was a bit optimistic with that late lunge. I only saw from about Lap...

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Did anyone see what happened to Ricciardo? He was in 5th early in the race but somehow he dropped down to 12th after the stops and never recovered. What happened there? He and K-Mag went on the same tyre strat as Lewis but they got stuck behind Kimi who was going long in the first stint. They pitte...

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The Mercedes team is something else, 1 second quicker than last season. Red Bull were 0.150 quicker and Ferrari 0.1 quicker. Interestingly, Renault found 1 second too. Seems Pirelli's move to the thinner tread inadvertently took one of Mercedes biggest weakness and turned it into their biggest stre...

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The Mercedes team is something else, 1 second quicker than last season. Red Bull were 0.150 quicker and Ferrari 0.1 quicker. Interestingly, Renault found 1 second too. Seems Pirelli's move to the thinner tread inadvertently took one of Mercedes biggest weakness and turned it into their biggest stre...

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sometimes that is good, for a car that is so long. They say that they have worked a lot on low speed corners which could make it more twitchy and less stable. Even heard mention of rear wheel steering? not sure if I heard that correctly. If they are now outperforming Ferrari in low speed corners, t...

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I think there's reason to believe the Mercedes was a handful in Barcelona. Watching the car there, it was twitchy and unsettled even on their quick laps. I haven't seen the same from it in Monaco, however. sometimes that is good, for a car that is so long. They say that they have worked a lot on lo...

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No that's not true. A 3rd WDC would be far more important. Analyze that Le Mans win and you'll find it was not really that high of a degree of difficulty at all. It was basically his car against the sister car. I wouldn't put that in the same category as his titles in 05' or 06'. Back in the old da...

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I've been sitting back and watching this whole "Alonso Goes to Indy" thing, and I have to admit I do not understand what McLaren are doing or why. First off, the 800 lb. gorilla in the room: Alonso failed to make the show because he crashed the car and lost two days of practice. Despite all of thei...

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@ Lotus 49. Every crash is different. Some apparently take longer to repair. In this case, the crashed car was not repairable and the team did not have a spare car ready. I'm pretty sure the driver knew that before turning even one lap. A little extra caution while the car was still being sorted wo...

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Monaco

1. Hamilton
2. Verstappen
3. Bottas
4. Vettel
5. Leclerc
6. Gasly
7. Sainz
8. Magnussen
9. Perez
10. Ricciardo

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Monaco

1. Hamilton
2. Verstappen
3. Bottas

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