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Considering that James Vowles has publicly clarified (for the express purpose of dispelling rumors about Mercedes) that Albon is contracted through 2025, I think we can assume Albon is not actually an option, whether or not Mercedes would pick him. That said, I still have a hard time seeing a case f...

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... are we looking for the next world champion or drivers that are only good enough to be average, if it's the latter then what's the point. I don't think it's realistic to have the ideal of filling the entire grid with top tier drivers. This has never happened in history, and there's no reason to ...

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Surely Alonso is too old for Merc to think about him for 2025 and beyond. Yes he's still near his best, but I'd be amazed if can stay there for much longer. Merc tend to think long term, and with Russell bedded in I think it may be whichever of the Mclaren duo Norris/Piastri does best this year who...

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I do have a short memory however I do remember the telemetry that was were the teammate not going for the title had a different set up and won the race, Hamilton made a big thing about it, maybe one of the reasons why he decided to leave the team. My memory of it was that Hamilton and Button both h...

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Norris - look at Hamilton: he is a racer! :nod: While commendable, let us not forget that when Lewis had a championship winning car he wanted to keep Bottas as his wingman (oops, teammate). This last roll of the dice for him is not a comparable situation to Norris, who is closer to the start of his...

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If Red Bull can scoop up any kind of real talent from another team, the team might try its hand at that given that Verstappen can do almost all the scoring by himself if the car is fast enough. So that would presently be Piastri. For Red Bull, the constructors is more of a bonus element anyway, nic...

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That comes across as Hamilton being more of a poser than a serious racing driver, he's going to Ferrari to try and win his 8th title. Why do you make it sound like a bad thing ? Very likely that he has given up on 8th. RB almost sure to win next 2, and by 2026, he will be just too old. So then, mak...

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Azi wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 04, 2024 7:07 pm
48 pages... bloody nora. So much back and forth for something so clear cut.

Does anyone genuinely believe that what happened was right, according to the rules? Really? Baffling.

Either some people genuinely do believe it, or they're very stubborn about making it look that way.

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I'm in agreement with the consensus. Alonso will have an easy victory over Stroll, and I expect Gasly to show second-year improvement and be the faster Alpine the majority of the time (maybe 65-35, nothing crushing).

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Ridiculous decision, and my contempt for FOM (and by extension, the current F1 teams) has increased significantly as a result. It's crystal clear that the reasons are made up, and that the actual reason is reluctance from the current teams to have their share of the pie reduced and the (highly infla...

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liberty has applied for some different names for a possible Chicago race. apparently looking at New York also trying to figure out how to have 30 races by 2030 Needless to say, there is no F1-grade race track anywhere near Chicago, so this would be another street circuit... x( I love Chicago as a c...

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I agree. F1 is growing fat off of itself and those involved are getting happy with mediocracy as long as they get to be part of the party. Stolid and stagnant. F1 badly needs a disrupter. I think with the driver situation it's because in recent years 50% of new drivers have been pay drivers and not...

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It's a shame to see that Dorianne Pin is not being linked to Italian F4 with Prema, I guess her program with be FAcademy and WEC, I'm not sure where that gets her if true. WEC is an ending point unto itself, so an LMP2 program in WEC could easily lead to a hypercar program in WEC. Agree that F1 Aca...

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Madrid track simulation from Williams Esports. https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/other/on-board-footage-from-madrid-grand-prix-highlights-one-big-concern/ar-BB1heVzX?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=e4785af75d7e4805b9c7593aeff3407e&ei=10 Not overly enthused. It's... different, I suppose? It's not really gi...

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F1 is a sport, not an exercise in appeasing the hypocritically ignorant Tree Hugging Karens of the world, and sport exists for the spirit of competition, NOT the spirit of competition as long as it adheres to the wishes of a certain demographic of people. I don't particularly want to start anything...

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Street circuits that aren't actually in the city have no upside. It's just a tunnel of catch fencing. 1,000,000% agree with this. The only possible redeeming value of a street circuit is the wow factor of seeing F1 cars race through familiar city streets, underscoring how otherwordly quick they are...

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I noticed the colors, and had to do a double take since the first thing I saw highlighted in yellow was my post inside a nested quote! At first I thought it was calling me out specifically, but it certainly seems easy to differentiate the nested quotes to these young eyes.

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Albon and Ricciardo for me. Albon doesn't need much explanation. His advantage over Sargeant last year was so large that it's borderline implausible to believe the situation will reverse itself. The best Logan can hope for is closing the gap enough to win a few head-to-heads on merit. The Red Bull B...

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This whole preferential engines thing has always been unsubstantiated and denied by McLaren who have always insisted that engines were assigned randomly. To be fair, has there ever been a case of a team openly admitting they disadvantaged one driver despite an equal contract? I don't think McLaren ...

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And just to clarify, the absolute most dominant car since the 50's all the way up to 2001 was in fact the MP4/4, NOT the W15C as you suggest, and the margin between the MP4/4 to the next best car was WAAAAAAAAY larger than the W15C had over the McLaren. It's not even debatable. Of course it's debat...

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It's not the day today spending that's the issue. Steiner wanted Haas to invest money in better facilities for the team. This would allow them to actually design and then develop their own cars properly rather than having to buy in as many parts as possible and contract out as much of the developme...

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Not the most exciting driver pairings on the grid... I don't see any reason to expect a change at Haas. I've never been a big believer in Nico Hulkenberg as anything more than another Jarno Trulli -- fast in qualifying, fading in the races -- but he still has sufficient edge to beat KMag. I'm a litt...

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It's funny when we talk about the median system that it actually would have Leclerc 15-7 Sainz, it's actually Exediron's hybrid system where he has looked to introduce subjectivity that has it at 11-11. I'm fully willing to admit I probably have some funky calls with the 11-11 score for 2021. Howev...

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I take into account any context like a driver might be taking grid penalties so doesn't really compete in qualifying whereas you would just include everything. This isn't the case; if you look at my lists, you'll see a few cases where I threw out a session because one driver or the other had a pena...

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my numbers for 2021 are completely different, across the 3 years they are very similar:- 2021 Leclerc > Sainz 0.1s (13-6) 2022 Leclerc > Sainz 0.13s (11-3) 2023 Leclerc > Sainz 0.12s (13-5) I'd have to go back and check why I scored it 11-11 in 2021, as that obviously differs quite dramatically fro...

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Alright, I've pulled the numbers now, and at least with my method, the result isn't quite what I had thought. The gap between Leclerc and Sainz has actually continued to grow every year, despite perception perhaps not being in that direction. 2021: 0.022% Sainz LEC 0.595% (Bahrain) LEC 0.519% (Imola...

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What does the gap between Leclerc and Sainz look like over the 4 years they've been together? Has it fluctuated or largely stayed the same? I actually didn't keep track of any numbers last year for whatever reason (generally lower interest owing to utter Red Bull domination combined with life stuff...

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I don't find the contrast at all difficult to follow (31 here, so definitely on the younger side for the forum!), but I do agree it's on the subtle side. It could easily afford to be higher.

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IMO, the truth lies somewhere between the two of you. I'm inclined to feel Mikey has overrated Mansell in a number of seasons, but I also can't see having him as low as 4th in 1986 and 1987 (behind Piquet, no less).

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A dumpster fire, get out while you can? I quite enjoy this thread and I guess that goes for all regulars here. Otherwise, why partake? Because there has been absolutely nothing new raised in over a year. Every time I look in, I see the same points being argued by the same people, without variation ...

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As you may know, one of the abilities of our modern Large Language Model AI is the ability to quickly and accurately summarize a body of text. Summarization condenses content and removes the noise, distilling thousands of words into only the salient points of the discussion. With the help of AI, I h...

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You either hate Mansell or have forgotten he exists.... :lol: :lol: Yeah, I don't rate Mansell very highly at all relative to most people, but not having him in the top three of any year does stand out to me, particularly when you have Piquet in there twice. The other one I find surprising is Senna...

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https://www.racefans.net/2024/01/01/sauber-change-name-to-stake-f1-team-for-next-two-seasons/ Well, they are going to be called "Stake F1 Team" It must just be so annoying to have to say that whenever the car does anything on track. Based on what often happens with the drivers in this team: "and it...

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It's pointless discussing it because to anyone who doesn't think Masi acted in accordance to the rules it's irrelevant. Merely a tactic to shift focus. Yeah, it's a similar level of debate to if we were discussing Singapore 2008, and every time Fiki brought up the intentional crash, I pivoted and s...

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It has been put here before. Why did the Mercedes team not go through with the appeals process? Was the system rigged against a fair outcome or had the team itself come to the conclusion that the regulations had been applied correctly? Option #3: The regulations were applied incorrectly, but Merced...

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2 - Ayrton Senna 6 - Alain Prost Sorry but I stopped reading there because your ranking begins without making sense. Makes no sense at all. To you maybe; I would have Prost even lower :) There's a few Prost fans on here some thing Prost is better for some reason. Considering that Mikey is heavily w...

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The overriding authority means that it's Masi's call, not that he can do whatever he wants. Even those with authority need to work within the framework permitted them by the rules/law that grants them power.

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Masi abused his powers - be it to suit pseudo-entertainment desires or be it to suit (deliberately or by incompetence) RB's interests - and, therefore, was removed from his position. All else is just face-saving and political attempts to avoid ex post changes of the championship. Masi was removed f...

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We saw the inverse of the situation earlier in the race, with Checo on dead soft tires against Lewis on new hard tires, and Checo was able to come back after Lewis initially passed him. I would expect old hard tires to probably still be in better shape than very old softs, but obviously new softs a...

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I wonder... If we had a sort of calculation for "expected pass" like XG in football what Verstappen's "EP" would have been for that final lap. It would be very high. Max finished the final lap 2.2 seconds ahead, having started behind. Considering he weaved on the straight and went defensive, that's...

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