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Not sure if Mercedes are going to sandbag at all this weekend because .... damn they look even better than last year! Seems like a 2018 repeat. Ferrari strongest in pre-season, maybe they'll even win in Australia but after watching most of FP2, the Merc looks the best by a good enough margin. Logic...

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It is just another example of how they try to make the 'competition' element of F1 seem more real. Maybe double points for the last race of the year is in the same category. They have failed to make it attractive by improving the racing enough, so we have DRS, different tyre rules for the top 10 qua...

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Covalent wrote:
babararacucudada wrote:Bottas says it is going to be him.

He has declared that he is going to beat everybody this year.

I wonder how that attitude is going down at Mercedes.

Maybe he will win a race this year.
Link?

https://www.planetf1.com/news/bottas-im ... this-year/

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Bottas says it is going to be him.

He has declared that he is going to beat everybody this year.

I wonder how that attitude is going down at Mercedes.

Maybe he will win a race this year.

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It is the owners and the regulators that ruin F1. Mercedes' job should just be to win fairly and they have done - over and over and over and..... excellent point very similar to when Ferrari was dominating with MS and they changed the rules completly to stop them ( took away private testing as exam...

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It is the owners and the regulators that ruin F1.
Mercedes' job should just be to win fairly and they have done - over and over and over and.....

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Hamilton is right to be shocked by the terrible viewing figures in the UK. https://www.planetf1.com/news/hamilton-shocked-by-terrible-viewing-figures/ F1 needs to be a 'Must Watch' sport to draw in fans and viewers. It has become a boring sport IMO compared to the many others available and hasn't mo...

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The big gap may become a bit smaller.

The cars are still way too much of a factor in who wins. The only person you can definitely say a driver in the top 3 teams beat through his skill is his team-mate.

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Only the teams themselves know how well they are doing.
Initial testing doesn't show how good the cars are - it only shows which teams are struggling.

It makes you feel better if you big up the other teams if you are a front runner - then you can exceed expectations when the racing starts.

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While this article is correct, there are a few things to keep in mind (some brought up in the article already): 1) Hydrogen may not be any more efficient than fossil fuels, but it can be (although is not now) produced from 100% renewable energy, making that efficiency far less important. 2) Battery...

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We do have the technology to, in theory, switch to full electric vehicles immediately. What we lack is the infrastructure / support resource. Convert that to the idea of fully electric F1, some form of in-race charging would be required to go a full race distance. That isn't going to happen with a ...

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I said at the time that it seemed to me that Paddy Lowe was claiming to have a lot to do with the success at Mercedes, but I couldn't see the evidence to suggest that was the case. I wasn't expecting him to be a success at Williams.

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I'm not particularly interested in front wing design - other than to make the racing better. The FIA seems to have made a half-heated attempt to get a 'better racing' result. The 2019 wings are very similar to the 2018 wings, so likely to function similarly.

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An advantage with FE is that it is even easier to get to sleep than with the current F1. Renewable fuel doesn't just mean electricity - it could be hydrogen - burn it and you get water. They would need fuel cells that would not result in an explosion or a fireball - but they have that currently. Bat...

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F1 is a sport that has a limited future. Currently it is trying to carry on traditions from a long time ago. That can have value, but I think they have to be selective about what they try to hang on to. Hanging onto circuits and the glamour of F1 helps. In the past F1 was about building faster cars....

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Ferrari as a team under performed last year. Vettel made mistakes, but they also made development mistakes. The boss has to own that.
https://www.racefans.net/2018/10/22/vet ... -from-car/

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Bottas had quite a good start in 2017 - maybe because he used his head and figured out the car a bit earlier than Hamilton. Once Hamilton knew what to do the gap opened up. Since then, the gap has been clear. Bottas has a No.2 driver attitude. Teamed with Hamilton, he is going to stay that way. Wolf...

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Something tells me that Lewis will equal but not beat Schumacher's total of 7 drivers championships. If he wins in 2019 and 2020 that will put him at seven and tied with Michael. At that point his contract with Merc is up. He has talked (and there is much speculation about) going to Ferrari to fini...

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In all fairness that's because a number of Hamilton fans often use the claimed lack of number one or no team orders at Merc as some kind of badge of status, particularly when comparing Hamilton to e.g. Alonso or Vettel. I should imagine that a number of people who have been on the receiving end of ...

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I've thought for years that Hamilton is a better driver than Vettel. Hamilton is capable of driving cars in many different ways. When he had a bad car, he could still drive it hard and would tend to get more from it than his team mate. He is also ruthless - which is an advantage in F1. Vettel seems ...

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Alonso will serve as a reminder of how much of this sport is about the car you drive rather than the skills of the driver. As such, make no moves to alienate the top teams in the sport, otherwise even one of the best will be regulated to the best of the rest series. I also think that is one of the ...

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Yes Fernando, you had a great run but please go. Not for the fans, they still love to see you drive, but for yourself. It is over for Alonso. The team will be better off without him and Vandoorne / Sainz would be good. Who knows he is still that good? We think he is. We like to yhink he is but do w...

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Breaking News:.... Daniel Ricciardo to leave Red Bull. Could this leave the opportunity for Alonso?????? Unfortunately no, it will not be an opportunity for Alonso. Unless Hamilton or Vettel suddenly retire, Alonso won't have an opportunity with a top team any time soon. Red Bul will go with a youn...

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https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/45000927 Nothing else to add. Mercedes are probably happy to see they have the perfect No.2 driver. If Leclerc joins Ferrari next year, it may finally be difficult for Mercedes to win the Manufacturer's World Championship. Margins over the last 4 years were - 296,...

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Recarding the lead driver having to leave room if there is an overlap (which is sort of how the rules are written). A move by Ricciardo on Raikkonen in 2015 which wasn't penalised. Raikkonen earning his 'cool' status. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvgMab_W1P8 Not sure if serious. That is a typica...

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Recarding the lead driver having to leave room if there is an overlap (which is sort of how the rules are written).
A move by Ricciardo on Raikkonen in 2015 which wasn't penalised.

Raikkonen earning his 'cool' status.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvgMab_W1P8

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AravJ wrote:Poor Bottas being called a wing man.

Apparently Wolff mis-spoke, or the Fake News got it wrong.

Anyway, Bottas has now accepted that he has equal status to Hamilton's.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/13773 ... n-comments

Bless his heart.

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Good drives by Hamilton and Bottas - and good signs for Mercedes for any future wet weather.

Tyre choices could mix things up a lot tomorrow.

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That’s not the point though. Toto Wolff loves to talk about how he wants his drivers to race, and how both drivers are absolute equals. Mercedes fans love to talk about how Mercedes allows both their drivers to race. Hamilton fans love to talk about how Lewis doesn’t have number 1 status. Ferrari a...

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True that, but it's just Mercedes that keeps saying it, other say Ferrari have improved their straight line speed. What's glaring is Mercedes customers have not improved with the works engine upgrade like the Ferrari customer teams. It's not just Wolff saying it, he said there losing 0.5 on the str...

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That is the Hamilton incident in real time with radio if anybody is interested; https://streamable.com/tei1t Very similar to the discussion Vettel had with his engineer at a race last year when they told him to pull over in qualifying and retire the car, but after a 20 second discussion they said o...

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Rosberg seems quite surprised seeing the body language of Hamilton today. He said he's never seen such a body language come off Hamilton. https://www.planetf1.com/news/rosberg-worried-about-hamiltons-body-language/ Maybe Rosberg will now be allowed to do the podium interviews - unless Hamilton gets...

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It was one of the better races of the year. The weather was perfect, the crowds were superb, it was a grand diorama of drama. Yes, Raikkonen screwed up. But the bad sportsmanship coming from the Mercedes camp leaves a foul taste in my mouth. There is a very good reason why I do not respect certain ...

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It was one of the better races of the year. The weather was perfect, the crowds were superb, it was a grand diorama of drama. Yes, Raikkonen screwed up. But the bad sportsmanship coming from the Mercedes camp leaves a foul taste in my mouth. There is a very good reason why I do not respect certain ...

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It was a poor performance overall by the Mercedes Team - not for the first time this year. Who was the guy hanging around Wolff's right shoulder during the Race? Seemed like he might be someone from upper management?

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If Ferrari have Leclerc and Vettel in 2019, that could result in them getting a higher Constructors Championship total, which would increase the risk of Mercedes not winning that title. Staying with Bottas might be enough for Mercedes (if they can provide clearly the best car in 2019), but with Hami...

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It's OK. With today's equipment, it would be a surprise if it wasn't.

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All of us are partially blind in both eyes, but we go through life without being aware of it. The area we cannot see is an oval shaped area to the right of where we are looking with our right eye and to the left of where we are looking with our left eye. Your brain fills in the area you cannot see b...

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was verstappen raised to be a spoiled little $%^& ? Spoiled is not the correct word. I have no doubt he has been imprinted, from early age, to never have doubts and to never let him get put aside. Jos's experiences in F1 undoubtedly have contributed to the way he raised his son. So far, he's been a...

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