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Hamilton engaging Senna mode.

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Perhaps we now see what Mercedes really thinks of Russell. Shock horror maybe he's not as good as Hamilton after all. Outscored him in year one, got outscored in year 2, schooling him so far in year 3. Maybe Lewis is not as good as you think after all. Some members see one thing the teams apparentl...

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We have no idea what the protocols are for each team. A mistake was made on a dry track. Every other team, every other driver got it right. I have no idea how to divvy up credit/blame in those scenarios. Looking at radio transcripts some teams made the call after getting driver input, some drivers ...

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That is a new concept to me. What does core performance actually mean? Hamilton is underperforming but his core performance is okay? Yes, that makes no sense at all and sounds a lot like the Bottas excuses that have been doing the rounds on this forum. It means what he is capable of, you think on h...

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Verstappen in 2022 had a comparable win percentage to Hamilton in 2020, with a car that was probably weaker than 2019 Mercedes. Hamilton won 11 races out of 21 in a season where Bottas comfortably finished second in the standings. His car was likely stronger than the RB18. There was only 17 races i...

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Perhaps we now see what Mercedes really thinks of Russell. Shock horror maybe he's not as good as Hamilton after all. Outscored him in year one, got outscored in year 2, schooling him so far in year 3. Maybe Lewis is not as good as you think after all. Some members see one thing the teams apparentl...

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Well, perhaps maybe Mercedes (or rather Ratcliffe) thinks there’s more to Verstappen than just the driving. Maybe that's what you think aside from driving a car very fast. Maybe it is what Mercedes is thinking, because otherwise the amount makes very little sense. They're a sinking ship and they're...

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Holy cow, £128M a year, that is insane. No matter how good a driver is, this is taking it into ludicrous territory. https://www.crash.net/f1/news/1047716/1/mercedes-tabling-world-record-ps128m-max-verstappen-offer-replace-lewis-hamilton :thumbup: Since driver salaries are outside the budget cap, th...

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Not that russell was much better today, but this year, Hamilton certainly isn't even looking close to being a top level driver any more. Could quite easily say that half the grid has looked more impressive averaged out than him this season. He sounds so unmotivated on the radio too. He was hundredt...

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Stonking lap from Ricciardo. He’s back to his pre-McLaren best. First China, now Miami Yeah I've read a few positive takes on this, Tsunoda was marginally quicker in SQ3 and then had his one lap in SQ2 removed for track limits, I would say that sprint qualifying has a bit of a lottery nature to it,...

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mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Sat May 04, 2024 8:09 am
I wasn't able to watch sprint race qualifying. Was this a case of Norris cracking again when a chance of a great quali result was on the table?

Most seemed to struggle with the soft tyres, probably with the preparation of them.

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Somewhere in the world Mike Elliot is probably the only guy enjoying watching F1 at the moment. You don't think that the cars have moved on, there is thought given to persisting with the concept one year to long has put the team back 1 or 2 years, anyone else at the front running the concept? The z...

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Not that russell was much better today, but this year, Hamilton certainly isn't even looking close to being a top level driver any more. Could quite easily say that half the grid has looked more impressive averaged out than him this season. He sounds so unmotivated on the radio too. He was hundredt...

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Stonking lap from Ricciardo. He’s back to his pre-McLaren best. First China, now Miami Yeah I've read a few positive takes on this, Tsunoda was marginally quicker in SQ3 and then had his one lap in SQ2 removed for track limits, I would say that sprint qualifying has a bit of a lottery nature to it,...

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Not that russell was much better today, but this year, Hamilton certainly isn't even looking close to being a top level driver any more. Could quite easily say that half the grid has looked more impressive averaged out than him this season. He sounds so unmotivated on the radio too. He was hundredt...

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Lewis is not GOAT, so you can rest your keyboard. This is actually something I've considered starting a thread on, but have held back for fear of it devolving into a toxic flame-fest that will make the mods hate me for my part in starting it :uhoh: Does anyone actually think Hamilton is the GOAT of...

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But that is all on Hamilton himself, isn’t it? Nobody in the team is forcing Hamilton to go with a suboptimal setup. Damage falls mostly in the same category? Rather then looking for a silver bullet, it looks to me like Hamilton has fallen into the trap that it has been mostly him who delivered the...

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Hamilton won 22 races out of 37 race finishes from 2019-2020 despite driving by far the best car in this time period, and having a midfield driver as his teammate. He also had bulletproof reliability and his car never failed in even one qualifying session to compromise his weekend. In these perfect...

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My estimation for Verstappen is that he probably wins about 30 races out of 37 if he was driving the 2019/2020 Mercedes cars instead of Hamilton. 16 wins out of 21 in the W10 14 wins out of 16 starts in the W11 Based on what we’ve seen from Verstappen in the best car, this seems quite reasonable an...

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You've shared excuses from post race interviews in Hungary. I've shared actual video and radio footage from the race. Lewis keeps saying it's dry at every turn and never suggests or even asks about pitting for slicks. Several other drivers asked or even told their team they needed slicks (including...

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This is a major movement (or no movement) in the background scene of the driver market for '25. Sainz has supposedly rejected (indirectly) Audi's offer as he hasn't made the decision in the timeline that Audi had given. Soon Audi is expected to announce the second driver. Sainz has taken a gamble i...

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UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Fri May 03, 2024 2:10 pm

Interest from other teams because it's being rumoured that Horner wants to sign Sainz, this in case Verstappen leaves in the next year or two now that he's been able to fashion himself an escape clause.

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Holy cow, £128M a year, that is insane. No matter how good a driver is, this is taking it into ludicrous territory. https://www.crash.net/f1/news/1047716/1/mercedes-tabling-world-record-ps128m-max-verstappen-offer-replace-lewis-hamilton :thumbup: Since driver salaries are outside the budget cap, th...

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Holy cow, £128M a year, that is insane. No matter how good a driver is, this is taking it into ludicrous territory. https://www.crash.net/f1/news/1047716/1/mercedes-tabling-world-record-ps128m-max-verstappen-offer-replace-lewis-hamilton They're in a desperate situation. Well, perhaps maybe Mercedes...

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Not that russell was much better today, but this year, Hamilton certainly isn't even looking close to being a top level driver any more. Could quite easily say that half the grid has looked more impressive averaged out than him this season. He sounds so unmotivated on the radio too. He was hundredt...

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Interesting what Brundle was saying about Russell saying that the purple sponsor boards make it more difficult to see where the wall is. Also, Sargaent out qualifying Albon for the first time. I think Albon makes a few too many mistakes to get a move to a top team. It was funny what Albon did, he t...

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Not that I think it will matter but: does Antonelli have enough points for the super-license? Yep. The issue is just age. Winning FRECA yields enough points? Didn't know that. He won FRECA (25) and Formula Regional Middle East (18) to give him enough. He might have some from other championships too...

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The Mercs really knocking it out of the park.

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Hamilton won 22 races out of 37 race finishes from 2019-2020 despite driving by far the best car in this time period, and having a midfield driver as his teammate. He also had bulletproof reliability and his car never failed in even one qualifying session to compromise his weekend. In these perfect...

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Its just your own perception. Nothing wrong with the description "near flawless" for only one bad strategy call in a seasons, It's frustrating when one thing can be found and it's look Red Bull make mistakes as well. One thing? RB makes mistakes, they aren't perfect as some try to paint them, or fa...

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So again in both of the examples you've cited Lewis can tell better than the team what the conditions are on track and he knows what the course of action will be if he doesn't speak up to influence the team to change their decision (going onto slicks in Germany, staying out on inters in Hungary). T...

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My estimation for Verstappen is that he probably wins about 30 races out of 37 if he was driving the 2019/2020 Mercedes cars instead of Hamilton. 16 wins out of 21 in the W10 14 wins out of 16 starts in the W11 Based on what we’ve seen from Verstappen in the best car, this seems quite reasonable an...

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:thumbup: We see a larger dominance by Red Bull and by Verstappen than by Mercedes and by Hamilton (both is correct). This difference - estimated to be around 4 wins per season by some here - can be due to: - RB car > Mercedes car ... - incl. superiour overtaking ability (superDRS, straightline spe...

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I think RB has near flawless strategy and thats kinda integrated into Max here, I see how Lewis criticised here for bad tyre choice at his disastrous German GP, while I also see Max completely relying on RB strat and never do the calls for himself (IIRC) Besides the really good response from rbirul...

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I have seen Hamilton qualify 5 whole seconds off pole in a W11 when the tyres couldn’t get into the window over one lap. I don’t even know why I’m trying to have this discussion with you, as you’re clearly not interested in being intellectually honest here. You are fixated on one race on a weekend,...

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I am curious to see what the data tells you about the back end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024. Because it is pretty clear to me that Hamilton is starting to fall back. No not at all you may find your perception is wrong even with the small sample size, we judge on 5 races the last 2 were Hamilto...

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I have seen Hamilton qualify 5 whole seconds off pole in a W11 when the tyres couldn’t get into the window over one lap. I don’t even know why I’m trying to have this discussion with you, as you’re clearly not interested in being intellectually honest here. You are fixated on one race on a weekend,...

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I think RB has near flawless strategy and thats kinda integrated into Max here, I see how Lewis criticised here for bad tyre choice at his disastrous German GP, while I also see Max completely relying on RB strat and never do the calls for himself (IIRC) Besides the really good response from rbirul...

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So let me get this straight, in Germany all the teams (75% of them, including Bottas) are on slicks and it's a mistake for Lewis to follow, but in Hungary all the teams switch to slicks and Mercedes/Lewis don't and it's a mistake. You would think Lewis would learn his lesson that he shouldn't just ...

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Its just your own perception. Nothing wrong with the description "near flawless" for only one bad strategy call in a seasons, From memory, Australia this year was described also as a mistake from RB, they could see Max's brakes had issues and did... nothing? No one is faultless, it is just that RB ...

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