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Should always take your hands off the wheel, but it's easier said than done when braking hard and thinking you might be able to minimize it by steering. Bad luck for Ricciardo, he didn't really have much time to make a better decision with Piastri strick where he was. Zandvoort looks far too small f...

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I agree. No top team is doing what Mercedes have done this last decade without a top driver in situ - but it's always been that way. Top car + top driver = impressive stats. The sports very different now to what it was even 20yrs ago. Wolff and Horner are great modern team principles. They couldn't ...

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I'd put Brawn ahead of Todt although the 2 are very linked.

I'd agree with the top 5, although will split hairs on the order.

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Not sure how this will knock on in the coming years for young drivers, but certainly up here in the north of the UK, many grass roots level series are struggling for numbers. I'm not aware of any series in my region doing better for numbers in 2023 than they were in 2019, with many down to <50% of w...

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As said before, I struggle to think of a driver whom was already in F1 - getting promoted to a bigger team, and doing worse than Gasly did in that Red Bull. I think mikey suggested Andretti and Zanardi come to mind in getting a good F1 seat and flopping badly, but they are least were outside F1 befo...

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This is it. Ultimately what I'm saying there is a limit to what a driver can do. If you have a top driver, in a top car...... Nobody in a merely "good" car is beating him. No disrespect to Hill and Villeneuve, but they are maybe the 2x weakest WDC of the modern F1 era, and Schumacher was maybe the b...

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Leclerc at Belgium.

It was a fine drive, elevated to whole other level with the meaning behind it and events of the weekend.

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Wow. well over 50% of this thread that is 6 pages long has been way off topic. To get it back on, I'll say a few things. Since I've been paying for NowTV for access to Sky, I've found the team of presenters to be about the worst I've known. It isn't always the people themselves, but just how Sky so...

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Harsh but fair. Harsh as he barely got time to get established. Fair as it's likely even once fully settled he was never going to be anything beyond a midfielder. In order to get to F1 he's had a very privileged life. He was born into relative wealth and Nick is worth millions now too - tbh he proba...

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It is fairly interesting and probably quite accruate, but its isn't really telling us anything we don't know. Without a WDC capable car, it doesn't matter the talent of the driver, they are not winning a WDC (barring anomalous circumstances) - and the best drivers maximise the results a car is capab...

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If Ricciardo isn't comfortably outperforming Tsunoda by the end of the season - it's curtains for him as an F1 driver. Tsunoda is arguably the weakest team mate he will have had in F1. I'm predicting DR will quickly be ahead of Tsunoda, and be back to something like he was before McLaren. For whatev...

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Will be interesting to see how he comes back.

Are we getting the DR that humbled Seb, and was a match for (younger and less complete) Max..... Or the DR that flopped badly at McLaren.

I don't think DR's performance at McLaren was a true reflection of where he is as a driver.

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Verstappen
Leclerc
Russell
Gasly
Norris
Bottas
Alonso
Magnussen
Tsunoda
Albon

One of the easier ones this week. Only a couple of murkier ones to think about - Hass particularly.

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Australia 2022 Driver of the day Hamilton - 11 Russell - 20 Teammate wars Hamilton - 35 Russell - 10 Miami 2022 Driver of the day Hamilton - 2 Russell - 27 Teammate wars Hamilton - 17 Russell - 16 A fair few times I'd vote a driver DotD, but then vote for the other driver in the team mate wars. Usu...

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Andretti and Zanardi were the two I thought of whom may have gone worse (even then it's debatable - Gasly was that bad), but...... Neither were sourced from within F1 (OK Zanardi had returned to F1 after 4 years) and were adapting to a new series.

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The undulation does make it look more interesting but I don’t know if it makes it more exciting for me as I know the drivers find it easy flat. Well they changed 130r after a couple of big crashes in the early 00s so again it’s just an easy fast kink now. Unfortunately if there isn’t enough run off...

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Perez is performing levels above where Gasly was when he got the Red Bull opportunity. I don't think it is much exaggeration to say that Gasly looked like he had been plucked from midfield Formula 3 driving that Red Bull - Perez, whilst a bit off Max, still looks capable. I do think Gasly is a far b...

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Fast sweeping curves with a good track flow and technically challenging enough.

Unless there are reliability issues, or some anomalies with safety cars/weather/other, or he crashes...... I can't see anything but a comfortable Verstappen win.

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Bottas has generally been one of the cleanest drivers on the grid - a trait that has probably been to his detriment overall. Too nice.

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mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 02, 2023 3:13 pm
Bernie Collins has really come into her own this weekend. Offered much more insight and seems much more comfortable than she has previously.

She has improved a lot in terms of presenting.

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Max and Lando

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I agree, yeah. Spa has issues regardless of the weather - Hubert died in the dry didn't he? My other worry is that tracks like Spa won't be able to keep running indefinitely because of this. Is there also a specific problem with Spa? That’s two fatalities on the Kemmel straight in four years. Not s...

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:o I probably rate Bottas slightly ahead of Perez, but they are close enough that my opinion will flip flop. Both are firm #2 drivers in a top teams. Both have quirks in their skill sets. Perez is the alternative strategy master and Bottas could turn up to an elite level 2-3 times a year and was a g...

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I think Verstappen runs up better stats in good cars, and I think wins a head 2 head in a 2 way fight in a "best" car. I'd back peak Alonso in a season where it's more of a dogfight in opposing teams.

Alonso, psychologically, seemed at his best as the underdog.

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Norris is the hardest driver on the grid to rank. There are hints he might be in the elite tier, but hasn't had much chance to prove it. He could be ranked anywhere in the top 1/3rd of the current F1 drivers depending on how you want to rank him, but to say he is definitely better than Verstappen, a...

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The cars look huge on this track.

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I have limited knowledge of how video games rate things. I'd hope experience gets less weighting than the others.

However the EA list seems reasonable. A few I'd have a few points lower, a few higher.

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I have limited knowledge of how video games rate things. I'd hope experience gets less weighting than the others.

However the EA list seems reasonable. A few I'd have a few points lower, a few higher.

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Why Russell ahead of Hamilton for those who have gone that way? Anyone? I know Russell started 12th and finished 3rd, but Hamilton seemed to have him covered for pace today. The gap when Russell got ahead of Alonso was about 4.5s and then it grew to 10s by the end of the second stint. Russell then ...

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Mercs updates not working great in Spain doesn't bode well for them.

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As said Norris is a hard driver to rate exactly where he is. He might be the best driver in F1, but equally he might be the 5th or 6th. I'm happy to say Norris might be an elit driver, but it's a very hypothetical take at this point in time to say he betters Verstappen. Verstappen has let a few thin...

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I rate Verstappen in the elite band and I think his form has been outstanding - but I don't think he is the second coming or head and shoulders above the rest of the grid. However in order to better his stats these past 2.5yrs it would require an elite driver to be nearly perfect as there isn't much...

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As said in another thread. Verstappen (2015) is the only driver who debuted in the prior 10 seasons who's had a shot in a potential title winning environment. In drivers who have debuted in the prior 10 seasons only Verstappen, Leclerc, Sainz, Albon, Gasly and 'maybe' Russell (if we count Sahkir and...

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Double post

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Merc clearly split the strategies. Sensible thing to do at Monaco with the threat of both rain and a high chance of a SC. My weather app was telling me rain was likely in the 2nd half of the race - and it forecast it to within about 10 minutes - and I'm sitting on my couch 2000km away. So all the te...

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George still has everything to prove. I've still to be convinced Russell is the tier 1 driver Mercedes need (I flip between putting him in the tier 1.5 and tier 2). Same. "I have nothing left to prove" works if he has one WDC at the least, not when your teammate has 7x the number of titles as you h...

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George still has everything to prove.

I've still to be convinced Russell is the tier 1 driver Mercedes need (I flip between putting him in the tier 1.5 and tier 2).

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... In my opinion 3 of those 7 names were never good enough to even be a #2 driver at a top team - and it showed when they got their chance. All 3 (Gasly, Albon, Kyvat) effectively were sacked for poor performance... Just picking up on this - that RB at the time was a bit of a beast to handle. I su...

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29 of Verstappens wins have came in the last 2 1/4 seasons. Barring a handful of races, and some questionable driving, his run of form has been as good as anything I remember.

Although, to be fair, Alonso has never held a hand that's allowed to rack up stats quickly.

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The cars in the rain transition period were amusing for half a dozen laps until the track went fully inter. Track looked almost undrivable in places. Bonkers call from Aston Martin to put Alonso on Mediums. Cannot understand the gamble - you've weather radar! Other than that it was quite a dull race...

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