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Hakkinen's damage in terms of his racing ability is unknown and being close to death doesn't mean he wasn't fully recovered as a racing driver - see Massa who insists he was fine afterwards, as does Rob Smedley. But Schumacher's damage from his 2009 accident is known: https://www.thinkspain.com/new...

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They went downhill since 2004 onwards. Lots of things and I wouldn't pin on one person. If the buck ultimately stops with the boss then I guess Frank then Claire, but I wouldn't want to point at them because they don't deserve it. That's just sports for you.

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Hakkinen's damage in terms of his racing ability is unknown and being close to death doesn't mean he wasn't fully recovered as a racing driver - see Massa who insists he was fine afterwards, as does Rob Smedley. But Schumacher's damage from his 2009 accident is known: https://www.thinkspain.com/news...

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Hard to choose one. I'll give a list: Rubens: His stock was very high when he signed for Ferrari and I'd even go as far as say he was the Max Verstappen of 1999. Had he not joined Schumacher at Ferrari, his legacy may have been remembered on the level of Montoya, Kimi and Alonso in that era. Montoy...

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Hard to choose one. I'll give a list: Rubens: His stock was very high when he signed for Ferrari and I'd even go as far as say he was the Max Verstappen of 1999. Had he not joined Schumacher at Ferrari, his legacy may have been remembered on the level of Montoya, Kimi and Alonso in that era. Montoya...

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Unpopular opinion?

Ricciardo isn't funny, if anything he's rather annoying.

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My idea for F1 is to be what F1 historically has been - the pursuit of ultimate performance. All the attempts to slow the cars down has meant that technology has outgrown F1 and the sport no longer has that "wow" factor it had when it was at the cutting edge. Formula 1 competition should be made in...

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My idea for F1 is to be what F1 historically has been - the pursuit of ultimate performance. All the attempts to slow the cars down has meant that technology has outgrown F1 and the sport no longer has that "wow" factor it had when it was at the cutting edge. Formula 1 competition should be made int...

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It's a common statement that it's next to impossible to compare drivers between generations with any meaningful accuracy but I disagree. Indeed statistics don't tell us much. But what there is, is there are traits and characteristics of all drivers that can be measured on the basis of transferable s...

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Thank you for the interest. Yes, the thread did seem to take a different turn there for a while. Right now I'm in a very busy time in my business. Writing a considered and detailed reply is very time consuming and I don't have that luxury right now. If this thread still has signs of life by the time...

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And in all honesty, I think there is plenty to attack about your post in terms of objectivity. Many of the points you raise in favor of Schumacher are complete intangibles - you think he was capable of an extra level and say Alonso never was, but there's plenty who'd disagree with that, and I'm cer...

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Regarding the Imola race you mentioned above, isn't that the one that they changed him to a 2 stopper from a 3 stopper, because of a safety car? He did have graining issues indeed, now how much he masked it I do not know, as I have not read that anywhere else. It wouldn't surprise me though, he was...

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Too many ad-hominem replies. I'm happy to discuss the details with anybody as long as they play the ball rather than the poster. I'm a close study of that season and am confident in my understanding of the dynamics involved. Mainstream F1 media was writing the 2006 title battle completely wrongly (m...

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The list isn't exhaustive, but all that being said, MS in 2006 was miles ahead as a driver than FA of '10-'13, if the intricacies of those respective seasons were any gauge. I think Massa keeps getting that completely wrong. ... And yet he got beaten by the Fernando Alonso of 2006, so are you sayin...

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That link by Abulafia is the same Abulafia who used to post on this forum, he's extremely knowledgeable on technical driving matters, in ways that made my draw drop. Is he still around? About Massa. He often puts Alonso first in interviews but it just doesn't add up. Fuel corrected, that gap between...

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It's a natural evolution of the sport that reflects society and human's current rate of development. It's not as big as when the first motor races came in as the next generation of horse racing. I'd say let the tech progress in F1 fly and let it evolve naturally. If it were me, I'd have allowed F1 t...

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source for Alonso raising the request for Hamilton to pit first? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/2016/05/25/how-lewis-hamilton-has-come-unstuck-in-monaco/ Team orders were banned in 2007 so they couldn't be explicit. But as they say.....'actions speak louder than words' I don't see anything th...

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While Alonso got held up by Heidfeld after the stops and tangled with Vettel exiting the pits. Be fair. Before the stops separated them they were both lapping faster than anyone else. After they both had traffic issues, with Alonso actually coming off slightly worse, there, because he had more than...

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Well Alonso isn't that bad, he's an A grade driver, but I do agree that he is overrated beyond an A grade driver into the league of Schumacher and Senna, which is laughable that I see it claimed so regularly. Hamilton would beat him 7 seasons out of 10.

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Ultimately Montoya couldn't hack it and he left, he was getting completely schooled by Kimi , strange how he never mentions Kimi, how good he was, how mentally tough he was or not? That never happened. Actually I've been making the case for over a decade that Montoya did a better job than Kimi in 2...

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I have a feeling some SJWs on here are this close from playing the racist card for JPM's view on European drivers. It's just his observation of the cultures, relax. Besides, Americans (continent) are much less morally snowflaky than Europeans and don't get bugged over tiny little things like we do....

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I have a feeling some SJWs on here are this close from playing the racist card for JPM's view on European drivers. It's just his observation of the cultures, relax. Besides, Americans (continent) are much less morally snowflaky than Europeans and don't get bugged over tiny little things like we do. ...

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What did Senna have over Hill?

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Yeah I think the "we were racing Fernando" thing was overblown and is taken out of context these days through the contortions of historical discussions. I saw that interview again last year and it wasn't nefarious. If anyone has the video, post it here and let's re-watch it. But the environment was...

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Yeah I think the "we were racing Fernando" thing was overblown and is taken out of context these days through the contortions of historical discussions. I saw that interview again last year and it wasn't nefarious. If anyone has the video, post it here and let's re-watch it. But the environment was...

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Yeah I think the "we were racing Fernando" thing was overblown and is taken out of context these days through the contortions of historical discussions. I saw that interview again last year and it wasn't nefarious. If anyone has the video, post it here and let's re-watch it. But the environment was ...

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Let's recap everything: Alonso beat Trulli in 2003 standings by a BIG margin (1) Alonso beat Trulli in 2004 standings by some margin (2) Alonso beat Trulli in 2003-2004 standings together, by decent margin (3) However the important bit for some is: Trulli beat Alonso in 15 races of the 2004 season ...

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Surely you jest. So if Fernando was the one who went to Toyota, Trulli beats Fernando in those 3 races too? That's like saying Rosberg beat Verstappen in 2016 over the season. Yes. As far as I know Rosberg won the WDC and Verstappen was never his team-mate But neither were Trulli and Alonso team-ma...

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Surely you jest. So if Fernando was the one who went to Toyota, Trulli beats Fernando in those 3 races too? That's like saying Rosberg beat Verstappen in 2016 over the season. Yes. As far as I know Rosberg won the WDC and Verstappen was never his team-mate But neither were Trulli and Alonso team-ma...

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Matters to who? You? When comparing team mates, what matters to many people is how well they fare as team mates. And in 2004 Trulli beat Alonso when they were team mates. No-one cares that Alonso beat Bruni, for example, because clearly they were driving incomparable machinery No-one's disputing wh...

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2007 needs to look at more than just the points tally. In the car and on the track, Hamilton was demonstrably faster than Alonso and Alonso just didn't have an answer for him. He did get frozen out by Ron and that needs to be considered, I say that this merely exacerbated his already increasing pac...

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2007 needs to look at more than just the points tally. In the car and on the track, Hamilton was demonstrably faster than Alonso and Alonso just didn't have an answer for him. He did get frozen out by Ron and that needs to be considered, I say that this merely exacerbated his already increasing pace...

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2004: this season was really close between Alonso and Trulli. Alonso scored 4 podiums (1x2nd and 3 x 3rds) while Trulli scored two podiums (1x 1st and 1x 3rd). Each scored 8 top six finishes. I count only races 1-15 of the season's 18, until Trulli was fired by Flavio. Trulli scored 3 poles to Alon...

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We must also keep in mind that for his last 6 races with Renault, Trulli had fallen out and was politically was ostracised by Flavio, and his rate of points accumulation went off the boil accordingly. Yet he still won the team mate score at the end of their time together.

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@mcdo There is no need to review every race to "prove" that the fight in Ferrari was fair, because it certainly was not . And it would be nice for Alonso fans to at least acknowledge it. Every driver on the grid has flaws and as a fan, it is extremely important to know them. Here is what Rob Smedle...

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If they become successful and win WDCs, would Monza turn into a sea of black?

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Sure they were both consigned to number 2 roles but very differently - they are both PDP drivers and Massa was an apprentice under his "teacher" (his word) with no expectations or serious pressure on him and was loved by everyone, while Fisi was having a hard time by Flavio and was trying to overco...

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the 2006 cars were very easy to drive, as were all the V8 cars. It was Glock or Panis who after testing the first V8 car in late 2005 said "a little girl" could drive these cars. Easy to drive cars mean they're harder to extract extra performance from them because it's too easy to find the limit. A...

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The fact remains that the pace gap was bigger to Schumacher. That couldn't possibly have anything to do with it being Massa's first year at Ferrari against an extremely established incumbent, and Massa being far less experienced at the time? Rosberg's pace gap to Webber was bigger than his gap to H...

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Don't forget the tyre war too - at Michelin favoured tracks Michael had to compete with Renault, McLaren, Button and to an extent the BMWs early on, while on Bridgestone tracks Alonso had only Massa to overcome as all the other BS runners were too far away to be a threat to take points off him.

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