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iano

I hope he made the right decision, but frankly I have been a little unimpressed with Renault's progress so far. To me they should be the clear 4th best team by now and they are not.They have also made no dent on the gap to Redbull from last year to this year. In fact, they are barely any faster tha...

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Sadly I think this is a poor move. Will be interesting to see if Renault start trying to snap up top tier engineering talent in the next year or two to see if they really are serious like Mercedes were before their 2014 renaissance. As an aside, I don't believe he is fearful of the Verstappen threa...

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Should be an option another Hulk. I think Dan will probably sink into obscurity with this move. I don’t see Renault being front runners soon and Dan doesn’t have Alinso’s stature that he can weather that unscathed. I see it as a very poor move for him. He had every opportunity at Red Bull but chose...

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Interesting report on the PF1 site: https://www.planetf1.com/news/horner-thought-ricciardo-was-joking-report/ According to Horner, Red Bull were under the impression Ricciardo was re-signing. They had agreed to a 1-year deal and probably a financial improvement. The Renault deal is rumoured to be 2...

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I think this is The beginning of Ricciardo’s slide into obscurity. Renault will be mid field at best and he won’t have the opportunity to shine that he does now. It looks to me like he’s running from Max, as I can’t see anything that would suggest Renault are a better bet than Red Bull You could be...

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I think this is The beginning of Ricciardo’s slide into obscurity. Renault will be mid field at best and he won’t have the opportunity to shine that he does now. It looks to me like he’s running from Max, as I can’t see anything that would suggest Renault are a better bet than Red Bull You could be...

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With unreliability in the mix, the relative performances of Verstappen and Ricciardo are in truth hard to read at this point. Max had a run of mistakes where there was probably a wavering of confidence.. but he is past that now. They are both great drivers, and the both their relative strengths. How...

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The fact nothing has come out regarding Raikkonen and Ricciardo's contracts for next year suggests to me there could be more to the Ferrari link than many of us may have believed. Kimi being so bad-tempered at the team order given, also makes me wonder whether he's been told that his contract is no...

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Lewis has finally signed a two-year extension, taking him through to the end of 2020. You would assume that this will result in a number of seats being filled on one side of the driver's market, with Bottas being re-signed, Ricciardo staying at Red Bull and Sainz turning his loan move into a perman...

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Renault are still a long way away. He can't afford to waste years of his career away from the top of the grid at this crucial time in his career. And as for Mclaren; no top driver with half a brain would touch them with a barge pole right now. A two year deal with Red Bull is the only sensible opti...

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But Red Bull are really rolling out the red carpet to show him how Max will get no favouritism... in that environment why consider going elsewhere?

iano

USA, Ricciardo out qualified him by 2 places anyway. Verstappen was definitely quicker but better involves a lot more. I personally think Max is the better driver because the type of driver he is he just needs refining and he will comfortably beat Ricciardo. But in 2017 its debatable who was better...

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Slating a member of your team is not slating your team First of all, for a driver his teammate is his first opponent. Second, Mark was slow so Seb said he was slow. You're coming up with incredibly weak examples. This is supposed to stack up against saying your team "aren't doing all they could"? G...

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UnlikeUday wrote:Red Bull's has made the decision but this surely puts Ricciardo in a quandary! Should he stay or go?

So before the decision this was not a quandary? Although in the end there not much deciding to do if no other realistic seat is on offer.- and i do not think this decision changes what is on offer.

iano

So here's some cannon fodder for the thinkers out there. Start up a 3rd championship for engine suppliers with a pretty decent carrot at the end for the winner. Each component failure costs the supplier points in that championship. That way it won't affect the WDC or WCC. Yes obviously there's flaw...

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A problem to consider is what if a team decides they do not care about the manufacturer points as most publicity will go to the team with the winning driver. So new engine every week to give their lead driver the most chance of winning the championship....and just market being the provider of the wi...

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Max seemed already agitated in today's press conference. Seeing his comments, I think Red Bull has to do something since the situation doesn't seem to be fixing itself. I mean, I do acknowledge the huge talent the guy has, but I've never seen anyone in this sport to get that much leeway simply just...

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Perhaps a complication for Hamilton and Mercedes is.... how long does Hamilton want to stay in F1? How long does he commit for, and if it is not for that long do Mercedes need to start looking for their next hero?

iano

Yes. But so are all the other top sportspeople. F1 drivers aren't paid to be athletes - they're paid to be marketing assets. If Mercedes believes Hamilton adds a billion dollars in nebulous 'cool' factor to their brand, he's easily worth less than a tenth of that. And in some ways it's self-serving...

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Is it too crazy to imagine Hamilton dawdling for so long over the Merc contract that they could opt with Ricciardo instead in a shock deal, leaving Hamilton out to dry? The theory I had was that Hamilton will end up replacing Raikkonen at Ferrari and that this deal is the reason that the contract w...

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Whatever you think of Hartley he hasn't generated the results STR would have expected by now. According to various website their options are the names listed in this Poll. Who do you think they should go with and why? You forgot to add 'mystery Japanese driver'. Seems to provide a link to Honda the...

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2018 Anybody would be beating Verstappen because he keeps crashing, in China he was faster than Ricciardo, Monaco he crashed and gave Ricciardo no competition, when he's not crashing he's invariable in front of Ricciardo because he tends to be the quicker dirver. We don't know if he was quicker in ...

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Monaco is not a representative track on the F1 calendar. RBR seems to be good on this type of track. I don't see that they have the strength on the fast, lower downforce types of tracks that make up most of the F1 schedule. OTOH would love to see Daniel become the RBR standard bearer for the rest o...

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pokerman wrote:Verstappen apparently had an easy pass on Hartley but so long as nothing is admitted then that's ok?

Hartley made a simple mistake .... this time it was when Leclerc was behind him that he should have panicked. Who would have known!

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This is why I really, really want Ricciardo to join Ferrari in 2019. I want to see another matchup between him and Vettel. IMO the best drivers this season have been: 1. Alonso 2. Ricciardo 3. Hamilton 4. Hulkenberg 5. Vettel What has Alonso done exactly? Beating drivers like Ocon and co? ofcourse ...

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quote="sandman1347" Monaco stinks. I've said it before and I'll say it at least once every year. I get that people love the history and some people are into the glamour and the ritzy, glitzy stuff but, for me, it consistently produces one of the worst races of the season. You simply cannot overtake...

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A great race with the number of position changes and overtaking amongst the top 6 from start to finish.

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https://www.racefans.net/2018/05/22/hyper-soft-wont-make-monaco-a-two-stop-race-pirelli/ But Pirelli’s sporting director Mario Isola said the new hyper soft will be able to do “77 laps, no stop, straight to the end” in Monaco, meaning teams will only have to pit once. Nice work Pirelli :thumbdown: ...

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I wish votes were public. Gotta wonder who is voting for the ridiculous option from time to time. A combination of trolls who want to pollute the results, people who think it's funny (see #1) and people who just hate the other driver and couldn't bear to vote for him if the world depended on it. So...

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KingVoid wrote:Does anyone else reckon he’ll be the best driver in the series?

Anyone else apart from...?

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pokerman wrote:
iano wrote:No .... well not if you are near the front of the race
Verstappen is near the front of the race.

So if you are near the front....Verstappen is more of a danger because you are more likely to encounter him.

iano

No .... well not if you are near the front of the race

iano

Are we really going to focus on that one mistake which didn’t even effect the final result, and completely ignore the speed advantage he had over Ricciardo? Is this true? Ricciardo had the fastest lap by nearly a second. 1’18.441 Also its not clear that the wing damage didn't have an effect, Vettel...

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The ability of Hamilton to read a race to such a level would not even be admitted by his doubters. Realising that destroying your tyres and pitting could put you in a position to ensure there would be debris on the track that would put you ahead of Bottas is just incredible skill in reading the race...

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Greenman wrote:.

Is it going to rain tomorrow, and if so when (and how much) ?

Are they racing on the plain?

If it is not raining at the start..... I missed the who is starting on what tyres. Is there a place that can be found?

(Edit: I found it.... all on softs it seems)

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To add to Fiki's post above, for me the danger is also that he doesn't seem to think that he has done anything wrong. All the interviews from Verstappen show that he truly believes that he is doing nothing wrong. We have seen it in so many races, he resorts to some sort of aggressive move and destr...

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Our posts crossed over, but the BIB is exactly what I think. Public announcements are just smoke and mirrors at this stage good point - why bother with the public announcements if not having to answer a question in an interview you were required to give I'd like Ricciardo to go to Mercedes, as that...

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Here is another view, expressed by David Gow in an interview on motorsport.com What is stated is that Verstappen is being given favourable treatment. While I don't think everyone is favouring Verstappen, I do agree it seems to go beyond the Red Bull team. This suggests it is not just Red Bull who b...

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Here is another view, expressed by David Gow in an interview on motorsport.com What is stated is that Verstappen is being given favourable treatment. While I don't think everyone is favouring Verstappen, I do agree it seems to go beyond the Red Bull team. This suggests it is not just Red Bull who be...

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But they can save a lot of money by paying the driver with no options less. That's making the (false) assumption that Ricciardo has no options outside of Red Bull. Let's say he's on about $7 million now, if he gave Mercedes or Ferrari a call saying he'd be happy to join them at that rate for 2019 b...

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