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KMag still an idiot I see. to be fair, hulkenberg was worse last race and ruined 2 drivers race results. Well, if magnussen gets a 10 second penalty for that, regardless weather it was first lap or not, i simply don't understand how hulkenberg got no penalty at all for what he did last race. He col...

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Not his fault, but that just has to be a penalty for perez. If he doesn't get one, then the consistency is just terrible. Alonso clearly had to lift / break to avoid contacting perez.

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wht is happening with ricciardo?

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that looked odd. a sudden lockup and then a crash. was there a problem?

edit, well, that was why he locked up. broke his front wheel...

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JN23 wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:04 pm
Norris moved before the lights. From memory, as long as he fully stopped before the lights went out, that's ok.

I think that is correct, other than if they go beyond the lines. I don't see how they can get away with that.

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Hamilton really is looking bad in qualifying at the moment.

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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53565979056_b74b9a1cba_b.jpg HAM vs BOT (-1.3) Bottas 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 whatever - they were all the same and the chart suggests he never really got consistently close. Very much a Perez/Verstappen style pairing . I would argue and say that bottas was a lot closer ov...

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Slam dunks: Verstappen - not a difficult choice. Perez finishing P2 at least means he's doing the very least he needs to be but Max was in a race of his own at the front. Russell - again, a pretty easy choice. Comfortably ahead when it mattered in quali and in the race. Norris - Lando gets the TMW ...

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mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:41 pm
Sainz, Zhou, Stroll

I very nearly went for stroll, but his pace in the last stint surprised me a bit. I expected him to keep a little closer to Alonso than he did. But performance wise, they were close today for a change.

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Sainz I think was the main Stand out, but many did a solid job today. Stroll given where he started and got sent into a spin, a finish in the points was very good. Zhou got the strategy perfect, but it's a little tricky to show how good the car was given Bottas had damage and yet more bad luck. But ...

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am i missing something, or are the graphics never telling us which drivers are lapped?

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TheGiantHogweed wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:30 pm
I think that was silly by RB. Tsunoda was 0.5 behind, now ricciardo is 2 seconds behind. Not good.

Saying that - given ricciardo's pace now, it does like he could well have got the job done if Tsunoda had listened and done what he was asked initially.

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I don't see why Stroll should be getting team orders here. How is Alonso going to be quick enough to gain 28 seconds in 8 laps? He lost 5.4 seconds to Alonso in 4 laps. That wasn't team orders. Welll sky is speaking rubbish then. What I mean is that team orders in this situation are unfair and Alon...

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I think that was silly by RB. Tsunoda was 0.5 behind, now ricciardo is 2 seconds behind. Not good.

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I don't see why Stroll should be getting team orders here. How is Alonso going to be quick enough to gain 28 seconds in 8 laps?

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Seeing the williams this year, I honestly think the fixed display for the dash makes so much more sense. Having it skake like crazy and tilt & go upside down with the wheel seems an odd choise that all the teams have made. It also is cheaper to have the display fixed where willimas used to have it....

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mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:10 pm

TheGiantHogweed wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:03 pm
ok, bottas's wing still is the same damage one. How did he drop so far back?
He had an extremely long stop. They couldn't get one of his front tyres on and they had to take it back into the garage.

Bottas still seems to be a magnet for trouble then, like last year.

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I know there is still quite some laps to go, but Alonso should be much further ahead of Stroll than he is, given how far back Stroll started - and the fact he got spun by hulkenberg on the first lap which made him lose out even more. Their pace seems to be more or less the same today, or perhaps eve...

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ok, bottas's wing still is the same damage one. How did he drop so far back?

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Seeing the williams this year, I honestly think the fixed display for the dash makes so much more sense. Having it skake like crazy and tilt & go upside down with the wheel seems an odd choise that all the teams have made. It also is cheaper to have the display fixed where willimas used to have it....

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just missed the last few minutes. Did bottas just have his front wing changed? he seems to have dropped way more than a pit stop back from those ahead of him. I can't understand why the team didn't replace the front wing in his first stop.

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pokerman wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:44 pm
Mercs can't race because of the cooling, I'll be glad not to hear that next year in respect to Hamilton.

I thought that it was just russell having the issue and Hamilton was just complaining about the battery which turned out to just be because he himself had used it all up.

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Seeing the williams this year, I honestly think the fixed display for the dash makes so much more sense. Having it skake like crazy and tilt & go upside down with the wheel seems an odd choise that all the teams have made. It also is cheaper to have the display fixed where willimas used to have it. ...

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the undercut clearly is a huge amount better here. Zhou is now 6 placed ahead of albon. Zhou pitted very early and albon only just has. Zhou is now 6 places ahead despite starting way behind albon.

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if there was a long pause for sargeant when he locked up, was it a technical issue?

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That incident was clearly on hulkenberg. I can understand it was minor enough not to get a penalty based on it being first lap, but the fact is, he was responsible for spinning Stroll and bottas losing places too. That certainly would have been a penalty if it was later on. Hulkenberg is so good at ...

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Bottas and Zhou in p16 and p17 separated by 0.001....

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Doesn't this thread need renaming to Re: PF1 Forum TMW 2024 prediction thread 2: Williams and Visa Cash App RB Formula One Team?

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https://www.planetf1.com/news/sebastian-vettel-daniel-ricciardo-f1-return-max-verstappen-red-bull-prediction This site has to be one of the worst for clickbait articles. I think Vettel at this stage would be a really bad choise, especially for a mid season sawp. He was a bit better in his final seas...

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Checo needs to be like this during his epic win in Sakhir in 2020. He is a fabulous wheel to wheel racer as seen here. He needs to get his mojo back........ 1732426917448708503 He can be, but over vertually all of his career, he's also been a rather dirty driver in terms of wheel to wheel driving. ...

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https://www.racefans.net/2024/01/19/who-are-f1s-biggest-track-limits-offenders-and-where-are-the-top-trouble-spots/ Very interesting article this. I'm putting it in this thread as out of all the drivers that have had a full season, Bottas has had by far the least track limit offences of anyone with ...

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Ricciardo V Tsunoda is probably the hardest to predict out of all the teammate battles. I voted for Ricciardo but Tsunoda has been improving every year so I wouldn't be surprised if he came out on top. I suspect Red Bull would rather Ricciardo won as that would give them an easily solution for the ...

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A question for Exediron, Pokerman and anyone else who records the average quali gaps between team mates.... What does the gap between Leclerc and Sainz look like over the 4 years they've been together? Has it fluctuated or largely stayed the same? Sainz was at Mclaren in 2020 so isn't it just 3 yea...

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It's typical for me to be against alonso, but I really don't see how he can be rated 1st in 2016. He made a massive misjudgement in the first race when he hit gutierrez, then missed out on the next race due to this which should also count against him. He also spun and heavily compromised his races i...

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https://www.racefans.net/2024/01/01/sauber-change-name-to-stake-f1-team-for-next-two-seasons/ Well, they are going to be called "Stake F1 Team" It must just be so annoying to have to say that whenever the car does anything on track. Based on what often happens with the drivers in this team: "and it'...

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I haven't voted yet as I'm finding it really hard, but here is what I've come up with so far: I'll put some points next to several I'm unsure about. The groups are a reasonably clear difference between the performance of the drivers, though some gaps are much bigger than others. 1: Verstappen 2: Alo...

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I've been writing this throughout the season as I follow Bottas pretty closely during the races (not on track though ;) ) He's had possibly the worst luck of any season in his career, and in an odd way too. It is more related to damage rather than retirements. Here is the list, and it is big. Saudi...

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I've been writing this throughout the season as I follow Bottas pretty closely during the races (not on track though ;) ) He's had possibly the worst luck of any season in his career, and in an odd way too. It is more related to damage rather than retirements. Here is the list, and it is big. Saudi ...

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Hamilton's racecraft has looks a bit messy lately it seems. i've just watched the highlights. I would say he was entirely to blame for hitting Gasly and was very lucky that he didn't have to change his wing. He's had clashes in quite a few races this year. If Gasly got damage, I think hamilton shoul...

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