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mikeyg123

Sainz's only deserved move would be Red Bull as that team is still the best. But Checo is doing good enough to keep that seat his. Mercedes doesn't seem like the team to go but could again create wonders in 2026 with new regulations. Aston Martin is a good choice as McLaren isn't an option. Below A...

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My problem is that I have (of course!) read that report. And I found it a very strange one indeed. My question, which you replied to, is genuine. It seems to me that a driver who is not watching the road ahead, is also in breach of part of the regulations. But if the driver ahead is still responsib...

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The problem Mercedes have is that there simulation facilities (wind tunnel) etc isn't correlating to real life. It's not that their engineers have suddenly become bad it's that what the simulation tells them works doesn't work in real life. But lets not forget they still have the 4th fastest car. Th...

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Alright, then at what point is the driver in front allowed to deviate from what he would normally do, in order to employ a defensive tactic? Would we be able to read that in their verdict? I don't believe the stewards verdict offers an opinion on that (Although I might have forgotten) What I do kno...

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H ow can the driver in front know when the driver behind is paying attention to the car ahead? I'm willing to believe the stewards only punished Alonso for his actions, but if Russell's inattention was known to them, I would say that doesn't reflect well on them. And I do believe that Piastri's com...

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So news of Hamilton's demise in a 3 race sample is quickly quelled in a weekend for the first time this season he wasn't experimenting with set up. Focus now perhaps shifts to the demise of Leclerc in a 2 race sample, the season is 24 races long, just saying. Ricciardo's badly mangled chassis, in h...

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The 3 races were supposedly a change in pattern. the thinking might be the 4th race is merely a anomaly not merely a pattern of things we have seen this past 2 years. Well we need to see what happens going forward don't we. I'd certainly say Hamilton did not look like peak Hamilton today. He claime...

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I would say that one member has certainly been writing Hamilton off. No, I think most people (including you!) have said Hamilton has very likely declined from his peak. That's obviously not the same as saying that it would be impossible for Hamilton to ever outqualify Russell. Bottom line.... You c...

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What nonsense would that be? It is a follow-on from last year. "I know what a car needs". I would wager there a people on this forum (me personally not among them) that know more about what makes a Formula One car work than Hamilton. And what goes for Hamilton, goes for all drivers in the field. It...

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Touché concerning the first point, though it is interesting that apparently the problem had come up before, if I understand T2's point correctly. For what it's worth, I would feel very uncomfortable as a steward, hearing a driver come out with a mitigating circumstance for his opponent, a number of...

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Having the need to use 3 race samples gives that feel of something set in stone. OK, so not able to provide a quote or an example then. Sorry, I don't believe that you thought anybody was arguing that it would be impossible for Hamilton to ever out qualify Russell ever again. Chill out and actually...

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Fair enough on the first point, what I should have written is that there is no real telling either way. As for Massa declining over time, every driver does and drivers (and athletes in general) decline at different ages, that is something that I think is commonly accepted. Whether his accident affe...

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Ah but I do know that Russell didn't provide any evidence this weekend, since the matter wasn't reviewed. Not even in light of what he said about the matter after the official investigation: “(I was) totally caught by surprise. I was looking at the steering wheel making a switch change in the strai...

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That's one way of looking at it. This is from The Race's article on the drivers points of view on the matter: Oscar Piastri felt that the stewards were "giving someone a penalty for causing dirty air". https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-drivers-split-fernando-alonso-australian-gp-penalty-implica...

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What Hamilton did was apparently not possible with him being over the hill. Could you please quote literally anybody on the forum saying that it would be impossible for Hamilton to out qualify Russell? Just once will do... Having the need to use 3 race samples gives that feel of something set in st...

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But it should be, shouldn't it? Otherwise, no driver can make an unexpected move anymore, because the driver behind needs not to react. This is directly opposite to what has been the rule all along, even in ordinary traffic, the driver behind is always at fault (the same goes for skiing by the way)...

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So news of Hamilton's demise in a 3 race sample is quickly quelled in a weekend for the first time this season he wasn't experimenting with set up. Focus now perhaps shifts to the demise of Leclerc in a 2 race sample, the season is 24 races long, just saying. Ricciardo's badly mangled chassis, in h...

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But isn't the point that Russell could have reacted and therefore should have reacted? Otherwise I am lost what we are discussing here. There is time to react and Russell does not react at all. As for the shifting up, Alonso appears to have shifted down to much, you can hear the pitch on the engine...

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As a slightly different take to team mate wars (my favourite thread on here)- thought it might be fun to keep tabs of the DotD. Given we don't get reliable results on these polls down to 10, I'm going to tally the points based on the 90's scoring system for the top 6. If drivers are tied on votes, ...

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F1Tyrant wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:10 am
I'm not sure why Hamilton offered to move over. Sure he was slower in stint one which was unlike him but he was much quicker than Russell in the final two stints and lost 10 seconds to the undercut.

Was he quicker in the final stint or was Russell just stuck behind Piastri?

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I reviewed the throttle application and as we have it, Alonso's onboard footage was facing rearwards. Russell was full throttle right before the corner. Alonso appears to do a lift and coast and shift down before the corner. What is interesting is that Alonso did almost exactly the same about 3 con...

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So news of Hamilton's demise in a 3 race sample is quickly quelled in a weekend for the first time this season he wasn't experimenting with set up. Focus now perhaps shifts to the demise of Leclerc in a 2 race sample, the season is 24 races long, just saying. Ricciardo's badly mangled chassis, in h...

mikeyg123

So news of Hamilton's demise in a 3 race sample is quickly quelled in a weekend for the first time this season he wasn't experimenting with set up. Focus now perhaps shifts to the demise of Leclerc in a 2 race sample, the season is 24 races long, just saying. Ricciardo's badly mangled chassis, in h...

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I just rewatched the onboard from Russell's car about 5 times and to me it looks like Russell is simply unaware of Alonso's car that is visible slowing before the corner. From what I can see, Alonso wants the best corner exit possible and therefore is trying to reduce the speed of Russell in the pr...

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Oh, I've no doubt that without the big crash there is no penalty. That's because of shoddy stewarding rather than a defence for Alonso though. What is clearly borderline (just judging by the split response from the drivers) is Alonso's driving and whether that was over the line or not. What I think...

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Even If I except all this.... Are you really continuing to argue that it's fine for a driver to drive in a manor that relies on other drivers having this super power? The last part is a fine line, whether what Alonso did in Australia crossed that line is obviously something that not everyone agrees...

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Nobody expected Barrichello to beat Schumacher, but some expected Barrichello to run him close. I don't think the same can be said of Bottas with respect to Hamilton when he joined Mercedes. Barrichello didn't run Schumacher close and Bottas didn't run Hamilton close, If the perception was that Bar...

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Barrichello going into 1996, an aged Brundle joined the team for his last season in F1. Barrichollo whitewashed him at the start of the season, something like 8-0. However, interestingly, the second half of 1996 once Brundles was possibly more comortable, he out qualified Rubens 5-3. He also pretty...

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Well, these are supposedly the best drivers in the world. Yes, I think the driver in the middle should be capable of something that mere mortals cannot. I would imagine checking mirrors for these drivers should almost happen subconsciously. My man, when the logic of your argument ends up with you h...

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Of course the drivers do. That does not mean that the driver taking his eyes off the track can simply blame another driver for driving erratically, when that driver could have avoided his own crash by looking at the track instead of at the steering wheel. Perhaps just unlucky for Russell, but that ...

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In 1995 Barrichello got overlooked by Ferrari when they signed his teammate Eddie Irvine, I'm not sure what we are looking to invent. Are we now saying that Irvine was better than Barrichello? Well, that was something I never expected to see on this forum. Do you disagree that Ferrari hired Irvine ...

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Stroll doing Stroll things.

mikeyg123

No, I don't think a driver should take his eyes off the track for more than a split second when closely fighting and trying to overtake another driver. Perhaps this demonstrates a limitation in Russell's armour and it further fuels doubts about his ability overall. They make numerous switch changes...

mikeyg123

I thought this comment from Russell was very telling. Caught napping in other words. "Obviously a bit of a strange situation that happened last week. Totally caught by surprise. I was actually looking at the steering wheel, making a switch change in the straight, which, you know, we all do across t...

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Bottas was comprehensively beating Massa before he joined Mercedes. Whom did Barrichello beat that was so much more impressive? Just checked on Wikipedia (it is a very long time ago), Barrichello beat all of his teammates from his debut in 1994 to his switch to Ferrari at the back end of 1999. Now ...

mikeyg123

Ofcourse, but it's about as good as you're going to get. Hamilton has been sitting on the top of the pile for 8 years (2014-2020). The inherent problem is that many factors contributed to that outcome. Bottas sometimes matching and even outperforming Hamilton is something that potentially weighs ag...

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3 races makes a season now plus Hamilton would make mincemeat out of Perez. That is not what I meant of course. Which is why I wrote 2025 and 2056. Hamilton may still surprise us this year, but it looks like far less likely than what could expected based on the pre-season comments that either he or...

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Why do you always hit me with some laborious admin work just to reveal that it was actually 100m before the braking zone not 200m as if it makes any difference to the point about braking unpredictably early or excessively for a high speed corner It may be something else in the report Fiki is referr...

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Indeed, caught napping by someone slowing massively 200m before the normal braking zone . Maybe we will see someone catch a closely following driver napping slowing down to 4th gear on the entry to copse at Silverstone I take it you didn't bother to read the stewards' report on the matter? Why do y...

mikeyg123

What was this about mikey? I completely missed it x( From the start of the season Sauber have basically not been able to do pitstops properly. They have a new wheel gun design that keeps cross threading wheel nuts. For some reason this is unfixable. At the moment it's barely worth Sauber doing race...

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