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- Wed Mar 24, 2021 1:20 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2021 Pre-season news / Car launch dates (Updated)
- Replies: 120
- Views: 17537
Re: 2021 Pre-season news / Car launch dates (Updated)
"It is an honour and privilege to be nominated director of the GPDA..." Was Russell nominated by his fellow drivers? If so, how much does that say about his presence - as what I'd call a relative junior? I was thinking the same, he's had 2 seasons in F1 so far, he is a young driver. I would expect ...
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:21 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: You can pick only one change...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1682
Re: You can pick only one change...
None of these. I want a tight and exciting season of racing. A) None of these options mean that won't happen. B) even if that was the case, and I really don't understand how you think it is the case, it's about your preferred option of these 8 options. I have chosen one change. It just isn't one of...
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:45 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 20 questions for the 2021 F1 season
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3094
Re: 20 questions for the 2021 F1 season
I think Mazepin getting replaced or even getting most penalty points is wishful thinking. Mazepin sr will buy the team and he will have tenure much like Stroll. I'm sure he knows this too and Haas will be at the back of the grid. Mazepin jr. will know his only job for the year is to stay clean. His...
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:24 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 20 questions for the 2021 F1 season
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3094
Re: 20 questions for the 2021 F1 season
1. A record 23 races have been scheduled on the 2021 F1 calendar. How many rounds will be held this year? 23 - but not necessary the same 23 as announced 2. Following the latest aerodynamic rules changes, will this year’s cars be slower than last year’s? No 3. What will Fernando Alonso’s best result...
- Sun Mar 21, 2021 8:25 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Feeling Old
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2511
Re: Feeling Old
I started to watch F1 when I started to do some (low-level) racing myself in the 1970s, so I guess I qualify for this thread.
- Sat Mar 20, 2021 11:01 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Which team has the best driver pairing?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 12734
Re: Which team has the best driver pairing?
I'm seeing a lot of people rating Red Bull at the top, which I find a bit surprising. Personally, I don't see Perez as a significantly stronger driver than Sainz, and almost certainly slower on raw pace than Bottas. I can only assume that you are confusing qualifying pace with overall ability. Bott...
- Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:40 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
That would be correct, except for 2 small things: 1. It doesn't. 2. You haven't provided any "reasoning". And weren't you arguing earlier that there are degrees to things and it's not black and white? Are you now going to tell me that Hamilton's multiple documented meltdowns are at the same level a...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 10:49 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
The dictionary is what defines it - all I am doing is correcting your glaringly incorrect interpretation of the term. You are conflating two separate things and repeatedly presenting it as one and the same. Well, what the dictionaries say fit very well to my reasoning. That would be correct, except...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:47 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
I think you fundamentally misunderstand what a "meltdown" means. Resorting to underhanded tactics time-and-again seems to be a character flaw of Schumacher/Senna, but that doesn't equate "meltdown". As I have explained previously (and now having to repeat myself to you, yet again, as you keep repea...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:15 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Countdown to 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix...
- Replies: 121
- Views: 15473
Re: Countdown to 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix...
My French cars number 8... I finally found a French car AND a John Surtees (though not in the French car). The number 8 is on a Matra car (MS120), the John Surtees is in a Surtees car (TS7). https://64.media.tumblr.com/659a981d0e976d665c972342cda4a174/tumblr_mxnzc3eDLY1t6ga6bo1_1280.jpg And a 1931 ...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:35 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Sure the Merc wasn't dominant when he joined but correlation doesn't equal causation. I refer you again to Brawn and Shovlin crediting Schumacher for a significant role in building the Mercedes team's success. And Schumacher has faced a top driver teammate. He dominated Rubens then later at 43 year...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:32 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Sure the Merc wasn't dominant when he joined but correlation doesn't equal causation. I refer you again to Brawn and Shovlin crediting Schumacher for a significant role in building the Mercedes team's success. And Schumacher has faced a top driver teammate. He dominated Rubens then later at 43 year...
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:22 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
There is a big difference between a nuanced discussion of driver performance and the mental gymnastic required to support the claim. I see no harm in your continued support of this claim but I will always find it a statement light on credibility because of the volume of cherry-picking required. I'l...
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:34 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
I find it incredible that this poster keeps casually putting out the idea that Alonso, Montoya, and Kimi were all on an equal level, and doesn't see how that creates a massive eye test fail for the very premise of the point being made. To be fair, an argument not passing the sniff test isn't a refu...
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:33 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Only marginally behind Schumacher and not too dissimilar?! :lol: Sorry but this is jumping the shark now. Ask McLaren staff what they thought of Hamilton's team building by the end of his run there. Things are only rosey right now at Mercedes because they've had a supercar, he will be toxic as soon...
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:27 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Irvine gets severely underrated. I think because the 96 and 97 Ferrari's get very overrated. People think of him as some crock but he was as good as Barrichello or very close. In only his second season in 95 he started beating Rubens and remember Barrichello was really highly rated at this point. H...
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:20 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Only marginally behind Schumacher and not too dissimilar?! :lol: Sorry but this is jumping the shark now. Ask McLaren staff what they thought of Hamilton's team building by the end of his run there. Things are only rosey right now at Mercedes because they've had a supercar, he will be toxic as soon...
- Tue Mar 16, 2021 10:58 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
I certainly take the point you're trying to make here. Now tell us where Hamilton as a driver fits in on the team building spectrum? In my opinion marginally behind Schumacher. Like it or not, Hamilton played his role in the Mercedes dreamtime not too dissimilar as Schumacher played his in the Ferr...
- Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:18 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Neither did I say Schumacher was "Ferrari's secret team boss" - I'm saying he was the biggest team building driver F1 has seen and instrumental in building Ferrari's success and later Mercedes' success, complete with people who worked with him on the inside and outside saying just that. For me, the...
- Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:08 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Your last sentence is evidently wrong, as there is ZERO evidence of Schumacher vetoing any driver. Rumours, sure (just like Hamilton not wanting Verstappen as a teammate) but no evidence. If you're going to throw around conjecture it is clear you have a one-sided view of things. The "meltdowns" you...
- Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:52 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
I have to repeat myself as you're ignoring the parts about Hamilton's follies and going on your own tangential argument. - I did not say Schumacher was Ferrari's secret team boss. You should check which poster you're responding to for which comment. I merely provided you with the interview that you...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:23 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Your last sentence is evidently wrong, as there is ZERO evidence of Schumacher vetoing any driver. Rumours, sure (just like Hamilton not wanting Verstappen as a teammate) but no evidence. If you're going to throw around conjecture it is clear you have a one-sided view of things. The "meltdowns" you...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:18 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Here you go, since you are struggling with Google and personalized search catering to your confirmation bias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t15tKnsUJrk Thank you very much. It does not fully back Mya's strong claims ("MS instructed JT", "JT was about to get fired", etc.). It is rather a more enth...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:12 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
One of the things that distinguish the real GOATs from Hamilton is their ability to not let their head drop the moment something doesn't go their way - Hamilton has imploded end of 2007 (blowing a 17 point lead - worth around 41-42 points in the current system - to lose the WDC in 2 races), has che...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:00 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
www. youtube. com Search Ross Brawn BTG. You know this already. I know you know this. You know I know you know this. Just do it... No joke: if I do this, I get an AMuS interview with Brawn where he describes how Rosberg outperformed Schumacher in every department on the track. The virtues of person...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:53 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
When talking about cracking under pressure in respect to Schumacher I think of 1994, 1997, 1998 and 2006, in respect to Hamilton I see his 2017 and 2018 comebacks against Vettel, under pressure and mistake free. Against Rosberg despite having far more bad luck he also came back in the 2016 title ra...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:43 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
If you make a claim, you need to provide it. Easy. ;) www. youtube. com Search Ross Brawn BTG. You know this already. I know you know this. You know I know you know this. Just do it... No joke: if I do this, I get an AMuS interview with Brawn where he describes how Rosberg outperformed Schumacher i...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:24 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Addendum to Hamilton's headspace. There are drivers who raise their game under a stressful challenge, think Montoya, Senna and Schumacher. Then there are others who let their head drop under long term stress, think Vettel, Massa or Hamilton (I'm like this too so I know it when I see it). We've seen...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:48 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
It is on this thread and on a thread from a couple of years ago. There have been rebuttals but as yet still no refutations. Barrichello was on his decline from as early as 2005 and was gaining weight with each passing year. Excluding a rogue 2006, over 2007-2009 overall matched Button on performanc...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:46 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
If you make a claim, you need to provide it. Easy. ;) www. youtube. com Search Ross Brawn BTG. You know this already. I know you know this. You know I know you know this. Just do it... No joke: if I do this, I get an AMuS interview with Brawn where he describes how Rosberg outperformed Schumacher i...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:44 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
This thread has established no such thing. On the contrary, the evidence given in this thread of Rubens in his Ferrari years being on the same level as Alonso, Kimi and JPM remains unrefuted. This is false. No evidence of that sort has ever been established, and before it can be refuted it needs to...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:40 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Lots of words but no source, no link, whatsoever. Give me something I can access and evaluate. What was the wording, what was the context? Did he say " instructed" . Or that it was him alone? Or is it more along the lines I wrote, just in political phrases? James Allen's book is full of conjectures...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:32 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
This thread has established no such thing. On the contrary, the evidence given in this thread of Rubens in his Ferrari years being on the same level as Alonso, Kimi and JPM remains unrefuted. This is false. No evidence of that sort has ever been established, and before it can be refuted it needs to...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:28 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Why should Schumacher lose brownie points for making an Alonso/Kimi/JPM level driver look like Rubens? Would you be saying "All Schumacher did was dominate Kimi and never faced a top driver"? Because that's what dominating top level drivers does. Schumacher never faced Räikkönen as a teammate. Nor ...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:25 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
It was the Ross Brawn BYG interview. It was also that interview where he said Schumacher was instrumental in the Mercedes dominance that came after he left. Flavio Briatore has also said that Schumacher was basically the team principle at Benetton, but I can't remember which interview at this momen...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:07 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Addendum to Hamilton's headspace. There are drivers who raise their game under a stressful challenge, think Montoya, Senna and Schumacher. Then there are others who let their head drop under long term stress, think Vettel, Massa or Hamilton (I'm like this too so I know it when I see it). We've seen...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:04 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
When talking about cracking under pressure in respect to Schumacher I think of 1994, 1997, 1998 and 2006, in respect to Hamilton I see his 2017 and 2018 comebacks against Vettel, under pressure and mistake free. Against Rosberg despite having far more bad luck he also came back in the 2016 title ra...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:00 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Eddie Irvine is wrong. Todt's job was in trouble by the end of 1996 and it was Schumacher who instructed (that word is not too strong) Todt to hire Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne as soon as they become available. Source? It was the Ross Brawn BYG interview. It was also that interview where he said Schum...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:47 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
I'm convinced some folks have only read about the Schumacher era and they didn't really experience it, or they started understanding F1 in the latter years of dominance. So true. Those who have not experienced the times of Lauda, Regazzoni, Andretti and Peterson - what do they know. Seeing Peterson...
- Sun Mar 14, 2021 9:08 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
- Replies: 1662
- Views: 121868
Re: Hamilton vs Schumacher and their contemporaries (split from Official Hamilton Thread)
Addendum to Hamilton's headspace. There are drivers who raise their game under a stressful challenge, think Montoya, Senna and Schumacher. Then there are others who let their head drop under long term stress, think Vettel, Massa or Hamilton (I'm like this too so I know it when I see it). We've seen...