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Randine

I don't think Max being Red Bull's darling had any real (as opposed to imagined) bearing on Ricciardo's chances of success there. It certainly didn't hurt his chances when he went up against Red Bull's then-darling Vettel in 2013. Ricciardo got pretty much thumped by Max last year and it's probable...

Randine

Apparently he is on £20 million a year, more than double Red Bull. He went for money and to run from Max. He isn’t significantly less talented than Max but Max is better and has a higher ceiling and Max is Red Bulls darling. Leaving Red Bull is probably Dans best chance of getting in a Ferrari or M...

Randine

The short answer, McLaren were just as much at fault as Honda. 2018 revealed just how bad the problems were at McLaren when Red Bull won 4 races using the same engine. With the Red Bull chassis, the Honda engine only needed to be slightly better (comparatively) than the Renault for Red Bull to get a...

Randine

Bring it back! It adds more possibilities in strategy. However the best part of it is, the cars are much lighter on average throughout the race so they can punch out qualifying type laps all through the race. This is F1. The pinnacle of Motorsport. Not endurance racing. I want to see cars and driver...

Randine

Wild prediction, Gasly to be replaced by Kvyat at Red Bull mid season! (Lol) Toro Rosso will make a few steps forward this year. I read somewhere that when James Key left, they weren’t going to replace his exact position as they were going to share as many parts from the Red Bull as permitted. (Like...

Randine

Although testing is not much to go on, Leclerc’s best sectors together are 0.1 up on Vettel. I see a lot of comments about Leclerc improving over the year. If he is the real deal, he will be on it in Melbourne. These drivers are some of the best in the world. They don’t need half a season, they need...

Randine

Are their any links/quotes directly from Marko/Horner/RB - specifically stating Vettel needed to finish below P3? I was always of the impression the main trigger was linked to the competitiveness of the car, as oppposed to Vettel's performance e.g.https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/motor-sport...

Randine

I think people are criticizing vettel too much for 2014. Yes, Ricciardo was new to the car, but the rules changed things so much that year, that the car was effectively nearly as new for Vettel as changing team was for Ricciardo. Vettel had been used to such a different car before. It wasn't a good...

Randine

Its never conclusive until you see a direct head to head or a lot of team mates to compare. But it has certainly moved a lot toward Hamilton since the end of 2013 when consensus probably had Vettel slightly ahead. Especially with Hamiltons 2011 still in close memory. I think by the end of there car...

Randine

F1 race starts all time: 1 Brazil Rubens Barrichello 1993–2011 326 2 United Kingdom Jenson Button 2000–2017 309 3 Germany Michael Schumacher 1991–2006, 2010–2012 308 4 Spain Fernando Alonso 2001, 2003–2018 307 5 Finland Kimi Räikkönen 2001–2009, 2012–2018 287 6 Brazil Felipe Massa 2002, 2004–2017 27...

Randine

Raikkonen has done well this year. Fast, consistent and reliable, and just the compliant sort that Ferrari likes. Leclerc will be fine eventually, but is too young to jump to the Scuderia, as Ferrari does NOT develop drivers. Jacques Villeneuve echos my opinion precisely... http://www.espn.co.uk/f1...

Randine

Raikkonen has done well this year. Fast, consistent and reliable, and just the compliant sort that Ferrari likes. Leclerc will be fine eventually, but is too young to jump to the Scuderia, as Ferrari does NOT develop drivers. Jacques Villeneuve echos my opinion precisely... http://www.espn.co.uk/f1...

Randine

Raikkonen has done well this year. Fast, consistent and reliable, and just the compliant sort that Ferrari likes. Leclerc will be fine eventually, but is too young to jump to the Scuderia, as Ferrari does NOT develop drivers. Jacques Villeneuve echos my opinion precisely... http://www.espn.co.uk/f1...

Randine

Raikkonen has done well this year. Fast, consistent and reliable, and just the compliant sort that Ferrari likes. Leclerc will be fine eventually, but is too young to jump to the Scuderia, as Ferrari does NOT develop drivers. Jacques Villeneuve echos my opinion precisely... http://www.espn.co.uk/f1...

Randine

Raikkonen has done well this year. Fast, consistent and reliable, and just the compliant sort that Ferrari likes. Leclerc will be fine eventually, but is too young to jump to the Scuderia, as Ferrari does NOT develop drivers. Jacques Villeneuve echos my opinion precisely... http://www.espn.co.uk/f1...

Randine

I dont think he will ever be WDC now. I think that is way too early to say. He has a 2 year deal with Renault, that also ties in with Hamilton, Vettel and Max. So all will be free agents going into 2021. So in 2021 Dan could have a shot at being at Merc or Ferrari, or quite possibly going back to R...

Randine

Personally I don't see Max getting along with anyone who challenges him at any time at all. Daniel is one of the most easy going drivers out there and he got tired of Max's antics. I think probably more tired of Helmet’s antics. The whole ‘we will build the team around Max’ comment hit a bit too cl...

Randine

As Ricciardo has already taken on Vettel (4 time WDC) and Max (hailed as next Senna), I think he will be under much less pressure. If he doesn’t perform, yes the pressure will come. However, I think it will be a close battle. I think Hulk is very under rated. (Perez had the upper hand on the cheese ...

Randine

This thread goes in the same circular direction every time. Everyone talks about how ridiculous Ferrari's extra payment is, apart from the Ferrari fans who think it's a wonderful idea. Actually I see a lot of discontent with the extra payments the other big teams are getting too, it's no longer jus...

Randine

It was a sure thing to happen after a few races where that Honda was not only reliable but fast as well. My only worry is does Red Bull have the same tight engine spacing as McLaren? Both of these 2 teams in the recent times have faced the most issues. Is it a coincidence? Honda had 1 engine design...

Randine

He was doing as well as Ricciardo when he was axed. You've gone ahead and bought into the media hype as to why he was axed instead of realizing that the only reason he was "demoted" was because Verstappen was being wined and dined by others and Red bull reacted rather than risk losing their young g...

Randine

I’ve also just realised red Bull ran the slower super soft in the first stint, they didn't even run the ultra. Ricciardo did a 28.1 on SS on his single lap not in traffic in the first stint. That is a very good time. The fastest lap on the first stint was Hamilton’s 27.8 on the ultra. Ricciardo arg...

Randine

Sure, but one could equally say that Bottas would likely have been in 2nd place and he may have stayed out longer to act as rear gunner, in which case he may well have won the race himself. I think it's a little too early to condemn Bottas for a single qualifying error I don’t think it was just the...

Randine

Is there a super license info website? I found a great article on F1Fanatic that compiled a list of eligible drivers for 2017. (Dated Jan 2017) https://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2017/01/23/38-drivers-enough-superlicence-points-enter-f1-2017/ However is there a better place to keep an eye on this stuff oth...

Randine

Frankly, their handling of Kvyat sucked. It sucked when he was sacked from Redbull and it sucked again this year. Nobody deserves that even after what happened in Sochi (and I am Ferrai fan, it sucked to see what happened but still...). Specially when you got the podium just 1 race before. That is ...

Randine

Was this the subject that Lazenby and Kravitz quizzed Horner over in Austin? And his smug response was that there was always 'grey areas' in the rules that teams can exploit under there interpretation of the rules? He then went on to say that Technical Directives were not rules and rather, a Stewar...

Randine

In the F1 reddit I found a link to a series of wallpapers someone had made with the new logo, which does actually show some versatility to it: https://imgur.com/a/RzbFq However, then in the reddit thread, there was a link to this article about the design of the new logo and the philosophy (interest...

Randine

The best re-hash I have seen is this one. https://i.redd.it/dbg098vvlc001.png https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/7fnz7e/modernized_f1_logo/ And as for variations on the new one, I like that this one has more closely shows a racing line vs the side by side oval racing of the new official one....

Randine

The rating of Verstappen against Ricciardo is ridiculous. People just completely ignore the results achieved by the drivers. Points don't always tell the story, Verstappen has basically beat Ricciardo in a similar fashion to what Ricciardo beat Vettel in 2014. That is a stretch! A reigning world ch...

Randine

Men and women are biologically different. They have different brains and hormones. One fundamental difference is that women have speech centres in both sides of their brains. Men normally only one side. Part of the reason why you can’t shut them up. ;) Also a reason why women rarely lose their abili...

Randine

He didn’t rate Rosberg either, and we all know how that turned out. Hamilton is probably regarded as the best qualifier ever in F1. Well did you know Rosberg outqualified Ham 12 vs 7 in 2014. (Head to head other years 2015 - Ham 12 - Ros 7 2016 - Ham 12 - Ros 9) And I think most would rate Ricciardo...

Randine

I may be alone in thinking this, but when I saw the logo it looked more like the 'cars' in the F are actually driving away from the 1 in the logo as opposed to how the graphical artist said he designed to to look. The design explanation shows that they arent familiar with F1 as it looks like 2 cars...

Randine

With the halo, 3 engines, grid penalties, inconsistent stewarding, and now this ugly new logo, I am seriously thinking of giving up watching F1 after 35 years. My brother doesn’t watch anymore. Neither does my dad. Both used to be very passionate and they got me into the sport. I'm with you on the ...

Randine

I'm actually really impressed with where HAAS are, I suppose my recent memories of new teams in F1 is Caterham or Marrusia where they trail around the track on their own just making up the numbers and HAAS has never played that role. Yes, they seem like really good operators. I never really rated G...

Randine

With the halo, 3 engines, grid penalties, inconsistent stewarding, and now this ugly new logo, I am seriously thinking of giving up watching F1 after 35 years.
My brother doesn’t watch anymore. Neither does my dad. Both used to be very passionate and they got me into the sport.

Randine

Looks more like FI than F1. Force India? My thoughts exactly. That doesn’t even look like an F. And the 1 looks like an i. I am not a designer but owned a graphic design agency for 15 years. The old logo was fantastic for its clever use of having the F and 1 fit together. If they modernised that de...

Randine

Ricciardo said this November 1st. "I'm not going to pull the trigger on anything early; I think I should be smart and take my time." https://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/360545/ricciardo-verstappen-s-deal-hasn-t-hurt-me/ So for 2018 we all know he will be in a Red Bull. But big changes are on the ho...

Randine

The end of your 2nd sentence is the nail on the head, it's more efficient to do it that way hence the lower revs. I guess what they are really proposing is moving that efficiency vs performance curve up the scale to the point where you get the best bang for your buck(revs). Currently the rules say ...

Randine

Congratulations to the Force India team for securing 4th place in the Constructor's Championship 2nd year in a row. Next year, will be their toughest test with McLaren, Renault & possibly Williams even improving. However, Force India should remain close on their heels. Yes, amazing result again. I ...

Randine

You wonder if reports that Danny Ricciardo has lost out on an upgraded engine to Verstappen mean that DR's future at RB is over? Is he following the Renault engine to McLaren I wonder? Why give it to MV when he won't be using it next year? TBH I really don't get why Renault are only making one upgr...

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