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Ennis

I don't get their orange obsession. I'm not sure even most fans have an orange obsession at this point.

But, at least it stands out, as anything else could lead to them looking like an Alfa Romeo or a Mercedes

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What worries me a bit is that Ferrari have lengthened the wheelbase while Mercedes have kept the same as last year. I was hoping for the opposite as the team that got it right last year has an extra year of knowledge with their concept. That said Ferrari seem to have made more drastic changes with ...

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Video of Bottas driving the car with the halo, looking through a helmet camera, I had to stop watching as it made me feel claustrophobic, it must be a lot worse actually in the car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdH_-KKP7JE Looking at that, even with the talk of stereo vision, the obstruction of ...

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A new rumour has surfaced! A British energy drinks company named Rich Energy is in talks to purchase Force India. They've put a quotation of around £200 million for buying Force India. Rich Energy is already associated with F1 via partnerships such as with Monaco Grand Prix. http://www.dailymail.co...

Ennis

I'd have sex with this car.

Ennis

I absolutely hate the halo.

Ennis

damn thats a sexy paint scheme. hides the halo very well. EDIT. and then i read article and thats not the race paint scheme. DAMMIT! One kind of wonders what's even the point of a launch if it's not even a livery launch anymore. Car will change between now and Australia, livery will change... What'...

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Di Resta is the stand out for me. Again, disclaimer, some clear Scottish favouritism here... But I thought he had a fairly solid career, performed well against a guy now leading a works team, had a really really bad run of results at exactly the wrong time and found himself out because Perez / Hulk ...

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You'll see how new I am to this: Red: Ferrari Orange: Nobody Yellow: Jordan Green: Caterham Blue: Williams Purple: None Pink: Force India Black: Lotus White: Williams (again) Silver: McLaren Brown: --- Jordan popped in to my head for both yellow and orange, but I don't think they've ever even ran or...

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I'm looking for drivers known as paying drivers the majority of their career, not those who graduated to paid status. For example, was Pastor Maldonado a paying driver throughout? Again though, anyone who performs well and gets near the front is likely to find themselves being elevated from 'paying...

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You're loading your own results with the question.

Drivers backed by large sponsors are paying drivers. If you want to basically limit this to "crap drivers with large sponsors", then of course you're not going to find many in the upper echelons of the WDC.

Ennis

A rare, positive post from me. I've had a crappy couple of years. I'd call them hell but I do have enough perspective to know that things could have been a lot worse. 2016 and 2017 were mean and I had a lot of bad times (like within myself, no one died or significant tragedies, I'm not sick, I had ...

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I live in the Central time zone in the US, and have been getting up at 6:30am to watch/record the European races starting at 7am for decades. I don't mind this schedule at all, and don't think that Liberty Media should change it, if the goal is a wider US TV audience. There are four time zones in t...

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While I see your point that size can be an advantage or disadvantage in other sports too, I think there's something that you are not taking into consideration here. In basketball, for example, a big huge guy like Shaq does have an advantage that is hard to compete with, however, a much smaller guy ...

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I don't think I've ever said this online before and I have no idea how it'll be received, but here goes. This may be oversharing but it's relevant to the discussion. Someone above mentioned the problems some kids have fitting in. For that reason alone, for them to see as many people as possible emb...

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How ballast effects F1 drivers "lighter drivers, such as Felipe Massa, who weighs 59 kilos, will have an advantage over taller drivers like Nico Hulkenberg, who weighs in at 74 kilos. The preference is for the car and driver to weigh in below the minimum weight and for ballast to make up the differ...

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How ballast effects F1 drivers "lighter drivers, such as Felipe Massa, who weighs 59 kilos, will have an advantage over taller drivers like Nico Hulkenberg, who weighs in at 74 kilos. The preference is for the car and driver to weigh in below the minimum weight and for ballast to make up the differ...

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Ennis, While in some cases, you may be right, it should be pointed out that not every case of someone criticizing something Lewis has said or done is someone "lining up to take a shot". Believe it or not, some people actually really believe what they say because of their own values... not out of so...

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How ballast effects F1 drivers "lighter drivers, such as Felipe Massa, who weighs 59 kilos, will have an advantage over taller drivers like Nico Hulkenberg, who weighs in at 74 kilos. The preference is for the car and driver to weigh in below the minimum weight and for ballast to make up the differ...

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For those of you that think that it's a private family situation and no harm can come from such a comment, I can only assume you don't work with children who have significant issues believing in themselves because they don't fit a so-called ideal picture of a young boy or girl. I'm NOT saying this ...

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well, we're back to whether it should have been expected, really. It's perfectly common for racing cars to follow each other through corners at a distance which would have the police being called on normal roads, sometimes to the extent that it can be hard to tell where one car ends and the other b...

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Tbf that's not Hamilton's responsibility. He is allowed to brake and Vettel knew that. Even Vettel doesn't think he was brake tested. Straight after the race he even said he was sure Hamilton didn't do it on purpose. If not done on purpose it can't be a brake test. That requires intent. If there's ...

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Tbf that's not Hamilton's responsibility. He is allowed to brake and Vettel knew that. Even Vettel doesn't think he was brake tested. Straight after the race he even said he was sure Hamilton didn't do it on purpose. If not done on purpose it can't be a brake test. That requires intent. If there's ...

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I think both viewpoints are right here. Hamilton has matured massively. I think he was a bit gung-ho in his early career, in 2011 he was just mentally nowhere, and now he is - in my opinion - the mentally strongest driver on the grid. However, part of this run is due to the situations he has been in...

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I fear for Williams. I really do. Despite what they say, it IS a pure financial decision. I cannot believe they could not have went out and got a better driver than Stroll or Sirotkin. That desperate they magically managed to forget about the ruling from Martini that a driver had to be over 25. I'm...

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I fear for Williams. I really do. Despite what they say, it IS a pure financial decision. I cannot believe they could not have went out and got a better driver than Stroll or Sirotkin. That desperate they magically managed to forget about the ruling from Martini that a driver had to be over 25. I'm...

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Yes, strolls engineer definitely has to take some of the blame for the inconsistency on that side of the garage. Posters keep mentioning that stroll is "sawing" at the wheel. If i setup a car and the driver is sawing at the wheel,i have to take the blame for not doing a good enough job. With todays...

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Just about finished Horizon Zero Dawn. I've done all missions and most side missions from both the game and the DLC, showing around 96% completed for the main game and 77% for the DLC. For the DLC I've not did the new Hunting Grounds yet which will be a big part of it. For the main game I have no id...

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Ennis, I suspect that our differences are indeed a matter of semantics and of parameters when one says mediocre. I honestly have no problem with ranking Massa 7-10 for his career. Perhaps because I was a teacher for so many years and used a 5 tier grading system, I would see Massa in the above aver...

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Well, Patrese had 17 seasons, Trulli and Coulthard 15 as well. Barrichello 19. What does that tell us? It tells us that the drivers who are regularly at the higher end of the mediocre range, say 7-10 most times, can carve out a long F1 career. Ennis, I suspect that our differences are indeed a matt...

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Those are some hard facts about qualifying, and they do in fact make this year's Merc sound a heck of a lot better than at least one of Seb's title winners. I was actually surprised by how much when I did the numbers; I was expecting a pretty small gap, not a half-second swing in favor of the Merce...

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Paolo_Lasardi wrote:Well, Patrese had 17 seasons, Trulli and Coulthard 15 as well. Barrichello 19.

What does that tell us?

It tells us that the drivers who are regularly at the higher end of the mediocre range, say 7-10 most times, can carve out a long F1 career.

Ennis

whatever you say. So the only way Massa could have earned you respect would have been by beating Schumi and then Alonso. MICHAEL SCHUMACHER!!! We don't even know if any of your "elite" could have done that! Personally, I don't think ANY of your "elite" would have beaten Schumi in his prime in the s...

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Lewis has spent nearly his entire career in good to great cars. Seb & especially Nando not such a high percentage, but nonetheless, a lot of competitive good to great cars. You basically put down the drivers who had occasional access in great cars as luck and not representative of any real skills a...

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I think different people have different benchmarks for mediocre. I use those two as an example as I think they are very average drivers, who appeared to have good moments which may well have been down to them luckily being in the right car (and they all certainly found themselves in the strongest c...

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Is that a bad thing? I don't see either of them as mediocre or less either. I think different people have different benchmarks for mediocre. I use those two as an example as I think they are very average drivers, who appeared to have good moments which may well have been down to them luckily being ...

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As for Blinky's example about the pilots, you need to have a complete picture of this. Why are there less women pilots really? Are there 124,000 unemployed women pilots out there waiting to get a fair chance? Or is it maybe that women are generally more uninterested in becoming pilots? You can't ta...

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Is that a bad thing? I don't see either of them as mediocre or less either. I think different people have different benchmarks for mediocre. I use those two as an example as I think they are very average drivers, who appeared to have good moments which may well have been down to them luckily being ...

Ennis

Is that a bad thing? I don't see either of them as mediocre or less either. I think different people have different benchmarks for mediocre. I use those two as an example as I think they are very average drivers, who appeared to have good moments which may well have been down to them luckily being ...

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Absolutely correct ALESI. It's often difficult to remember every last little detail almost a decade on so it's good to refresh peoples' minds. What kills me is how people can argue on behalf of other lesser drivers simply because they liked them or were fans to some degree and then bash on a guy wh...

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