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The scale of the penalty seems totally divorced from the possible size of the crime: did their 'cheating' mean they won the WDC when without it they wouldn't have? If yes, then RB should be disqualified from the 2021 championship. If not, then you can talk about future money or wind tunnel time pena...

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Well, Sergio Perez wins the Singapore GP. What a boring race, finishing on the two-hour clock, as it almost always does (only 59 laps finished). I guess it’s only natural then, that someone comes up with some “precious” statistics in some futile attempt to add interest to this race. Such as… A bori...

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Domenical: "The feedback from the fans, teams, promoters, and partners has been very positive" Global F1 Survey October 2021 , with 167,000 participants, 6.7% of respondents agreed that the “introduction of sprint race(s) has improved the show The only metric Liberty is interested in is numbers com...

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Do these graphs take in stats from all the races so far? If so I can't believe they're all straight lines. Surely they should be wiggly ones like those on the previous page..

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I really thought this match up would be a tedious slog but the sheer instability of results made it one of my more interesting multi-season battles. I was expecting it to show Berger slightly ahead the first few years and then Alesi gradually gaining the upper hand. The fact that it doesn't at all ...

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Interesting comment by Berger about his decline. Where did you hear it? I wonder if his Imola accident in 89 was a contributary factor too. Also: I remember Keke Rosberg saying after he'd retired that he thought he was the fastest driver in the world - until he partnered Prost at Mclaren. He thought...

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Well I think the utter farce of Monza merits some moaning here! Regardless of the delay and incompentence with which the FIA race control applied the rules; once upon a time, if a car stopped on track yellow flags would be waved and other drivers trusted to avoid it, so that the race could continue....

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Hamilton isn't remotely threatened by Russell, he was managing the pace and matching Verstappen throughout the race at Zandvoort. Russell still needs to improve in race pace if he's to cement himself as the team leader. 'Managing the pace'? Why, so that he could follow Verstappen home?! Didn't he w...

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After another farcical error in pit strategy for Leclerc at Spa surely Ferrari race management is becoming a joke. A potentially title-challenging car has been raced about as badly as is possible this year by the whole team. Can Binotto survive this? My guess is that unless they win at least another...

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Monza '98 ;) Maybe Argentina too I think? I think pre-DRS days you'd be hard-pressed to find a season where the two title rivals were overtaking each other race after race. It's much easier nowadays. I only recently became aware of the Schumacher/Villeneuve '97 podium stat as well. Go back to the 8...

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At least Audi will be a genuine manufacturer team, not just a paint job like the current Alfa Romeo. Surprised to hear Domenicalli say :"It is also a big recognition that our move to sustainably-fuelled hybrid engines in 2026 is a future solution for the automotive sector. " Where does he get that i...

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So what went wrong? Given Ricciardo's past record, for Norris to have beaten him so clearly makes Norris a potential world champ. Is that the truth, or has Ricciardo declined? Seidl has said: "We simply didn't manage as a team to make him feel fully comfortable in the car, especially when it came to...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/62653741

Interesting tech info about the Spa rule changes for 'flexi' planks, expected to benefit Mercedes..

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You know.... I've been rewatching the 2007 season over the last week and I'm actually finding the constant how pitched whine of the V8's rather annoying. I agree. When they got up towards 18000 revs they began sounding like sewing machines to me! Back when the max was 14 or 15000 they sounded good....

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I have just read in Doug Nye's Autocourse book re F1 1966-91 technical developments, that one reason Mansell struggled to beat Patrese in quali in early 91 was that he often had gearbox problems and had to resort to the spare car. Maybe if I can dig up any contemporaneous race reports I can check fo...

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I loved the sound of a high-revving NA engine as much as anyone else, but people have to admit that -- like a steam locomotive, or a biplane -- it's an obsolete technology that is never coming back. Pray for synthetic fuels Surely bio- or sustainable/synthetic fuels are a complete dead-end. There's...

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Long, long time ago, the teams in feeder series were potential future F1 teams. Back in those days where F1 was still competitive enough to welcome new entries. And cheap enough for lower formula teams to be able to step up to F1.. But yes, why run an F2 team when you can buy up potential winning d...

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Long, long time ago, the teams in feeder series were potential future F1 teams. Back in those days where F1 was still competitive enough to welcome new entries. And cheap enough for lower formula teams to be able to step up to F1.. But yes, why run an F2 team when you can buy up potential winning d...

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... but in Hungary he did all he could. Hamilton benefitted from a great start, Ferrari's pit errors, Perez's poor showing and Russell's tyres running out towards the end. For his first pole-start and race winning opportunity I think Russell did all anyone could expect against faster opposition. Al...

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I'm surprised at the anti-Russell sentiment of many replies. Yes he has had some good luck (let's not forget the British GP though), but in Hungary he did all he could. Hamilton benefitted from a great start, Ferrari's pit errors, Perez's poor showing and Russell's tyres running out towards the end....

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As it's the mid-season break I thought I'd revisit this thread. After 13 rounds of 22 Russell leads Hamilton by 158pts to 146, so Russell has scored about 108% of Lewis's pts. The consensus of the poll was for Russell to get around 85% over the season, and no-one had him beating Hamilton. After Hung...

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Jezza13 wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:53 am
Aston Martin - Where World Champions go to die (metaphorically speaking of course).

I'm surprised Alonso would not retire rather than go to a team near the back of the grid. If he no longer has any hope of a 3rd title we must assume he's just in it for the money..

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So did anyone see Le Mans '66? I thought it was pretty good. Christian Bale was excellent as Ken Miles. Interesting too as I didn't know about Miles and his role in the Ford programme. Is Bale English? If not his accent was remarkable! There were the odd annoyances: like absurd wheel-to-wheel-at-200...

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"My passion comes with certain aspects that I have learnt to dislike. They might be solved in the future but the will to apply that change has to become much stronger and has to lead to action today - we cannot afford to wait." That's code for he thinks F1 needs to green-up much faster. He clearly h...

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Well as your methodology takes no account of DNFs and mechanical reliability I'm afraid I think it is flawed. It absolutely does. Mansell wins San Marino and Britain when he retired while ahead of Prost but in his other retirements he was behind. Prost was leading Mansell on each occasion he retire...

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I have to question 'by a margin' for 1990 Mansell vs Prost: Yes Prost won clearly on pts and wins, but Mansell had 7 DNFs (+ 2 races where he had problems but was classified 17th/18th) to Prost's 4. In races where both cars finished healthy it was 3:3. Qualifying was 8:8. I have it 10-5 on Sunday w...

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You use quite often the word "ridiculous" with respect to my reasoned opinion. I'm a bit passionate but it's not said with bad intentions. Heart on my sleeve. And then you bring nothing on the table that supports your claim that Mansell was the "clear" third best driver. I'm happy to re-explain: Ma...

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I'm happy to re-explain: Mansell beat Piquet by a margin in 1987. Mansell crushed Patrese in 1988. Mansell narrowly beat Berger in 1989. Prost beat Mansell by a margin in 1990. Mansell beat Patrese but was out-qualified by him in 1991. Mansell crushed Patrese in 1992. Which driver has a stronger re...

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Mansell is loved by his fans for the spirits and the drama - but he overachieved compared to his driving skills because he lucked into some of the best cars in his era with his teammates either being suffering from injuries or being second rate. (Or he was clearly beaten by them; Prost). I have to ...

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Patrese himself was a very enigmatic driver as my write ups of his partnerships with Piquet and Mansell will show. He seemed to me to be unable to handle the pressure of leading. Time and again he spun out of the lead, or when under pressure from behind. He should have won several more races than h...

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Well, he beat Mansell and in better cars he would have done it as well, let's don't fool ourselves. Lotus was fully behind de Angelis in 1983 and 1984 and given how horrendously insecure Mansell was it's unsurprising that he regressed after improving on his 1981 performance in 1982. I think Mansell...

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It takes a lot of poetic licence. Including in the very premise. Hunt wasn't even 2nd in the WDC when Lauda had his crash. Well worth it though. Absolutely great watch. By far the best motor racing film. Hmm... The 60's Grand Prix was a great F1 film - not a great film, but that's another matter. A...

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UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 20, 2022 4:35 pm
Engine components used till now:

Source - Imgur

Shouldn't the red figures be removed and replaced with green for the likes of Leclerc who have served their penalties?

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The most bland, characterless venue that F1 has ever visited in my opinion (and there's some competition there) and it's not worthy of the French Grand Prix, which should be one of the headline events on the calendar given their motorsport heritage. It's a shame, because I think the track itself ac...

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Active suspension was banned along with ABS and traction control in the early 90's because they were considered driver aids, which take control of the car away from the driver and thus de-skill driving. Presumably, managing a car's pitch, roll, yaw etc is a driver skill just like managing the break...

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Isn't the hydrogen route a possibility for F1? This gets rid of the batteries but still uses 'green' electric motors. Not sure about the size of the hydrogen tank needed, but I think that for road cars they're not much larger than petrol, and the limited range problem of batteries is solved too. An ...

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Active suspension was banned along with ABS and traction control in the early 90's because they were considered driver aids, which take control of the car away from the driver and thus de-skill driving. Presumably, managing a car's pitch, roll, yaw etc is a driver skill just like managing the breaki...

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I think this whole debate would be unneccesary if circuits had proper kerbs around the track. Track margin design should mandate that going outside track limits results in a loss of grip and or speed - either through sausage kerbs, rumble-strip kerbs, gravel, grass, dirt - whatever. The kerbs should...

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If that points system is to stay, I think that to justify its existance the sprint needs to offer some element of chance to its grid. Make quali determine the grid for the main race, and (say) reverse the top 6 qualifiers for the sprint.. I'd even go as far as to reverse the entire grid. No driver ...

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In theory, with extra points on offer, sprint races allow more unpredictability in the championship. However, Austria simply allowed Verstappen to eake out another point's lead on Leclerc, thus denting Leclerc's chance of a big gain in the race. The 8-7-6... points system discourages risk taking by ...

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