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Paolo_Lasardi

You have to admire what RB is doing. Ferrari, Mercedes and co look like stupid amateurs in comparison. Unfortunately, it kills the racing. As a fan of racing (in contrast to predictable show-cruising), I guess my 2024 schedule will consist of Indycar, F2 and F3 plus a little bit of WEC and the Nürb...

Paolo_Lasardi

You have to admire what RB is doing. Ferrari, Mercedes and co look like stupid amateurs in comparison. Unfortunately, it kills the racing. As a fan of racing (in contrast to predictable show-cruising), I guess my 2024 schedule will consist of Indycar, F2 and F3 plus a little bit of WEC and the Nürbu...

Paolo_Lasardi

FormulaFun wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:17 pm
Its genuinely just 2023

Have to leave now, thought about recording the rest - but hey, why?

Paolo_Lasardi

pokerman wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:31 pm
Leclerc the #1 driver being allowed to undercut Sainz.

Leclerc has brake issues, hardly a serious competition.

Paolo_Lasardi

F3: not a convincing performance by Mini. Beganovic had the speed to dominate - was it his mistake at the start? Browning very much in control.

Paolo_Lasardi

Maloney impressive. Strong showing by Marti and Aron. Bortoleto is the champion of gaining positions late in the race.

Bearman - Antonelli 0 : 2

Paolo_Lasardi

IMHO the main issue here is that the team have conducted this process behind closed doors, at least involve and have present a representative from the FIA, if they had shared details of the process and what investigation steps have been followed and the remedial process to insure it doesn't happen ...

Paolo_Lasardi

What the hell did Alpine do over the winter. Oh, and it was so wise by Williams to keep Sargeant. Every rookie would have performed worse, surely ... It's not what they did over the winter it's what they did last summer. They looked at the WCC and saw that they were lower than the year before and f...

Paolo_Lasardi

It's very clear that someone IS trying to damage Horner. Otherwise it wouldn't have been leaked to the press in the first place and then the anonymous file been sent. That doesn't mean Horner can't have done anything "bad" though. Both things can be true. And further to that, the "bad" thing he did...

Paolo_Lasardi

What the hell did Alpine do over the winter.

Oh, and it was so wise by Williams to keep Sargeant. Every rookie would have performed worse, surely ...

Paolo_Lasardi

Strong performance by Maloney, also by Marti.

Martins not so convincing today.

Bearman - Antonelli 0 : 1

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Paolo_Lasardi

Mohammed Ben Sulayem and Stefano Domenicali are going to meet to discuss the situation. This article details some of the options open to them (FIA mainly): https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/fia-and-f1-chiefs-set-to-meet-to-discuss-horner-situation/10581683/ clearly this isn't the first case of som...

Paolo_Lasardi

mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:36 pm
I'm really going to enjoy my last two hours of hope

I hear you!

Paolo_Lasardi

Vicky_balboa wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:55 am
So Maini is disqualified. Bortoleto now starts on pole for the feature race, incredible for his first race weekend.

And yeah probably it's a setup issue for Prema. Could be a Bahrain thing

And Bortoleto's car differed and was legal? Or is it F1 style checks of selected cars only ...

Paolo_Lasardi

Interesting race in F3; strong performance by Lindblad (the youngest driver on the grid - is that correct?).

Paolo_Lasardi

Badger36 wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:32 am
All will be revealed after Q3 I guess. That's the first point we can be sure the teams have shown there true hands.

Paolo_Lasardi

I don't think it rewards mediocrity. The ballast/time adjustments would be so small that no team could be sure of gaining any places, just time relative to those in front. So Red Bull would probably still win, just not by as much. Surely engineers know precisely how much lap-time extra ballast woul...

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UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:41 am
Qualy could be epic.

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Saw RB in the midfield and thought - eh, what?
But apparently RB is now just Bull.

Paolo_Lasardi

I always thought that Schumacher and Ferrari parted ways due to either di Montezemolo not being Schumacher's biggest fan (for any number of reasons) or Schumacher offering his place up so that Massa would not loose his seat. But I could be miles away here. In 2005 he dithered over signing a new con...

Paolo_Lasardi

I don't think it rewards mediocrity. The ballast/time adjustments would be so small that no team could be sure of gaining any places, just time relative to those in front. So Red Bull would probably still win, just not by as much. Surely engineers know precisely how much lap-time extra ballast woul...

Paolo_Lasardi

You have frankly lost me here. He is taking his chances and that is to be applauded. Similar to Schumacher in 2006, Hamilton could not get the long-term assurances he was looking for and it may have been a good time for pastures new anyway. I am not faulting Hamilton at all for his move if you thin...

Paolo_Lasardi

Invictus/Virtuosi are a very strong team for years now. Just their drivers sometimes didn't reflect this (Cordeel, ...). I am optimistic that Prema will find its way sooner rather than later. Antonelli beating Bearman first time trying is a "wow" - but for now just a one-off. Martins with a slow sta...

Paolo_Lasardi

So, Horner is not guilty. Excellent!

So, topic closed.

Paolo_Lasardi

This is brand "value" not brand strength which is what I said. I'm talking about the strength of brand. That's about pull, recognition, symbolism etc I'm not arguing Ferrari are the biggest company in the world. https://theexecutivemagazine.com/new-report-names-ferrari-as-the-worlds-strongest-brand...

Paolo_Lasardi

I always thought Perez performed a lot better against his team mates than this shows. He did but just not in qualifying, he beat Kobayshi, Hulkenberg, Ocon and Stroll only losing to Button and now Verstappen. Is the graph in the opening post qualifying or race results? I've just looked, average pos...

Paolo_Lasardi

Hülkenberg is obviously a shoe-in for Haas and like last season Magnussen will struggle to beat him except for the odd race. Surely the last season in Formula One for KMag. Bottas will again beat Zhou, but with a slimmer margin than last year. Both need to do exceptional things to carve out another...

Paolo_Lasardi

Hülkenberg is obviously a shoe-in for Haas and like last season Magnussen will struggle to beat him except for the odd race. Surely the last season in Formula One for KMag. Bottas will again beat Zhou, but with a slimmer margin than last year. Both need to do exceptional things to carve out another...

Paolo_Lasardi

UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:41 am
Some interesting scenes from the paddock:

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Very interesting.

Paolo_Lasardi

Hülkenberg is obviously a shoe-in for Haas and like last season Magnussen will struggle to beat him except for the odd race. Surely the last season in Formula One for KMag. Bottas will again beat Zhou, but with a slimmer margin than last year. Both need to do exceptional things to carve out another...

Paolo_Lasardi

I always thought Perez performed a lot better against his team mates than this shows. He did but just not in qualifying, he beat Kobayshi, Hulkenberg, Ocon and Stroll only losing to Button and now Verstappen. Is the graph in the opening post qualifying or race results? Running Average of finishing ...

Paolo_Lasardi

pokerman wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:20 pm

FormulaFun wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:48 pm
I always thought Perez performed a lot better against his team mates than this shows.
He did but just not in qualifying, he beat Kobayshi, Hulkenberg, Ocon and Stroll only losing to Button and now Verstappen.

Is the graph in the opening post qualifying or race results?

Paolo_Lasardi

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53553669962_3fbcf288e8_b.jpg As I've done with Max on another thread. Plotted Perez and his teammates Finishing position as a running average over their time together Kobayashi (-.02) Underated perhaps. Ran pretty close to Perez over their time together. Good rec...

Paolo_Lasardi

Interesting data! We also see demonstrated here one of the limitations of teammate comparisons: Ocon was already quicker than Perez at the beginning of his career, but we now see that Ocon isn't any quicker than Gasly and potentially slower, but Gasly was significantly worse against a weaker versio...

Paolo_Lasardi

To paraphrase some guy that (according to FOM) no one who follows F1 has ever heard of, "It is amazing how may fans, even those of Formula One itself, think that Formula One is a driver's championship." Even here in this place of "expert fans" it is not different. How many discussions circle around...

Paolo_Lasardi

What the public want is very different from what Formula 1 is, which is actually very strange since Formula 1 depends on the public. To paraphrase some guy that (according to FOM) no one who follows F1 has ever heard of, "It is amazing how may fans, even those of Formula One itself, think that Form...

Paolo_Lasardi

What the public want is very different from what Formula 1 is, which is actually very strange since Formula 1 depends on the public. To paraphrase some guy that (according to FOM) no one who follows F1 has ever heard of, "It is amazing how may fans, even those of Formula One itself, think that Form...

Paolo_Lasardi

good gravy. lol on topic, i’m surprised this issue isn’t settled yet. one way, or the other. i’m thinking there are some serious power struggles going on behind the scenes at RB since DM passed Yes, surely Red Bull can't go into the season with this ongoing. According to autosport, Ford seems to ag...

Paolo_Lasardi

I agree though, if Red Bull are dominant in the first third of the season, I expect there to be some regulation changes for 2025 to try and cut the advantage. They've won 32 of the last 34 races. I imagine Liberty, who love the 'show', are very concerned about that behind closed doors. No idea what...

Paolo_Lasardi

I agree though, if Red Bull are dominant in the first third of the season, I expect there to be some regulation changes for 2025 to try and cut the advantage. They've won 32 of the last 34 races. I imagine Liberty, who love the 'show', are very concerned about that behind closed doors. No idea what...

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