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I... actually like it!

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Let's hope so!

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The 'who will get the most podiums out of BOT PER GRO' thread revival reminded me of this thread, now that the season is over... 55% of voters were wrong. My vote was/is 2017, less confident now, grown progressively less confident as this season kept going by with little improvement. Hope the new re...

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Updated 2015 to include Mehri and Stevens though they missed the first GP. 2016 beats out 2011 for most experienced grid on average. 2017 is going to be fun when 3 of the 5 most experienced drivers leave at the same time, about 760 starts between them. Fun note: I was just revisiting this thing for ...

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I hope Sauber put Giovinazzi in the other car.

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I wonder if winning GP2 would put Giovinazzi in a bit of a weird seat, if he can't land a seat with Manor for example at the last moment? I mean, Gasly will probably move to TR whether he wins or finishes runner up, and you'd assume Giovinazzi would stay with Prema and go for the title next year if ...

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Of the F3 rookies, I first thought Ben Barnicoat was the most impressive around the half season mark or so, but Joel Eriksson has had a much stronger second half and took the rookie title by some margin. Hubert also improved a lot during the season.

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Yeah, it feels like Günther, Cassidy, Russel, Illot barely moved forward since last season.

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regarding Giovinazzi a miracle did not suddenly occur when he moved to GP2 he actually finished 2nd in F3 last year. Yeah, I didn't quote the post I was replying to, what I meant was Fuoco came in to F3 and (narrowly) beat Giovinazzi who already had a season under his belt there. Then Fuoco had a s...

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I have to assume that teams have intelligent enough people working for them that they'll realize someone who's gotten all their super license points in F4 and F3 aren't going to have the same experience as someone who's done a few years in more powerful cars and with tires more like F1's, like GP2, ...

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Then we just need a broadcast with Massa as commentator.

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How on earth can the commentators blame Canamasas for that accident. He left the door open and Pic oversteered into him! That was incredibly odd to me, too. I guess Canamasas gets the blame automatically due to his history, because there's no way anyone can claim he didn't leave Pic enough room. Pi...

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Prema in GP2, what a crazy debut season. Also, Markelow is my favourite, I love this guy. I don't care how quick he is, he should get a ten year contract in F1 just so we can hear his radio transmissions. Incredibly poor weekend from Sirotkin, and a bone head move to finish it off. Pretty much the p...

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Would be fun if they do it in 2018, the only option NO ONE voted for =)

Then again, it could very well coincide with both drivers having left the team...

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First half of 2016 is up soon, and the closest they got was Alonsos 5th in Monaco. I'd be amazed if they manage to do it at Spielberg or Silverstone. I haven't been paying that close attention to engine components this year, but isn't Alonso already sniffing at grid penalties? As they're still even ...

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Maybe it's WILL votes and not SHOULD votes. The funding problems for Haryanto indicates fairly strongly that he could very well lose his seat, while Wehrlein seems to have more secure backing?

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But you factored in Kimis Rally years.

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Slightly old statistic, but in first 104 years of history of the Isle of Man TT, 234 riders died. So over 2 a year on average. Isn't that number of deaths telling us a bit more than the usual statistics? Is there anything comparable in the world of sports, with such high grade of death? Not a singl...

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Well, here's your explanation then, VSC critics. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/124576/stewards-had-to-explain-shock-markelov-win TL;DR Markelow was in the slow sections of the track during the short VSC period and didn't really lose any time because you're going so slow there even at n...

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I did say he's got talent, but he still wouldn't have a role at Williams if it wasn't for his fathers money. Prema has won the Euro F3 team championship five years in a row, and Prema drivers have won the title five years in a row, too. Four of those years they've had another driver in the top 3 in ...

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Well, as far as pay drivers go, he's at least competitive. Last year was his rookie season after all, up against super-veteran Rosenqvist and Dennis who had a full season behind him. He was and is probably in the best team, though. Not saying he didn't buy his Williams role.

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Racing can be good even if the driver chasing never manages to pass, like in at least one and probably two cases involving podium positions in this race, that's a top notch race for me. Add in a new record-breaking winner, a bit of drama on the first lap, albeit with perhaps too severe outcome, prob...

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Nelson Piquet Jr has been barred from participating in the Pau F3 Grand Prix this weekend, by the FIA. Guess they think it's against the spirit of the series to let such experience drivers enter. I think maybe they could make exceptions for classical races like this one. F1 drivers used to race in F...

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@F1Oz, Mechanical Failure if there ever was one, albeit caused by the driver many laps earlier.

Wow, look at 99. Five times a driver crashed out while leading the race...

Fun thread, mikeyg123.

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Now I have. Suicide machine in Segway form.

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Rookies are doing very well in Euro F3 this season with 6 races now completed. Jimmy Eriksson, 3 podiums from 6 races. Ralf Aron, won his 4th race, 2nd in his 5th. Ferrari Junior Zhou, 2 podiums. Ben Barnicoat, won his 6th race. Niko Kari, 2nd place in his 4th race. Many are beating sophomores who h...

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What are those things? I want one. Two, actually.

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I don't see it. Soundly beaten by someone most consider second tier, twice. It requires some serious mental gymnastics to think he'd do much better than Räikkönen at Ferrari. He's done well in the Haas but that car isn't the Manor rival some might've expected.

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I find it hard to guess because it feels like so much is down to chance and given Lewis' fortunes in the first races I can't really make an educated guess what would happen if he got away ahead for once. Going by last year he'd probably stay ahead, and since he's qualified ahead when he's had a chan...

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Rosberg, Ricciardo. And I voted Massa because I think he did a good job defending his place for a long time. All the other top finishers either got caught by people at a severe disadvantage (Kvyat) or were involved in clumsy accidents (Seb) or could probably have done better at some points (Kimi, af...

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He did an entire season of F4 in the German championship last year so I'm not sure if I'd call it a debut exactly. Still worth watching.

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Old men late for April Fools. This knock-out thing was silly video game stuff, but to then propose aggregates instead... insanity.

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Juicy statements from George Russell after the very first race of European F3: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/123561/russell-stroll-is-ruining-european-f3 The rookies moving up from F4 etc did a good job on their début, Barnicoat finishing 4th, Eriksson 6th, Aron 7th, Kari 8th and Newey...

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The first season I watched, 2005, was aired on free TV in Sweden, no commercial breaks IIRC but I'm probably wrong. Not sure if they aired the qualifying sessions, I don't think I watched them my first year either way, pretty much started watching F1 as something to do with my hang over, perfect tim...

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Nyck de Vries moves to GP3 with ART from FR 3.5 this season. That's a lateral move at best, or at least it was until now I guess. Another sign that series is going down the tubes if you needed one. Alex Albon goes from F3 to GP3 with ART as well, after finishing 7th in his rookie season with 5 podiu...

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I wonder if 3.5 V8 isn't more like a feeder series to GP2 now, maybe on par with GP3. 2.0 and F3 -> 3.5 and GP3 -> GP2 -> early retirement ;) Sure, K Mag, Sainz, Bianchi etc came straight from 3.5 (right?), but this year people are moving from 3.5 to GP2 instead. Poor to mediocre guys like Gelael, M...

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Exactly. Several teams leaving isn't really detrimental considering how many cars there were on the grid last year and a third of the field were just going round and around more or less.

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Good. Something goes the right way for once. Magnussen might not be Hamilton 2 from the looks of his rookie year, but him only getting that one season would've been sad. Pastor's had several, heck he even got to win a GP.

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I will probably continue at some point, but right now I've got 4 more months of paternal leave to look forward to before I'll even look at that file =) I should probably add that my source for all of this is wikipedia and it all relies on some of those pages being correct, mainly list of formula one...

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Euro F3 is looking to have a really nice season... Barnicoat, Eriksson, Newey, Schumacher, Kari, Piquet Jr 2 plus a bunch of OK race winners staying on. Just get Marvin Dienst in there, too.

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