planetf1.com

mikeyg123

Roll back to 90s technical regs with a budget cap that enforces 90s size budgets (adjusting for inflation). Use todays sporting regulations but without DRS. Race on proper circuits. Job done. If a 90s style race happened next weekend with the level of coverage we have now people would go nuts for it.

mikeyg123

Interesting from AMUS that Alonso has been offered a seat at Red Bull but seemingly Alonso is only interested if Verstappen has left the team, strange that Alonso would have less confidence of going up against Verstappen then Hamilton did. https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1/f1-transfermar...

mikeyg123

Interesting from AMUS that Alonso has been offered a seat at Red Bull but seemingly Alonso is only interested if Verstappen has left the team, strange that Alonso would have less confidence of going up against Verstappen then Hamilton did. https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1/f1-transfermar...

mikeyg123

Yeah I've just referenced that it's allowing Russell to beat him because they were only fighting for minor points positions, interesting you think that neither drivers had great races, that would be nothing to do with the car then and the wrong tyre strategy. No, it wouldn’t because both drivers ca...

mikeyg123

Interesting from AMUS that Alonso has been offered a seat at Red Bull but seemingly Alonso is only interested if Verstappen has left the team, strange that Alonso would have less confidence of going up against Verstappen then Hamilton did. https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1/f1-transfermar...

mikeyg123

You would object to Hamilton retiring from the sport if all he could find himself in was the 4th/5th fastest car? Russell was on the same wrong tyres that had him finishing in 7th place, it's that some kind of great achievement? Anyway he believed he was helping the team when he allowed Russell to ...

mikeyg123

I'm not sure how we've got here but I'd certainly say that being the last WDC for McLaren in an inferior car (which it unquestionably was) adds to Hamilton's legacy. Did the Ferrari really turn out to be that much better than the McLaren, or did Heikki Kovalainen fail to bring sufficient points in ...

mikeyg123

I'm not sure how we've got here but I'd certainly say that being the last WDC for McLaren in an inferior car (which it unquestionably was) adds to Hamilton's legacy.

mikeyg123

Real hard to pick winner between 2010, 2011 and 2007. I went for 2011 because that sort of race at the time felt so unique. It's really not something we'd seen before and it became the sort of race that was the hallmark of F1 for the next 2 and a half years.

mikeyg123

Amazing really that when this thread started Verstappen wasn't even on the list! 100 wins is definitely on. Anyone got stats on how quickly the 30+ wins drivers got to each 10 win marker after their first race? As in time from win 1 to 10, then 1-20 , 1-30 etc? Max now on 57 must surely have hit th...

mikeyg123

Alonso said that it was in his top 5 drives ever. While I think Alonso was impressive (and I voted for him), I'm pretty sure he tends to produce one of his best drives ever conveniently whenever he wants to emphasize that his car isn't good enough. It happened quite a few times in 2015 as well. ;) ...

mikeyg123

Alonso said that it was in his top 5 drives ever.

mikeyg123

Hamilton won his 57th race at the 2017 British Grand Prix. Verstappen won it yesterday. It’s quite a weird feeling because by midway 2017, Hamilton felt like he was a lot further along in his career. I agree with you. I guess that's just a by product of Verstappen basically not having a junior care...

mikeyg123

1. Hamilton = 123 2. Verstappen (M) = 116 3. Schumacher = 91 4. Vettel = 53 5. Prost = 51 6. Senna = 41 7. Alonso = 36 8. Mansell = 31 9. Stewart = 27 10. Clark = 25 10. Lauda = 25 12. Fangio = 24 13. Piquet = 23 13. Rosberg (N) = 23 15. Hill (D) = 22 16. Raikkonen = 21 17. Hakkinen = 20 18. Moss =...

mikeyg123

He claimed damage to his car when he let Russell go passed but that being said he seemed to have little fight like we saw from Russell for all of 7th place. He certainly has little stomach for being in the 4th/5th best car, I daresay if he had not signed for Ferrari he might give serious thought to...

mikeyg123

I'm not sure why Hamilton offered to move over. Sure he was slower in stint one which was unlike him but he was much quicker than Russell in the final two stints and lost 10 seconds to the undercut. Didn't look "much quicker" in the final stint; he got closer due to Russell getting stuck behind Pia...

mikeyg123

I don't know whether RB thinks like that - but if they did it would be a massive disapointment. Everyone and her daughter would have finished second. But the one time it counted - when Verstappen's car failed - he was nowhere. Seriously, it would be a travesty for the competitiveness of F1, if an o...

mikeyg123

I feel it must be clear to you that I keep asking, because I can't make sense of the verdict by the stewards, because of what they have declared him not to be responsible for. “At no time may a car be driven unnecessarily slowly, erratically or in a manner which could be deemed potentially dangerou...

mikeyg123

I hope you're wrong. He's got three 2nd places in 4 races which is what is the most expected from him. On top of this, he's not going to mess around with going another setup route like last year. He getting 2nd in Japan is a big shout out from him for a contract extension. Sainz has to look at 2026...

mikeyg123

Sainz's only deserved move would be Red Bull as that team is still the best. But Checo is doing good enough to keep that seat his. Mercedes doesn't seem like the team to go but could again create wonders in 2026 with new regulations. Aston Martin is a good choice as McLaren isn't an option. Below A...

mikeyg123

My problem is that I have (of course!) read that report. And I found it a very strange one indeed. My question, which you replied to, is genuine. It seems to me that a driver who is not watching the road ahead, is also in breach of part of the regulations. But if the driver ahead is still responsib...

mikeyg123

The problem Mercedes have is that there simulation facilities (wind tunnel) etc isn't correlating to real life. It's not that their engineers have suddenly become bad it's that what the simulation tells them works doesn't work in real life. But lets not forget they still have the 4th fastest car. Th...

mikeyg123

Alright, then at what point is the driver in front allowed to deviate from what he would normally do, in order to employ a defensive tactic? Would we be able to read that in their verdict? I don't believe the stewards verdict offers an opinion on that (Although I might have forgotten) What I do kno...

mikeyg123

H ow can the driver in front know when the driver behind is paying attention to the car ahead? I'm willing to believe the stewards only punished Alonso for his actions, but if Russell's inattention was known to them, I would say that doesn't reflect well on them. And I do believe that Piastri's com...

mikeyg123

So news of Hamilton's demise in a 3 race sample is quickly quelled in a weekend for the first time this season he wasn't experimenting with set up. Focus now perhaps shifts to the demise of Leclerc in a 2 race sample, the season is 24 races long, just saying. Ricciardo's badly mangled chassis, in h...

mikeyg123

The 3 races were supposedly a change in pattern. the thinking might be the 4th race is merely a anomaly not merely a pattern of things we have seen this past 2 years. Well we need to see what happens going forward don't we. I'd certainly say Hamilton did not look like peak Hamilton today. He claime...

mikeyg123

I would say that one member has certainly been writing Hamilton off. No, I think most people (including you!) have said Hamilton has very likely declined from his peak. That's obviously not the same as saying that it would be impossible for Hamilton to ever outqualify Russell. Bottom line.... You c...

mikeyg123

What nonsense would that be? It is a follow-on from last year. "I know what a car needs". I would wager there a people on this forum (me personally not among them) that know more about what makes a Formula One car work than Hamilton. And what goes for Hamilton, goes for all drivers in the field. It...

mikeyg123

Touché concerning the first point, though it is interesting that apparently the problem had come up before, if I understand T2's point correctly. For what it's worth, I would feel very uncomfortable as a steward, hearing a driver come out with a mitigating circumstance for his opponent, a number of...

mikeyg123

Having the need to use 3 race samples gives that feel of something set in stone. OK, so not able to provide a quote or an example then. Sorry, I don't believe that you thought anybody was arguing that it would be impossible for Hamilton to ever out qualify Russell ever again. Chill out and actually...

mikeyg123

Fair enough on the first point, what I should have written is that there is no real telling either way. As for Massa declining over time, every driver does and drivers (and athletes in general) decline at different ages, that is something that I think is commonly accepted. Whether his accident affe...

mikeyg123

Ah but I do know that Russell didn't provide any evidence this weekend, since the matter wasn't reviewed. Not even in light of what he said about the matter after the official investigation: “(I was) totally caught by surprise. I was looking at the steering wheel making a switch change in the strai...

mikeyg123

That's one way of looking at it. This is from The Race's article on the drivers points of view on the matter: Oscar Piastri felt that the stewards were "giving someone a penalty for causing dirty air". https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-drivers-split-fernando-alonso-australian-gp-penalty-implica...

mikeyg123

What Hamilton did was apparently not possible with him being over the hill. Could you please quote literally anybody on the forum saying that it would be impossible for Hamilton to out qualify Russell? Just once will do... Having the need to use 3 race samples gives that feel of something set in st...

mikeyg123

But it should be, shouldn't it? Otherwise, no driver can make an unexpected move anymore, because the driver behind needs not to react. This is directly opposite to what has been the rule all along, even in ordinary traffic, the driver behind is always at fault (the same goes for skiing by the way)...

mikeyg123

So news of Hamilton's demise in a 3 race sample is quickly quelled in a weekend for the first time this season he wasn't experimenting with set up. Focus now perhaps shifts to the demise of Leclerc in a 2 race sample, the season is 24 races long, just saying. Ricciardo's badly mangled chassis, in h...

mikeyg123

But isn't the point that Russell could have reacted and therefore should have reacted? Otherwise I am lost what we are discussing here. There is time to react and Russell does not react at all. As for the shifting up, Alonso appears to have shifted down to much, you can hear the pitch on the engine...

mikeyg123

As a slightly different take to team mate wars (my favourite thread on here)- thought it might be fun to keep tabs of the DotD. Given we don't get reliable results on these polls down to 10, I'm going to tally the points based on the 90's scoring system for the top 6. If drivers are tied on votes, ...

mikeyg123

F1Tyrant wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:10 am
I'm not sure why Hamilton offered to move over. Sure he was slower in stint one which was unlike him but he was much quicker than Russell in the final two stints and lost 10 seconds to the undercut.

Was he quicker in the final stint or was Russell just stuck behind Piastri?

mikeyg123

I reviewed the throttle application and as we have it, Alonso's onboard footage was facing rearwards. Russell was full throttle right before the corner. Alonso appears to do a lift and coast and shift down before the corner. What is interesting is that Alonso did almost exactly the same about 3 con...

Search found 27025 matches