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I'm still not sure exactly where Russell is as a driver other than he isn't elite.

Last season he carried luck and beat Hamilton, this season he's been unlucky and being beaten. So I reckon he is somewhere in about Rosberg/Button level, possibly a wee half step back from them.

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I don't think Verstappen is particularly unusual as a driver - he has his own quirks and traits, but ultimately he likes a pointy car and to get his work done early in the corner and just deals with the looseness. Whilst maybe not being the most common style, plenty of drivers share a basic style li...

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Hamilton does have the odd brain fade wheel to wheel. He always has done this. He deserved his penalty today, but he is usually an excellent judge of pushing his driving into the grey areas of the rules without going beyond - he is one of the best ever at this imo (and that's not a criticism, at the...

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Verstappen, Lawson and Sainz wasn't hamilton a hero for getting it to the end on those tyres? ;) Bottas did pretty much the same number of laps on mediums at the end too. Few things impress me more in motorsport than Hamilton's ability to do the same mileage as everyone else on tyres he reports are...

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Verstappen, Lawson and Sainz

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Lewis should be taking a penalty for that

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Lewis complaining about his tyres. It will be a heroes performance if he can make these last to the end.

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I'm suprised to see everyone almost universally putting Kovalainen ahead of Gasly. Gasly was terrible as Verstappen teammate. Kovalainen was much closer to Hamilton. I did put Gasly bottom. I think he is better than Kovalainen overall, but as I've said before it's difficult to think of somebody get...

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I'm also lost as to what his comments get at. He has had better team mates, but so what? In no particular order Grade A (elite level drivers) Alonso Grade B (guys who could be world champions in the right circumstances) Ricciardo Button Russell Rosberg Grade C (good support drivers at a top team) Sa...

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Monza is usually an outlier since it is technically probably the easiest track on the calendar and 85% is full throttle. Not saying it doesn't have it's technical challenges, but they should be bread and butter to F1 level drivers. You often see the cars qualify 2x2.

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All fairly easy votes except Mercedes and Alpha Tauri. Mercedes made a balls up of this race strategy wise for both drivers - Russell should of been there or thereabouts for a podium and I felt he was quite unlucky to end up with a puncture at the end - 9/10 times that doesn't happen. Hamilton ultim...

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Russell has not had much luck in this race.

Hesitant strategy screwed him and he is very unlucky to end up punctured/retired from that.

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Mercs strategy team doing Merc strategy team things.

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Should always take your hands off the wheel, but it's easier said than done when braking hard and thinking you might be able to minimize it by steering. Bad luck for Ricciardo, he didn't really have much time to make a better decision with Piastri strick where he was. Zandvoort looks far too small ...

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Should always take your hands off the wheel, but it's easier said than done when braking hard and thinking you might be able to minimize it by steering. Bad luck for Ricciardo, he didn't really have much time to make a better decision with Piastri strick where he was. Zandvoort looks far too small f...

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I agree. No top team is doing what Mercedes have done this last decade without a top driver in situ - but it's always been that way. Top car + top driver = impressive stats. The sports very different now to what it was even 20yrs ago. Wolff and Horner are great modern team principles. They couldn't ...

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I'd put Brawn ahead of Todt although the 2 are very linked.

I'd agree with the top 5, although will split hairs on the order.

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Not sure how this will knock on in the coming years for young drivers, but certainly up here in the north of the UK, many grass roots level series are struggling for numbers. I'm not aware of any series in my region doing better for numbers in 2023 than they were in 2019, with many down to <50% of w...

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As said before, I struggle to think of a driver whom was already in F1 - getting promoted to a bigger team, and doing worse than Gasly did in that Red Bull. I think mikey suggested Andretti and Zanardi come to mind in getting a good F1 seat and flopping badly, but they are least were outside F1 befo...

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This is it. Ultimately what I'm saying there is a limit to what a driver can do. If you have a top driver, in a top car...... Nobody in a merely "good" car is beating him. No disrespect to Hill and Villeneuve, but they are maybe the 2x weakest WDC of the modern F1 era, and Schumacher was maybe the b...

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Leclerc at Belgium.

It was a fine drive, elevated to whole other level with the meaning behind it and events of the weekend.

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Wow. well over 50% of this thread that is 6 pages long has been way off topic. To get it back on, I'll say a few things. Since I've been paying for NowTV for access to Sky, I've found the team of presenters to be about the worst I've known. It isn't always the people themselves, but just how Sky so...

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Harsh but fair. Harsh as he barely got time to get established. Fair as it's likely even once fully settled he was never going to be anything beyond a midfielder. In order to get to F1 he's had a very privileged life. He was born into relative wealth and Nick is worth millions now too - tbh he proba...

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It is fairly interesting and probably quite accruate, but its isn't really telling us anything we don't know. Without a WDC capable car, it doesn't matter the talent of the driver, they are not winning a WDC (barring anomalous circumstances) - and the best drivers maximise the results a car is capab...

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If Ricciardo isn't comfortably outperforming Tsunoda by the end of the season - it's curtains for him as an F1 driver. Tsunoda is arguably the weakest team mate he will have had in F1. I'm predicting DR will quickly be ahead of Tsunoda, and be back to something like he was before McLaren. For whatev...

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Will be interesting to see how he comes back.

Are we getting the DR that humbled Seb, and was a match for (younger and less complete) Max..... Or the DR that flopped badly at McLaren.

I don't think DR's performance at McLaren was a true reflection of where he is as a driver.

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Verstappen
Leclerc
Russell
Gasly
Norris
Bottas
Alonso
Magnussen
Tsunoda
Albon

One of the easier ones this week. Only a couple of murkier ones to think about - Hass particularly.

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Australia 2022 Driver of the day Hamilton - 11 Russell - 20 Teammate wars Hamilton - 35 Russell - 10 Miami 2022 Driver of the day Hamilton - 2 Russell - 27 Teammate wars Hamilton - 17 Russell - 16 A fair few times I'd vote a driver DotD, but then vote for the other driver in the team mate wars. Usu...

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Andretti and Zanardi were the two I thought of whom may have gone worse (even then it's debatable - Gasly was that bad), but...... Neither were sourced from within F1 (OK Zanardi had returned to F1 after 4 years) and were adapting to a new series.

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The undulation does make it look more interesting but I don’t know if it makes it more exciting for me as I know the drivers find it easy flat. Well they changed 130r after a couple of big crashes in the early 00s so again it’s just an easy fast kink now. Unfortunately if there isn’t enough run off...

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Perez is performing levels above where Gasly was when he got the Red Bull opportunity. I don't think it is much exaggeration to say that Gasly looked like he had been plucked from midfield Formula 3 driving that Red Bull - Perez, whilst a bit off Max, still looks capable. I do think Gasly is a far b...

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Fast sweeping curves with a good track flow and technically challenging enough.

Unless there are reliability issues, or some anomalies with safety cars/weather/other, or he crashes...... I can't see anything but a comfortable Verstappen win.

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Bottas has generally been one of the cleanest drivers on the grid - a trait that has probably been to his detriment overall. Too nice.

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mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 02, 2023 3:13 pm
Bernie Collins has really come into her own this weekend. Offered much more insight and seems much more comfortable than she has previously.

She has improved a lot in terms of presenting.

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Max and Lando

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I agree, yeah. Spa has issues regardless of the weather - Hubert died in the dry didn't he? My other worry is that tracks like Spa won't be able to keep running indefinitely because of this. Is there also a specific problem with Spa? That’s two fatalities on the Kemmel straight in four years. Not s...

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:o I probably rate Bottas slightly ahead of Perez, but they are close enough that my opinion will flip flop. Both are firm #2 drivers in a top teams. Both have quirks in their skill sets. Perez is the alternative strategy master and Bottas could turn up to an elite level 2-3 times a year and was a g...

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I think Verstappen runs up better stats in good cars, and I think wins a head 2 head in a 2 way fight in a "best" car. I'd back peak Alonso in a season where it's more of a dogfight in opposing teams.

Alonso, psychologically, seemed at his best as the underdog.

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Norris is the hardest driver on the grid to rank. There are hints he might be in the elite tier, but hasn't had much chance to prove it. He could be ranked anywhere in the top 1/3rd of the current F1 drivers depending on how you want to rank him, but to say he is definitely better than Verstappen, a...

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The cars look huge on this track.

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