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I thought we were debating Hamilton's impact on the rise of the Mercedes juggernaut. I think a top five all-time ranking is pretty much a given at this point, but how I rate Hamilton has little bearing on my opinion that the rise of Mercedes was inevitable and he played little part in it. While I t...

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Gasly, Ricciardo and Hamilton are who i've plumped for, Gasly by far the first pick though.

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Invade wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 30, 2020 6:27 pm
Did RP get another reprimand today?

Yes, and this time Ferrari are the ones to appeal against it.

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Geleal is a clown but that's a fairly serious injury with potentially very serious reprecussions. Seems like a sausage kerb has yet again been to blame.

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Perhaps a return to Bridgestone era tyres, coupled with a mandated maximum stint length? The tyre whisperers would still get a bit of an advantage if they can use their softness on the tyres to attack each lap a bit harder and it would avoid the farcical situation of tyres falling to bits the second...

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Clown car tyre pressures dictated by Pirelli to make sure their tyres no longer fail live on TV have a lot more to do with Mercedes troubles. I imagine we shall be seeing some pretty interesting mandated tyre pressures going forward in the name of safety that just happens to move the ballpark from M...

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They will be reprimanded at every race throughout the season that they run the rear brake ducts in, however there is no further punishment for multiple reprimands.

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McLaren's Zak Brown on Racing Point verdict: "They claimed they had copied the car via photography. It's clear from reading the document that is BS. So you have to question everything else around the car." This isn't over by a long way! It was highly probable Mercedes had just sold/given the design...

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nearly everyone believed f1 prize money should be distributed better before corona. absolutely no one wants to hear toto cry "unfair" during this mess that isn't going away anytime soon. on this topic, toto can stuff it. nicest way i could put it on the message board Given his major gripe sounds li...

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nearly everyone believed f1 prize money should be distributed better before corona. absolutely no one wants to hear toto cry "unfair" during this mess that isn't going away anytime soon. on this topic, toto can stuff it. nicest way i could put it on the message board Given his major gripe sounds li...

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https://streamable.com/mq21jo

Toto is livid, and a fair bit of big talk about Haas.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/53694574

Mercedes playing hardball, though I still think they will be here next year. Given they supply engines to 3 other teams next year, thats a hell of a ball to threaten to take home with you.

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Herb wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 07, 2020 10:58 am

I see the logic.

The ducts are completely legal, how they got on the car is not.

Yes, thats a more succint way of saying it lol

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This is really interesting. It is the Rear Brake Ducts only that are illegal. They got a full set of CAD drawings last year, but installed and worked on the Fronts last year, so that means they were 'designed' by RP for 2020. RBDs went straight onto the car this year with minimal differences, so ca...

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Renault haven't really won at all here unless those 15 points are the difference between them and RP at the end of the year. Reading that makes it look like the stewards are pointing most of the finger of blame at the FIA and the process of checking the car while it was being developed, something RP...

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I imagine Hulkenberg will be getting a go at Spain as well, and with all the noise surrounding Vettel and Perez' trip to the CRB i'm starting to wonder if his time at RP is done already. If say, Perez misses this weekend, Spain and then Belgium and Hulkenberg is then fully up to speed and doing a g...

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It'd be somewhat amusing to see Dick Tantrum try and pull the Collard manouvre in an F1 race..... Vettel banging wheels at Baku would absolute kids stuff in comparison.

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I imagine Hulkenberg will be getting a go at Spain as well, and with all the noise surrounding Vettel and Perez' trip to the CRB i'm starting to wonder if his time at RP is done already. If say, Perez misses this weekend, Spain and then Belgium and Hulkenberg is then fully up to speed and doing a go...

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Perez tests positive again, out of this weekend and surely Spain as well. Can't imagine Belgium rolling out the welcome wagon for him either with such a short turnaround.

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Out of that admittedly small list, you'd do well to outdo the WI cricket team of the 80s.... a decade unbeaten.

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I don't think its an unreasonable request to produce tyres that degrade to the point of them being utterly unsuitable for any kind of decent race pace long before the actual construction of the tyre is compromised. All 3 cars with front left failure were still lapping at a perfectly good pace right ...

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I can see Perez knocking on the RB door given the situation at RP and he would appear to be an upgrade on Albon. The junior program really doesn't have anyone better right now (its far too soon for Tsunoda) and Gasly and Kyvat have already had their shots and not really done any better than Albon is...

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You are arguing with a straw-man. At no point did I point the finger at Mercedes for being dominant. I do however blame the FIA for the 2019 rule changes. It was a point aimed at no one in particular. Though in regards to the 2019 rule changes, if its open knowledge that they make the high rake con...

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Looking at the changes to the header and the footer so far, I think the end result is going to be something matching the colours of the main site, which isn't going dark at all. The experience on mobile devices is another universe to what we used to have to put up with though, probably worth the tra...

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Mercedes are perfectly beatable, the other big teams simply need to do a better job. I posted in another topic on here about how Ferrari have blown it by wasting 2 years on what we can all surely agree now was an illegal engine, and despite the rule changes you have quoted about above clearly no lon...

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I'm of the opinion that Stroll is pretty much the ultimate form of the 'coached' driver. There has to be some latent talent in there for sure, otherwise he would never have gotten as far as he has, and I can only applaud the standard he has reached. However, it seems that when it comes to the absolu...

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I wonder if a certain Spaniard fancies half a season getting reaquainted with an F1 car.....

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Hamilton like, it doesn't matter there's such a gap between us and third cos Bottas is pushing me. Like bro, it kind of does lol To us, sure. For him, it means someone is still breathing down his neck if he even drops off 1% from maximum performance. I'm honestly at the point now where I have to st...

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Mercedes finally open the taps. Stupidly fast, Monza is going to be an absolute bloodbath.

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Oh dear Albon. He's going to get the spanish violin at this rate. Racing Point bitterly disappointing too.

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To be fair, I dont think id fancy a face full of that being kicked at me doing 70mph.

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Go on Hulk, really hoping he goes well this weekend.

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Russell going well again. Mercedes look a class apart, though RB (well... Max) are closer than I thought they would be so far. We shall see if thats the case in Q3.

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JN23 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 31, 2020 9:02 pm
Anyone seen any long run data?

https://i.gyazo.com/04418d91a37c5c99cb9 ... fe9c28.png

Ferrari don't look too clever (as predicted) but Mercedes seem suspiciously slow. I imagine the heat will make most of FP1/2 unrepresentative of what will actually transpire today and tomorrow.

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https://racer.com/2020/07/30/hulkenberg ... ritish-gp/

Sounds like Hulk is finally going to get a shot in a top 3 drive.

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Hoping that maybe we might finally be allowed to have custom skins..... also happy to help if you guys need someone to knock up a decent looking red/black/grey theme for the default.

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Lando is performing as well as any of them right now, and I honestly think he is at least going to end up on the same sort of level as Button. Russell has the special something though, he has a whiff of Alonso in the Minardi about him, and already has the best team on the grid on his side. I don't t...

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Why would Schumacher lose his statistics? Fiki has been adamant that Schumacher's stats shouldn't count for 1997 since I've been on this forum, and quite likely since as early as 1998. It doesn't make any sense. He cheated in the final race, but that doesn't provide any rationale for removing his s...

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https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/for ... arn-quali/

I've only seen a sketchy translation but Marko appears to be blaming the chassis now for the lack of performance..... significant if true.

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Hamilton will probably win. Excited to see what Racing Point can do. For now they are doing today the times Mercedes was doing last year... So the Racing Point 2020 is doing the same times as Mercedes 2019....interesting. I wonder if its the same car that has been copied or the same concept? Subtle...

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