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Well this is going to get messy: https://x.com/rachelbrookestv/status/1766198664978968616?s=46&t=ogYVTvP780Kb_NbBode63w If this is accurate, to be honest I hope Red Bull sends Marko, Jos, and Max all out in the same garbage can. Max may be a generational talent, but he's let himself get mixed up wi...

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F1 WILL be irrelevant when we are all driving around in EVs, fact. F1 is irrelevant now. Has been for decades. Sportscar racing is also irrelevant now, but it took longer. Ditty for rallying. But that's fine. F1 doesn't need to be relevant; that's just a smokescreen, and always has been. F1 needs t...

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SAUDI ARABIAN GP
Podium Prediction

1. Max Verstappen
2. Sergio Perez
3. Charles Leclerc

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I'm not sure what she learns racing against 3rd rate drivers but I guess it helps to raise her profile for future backing. I would assume this is it. She's not going to learn much, but she is going to improve her public profile significantly by dominating on the F1 sub-ticket. Jamie Chadwick won in...

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2024 SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX
01. Max Verstappen
02. Sergio Perez
03. Charles Leclerc
04. Carlos Sainz
05. Lewis Hamilton
06. Lando Norris
07. George Russell
08. Oscar Piastri
09. Fernando Alonso
10. Alex Albon

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Yeah, it honestly seems really out of character for Max to try to engineer a giant meltdown at his team so he can chase a more competitive car. This is the same Max who toughed it out at RBR from 2016 to 2020, never once having a sniff at a championship challenge, and also never once trying to get o...

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It seems to me like the regulations have driven the sport towards more reliability. I don't recall regulated component replacements last year being nearly as much of an issue as they were 5 (or so) years ago. E.g., how long ago was it that Red Bull (managers, drivers) were complaining loudly about ...

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Beleriand_K wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:01 am
Power corrupts. No matter where you were born and what colour you are.

Does power corrupt, or is it mainly corrupt people that seek power?

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One of my favorite race tracks on the calendar. Waiting to see how strong Ferrari & McLaren will be especially the latter as they excel in fast speed corners. It looks and feels a lot like a street circuit, am I the only one who thinks this? That it is a night race doesn’t help, I don’t like any of...

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Congrats! You really nailed that one. I was kicking myself for switching from Ferrari to Mercedes, but with Perez in P2 it didn't end up mattering.

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I htimk Red Bull need to fire Jos Verstappen from… Oh wait, he's not an employee and he could easily have his paddock pass revoked, and even if his son applies for one for him, Red Bull can have him banned from entering any of their spaces, and I think that's th emost sensible thing. There's no rea...

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A penny for Newey's thoughts Shame he's seemingly one of the only high ranking members of Red Bull with any kind of professionalism so likely we won't hear anything from him Newey is also probably the only single person with the gravity to definitively conclude this one way or the other. Do you mea...

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So Verstappen apparently has an exit clause that can be triggered if Marko leaves. https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/motorsports/max-verstappen-red-bull-exit-clause-revealed-following-christian-horner-investigation/ar-BB1jjAzp?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=67051149e048424583c80c0a9cc58112&ei=12 Intere...

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Of course it's more interesting when you have an internal battle compared with none at all. But neither one is very interesting IMO. As a team-first fan, I want to see teams going up against each other. Give me two great drivers with the full resources of their teams behind them, with strengths and ...

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There are only two teams I have utmost confidence in to get the new engines right. That list should be zero names IMO, but if there is one team that has so far not bombed on introducing a new F1 engine, it would be Mercedes. Ferrari has the 2014 catastrophe to their name, so I don't think they can ...

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Considering that Ben Sulayem wasn't elected FIA president until after the end of the 2021 season, what new perspective does that investigation offer? I suppose it's proof (if found true) that the FIA president can influence the stewards to alter a race result, but it has no direct bearing on what Mi...

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If the Verstappens engineers a move away from Red Bull because they can't get rid of Horner, I think Max is engineering himself a front-row ticket to watching someone else mop up the grid using the #1 RBR. Jos may think Max is so quick he could win the title in a car he's currently gapping by 20+ se...

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mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:38 pm
Put Verstappen in the Haas and I'd expect him to be gapping Magnussen by a similar amount.

Probably more. Hulk seems to have Magnussen in hand, and Perez = Hulk.

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Fiki wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:19 pm
Sainz, Norris and Perez, not necessarily in that order, though I enjoyed Sainz's efforts very much indeed.

Care to explain the Perez one?

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Crazy how fast things can change. To be honest, I am still not counting out the idea of Red Bull having a disastrous 2026 engine and Verstappen retiring early (instead of moving a works team like Mercedes, Ferrari or Aston Honda). Of course, it's also possible that all these so-called retirement th...

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Not a lot of difficult choices here, although a few that aren't crystal clear... Verstappen over Perez -- Yup, business as usual. I don't want to hear anything about how 'Perez is back' after finishing 22 seconds behind his teammate, P2 or not. Sainz over Leclerc -- Leclerc may well have had a legit...

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I'm going to take a bit of a risk and change my prediction ahead of the deadline:

BAHRAIN GP
Revised Podium Prediction

1. Max Verstappen
2. Lewis Hamilton
3. Charles Leclerc

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Yeah I think at Zandvoort last year he was gaping others by 2-3s per lap in the wet, so at Silverstone with a lot more traction zones I can see the gap being somewhat possible. Remains to be seen who the others were, could be someone who graduated to F3 this year from FR or even last year. Can't im...

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This also pretty much confirms there was little more to this other than an affair that soured, because if the woman that accused Horner they had any basis for legal action, this has just taken that away. This being leaked makes it look like baseless accusations made to take revenge. It confirms no ...

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Another bump - the more the merrier! It's such a great competition, so good I ran it myself for a while after the previous person didn't really have the time to run it himself, people should try it. Totally agree! I think it's the longest running game we have? JN23 might shout at me if I got that w...

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It sounds like the original accusations of Horner acting in a controlling manner, if true, was not a serious enough offense to remove him from his position. The rumors of sexual misconduct and offers of a huge settlement appear to most likely be completely false. If I were Horner I would be suing t...

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In this case, it appears to be a vindictive woman making a false accusation thinking the normal course of today's gynocentric society would blindly accept her as a victim and Horner an abuser. Alternatively, it was a woman making what she felt was a grounded accusation that she was uncomfortable wi...

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most data you see on here is done in retrospect months sometimes years after so a simple median is used, just throw everything in the pot. I wouldn't agree with this characterization that the median is simpler (it's not) or that its usage indicates 'throwing everything in the pot'. You can quite ea...

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Here is the raw data of Verstappen and Perez in qualifying (all sessions) for 2023. I might have a go at it later tonight, but if anyone wants to dig in earlier, be my guest... Scraping all this data also reminded me how incredibly long the modern F1 calendar has grown, especially when one is forced...

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Quick banker in case a meteorite hits me tomorrow, disabling me sufficiently to prevent posting after practice but leaving me alive to contend in a week's time:

BAHRAIN GP
Podium Prediction

1. Max Verstappen
2. Charles Leclerc
3. Sergio Perez

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Can't go worse than last year, right?

Driver Group 1: Max Verstappen
Driver Group 2: Lewis Hamilton
Driver Group 3: Valtteri Bottas

Team Group 1: Red Bull
Team Group 2: Mercedes
Team Group 3: Sauber

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Here goes nothing!

2024 BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX
01. Max Verstappen
02. Charles Leclerc
03. Carlos Sainz
04. Sergio Perez
05. Lewis Hamilton
06. Lando Norris
07. George Russell
08. Oscar Piastri
09. Fernando Alonso
10. Daniel Ricciardo

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So one fluke result can determine you're exceptional, KMag got a pole position for Haas not long back, with Alonso he finished below his teammate in the WDC, exceptional would be more like podiums because actually scoring points now and again doesn't seem to really register. No, I never said that. ...

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Explain to me how the (IMO rather dubious) gap to Perez shows that Verstappen hasn't improved? Personally, I think injecting even a modicum of human insight into the numbers suggests that Perez actively got worse in 2023, so any attempt to find support (or refutation) for improvement from Verstappe...

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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...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/68401174 Interesting snippet from this article about Kimi Antonella. If true that’s unbelievable pace from the kid. It's entirely possible to put up that sort of gap in the wet. All he needs is more confidence and to be pushing harder, and seconds are available....

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2 practice sessions would give them more track time than F2 and F3, I don't understand the billing for much inferior drivers. I can't establish whether they get 1 or 2 - do you have anything that confirms this? Either way it seems a bit W Series to me where the prestige of getting on the F1 bill is...

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Wow! That doesn't even look real

And we wonder why they have trouble racing side by side anymore...

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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 version...

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Ferrari is Ferrari. The dream of driving for Ferrari has almost never been driven by witnessing their glories. 2000 - 2008 is by far Ferrari's best ever period. The only other period of sustained success they've enjoyed was 1974 - 1979. I wager that is a generation thing. How many young fans and dr...

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