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dpastern

You can't but that's not what I'm actually talking about. I'm trying to explain that your method is flawed because the size of the average gaps in qualifying times are not a reliable metric. Do you normalize the spread; throwing out outliers? Do you ensure that there is a representative and statist...

dpastern

Mercedes nearly raced Ocon today: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/hamilton-unwell-ocon-saturday-germany-4502133/4502133/ Explains why Hamilton was subdued in his post qualifying interview. It must have been more serious than just a sore throat for them to have been effectively considering withdr...

dpastern

It seems like every time I start thinking that Max has turned the corner and matured into a more fair racer he does something like this. Otherwise a great race, though; plenty of close action, a real question of who's going to be where on the podium, and several good battles. It's nice to see McLar...

dpastern

It seems like every time I start thinking that Max has turned the corner and matured into a more fair racer he does something like this. Otherwise a great race, though; plenty of close action, a real question of who's going to be where on the podium, and several good battles. It's nice to see McLar...

dpastern

Well, after watching a video of the incident, I am again, less than impressed with Max. He deliberately ran Leclerc off the track and left him no room. This is pretty similar to Hamilton vs Rosberg at the same bloody track in 2016, with Rosberg getting a penalty for that effort if my memory serves m...

dpastern

Firstly, Vettel refused to park his car in parc ferme - that is an automatic disqualification from the race (FIA did SFA of course, being Ferrari). He initially refused to go to the race podium by all accounts and had to be convinced by Ferrari management to do so. His parc ferme behaviour was terr...

dpastern

Firstly, Vettel refused to park his car in parc ferme - that is an automatic disqualification from the race (FIA did SFA of course, being Ferrari). He initially refused to go to the race podium by all accounts and had to be convinced by Ferrari management to do so. His parc ferme behaviour was terr...

dpastern

Firstly, Vettel refused to park his car in parc ferme - that is an automatic disqualification from the race (FIA did SFA of course, being Ferrari). He initially refused to go to the race podium by all accounts and had to be convinced by Ferrari management to do so. His parc ferme behaviour was terri...

dpastern

Even worse is Vettel's unsportsmanlike behaviour after the race in the parc ferme. He should get a 1 race DSQ for bringing the sport into disrepute, but sadly, there are no such rules handling disrepute/bad behaviour in the FIA rule book (pretty much the ONLY international sport that doesn't have r...

dpastern

To those continuing to defend Vettel's in race actions, answer this very simple question - if you're on a public road, and someone did this to you, and you had to slam on the brakes to avoid running into them, would you be happy? Would you be hoping there was a police office who saw the incident an...

dpastern

Some further information on how the stewards made their decision is detailed in this article: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/143996/vettel-steering-inputs-key-to-fia-penalty-decision Basically says that the decision was mostly based on his steering inputs after gaining back control of the car. S...

dpastern

To those continuing to defend Vettel's in race actions, answer this very simple question - if you're on a public road, and someone did this to you, and you had to slam on the brakes to avoid running into them, would you be happy? Would you be hoping there was a police office who saw the incident and...

dpastern

Even worse is Vettel's unsportsmanlike behaviour after the race in the parc ferme. He should get a 1 race DSQ for bringing the sport into disrepute, but sadly, there are no such rules handling disrepute/bad behaviour in the FIA rule book (pretty much the ONLY international sport that doesn't have r...

dpastern

I woke up at 6.30am and checked my phone to see the result and was surprised to see that Hamilton had won the race, and then saw the Vettel penalty etc. I went back to bed, woke up a few hours later and checked the video of it as I wanted to reserve judgement until I'd seen video evidence. After see...

dpastern

I am saddened to hear this news, I had hoped he'd recover from his lung transplant last year and get back to the circuit, even if only a spectator and non-working relationship.

RIP Niki - a true champion, forever remembered. An inspiration in not only competition, but life in general.

dpastern

The worse day in F1 for me. :( Same. My father visited Imola during a road trip from the UK to Greece last year. There was no track action that day and he described the Tamburello area as eerily quiet. The amount of Senna tributes hung up and knowing that he was standing in pretty much the same spo...

dpastern

You can't mascaraed as being a Hamilton fan with that kind of nonsense against him? You see, there's a difference between a fan, and a blind fan. A fan will note the good and bad and given an honest appraisal. A blind fan however... This is why I have been critical of Hamilton's performance so far ...

dpastern

I'd actually put Bottas ahead of both Hamilton and Verstappen so far. Bottas - 9.0 Verstappen - 8.3 Hamilton - 8.0 yes, I think Hamilton has been lack lustre so far. Not sure I'd agree. I don't think you can score Bottas a whole point above Hamilton. They've been just about dead level. Since the OP...

dpastern

I'd actually put Bottas ahead of both Hamilton and Verstappen so far. Bottas - 9.0 Verstappen - 8.3 Hamilton - 8.0 yes, I think Hamilton has been lack lustre so far. Not sure I'd agree. I don't think you can score Bottas a whole point above Hamilton. They've been just about dead level. Since the OP...

dpastern

RiP Ayrton, 25 years to this day.

GOAT.

dpastern

I can't see Merc letting Bottas go. He was new to the team in 2017, had a bad year of bad luck in 2018 that basically eliminated him from the WDC. Both him and Hamilton get on very well. Introducing Ocon or Max to the mix will cause many issues at Mercedes, a la Rosberg/Hamilton.

dpastern

I'd actually put Bottas ahead of both Hamilton and Verstappen so far.

Bottas - 9.0
Verstappen - 8.3
Hamilton - 8.0

yes, I think Hamilton has been lack lustre so far.

dpastern

My,my...The "expert" has arrived and shared the"facts" with us. And now we can "see the picture". Dpastern, you might want to reread your last sentence, because "facts" seem to an ingredient your recipe is quite short of. I find it amusing that a bunch of so called chair experts think they know bet...

dpastern

Ahh..... Let's just say Schumacher had more years in a dominant car, without a suitable team mate to challenge him (deliberately done I might add) than any other driver. imagine if Hamilton had been in a Mercedes for every year of his F1 career so far, and they were dominant in every year...see the ...

dpastern

I still think it's far too early to tell. I suspect that Ferrari will dominate at Spain, Canada, France, Austria, Italy circuits. Ferrari will have a very tiny margin @ Russia and Spa. They'll be evenly matched in Germany, UK, Japan and Mexico. Mercedes will be stronger in Monaco,Hungary, Singapore,...

dpastern

But it's not illegal (I didn't actually know that but i'll take your word for it). So who decides what is and isn't acceptable topics for individuals to protest on within a sporting environment? It's not illegal because the US' "freedom of speech" laws are BROKEN. If you're using freedom of speech ...

dpastern

This strikes me as a bit of a false equivalence. Raising awareness of police brutality is not the same thing as using a sport as a platform to spread hate. You don't have to treat all types of speech the same. Exactly. As to someone mentioning the "Klan" they should have long been made illegal, and...

dpastern

That's fair enough and it's how it should be in my opinion Not sure which part of my comment you agreed to (whether it should be 100% of all sports, or F1 telling Hamilton he couldn't take the knee). Telling Hamilton not to take the knee. And in a way that all sports should have a common thinking; ...

dpastern

Siao7 wrote:
That's fair enough and it's how it should be in my opinion

Not sure which part of my comment you agreed to (whether it should be 100% of all sports, or F1 telling Hamilton he couldn't take the knee).

dpastern

Yep, we can agree to disagree. Why does it have a social obligation to politics? And why only F1? Do you see that in any other shows that gain TV exposure? Do they do a minute's silence on every program televised? Are you outraged that they didn't hold a minute's silence in Britain's got Talent? Do...

dpastern

F1 is not there to judge on human rights or any other political/social issue. Do you boycott every product from China? A quarter of Europe is served by Russian gas and pretty much the rest of the world from Chinese electronics. I bet half the equipment in your pc/phone at the moment are from there....

dpastern

minchy wrote:
They did skip it 1 year during the conflicts there, but that was due to safety reasons for the teams rather than ethical reasons.

I don't recollect the event being skipped! My bad.

dpastern

Yep, we can agree to disagree. Why does it have a social obligation to politics? And why only F1? Do you see that in any other shows that gain TV exposure? Do they do a minute's silence on every program televised? Are you outraged that they didn't hold a minute's silence in Britain's got Talent? Do...

dpastern

I don't really understand what you're saying here? What's money got to do with this particular case? My bad for not being more specific. Some comments prior to mine were of the opinion that sport shouldn't become involved in politics (in general). My comment was more in response to the Bahrain issu...

dpastern

I don't really understand what you're saying here? What's money got to do with this particular case? My bad for not being more specific. Some comments prior to mine were of the opinion that sport shouldn't become involved in politics (in general). My comment was more in response to the Bahrain issu...

dpastern

I hope not but there probably will be. Out of interest, why is that? Because very sadly attacks like this are not that rare globally - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_March_2019 If you memorialise this one you have to memorialise all of them. Otherwise you open your sel...

dpastern

UnlikeUday wrote:Stroll impressed as well. He was always under pressure, kept clean & finished in 9th starting from 16th. A trait of him where he picks up places & finishes higher.

Missed this comment, totally agreed.

dpastern

According to this tweet Hamilton had floor damage. I assume they'll be able to work out how the damage happened. https://twitter.com/ChrisMedlandF1/status/1107192947190063104?s=19 I would be thinking he damaged it on his first lap in Q3 when he ran wide in the first corner losing 4 tenths to Bottas...

dpastern

well done bottas. absolutely smashed hamilton. doesnt happen often so you have to enjoy it when it does. merc have to come up with an excuse why golden balls got beat so use a scratch on the floor. . I had no idea that you had thoroughly analyzed the floor of Hamilton's Mercedes. What other informa...

dpastern

and another scenario highlighted by Horner! "With the fastest lap, we were even wondering if we take it with Pierre, who was not in the top 10, just to take it away from anyone else".. I'm glad he said this, and that it happened during the first race with this silly rule in place. I hope they drop ...

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