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Mercedes are going to go for an unprecedented 6th double championship win this year with crash kids Vettel and Verstappen the only likely opposition barring a major breakthrough from Honda or Renault. Are Ferrari's 2000-04 and Red Bull's 2010-13's glory years starting to look like just a short win s...

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Red Bull are more likely to go backwards than forwards with a new engine. They need to wait until the next rule changes to realistically beat Mercedes, and even then Mercedes and Ferrari will likely still have a better engine. The other teams need a tie up with BMW or Audi if they want to get compet...

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I think Haas are in the right. Force India was scoring very well but run to the ground. a bit like Leeds United, who got to the Champion's League and then went bankrupt. The new owners should have had to wait to receive payments or the new teams ought to have this waiting period removed before that ...

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Zero pole positions.

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If we are to have blue flags that let pace setters pass backmarkers safely, and not interfere with each other's race, then if the race leader becomes slower than the lapped car, surely then he must be also given a blue flag or a new type of flag and maybe a radio message to let the faster back marke...

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Lewis gets stronger each year intrementally improving every area such as speed, racecraft, publicity, management, mind games etc. Having said that, had Nico stayed on and endured more arguments and squabbling I think Mercedes would have eventually lost a championship to Ferrari. But we will never kn...

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Lewis should have known Mercedes were investing in the 2014 Mercedes engine to be unbeatable. He must have had knowledge from Mercedes, McLaren and Honda.

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Hamilton will most likely match or pass Schumacher for WDCs and wins in 2-3 years. Nobody is better than him in the grand scheme of things. He does everything a driver needs to do: drives fast, communicates with the engineers, communicates with the fans. He started humble and learned to be ruthless....

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I have little doubt Mick will be F1 champion in the near future. He may even be the one to take over from Lewis. The real talent in F1 is attracting more talent to work around you and Mick I think has inherited that from his father. I am sure he will bring something new to the table as well.

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I think Ocon and Russell ought to try Indycar, WEC or FE if they cannot get a seat for 2019. The reason being, Lewis Hamilton is gonna be Mercedes no. 1 driver for quite a while yet, so they might as well be successful in lower series rather than end up like Hulkenberg, Perez, and Grosjean, enjoying...

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I think anyone not a manufacturer of road cars counts as a true privateer alothpugh strictly speaking a privateer ought to be privately owned. For example, McLaren began as a privateer but as they began producing road cars they transformed into a larger bluechip business structure.

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It would be nice if there was championship tables and stats for privateer / non works teams and drivers back to 1950 so we can see who the real talent is without the additional engine / moneybags advantages the car manufacturers get. Maybe someone like Dolomite could bring these stats up please? ;) ...

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Mandatory icecream stop

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I think we all know the answer is BOTH!!!!

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It would be good to call say sportsman's championships and sportsman's wins to drivers who deserved in the spirit of the sport or were cheated in some way.

But tbh F1 is a business and most drivers ought to be happy with the insane amount of money they earn to care too much about single wins.

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Alonso is practically finished as a potential race winner. He has blamed McLaren for spygate, Renault for crashgate, Ferrari for finishing 2nd, Honda for being underpowered. The guy burns bridges too often. There is nowhere competitive left for him. His only chance now is to get back into Ferrari an...

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Sportstars aren't paid for taking part. They are paid a percentage of the rewards just like a company director or owner. That's how business people make money.

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FIA the is week seeming to allow development of mirrors on the halo (which will just make the cars look even more daft). Given the amount of vibration on the mirrors watching the last race at Azerbaijan, why don't F1 cars have rear cameras with heat vision which might be useful in rain / spray as w...

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All drivers need to accept the risk they might have a fatal accident but you mustn't adopt a fatal driving style. You don't defend to the point of colliding.

Having said that I think Gasly needed to be further ahead to pass and should have backed off.

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FIA the is week seeming to allow development of mirrors on the halo (which will just make the cars look even more daft). Given the amount of vibration on the mirrors watching the last race at Azerbaijan, why don't F1 cars have rear cameras with heat vision which might be useful in rain / spray as w...

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FIA the is week seeming to allow development of mirrors on the halo (which will just make the cars look even more daft). Given the amount of vibration on the mirrors watching the last race at Azerbaijan, why don't F1 cars have rear cameras with heat vision which might be useful in rain / spray as w...

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Alienturnedhuman wrote:Cameras are at least 1/60th of a second behind realtime. That's ok as a delay when you are reversing, but not at F1 speeds.

Yeah but there are relatively at the same speed.

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FIA the is week seeming to allow development of mirrors on the halo (which will just make the cars look even more daft). Given the amount of vibration on the mirrors watching the last race at Azerbaijan, why don't F1 cars have rear cameras with heat vision which might be useful in rain / spray as we...

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Verstappen might be finished by the end of the season or next if he carries on like this. He may be fast some days but if you aren't consistently finishing races somebody else comes along who can drive fast and finish. Charles Leclerc did amazing for such a new F1 driver. Probably deserves a top sea...

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I was about to start a thread entitled Is Verstappen the new Pastor Maldonaldo?

I think you covered all bases.

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If you were a pit stop mechanic run over by an F1 driver I am pretty sure you'd rather see doctors around you than the driver again.

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*snip*

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Most of these drivers won't be around still when the engine regs change to give them a realistic chance of beating Hamilton.

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F1 is meant to be the pinnacle of motorsport and the forefront of technology. Clearly an all-electric series with the performance of current F1 cars would be the forefront of technology therefore ICE must be ditched. Ten or fifteen years ago, electric karts were rather crap and laggy, now they are o...

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Didn't Nigel Mansell remortgage his house to get an F1 seat early in his career?

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Come on he has got to do a better job than Kimi has been doing for the last 4 years! Best case scenario he romps home with the WDC showing Vettel how to drive competently, worst case scenario he makes a good number two, Ferrari get major kudos for taking on a genuine talent beset by injury. I genuin...

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There are plenty of German Banks that would benefit from the advertising space.

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Ricciardo seems to lack the ruthlessness of the past world champions. Even Jenson Button was pretty ruthless dominating the first part of 2009 and then ensuring he finished in the points to take the title. With Ricciardo he just seems too nice and cheerful to be a true title contender. Hamilton, Alo...

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I think the only way to have a truly competitive field is if we have an engine manufacturer's championship as well as a constructor's championship. If the engine manufacturers were given prize money for building the engine that scores the most points between the teams, that would encourage them to p...

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McLaren in Indycar would sell their sportscars if they could make it a success.

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I'd like to see McLaren doing a LeMans program, but let's face it, you pretty much have to be a engine manufacturer to be successful today in top tier motorsport. It's not even good enough being a works team, the engine has to be in synergy with the rest of the car. That's where the performance is f...

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Is it me or are comments like this likely to mothball a promising career? Surely if even if Max was wrongly penalized, making a statement like this is just going to hamper his career in the long run? There must be a lot of businessmen in the Liberty Media chair board thinking hmmm maybe we should st...

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Ferrari need to win here to carry any worthwhile momentum into 2018. If Vettel can't stop Hamilton's run of beating him soon, he might as well write off 2018 as well because LH seems to be on an upward curve at the moment even if the car is not. He is getting results regardless if the car is doing i...

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The most obvious place for it should be Amazon Prime. Then they could target products to consumers more directly. Amazon are rumoured to start bidding against Sky and BT for football, I wouldn't be surprised if they became the number 1 sports broadcaster one day.

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