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Johnson wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 18, 2023 1:34 pm
Ross Brawn knew the 1999 Ferrari barge boards were illegal. He said it himself recently.

At the risk of derailing this thread, can you please point me to that? I missed this completely.

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Ok, thank you both for your replies, I haven't seen anything either. This whole saga possibly brought this item in the open for the rest of the teams Out of interest, do you have any accounting background? There is absolutely no way that teams would not pick up on any tax credit, rebate or subsidy ...

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Ok, thank you both for your replies, I haven't seen anything either. This whole saga possibly brought this item in the open for the rest of the teams

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... I do guess this would be different when something as hypothetical as this notional tax credit wouldn't be instrumental in saving the very popular Verstappen ... The tax credit is a real one - here's a link to the relevant gov.uk page . Apparently RB didn't apply for it and didn't receive it. Th...

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All made redundant by a Mod posting this instead of ATH doing a runner. Despicable. While ATH was without question a pillar of our community, he left the forum some months back in protest over some particularly unhinged argument someone got into with him. I suppose no other users came forward to ma...

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Mercedes weren’t looking for discipline, they were looking for changing the race result. Once they realised this couldn’t be achieved they backed off. I appreciate that, it's just that the post I replied to mentioned that the FIA themselves would be adjudicating the appeal, and to me it made it sou...

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Masi a FIA employee made his interpretation of the SC rules which was then backed up by the FIA stewards. If Mercedes were to appeal it would be the FIA who would be adjudicating. It was pretty clear they weren’t going to get the result overturned so for the good of the sport they left it alone. It...

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For someone to dismiss Senna, Prost, Schumacher & Hamilton as "so called greats", while simultaneously refusing to entertain even the slightest hint that Verstappen might just not be the F1 messiah you think he is, & who maybe didn't just have the greatest season by any driver ever, demonstrates to...

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Let’s face it, Hamilton only became super successful when he joined Mercedes. Hardly the same career trajectory as what made Schumacher an all time great. He has been very fortunate to end up with dominant machinery over such a long time. There's almost no difference in terms of career trajectories...

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Let’s face it, Hamilton only became super successful when he joined Mercedes. Hardly the same career trajectory as what made Schumacher an all time great. He has been very fortunate to end up with dominant machinery over such a long time. There's almost no difference in terms of career trajectories...

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Or maybe they didn’t appeal the decision for the good of the sport? Of course! Why didn't I think of that? That must be the reason why Mercedes said they were going to hold the FIA to account. Did they? Masi a FIA employee made his interpretation of the SC rules which was then backed up by the FIA ...

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I havent said EU is a country, Fiki. Also I have read how other forum members laughed off your claim that not sending the message in your interpretation is like a "get out of jail for free" card. Its like a recipe, if the recipe says, after the eggs add flour. It doesnt mean that if you dont add eg...

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Exactly. So we know for an absolute fact that Red Bull DID make a mistake in their cost cap submission that wasn't to their advantage. If they can make a mistake of that magnitude I don't see why it would be in anyway intellectual dishonest to think it's possible that they made further errors. Not ...

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We actually have proof that they definitely did make a mistake. They completely missed a £1.5 million tax rebate. So the mistakes certainly weren't always to their advantage. ... a notional tax rebate, whatever that may be ... Exactly. So we know for an absolute fact that Red Bull DID make a mistak...

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I think Masi's removal had everything to do with public outcry and with the pressure put on its president to act, rather than an actual wrongdoing on the part of Masi. This article mentions that but it also says the FIA conceded there was human error. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/motorsports/mic...

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That surprises me and I don't see it in other sports to be honest. I am sure there are plenty of sport persons who cannot bring their A game to an event or meeting every single time, but it wouldn't be for a lack of trying surely? Well perhaps it pertains to some of the overpaid footballers, but I ...

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Yes I read what you posted but your pole specifically ask's " Is Verstappen’s 2023 the best season ever from any driver? . A pretty specific question I would have thought. So I was responding to that, as I think a few other posters have. What's the point of having that pole if you don't want it to ...

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And yet Senna still managed 5 wins that year to finish 2nd in the championship in what was clearlythen the 2nd, & even sometimes the 3rd best car on the grid. His season that year simply dwarfs anything Verstappen achieved this year. That is why I separated seasons by different levels of car compet...

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Leclerc fights him every time they're together on track. But it's true that quite a few drivers don't seem to bother. There's fighting and there's "fighting". Leclerc made Verstappen's life quite easy in Abu Dhabi. I've yet to see Leclerc make Verstappen choose between backing out and crashing. He ...

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FormulaFun wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:11 pm
I think Horner is just such an donkey that it hurts to vote him highly

It's not a character competition nor looks, rather his skills as a TD/TP. I'd go for Gunther otherwise, based on his humour and swearing!

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And thank you PF1 Games Master for arranging this! Much appreciated

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Well done Strider!!!!

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The last thing is exactly what RB could do this season - run more downforce and still be quicker on the straights, especially with their super-DRS. And no, the DRS advantage did not disappear as was clearly visible. A bit reduced maybe, disappear no. The few times we’ve seen Red Bull battle with Fe...

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Frentzen's 1999. How he became an outside title candidate in the Jordan is really impressive. Well, that car was not bad, despite Hill's terrible, stinker of a year. I think Schumacher or Hakkinen could have possibly won the WDC in that car. Also, Schumacher not being there probably helped bumping ...

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Frentzen's 1999. How he became an outside title candidate in the Jordan is really impressive. Well, that car was not bad, despite Hill's terrible, stinker of a year. I think Schumacher or Hakkinen could have possibly won the WDC in that car. Also, Schumacher not being there probably helped bumping ...

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Yes, but we don't anymore......for various different reasons unfortunately. Most of them seem to have 2-wheels. Again, no arguments that it's better in the scenarios that you had mentioned. Forever a shame, but I understand the track operators’ point of view. I think Monaco and Suzuka ran without t...

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Best season i've ever seen remains Senna 93 by a mile. Best season in a dominant car - Senna 88. I think Alonso 2012 was the best season by any driver that I have ever seen since the late 70s / early 80s. I am not so sure of that anymore with Verstappen driving to such a high level race after race....

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Definitely not a penalty IMO. Norris retained position (with a slightly bigger gap than before the collision I might add) so that should nullify any consideration of a penalty for Perez. No one lost out so why come to that decision? All this will do is prevent drivers from taking chances up the ins...

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Definitely not a penalty IMO. Norris retained position (with a slightly bigger gap than before the collision I might add) so that should nullify any consideration of a penalty for Perez. No one lost out so why come to that decision? All this will do is prevent drivers from taking chances up the ins...

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My opinion: Best seasons with a dominant car: 1. Verstappen 2023 2. Mansell 1992 3. Vettel 2013 4. Hamilton 2014 5. Schumacher 2002 6. Vettel 2011 The best ever seasons with an equal best car: 1. Schumacher 2000 2. Hamilton 2018 3. Alonso 2006 4. Senna 1991 5. Schumacher 1995 6. Verstappen 2021 The...

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My opinion: Best seasons with a dominant car: 1. Verstappen 2023 2. Mansell 1992 3. Vettel 2013 4. Hamilton 2014 5. Schumacher 2002 6. Vettel 2011 The best ever seasons with an equal best car: 1. Schumacher 2000 2. Hamilton 2018 3. Alonso 2006 4. Senna 1991 5. Schumacher 1995 6. Verstappen 2021 The...

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Abu Dhabi Grand Prix:

1. Verstappen
2. Leclerc
3. Hamilton
4. Perez
5. Alonso
6. Sainz
7. Russell
8. Norris
9. Piastri
10. Ocon

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I think quite frankly that Wolff went a bit overboard with his comments. Not a problem for me personally, but attacking a journalist (regardless whether I think those journalists are worth their salt) is simply bad form. The journalists are there to ask difficult questions, not to play to the tune ...

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Careful and prudent, as in being unable to enforce its own lifetime ban on a certain Mr Briatore? :? How could they? Briatore sued them and the French court overturned the ban. They eventually reached a settlement outside the court. I think the point he is trying to make is that the legal system is...

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It's absolutely bizarre and makes F1 look ridiculous. Sure, Wolf made himself look like a tit but it's hardly worthy of a "warning" F1 seems to constantly be fighting a war on both ends. They want things to be as entertaining as possible yet also seem to sterilise absolutely everything. I think qui...

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I think that's reaching a bit, Senna in particular was a very respectful person also I never heard Schumacher say a bad word about anybody, it's just my personal opinion about both him and his team where they think that rules don't apply to them. The pit wall driver radio communications was never b...

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It's absolutely bizarre and makes F1 look ridiculous. Sure, Wolf made himself look like a tit but it's hardly worthy of a "warning" F1 seems to constantly be fighting a war on both ends. They want things to be as entertaining as possible yet also seem to sterilise absolutely everything. I think qui...

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UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 16, 2023 4:00 am
Checo was able to fight it out more with Verstappen when in another car such as here in a Racing Point during the Turkish Grand Prix in 2020:

He was driving a better car though, a Mercedes!

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It was you who came up with the suggestion that we should look at Sainz for comparison and now I have to come up with the examples? :lol: Just an example of a driver disagreeing with the stewards without the need to mock them, it's for you to show other drivers mocking the stewards then it's anther...

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I think he was also aggrieved by Prost deliberately taking him out at the same race a year earlier and then the FIA's corrupt actions that day. We are going wildly off-topic though with this discussion. I don't think Massa's case has much merit unless they manage to find the mysterious "statutes"; ...

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