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KingVoid

Well, it would look like that wouldn't it? If Hamilton puts it on pole everyone says Merc is quickest, if Vettel gets pole everyone says Ferrari is quickest. Not necessarily. I think that Hamilton took pole in Malaysia with what was probably not the quickest car (but Vettel was out of the picture)....

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Look at how cautious Hamilton at the start in Russia and Hungary for instance. He was third going into the braking zone of turn 1 in Russia, and then Kimi of all people outbraked him easily. Lewis was also passed easily by both Red Bull cars in the first corner at Hungary (before Max took out Dan in...

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For next season, he needs a car that is faster in qualifying and more reliable. I'm convinced that his mistakes partially came from desperation and the fact that he was fighting an uphill battle for most of the season.

KingVoid

Black_Flag_11 wrote:
mikeyg123 wrote:I've got a hunch Vettel will win the final two races?
I wonder if Hamilton will take it easy again like in 2015?

I've never been convinced that was the case

Rosberg was already outqualifying Hamilton before that.

KingVoid

Ricciardo probably feels confident that he can beat a 38 year old Alonso.

It remains to be seen how this all evolves.

The most interesting decision would be if Ric went to Ferrari. I want to see whether 2014 was actually a fluke or not.

KingVoid

Horner talks a load of crap, but they looked fastest today. Difficult to judge Ferrari vs Mercedes because they were all in different races. Kimi was stuck behind the Force Indias and by the time he cleared them, Bottas was too far up the road. Vettel made his way through traffic easier than Hamilto...

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Not a fan (although everyone already knows that

) but he's one of the very best drivers of all time. Congratulations.

KingVoid

Hamilton's best combined sector times put him just 0.154s off Vettel, who did put his best sectors together on his final lap in Q3. Hamilton found 0.292s in the first two sectors on his final run relative to his banker lap. If he had just found another 0.069s in the final sector (possible) instead o...

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Since it seems to be a perfectly acceptable opinion to hold that Hamilton consistently makes the difference when he's is 3-4 tenths quicker in qualifying: I hold the opinion that neither Ferrari and Red Bull were not better than Mercedes today. Bottas was able to match Hamilton and easily outqualif...

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Since it seems to be a perfectly acceptable opinion to hold that Hamilton consistently makes the difference when he's is 3-4 tenths quicker in qualifying: I hold the opinion that neither Ferrari and Red Bull were not better than Mercedes today. Bottas was able to match Hamilton and easily outqualify...

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Hamilton has 3.5 kph on Vettel and 5.8 kph on Verstappen

If he gets anything resembling a good start he'll be past them halfway down the straight, same for Bottas.

KingVoid

I would argue that Hamilton's career has been easier than Vettel's.

Vettel's career started in 2007, not in 2010.

KingVoid

The only real genuine bad blood on the grid is between Alonso and Vettel. Alonso didn't respect Vettel's achievements from 2010-2013, he said on multiple occasions that he was fighting Newey instead of Vettel. There have been several times since Alonso has joined McLaren-Honda where he's ignored blu...

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Vettel was superb today. Max was also very good but his final run was disappointing.

Hamilton and Bottas were OK. Not bad but nothing special.

Ricciardo and Raikkonen just terrible.

It doesn't hurt Kimi at this point, but Daniel's reputation is at serious risk here if he doesn't improve.

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Hypothetically speaking: If Kimi was just 0.1s faster than Massa in the first half of the season, this is what his results would have likely looked like: Australia - 1st Malaysia - 2nd Bahrain - 1st Spain - DNF Monaco - 3rd Canada - 2nd USA - 3rd Kimi is on 48 points after the first seven races of ...

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What a joke you are man. The average gap between Mercedes and Ferrari is not 0.348 seconds at all. You are only displaying the average gap when Mercedes wins. The average gap is something that should actually take into account all of the sessions. Wrong. Mercedes has an average advantage of 0.348 s...

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Ugh, why bother debating things in the forum if people simply make up excuses in the face of empirical evidence? Now stating objective facts is considered "making excuses". x( Mercedes have enjoyed a bigger advantage in qualifying this season than Red Bull did in 2011. Track position wins you races...

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Ugh, why bother debating things in the forum if people simply make up excuses in the face of empirical evidence? Now stating objective facts is considered "making excuses". x( Mercedes have enjoyed a bigger advantage in qualifying this season than Red Bull did in 2011. Track position wins you races...

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Hamilton has been outqualified by Bottas four times this season. In Russia and Monaco he was horrible. In Hungary he had good race pace, but if he was not held up by Verstappen and Bottas in the first half of the race, then a win was surely a possibility given Vettel's steering problems. In Austria ...

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The Ferrari has not fallen short in terms of speed. I think that it is perfectly fast enough to win the championship. I think the reliability issues in recent races have shifted the overall picture somewhat and must be taken into consideration. Factoring in reliability, you would have to conclude t...

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Yes there is a marked difference between a teammate being prepared to crash into you, that would be the kind of teammate that maybe is preferable for Hamilton? Nice attempt to make Hamilton look like a victim. Hamilton was no holier than Rosberg. USA 2015 was a blatant move to punt Nico off the tra...

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If Schumacher wasn't there and Ferrari had two Massa-level drivers in 2006, Renault would have looked like the clear best car. With Alonso winning comfortably in San Marino, Europe, France, China and Japan. Also, Alonso was in front of Massa when his engine blew up in Monza despite starting 6 places...

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Again, you aren't doing any analysis whatsoever; only looking at the end result and chalking it up as, first of all, being down purely to the car and secondly, being inevitable. That makes for a totally meaningless conversation. Of the races you've listed, Ferrari were at least as fast as Mercedes ...

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In the second half of 2006 (from USA until Brazil), Massa scored 52 points and Alonso scored 50 points. They finished 4-2 in a two car finish in Massa's favour. However, Alonso retired in Hungary and Monza when ahead of Massa. Likewise, Massa retired in China when well behind Alonso. Hence, a more r...

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Now this is revisionism to comical levels. The reality is that this season Ferrari were only incapable of winning at Monza and Silverstone. Those are the only races since Monaco where they had no chance to win. You seem to take the end result and attempt to suggest that it was inevitable. At Spa, S...

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I don't know how he would be doing, it just seems to me that he wasn't doing that bad of a job, considering how tense Lewis was because of him. Yes he was very tense after they crashed in Barcelona, having a teammate that's not going to crash into you would make you less tense. Having a teammate th...

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2003, for the reasons that j man already stated. 2003 was extremely competitive. You never knew before a race weekend who would be quickest. There was a general pecking order but it fluctuated from race to race. Ferrari, Williams, McLaren and to some extent Renault were all regularly capable of chal...

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Instead of trying to look at numbers and create an abstraction of what is happening, this is an instance that calls for you to look at actual events. I'm not sure what makes you think that Hamilton is intentionally not pulling a gap. In the races where he could pull a gap (like Austin) he has. In r...

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The Ferrari has been good enough for Lewis to have had almost as many poles if he had been driving it maybe even the same or more considering how much more predictable and consistent it is compared to the Mercedes which has had a few flaky tyre days. Lewis's aggressive days peaked in 2011 and he ha...

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There's a good chance that Hamilton would feel the need to be more aggressive and - as a result - get involved in more collisions if he had a car that was generally slower in qualifying. Vettel has faced an uphill battle most weekends this season. There also is no guarantee that Lewis wouldn't have ...

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If the 4 of them were all put in the same car, I would expect things to play out exactly as they have. Hamilton being the fastest, with Vettel a bit behind, Bottas a bit further behind that and Kimi bringing up the rear. Hamilton's average advantage in qualifying over Vettel this season has been se...

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If we are suddenly going to use Bottas and Raikkonen as yardsticks, is it safe to call Mercedes the best car in Australia? And for most of the season, in fact, since Bottas is clearly ahead of Kimi in the standings.

The reality of the situation is that Bottas is no more of a yardstick than Kimi is.

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Safe to say that it's not even debatable anymore.

KingVoid

If all of the drivers are driving an identical car; they would indicate that Hamilton was the fastest with Vettel about 0.25 behind, Bottas another tenth back and Kimi a tenth behind him. That actually is what I would expect from the 4 of them in identical machinery give or take a tenth. I don't th...

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What's clear is that Lewis has been metronomic in his qualifying performances. He consistently nailing his "bankers" and often barely improving on it on the second run, while always being consistently fast throughout the sessions. The whole Merc-Hamilton operation in qualifying is extremely strong....

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Vettel improved on his final run but so did almost everyone else. In fact, everybody but the Mercedes drivers improved on their final run. If they improved by 0.2-0.3 seconds (as everyone else did thanks to track evolution), then they should have been half a second up the road from Ferrari. Also Ham...

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Qualifying goes to Mercedes again. Neither Mercedes drivers improved on their final run, I think they had a much bigger advantage than the 0.200s it showed in the end. Probably closer to 0.500s To be honest, it's not really a debate anymore. In these high downforce cars, qualifying advantage is simp...

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It's impossible to win the WDC with a car that is so inferior in qualifying.

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Who will come out on top? Sainz has his work cut out for him. He's taking over Palmer's seat and moving to a brand new team and car at the end of the season. Hulkenberg has had a whole year to get acclimatized to his new team so he'll probably have an advantage. Next year there will be no excuses fo...

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Hamilton was clearly the fastest car in the race. Bottas and Vettel had roughly equal pace (Bottas quicker on US, Vettel quicker on SS). Raikkonen was even slower than Ricciardo. Let's not kid ourselves here. If the situations had been reversed, all the Hamilton fans would be talking about Ferrari's...

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