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rb10chris
·I’m excited for Mclaren/renault. Really hope they don’t drop the ball again for Alonso’s sake. Thought it was funny how well Honda was doing in testing
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vbrad26
·Ferrari was looking good last year until about mid-way through, and then of course there was Singapore....
I'm honestly hoping that Merc just has some bad luck this year.
I'm honestly hoping that Merc just has some bad luck this year.
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abrod520
·We had a modern Formula 1 race in San Francisco just this past Saturday!
.... oh wait, that was an actual parade. Kind of hard to tell the difference nowadays
.... oh wait, that was an actual parade. Kind of hard to tell the difference nowadays
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Wivac
·I wonder if Sauber has managed to improve their woeful lot.
They were taking a lot of flack last season, Haas certainly hasn't helped coming in where they have.
They were taking a lot of flack last season, Haas certainly hasn't helped coming in where they have.
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redpcar
·This will be the year of the "T-Bar" over the driver. Think we will see sponsor decals on them? Cars are still too quiet. I would like to go back to the simple normally aspirated MONSTERS of old. Ditch the KERS. Too complicated. If we have big engines and big tires, we might see some more passing. No replacement for displacement.
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Andrew James
·This will be the year of the "T-Bar" over the driver. Think we will see sponsor decals on them? Cars are still too quiet. I would like to go back to the simple normally aspirated MONSTERS of old. Ditch the KERS. Too complicated. If we have big engines and big tires, we might see some more passing. No replacement for displacement.
On another issue we now have 7 grades of dry weather tyres. The commentators will get frazzled trying to work out advantages/disadvantages on the hoof!. As for us poor viewers!.
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abrod520
·This will be the year of the "T-Bar" over the driver. Think we will see sponsor decals on them? Cars are still too quiet. I would like to go back to the simple normally aspirated MONSTERS of old. Ditch the KERS. Too complicated. If we have big engines and big tires, we might see some more passing. No replacement for displacement.
What Formula 1 needs is to return to a schedule of courses designed to challenge the drivers, not the cars. Setting a fast lap time at Spa requires bravery; setting a fast lap time at a Tilkedrome like COTA is much more color-by-numbers: brake here, turn in here, accelerate here. Tilke designs courses with only one fast line through corners; it makes passing unneccesarily difficult and is why exciting racing is so rare.
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West Slope
·What's the line on Max crashing into someone else and all his apologists blaming the other driver? I'm going to guess it will happen by the second race....
As for an in person race I had a great time at Austin last year and would really like to go to Montreal this year.
As for an in person race I had a great time at Austin last year and would really like to go to Montreal this year.
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Vausa412
·What's the line on Max crashing into someone else and all his apologists blaming the other driver? I'm going to guess it will happen by the second race....
Why single out Max? What-are-we-doing-here Vettel wasn't all that diplomatic last season. And let's not forget the subtle Russian torpedo Kvyat. I actually prefer some minor contacts here and there. They make for good drama.
Edit: just saw that Kvyat is now at Ferrari as a development driver. I guess we won't being seeing him sneaking up on others' rear wings.
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West Slope
·Why single out Max? What-are-we-doing-here Vettel wasn't all that diplomatic last season. And let's not forget the subtle Russian torpedo Kvyat. I actually prefer some minor contacts here and there. They make for good drama.
Edit: just saw that Kvyat is now at Ferrari as a development driver. I guess we won't being seeing him sneaking up on others' rear wings.
Why not, he is consistently involved in wrecks yet somehow never at fault...his teamate, Ricciardo, consistently beats him and will again this year I suspect.
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Vausa412
·his teamate, Ricciardo, consistently beats him and will again this year I suspect.
Ricciardo didn't consistently beat Max last season (though he did score more points). I like Ricciardo as he is such a noice guy but his racing doesn't excite me. Kinda felt the same about Rosberg.
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West Slope
·He consistently starts behind him and consistently finishes ahead of him, not sure if that's boring but it is still true.
http://grandprixrankings.com/compare/2017-f1/ricciardo-versus-verstappen/
http://grandprixrankings.com/compare/2017-f1/ricciardo-versus-verstappen/
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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...He consistently starts behind him and consistently finishes ahead of him, not sure if that's boring but it is still true.
http://grandprixrankings.com/compare/2017-f1/ricciardo-versus-verstappen/
Yup, don’t confuse the story they are weaving around him. They see Max as the key to new viewers so they give him a lot of press.
I’m not saying he’s not great just a bit more hype then he deserves.
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texasmade
·I wouldn’t be surprised if McLaren were garbage again. They spent the past 3 years consistently blaming Honda for everything instead of trying to work together. Now there’s no excuse for them and I don’t see them being in the top 5 for the constructors championship.
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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...I wouldn’t be surprised if McLaren were garbage again. They spent the past 3 years consistently blaming Honda for everything instead of trying to work together. Now there’s no excuse for them and I don’t see them being in the top 5 for the constructors championship.
I’m a believer that Mclaren has a good chassis, the Honda engine has reliability issues remember when Alonso could not even finish a race? And was down on power. Is it as good as the red bull chassis? We will see this year as they have the same power plant. Haas needs better drivers and a slightly better chassis. They had the Ferrari engine maybe not quite as good as the MFG teams but the Haas cars where a little sloppy on track imho.
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texasmade
·The engine was down power it was clear. They did better on the shorter tracks and both drivers seemed to have stable cars. Nico was not stable at the start of the season as the car was built to how Hamilton liked it. It started to make sense to him at the end hence his insane end of season run. This year with a car that is set up to the way both drivers like it should be interesting watching the race between both Silver Arrows.
I’m a believer that Mclaren has a good chassis, the Honda engine has reliability issues remember when Alonso could not even finish a race? And was down on power. Is it as good as the red bull chassis? We will see this year as they have the same power plant. Haas needs better drivers and a slightly better chassis. They had the Ferrari engine maybe not quite as good as the MFG teams but the Haas cars where a little sloppy on track imho.
Yes the Honda engine wasn't any good but consistently shaming them out in public doesn't exactly work. Scream and yell in private but the way McLaren publicly bashed Honda for every single thing doesn't exactly motivate them to really want to help McLaren. They should've handled the Honda problem in a more professional manner. Look how TR are working with Honda and look how much more reliable the engine is while McLaren could barely get off the ground during testing this year.
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Foo2rama
··Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...You mean Bottas not Nico I'm assuming.
Yes the Honda engine wasn't any good but consistently shaming them out in public doesn't exactly work. Scream and yell in private but the way McLaren publicly bashed Honda for every single thing doesn't exactly motivate them to really want to help McLaren. They should've handled the Honda problem in a more professional manner. Look how TR are working with Honda and look how much more reliable the engine is while McLaren could barely get off the ground during testing this year.
Yes Botas lol.
It was after three years of a sub par engine. Plus what 7 failures in 5 races? Yes it got better at the end of last year and that’s transferring over to TR.
Should alanso have made the comment at Suzuka 2 years back? No. Then again for the most part it was not McLaren dissing the engine but the commentators. Horner whined more then anyone else publicly about stuff... even publicly called Renault our for intentional bad engines at one point lol. Seriously Horner being bitchy while Best mag the number 2 team after how many years of boring races with Vettle leading up very lap?
Watching Vettle implode was fun. I’m Curious if Hamilton keeps it together with Bottas being strong and competing for the lead.
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bonerp
·I wonder how long the ferrari will be able to belch out smoke before it gets a red card - unlikely as they control F1!
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Wivac
·Imho, I think Mercedes will have the run of it again this year, but, the mid field will be a lot closer and where the racing is actually at.
Tail end of last season the midfield was way more entertaining and th...
.....ah who cares, no grid ladies...
Tail end of last season the midfield was way more entertaining and th...
.....ah who cares, no grid ladies...
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