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F1DriverQuidenBerg
Jan 19, 2014

Basticle posted:

new results




not a lot of changes but whoever Pac Racing Club is must have gotten every single one right because they got over 100 points

All hail ShitcLaren.

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Norns
Nov 21, 2011

Senior Shitposting Strategist

Bottas: average with no personality

Not a good F1 combo.

I'd rather have Crashtor

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Human Grand Prix posted:

He was promising in 2013 and especially 2014, but seemed to plateau from 2015-onwards. He's talented but not talent enough for a top seat it seems.

He just beat 3 former world champions, so are you saying it's the car that matters? they are all frauds?

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
Bottas is a robot and that Sky biography they did of him was horrendously dull. Yeh he's exactly the sort of driver you would want if you didn't want your second driver doing silly things like taking risks, but for a fans point of view thank gently caress Ferrai are in it this year or 2017 would have been even worse than 2016.

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

Human Grand Prix posted:

He was promising in 2013 and especially 2014, but seemed to plateau from 2015-onwards. He's talented but not talent enough for a top seat it seems.

But enough about Hulkenberg. Meanwhile Valteri Bottas just won a Grand Prix

Norns
Nov 21, 2011

Senior Shitposting Strategist

Mercades won a GP*

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

Norns posted:

Mercades won a GP*

He made the only overtake of the race to get ahead of a quicker car, meanwhile the other guy in a Merc was hilariously off pace

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

daslog posted:

He just beat 3 former world champions, so are you saying it's the car that matters? they are all frauds?

80% car and 20% driver. The last 20% is very important though.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


learnincurve posted:

Bottas is a robot and that Sky biography they did of him was horrendously dull. Yeh he's exactly the sort of driver you would want if you didn't want your second driver doing silly things like taking risks, but for a fans point of view thank gently caress Ferrai are in it this year or 2017 would have been even worse than 2016.

I like that the fact that sometimes he cooks supper and sometimes he goes to a restaurant was an interesting enough tidbit that it made the aired footage.

How boring was the stuff that they cut?

Norns
Nov 21, 2011

Senior Shitposting Strategist

Tsaedje posted:

He made the only overtake of the race to get ahead of a quicker car, meanwhile the other guy in a Merc was hilariously off pace

Yes he won by turn 1
I don't see anything impressive here?

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

Norns posted:

Yes he won by turn 1
I don't see anything impressive here?

He overtook at Sochi, something nobody else managed

Norns
Nov 21, 2011

Senior Shitposting Strategist

I guess that's something. Big win for you Bottas fans!

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE
It would have been hilarious if Bottas turned out to be completely shite, but it seems like he actually has some decent chops, and you're going to have to get used to it. Having 3 + maybe Kimi challenging for the title is way better than just Hamilton and Vettel, surely?

F1DriverQuidenBerg
Jan 19, 2014

Bottas also cut Felipe Massa a cheque to block Seb in the last lap and then convinced convicted drunk driver and Finnish Nationalist Mika Salo to look the other way. Absolutely disgusting.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


I bet stroll could podium in the Mercedes.

Norns
Nov 21, 2011

Senior Shitposting Strategist

Except it won't be once Lewis doesn't gently caress up his setup? And Kimi actually seems awake again kinda.

Dude does well on a track he historical does well on. He's not a WDC.

F1DriverQuidenBerg
Jan 19, 2014

Reminder that Lewis drivers like poo poo 20-25% of any given year so I hope you Bottas fans savor the 3-4 more times he isn't completely humiliated this year.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Powershift posted:

I bet stroll could podium in the Mercedes.

MODS

wait

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE
Not arbitrarily deciding he's poo poo and viewing everything through that lens doesn't make me a Bottas fan.

Norns
Nov 21, 2011

Senior Shitposting Strategist

You're hilarious

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
I think he's good but more or less a seatwarmer. Things might change.

F1DriverQuidenBerg
Jan 19, 2014

Tsaedje posted:

Not arbitrarily deciding he's poo poo and viewing everything through that lens doesn't make me a Bottas fan.

He's had one not poo poo result in argiably the field's best car and your practically placing the WDC in his hands while simultaneously jerking your dick.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Tsaedje posted:

Not arbitrarily deciding he's poo poo and viewing everything through that lens doesn't make me a Bottas fan.

Norns
Nov 21, 2011

Senior Shitposting Strategist

Like how can I spell this out for you.

If you don't drive for Ferrari or your name isn't Fernando Alonso, odds are, you are poo poo.

GramCracker
Oct 8, 2005

beauty by stroll

Norns posted:

Like how can I spell this out for you.

If you don't drive for Ferrari or your name isn't Fernando Alonso, odds are, you are poo poo.

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

1500quidporsche posted:

He's had one not poo poo result in argiably the field's best car and your practically placing the WDC in his hands while simultaneously jerking your dick.

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt rather than writing him off after 4 races in arguably only the second best car which he has had 3 podiums, one of which was a win. He's not setting the world on fire but he's not the total garbage people were painting him as before he even drove the car.

Also I'm jerking my dick for entirely unrelated reasons

Norns
Nov 21, 2011

Senior Shitposting Strategist

Bottas pick made silly season the most boring in ages.

NtotheTC
Dec 31, 2007


If it hadn't been Sochi he A) would have been nowhere near the front in the first place and B) would have been overtaken before the end of the race and we'd be talking about "Bottas the bottler" ITT.

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari

NtotheTC posted:

If it hadn't been Sochi he A) would have been nowhere near the front in the first place and B) would have been overtaken before the end of the race and we'd be talking about "Bottas the bottler" ITT.

And if Hitler had won we'd all be speaking German and I would have been thrown into a gas chamber.

CratSock
Aug 5, 2004

Sock Wielding Assassin

Powershift posted:

I like that the fact that sometimes he cooks supper and sometimes he goes to a restaurant was an interesting enough tidbit that it made the aired footage.

How boring was the stuff that they cut?

He occasionally eats the food. Also he likes to breathe the air.

*5 minutes of staring blankly at the camera*

He's not awful, but he definitely isn't anything special. But that's pretty much OK with Mercedes, because they can focus on Hamilton's WDC, with Bottas bringing home reliable non-1st-place points to clinch the WCC. At least in theory.

I'd be thrilled (Bottas is not thrilling in any way) if he could legitimately pose a thread to another Hamilton WDC, unfortunately I think it's going to depend on Lewis finishing outside the points when he doesn't win, because there's no way Bottas will beat him on merit. Ferrari will throw a wrench into that relationship too, but the Bottas/Hamilton "battle" will come down to consistency for Bottas and DNFs for Lewis.

Myrddin_Emrys
Mar 27, 2007

by Hand Knit

Wirth1000 posted:

And if Hitler had won we'd all be speaking German and I would have been thrown into a gas chamber.

STALIN :argh:

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Wirth1000 posted:

And if Hitler had won we'd all be speaking German and I would have been thrown into a gas chamber.

But you're an Aryan :confused:

GramCracker
Oct 8, 2005

beauty by stroll
Nico literally screwed Merc's 2017 WCC by retiring.

F1DriverQuidenBerg
Jan 19, 2014

GramCracker posted:

Nico literally screwed Merc's 2017 WCC by retiring.

I don't think he totally screwed it but it definitely would've been a sure thing with him in the team and now it's basically a contest to see which Finnish number 2 driver drives like poo poo the least.

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

1500quidporsche posted:

I don't think he totally screwed it but it definitely would've been a sure thing with him in the team and now it's basically a contest to see which Finnish number 2 driver drives like poo poo the least.

It definitely blindsided Mercedes. And Unlike RBR they don't have more than 1 backup plan.

mrfart
May 26, 2004

Dear diary, today I
became a captain.

Powershift posted:

I bet stroll could podium in the Mercedes.

I'm sure he could crash into it.

GramCracker
Oct 8, 2005

beauty by stroll

1500quidporsche posted:

I don't think he totally screwed it but it definitely would've been a sure thing with him in the team and now it's basically a contest to see which Finnish number 2 driver drives like poo poo the least.

Totally screwed was an exaggeration. Nico in the other Merc basically guaranteed their WCC and now it's anybody's guess.

I think my favorite part about him retiring is how much it mentally hosed with Lewis not getting the opportunity to contest Nico's WDC. Nico is the true King of Mindgames

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
Low-energy Bottas jacks off to moose porn, check out the evidence below





Sick stuff from the worst driver on the grid, I wonder if his human girlfriend knows? Another alternative is that she doesn't care because she's just an actress hired to keep appearances

Human Grand Prix
Jan 24, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Your posts are very bad, even going by the standards of this thread.

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Dec 4, 2002

All posts are precious~

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