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GramCracker posted:I had a thought relating to the budget cap for this season and how teams might have strategically planned for that over the course of a year. Wild theory OP That really checks out. Makes total sense Just one more thing though, why would you waste money designing and rolling out a poo poo car for some 4D chess when you could do the same thing but with a good car?
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I have a 4D chess theory about Mercedes. They intentionally sabotaged their season by retaining the mentally broken and demotivated Instagram and Netflix superstar Lewis "Poois" Hamilton.
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italian quid posted:Wild theory OP That really checks out. Makes total sense idk op, maybe ask james over at merc that? hth
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Here's a super wild theory: Mercedes are poo poo because Toto wants to prove that competitive F1 is actually really boring and what you really need is an F1 equivalent of Kraft Durch Freude to remind you of the value of good, old fashioned, Germanic organised fun.
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This season is more exciting then previous years because you never know when the WDC challengers' cars will fail. How many times the past decade has Hamilton's car not finished a race due to non-driver issues? Once, twice maybe? Of course, I'm a proponent of Russian Roulette Tyres, so what do I know?
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They could even launch a Kraft Durch Freude Wagen and call it the Mercedes whatever the gently caress, chuck a diesel engine in it and sell it for 20-30k.
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Edward Mass posted:This season is more exciting then previous years because you never know when the WDC challengers' cars will fail. How many times the past decade has Hamilton's car not finished a race due to non-driver issues? Once, twice maybe? I mean 2016 at Turkey was a pretty pivotal time for his engine to poo poo the bed lol The engine formula hasn't changed massively this year, it's just Ferrari have their poo poo slightly more together which makes their engine failures more notable. Honda/RBPT has been a well documented trash fire for ages now so I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at. Theophany fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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Charles Leclerc posted:I mean 2016 at Turkey was a pretty pivotal time for his engine to poo poo the bed lol 
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Malaysia? Idk, they dont race there now and it is a tilkedrome, who cares.
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Sepang owns actually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0XT6n4OuSY
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Thanks Ants posted:Sepang owns actually i like the two square plumes of smoke off the rear diffuser
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It's almost as if you can trace out all the great corners of old school tracks, take away the hazards of them and then add a ridiculously long straight and the result is still a poo poo, utterly forgettable circuit in the middle of nowhere 
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Sepang is extremely adequate. IDK if I can name a single corner on it but I guess the layout isn't like, terrible?
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GramCracker posted:I had a thought relating to the budget cap for this season and how teams might have strategically planned for that over the course of a year. Merc car bad OP LMFBO
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GramCracker posted:I had a thought relating to the budget cap for this season and how teams might have strategically planned for that over the course of a year. no that's dumb as hell actually and toto is nowhere near creative enough
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I love how a reoccurring theme between all f1 conspiracy posts is “they are losing on purpose”
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ethanol posted:I love how a reoccurring theme between all f1 conspiracy posts is “they are losing on purpose” if they're winning on purpose it's not really gonna raise eyebrows now is it
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FAUXTON posted:if they're winning on purpose it's not really gonna raise eyebrows now is it exactly. seems too suspicious they are losing 
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GramCracker posted:exactly. seems too suspicious they are losing Mercedes losing isn't very shocking unless you're toto and you sleep with books in your bed
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GramCracker posted:I had a thought relating to the budget cap for this season and how teams might have strategically planned for that over the course of a year. Its Brexit OP The master stroke I mean.
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The master stroke is the one I do every time Jenson Button is on screen
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Why would you trot out a poo poo car then trot out a better one later? Put the good car on track sooner and win more money. It's not like them running out of dev money would change anything unless you have a real wild unique design idea
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Only the prolapsed brain mush of this thread or reddit would come up with the galaxy brain strategy of eating poo poo the first half of the year for undefined ungodly advantage in the second half as if thats a thing that realistically could happen lmao.
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Mercedes might have planned to have a bigger upgrade later in the year, but I highly doubt they wanted their initial car to be this bad before making those upgrades. As mentioned, you get more money for doing better in the constructor’s championship, I don’t think Mercedes wanted to give any of that up.
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Hey, man. That mental gymnastics took a lot of time and effort, okay???
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italian quid posted:Only the prolapsed brain mush of this thread or reddit would come up with the galaxy brain strategy of eating poo poo the first half of the year for undefined ungodly advantage in the second half as if thats a thing that realistically could happen lmao. Was it the button year that he won the first half and red bull won the second half?
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You mean the BrawnGP year? They literally didn't have money to develop the car lol.
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Phil Collins is trash
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The mercedes upgrade is a new car for 2023
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Zedd posted:You mean the BrawnGP year? They literally didn't have money to develop the car lol. Yeah. In my head they won like all of the races in the first half +1 race, then red bull won the rest and button won the championship
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ethanol posted:Uh no Mercedes built a bad car because they relied too much on garbage in garbage out cfd and the rest of their season can be summed up as shitshow at the gently caress factory its extremely German engineering to ignore reality and over commit to your calculations so this is definitely what happened and they have been in save face mode since spain testing when they rolled it out
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this is also why they sacrificed Lewis's back to porpoising rather than jettison the "zero side pod" thing
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SocksAndSandals posted:The mercedes upgrade is a new pair of drivers for 2023
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GramCracker posted:I had a thought relating to the budget cap for this season and how teams might have strategically planned for that over the course of a year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urglg3WimHA
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 Lets hope Lewis gets in there soon and can be the first to break this streak.
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Custard Undies posted:
The fix is in
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Max is already over 150 and the dude is 24, jfc.
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Custard Undies posted:
He's done op
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Zedd posted:Max is already over 150 and the dude is 24, jfc. Might be time to pack it in.
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