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Theophany posted:Just finished watching the '98 season review and I am so loving angry that Hockenheim got hosed into a DTM circuit. It pisses me off enough that they're loving with the holy ground that is Monza, but Hockenheim was an awesome circuit yet they couldn't help gently caress it up. A little while ago I played Hockenheim on the PSone F1 '98. Hell of a track.
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It's weird that Baku is the circuit with the longest straight (if you include the flat-kink). ... well done baku?
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Dec 1, 2016 05:21
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Denying Max's raw talent at this point is ludicrous, honestly. You can say you don't think he has the race-craft to apply it, though.
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Dec 2, 2016 20:43
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Remember when you were 10 years old, and your best friend / older brother beat you 18 times in a row at tekken? Remember winning once, then throwing down the controller and lauding the victory, and not playing the brother / friend again? Nico Rosberg everybody! Deepfried posted:Belittling someone else's achievement I mean, if an actual factual statement made without any embellishment, adjectives or editorial-speak is "belittling" then who really is at fault? The best burns are always where you speak truth people want to ignore in their own story.
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Dec 2, 2016 23:14
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Theophany posted:And Brazilians and Italians and Germans and etc etc etc. It's reductive and I shouldn't have brought it up. But the fact remains that during the Ferrari days, it is well documented Schumi was a driver. The same things were said about Mika Hakkinen - a duff development driver but if you had a halfway decent car he'd work miracles with it. Schumi would run like half the wing angle of Irvine (he'd test that poo poo to breaking point) and he was infamous in the number of hours of testing he would put in - where do you read this alt-history? Not to say he was a one-man team but the guy was absurdly dedicated to his craft.
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Dec 2, 2016 23:44
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Dec 3, 2016 18:11
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:I think Hamilton is a dickhead (though a very good driver who lost the wdc due to suspiciously high number of failures) but this thread is racist af and I'm just pointing that out. Can you like, point to one example or just completely shutup? No, simply not liking Lewis isn't "dog whistle racism" jfc
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He's eliminated most options except Max Verstappen, is what he's saying.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Nico rosberg has really set a new bar for fraud WDC drivers. Still third behind Hill and Villeneuve. Also I think Mercedes' dilemma is they don't know how their 2017 car will stack up yet. If it's supremely dominant again they can hire anyone [i.e. new kids] and seal the constructors easily. If they've got competition they need someone competent enough, and there's very few people who do this on paper and will meet Toto's criteria. Both Red Bull and Ferrari have drivers who will be consistent enough to go row-by-row and score points. Khablam fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Dec 4, 2016 |
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Dec 4, 2016 22:06
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wicka posted:Correct, he is the third shittiest son of a driver to win the WDC. Holy poo poo all the frauds are Sons.
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Dec 4, 2016 22:09
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1500quidporsche posted:Grosjean always puzzles me, I think he lets the pressure get to him too much like Are Rossie used to. His best drives this year was the first few when there was very very low expectations for Haas and then as the season went on he really was on the dull end. I get that the car was poo poo but you shouldn't be finishing behind GUT in the same car under any sort of circumstance. How hard would you push in a car whose brakes failed multiple times? I don't think he felt secure after the mid season at all.
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Dec 4, 2016 23:06
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poty posted:I don't remember Max beating or overtaking Lewis at any point, including his very good Brazil drive. Sure, he embarrassed Rosberg and Vettel a bunch of times, but how hard is that? He was going ~1.5s a lap faster than Lewis at the end of Brazil. Whilst overtaking. He for sure lacks consistency but we have so far seen sparks of raw genius. He similarly made everyone look like idiots in the lower formulas on his way up (YT them), which is why he got a super-license at 19.
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Dec 4, 2016 23:53
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1500quidporsche posted:Ya this was pretty much my view of that race, it was a damnation of the rest of the field's basic wet weather driving skills. Not to mention the rake of the Red Bull minimized aquaplaning compared to other cars. So Max isn't very good, he's just better than anyone else. Hmmm. Porsche your mental gymnastics are getting worse dude. MattD1zzl3 posted:Id also say their Nigel is in the newey 1xWDC fraud group
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Dec 5, 2016 01:42
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1500quidporsche posted:Not really, you can be a lovely racer and very good in low grip conditions. I'm probably the best example of that. Keep digging though I remember you posting that karting vid of where you followed the one slow guy for basically the entire thing. Your love for Rosberg makes sense then I suppose.
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Dec 5, 2016 03:52
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It's Max. You're all fools not to see the best thing to ever happen to F1.
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Dec 5, 2016 15:58
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Carth Dookie posted:I did say "almost" Yes. 
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Dec 6, 2016 15:03
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Massa kicking Williams when they're down
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Dec 6, 2016 22:36
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So they'd have one driver with brain damage next year, and then massa too?
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Dec 6, 2016 22:42
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mrfart posted:that's a bit of an oxymoron. I'm British and I hate all British drivers. Except Jensen, who was a man too good for this sport.
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Dec 7, 2016 11:07
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I google'd Jessica Michibata, and now I'm drafting my reply to the Mercedes driver-wanted ad.
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Dec 7, 2016 20:33
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I follow the F1 ex-girlfriend timeline group on facebook. It's endlessly useful.
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Dec 8, 2016 18:38
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learnincurve posted:Oh my sweet summer child. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that that particular sub reddit is 90% "modelling" pictures of Mrs Jenson, Mrs Alonso and Mrs Kimi. You joke ....  Also Maldonardo's squeeze looks eerily like him. 
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Dec 8, 2016 21:52
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GramCracker posted:Maybe it's been photoshopped to brighten the image, but she is in no way photoshopped. F1 fans are getting blind to kinks added to things that are meant to be straight.
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Dec 11, 2016 17:06
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wicka posted:Bottas is one of those drivers that showed up and everyone was like "wow, this guy's pretty quick, he could be good one day" and then he just never got any better. So a Rosberg in a slower car.
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Dec 11, 2016 22:50
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1500quidporsche posted:Murray was bad Ok it's time to rise up and put an end to your terrible opinions.
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Dec 12, 2016 17:48
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Trigger warning: Max Verstappen is a good driver - http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/31381/10693681/max-verstappen-sets-new-record-for-overtaking-in-2016
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Dec 12, 2016 18:42
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That era had the RB car that you could take flat through half the fast corners on the calendar. Definitely not harder to drive.
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Dec 13, 2016 18:15
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wicka posted:I doubt many people who watched F1 during his reign will rate him that highly solely because of sour grapes and the extent to which Ferrari favored him as a #1 driver. I had the opposite experience. I was a die-hard schumacher fan after his first season (or whichever it was when he drove around stuck in gear creating a new racing line on the fly and even loving doing a pit stop) which was extremely hard in the UK when OH MY WORD ITS DAMON HILL was everywhere and Schumacher was literally hitler for his hard racing antics. If anyone seriously wants to understand Schumi they need to watch his first 3 seasons at Ferrari. There are races where he visibly runs masses less aero than anyone else to try to mitigate the shitbox ferrari performance and his controlled/out of control cornering to make that actually work was mesmerising. That and the one Hungarian GP where he puts in qualifying pace for 20~ laps in a row to try to get a free pitstop.
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Saved to trigger the thread on a whim, thanks.
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I legit think the warmest thing said about are poois in the worst thread is "not as bad as_____, mostly, but with ___________ caveats". Also the majority of British people think he's a bellend. The reason the media loves to talk him up is because people that hate him click on "things lewis did on a smartphone this time" even more than fans.
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Dec 16, 2016 22:49
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Raikkonen got rammed by Mad Max more
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El Hefe posted:Reading motorsport.com and it seems obvious Merc are gonna sign Bottas There's quite a few rumours Williams are trying to buy back Massa for 2017. That kinda speaks to that.
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Dec 18, 2016 03:06
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Just lock the engineers and drivers in a warehouse for 3 months pre-season and BOOM whatever they come out with is what they race with all season. Also all cars should have sprinklers on the back to incentivise overtaking.
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I think he's trying to suggest that it would make the delta between cars smaller than that of driver skill/speed. But yeah, his idea won't achieve that goal.
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Dec 19, 2016 01:55
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Real F1 fans move to Europe and watch F1 over Sunday lunch.
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Ecstatic posted:The money gets spent regardless, when engine regs were locked RB spent the most on Aero and performed the best, when engines development was open: merc yada yada yada. F1 is oft criticised for being too regulation heavy so I'm glad to see this idea solves that. A rules book per part, you say!
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Dec 19, 2016 15:38
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1500quidporsche posted:If only somebody had purchased an avatar preserving the memory of that hair inmemorium and people didn't ruin that by replacing it with a picture of a dried out fetus on steroids. If only somebody didn't act like someone worthy of that avatar.
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Dec 20, 2016 02:39
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Carth Dookie posted:I disagree, Rosberg trolled Hamilton and denied him the chance to reclaim his title from him and You were the friend in the group who won Street Fighter one time then refused any rematches and claimed you were the best, weren't you? Anyone with any sense can see Rosberg peaced out because he realised one title was all he would get. He wouldn't be "retiring on top" if he thought he was a multi-WDC to be.
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Dec 21, 2016 11:47
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Also I want the thread to be ready for next year, so my bold prediction is a lot of BUTT-rear end
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RIP F1 car design. Again.
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