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FIA Formula One 2018 |OT| Halo: Racing Evolved
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What are you guys talking about, both Ferraris ran their flying laps a minute later than the rest and so found worst track conditions.
I don't know how Ferrari dealt with this in the past, but when your team is infamous for bad strategy over the years (YEARS!), you know there has to be a change, through firing or otherwise.
And it never fixes things. So firing someone over all this is basically proof of insanity.
Controversial opinion, but 2009. Over the course of the whole season the Red Bull was the better car.
Good, I'll never forgive them if they destroy Assen for MotoGP.
The fairest and most objective way to answer this question is to check which years the WDC was won by a driver from a team that did not win the WDC.
The most recent is 2008 with Lewis Hamilton winning the WDC in a McLaren, a year in which Ferrari won the WCC.
Before that it was 1999 with Häkkinen winning the WDC in a McLaren, a year in which Ferrari won the WCC.
Before that it was 1994 with Schumacher winning the WDC in a Benneton, a year in which Williams won the WCC.
McLaren would have had 2008 if their second driver was someone closer to Hamilton. But I agree that the Ferrari was stronger if Massa could get that close to Hamilton.
1999 is actually not that simple, Mika alone had 11 poles to Ferrari's combined 3, and retired in 5 races from pole. With better on-track luck and reliability, the season would have been heavily in his favor. Coulthard had even MORE retirements, and Ferrari only had a few.
The FIA scum banned Honda from changing Gasly's PU software after giving them the ok to do so:
https://www.as-web.jp/f1/417792?all
This leaves the question, can you call a car "better" just because it's faster or where's the turning point where bad reliability makes it worse?
You don't get point's for being in first for 95% of theach race if your engine explodes in the last 5%. Like the 2005 McLaren was great but unreliable. The 2012 McLaren was great but it was wasted. They were better in one area bit dog shit in another crucial area.
Toto's done Ocon dirty. George Russell to Williams, announcement in the next three weeks:
https://www.reddit.com/r/F1FeederSe...hint_that_george_russell_will_get_a_williams/
https://www.reddit.com/r/F1FeederSe...hint_that_george_russell_will_get_a_williams/
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Well there's still the possibility of both taking a Williams seat but that would involve a turn of events as lucky as the previous one was unlucky
- Sirotkin leaving Williams, for a TR seat?
- Mercedes willing to spend more, or cut the prices on engines more rather, to secure both seats
- Markelov's father being imprisoned for bribery (oh wait)
- No other driverproviding a better offer for the 2nd seat, not quite sure who qualifies for SL anymore, but Norris, Russel, Albon would all have a seat somewhere, Markelov could be out of the picture, De Vries is still locked to that McLaren junior program and he needs to hold to 4th spot at worse to have the needed 40pts anyway; 8pts for 7th in F2 2017, 5pts for 6th in GP3 2016, 30pts for 4th in F2 2018 and below in the ranking they don't have enough points so do the GP3 F3 junior.
There may be some wild cards, like Kubicar or others drivers having success in other series such as Hartley last year but we didn't anything so far did we?
Anyway the biggest thing would still be about Sirotkin leaving Williams which still seems like an unlikely thing at this point. I'm not sure what would be the plan in Toto's mind there, promoting Russel to a drive while promising Ocon Mercedes 2nd seat for 2020 and giving him the useless 3rd driver status for 2019? Yeah that looks... odd to say the least and awkward for everyone involved from Ocon to Toto to Bottas.
- Sirotkin leaving Williams, for a TR seat?
- Mercedes willing to spend more, or cut the prices on engines more rather, to secure both seats
- Markelov's father being imprisoned for bribery (oh wait)
- No other driverproviding a better offer for the 2nd seat, not quite sure who qualifies for SL anymore, but Norris, Russel, Albon would all have a seat somewhere, Markelov could be out of the picture, De Vries is still locked to that McLaren junior program and he needs to hold to 4th spot at worse to have the needed 40pts anyway; 8pts for 7th in F2 2017, 5pts for 6th in GP3 2016, 30pts for 4th in F2 2018 and below in the ranking they don't have enough points so do the GP3 F3 junior.
There may be some wild cards, like Kubicar or others drivers having success in other series such as Hartley last year but we didn't anything so far did we?
Anyway the biggest thing would still be about Sirotkin leaving Williams which still seems like an unlikely thing at this point. I'm not sure what would be the plan in Toto's mind there, promoting Russel to a drive while promising Ocon Mercedes 2nd seat for 2020 and giving him the useless 3rd driver status for 2019? Yeah that looks... odd to say the least and awkward for everyone involved from Ocon to Toto to Bottas.
Read a rumour from Reddit today that Albon is back on the TR shortlist
Yeah but I wouldn't be surprised if he has an F1 break clause in his contract
Random stats and facts time:
- HAM: Took his 80th career pole position.
- RAI: Equaled his best ever qualifying position at Suzuka, with 4th place.
- Honda: First time since the 2006 Chinese GP that 2 Honda powered cars qualified inside the top 7.
- HAM: First time since 2016 that he has won 4 consecutive races.
- HAM: 50th win with Mercedes.
- Mercedes: 5th straight win at Suzuka, matches Ferrari's record from 2000-2004.
- Ferrari: First time in 11 Grand Prix that they have failed to make the podium.
Agreed. Zandvoort would be a disaster, though. The traffic is already bad enough when there's some random classic car race on sunday's. They'd be better off building a new track in Flevoland or something.
Williams should be happy, they get a really good driver and a new discount from Merc. Now they only have to worry about building a solid car for 2019. ;) It would be a shame if both Lando's and George's talents were wasted by struggling teams.
Keeping fingers crossed that Ocon or Kubica will get the second seat. :)
Keeping fingers crossed that Ocon or Kubica will get the second seat. :)
I can't believe Kubica is back in the game for the second seat, I just hope that he won't be outbid by Sirotkin/Markelov, I'd be fine with Ocon having a Williams seat but it's unlikely at this point. If the rumors are true he wanted only a 2019 contract (hoping to replace Bottas in 2020), Williams wanted to go beyond 2019.
On the Beyond The Grid podcast Ocon spoke about finally being free of worry when he made it to F1. The burden was on him to fulfill a dream that his family of modest means had invested heavily into. I pictured this current scenario when he spoke about it. Like he was almost inviting misfortune with his words.
I think that Toto will make it happen at Williams.
I think that Toto will make it happen at Williams.
Good. He's doing great and progressing along. Williams would obviously prefer a driver they can have for a few years, not plug in Ocon until 2020.
Crazy silly season.
Mick Schumacher qualified in 7th, 2nd and 2nd for the three races at Hockenheim this weekend. Dan Ticktum qualified in 9th, 15th and 10th. Ticktum needs to outscore Schumacher by 50 points to win the title.
After 5 poles in a row, I'm surprised Mick doesn't have a single one for Hockenheim.
Hockenheim is tricky. You really need a perfect draft to get the pole.
My own theory is that Ocon has been promised the second Merc seat for 2020. But that probably means missing 2019 as a reserve driver. Williams don't want someone on a one year deal and no one else will take him due to his Mercedes links
Which to be fair is an opportunity almost any driver would jump at.
A year off, then a seat in the 2nd best car on the grid? Not too shabby.
At two years younger than his father! Incredible second half of the season.
Zero chance he has been out and out promised anything. Things change too fast in F1 and teams are too smart for that. He's probably been promised he will have a chance at the seat or something like that, which means nothing.
He's too talented to be sitting a year out and if Toto wasn't that bothered he would have let him go.
Absolutely mad second half of the season for Mick Schumacher too. His best result before Spa was third and he's somehow destroyed the field with a race to spare.
The timing for Ocon couldn't be worse at all - the fact Mercedes are pulling out of DTM means they cant give him that carrot on the stick.
Makes me think that they might just ditch Bottas at the end of the year for him. Certainly I think Ocon would do a better job getting closer to Lewis
Makes me think that they might just ditch Bottas at the end of the year for him. Certainly I think Ocon would do a better job getting closer to Lewis