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Crofty was still saying Hamilton was capable of pole half way through Q2.

The other hilight was Ted saying Magnessens' lap probably wasn't good enough to get through when he'd just gone p13 in Q2, like no shit dip shit.
 
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Coccxys said:
Crofty was still saying Hamilton was capable of pole half way through Q2.

The other hilight was Ted saying Magnessens' lap probably wasn't good enough to get through when he'd just gone p13 in Q2, like no shit dip shit.
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If wishes were horses, Crofty would have a herd of 10,000 and would be convinced that Hamilton could beat every last one in a foot race.
 
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The drag vs downforce graph for Australia

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As a Brazilian i'm kinda glad Senna died at his peak, (even with a crippled, welded together car, he was going toe to toe with Schumacher at his prime and with a ilegal car, and his partner nearly won the 1994 season anyway), i can imagine him becoming a very bitter, salty man like hamilton until he's forced out in the late 90s, probably also finishing his career at Ferrari like Hamilton is now doing.
 
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JoseRaulChupacabra said:
What's the deep lore on this?
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Merc under the imperious leadership of Brawn and Schumi started work on the 2014 regs very early, first dyno run in 2011. The workers from Brixworth who had powered Mika, Lewis and Jenson to world titles built an all conquering power unit which was the envy of the grid. Reversing the fortunes of almost backmarkers Williams for a while, they really should have won a couple in 2014. The engine was so good they hid the true performance from everyone including their customers. This was only found out when they told the lotus team they could use an engine mode they didn't know about in 2015 so Grosjean could fight Vettel at Spa.

They're also the Merc rocket engine from the back end of 2021. Merc spent a couple races blowing up Bottas' engine (3 out of four races) working out the performance limits before applying this knowledge to Lewis's engine.

The tyre test summed up by a decent article from the guardian.

but anyway the engine is still good, just look at McLaren and Aston, the problem seems to be with Brackley who for neither love nor money can build a proper car...



TL:DR Brixworth good, Brackley bad.
 
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AN/ALR56 said:
As a Brazilian i'm kinda glad Senna died at his peak, (even with a crippled, welded together car, he was going toe to toe with Schumacher at his prime and with a ilegal car, and his partner nearly won the 1994 season anyway), i can imagine him becoming a very bitter, salty man like hamilton until he's forced out in the late 90s, probably also finishing his career at Ferrari like Hamilton is now doing.
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He did express desire to drive for Ferrari somewhere in his near future. Imagine that, he'd either have taken Schumacher's place or play second fiddle to him, and the F1 landscape would have been vastly different if he lived that long. Or maybe just pick up his shit and leave for Indycar, since he also enjoyed greatly his Penske tests to the point he also considered running at least one Indy 500 edition as well.

But yeah, if he were alive today, I'm afraid he'd most likely bitch and moan about the modern standards. And if he were to become a commentator, he'd just back-and-forth with Galvão Bueno or Sergio Maurício about dem good ol' days while mostly ignoring the on-track action.
 
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Yuuichirou Kumada said:
He did express desire to drive for Ferrari somewhere in his near future. Imagine that, he'd either have taken Schumacher's place or play second fiddle to him, and the F1 landscape would have been vastly different if he lived that long. Or maybe just pick up his shit and leave for Indycar, since he also enjoyed greatly his Penske tests to the point he also considered running at least one Indy 500 edition as well.

But yeah, if he were alive today, I'm afraid he'd most likely bitch and moan about the modern standards. And if he were to become a commentator, he'd just back-and-forth with Galvão Bueno or Sergio Maurício about dem good ol' days while mostly ignoring the on-track action.
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He could also had gone to be the woke version of Piquet, just because he would never be associated with Piquet, who was always a provocative conservative since the 1980s.
 
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New Fag said:
workers from Brixworth who had powered Mika, Lewis and Jenson to world titles built an all conquering power unit which was the envy of the grid.
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And don't forget unlike any other era of F1 ever they forced them to lock any further engine development behind the gay token nonsense that locked in the status quo and stopped anyone from catching up. Then they held the regs stable for the longest period in F1 history.

It's the only reason hambone has anywhere near as many titles as he does. No one could even develop towards beating them.

It would be like fixing floor and pod design from last season through to 2026, of course max would just win everything because there is no way any other team could try to develop away the performance gap.
 
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