Posts by stormybadger8

bluepuma9 said:Max Verstappen totally botched this. When he gave the spot back to Lewis Hamilton, he was way too aggressive and stayed too close through the next sequence of turns. He slid, overheated his tires, and lost his pace for a lap or two, which was all Lewis Hamilton needed. He was just too Emotional.

"Botched it" is putting it lightly...
He botched it, sure, but so did Red Bull Racing...

Red Bull Racing was so fast they probably could have built a 5-second gap if he’d just stayed ahead. Instead, Max Verstappen let Lewis Hamilton past at the absolute dumbest spot possible...
He could've given him a clean pass on the straight, making it much less painful, or even let him pass before the DRS detection point so he could immediately use DRS right after.
He screwed up as badly as humanly possible...

Retire Max and just put Yuki in Red Bull Racing instead. 👋

And Seb can head for retirement too. 😬
Ionak, I don’t even know who to root for anymore since STR was always my favorite squad. 🙏🙏 🙏
I've always had a soft spot for the Japanezer crew, especially back when Honda was behind them and Gasly was in the other car. 👍

Gary Palmer8 said:Is this whole thing based on some guesswork sensor? 🤣

Who cares about the sensor...
Just watch the onboard footage from Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso. They catch up to Carlos Sainz, floor it, and bang—shifting up through the gears...

Some kid? No clue who or why.
But honestly, it’s pure insanity for a car to accelerate like that under a yellow flag. There wasn't even any actual danger since Sainz was tucked off the racing line and out of everyone's way.
If you ask me, there shouldn't have even been a yellow flag in the first place. But if there was, it’s definitely not normal for a driver to hammer it like that without anyone noticing...

I honestly don't get what these refs are even doing 😵
On NFL+, for some reason they didn't even bother putting Vettel's onboard up, and now we've got this whole investigation into him because apparently he didn't slow down enough under double yellows—even though there was zero chance he could have 🤔
Basically, Vettel was right on Bottas's tail, who was right on Mazepin's tail. The second that guy spun, they were already there...
Mazepin hadn't even finished spinning before Bottas and Vettel had already zipped past him 😵
And I have no clue how double yellows could even apply in that situation...🤔

Meanwhile, they didn't say a single word about the investigations into Alonso and Hamilton 😕
Even though if you look at their onboards, it's crystal clear they were both flooring it past Sainz while he was just sitting there on the track for ages...🤔
Maybe Alonso passed Sainz before the flag actually came out—but even then, that would be a massive officiating fail since Sainz had been stationary for quite a while
but Hamilton? There's no way he passed Sainz without flags. Sainz had been sitting there for well over thirty seconds by the time Hamilton showed up...

wiredcanyon39 said:Alonso pulled a fast one. ☕

I wouldn't bet on that...
Honestly, I think Alonso is right up there with the guys likely to grab a penalty after qualifying...
And they could be looking at some massive ones.
It wasn't just the Alpine F1 Team screwing over Sebastian Vettel, Valtteri Bottas, and Sergio Perez...
They also had Sainz just sitting there on track while basically everyone cruised past him under yellow flags...

1. Lewis Hamilton
2. Bottas
3. Max Verstappen
4. Daniel Ricciardo
5. Perez
6. Sebastian Vettel
7. Norris
8. Stroll
9. Fernando Alonso
10. Pierre Gasly
11. Leclerc
12. Ocon
13. Carlos Sainz
14. Kimi Raikkonen
15. George Russell
16. Giovinazzi
17. Latifi
18. Schumacher
NOP: Yuki Tsunoda, Nikita Mazepin

PP: Lewis Hamilton
FL: Lewis Hamilton

Richard Walker38 said:So if Ferrari was "punished" with fuel flow issues last season, does that mean they might actually improve this year?

Engine and chassis? Sure. Performance? Not likely. 😁
If those clowns had the best car and engine on the grid, they’d still find a way to screw everything up with botched pit stops and "oops, my bad" strategy calls...

neonfox65 said:Well, starting tomorrow, Max is just going to steamroll everyone this year.

Honestly, he might be better off hanging up the helmet and trying his luck in boxing or the UFC...
Actually, his old man would probably be more useful there than in F1...

Nicholas Walker40 said:I’m right there with you on Michael Schumacher.
Just enjoy Lewis Hamilton while he's still at it.

That’s what F1 TV Pro is for.😉
Why not just skip this season entirely and watch the 2001 season every Sunday at 2 AM like it's live?
You could even binge two or three seasons at once if you wanted...
The options we have now are lightyears ahead of what we had back in 2001.

You seriously just need to read the news...
Looks like the rumors are true. Lewis Hamilton is officially out for the next few races. Honestly, it’s a massive blow for the team, but I guess that's just how it goes sometimes. It's going to be a tough stretch for them without him behind the wheel. Let's see if they can actually pull anything together or if it's just going to be a total disaster.

Wolff already told us way before testing even started that there wouldn't be any points this season because they're too busy obsessing over 2022. 🙂
And at the very end, right during the car launch, they actually said this:

Wolff confirmed at the launch that... Ford isn't planning on wasting too much energy tinkering with their 2021 car.Instead of focusing on what’s happening now, they're obsessing over the new rulebook coming in 2022.

If they show up in the United Arab Emirates and struggle just to scrape into Q3, we’ll know exactly what kind of day it is. They’ll be out there giving interviews immediately, claiming their "entire focus" has already shifted to 2022. Typical.
At the end of the day, Wolff laid the groundwork for that disastrous 2021 season the very moment they unveiled the car. ☕

1. Not happening this season.
2. Once he’s out there celebrating that first win for the US 😁
3. With 32 laps left on the clock
4. He's going to smash right into Perez in the opening lap
5. A big fat zero.
6. Maybe two, if I'm feeling generous.
7. That's a bad question. The real answer is Bahrain...

graniteharbor502 said:his number #5?

Maybe No5 😁

frozenheron7 said:And Nicholas Latifi is second.

Next up is Fernando Alonso, then Sergio Perez...☕

Seb is grabbing the championship next season, much to everyone's absolute horror—especially Christian Horner, who’ll probably be hiding from the press under a semi-truck on the interstate just to stay out of sight.

Lewis Hamilton
Valtteri Bottas 2nd
Max Verstappen 3rd
Sergio Perez 4th.
Alex Albon 5th
Daniel Ricciardo 6th
Pierre Gasly 7th
Carlos Sainz 8th
Daniel Ricciardo 9th, Charles Leclerc
Lando Norris 10th.
Sebastian Vettel 11th
Daniil Kvyat NOP 12th
Kimi Raikkonen 13th.
Kevin Magnussen 17th
Nicholas Latifi NOP 17th.
George Russell 16th.
Emerson Fittipaldi NOP
Esteban Ocon NOP
Lance Stroll NOP
Antonio Giovinazzi NOP
Lando Norris PP, Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton FL, Lewis Hamilton

Why the need for such a massive life story?
Look, we already know who you are and we've accepted you just fine 🙂

But hey, if you really feel the urge, there's a dedicated thread for introductions where you can go ahead and introduce yourself properly 👍

mario550 stormybadger8 said:Points only matter until you're talking about Sebastian Vettel. Once it’s Fernando Alonso or Lewis Hamilton, suddenly everyone acts like they're life or death.

Logiga Maminjo logic.

Honestly, I have no clue what you're even trying to say. 🤔

shadowmarlin22 said:If you’re going to log off, please just stay offline—it’s better for everyone involved.
@Nicholas Newman2 👍 This link explains everything perfectly.

But hey, go ahead and keep living in your own little bubble. That one line—“Mainly because of all those places worse than first”—pretty much proves you don't get how this sport works.

Coming in second is just being the first loser.

And then there's this new brand of mathematical gymnastics: claiming someone won more points outside of their victories 🤣 damn math, right? 🙏🙏🙏 Trying to compare total points when the number of races isn't even the same—that's some pretty weak early-morning mental gymnastics.
Hamilton averaged 14.44 points in races where he finished but didn't win, while Rosberg sat at 14.54. It's basically the same thing—one point difference over ten races. And most importantly, what kind of logic is it to discount wins? Wins are the whole point of motorsports.

For your own good, maybe try using your brain and some basic math instead of swallowing the garbage these so-called journalists serve up...
Logged in or not, whatever. ☕

And yeah, because this link "explains everything"...🙏

It explains how some reporter is clearly obsessed with Lewis Hamilton, so they hide the actual stats under percentages that don't mean a damn thing...
That link is literally cherry-picking stats to favor Lewis Hamilton while burying the facts that show why Rosberg actually won...

That trash link only shows this:
Podium Finishes: 17 LH vs 16 NR, then some percentage...
Top 5 finishes: 18 LH vs 19 NR, then some percentage...

But here is what actually matters:
Rosberg:
5 x 2nd place
2 x 3rd place
2 x 4th place
...
159 points

Hamilton:
3 x 2nd place
4 x 3rd place
1 x 5th place
1 x 7th place
...
130 points

Those 9 races for Rosberg were pure damage control against Hamilton's 9 wins, and Hamilton's 9 races were damage control against Rosberg's 9 wins...
And there’s the main difference—that massive 29-point gap that was apparently enough for Rosberg to take the title despite having one fewer win...

But sure, after reading that crap, you guys think those bolded numbers above showing podiums, Top 5 results, and total points are all the same thing...
Not surprising, considering the garbage you lot swallow from links like that...

Statistically, if you only look at the percentage of podiums per season, it looks close since both have 7 podiums bolded...
But there's a huge difference between grabbing more 2nd or 3rd places, and that Top 5 finish count—finishing 5th or 7th isn't the same as finishing 4th twice...
And when you add it all up, it's a significant 29-point difference...

But hey, the "expert" journalist doesn't write that...
He just writes percentages to make it look like they're almost identical. 🙂

Then he throws in some random guesswork by adding a "race performance" column, which he probably dreamed up while sitting on the toilet this morning, rounding it to two decimal places just to look smart. 🙏
And you guys look down and see the percentage where Lewis Hamilton is supposedly "drastically better," and suddenly it's all Malaysia's fault. 🙂
No wonder you talk such nonsense when you're busy reading and believing absolute garbage. 🤦

Alex Barnes93 said:Something I totally missed while watching the broadcast—and honestly, this was the absolute highlight of the race—was how Valtteri Bottas sat in the pits for 37 seconds only for them NOT to change all his tires before sending him back out 🙏 I mean, even Ferrari couldn't pull off a mess that bad 🙏

Check it out: https://streamable.com/1meknp

Man, they didn't even swap out a single 🤦 🤣 They take off the hards, slap on new mediums, then rip off the mediums and just shove those same used hards right back on 😂

E2: The craziest part of this whole circus is that neither Russell nor Bottas even needed to pit in the first place.

Of course not. 🤣

Ferrari needs at least one long weekend to actually get their act together.
It’s like they just want to strip the tires, slap on a new set, then pull them right back off again. As if that's somehow going to save them more time... what a joke.

Besides that, it’s a ton of work. They'd probably decide halfway through that they needed a break to grab a coffee, duck into the pits for a quick espresso, and then get right back at it. 🤣
Then they’d realize they managed to lose those first four tires somewhere along the way, and that's when the real panic sets in. 🤣

shadowmarlin22 said:Faster on the track how, exactly?

More wins? Nope.
More pole positions? Nope.

More DNFs due to mechanical failures? Yeah, sure.

Honestly, it shouldn't be that hard to see why he let that championship slip away...
Look, there's no denying Rosberg had an incredible season, and credit where credit is due—he earned that title. But as usually happens, it all came down to the tiniest details.

Clearly you can't even wrap your head around this...
But whatever, since I'm clearly being stubborn, let's try one more time...

Simple math says that any race a Mercedes driver maxes out during that season earns at least 7 points more than their teammate...
Let me be clear: we're talking at least a 7-point gap per race 🙂
That's the theoretical maximum this car could provide.

So, if Lewis had actually driven to the limit and squeezed everything out of the car, he would have won the title that year, even if he completely tanked the last four races...
Because 17 x 7 = 119 points advantage versus a loss of 4 x 25 = 100 points still leaves a massive lead. He didn't lose the title just because of Malaysia.🙂
If you can't see that—especially after a season where Hamilton was genuinely right on the edge of his limit—😳
Look, the guy will probably miss two races in this noticeably shorter season and still be over 100 points ahead of Bottas...
If you don't see that, then you're hopeless.🤦

Actually, that's not even the main issue. The problem is that for half of that 2016 season, Hamilton wasn't even close to the minimum the car was capable of, let alone the maximum!
The plain truth is that Rosberg drove very close to his absolute ceiling that year, while Hamilton was basically playing backup to Bottas.☕

People like you, who are hopelessly obsessed with Hamilton, just can't see the difference in how they handled being losers when their teammate was winning instead of them...
That's how Rosberg took it. In the races he lost to Hamilton, he still hit the maximum he could manage and the minimum the car allowed.☕

Hamilton, on the other hand, acted like a spoiled brat and threw those races away. The gap didn't happen solely because of DNFs...
It happened primarily because of all those mediocre finishes behind the winner.🙂

Rosberg:
5 x 2nd place
2 x 3rd place
2 x 4th place
...
159 points

Hamilton:
3 x 2nd place
4 x 3rd place
1 x 5th place
1 x 7th place
...
130 points

So, it's 9 lost races either way. Do you see any difference now?🙂

Look, you're acting like it's nothing that when Rosberg was winning, Hamilton would lose out to Perez, Max, Vettel, Kimi, Mass, Perez, Kvijat...
But I guess specialists like you need to be told that the Mercedes was supposedly such a junker that it couldn't even beat Perez, Kvijat, Mass, Kimi, Vettel, Max, or Perez...
Sure, Mercedes was a total junk heap, and Hamilton was basically pulling miracles out of thin air just to stay competitive, but that engine failure in Malaysia completely snatched the championship away from him. 🙂