Posts by gentlemoose57

Jason Campbell70 said:Not staying off the throttle after you've already lost control and slid off track due to your own mistake?

Exactly.

The hardcore fans just don't get it—they think he cut back onto the racing line because he drifted through the grass, but the real issue is that he floored it while his tires were still covered in turf and dirt. It’s a clear error. He deserves a penalty—even if it's just the smallest one possible.

crimsonhawk23 said:Right, though—totally unrelated tangent here—but last year when Max did the exact same thing, you were all over him, saying:

Just being objective here!! 😁 👍

What Max did in Japan back in 2018 was significantly less dangerous—mostly because there wasn't a wall right there! Honestly, that excuse doesn't hold any water; he could have just hugged the left side, but instead, he swung back toward the left part of the track and floored it, which caused him to slide straight toward the right wall.

mellowtiger83 said:They're conveniently leaving out the part where Hamilton had to go head-to-head against absolute legends in his own garage—and let's be real, everyone except Bottas has a world title under their belt.

Heikki Kovalainen🙂

mellowtiger83 said:A lot of people claim that Lewis Hamilton lost the title because of his engine issues in Malaysia—but they conveniently forget that a couple of years prior, Nico Rosberg had that whole mess where his steering wheel reset itself during a pit stop and all that.

Let’s be real: a couple of years before that, Rosberg didn't just edge out Lewis Hamilton—he beat him by more than two races worth of points, like 60 to 70 points.

The truth? Rosberg won because he effectively wore down the new engine Lewis Hamilton was using—the one that racked up all those penalties at Spa-Francorchamps. So, once again, it comes down to issues popping up too early in the season. Add in another one of Lewis Hamilton's DNFs, and there you have it. That’s the whole story.

The entire approach taken by The Best F1 seems to boil down to strategic mudslinging—tearing some guys down while lifting others up just to make Sebastian Vettel look superior and his rivals look incompetent. It’s a pattern: they constantly trash the management and strategy at the teams where Vettel drives, while praising the teams where his rivals compete. Sometimes they smear his rivals' teams, and other times they praise them—all just to make sure those rivals seem as close to his level as possible, even though they’re clearly a tier below him.

And of course, it never occurs to them that Vettel's own temperament—that constant irritability—is actually what's causing the friction within the teams. Teams that, for the last two seasons, have delivered cars so good that any world-class driver could have cruised to a championship in them.

Check out this clip of Leclerc's team radio right after that absolute grind of a race—he was actually a bit lost on where to head since he ended up on the podium! 🙂

2019 Bahrain Grand Prix F1 Debrief

https://www.youtube.com/v=IkOZoxN9iwM

As someone who’s been a die-hard Hamilton supporter through thick and thin, I have to say—this might be one of his best qualifying performances in years. It feels like we’re finally seeing the payoff from all those Newey titles—that moment where someone actually manages to outsmart him while sitting in the exact same car, without all the constant excuses about an "incompetent Ferrari" or those endless fairy tales about the dominance of the Mecca

Check out this killer debrief from Ford: Miami Grand Prix F1 Debrief



The intro is just spot on:

Fans, it's James... 🤣 🤣 🤣

stormybadger8 said:And why on earth would I be the one to self-sabotage...🤔
If anyone needs to be blamed for self-sabotage, it's definitely the Ferrari strategists...

The truth is, I actually thought for a moment that Ferrari had finally figured some things out—I was genuinely expecting the whole thing to be strategically rigged just to block Lewis Hamilton at the start...
and if that were actually the case, it wouldn't have mattered a damn bit who from the red cars took off first or second...

The real issue isn't even that; it's that they went out there trying to mess with each other at the start instead of working together like Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton would to take down the competition...
That’s the core problem, plain and simple.

Because in the end, the result would've been the same regardless. Even if Kimi Räikkönen had played along during qualifying by following in Vettel's slipstream, the start would've just been Vettel, Hamilton, Kimi, then Bottas...
Vettel and Hamilton would have smoked Kimi in a heartbeat, and Vettel would've ended up in the slipstream during the pit stops, leading to him falling back exactly the same way Kimi did.
See, America's car managed its tires much better—noticeably better—which made them significantly faster during the race itself. Therefore, the chances of Vettel keeping Hamilton behind him, even without Kimi's help and with Bottas helping Hamilton, were incredibly slim...

Maybe if they hadn't gone into the pits after such a few laps, they wouldn't have burned through their soft tires as fast as Kimi did.

Besides, they weren't even messing with each other at the start; it was more like Vettel was just being difficult with Kimi, trying to overtake him within the first three corners. In the end, he proved—just like he did in Germany—that they aren't even in the same league. We all know deep down that Vettel's titles actually belong to Adrian Newey, and he was really just in the right place at the right time.😉

stormybadger8 said:That move around the outside was absolutely brilliant—just a masterstroke! Honestly, seeing Kimi ahead of Lewis is exactly what I wanted to see. 😁

And finally—Kimi's on pole! 🙏

stormybadger8 said:Whether they actually created them or not doesn't even matter...
It’s honestly just a relief that they actually bothered to step outside at all—seriously, it's a win in my book! That kind of combination... honestly? It’s just completely insane—totally beyond any shred of logic. Back when Vettel was actually in the hunt for the championship—man, those were the days! 🤦

What I just can’t wrap my head around—honestly, it baffles me—is how much of a delusional fanatic you actually have to be to watch something like this happen and *not* just sit there in stunned silence, effectively banning yourself from the forums until next season... or, you know, until Formula 1 ends entirely. 🤦

rapidnomad322 said:I couldn't even make it to the public clinic—I wasn't about to sit around waiting until June 2018. And honestly, I assumed you’d just pay out of pocket and then get reimbursed later. Still, if you can't swing the private route because the slots fill up so fast, it's worth driving to another city.

I think there's this whole catch where if they schedule you two years out and you just decide to go private and pay upfront, you end up in a massive headache fighting with Medicare to get your money back.

By the way, regarding that rubber ball thing—they actually have one over at the Mayo Clinic, but definitely not at Vineyard. Plus, the Mayo Clinic has that little prism setup where you can peek through a slot to see the engineer in the control room—just to be absolutely certain he hasn't slipped away for a quick burger. You won't find that luxury at Vineyard.

rapidnomad322 said:I decided on Seattle because going private feels a bit excessive—I mean, I could afford it, sure, but then what’s the point of having supplemental insurance? Plus, you can never be entirely certain whether Medicare will reimburse part of the cost, the whole thing, or absolutely nothing at all... I really hope everything turned out fine with those test results 😉

Not quite—but honestly, when you're constantly expecting things to get even worse, you find yourself feeling satisfied with even the mediocre stuff 🤣🤣🤣

There isn't any reimbursement process involved; you just hand over your referrals and that's that. It’s not like the situation where you can't get an appointment through the public system, so you're forced to go private and pay out of pocket only to argue about it later—no, it's much smoother than that. For things like MRIs and other radiology scans, they actually sign contracts with numerous private clinics to handle thousands of these scans, so you just show up with your referral and get it done like any other routine appointment.