Posts by Jason Campbell70

Everything was fine until they hit that section with the truck. 🙏🙏🙏

I don't see much of a bright future for this qualifying format.

Completely lost track of the fact that qualifying is happening today. 😁

EDIT - Thanks to Sky for running the replay right now. 😁

ruggedhawk20 said:That’s spot on. After all, the foundation of that car was built while Michael Schumacher was still the lead driver.

Honestly? These arguments are incredibly childish.
You don't need any of this.

Amy Castillo4 Asks:
They spent years building that advantage before the hybrid era even started. Why? Because they had all the inside info.

That story was debunked a long time ago.
Even if that were true, clinging to the argument about the seventh (now eighth) season of hybrid power units would be a complete waste of time. For obvious reasons, wouldn't it?

Not to repeat myself:

Jason Campbell70 said:Even if that story were true—which it isn't—hybrid turbo engines were actually introduced seven seasons ago.
A couple of seasons after a rule change, sure, you could hear someone whining that Mercedes had an unfair head start on the technical regs. But seven seasons later? Still dragging up that same old story is nothing more than a confession of being unable to develop a competitive engine.
In just seven years, Honda has performed absolute miracles with their development, pulling off some incredible wins.
Renault pulled off miracles during their development phase. They actually won.
Ferrari? In qualifying for Dubai, they were nearly 1.5 seconds slower than last year. What happened?
While everyone else poured their resources into engine development, Ferrari spent all their energy hunting for loopholes in the technical regulations and looking for ways to cheat. In the short term, that strategy might have actually secured them a title—if Sebastian Vettel hadn't completely blown it back in 2018. But looking at the long game? Ferrari has tumbled down to being just the sixth of the seven serious teams currently competing in Formula 1.

Back to Ferrari and those turbo-hybrids they were so slow to grasp... It's worth noting that Ferrari was actually the very first team to get a hybrid turbo engine out on the track for testing.
Back in December 2013, we saw those clips of the Ferrari acting as a test mule for the new Power Unit, tearing through laps down at Indianapolis.
What kind of collective frenzy was going on over at the Scuderia forum? Everyone was just celebrating, riding that high from the 2014 season and the new title. 😁

Jason Campbell70 Asks:
Aerodynamics regulations have shifted quite drastically over the last seven seasons. It’s been a wild ride. First, we had noses that looked more like snowplows—complete with those bizarre, phallic-looking appendages—and now look at us. The front wing has been totally overhauled: simplified, widened, and redesigned from the ground up. Then there's the sidepod area. We went from incredibly basic setups to seeing boomerang shapes, intricate vanes, and bargeboards that just keep getting more complex by the year. How did we even get here?
Wheel hubs and blow axles—once some of the most complex designs ever seen—were essentially banned overnight. Floor designs went from being flat, seamless surfaces to being riddled with holes, slots, and rounded edges. Even the rear wing saw a massive overhaul, shifting from high and narrow to wide and low. All this, alongside a mountain of other constant tweaks to the aerodynamic regulations.
It’s almost predictable, isn't it? Mercedes remains the gold standard.

Why? Because they possess the most capable crew in the business.
Look at Adrian Newey. When he had his team behind him, he was untouchable.
From Williams, through McLaren, all the way to Red Bull—no matter how the regulations shift, Newey always finds the winning edge.
Mercedes will maintain that advantage as long as they have this specific talent pool, endless funding, and the drive to win.
Regardless of what the rulebook says.

Robert Cox46 said:We also shouldn't overlook those exclusive private Pirelli tires tests.

"Exclusive" would imply they were held for just one single team.
But Pirelli organized a test and invited two Formula 1 teams.
One was Mercedes, and the other happened to be the very team that complained the loudest about Mercedes participating in the test in the first place.

stormybadger8 said:

Jason Campbell70 said:They hated Alain Prost.
Then they hated Michael Schumacher.
Now they hate Lewis Hamilton.

Shouldn't we say:
Jason Campbell70 hated Fernando Alonso
Jason Campbell70 hated Lewis Hamilton
Jason Campbell70 hated Sebastian Vettel

I'm not sure why you'd put Vettel in the same breath as those F1 legends.

stormybadger8 said:Jason Campbell70 hates Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc...

Jason Campbell70 hates Max Verstappen:

Jason Campbell70 said:Max Verstappen is the best thing to happen to Formula 1 in the last ten years.

Jason Campbell70 hates Max Verstappen:

Jason Campbell70 said:Regarding Max, it feels like pure déjà vu today.
Back in 2003, a young 22-year-old Fernando Alonso lapped Michael Schumacher—who won his sixth world title that season—during the Canadian Grand Prix.

In 2017, a 20-year-old Max Verstappen lapped Lewis Hamilton—who is securing his fourth world title this season—at the Mexican Grand Prix.
Circle of Life

The kid is already a driver's driver, a superstar, and a future multi-time champion.

Jason Campbell70 hates Max Verstappen:

Jason Campbell70 said:And I'll say it again...

The guy is a bold, aggressive, arrogant jerk—exactly how Michael Schumacher was at the start of his career.

And that’s exactly why I like him.

Jason Campbell70 has been a Max Verstappen supporter since day one.
When everyone else here was busy predicting Charles Leclerc would start a long championship run any second now... only Jason Campbell70 was on the side claiming Leclerc was just a "submissive little boy" who could forget about titles as long as Max is driving in Formula 1.
People attacked me then, trying to convince me I was wrong.

By the way, Jason Campbell70 doesn't hate Charles Leclerc.
Charles Leclerc is such a bland character that you can't even hate him properly.

shadowmarlin22 said:How much longer does the sun have to burn before things change? 🙏🙏🙏

When will the GOAT finally get the respect that usually comes with age in other sports? It seems like an athlete has to completely fall off before people actually start loving them...

Formula 1 has a very specific type of fan base.

They hated Alain Prost.
Then they hated Michael Schumacher.
Now they're hating Lewis Hamilton.
And all of this is happening while those first two were—and Hamilton still is—active drivers.

What can I say... the level of hate is just exhausting.

Joseph Flores15 said:Of course I'm trolling, but I'm just playing along with you.

I am not trolling, nor have I ever.
My posts are based on undeniable facts—whether it's looking at time gaps per lap or specific segments of the race.
I have no need for distorted facts, cheap trolling, poor comparisons, or some crystal ball bullshit.

Joseph Flores15 said:You know full well that even at its worst, Mercedes is firmly the second fastest race car, running a full second ahead of the rest of the field, aside from Red Bull Racing.

I partially agree with that assessment.

gentlemoose57 said:Perez had a penalty, plus he went off track.

Did Bottas have anything?

Yes.
A slower race car.

Joseph Flores15 said:Perez finished 12th. What was 13th again?

So Max dominated even with a car that isn't even scoring points.🙏

A car that "isn't scoring points" just gave Perez his best qualifying result of his entire career.
It also put him about 45 seconds ahead of Bottas during the window when Bottas was still on track.
In that same stretch, Perez's fastest lap was 4.5 seconds quicker than Bottas's best.

Not bad at all for a car that supposedly can't score points.🙂

People are throwing everything at the wall to justify Mercedes' dominance... from the Bahrain race, to some vague "subjective feelings" compared to highway driving, only to circle back to yet another comparison with last year's Bahrain GP.

Interesting.

Robert Cox46 said:Besides, Russell showed us last year in Bahrain just how capable that Mercedes really is.

Is Russell driving last year's Mercedes in Bahrain really a valid benchmark for this year's Mercedes performance at Indianapolis?

Interesting.

It’s a shame we didn't have another driver in that exact same car during the Indy race. Then maybe we could use basic logic and the facts at hand to figure out the reality of the situation.
In other words—how much of this is the car, and how much is the driver?

Roger Wright94 said:In the last race in Bahrain, Lewis Hamilton took the win driving for Mercedes-Benz.
The McLaren and Ferrari teams trailed him by 46, 59, 66, and 67 seconds respectively.

Over 56 laps, that works out to exactly seconds of advantage per lap.
So, we're looking at a one-second gap per lap under dry conditions—the same drivers and teams Lewis was carving through in Indianapolis on his way to P2.

Did you honestly think it made sense to use the final results from Bahrain as a benchmark for speed during the Indianapolis race?
It wasn't run under the same conditions, nor was it even held on the same continent.

Fine.

stormybadger8 said:https://www.formula1.com/en/results....test-laps.html

Anything is possible, sure. But someone pulling a fastest lap nearly a full second quicker than everyone else without even having fresher tires? I find that hard to swallow...
Regardless of all the noise or Wolff complaining about how Red Bull has the fastest car and how they're struggling with this or that.
Mercedes is, without question, the fastest car on the grid...

First off, you claim Mercedes is the fastest car based on the fastest lap standings, yet you post a table where Bottas is clearly dead last, two seconds slower than Russell, driven during the exact same race window.
An interesting way to back up an opinion.

Secondly, out of the last 20 laps, Verstappen was faster in 18 of them—mostly by half a second to a full second per lap.
Hamilton was only faster in two of those (laps 50 and 60).
He knew his best shot at a fast lap would come when he cleared Norris, used the DRS and the slipstream to gain a few tenths on the straight toward the Tamburello chicane, and then squeezed every remaining ounce of life out of those tires in the next two sectors.

One single opportunity, and Hamilton took it exactly when he needed to.
Pure driving intelligence.
That's why he's the GOAT.

Alex Barnes93 said:......

Still nursing that grudge?
In the future, maybe avoid posting nonsense—whether it's about non-existent reverse gears, phantom advantages that never happened, or snarky remarks about what key figures actually said—and nobody will feel the need to correct you. Your ego might stay intact that way. 🙂

Alex Barnes93 said:It’s no wonder this PDF is just a graveyard for old forums...

Plenty of room to move. 🙂

Roger Wright94 said:In love?

The best driver on the grid? The F1 GOAT? Absolutely.

Roger Wright94 said:Fighting him? Really?
With a car that's a second faster? Bravo!

As you've been told multiple times—most recently by our friend ruggedhawk20—your constant obsession with this "one second faster car" theory just fails basic logic when you look at the actual facts.

ruggedhawk20 said:Just like an Osmas guy heading down a level lower, the Prvašić types will start scrambling.

Leave him alone.

What can I even say...
Nothing. You're absolutely right.

I’d wrap up my analysis of the Indianapolis race with Hamilton's post-race comments.

First, a true gentleman.
Sincere congratulations to Max, and he isn't hiding his satisfaction with seeing his former team finish so high up.
Second, that genuine boyish grin. It's been a while since I've seen him look this happy and content.
To top it off, he smiles and says he actually had fun battling the guys on track toward the end.

How much did you enjoy charge back through the field?
SLH: Oh, I loved it! Honestly thats how my actually career started when I was younger ... as a kid, we had a really dodgy old go-kart so I was always starting at the back... so it took me back to my roots...

It’s obvious how much he missed this kind of pure racing—just direct, head-to-head combat on the circuit.
As for those retirement rumors, or claims that he's satisfied with everything he's already achieved... no chance.
He's still hungry for wins, and these last two races this season have only fueled that fire.
And he definitely intends to further solidify his F1 GOAT status.
Much to the delight of all Formula 1 fans.

Alex Barnes93 said:....

You're blaming yourself, and quite harshly at that.
Don't do that to yourself.

Alex Barnes93 said:My apologies, you're right. I actually enjoyed your little imaginary math game with those numbers above. 👍

The race where Lewis fell asleep at the start, only for you to break your wing before even exiting the second turn—just so you could blame that wing for killing your pace? Which was supposedly 0.6s faster than Max’s? Yeah, right. Math doesn't work like that, does it?

So, that's how it goes?
Regarding your constant whining about that 13-second gap? You're wrong. Just my imagination, doubling those numbers above.?

Just my imagination, doubling those numbers up there. This is just a word-for-word transcription of what Andrew Shovlin said.

So, let's see who this Andrew Shovlin guy actually is...

I’ve been serving as the trackside engineering director at the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team since 2011.
I served as a race engineer for the BAR/Honda/Brawn era, working directly alongside Jenson Button.
Served as a race engineer for Mercedes, working directly alongside Michael Schumacher.
Holds a PhD in Vehicle Dynamics and Control.

Sure, let them act like that. 🙂

Alex Barnes93 said:The only way Lewis could have actually chipped away at Max's lead would have been narrowing that gap from -13 to -11 while Max was stuck in traffic—which happened when someone got lapped for the first time in lap 19—only for Lewis to lose it all again a lap later and see the gap back to -13.

Max's peak advantage during that opening stint was 6 seconds.
Specifically? 6.065 seconds, during lap 22.

Which race were you watching? 🙂

Alex Barnes93 said:Lewis is infallible and completely dominant.

You aren't far off.

Roger Wright94 said:If Lewis was dealing with damage that cost him roughly 0.6 seconds per lap, yet he still managed to stay on Max's tail, doesn't that imply his raw race pace is actually about 0.6 seconds faster than the Red Bull?

Fixed your post. 🙂

Front-wing damage cost Hamilton six tenths a lap

.....

Asked how much performance was lost by the damage at the Tamburello chicane, Schovlin said: “Initially it was quite large.

“The reason for that was because the footplate of the front wing hadn’t come away completely. It was actually held on by the pressure tappings we use to measure the aero performance of those parts. And while this was flapping around, it was causing a big loss, so around six tenths of a second that was affecting him in the opening laps.

“Eventually that bit of the front wing fell off completely and that was actually quite good for Lewis, it halved the loss.

.....

https://www.planetf1.com/news/lewis-...formance-loss/

Interesting observation.
First, how could such a "minor" bit of damage cost that much time per lap? And second, isn't it strange that things improved significantly once the damaged piece finally fell off entirely?

Peter Carter6 said:Is Alfa Romeo finally turning a corner?

Ferrari has found its footing again.

copperdrifter26 said:If anyone actually thinks they're on par with Williams just because Valtteri Bottas was fighting them for position this weekend—while Lewis Hamilton is out there setting fastest laps right alongside Max Verstappen in that Red Bull Racing—then maybe I should try whatever it is you guys are taking.🙂

What exactly are we gaining by claiming Bottas was on par with Williams, especially when Hamilton was setting faster laps than Max Verstappen in the exact same car?
Live timing.