stormybadger8 said:What are you guys even watching? 🤔
Red Bull Racing is way better than Mercedes, and Ferrari and McLaren are fast too, but you can actually catch them... Alfa is super dangerous as well, and so is Williams Racing... Mercedes is just pathetic, easily the worst car on the grid—I mean, we're barely better than Haas F1 Team😳
Flip the ball upside down for Toto Wolff and the rest of the Lewis Hamilton crew🤣
I honestly don't see how Lewis Hamilton could win the title this year... Because Lewis is having his absolute worst season of the turbo era; he’s making way too many amateur mistakes and embarrassing himself constantly this season. It almost reminds me of that season where he kept crashing into Massive... How much of a beast Lewis Hamilton is is best shown by the fact that he's still fighting for the title, because with his driving quality this season, he realistically shouldn't even be in the top 3. And if Nico Rosberg were in the other garage, he would have literally slapped him around this season, and Nico Rosberg would have won the title ages ago☕
Lewis Hamilton is only in the title fight because Max Verstappen lost 75 points in Azerbaijan, the United Kingdom, and Canada (not through his own fault), but those points are gone, and if it wasn't for that, the championship would have been decided long ago. That tells you everything about Red Bull Racing's dominance this season, and the only reason Max Verstappen is doing so well in the standings is purely due to the car, which everyone already declared the undisputed best right after testing. Mercedes might have been better on 4 or 5 tracks, but on all the others, it's Red Bull Racing. It's actually a miracle that Lewis Hamilton is still in the hunt and will probably end up taking it in the end.
Daniel Ricciardo left Red Bull Racing because he clearly saw they were playing favorites with Max Verstappen, and there was nothing left for him to gain there—and honestly, he was spot on. Even if Red Bull Racing has the fastest car this season, you don't need to be a die-hard fanboy to see that reality; you just need to look at the situation objectively.
graniteharbor502 said:Bottas? I'm with you on that.
We all know who's out of their league here. Every statistic and every top expert agrees that Red Bull has the best car on the grid this season, but apparently, you think you're smarter than everyone else.
That pretty much shows who stands out through pure talent and whose car is actually superior. Not to mention those mistakes made by a certain Mercedes driver...
Lawrence Garcia5 said:Do you guys really think Hamilton can pull off an eighth title?
Red Bull definitely has the fastest car on the grid this year, but I'm calling it now: Mercedes is taking the Constructors' Championship again, and Hamilton will naturally grab his eighth driver's title too.
graniteharbor502 said:Honestly, I can't help but feel that they have truly gone overboard with these red flags being thrown for every little thing lately 🤦
I mean, look at everyone walking around with masks on just because of some minor cold... if they're that paranoid, you know they’re going to throw a red flag every single time someone pulls out of their pit box.
It was drivable, obviously. Like Martin Brundle says, he’s raced in much worse conditions than this. It feels like people are just being overly cautious now because of that accident involving Jules Bianchi, but they don't seem to realize that just stepping onto the track is a massive risk in itself. Even with what happened to Romain Grosjean last year, if someone really doesn't feel safe racing, they should just do what Niki Lauda did back in 1976 and call it quits...
Could some expert out there let me know when we last dealt with this kind of race disaster where they called it after less than two laps? I honestly can't remember... thanks.
I honestly don't know what they're waiting for. Conditions aren't going to change before the end; things are just going to get bleaker, so it doesn't really matter when they let them go.
Bradley King said:Are you making fun of honest people? 🙂
No, I'm actually with you on this one. It’s pretty funny how this "worst F1 driver" claims the Williams Racing car was amazing yesterday and suggests Russell’s result wasn't due to his skill. Yet, he'll never admit that back during Monza 2008, the AlphaTauri was one of the fastest cars on track, or that Sébastien Bourdais actually clocked the third-fastest lap of the day.
Bradley King said:Let’s not be naive here. When it comes to pure driving skill and talent, Vettel is maybe just slightly above average, and that’s about it. Back in his Red Bull days, you couldn't even imagine him acting like this because he was chasing expensive titles and cared way too much about public opinion. Now that he’s mostly watching championships on TV, he’s decided to fix his PR and try to win over the crowds. All the rainbow colors, buying random junk... it's just a show for the masses (the naive ones) trying to follow in the footsteps of influencers who actually know something about racing.
The truth is, during his era at Ferrari, there were two seasons where the car was actually good enough to win a title, and he completely blew both of them with rookie mistakes. As for Ferrari, the team was basically mourning the fact that they had Vettel instead of Alonso in the cockpit during those years. A lot of people were saying, "Damn, when we had Alonso, we didn't have the car—now that we have the car, we don't have Alonso."
Regarding those Red Bull championship years, the common consensus in the paddock is that Adrian Newey built such an incredible car for Red Bull that you could have put anyone in the seat and they would have been champion. They didn't just have a car in the garage; they had a freaking rocket ship.
stormybadger8 said:Bla-bla-bl... Tarso Marques, Daniel Ricciardo, Charles Leclerc, and Fernando Alonso all need to eat a whole lot more if they ever want to be mentioned in the same breath as Sebastian Vettel... because, collectively, they still haven't achieved what Vettel did in Formula 1... Right now, they're sitting at maybe 50% 🙂
feel free to hunt for excuses as to why they aren't there yet—take your time... let me know when you figure it out 🙂
And Vettel needs to win at least twice as much just to be compared to Lewis Hamilton.
feel free to go looking for excuses as to why he hasn't, take your time... let me know when you figure it out 🙂
So where else was Vettel supposed to go after 2014? Given how things looked back then, making that move was actually a totally logical and realistic call. As for him failing to snag a title with Ferrari, that's a whole different story—in my opinion, the blame doesn't just lie with Ferrari, but with him too.
frozenheron7 said:I honestly feel for Seba. He’s such a positive, funny guy—something you just don't see much of in F1 anymore. Most drivers just recite the same tired scripts about how "it was a tough weekend" or "thanks to the factory," but he’s one of those rare ones who almost always cracks a joke, and I really love that about him.
I'm also not sure what caused such a massive slump in his career. Maybe he's dealing with stuff outside of racing that makes it hard to stay focused, kind of like how Lewis Hamilton struggled when he was dealing with that messy breakup with that singer.
He's just too emotional and lacks the mental toughness needed to bounce back, especially when he isn't sitting in one of the top cars on the grid.
The officiating definitely lacks consistency because they too often treat situations as isolated incidents rather than following a clear pattern, though I wouldn't go so far as to say they're biased toward anyone—it's just that the rulebook itself is poorly written and feels pretty outdated.