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    The Ferrari move definitely put him in scrappy underdog territory for a little while there, which I suppose Benetton qualified for as well. Plus I was old enough to recognise his ability in a shit car and Ferrari were welcome (if occasional) visitors to the podium rather than the pompous knobs they turned into.

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    Next question - why is everyone calling Nikita Mazepin 'Mazepan'? He doesn't run a patisserie.

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    This is going well.

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    I could watch cars go around this track all day, it's just magnificent. Here's hoping they somehow find a way of keeping it on the calendar.

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    Russell now 33-0 in qualifying against his teammates in his F1 career.

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    Proper textbook Hamilton alpha-ing there, loved it.

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    +1 for coming here every year, good argument for a winter season too.

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    I could honestly make love to this circuit. It's like an even better Interlagos.

    Looked like a straight punt by Verstappen on Perez but he seems to have got away with it.

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    Lap one, he'll get away with it.

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    It would be nice if the directors showed us some of the lap 1 overtakes. Kimi made up something like 10 places. Show us, divs.

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    You'd think Stroll jr would be better than this by now.

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    That was a bizarre move, there is absolutely no future around the outside of there.

    This is a great race, if these early-stopping chumps try to get their yellow tyres through 40+ laps it will be carnage.

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    Lewis is absolutely taking the piss here.

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    The onboards are so good. Get rid of Singapore, and keep Portimao.

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    Cards on the table - I reckon it's better than 18 of the circuits on the original calendar, I'd only have Spa and Suzuka above it.

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    Yeah we need that track back next year.

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    Absolutely brilliant track. If they do come back, they could shorten the DRS by about 150-200m as it seemed to make up about 7 tenths, and was a little overpowered.

    The best thing about the circuit is that it really did allow for side-by-side racing for a lot of the corners - some of the battles in the midfield were brilliant.

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    Hamilton's teammates all quality drivers. Meanwhile, look at Schumacher's list.

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    Schumacher forcefully engineered the teams around him and had restrictions written into the second drivers' contracts etc, which Hamilton never did. Schumacher was a great driver but Hamilton is better and (since 2013) less flawed.

    That sort of list always reminds me of Senna being shit scared of having Derek Warwick as a team mate for 1986 and insisting they ran Johnny Dumfries alongside him.

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    I was reading about this the other day, and the relevant bits for Michael Schumacher would appear to me to be the pre and post-title shitboxes. He was running just behind the cheat cars and picking up clever wins with them while his teammates were back in tenth like dickheads.

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    1996-9 for Schumacher is analogous to 2009-12 for Hamilton, with Schumi maybe edging those periods but also up against far worse opposition within them (fucking Frentzen in a Newey Williams, do me a favour). In fact, they are very comparable drivers overall, with the one major difference being Schumacher's weakness was general German weirdness/insecurity leading to a penchant for driving into people, whereas Hamilton's weakness was/is pussycat dolls, liking music and wishing he was American.

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    4/5 of Hamiltons team mates are all World Champions. Meanwhile Schumacher only had 1(for 1 combined win between them). I also don't recall Hamiltons team mates being told to get out of the way so he could win, either.

    That being said to my mind, both have had similar careers. Won in their younger days, before taking a gamble on a move to a lesser fancied team before being proved right and building their legacy there. Had Hamilton been able to drive into the pits in China, it'd be almost an exact replica.

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    Lewis coming in as a rookie and bullying the fuck out of reigning double world champ Alonso, to the extent that he had a complete meltdown in Hungary, nuking the entire team/sport for that season and sending his own career into a manic downward spiral from which it never truly recovered, was probably better than anything Schumacher did, unless you count murdering Senna with his bent electrics.

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    I'd forgotten about that. Glorious

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    Yeah, Schumacher never really ruined anyone in that manner. If anything, the obvious team orders elevated Barrichello's profile. Button and Brawn broke him but not Schumi.

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    Despite being fast, Rubens was always a bit of a beta male, somewhat like Bottas is today. Irvine knew the score when he went there. Massa was a shit Barrichello.

    Johnny Herbert in '95 was his most fun team mate I think, winning both the races when Schumacher and Hill punted each other (more Damon's fault, those two) and giving it large.

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    Yeah, Herbert was the only one in the revolving door that really showed some speed. That's probably the biggest thing that irked me about 1994. That car was so dominant in Shumacher's hands but they shat the constructors title because Verstappen and Lehto kept killing themselves.

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    Brundle was pretty quick but Herbert was quality, all on one foot too. Barrichello got shown up in 09, he had bags of sympathy from the Ferrari days and blew it all by whinging about conspiracies after getting body bagged by Button for a few races.

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    And when he did win he got a whole paddock clapping for him like a tyrant.

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    Russell and Latifi confirmed for Williams next year. Will nobody take Checo's money?

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    Christian Horner might. I'm very glad about George, though, his is a serious talent.

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    Happy to see him in a Williams? Brutal.

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    Shitting on one's team mate is always good for one's career, no matter how shit the car is.

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    It's good for him to be on the grid but even if he had to sit out a year he'd still have the all important Mercedes contract, another year of wiping the floor with Latifi won't change all that much.

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    I was holding out some kind of hope we'd see Russell in the Red Bull, once they'd taken "Alex" out back and shot him. He's far too good to be slapping backmarker team mates about.

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    Nah, Russell would've been in the same boat within six months.

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    I'm sure there are worse career moves than jumping out of a Mercedes and into whatever the Red Bull will be but I can't immediately think of one.

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    Pretty much whatever move Fernando Alonso decides to do.

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    I can't believe Giovinazzi has kept that Alfa seat. The guy is 26 now and has barely shown any kind of development.

    I think it all but confirms that Ilott is finished as an F1 prospect with Schwartzmann probably replacing Kimi in 2022.

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    Having a look at the Race to Perfection series Sky have done, it's not bad, they clearly have access to all the right people and footage, and with 7 episodes all about an hour long it should be pretty comprehensive. However episode one has been overshadowed by Paddy Lowe and his awful jumper.

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    Watching my first free practice for about 8 seasons (I am a circuit guy so really wanted to see them drive this track, mostly quite badly as it turns out) and already Albon has been on the radio having a whinge about track limits as he has three laps in a row deleted - at Variante Alta of all places, where you get nobbled on the high kerbs anyway. Is he just blessed with a particularly whiny voice, or do these people not know how they come across?

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    I like zero fucks given mode Grosjean, in the week he not only revealed the fundamental flaw in the Haas but happily admitted they had no idea how to fix it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    Having a look at the Race to Perfection series Sky have done, it's not bad, they clearly have access to all the right people and footage, and with 7 episodes all about an hour long it should be pretty comprehensive. However episode one has been overshadowed by Paddy Lowe and his awful jumper.

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    Is that on one of the channels or an on-demand thing?

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    I believe it's on demand but I downloaded it so I'm not sure.

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    The Alpha Tauri looks absolutely mighty around here, wonder if they might sneak a cheeky second row.

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    I think that just got a lot more likely.

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    Where is this?

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    Imola in Italy, always used to be the San Marino GP.

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