Formula 1 Discussion - And favourite driver?

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Pee Cola said:
Lando is still quite young, so he has plenty of time to turn into a cunt. Hambone was still kinda alright at his age, and look what happened.
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A reminder of what Lewis used to be like:
The person in that video and the person driving the W14 are two completely different people.
 
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It is definitely a british thing, and I think it just originates in the media. British media like the BBC, Sky, etc. always portray themselves as unbiased beacons of morality (to the point where lots of people buy into it), when they're immoral greedy cunts like everyone else.

British sportspeople basically just follow along with the media narrative, and the endless dick sucking they get, and become obnoxious fake moralfags. George Russel is a cunt who drives like a war criminal, but he seems to genuinely think he's a nice guy, because that's what everyone tells him. Tbh George makes me warm to Lewis a tiny bit.
 
Williams George seemed like a decent likable person, Mercedes George (including the time driving for Williams after rhe had been given the merc contract) seems like a Hamilton level douch.
 
Coccxys said:
Piastri picked up floor damage hence the drop back.

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It's strange that he seemed unaware of this during the race. In the after race interviews he put his performance drop off solely down to his tire management, saying that he needed to work on that. It was Stella that then said in another interview that he was being too harsh with himself and the car had suffered floor damage over a few kerbs like in practice, and that was the main reason for the drop off.

But he's definitely a very cool customer, the way he just plainly asked the team what they wanted him to do after the undercut and just replied "Copy" to any instruction makes him seem a veteran compared to most others. Dude is very discreet but very efective. He's grown on me very fast.
LiveFromNS said:
Lando breaking trophy...he is a great driver but kind of is a doofus at the same time. Stop with the champagne trick. You did it once, it was cool, now grow up and be a bit more normal.
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I like Lando in great part because he's a spaz lol. All you need to do is hear his comms with the pit. The way he seemed to be panicking during the comms about Checo is typical spaz Lando behavior. But yeah, even though it's a funny story for him and Max to share, it's definitely something he should be sorry about. I don't mind them joking about it publicly, but I hope he apologized in private.
 
Quiritium said:
But he's definitely a very cool customer, the way he just plainly asked the team what they wanted him to do after the undercut and just replied "Copy" to any instruction makes him seem a veteran compared to most others. Dude is very discreet but very efective. He's grown on me very fast.
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This is it for me as well. Dealing with the pressure on track, and working with the team to get the car and strategy right is what makes a very quick driver into a champion, and he seems perfectly suited to it. By all accounts he's a very hard and methodical worker behind the scenes as well.

He's obviously quick too, though how he'll compare to the likes of Max in raw pace is something I hope we'll find out.
 
Not At All A Lizard said:
This is it for me as well. Dealing with the pressure on track, and working with the team to get the car and strategy right is what makes a very quick driver into a champion, and he seems perfectly suited to it. By all accounts he's a very hard and methodical worker behind the scenes as well.
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If this temperament is baked into Piastri's DNA and his driving ability keeps improving like it has throughout his career thus far, he could be the driver to finally buckbreak Max.
 
At least we got some good twitter banter out of it unlike if merc was involved.

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Bill Elliot said:
What would the margin of victory be like if Max poured it on? 70 seconds?
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That's the real question. He's obviously sandbagging once builds enough margin to get his pit stop done and keep the lead.

I'm curious of everyone's opinions. Say the rumors are true and he leaves F1 in '28 or even earlier if he just gets bored of winning. Would he go for the Triple Crown? I could see him driving in Le Mans, but I somehow doubt he would try for the Indy 500.
 
Things Once Remembered said:
That's the real question. He's obviously sandbagging once builds enough margin to get his pit stop done and keep the lead.

I'm curious of everyone's opinions. Say the rumors are true and he leaves F1 in '28 or even earlier if he just gets bored of winning. Would he go for the Triple Crown? I could see him driving in Le Mans, but I somehow doubt he would try for the Indy 500.
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Yeah, by the time he is 28 he will still be a young man, probably close to a billionaire. He will be 30 in Sept 2027. So, let's say he leaves end of 2027. Assuming nothing changes and he stays exactly the way he is right now, he will have 7 WDCs and probably over 100 wins. Would he stay around to get an 8th title to be all time greatest? Again, this is assuming he wins every title from now til 2027.

Its not like he is ever going to need money, but what would his interests be when he starts closing in on 30? I can't see him doing Indy 500 either as that is the one track/race where death can very easily happen. I guess it depends on his mentality and whether he wants to be super elite and be the winningest driver in F1 with most titles and wins, a LeMans win and as you said, cap it off with an Indy 500.

Either way, he is appearing untouchable and assuming they aren't hampering Checo's car and Max is just blowing him away, its going to take another super talent or another team to make an RB19esque car very soon for him to not be a lock for the next few years to win pretty much every race and title without mechanical issue or crashes. Crazy, good, I am just glad the end of Lewis domination is here finally. Long time coming since it was him and Vettel for the 2010 decade, but I can handle Max for the first half or 2/3rds of 2020 decade.

But I def want more parity and competition on the whole soon. That's why McLaren over last two races has breathed some new life into the best of the rest at least, but we really need 3, preferably 5, teams who have a legit shot at winning each weekend. IndyCar seems to have that right at least as many diff drivers/teams have won this year. But IC just doesn't have the same luster as F1 of course.

tl;dr Max seems to be a legit new GOAT as evidenced by him blowing his teammates away consistently. I'd love Hamilton in the other RB next year and Max wipes the floor with him. That would seal it and also produce so much coping and crying from the spook gallery.
 
I'm an RBR shill but I think what makes Max so impressive is that even though he started early, he had to bide his time to compete for titles. Lewis jumped straight into a title fight; Schumi got into Benneton pretty quickly and titles soon followed. Max waited with the occasional win for 6 years or so before going on this tear. To keep that edge and drive is pretty impressive, I would think it would be easy to burn out.
 
Things Once Remembered said:
I was expecting someone to fuck up and put a car in the wall to bring out a SC, but go figure you fire Latifi and that stops happening every weekend.
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Now that de Vries’s retarded ass is gone, it’s really only Sargeant having a brain fart that can bring a SC, outside of battles for position.
 
Bill Elliot said:
Is the RB19 entering the "best car of all tjme" discussion? What would the margin of victory be like if Max poured it on? 70 seconds?
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I don't think the gap between the RB and the rest is as big as the (british) f1 media will have you believe. They've been pushing that narrative like maniacs since preseason. I like to shit on Checo but he's not a bad driver, he was a race winner before he got the golden ticket for a reason.

Max could go faster, but that's always the case. Remember how Lewis in 2021 suddenly remembered how he's 100x quicker than Bottas when there was finally a credible challenge? If anything I feel like Max is holding back less than a Lewis or Vettel did. I'm sure the team wants him to, and we're constantly hearing them try to reign him in, but you can tell Max just wants to shit on his teammate and the field as hard as possible.

Also with the rules as they are these days many years of dominance is much less likely, no matter how much of a GOAT Adrian Newey is.
 
Things Once Remembered said:
I was expecting someone to fuck up and put a car in the wall to bring out a SC, but go figure you fire Latifi and that stops happening every weekend.
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I miss GOATifi, you never knew how a race would go until the flag with him there. He was special.
blablabla said:
max passing hambone at the first corner after the entire british press creaming their pants about THE COMEBACK was funny as hell
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Not only Max, but 3 drivers. It was the first race I watched on F1TV, so I didn't hear all the whinging and whining from the Sky clowns. Though I have to say I missed having Brundle's commentary during the race.
 
Bill Elliot said:
I'm an RBR shill but I think what makes Max so impressive is that even though he started early, he had to bide his time to compete for titles. Lewis jumped straight into a title fight; Schumi got into Benneton pretty quickly and titles soon followed. Max waited with the occasional win for 6 years or so before going on this tear. To keep that edge and drive is pretty impressive, I would think it would be easy to burn out.
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That is something most F1 champions had to: start low or midfield and work your way up (heck Brabham had to build his first car himself!). Hamilton is a rare exception to start right in a top team ready to fight for titles. The only other drivers would be Villeneuve, Farina, Fangio and Ascari. and the last 3 were already racing veterans when F1 officialy began. That's not to say he is a bad driver but he started on the top deck not the bottom deck
 
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