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Something I have noticed that I don’t understand :

Midclerc has severely underperformed this year. He’s been destroyed by Lando, max, George. Now Oscar is literally doing better in the drivers than midclerc ever did. Hell I would argue that Kimi as a 17 year old rookie has been more impressive this year. But everyone excuses it as “oh Ferrari.” This is a guy that many projected to win the wdc this year. Yet has been nowhere near winning. Hell his qualis are mediocre. And if max can pull things out with a shitbull than midclerc should in a ferrari

But when lando fucks up people treat him like Lance. I’m not even a Lando fan but he’s been way better than leclerc.

Is it solely because midclerc has a bunch of faggot fans running around on social media
 
Calzaghe2 said:
But when lando fucks up people treat him like Lance. I’m not even a Lando fan but he’s been way better than leclerc.
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People criticize Goblando because he's outperformed by a teammate now, and in the last season he had machinery to win with ease and constantly spilled his spaghetti. LeClerc has never been outperformed by any teammates throughout a season, even if he's not exactly to my liking.

Turn your ire to the diversity hire sharing the garage with him finishing 30 seconds behind.
Hell his qualis are mediocre
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Trolling.
 
Calzaghe2 said:
Midclerc has severely underperformed this year.
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CEO of Autism said:
People criticize Goblando because he's outperformed by a teammate now, and in the last season he had machinery to win with ease and constantly spilled his spaghetti. LeClerc has never been outperformed by any teammates throughout a season, even if he's not exactly to my liking.
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Or maybe Pastry has worked harder than the rest of the field to catch up to Max. He has the best car on the grid and Max is driving a truck (yet somehow manages to consistently hustle that truck onto podium finishes).

Of course Lando and Leclerc, both of whom can drive, are looking a bit second rate in comparison.

That said, I'm not ruling Lando for this year's WDC. We're only like 4 or 5 rounds in, he has the same hardware as Pastry and I'm not 100% convinced that he's fully buckbroken yet. Assuming he can evict Pastry from living rent-free in his head, he could turn around. But the eviction has to come soon.
 
CEO of Autism said:
People criticize Goblando because he's outperformed by a teammate now, and in the last season he had machinery to win with ease and constantly spilled his spaghetti. LeClerc has never been outperformed by any teammates throughout a season, even if he's not exactly to my liking.

Turn your ire to the diversity hire sharing the garage with him finishing 30 seconds behind.

Trolling.
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Oh Lewis has sucked too. But leclerc is mediocre too and only won Monaco because it’s a dogshit track. And Sainz should have beat him in 23 which again was “supposed to be leclerc’s year.” We’ve had a lot of years that Midclerc was supposed to win the wdc. 22, 23, this year and he always underperforms
 
Calzaghe2 said:
We’ve had a lot of years that Midclerc was supposed to win the wdc. 22
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He had the tools that year until Mercedes cried about muh porpoising and the FIA changed the rules, neutering Ferrari in the process. The truth is that Ferrari hasn't put a car consistent enough to compete for the WDC ever since. How was LeClerc supposed to win in 23 against an all powerful Max-RB combo at their peak?

It's very probable that Charles will retire without a championship, but that speaks more of his loyalty to Ferrari than his ability as a driver. You got a weird hate boner for him. It would be more appropriate to say Midrrari instead of Midclerc.
Pee Cola said:
Or maybe Pastry has worked harder than the rest of the field to catch up to Max. He has the best car on the grid and Max is driving a truck (yet somehow manages to consistently hustle that truck onto podium finishes).

Of course Lando and Leclerc, both of whom can drive, are looking a bit second rate in comparison.
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I rate Piastri highly, and he came into F1 with a bit of hype, he just needed time to figure out the competition.

I still wouldn't rate Leclerc as "second rate", his main problem is inconsistency, but he's capable of amazing highs. I think he would outperform Norris on equal machinery, I don't rate Lando at all; if he wins the WDC, he would be a Damon Hill tier champion.
 
CEO of Autism said:
He had the tools that year until Mercedes cried about muh porpoising and the FIA changed the rules, neutering Ferrari in the process. The truth is that Ferrari hasn't put a car consistent enough to compete for the WDC ever since. How was LeClerc supposed to win in 23 against an all powerful Max-RB combo at their peak?

It's very probable that Charles will retire without a championship, but that speaks more of his loyalty to Ferrari than his ability as a driver. You got a weird hate boner for him. It would be more appropriate to say Midrrari instead of Midclerc.

I rate Piastri highly, and he came into F1 with a bit of hype, he just needed time to figure out the competition.

I still wouldn't rate Leclerc as "second rate", his main problem is inconsistency, but he's capable of amazing highs. I think he would outperform Norris on equal machinery, I don't rate Lando at all; if he wins the WDC, he would be a Damon Hill tier champion.
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How was Nando supposed to win in 2005 with Ferrari at the peak of their powers?

The greats find a way, and the fact that people rate leclerc so highly and pretend he has no flaws or isn’t at fault for Ferrari being mid, let’s remember for all the shit Lando gets he helped turn that team around and won a constructors, I just find funny
 
CEO of Autism said:
He had the tools that year until Mercedes cried about muh porpoising and the FIA changed the rules, neutering Ferrari in the process. The truth is that Ferrari hasn't put a car consistent enough to compete for the WDC ever since. How was LeClerc supposed to win in 23 against an all powerful Max-RB combo at their peak?
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Don't forget how RB kneecapped Ferrari's engine upgrade in 2019 and how Mercedes went apeshit and overspent on their engine development as a result.
 
The 2005 Renault was a torque monster. It's not like Alonso drove a mid car that season.
But he proved how good he was by taming its tendency to understeer with his awesome driving style.
I think that Kimi and Fernando will go down in history as the drivers who should have won more championships, but sadly didn't. Whereas Leclerc looks like to be one of the fastest drivers to never win a championship (would be nice if he gets it done someday though). He reminds me of Montoya in that regard, super fast under the right conditions, but not enough for the whole thing.
 
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Calzaghe2 said:
Headed into that season everyone expected them to continue dominance but nando and Kimi were both too good that they shocked Ferrari. That’s the difference between elite drivers and mids
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The FIA changed the tyre rules for 2005 and a team had to use their race starting tyres for the whole race. Previously you could change your tyres as many times as you wanted to pit.

This massively benefited the Michelin teams and totally fucked the Bridgestone runners, which Ferrari were.
 
LiveFromNS said:
Don't think this has been mentioned as yet:

Cadillac to use own F1 power units from 2029, FIA confirms​

And here is a new simulation video of a lap of new Spain Madring circuit:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_ZNxzhNaVPM
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What the fuck is this crap? Ultra high average speed with blind corners and zero run off, and not a proper fucking turn on the entire course like a Tilke track. I love how after 30 years of ever increasingly gay safety regs F1 has decided that the cars are so indestructible that the new courses can be simultaneously a snooze fest and a serious accident waiting to happen. It would be alot easier (and a more popular choice among the fans) to just get rid of the halos (gaylos) and bring back some proper fucking tracks like the old Imola layout.
 
VorpalAnvil- said:
What the fuck is this crap? Ultra high average speed with blind corners and zero run off, and not a proper fucking turn on the entire course like a Tilke track. I love how after 30 years of ever increasingly gay safety regs F1 has decided that the cars are so indestructible that the new courses can be simultaneously a snooze fest and a serious accident waiting to happen. It would be alot easier (and a more popular choice among the fans) to just get rid of the halos (gaylos) and bring back some proper fucking tracks like the old Imola layout.
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Zou vill vatch the F1 with 24 urban rounds in a season
and zou vill like it
 
Coccxys said:
Soon we won't even be getting Imola in current layout. FOM said 2 races in Italy is too many and they're going to be reducing it to 1, I seriously doubt they could kill Monza so Imola it is.
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Then if/when Antonelli starts winning WDCs they will bring back a 2nd Italian race. They did similar I think with the recent German world champs having Hock and Nurburg in same year. And of course they brought Zandvoort back when they saw Max was gonna be the shit. Also they added Valenica for a bit when Alonso was pegged to be the next 5+ time WDC to give 2 races in Spain, correct me if I am misremembering it was 2 in Spain and Valencia wasnt just a replacement for Spanish GP or something..

I expect by the time Kimi maybe wins a WDC or starts getting huge, then we will get that oft-discussed Rome GP as a 2nd Italian race. I wouldn't be too surprised if we do get up to 28 races a year, maybe even 30, if the popularity of F1 doesn't collapse and more money is potentially able to be reaped in by the stakeholders. It was only 20 or so years ago that I never thought I'd see the day we'd have over 20 races, and we are already well over that. So, when money is to be made, anything is possible.
 
The layout of the upcoming Madrid street circuit has been released, as well as a simulated run. I'm going to say it: it looks SHIT. This is a procession race if ever I've seen one.

qhs2Qo2.webp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZNxzhNaVPM
 
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