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  • #46
    Thanks CH...

    Must have it confused with another manufacturer.

    Mal.

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    • CoffeeHack
      CoffeeHack commented
      Editing a comment
      A few years back one of the teams were a Ferrari customer with their old-spec engine from the previous year (can't remember which one) so it has happened before. However it benefits the engine manufacturers to have customers running their latest spec engines as they can get all the running data to help improve performance/reliability.

  • #47
    Yep, I agree it is probably the best of a bad lot for Dan. Ferrari tend to just see the second driver as a 'roadblock' for the No.1 and Dan isn't good Number 2 material. It would have been interesting to see him up against a much younger and very talented man in Le Clerc but could also have been a re-run of the Dan Vs Max scenario. The young guns just seem to have that extra fire that makes them hard to beat.

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    • #48
      The media like to talk things up, however the young cohort are quite exciting and appear to be a really high-quality bunch. As for Dan, Red Bull have shown that they are almost as bad as Ferrari at the internal team-mate politics and I think his experience in 2018 would have been a factor in not choosing to go with Ferrari as they have clearly built the team around Leclerc. That is what Ferrari does for better or worse, and to be fair Leclerc does seem to have the talent to warrant it!

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      • #49
        Yes, F1 is the most ruthless of sports. Young talent coming along all the time and if you are not performing you are going to get bumped out.
        Sainz will give Le Clerc a bit of a run for his money. Meanwhile Max is on track for a WC in the near future. If Lewis didn't have such a superior car her would be struggling against the new talent. Lewis is nothing special and Dan in the same car would be a real challenge.

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        • #50
          It's always hard in F1 to determine the pecking order when there's such disparity between teams, however whilst I've never liked the guy I'm prepared to concede that Lewis has been one of the best at least in the modern era. Yes he's had the best car since 2014, however the number of mistakes he's made has been minute and the way he absorbs pressure is immense. I think the frustrating beauty of F1 is that the idea of sticking all of the drivers in the same machine to work out who is the best will never happen!

          The following analysis is quite interesting: https://f1metrics.wordpress.com/2019...trics-top-100/ There's a lot of explanation of the assumptions in the model so it's all pretty transparent - it's a long read but quite interesting really for those who follow F1 and are aware of its history.

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          • #51
            Round 3 of the 'Marbula GP' - Jakarta - is now available. Great watching!
            I love it that there are people out there with a big enough sense of humor to go to the immense trouble required to set this up.
            With all the bad stuff going down around the World, we need more of this kind of thing.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xLOLGfFA5E



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            • #52
              Fantastic, been looking forward to this one. I hope Mercedes doesn't dominate yet again...

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              • #53
                Well no surprises to see Mercedes right up there. Envision totally deserved a penalty there too - how can Marbula E have any integrity when one of the teams is also a title sponsor? Clearly a lack of impartiality with the marble-stewards for this race.

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                • #54
                  Yep! more blind Stewards! and agree about the 'conflict of interest' - Bernie lives!
                  But what about some of those passing moves and the close racing.
                  Regarding Mercedes dominance - I will have to disagree with Oscar Wilde and say that it is a case of "Art imitates life".

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