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The similarities are all there. They both lose Newey, the both win a championship and stay relatively competitive for the next 5-6 years, until they lose their engine supplier and drift off into midfield obscurity.

Is part of the front wing Alonso knocked off not part of the car? Debatable wether it’s “significant” but surely worth a look at imo.

Any particular reason that Alonso wasn’t investigated for failing to leave a cars width when moving back onto the racing line after defending? It seems to be a rule that was invented and then completely ignored […]

@montreal95 I believe he was trying to replicate current F1 races

I’m not so sure it’s the 4 stops that is the problem, more the fact that nobody is ever really pushing 100%, with lots of different drivers pushing to lots of different levels at different times in the race. It […]

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@vettel1 I agree, that was the first race I can remember since I was an easily distracted child that I was waiting for it to end.

It’s because nobodies racing so nobody crashes. When was the last time we saw a driver make a mistake because they were pushing?

I think you’re right and I think that is the major issues for Merc. They are so concentrated on trying to go slow and save their tyres, but they haven’t seemed to realise that going slow isn’t saving their tyres. […]

Indeed. A three time world champion told not to race, the pole sitter questioning wether he should race, and another world champion saying “I can’t drive any slower”. Not good. Oh, and team orders at McLaren too to top it off

Both of whom had fundamentally slower race cars

But the Ferrari was clearly a faster race car than pretty much everything else out there. And in my opinion he/Ferrari were pretty foolish to open DRS on the lap after it broke.

I personally felt there were others that deserved a place in the top 3 more than him @vettel1 . E.g Perez, Hamilton, Raikkonen.

But surely it depends what others did as well. I personally felt that there were more other standout performances in Bahrain from people who didn’t have a car capable of winning then there were in China, hence why […]

Alonso 3rd? Really?

I think the tyres alone could solve that problem. As someone with a degree that involved a lot of scientific experiments, one of the first things you learn is “only change one thing at a time”. I think if F1 had […]

I voted negative for both. DRS is a pretty simple one, its just not required in my view and has destroyed the art of defensive driving.

With regards to the tyres, I feel that since 2012 they have had a […]

@todfod and seeing as DiResta is one of the drivers on the grid never to beat his teammate over a whole season, he arguably sits in the other half.

Or do they have the quickest drivers over 1 lap?