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It is difficult to compare the first few rounds, where you can put Ferrari and Mercedes in whatever way you choose and you are right. The closeness between them was underlined by the fact Hamilton was only three points ahead after Monza. Both were performing at their best, Vettel having Baku moment, while Hamilton had some off weekends like Russia, Monaco or Austria. Reliability-wise was similar: Hamilton’s gearbox failure in Austria and headrest in Baku, while Vettel had a puncture at Silverstone and contact with Verstappen in Canada.
Since then Ferrari blew it. Reliability in Malaysia and Japan is half of the deficit and Singapore is the other half.
1. Sebastian Vettel
2. Max Verstappen
3. Fernando Alonso
4. Lewis Hamilton
5. Valtteri Bottas
6. Daniel Ricciardo
7. Nico Hulkenberg
8. Sergio Perez
9. Felipe Massa
10. Kimi Raikkonen
11. Esteban Ocon
12. Carlos Sainz
13. Romain Grosjean
14. Kevin Magnussen
15. Pascal Wehrlein
16. Marcus Ericsson
17. Stoffel Vandoorne
18. Daniil Kvyat
19. Lance Stroll
20. Jolyon PalmerI kinda like when F1 commentators got excited when there is some important action rather than report unemotionally. Better be over-hyped than biased like Sky about Hamilton. That’s why I really like Ben Edwards-style, especially when they know what it is going on the track (not treating a DRS fly-by between yet-to-stop X and fresh-tyred Y as a real P1 battle). Croft isn’t bad but as someone above said, I find his excitement less genuine than Edwards.
I’m sure the opinion of his withdrawal is influenced by talk of his “hard to work, princess-like” personality.
It is chaotic, some info is only on twitter, some only on facebook, some videos only on f1.com, some only on YT, some on social media. However they are doing a pretty good job regarding it is only two years since the start. F1 has a lot of unlocked potential and hopefully Liberty will do some goods.
There’s nothing wrong with a woman in F1 if she truly deserves it. That means she is among the 20-30 best drivers in the world and she can have no favours because of her gender like softer qualifying tyres than rest or lighter car.
1. Daniel Ricciardo
2. Lewis Hamilton
3. Max Verstappen
4. Fernando Alonso
5. Nico Rosberg
6. Carlos Sainz Jr
7. Sebastian Vettel
8. Sergio Perez
9. Kimi Raikkonen
10. Nico Hulkenberg
11. Valtteri Bottas
12. Romain Grosjean
13. Pascal Wehrlein
14. Jenson Button
15. Kevin Magnussen
16. Felipe Massa
17. Marcus Ericsson
18. Esteban Ocon
19. Jolyon Palmer
20. Esteban Gutierrez
21. Daniil Kvyat
22. Felipe Nasr
23. Rio Haryanto2006 – Fernando Alonso
2007 – Kimi Raikkonen
2008 – Robert Kubica
2009 – Jenson Button
2010 – Alonso/Kubica/Vettel/Hamilton – can’t seperate them really!
2011 – Sebastian Vettel
2012 – Fernando Alonso
2013 – Sebastian Vettel
2014 – Daniel Ricciardo
2015 – Sebastian Vettel1. Daniel Ricciardo
2. Lewis Hamilton
3. Max Verstappen
4. Sebastian Vettel
5. Carlos Sainz
6. Fernando Alonso
7. Nico Rosberg
8. Kimi Raikkonen
9. Jenson Button
10. Sergio Perez
11. Valtteri Bottas
12. Nico Hulkenberg
13. Pascal Wehrlein
14. Romain Grosjean
15. Felipe Massa
16. Kevin Magnussen
17. Esteban Gutierrez
18. Jolyon Palmer
19. Daniil Kvyat
20. Felipe Nasr
21. Rio Haryanto
22. Marcus EricssonRegarding Kvyat and the sympathy towards him, his promotion to Red Bull was premature and he is now where he belongs – in a midfield car. He was disastrous in qualifying even before China. He was simply not good enough and shouldn’t have raced for Red Bull in first place. I am not sorry for him, maybe partly because I don’t like him for his arrogance.
Kevin Kannan – I haven’t looked at your ranking before doing my list though it’s very similar!
Top tier
1. Alonso – he is very fast, extremely consistent and almost always at the top of his game. We shouldn’t read too much into last year’s struggles because McLaren was effected by many technical problems. This year he’s already 8-2 on Button in qualifying.
2. Hamilton – like Alonso, he’s a world-class driver and maybe even quicker than Fernando. The reason why I put him behind is because Lewis have more off-weekends when he just can’t do anything right like Baku 2016 or Hungary 2015.
3. Vettel – in my opinion the fastest driver of the field and almost impossible to beat once he is in front. I rate him behind Alonso and Hamilton because he can be a bit inconsistent at times and doing a few errors.
My rankings then goes:
4. Verstappen
5. Ricciardo
6. Rosberg
7. Button
8. Raikkonen
9. Sainz
10. Perez
11. Bottas
12. Hulkenberg
13. Grosjean
14. Magnussen
15. Massa
16. Wehrlein
17. Kvyat
18. Gutierrez
19. Palmer
20. Nasr
21. Haryanto
22. EricssonMonza’s probably going to be a one-stop and Ferrari will be strong as well. I would go for Spa because this is a very strong circuit for them and the overtaking is ridiculously easy down the Kemmel Straight with DRS. And also pretty high chance for rain, further making grid position less important.
The last-lap Renault incident from Catalunya is available on F1.com.
I’ll try to upload them later today. The new stuff include Kvyat overtaking under the SC in Spain, Hulkenberg passing Ricciardo in Australia, Hamilton overtaking Raikkonen as they went either side of Ericsson in China.
I don’t know how many of you are aware that FOM broadcast 10-minute highlights after the race. It is showed after post-race press conference. Therefore few see it actually because many channel switch off to their people in paddock/studio or end their coverage immediately after the podium ceremony. They are doing so for many years though it’s pretty difficult to grab them. They are very nice because it not only shows you a lot of on-track action but also new angles of the overtakings/incidents and even missed stuff. I’m in possession of this and some last year’s footage. For example, they showed Hulkenberg on Ricciardo pass during Australian GP on the first-lap. I can upload some moments there.
I really like @vmaxmuffin’s idea, I have also thought about that format some time ago. That’s my slightly different proposal:
Q1: 15-minute session with all drivers, slowest six eliminated. 5-minute break.
Q2: 12-minute session with 16 drivers, slowest six eliminated. 5-minute break.
Q3: 10-minute session with 10 drivers, slowest five eliminated. 8-minute break.
Q4: Five remaining drivers have a one flying lap, going out with reversed Q3 order.