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@FormulAnalyst What sport are you watching? Christ

How is Rosberg 18 if Hamilton is 3? Genuinely asking, shouldn't they move together?

So you think Massa is trash too given he lost 3x to Bottas, including 2015 when Valtteri missed a full race due to injury? Or the fact that Bottas actually beat Ricciardo (Max’s best teammate) in equal cars 2008 despite driving for a worse team and without any additional support from F1 driver programs? Valtteri has no other references apart from Cadillac, which according to yourself didn’t mean anything when Bottas whooped Perez in qualifying but now all of a sudden is important?

CultLH has to go back a decade ago to find a decent teammate of Hamilton. Because, Bottas turned out to be total trash and Russell is probably not even Coulthard level.

@formula_dev It was Tony Ross, Marcus worked with Lewis until 2023 I believe

Marcus Dudley was Nico Rosberg’s race engineer

“Reports” being a quote by a nobody who wants him to retire

Montoya raced in the V10 era not V8s apart from half of 2006, and he’s right it was awful but mainly due to the people running the sport and the way it was handled. The tyre war, politics, one-shot qualifying Aside from the cars looking and sounding nice, not much else was on offer

@AbsencePrsistnt Literally no need to community note him lmao, if a driver DNFs early due to no fault of his own it’s only logical not to draw a comparison

@FormulaPace Are you mentally challenged? Do you realize that with this “method,” Colapinto could literally win EVERY race from now on and become world champion, and the counter would still read Colapinto 0 as long as Gasly DNFs every race too? Dumbass.

Colapinto fans 😭😭

@LeQuickest Crying in 7 World Championships

@FormulaPace Hamilton & Perez fans.....

@jhairol23 lovely

@DeltaData_ yeah, people can disagree but community note is so unnecessary🤣

I get that people might not like the method I use. But I don’t know if they realise that if anyone was going to win this weekend, it would have been Gasly for winning the Sprint 😅 If I haven’t picked Leclerc as the winner, I can’t pick Colapinto either. But anyway, it’s a lost cause; I don’t even bother reading the comments anymore because 90% of them are insults 🥱

Was watching a replay of the 2007 US Grand Prix yesterday and it was striking (and shocking) to see how empty the grandstands were. By eye it seems barely half of the grandstands were filled. On one hand it’s amazing how F1 have turned around the situation, but also paradoxical because simultaneously the spectacle of the cars from that era completely trounces what we have today and shows just how much has changed - it’s like watching a different category all together. Can only wonder what could be possible if we returned to that style of car/engine coupled with the attractiveness of modern F1 😩

Bottas getting a drive-through because Cadillac’s steering wheel and buttons (according to them) are not optimised so he’s driving around in no man’s land moving over for the entire field is not representative. Don’t care who you support, it’s the logical conclusion to anyone with a brain. And before that they literally only did 3 laps on the same tyre before switching strategies, so rightfully there’s no comparison to be made.

Bottas got a drive through because Cadillac’s steering wheel doesn’t work properly and set off his pit limiter. After that he’s driving 3-5s off the pace moving over for the entire field in no man’s land. They did a handful laps on the mediums before the SC and that’s it, switching to Softs at the restart and offsetting each other. It’s quite obvious to anyone with a brain

This account kills me. There is absolutely zero reason not to include Bottas being almost a second slower than Checo, but he's a Bottas/Hamilton fan so he's just going to conveniently pretend that never happened

@FormulaRana @AlexLacl James Vowles also said this about Lewis a while back - he’d change things based on feeling whereas Rosberg will go off team and sim data.

This is just a Hamilton thing - I’d wager Ferrari’s simulator has no issues. It’s something that’s been a thing his entire career, and most of the older drivers for that matter. I don’t really know why he changed his approach ever since the GE era to incorporate it, and it seems now he’s reverting back to what he did in the past. It is virtually impossible to create a race-able setup via a simulator unless the tyre physics in particular are perfect and the driver is used to the differences between the simulator and the real world. Ultimately - F1 simulators are heavily modded versions of Asseto Corsa and/or rFactor. That’s all they are at their core. It only translates into real life if you take that into account as well and adjust your parameters accordingly. It’s why you see the elder drivers not using the sim at all for this purpose. The simulator (the driver in loop one) only became sophisticated enough for this in the last 7 years or so. No 30 year old with 22 years worth of experience setting up cars purely based on driver feel will ever find this useful compared to teenagers who drive simulators more than real cars. I know Alonso only used the McLaren sim at most twice a year, Schumacher and Hamilton hardly ever used the Mercedes sim. Less computer numbers and more humans often does do the trick.

@rumz3y With 5 lap fresher tyres he only gained 3s (0.1s per lap roughly), so for me it makes perfect sense that he was net not as quick

The Haas gap makes absolutely no sense. In the first stint the gap between both was consistently 1.5-2s. The second stint Ocon started 10.5s behind Bearman (Haas extended Ocon’s first stint hoping for SC) and the race ended with Ocon 7.5s behind, so he was closer.

@FormulaRana Miami being a god awful track doesn’t help either, extremely unappealing visually with any type of car

Managed to catch up on the action - and I’m not sure what to make of the 2026 cars in general. It felt better and more normal, and perspective always helps. When I was watching qualifying, the cars looked fine for me and the spectacle was normal. The only noticeable problem visually is the elongated clipping - I wouldn’t call it super clipping anymore - that happens from very high speeds. It’s a bit of an optical illusion - as most cars still hit the brakes for 11 and between 300-320kph which is ludicrously fast. It’s just that they are decelerating from 340kph halfway down the straight meaning we get this weird taper effect. In terms of wheel to wheel - it’s still very yo-yo. Unless you make a move into turn 11, you were getting repassed more often than not. That said, if the alternative is 2025 cars then I still prefer this by a long shot.

Couldn’t compare half the grid due to DNFs/Damage/wildly different strategies but could make comparisons for Mercedes, McLaren, Williams, Haas and Aston Martin. All gaps show the “true” pace between teammates if they both drove clean races - no traffic, no battles, like for like tyres etc. I use global deg calculations to estimate the tyre curve on each compound and use that to “fill in” unrepresentative laps

2026 Miami GP % Race Pace to Teammate 👇

Antonelli proving to be a good driver seems to be a shock to people. He matched Bearman as teammates (as a rookie), who’s completely dispatched Ocon for the past year. Kimi is that calibre of talent, just needed a bit more time to adapt to F1 because of inexperience, but he’s there now. I’ve said this for a long time, but if the performance we’ve seen from Antonelli-Bearman was representative, then there’s no world where Russell should easily beat Kimi. George has his work cut out for sure, but we can also say Miami is a very poor venue for him (was nowhere against 2024 Hamilton which says it all). Montreal will be the true test because it was a strong venue for both drivers last year.

All these incidents and Lewis had damage worth 0.5s per lap so couldn’t take advantage of it. Over a race distance that adds up to around 20+ seconds so definitely would’ve been there to capitalise