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The iPad is the coolest thing I've seen in a while mate great integration
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6:20 the issue which I’m fairly certain Merc will press at ICA is 48.15. Masi’s defense is perfectly fine until it invokes a rule that would force the race to end under SC if they go one more turn to start the final lap thus giving motivation to start the race. I was fine with the “any” vs “all” wiggle room as well as overriding authority - but not at the expense of other rules. If the results hold, the FIA have just said rules don’t matter, sometimes. You’d think Totd who won at ICA in 99 via Ferrari’s Suzuka challenge would be paying attention to this. Ppl keep talking about the damage to F1’s reputation but pending what happens next, it’s the FIA under the microscope
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I wonder about his performance near the top under extreme pressure organizationally at merc & technically with the car . He’s had experience doing it in lower formula but not at F1. As you mentioned, his merc outing was more a guest appearance lacking the stakes of next season. As a driver, did you ever feel when you stepped away that edge atrophied? Getting back into REM a decade ago, I wondered if you felt comfortable on the limit out the box. And with George, it’s turned up to 11 as he’s paired with the one of greatest racers in history.
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Loving the varied topics Scott! I’ve long been struggling to find a coherent way to explain dumping and its legality to my non F1 friends. If you for some reason need a new entry into this series adjacent to this & a bit of a darker more nuanced spin off, please beat me to the punch id love to see a bigger brain tackle that
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You realize this is all relative to the car, right? A cars profile will dictate max performance. Meaning, the best drivers will adapt to what produces the fastest lap times in that car. Not sure if he used this example but Hamilton has said: “I know people have this impression of me as a driver who likes to dance the rear end out, but that's just the way my cars have been... That's what I had to do with my aggressive style to get the car as far up as possible." Thus these little platitudes out of context are meaningless. He seems to make it clear or it can atleast be clearly traced where his examples stem from. Raikkonen may have preferred a certain oversteer in that Ferrari but it absolutely does not mean all the time.
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Would you say relative performance vs your teammate as a benchmark is about adaptability? Meaning, Lando isn’t struggling: does that mean this car suits Lando’s style? Or he’s using the available tools more effectively seeing as how he’s beaten him in two very different cars? The syllogism seems zero-sum applied to Daniel like this. Sure Sebastian is phenomenal rotating mid corner. Undeniable. But when he can’t do that perfectly, he’s still quick. Rather than a driver’s style be a feature, can’t it be a bug when a driver can’t adapt? You’ve been in these cars so you know better than I ever will, but just bc a driver has a style, does that mean they are incapable of driving other cars? I’m trying to balance my own blind spot and you’re the authority here, but I just feel like it’s easy to hide him behind this idea “it’s not his style” when that’s a problem most drivers must contend with. Not implying you’re trying to hide him behind that excuse, but it has been happening I’ve noticed. Genuinely curious where you stand on that
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Nice contrast to Clark in many ways but also touches on an element they share whereby much of Clark’s often frantic hand activity was a passenger to the madness in the pedals. Jimmy was truly a pioneer atleast in single seaters with his false apex philosophy bucking the trend of depending on straight line braking. Your point on JB’s pedal work is astute & often ignored. I always felt JB was a master of the trade off that goes on negotiating a turn between hand and feet activity.
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underrated
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Fantastic idea of a story to cover - never even considered it but what a great watch!
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mate incredible video. just even the overall presentation and flow. looking for inspiration I found this and without watching see the like ration I knew you did something right haha. anyways, great work!
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Straight into the veins! This oughta be a good one. And im sure ppl will take issue with “dominant” bc of the love for the Toyotas or atleast acknowledgement of its brilliance. And that’s fair enough but to cite WEC means you’d have to think de la Sarthe is the same as other events on the calendar. Which is preposterous. The closest benchmark for Le Mans is Sebring and that’s still 1/3 of the distance just about. That car did dominate the 24 hours - which is objectively a much different race than any of the 6hour events. And that’s an even more valid point BECAUSE Toyota won WEC with ease. The #50 car was nearly a second ahead of the next best vehicle and it was the sister car for the hyperbole. Both Ferrari were the only 2 under 3:24 in the entire field. And the #50 was the only in the 22s. We haven’t seen that gap in years in quali day. That also set the record and snapped Toyotas 6 straight pole run. For the goal they set out to achieve, which was win Le Mans, that car was a monster. And successfully topped one of the most dominant cars of any recent era at its own game in the purest sense.
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