Formula 1 2021 - General Discussion Thread (Read 1st post rules)

This totally went past me.

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

He was streaming on Twitch and was humming a silly song: "Latifi is poo, Rosberg is a cheat." It seems like someone commented in the stream about Latiffi (he reads the comment - "he's in F1, you're in F2") , prompting Dan to say "he's older than me, he paid to get there" and calls the commentor a "moron" and a "f-ing idiot" and then bans him from the stream.

YIKES.

He's now on Instagram saying the split was before his Latiffi incident.

"Hope to work together in the future !", lol.

Cant see him keeping his F2 seat. It was Williams that got him that seat.

He was ridiculously lucky he ever got onto the F2 grid after his Safety Car stunt. But rather than knuckling down he shât everywhere.

He didnt have near enough talent to get away with his mouth. Red Bull even sent him to Asia to get the last few points he needed for his Super Licence. He duly boasted about how easy it would be for him to get the required points, he promptly failed to get the points. Red Bull sent him packing then.

It's ok, it was Ricciardo holding up the start/finish straight with a 15 Second Penalty notice.

https://youtu.be/Ilk-Kwod7qg

The appear to get along very well… the tweet being mentioned was quite clearly him joking with Lando

Any clips of a Lando reaction?

Alonso has been getting faster all season, he's 40 years old but at this stage it looks like there's a good chance he'll still be around next year, which is fairly remarkable for this era of F1. Does anyone know if he has a contract with Alpine for next year? Him and Ocon seem to be a good duo.

Do you think he would have been able to defend against Hamilton for even longer if he had more life in the tires?

Is it fair to say that performance wise you the merc would be streets ahead so it was all Alonso in that instance?

That reads like you went straight into defense mode. Just to be clear, I wasn't trying to catch you out with anything, i just wondering what you thought about it.

I don't know how much the age of the tyres would offset the performance of the merc.

For instance if Alonso had tyres what were five laps younger would Hamilton still be favourite to pass him given the performance of the merc.

Maybe I'm not asking the question clearly.

Nope, not what I was getting at at all. I didn't follow F1 in Alonso's younger days so I'm not going to pretend I know what he's capable of or how close/far he is to his best.

I know the merc is faster than the Alpine. I suppose the point of my question was to see if the logic I had in my head was correct, that's why I asked if it was "fair to say" from my perspective, I wasn't trying to get you to agree with me.

Alonso is on older tires in a lesser car compared to Hamilton in a powerful car on younger tires.

How does he stay in front? Is it all down to him driving extremely well on old tyres. If the Alpine had younger tyres does Alonso hang on longer or is it inevitable that Hamilton passes him even if he had fresher tyres?

I'm not expecting a response to any of those questions. Just trying to convince you that I wasn't being hyperbolic or trying to entrap you into some opinion with some chicanery.

Well if he's down on performance and he's down on tyres then there is no advantage and the driver is all that's left, but I forgot to factor in the track itself.

Going by other posters and listening to commentators, yes, I am aware Hungary is a difficult track for over taking. I didn't feel the need to acknowledge the delta point. When you went off on one being fixated on the "all Alonso" wording, the posts afterwards were an attempt to explain why I asked the question and to dispel your accusation of me being hyperbolic and your paranoia of an attempt by me to make a round about argument about a driver I know nothing about.

If it puts your mind an ease I acknowledge the 2 second delta point.

Jeeeez......

As a new comer that reaction would put you off asking anything.

AM has launched the appeal against the disqualification. They had 96 hours to do it and have decided to go ahead with the appeal. The rules say they can't do anything to the car, but they want special permission to replace the pump to pump out the remaining fuel that they say is in the tank.

It seems like a simple point but I think they should stick to the rules and not have every decision drawn out over weeks. The red bull appeal after Silverstone has been a bad influence. This appeal will presumably rumble on for another week too. I'd say they should impose the rules and just move on.

Great news for Williams if the appeal is unsuccessful. They will double their points from 4 to 8. Which is a pretty unassailable lead and would most likely guarantee them 8th in constructors.

Thats standard fare here. You'll get used to that posters "style".

The pre-race hot take shtick is always amusing.