Formula One world championship

richie_gt said:
Abu Dhabi is such a disappointing track, one-stop races kill any real strategy!
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could it be even worse next year? the two long DRS zones were the only real overtaking spots, and led to some right boneheaded driving in F2 (alex dunne as usual). the replacement system is available to the leading as well as the trailing cars.

A long off season to specular on who might get the new regs right. and how much a newey designed AM is wasted on stroll
 
richie_gt said:
Abu Dhabi is such a disappointing track, one-stop races kill any real strategy!

Max dominated that race, and the most frustrating stat for me is that he won the most races this year, 8 compared to Norris and Piastri’s 7 each. Surely that silences any doubts about his talent.

Piastri looked strong early in the season, but his fade ruined what could have been a real WDC fight (yes he was a chance, but was he really a chance?). I’m still in disbelief that Norris is World Champion. Roll on 2026 and the new regulations!
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:confused:🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

I am disappointed that the window licker didn't take out norris.
 
tubby74 said:
could it be even worse next year? the two long DRS zones were the only real overtaking spots, and led to some right boneheaded driving in F2 (alex dunne as usual). the replacement system is available to the leading as well as the trailing cars.

A long off season to specular on who might get the new regs right. and how much a newey designed AM is wasted on stroll
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Any car is wasted on Stroll, but a Newey-designed one especially so. If next year's AM is good, it could see Alonso hanging up his helmet at the end of the season. He said a few races back that he wants to retire on a good vibe, and if next year's AM is good, he'll retire then. If the car is not so good he'll hang on another year to make it better.
 
I don't get the vitriol flung at Noz, in interviews he's a pretty humble guy. The biggest crimes against racing fairness have been committed by McLaren management, not their drivers.
 
The Duckmeister said:
I don't get the vitriol flung at Noz, in interviews he's a pretty humble guy.
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Mostly a hangover from previous seasons imo. He's behaved like a petulant, immature knob several times, (most notably pissing away his first win by ignoring his team in 2021 in Russia, then that bullshit last year with not giving back the place to Piastri in Hungary).

He's been a lot better this year, the rapid mea culpa for almost taking them both out in Canada was commendable and more than you'd have seen from someone like Verstappen, and unfortunately he's just been a better driver than Piastri since the summer break.
 
his criticisms of himself earlier in the season were pretty immature, but most of it comes form the way mclaren managed two equal drivers. almost a pity the regs change and we dont get to see a 3 day battle for the year. could end up with another period of one sided dominance like we had to begin the last two rule sets
 
Old Shagger said:
Was just watching Teds after race waffle - and noted. Lando won the champs by 2 points, and Oscar following team orders a while ago swapped positions with Lando - for guess what - 3 points changup......hmmmm
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The overall problem Oscar had was the last third of the season, it all came undone at Baku. He either lost that edge and/or early form he had. Norris came good during that period and was solid. Verstappen even more so (even though he fell short too).

I've said before I thought Webber was the perfect mentor for Oscar but benefit of hindsight he did a Webber himself. Maybe now he needs to seek guidance from Rosberg?
 
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