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With Max and RB back to executing pretty cleanly, it looks like there will be a real fight.
The read sadness is, that if Oscar were to find his form again, we need to expect McLaren to give Lando the wave-by, despite him already being preferred to the tune of 10/20 points (7/14 in Silverstone, 3/6 in Monza) by the team.

Of course, if Lando manages one more GP win, it's effectively game over.
 
Max was pretty chill, all things considered - until he got asked about the points he left on the table in Barcelona 😀
The race in Abu Dhabi was the usual snore-fest. And the analysts are even questioning whether it was the plan all along for Lando to let Oscar past. This doesn't make much sense for me - the mediums should have comfortably been faster for the first half of the stint, and you could have orchestrated a pass later on - if this was really the strategy, then McLaren would have cynically given up the win on lap 1, which would be properly depressing.

Given how McLaren were prioritizing Lando, even when he was behind in the championship, this result should have been expected. It would have been the more satisfying end for the best driver on the grid to take the crown as the underdog, instead of the pre-season favourite holding on by the slimmest of margins, but at least how we got there was mostly exciting.
 
Well yeah it wasn't a very good race but it was still really tense! I'm always wondering what McLaren is going to do to screw things up or if Lando is going to collapse at some point. Very please to see him pull it out, especially in this last year before everything maybe goes tits up next year.

Overall it was a very fun season, Interlagos probably my favorite race. I don't like Max, but I found myself pulling for him to pick up that win from the pit lane. The guy is just uncontainable. I'm glad he didn't, because that would have given him the championship 😀

Hopefully next year gets a good shakeup and the racing is good. Though I imagine it will be quick dominance by one or two manufacturers and boring season after race 5.
 
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Well yeah it wasn't a very good race but it was still really tense! I'm always wondering what McLaren is going to do to screw things up or if Lando is going to collapse at some point. Very please to see him pull it out, especially in this last year before everything maybe goes tits up next year.

Overall it was a very fun season, Interlagos probably my favorite race. I don't like Max, but I found myself pulling for him to pick up that win from the pit lane. The guy is just uncontainable. I'm glad he didn't, because that would have given him the championship 😀

Hopefully next year gets a good shakeup and the racing is good. Though I imagine it will be quick dominance by one or two manufacturers and boring season after race 5.
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I have warmed up to liking Max Verstappen. You really have to accept the fact that he is an amazing racing driver, probably the best in the world right now.
 
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I have warmed up to liking Max Verstappen. You really have to accept the fact that he is an amazing racing driver, probably the best in the world right now.
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yeah it's hard not to respect the hell out of him. There is no one anywhere close to him right now and he's very impressive to watch.

I honestly think he's better than Lewis at his best. I don't know if that offends people, but when I see it....Lewis has always been behind a championship car, when winning his championships. '21 was bullshit at the end but it's clear that Max was still at a measurable disadvantage with that RB and since then he's the only one that could squeeze wins out of it. I'm honestly not sure if it's worth considering that the RB car itself was so dominant in 22 and 23, because his teammates were really nowhere near him. You rarely if ever saw that distance between Lewis and his teammates at Merc and McLaren (I mean, Alonso of course is one of the best ever and then there's Nico), and even the past greats when they were teammates in actual dominant, legendary cars (the MP4-4 with Senna and Prost--and of course Lauda before that). Point being--it looks to me that Max really is turning an undriveable car into a championship winning car, and no one else has been able to do that like him.

Max does remind me a bit of Senna, and I'm a huge Senna homer, so it's hard for me to not like him....I think it's mostly his Dutchness and his horribly racist father-in-law and his own family that really turn me off. That's not really on Max so much, but there's a lot of nastiness that comes from his corner that just has no place anywhere.

I actually think a lot of the dislike comes from the story-making from the media and especially the Netflix show that really started off casting him, and especially Horner, as the villains of F1--pretty much replacing the on-track drama with edited-together stories off the track that don't really exist (I recall he made this point at some time a few years ago, and he's right)
 
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yeah it's hard not to respect the hell out of him. There is no one anywhere close to him right now and he's very impressive to watch.

I honestly think he's better than Lewis at his best. I don't know if that offends people, but when I see it....Lewis has always been behind a championship car, when winning his championships. '21 was bullshit at the end but it's clear that Max was still at a measurable disadvantage with that RB and since then he's the only one that could squeeze wins out of it. I'm honestly not sure if it's worth considering that the RB car itself was so dominant in 22 and 23, because his teammates were really nowhere near him. You rarely if ever saw that distance between Lewis and his teammates at Merc and McLaren (I mean, Alonso of course is one of the best ever and then there's Nico), and even the past greats when they were teammates in actual dominant, legendary cars (the MP4-4 with Senna and Prost--and of course Lauda before that). Point being--it looks to me that Max really is turning an undriveable car into a championship winning car, and no one else has been able to do that like him.

Max does remind me a bit of Senna, and I'm a huge Senna homer, so it's hard for me to not like him....I think it's mostly his Dutchness and his horribly racist father-in-law and his own family that really turn me off. That's not really on Max so much, but there's a lot of nastiness that comes from his corner that just has no place anywhere.

I actually think a lot of the dislike comes from the story-making from the media and especially the Netflix show that really started off casting him, and especially Horner, as the villains of F1--pretty much replacing the on-track drama with edited-together stories off the track that don't really exist (I recall he made this point at some time a few years ago, and he's right)
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I haven’t watched the Netflix show. I watch the races so why would I watch a recap of a race that I’ve already watched? Because of the made up drama? No thanks… I don’t get it. I’m not their target audience though.

I was never a Schumacher fan either but warmed up to him eventually. I was a Mika Hakkinen fan and I liked Eddie Jordan’s team and Stewart Grand Prix, which eventually became Red Bull Racing, (I actually have a Stewart Grand Prix hat). I also like Williams F1. I have a couple Williams hats and I even have a Michael Schumacher/Ferrari hat and a Max Verstappen #33 Red Bull Racing hat.

I am a Lewis Hamilton fan but he has aged out of F1 if you ask me.
 
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Welp, 2026 starts with a whimper!
Really looking forward to the first race, and expecting all kinds of shenanigans, with how the energy management has become so important.
Also expecting a lot more battery issues, with many more charge cycles happening in the same race, especially when cooling is an issue.

I guess the energy management will allow for more flexibility, if you're faster than the car ahead, more so than overtake button before.

Also looking forward to the weird number-2-driver team of Cadillac imploding under the stress of being consistently faster than Aston Martin 🙂
The latter are probably the biggest surprise - all that investment, and the result is a complete shed...
 
Honda brings back the GP2 engine, although it seems even worse than that. Poor Fernando.

Ferrari seems like an exciting late pick of fastest car, but lets wait for all the sand to be unloaded from the Mercedes powered cars and if that spinner wing can survive race loading. Should be very interesting in Melbourne in 2 weeks.
 
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