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Him bench marking his qualifying against his team mate will be a great tareget as Russell is one of the best qualifiers in the field, holding the record of having concecutively out qualifying a team mate 75-0 over a period of 5 years from his F3 days till his 3rd year in F1. If Kimi can even out qualify Russell at all this season, he will be doing very well.23-04-2025 16:31
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The true talents of a driver is seen when racing in wet conditions and the Australian GP shows truely how great a driver he is. When most of the rookies (and some non-rookies kept binning their cars in the wall, he came up the grid from P16 to P4, by doing a number of great overtakes on track, especially the one on Albon which was a true masterclass you would have expected from a veteran driver like Max, Charles or Hamilton, but not from a rookie in his very first race weekend. Definitely a Verstappen-standard competitor in the coming years.23-04-2025 12:42
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If it was Max who was on the inside and Piastri who had to cut the corner, Max would have been given the penalty for "not giving sufficient racing room and forcing another driver off the track".23-04-2025 12:33
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Either way would have resulted in the same result anyway. If Max had given the place back to Piastri, the RB would not have been quick enough to overtake Piastri and so would have finished the race in P2. By not giving the place back, he was trying to pull a 5-second gap by being in clean air to hopefully make up the gap to maintain his position after the pit stop. However, as the McLaren was a quicker car than the RB, he was not able to do so. If the situation was the other way around and Piastry was given the 5 second time penalty, then that tactic would have worked as the McLaren would have been quick enough to pull the gap and come out ahead of the RB after the pit stop.23-04-2025 12:15
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So, if Russell does go to RB, is it to be Max's team mate or is it because Max has taken his place at Mercedes?23-04-2025 11:30
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That actually makes sense as the P1 grid spot should be the shortest distance to the inside corner of the first turn of the track. So, if the first turn is to the RHS, then the P1 grid slot should be on the RHS but if it is a left hander, then the P1 spot shoud be on the LHS of the circuit.23-04-2025 11:27
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In a year or so time, Antonelli is going to do to any of his team mates what Max has been doing with all his team mates after his first 2 years in the sports. Many people are acclaiming how 'good' Ricciardo is as a driver, just because he was the only one who could come close to Max as a team mate, but that is because Max was virtually a rookie when they were together, The moment Max got into his true momentum, Daniel bailed and every single of Max's team mates have been trashed since. Antonelli will do the same ....23-04-2025 10:45
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Actually I think that if more drivers in the field do actually race like Max, then races will be more interesting to watch with more wheel to wheel actions and overtakes by dive bombing into corners instead of the present day where the majority of overtakes are done down the long straignts using DRS or change of positions is the result of pit stop stratergies. For the rest of the race, it is just a possession of cars following one another around for 50 laps with hardly any action happening.23-04-2025 01:15
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We like to remember a film star or sports person or TV personnel from their haydays in their career and how good they were. Its always hard to see them fade to a shadow of their former self as age catches up, but unfortunately, that is just a reality of life as no one remains at thier peak performance for ever and no one in the world can stop the process of ageing.23-04-2025 01:10
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Its like someone who has spent a lot of money buying a 'branded product' but dont really like it that much and dont find that its value matches its price tag, but will still tell friends how good it is and how much he/she likes it so as not to look dumb for spending so much money on it.23-04-2025 01:03