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Let us talk about Formula 1 – politicalbetting.com

With new F1 rules leading pundits to question whether drivers will still make a difference in the sport, we asked Britons which they thought mattered more to success:Having the best driver: 15%Having the best car: 38%ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/DQ…

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  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 126,672
    edited 6:08AM
    First unlike Max Verstappen.
  • Brixian59Brixian59 Posts: 1,169
    edited 6:09AM
    Hamilton proved he could not win a race in an average car.last few years, very over rated. F1 equivalent of a flat track bully. Should have retired 2 seasons ago.

    Verstappen can win in any car however good or not, best since Senna with Schumacher next best in my lifetime.

    Fastest ever driver over 1 lap - Keke Rosberg

    This season, I fear a Toto fest yuk!
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 60,397
    Q3 about to resume. Mercedes mechanics having gone from heroes to zeroes in under an hour.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 126,672
    Brixian59 said:

    Hamilton proved he could not win a race in an average car.last few years, very over rated. F1 equivalent of a flat track bully. Should have retired 2 seasons ago.

    Verstappen can win in any car however good or not, best since Senna with Schumacher next best in my lifetime.

    Fastest ever driver over 1 lap - Keke Rosberg

    This season, I fear a Toto fest yuk!

    Dissing Sir Lewis Hamilton on my watch, you might as well diss Radiohead.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 60,397
    That new Mercedes is a rocketship. 🚀
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 80,637
    Surely Antinelli is getting a grid penalty
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 126,672
    edited 6:27AM
    Pulpstar said:

    Surely Antinelli is getting a grid penalty

    Might be a team penalty rather than a driver penalty.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 60,397
    That’s a massive smile on George Russell’s face!

    He knows now that it’s likely to be 2014 all over again, his best chance ever of the title.

    So who’s getting up at 4am tomorrow to watch the race?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 60,397
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pulpstar said:

    Surely Antinelli is getting a grid penalty

    Might be a team penalty rather than a driver penalty.
    He could be in trouble for cutting the escape road chicane in Q3 as well, failing to follow race director’s instructions.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 126,672
    Sandpit said:

    That’s a massive smile on George Russell’s face!

    He knows now that it’s likely to be 2014 all over again, his best chance ever of the title.

    So who’s getting up at 4am tomorrow to watch the race?

    Me!
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 126,672
    I don't understand the need to use such blatant innuendos in life.


  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 63,620
    Good morning, everyone.

    I'm going to start writing the pre-race tosh soon but I know from experience it'll take a long while for the markets to really get going.

    I do have some early betting thoughts. Kind of tempted to take the mighty £10 profit on a free fiver bet I slapped on Russell at about 4 pre-testing to win in Australia. With reliability as it is...
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 63,451
    Charles Leclerc, @Dura_Ace and I are all members of an exclusive club.

    Can anyone work out what it is?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 60,397
    Well today was supposed to be the day Emirates airline ramped up their schedule, after the troubles of the past week.

    Sadly the Iranian morons had other ideas, and more than a dozen incoming flights have diverted from DXB.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 77,957
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    I don't understand the need to use such blatant innuendos in life.


    If that was an attempted pun, you can see how it wouldn't be hard, but it flopped.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 126,672
    ydoethur said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    I don't understand the need to use such blatant innuendos in life.


    If that was an attempted pun, you can see how it wouldn't be hard, but it flopped.
    The Times are following my lead in putting in subtle music/film references in the headlines.

    England must blow bloody doors off in Rome — or Erasmus will never shut up

    https://www.thetimes.com/sport/rugby-union/six-nations/article/rassie-erasmus-rome-litmus-test-england-steve-borthwick-kctb68slq
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 126,672
    Well that's Europe losing next year's Ryder Cup.

    Luke Donald: We’ll harness AI in quest for Ryder Cup hat-trick

    https://www.thetimes.com/sport/golf/article/luke-donald-ryder-cup-captain-school-runs-family-g0pj9t6dc
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 77,957
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    ydoethur said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    I don't understand the need to use such blatant innuendos in life.


    If that was an attempted pun, you can see how it wouldn't be hard, but it flopped.
    The Times are following my lead in putting in subtle music/film references in the headlines.

    England must blow bloody doors off in Rome — or Erasmus will never shut up

    https://www.thetimes.com/sport/rugby-union/six-nations/article/rassie-erasmus-rome-litmus-test-england-steve-borthwick-kctb68slq
    That's terrible. I'd bring back corporal punishment for such a headline because they clearly deserve a Caine-ing.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 77,957
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Well that's Europe losing next year's Ryder Cup.

    Luke Donald: We’ll harness AI in quest for Ryder Cup hat-trick

    https://www.thetimes.com/sport/golf/article/luke-donald-ryder-cup-captain-school-runs-family-g0pj9t6dc

    I didn't realise that the path led to the 15th green instead of the 2nd. My map seems a bit confused.
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 63,620
    For some reason, I put a tiny sum on Hadjar each way at 101. Hmm. I do remember mentioning his bet365 odds of 81, each way there being fifth the odds top 3. That's not looking bad right now.
  • Brixian59Brixian59 Posts: 1,169
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Brixian59 said:

    Hamilton proved he could not win a race in an average car.last few years, very over rated. F1 equivalent of a flat track bully. Should have retired 2 seasons ago.

    Verstappen can win in any car however good or not, best since Senna with Schumacher next best in my lifetime.

    Fastest ever driver over 1 lap - Keke Rosberg

    This season, I fear a Toto fest yuk!

    Dissing Sir Lewis Hamilton on my watch, you might as well diss Radiohead.
    I'd never diss Radiohead.

    I think Lewis has badly tarnished his reputation the last 3 seasons and looks more and more like a flat track bully as a result. I fear after watching that borefest of a qualifying that we are going to see a similar Mercedes romp this year, Russell is a b grade drive at best so it will be interesting to see if Antonelli is as good as his as yet unfulfilled hype. Hadjar , albeit on limited evidence looks like he can at least handle the pressure that the no 2 RB driver has regularly failed to do, the Racing Bulls speed suggests that that engine has plenty of improvement in it.

    The only small hope of a competitive season is that those idiotic engines will need 100% concentration all race as they downshift and try to fins all kinds of weird and wonderful ruses to save / gain battery power.

    Its not F1 tohough is it...it should be labelled for what it is Formula 1 E or E 1

    Lets have proper petrol engines in F1 at least for as long as we can.

    Dinosaur over an out
  • AlanbrookeAlanbrooke Posts: 26,189
    rcs1000 said:

    Charles Leclerc, @Dura_Ace and I are all members of an exclusive club.

    Can anyone work out what it is?

    Reliant Robin Owners Club ?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 60,397
    So as russian flags were waving over the Paralympics, russian missiles were levelling a five-storey apartment block in Kharkiv as the residents slept. Numerous casualties including children.

    https://x.com/bohuslavskakate/status/2030114015112757298

    Well done to everyone officially boycotting the Games.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 77,957
    The Hundred is a farce, example 476b:

    https://www.espncricinfo.com/live-blog/the-hundred-2026-news-and-updates-matt-roller-notebook-1525949#36479
  • Dura_AceDura_Ace Posts: 15,277
    rcs1000 said:

    Charles Leclerc, @Dura_Ace and I are all members of an exclusive club.

    Can anyone work out what it is?

    Well, me and CLC both have Ferraris, speak fluent French and married smoke shows.

    Dunno about you.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 45,959
    Sandpit said:

    Well today was supposed to be the day Emirates airline ramped up their schedule, after the troubles of the past week.

    Sadly the Iranian morons had other ideas, and more than a dozen incoming flights have diverted from DXB.

    Imagine them actually daring to retaliate the naughty boys
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 77,957
    malcolmg said:

    Sandpit said:

    Well today was supposed to be the day Emirates airline ramped up their schedule, after the troubles of the past week.

    Sadly the Iranian morons had other ideas, and more than a dozen incoming flights have diverted from DXB.

    Imagine them actually daring to retaliate the naughty boys
    I was wondering about how likely it's going to go on for - given the total chaos that is unfolding - and I kept coming to the rather grim conclusion that it depends on whether the damaging revelations in the Epstein files about Trump's crimes are still considered more serious than the inevitable economic damage he will do to his own voters through inflation caused by his war.

    And given that the one we already know of is the file about him assaulting a 13-year-old girl, as that was published before being hurriedly retracted, we must assume that the rest are really, really extraordinarily bad.

    In Netanyahu's case the calculation is simpler - he has to keep it going until the next election due by October or win it by then, so he can win a further term to keep out of quod where he belongs. Whether it will be enough rather depends on the Israeli electorate overlooking his covert sponsorship of Hamas or his astonishing ineptitude in light of their first attack.
  • WhisperingOracleWhisperingOracle Posts: 11,066
    edited 7:52AM
    Morning, P.B.

    Interesting statement from Pezezkhian, that targetting Gulf countries has been a "mistake", and due to miscommunication in the ranks.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 60,397
    WhisperingOracle said:

    Interesting statement from.Pezezkhian that targetting Gulf countries has been a "mistake", and due to miscommunication in the ranks.

    Well it’s still happening, as of an hour ago.

    The question is does anyone in Iran actually have the authority to call off the strikes?
  • TresTres Posts: 3,517
    Sandpit said:

    WhisperingOracle said:

    Interesting statement from.Pezezkhian that targetting Gulf countries has been a "mistake", and due to miscommunication in the ranks.

    Well it’s still happening, as of an hour ago.

    The question is does anyone in Iran actually have the authority to call off the strikes?
    I thought mossad was running the show? Or was that just hype
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 21,795
    Sandpit said:

    WhisperingOracle said:

    Interesting statement from.Pezezkhian that targetting Gulf countries has been a "mistake", and due to miscommunication in the ranks.

    Well it’s still happening, as of an hour ago.

    The question is does anyone in Iran actually have the authority to call off the strikes?
    Quite possibly not, given the decapitation of the Iranian government.

    Last Saturday's actions continue to have consequences that don't look like anyone thought them through.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 77,957
    Sandpit said:

    WhisperingOracle said:

    Interesting statement from.Pezezkhian that targetting Gulf countries has been a "mistake", and due to miscommunication in the ranks.

    Well it’s still happening, as of an hour ago.

    The question is does anyone in Iran actually have the authority to call off the strikes?
    Probably not.

    In 1945 Tokyo was not targeted by the US with atom bombs for two very good reasons: 1) it had already been more or less flattened and (2) if you kill off the High Command, who orders the surrender?
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