Poll: Official 2023 British Grand Prix Thread - Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone - Round 11

Rate Silverstone 2023 out of ten

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GhostWKD said:
Didn't he get a massive contract at renault? And then paid a huge chunk by McLaren to not drive... better off depends on in which respect we're talking about :p
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Clearly he still wants to race and win in F1 and believes he can. He was offered a fully funded Indycar drive for this season and turned it down.
 
Mr Jack said:
He's had three teammates. Sainz beat him, DR had a complete disaster, and you could see from his aggressive pass on Piastri at the last race that he's starting to get worried. We'll see how he reacts if, as I expect, Piastri regularly starts getting the better of him.
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Carlos beat him by 8 points in the season so hardly a mauling. We'll see about Piastri, the potential is certainly there.
 
Mr Jack said:
In the second year, yes, the first was a battering. I think we'll see Piastri consistently beating Lando by the end of this season but, as you say, well see.
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The first, in 2019, was Lando's debut in the f1 championship, the year before he was a test driver, against Carlos who had been around for 4 years more. Thus I think you're being rather hard on him.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Even if not number 2 through strategies etc, the car will always be built around max. Can’t be worse than his current position though.
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See, i'm not so sure on this these days. I honestly think Newey comes up with the best car possible and that is that, i doubt he compromises on anything bar some adjustments to make the drivers job a bit easier. However i also think Max (Even though this pains me to say it..) is one of those few brilliant drivers who can literally drive whatever is under him, maximise its performance and get the very most out of it. Much like the Alonso's and Hamilton's of the world. I.e. the ones that manage to tack on that extra few percent in performance.

A counter example to this is Danny R. Great at RB but terrible in the Mclaren that didn't suit his driving style. Similar to this I'd like to see Lando in another car as he seemingly tamed the terrible Mclaren a while back.
 
KiNgPiN83 said:
See, i'm not so sure on this these days. I honestly think Newey comes up with the best car possible and that is that, i doubt he compromises on anything bar some adjustments to make the drivers job a bit easier. However i also think Max (Even though this pains me to say it..) is one of those few brilliant drivers who can literally drive whatever is under him, maximise its performance and get the very most out of it. Much like the Alonso's and Hamilton's of the world. I.e. the ones that manage to tack on that extra few percent in performance.

A counter example to this is Danny R. Great at RB but terrible in the Mclaren that didn't suit his driving style. Similar to this I'd like to see Lando in another car as he seemingly tamed the terrible Mclaren a while back.
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In my time watching F1 (since the 90's) I'd put Senna, Schumacher, Alonso and now Verstappen in the bucket of "driving whatever is under them", I don't think personally I'd put Hamilton in that bracket as he's struggled with the Merc for two years now, often getting beaten by Russell, he's never really had much experience of a truly bad car until now though so I can't really blame him, he's never had to struggle with a backmarker or midfield Minardi, Jordan, Torro Rosso or utter mince Ferrari!
 
chrismscotland said:
In my time watching F1 (since the 90's) I'd put Senna, Schumacher, Alonso and now Verstappen in the bucket of "driving whatever is under them", I don't think personally I'd put Hamilton in that bracket as he's struggled with the Merc for two years now, often getting beaten by Russell, he's never really had much experience of a truly bad car until now though so I can't really blame him, he's never had to struggle with a backmarker or midfield Minardi, Jordan, Torro Rosso or utter mince Ferrari!
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Disagree about Hamilton there, he dragged that McLaren to a world title in 08. Kovalainen finished like 8th in the drivers standings in the same car if i remember correctly. The Ferrari was a far superior car. Hence it needed some good fortune in Brazil so Hamilton could win that title.
 
Trusty said:
Disagree about Hamilton there, he dragged that McLaren to a world title in 08. Kovalainen finished like 8th in the drivers standings in the same car if i remember correctly. The Ferrari was a far superior car. Hence it needed some good fortune in Brazil so Hamilton could win that title.
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To be fair though, your comparing Hamilton who's clearly one of the best drivers of all time to Kovalainen who frankly in F1 and afterwards was less than bang average.
 
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