*** Official F1 2010 Predictions thread ***

Well comparing the current crop of drivers to MS is unfair. MS has pretty much finished his career. Hamilton only started his F1 career 3 years ago.

MS is the most decorated F1 driver ever and I believe that Hamilton will come close to breaking many of MS's records. I just don't know if he will break them or not.
 
World Drivers Championship - Top 6

1. Alonso
2. Button
3. Vettel
4. Hamilton
5. Massa
6. Schumacher


Constructors Championship - Top 6

1. McLaren
2. Ferrari
3. RBR
4. Mercedes
5. Sauber
6. Williams


Driver booby prize (caused the most trouble/crashes/mayhem on track by mistake)
Sutil

Best new team (which of the new teams will score the best results/points)
Lotus

Best new driver - inexperienced & new drivers only (Hulkenberg/Petrov/Alguersuari/Senna/Lopez/de Grassi/Kobayashi)
Kobayashi

Team to get in the most trouble / cheating / controversy by FIA or the courts
McLaren
 
Lopéz said:
1. Alonso
2. Button
3. Vettel
4. Hamilton
5. Massa
6. Schumacher
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Don't let sunama see that, you'll get the Spanish Inquisition set on you....

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I'll be honest, my top 5 could have gone in almost any order

Alonso - Driver is a known quantity, car is not. Last year's was a turd.
Button - Driver is a known quantity (luck, yeah righto), car is not (again, a turd last year for the majority of the season) Driver seems very hungry but out of his comfort zone. Seems easily thrown by adversity.
Vettel - Prone to errors when chips are down
Hamilton - Still not matured as a racer, silly mistakes, car an unkown quantity. Will he be spooked if his team mate comes in and outpaces him?
Massa - Back after a HUGE incident in a car that looks to be very different animal to last years. What is his frame of mind going to be like? An unstable chap at the best of times....
 
sunama said:
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You have already proved time and time again you know nothing of buttons ability. After all he was a journey man who stayed in the wrong team for too long didn't he? A playboy who now has an even bigger playboy for a team mate.

As I said Button will not get 3/4s of hamiltons points but thats to be expected when you consider how much car time he gets in a team built around hamilton in comparison to what he would have got a couple of years ago.

Fair play to button for accepting the challenge.
 
robbiemc said:
Sigh, *still* with the Button bashing. This is typical British attitude - we have a British World Champ and it's just simply not enough, why is this?

I also have to laugh at the constant 'Button fluked/got lucky' comments that are still knocking around. He won it fair and square with a faultless year behind the wheel, not many recent champs can boast that.

And to top it all, I seem to recall that Hamilton had the championship gifted to him two corners from the end of the last race. He didn't have the ability to drive himself to a position that would have secured the WDC!
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You complain about the 'Button fluked/got lucky' comments, but then go on to basically say the same thing 'Hamilton had the championship gifted to him'.

Your basically just as bad then...?

I personally think that they both earned their world championships fair and square.
 
sunama said:
I have practise in this area. In fact, it was the subject of Button which forced me to eat hat. I really laid into him at the end of 2008...then he goes and win the title in 2009. :D

I just don't see how Hamilton would let Button finish ahead of him. I wouldnt put it past Hamilton to take Button off the track, if necessary.
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You must be getting to like the taste of hat now. :D
 
Duke said:
Not many thinking Schumacher will do well then...?
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Depends if the car is good. I think as a driver he is as good as any, maybe a little rusty in the race craft stakes after so long out though (after all we haven't seen him fighting other drivers for positions in recent years. It is easier to get good times times when you aren't actually racing against others)

It doesn't matter how good a driver is, if the car is sub standard they can't do much about it. Unfortuantely the car makes a much bigger difference than the driver these days.

With the budget Ferrari & McLaren have, it will be an uphill challenge for Mercedes to be able to keep up development pace with those two. Unfortunately money goes a long way in this sport. Not sure how much Mercedes have to play with.
 
Ezee84 said:
Unfortunately money goes a long way in this sport. Not sure how much Mercedes have to play with.
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Enough to show the big boys how its done, its not Mercedes at the helm of this ship, its Brawn and as he proved at Benetton, Ferrari and Brawn, he knows how to work magic :D

Stand in awe then sit in awe as Schumacher adds to his tally of wins :)
 
Type_R said:
Enough to show the big boys how its done, its not Mercedes at the helm of this ship, its Brawn and as he proved at Benetton, Ferrari and Brawn, he knows how to work magic :D

Stand in awe then sit in awe as Schumacher adds to his tally of wins :)
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I don't doubt Ross Brawns ability or Schumachers. In fact I'd be surprised if Schumacher doesn't win a race this season. But you have missed the point that without endless money like Ferrari & McLaren, competing becomes rather difficult.

The main reason Brawn won the championship last season is the fact that there was a series of major rule changes in one go. Prior to that Ross Brawns teams of Benetton & Ferrari were the biggest spenders at their time. Not to mention Benetton had the best people who transferred to Ferrari with Brawn & Schumacher.

Honda actually funded the development of the majority of the Brawn car albeit with Ross Brawn guiding them. All the teams started last season on a level playing field as the cars were radically different to the previous years.
This meant whoever had the best design from the outset would hold the advantage.

For this season there are no radical rule changes that determine a complete redesign of the car. McLaren & Ferrari were caught out last season but sadly this seasons cars are more of a development of last years.

Why do you think when the rules don't change much for a few years it is always McLaren & Ferrari who rise to the top?

Answer = budget
 
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World Drivers Championship - Top 6

1. Hamilton
2. Alonso
3. Vettel
4. Massa
5. Schumacher
6. Webber

Constructors Championship - Top 6

1. Ferrari
2. Mclaren
3. RBR
4. Mercedes
5. Sauber
6. Williams


Driver booby prize (caused the most trouble/crashes/mayhem on track by mistake)
Kobayashi

Best new team (which of the new teams will score the best results/points)
Lotus

Best new driver - inexperienced & new drivers only (Hulkenberg/Petrov/Alguersuari/Senna/Lopez/de Grassi/Kobayashi)
Kobayashi

Team to get in the most trouble / cheating / controversy by FIA or the courts
hmm...Mercedes (just going off this super-diffuser rumour)
 
Pants said:
You complain about the 'Button fluked/got lucky' comments, but then go on to basically say the same thing 'Hamilton had the championship gifted to him'.

Your basically just as bad then...?

I personally think that they both earned their world championships fair and square.
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No no, that's not what I meant - I was using that as an example to the Button bashers that Hamilton never had this kind of treatment when he won, which is the real inconsistency.

As Dannyjo and JRS pointed out, the majority of past WDC winners could be classified as 'lucky', which is of course nonsense.

I was thrilled when Hamilton won the championship and am salivating at the thought of the year ahead of us. McLaren are 1 mile away from me, so I'm most definitely cheering for the 'local team'.

As a person I prefer Buttons level headed 'nice guy' approach to life, Hamilton seems like a spoiled child in comparison but he's young and that may well come with maturity.
 
CS||nuTs said:
5 if you include Nick Fry's mouth!
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He gets a lot of unwarranted critism imo. Yeah he speaks a lot of bs and doesn't really understand whats going on at shop floor level but without him they wouldn't have won a title.

He's the man that managed to blag Brawn on board and negotiated Hondas withdrawl.

There are far better team principles than him on the grid that haven't won anything for years.
 
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