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[Varche]

Alonso might be in the Renault with the difference in pay between Ricciardo and him being subbed by F1

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Sounds feasible. Don't know why he cant let go though. Hes a very good driver, but he isn't going to win another string of titles no matter what happens. His time has come and gone, and he partially wasted it by being a devious arsehole who no-one particularly wanted to work with. A bit like Biaggi was in MotoGP.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Sounds feasible. Don't know why he cant let go though. Hes a very good driver, but he isn't going to win another string of titles no matter what happens. His time has come and gone, and he partially wasted it by being a devious arsehole who no-one particularly wanted to work with. A bit like Biaggi was in MotoGP.

Yes.

[biggriffin]

Vettal will end up in a DTM, or Sports cars,, He may go sideways into a rallying, Like Mr Hakenaien did, but being Finnish driving sideways is standard out there.

Or there's America.

[ronnyd]

Vettal will end up in a DTM, or Sports cars,, He may go sideways into a rallying, Like Mr Hakenaien did, but being Finnish driving sideways is standard out there.

Or there's America.

Social distancing in Nascar.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Racing in the U.S. is usually close and hard. The little prima donna would get eaten alive.

[Doctor Gollum]

Racing in the U.S. is usually close and hard. The little prima donna would get eaten alive.

You say that like it's a bad thing...

[TheBoy]

I haven't seen any improvement since, well, forever.  The rules for the last 20 years of so have discouraged any form of racing, and the tyre rules are dreamt up to ensure no racing ever takes place.  Not wait for pit stops to gain a place, or the false overtaking of DRS which prevent proper full on racing.  Do gooders have wrecked the show, as always, and we ended up with a field full of losers like Button was his entire career.

Shoot the poofters driving, put in those with a desire to drive but on low wages, give them tyres and enough fuel to last 200 miles, and send them out and let them go hell for leather.  Until they do, like so many other sports where money has destroyed it, it becomes more about celebrity than the sport.


I don't doubt Hamiltons skill, or Verstappens, or even Leclerc to a lesser extent, but not sure how they would do in a proper full on 2hr/200m race.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I agree with much of what you say, apart from the drivers. Regardless of the stupid rules etc. the cream will more often than not, rise to the top.
The top drivers today would probably have also been top drivers 40 years ago. The main difference they would have had to contend with then was the level of risk. If they could handle that, mentally, they would have been at the top of their game, albeit in much slower, but more fun to drive cars.

[TheBoy]

I reckon the top couple of current F1 drivers would need to change their fitness regime to cope with Mansell/Senna/Prost era cars, to build up more strength, not just fitness.  But that aside, they'd love that era of the car really moving, and the ability to overtake properly.  How well they would do against the stars of yesteryear will depend on the size of their balls.  Lets face it, Mansell wasn't a great, great driver, but he had massive balls.

I think the current rules around car design make them less safe, and we have bigger and bigger run off areas to compensate, ruining it for the spectators.  Although the false overtaking and the prima donna drivers did that ages ago.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Yep, they would need to revert to pulling weights on each side of their neck to build up necks bigger than their head like Mansell & co. used to have. If you go back a little further they would also have to learn to steer  an F1 car one handed ,without PAS, while almost constantly changing gear using a gearlever with the other hand.
In the big balls competition, I would put Gilles Villeneuve way out front in a class of his own, then hard to choose between Mansell, Jacque Villeneuve and Hamilton. They all had / have gonads like watermelons.
It was more obvious with Mansell than some of the others for some reason. A combination of his driving style and the cars of the day I suspect. You could actually see on your TV he was right on the limit a lot of the time.
I loved watching him race, but hated listening to him talk.

[Doctor Gollum]

He made John Major sound interesting 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Wouldn't disagree with that.

[STEMO]

The accent didn't help.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The accent didn't help.

Yes.....the scouse accent is so much more polished and sophisticated than a brum accent.