Lando Norris

[hondajack85]

Singapore looks like a good track for Norris. Hope he does well. Can he please avoid talking to any of the women from sky f1 for ages and ages painfully extracting his sensitive side lol.
Less social media followers more f1 titles please.

[MustangGT]

Siao said:

MustangGT said:

deadslow said:

Hamilton is often/always held up as an exemplar driver on these pages, and he was nothing special in Baku, only scraping a point through the misfortunes of others.

Having made up places from 19th and a pit lane start. How many places did Max make up? Let's see, started 6th, finished 5th, gifted 2 places in the same way as Lewis. That is a net loss of one. As I said, nothing special.

You can't really compare it like that, progressing from 6th is not as easy as progressing from dead last, I hope you can see that.

Of course I can, just descending to various other posters level for a moment.

[deadslow]

Siao said:

MustangGT said:

deadslow said:

Hamilton is often/always held up as an exemplar driver on these pages, and he was nothing special in Baku, only scraping a point through the misfortunes of others.

Having made up places from 19th and a pit lane start. How many places did Max make up? Let's see, started 6th, finished 5th, gifted 2 places in the same way as Lewis. That is a net loss of one. As I said, nothing special.

You can't really compare it like that, progressing from 6th is not as easy as progressing from dead last, I hope you can see that.

yes, that is exactly my point. If the car isn't working for you, you can easily get stuck, as both drivers did. Of course Hamilton came from the back, but the front running cars do this in a fairly straightforward manner, til they find their level and get stuck.

[Siao]

MustangGT said:

Siao said:

MustangGT said:

deadslow said:

Hamilton is often/always held up as an exemplar driver on these pages, and he was nothing special in Baku, only scraping a point through the misfortunes of others.

Having made up places from 19th and a pit lane start. How many places did Max make up? Let's see, started 6th, finished 5th, gifted 2 places in the same way as Lewis. That is a net loss of one. As I said, nothing special.

You can't really compare it like that, progressing from 6th is not as easy as progressing from dead last, I hope you can see that.

Of course I can, just descending to various other posters level for a moment.

Ok then!

[maz8062]

grumpynuts said:

I think Piastri is a better bet for a drivers championship than Norris and Norris has worked it out.Piastri is only in his 2nd season of F1 and the last few (5 i think) races has scored more points than anyone else.That tells me he has found his feet and worked out how to win in an F1 car.Apart from a brave and lucky decision by Ferrari last weekend, Piastri had everyone covered and dove an excellent race, he showed better race craft than I've seen from Norris so far.
I think Mclaren have also worked out that Piastri is their ticket to the WDC not Norris.Next season will see Piastri as WDC, and I'm a Brit, so am not going on nationality or favouritism, I'd love to see George Russell as WDC and if Merc get the car sorted, that could be a possibility next year too.
This year i think Max will scrape the WDC and McLaren will bag the WCC.

Mate, what are you going on about? I’ve been watching F1 for over 40 years and can’t remember a driver get beaten comprehensively by his team mate 2 seasons on the trot to then bounce back and turn things around as you suggest. Ok Nico did it in 2016 and then promptly retired washed out.

OP is currently driving with freedom - he has nothing to lose, while Lando is perhaps overthinking the opportunity of his first WDC. They’re both in different places, but on balance, over 2 seasons, Lando has the measure of OP convincingly.

In F1, if you’re fast you’re fast from the off. They don’t need 3 seasons to be fast - do you think Lando has peaked? If OP gets faster so will Lando.

There’s currently a false narrative that somehow OP is faster than Lando. Nonsense.

[cliffords]

maz8062 said:

grumpynuts said:

I think Piastri is a better bet for a drivers championship than Norris and Norris has worked it out.Piastri is only in his 2nd season of F1 and the last few (5 i think) races has scored more points than anyone else.That tells me he has found his feet and worked out how to win in an F1 car.Apart from a brave and lucky decision by Ferrari last weekend, Piastri had everyone covered and dove an excellent race, he showed better race craft than I've seen from Norris so far.
I think Mclaren have also worked out that Piastri is their ticket to the WDC not Norris.Next season will see Piastri as WDC, and I'm a Brit, so am not going on nationality or favouritism, I'd love to see George Russell as WDC and if Merc get the car sorted, that could be a possibility next year too.
This year i think Max will scrape the WDC and McLaren will bag the WCC.

Mate, what are you going on about? I’ve been watching F1 for over 40 years and can’t remember a driver get beaten comprehensively by his team mate 2 seasons on the trot to then bounce back and turn things around as you suggest. Ok Nico did it in 2016 and then promptly retired washed out.

OP is currently driving with freedom - he has nothing to lose, while Lando is perhaps overthinking the opportunity of his first WDC. They’re both in different places, but on balance, over 2 seasons, Lando has the measure of OP convincingly.

In F1, if you’re fast you’re fast from the off. They don’t need 3 seasons to be fast - do you think Lando has peaked? If OP gets faster so will Lando.

There’s currently a false narrative that somehow OP is faster than Lando. Nonsense.

OP is faster than Lando

[ntiz]

cliffords said:

OP is faster than Lando

14-4 in Lando favour in qualifying would suggest otherwise.

[Diderot]

cliffords said:

maz8062 said:

grumpynuts said:

I think Piastri is a better bet for a drivers championship than Norris and Norris has worked it out.Piastri is only in his 2nd season of F1 and the last few (5 i think) races has scored more points than anyone else.That tells me he has found his feet and worked out how to win in an F1 car.Apart from a brave and lucky decision by Ferrari last weekend, Piastri had everyone covered and dove an excellent race, he showed better race craft than I've seen from Norris so far.
I think Mclaren have also worked out that Piastri is their ticket to the WDC not Norris.Next season will see Piastri as WDC, and I'm a Brit, so am not going on nationality or favouritism, I'd love to see George Russell as WDC and if Merc get the car sorted, that could be a possibility next year too.
This year i think Max will scrape the WDC and McLaren will bag the WCC.

Mate, what are you going on about? I’ve been watching F1 for over 40 years and can’t remember a driver get beaten comprehensively by his team mate 2 seasons on the trot to then bounce back and turn things around as you suggest. Ok Nico did it in 2016 and then promptly retired washed out.

OP is currently driving with freedom - he has nothing to lose, while Lando is perhaps overthinking the opportunity of his first WDC. They’re both in different places, but on balance, over 2 seasons, Lando has the measure of OP convincingly.

In F1, if you’re fast you’re fast from the off. They don’t need 3 seasons to be fast - do you think Lando has peaked? If OP gets faster so will Lando.

There’s currently a false narrative that somehow OP is faster than Lando. Nonsense.

OP is faster than Lando

or will a whoosh parrot be along in a mo?

Just some stats for you: OP was 41 seconds behind today. 27 seconds behind in Zandvoort. 31 seconds behind in Spain. 13 seconds behind in Imola. 49 seconds behind in Miami. 46 seconds behind in China. 18 seconds behind in Japan. 30 seconds behind in Australia.

When OP is in front of Lando, the deltas are very much smaller. But yes OP is faster.