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Because he is an average driver with poor racecraft. It’s amazing that Lewis allowed Bottas to take so many poles and race wins in the Merc dominated years.

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Bottas is a very average driver. In clean air he does OKish but his racecraft in traffic is so poor. Losing Wheel2wheel battles . Whether it was being stuck in midfield in Imola. Whether it was being […]

Lec, Ham and Ver all were stars.

It would have been a boring race if Ver didn’t bully his way past Lewis at the start. Lewis would have driven away in the distance. Same with Lec on Bottas. This put a dent in […]

No, because in Bahrain Hamilton had his wingman in p3 for tactical options.

Max’ wingman is in p8 today fighting some Alpines.

Max might be in an equal car but it’s 2 against 1 sadly.

Verstappen shouldn’t have been ahead of him in the first place.
Hamilton blundered on the SC restart to 1) react too late and 2) defend the inside.

Also he gave Verstappen a shot at pole position by two s […]

As long as Bottas outperforms Perez, we can conclude the Merc is the better car.

Indeed. Both Merc drivers had very suboptimal laps themselves.
Lewis will be gutted that he made these mistakes but glad he is still ahead of Max.

Max was marginally yellow in both sectors , cumulative less than 0.2s from his 1:18.20 and would have been very close to Bottas poletime.

Also his tyre warmup was impacted by Norris (read above)
Anyway, it […]

Still Merc should have been on pole by a bigger margin. Lewis made mistakes in his runs in Q3.
But unfortunately Max couldn’t benefit from these mistakes by fault of his own in the first run.

Error by pitwall. I already noticed it in pitlane at start of his outlap. They released Max right behind Norris. Norris kept just enough pace in his outlap for Max to not overtake him. Max decided to leave a gap […]

Merc drivers and Max not having their best lap.
Merc had 1:17 in earlier sessions

Good drivers don’t need 5 races. Especially drivers with close to 10years experience…

Rrmember Lewis.podium on his debut.
Or Verstappen in 2016.

Ocon was a match to Perez ; Ocon was clearly beaten by Dan Ric.
Dan Ric was outgrown by Max (after the first 1.5 years when teenage Max was still steeply learning)
Conclusion: I would be surprised if Perez would […]

I never rated Ocon as highly. He falls in category midfield with Hulk, Grosjean. He was barely a match for Perez.

The fact that he beat Max in F3 in 2014 still resonates with people. But looking closer that […]

I follow F1 since 1988. Also I don’t deny Lewis’ talent.
All I am saying is that Charles or Max would have had better stats than Lewis against Bottas. Maybe Lewis not so hungry anymore?

Bottas really is an […]

What arguments do you have to assume Max is not that strong in qualifying?

Indeed.
If you assume Lewis is divine, then any driver that occasionally beats him should be pretty good.

But, let’s turn it around. The Merc is the divine element here. Russell showed how avg Bottas really i […]

It is tough to accept by the haters but maybe Max is just that special.

People keep referring to his teenage years. Brilliant but inconsistent back then, the 23y old Max is at a different level now.

Fair […]

Vettel significantly beat Kimi , and now vettel is beaten significantly by Charles.

Kimi also didn’t get younger. I really think he isn’t a high bar / benchmark anymore.
We can conclude Gio isn’t all that special.

Spot on!

I don’t see Perez beating Max, but even if he is 0.1s quicker than Albon in qualifying that would give RB more options. As 0.1s has been at least 1 grid place in many weekends.
Also in racecraft P […]