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Burt Macklin

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  1. I was talking about him hanging on to win with a stuck throttle in Austria.
  2. Minor flaws like engines blowing up, throttles getting stuck, and strategy screwing him out of two wins? Those minor flaws?
  3. There’s no way that’s a RB penalty. Perez gad to avoid or Russell would’ve caused a crash.
  4. Russell seems like he kind of sucks at wheel to wheel racing. Every time he’s in a close fight it ends up in a collision. Imola last year, he caused the crash at Silverstone, contact with Perez in Austria, and now dives up the inside and would’ve caused a crash if Perez doesn’t back out.
  5. Why the fuck is Sainz pitting now?!
  6. Ferrari pit wall are such fucking clowns. Telling Carlos to pit while he takes P3.
  7. Fuck me. An entire race of listening to Di Resta. Rosberg and Button are much better stand ins for Brundle.
  8. Yeah. It’s also weird to me that the 3 engine requirement originated when there were about 25% less races on the calendar. Seems like adding a 4th engine before penalties would be reasonable.
  9. Same for Leclerc. Ferrari’s plan is to try to stretch these engines until around COTA and then take one more grid penalty for each, but that will require good reliability, which is a long shot. Very possible both drivers have 2 more grid penalties coming.
  10. Same for Leclerc in Spain and Baku. The engine blowouts are absolutely killing Ferrari. Leclerc’s lost between 56 and 70 points to Verstappen from his two blowouts.
  11. Yeah, it actually has one of the highest numbers of overtakes of any circuit, but the track and runoff area is so hard to discern on TV it makes it a bad watch.
  12. Yes and no. You can’t rely on lap times, but you can tell differences from telemetry. There were some good telemetry posts on Reddit showing Ferrari running a low engine mode so they lost time on the straights, but we’re quicker than RB in just about every corner and that carried over to FP2. The real question for Ferrari will be tyre deg. They had some in FP2 and tend to struggle with it on front limited tracks like this one. Unless Merc was really sandbagging in FP1 and FP2, it looks like this will be a Max v Charles battle. The only way I can see Merc with a shot is if both Ferrari and RB have a ton of tyre deg.
  13. Sure if Jimbo pays him up front, but if the aggy rumors are true that they’re not following through on paying the 22 guys, then paying Hill a shitload up front would piss off their whole locker room. Actually now that I say that, it sounds exactly like something aggy would do.
  14. Yeah, it wouldn’t shock me at all. But I do wonder if all the rumors swirling about aggy not following through on their commitments to 22 recruits will dissuade guys like Hill from taking huge offers from aggy if they will be paid out over time. An illegal (and therefore unenforceable) offer to to pay a guy $2 million over 4 years is worth less than Taylor Hamm writing IOU on a sticky note.
  15. I guess one of the pages fell out while he has packing up the playbook to head to the Station.
  16. Blowing their entire bag budget to keep one elite player away from UT while the rest of their class is a red-headed step child with a face only Karen Key Largo could love would be an all-time aggy move.
  17. It was only FP1, but Merc being almost a second back was a little surprising considering people think they’ll be very competitive here. I was also a little surprised to see Ferrari finish first. Binotto said Ferrari is running super low engine modes in practice because they need their practice engines to last all year since they’ve had so many blowouts.
  18. Every team is bringing PU upgrades after summer break because the ERS part of the PU freezes in early September. It’ll be interesting to see if anyone actually gets faster from it or if all the teams improve their ERS about the same.
  19. Ehhhh. You Fernando in the 17 and 18 Ferraris and I think he could win at least one WDC.
  20. Napoleon’s not really correct. Edge generally just means an edge pass rusher, whether they’re a DE with their hand on the ground or a standup OLB. It became a popular term among draft and football nerds once 3-4 and nickel packages became prevalent so DE was no longer an accurate way to describe all pass rushers.
  21. I think it leans more towards Perez simply because he had a ton of room on the outside he could’ve used, whereas Russell hugged the apex about as tight as possible and had no way to adjust when Perez cut in so hard. When you consider the cars we’re on full fuel and Perez knew he had already forced Russell to take a tight inside line, he didn’t leave a reasonable amount of space for Russell to make the corner. If you look at the Vettel-Gasly incidents Vettel stayed way wider, which is why it was on obvious penalty on Gasly. If Perez took Vettel’s line, he would’ve been on the podium that race.
  22. Thanks. I might have been confusing Morris and Wallace. This makes the pickup of Hunter absolutely huge. We’d be in a world of trouble without him right now.
  23. I can’t quite remember how stuff played out. Did Beard pick him over Keynote George or did Baylor just bet us for George. If the former, that’s looking like a pretty bad decision right about now.
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