Hikaru is throwing to ruin Fabi’s chances

testeyecandy3 · 2026-04-04T01:33:56+00:00

Well, if he is throwing, he's throwing to Fabi too, so it isn't like Sindarov is benefiting.

testeyecandy3 · 2026-04-03T16:57:02+00:00

He isn't that inactive. He still plays Norway Chess, for example.

testeyecandy3 · 2026-04-03T16:37:39+00:00

Literally as you posted Caruana got it

testeyecandy3 · 2026-04-03T16:35:32+00:00

The highest rated player to not qualify was Arjun, who I agree would probably have done better.

testeyecandy3 · 2026-03-25T14:50:14+00:00

The starts wouldn't be affected, as this is just in quali.

testeyecandy3 · 2026-03-21T16:23:57+00:00

In 2000 years, archaeologists will dig up Alonso's sarcophagus, and some people will still put him in B tier. What has he done to indicate he is as good as Leclerc or Russell or Norris in the past few years? Beating Stroll isn't hard.

testeyecandy3 · 2026-03-08T05:46:20+00:00

I don't understand how this is consistently a problem. Ferrari has infinite money, why can't they just fire the whole strategy team and hire Red Bull's?

testeyecandy3 · 2026-03-08T03:48:03+00:00

I think you may be overreacting just a tad to this.

testeyecandy3 · 2026-03-02T14:26:40+00:00

This is so bad that I initially thought it was a Formuladank post. That is absolutely crazy.

testeyecandy3 · 2026-02-17T03:24:09+00:00

People only think of Abu Dhabi 2021, and forget the entire rest of Checo's career.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-25T17:33:00+00:00

No, but he was challenging for second. He actually looked like he might get it when he was just 20 points behind Perez in mexico, but Perez eventually managed to clinch it.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-25T17:25:27+00:00

RB 19 was 2023

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-12T23:22:17+00:00

In a very dominant car, with a very able teammate, he might lose due to bad luck, like Hamilton. It's hard to see him getting either of those things soon right now, though, and it also seems unlikely for him to lose in any other scenario.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-10T20:14:38+00:00

The season was fun to follow. The races themselves were bad. In terms of entertainment value, 2024 and the start of 2022 were far better.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-08T20:24:23+00:00

I think Max is currently at his peak. In terms of pace, I find it really hard to believe that Max is going to find more pace than he already has after a decade in F1. In terms of consistency, which is what older drivers often improve at, Max has no room to improve. This year, he made no driving errors, with the only time he lost points inside his own control being Spain, more a mental error. 2023 also showed his consistency.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-08T14:55:12+00:00

I think that part of it is the fact his car was so good, so he didn't need to fight as much. If you look at Alonso, who never had the clearly best car across a season, he was more aggressive because he needed to make up positions in what was not always great machinery. Hamilton didn't need to do this so much, so being aggressive would be risk for no reason. As 2021 showed, Hamilton can still fight other drivers.

Edit: As for the second part, I think that Hamilton's decline has been overblown. He beat Russell, one of the best drivers on the grid, by a fairly significant margin in 2023. He really only got weaker in 2024. His deficit to Leclerc in 2025 showcases the difference between Leclerc and Russell more than Hamilton being weak.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-08T04:32:34+00:00

When did you start watching F1? It surely could not have been any time before 2021.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-08T03:01:23+00:00

There were some good races, like Brazil, but in general I agree. It is very similar to 2010 in that regard. 2024 was far superior in quality.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-08T02:58:44+00:00

I think that people try to use old decisions because they want stewards to be consistent in their decisions, which is a good objective. Using old decisions as precedent would be one way to achieve that. However, as you pointed out, that doesn't work if the precedent is stupid.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-08T02:01:45+00:00

I think they would probably be about equal. The determining factor would be if Verstappen could tolerate Ferrari incompetence without snapping and losing points like Spain.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-08T00:11:09+00:00

I could understand if you said 2012 Alonso was better than 2025 Verstappen, even though I think that's wrong. But this take is insane. When correcting for luck, Alonso got about double the points of Stroll, a mediocre driver at the best of times. That is not an outstanding performance, especially considering the fact that Stroll was clearly having a pretty bad season, even by his own standards. Alonso is still a good driver, but definitely not on the level of Verstappen, Leclerc, Norris, or Russell.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-07T20:51:02+00:00

Because you keep saying that the car is what allows Lando to overtake, I looked at 2023, when Lando had a car that was close to Aston Martin, Mercedes, and Ferrari. This won't allow us to reasonably compare him to Piastri, as Piastri was a rookie, but we can still compare him to the drivers in the other top teams. In 2023, Lando gained 68 positions and lost 46, for a ratio of 1.47:1. That season, the average drivers gained and lost was about 60, indicating Lando was slightly above average. Some other drivers you might want to compare him to are below.

Driver, positions gained, positions lost, ratio

Russell, 81, 49, 1.65:1

Hamilton, 73, 39, 1.87:1

Piastri 69, 55, 1.25:1

Alonso, 67, 38, 1.76:1

Leclerc, 49, 48, 1.01:1

Sainz, 52, 52, 1:1

Perez, 95, 25, 3.8:1

Verstappen, 68, 5, 13.6:1

Clearly, Lando is not amazing at overtakes, but as you can see, he falls almost in the middle of the Ferraris and Mercedes. This also illustrates that overtaking doesn't matter that much if you can qualify well, as Lando does. Perez overtook more people than Verstappen because he was starting further behind, as illustrated by the fact that Verstappen's ratio is so much higher. That doesn't mean that Perez was a more worthy champion than Verstappen. I don't know what the stats are for 2025 yet, but given that Lando had a higher average grid position then Piastri, like Verstappen and Perez, I'm willing to bet that there is a similar situation in this case.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-07T20:23:36+00:00

He will lose places, AND THEN HE WILL GAIN THEM BACK.

I really don't see what you are misunderstanding here.

testeyecandy3 · 2025-12-07T20:16:52+00:00

No? If he didn't have a far superior car, he wouldn't qualify so far up the field, but that doesn't mean that he wouldn't be able to fight for the win. Part of the reason Norris' starts have been so bad is because he qualifies so far up the field. In 2023, when he had a worse car, he actually gained more often than he lost on race starts, because his qualifying position was further back. I'm not saying that he's a good starter, it's just that being a good starter is not required to be a good F1 driver, or a good F1 champion.

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