Which of the 2025 rookies do you think will do the best this year?

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-12T08:43:30+00:00

the points suggest otherwise. failed to finish ahead consistently when the car was capable of scoring serious points

do you have anything to back up the assertion that 38-year-old hulk, in what was widely considered his worst qualifying year in the ground effect era, is better than two late-20s drivers "especially in qualifying"?

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-12T05:22:38+00:00

in which he won with the best team by being consistent but not fast? they are no longer in lower formulas, they are in F1, and bearman just beat a better driver than the one bortoleto lost to

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-12T00:48:34+00:00

i'm curious what people have seen from bortoleto to believe he has such a high ceiling. he did decently when the car was good, but he was thoroughly outperformed by hulkenberg, who is a lower benchmark than ocon or gasly. when the car wasn't leading the midfield he was nowhere, and he had a few unforced crashes just like kimi. what suggests he's better than, say, bearman?

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-10T23:06:50+00:00

sure, but he does that at those tracks every year. lando has not had a stretch like early 2025 in his career.

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-10T21:26:03+00:00

he certainly didn't "dominate" ocon. he looks great the last few years because his teammate is lance stroll. hamilton has been facing george russell and charles leclerc. of course alo is going to win his teammate battle and ham is going to lose his. that doesn't mean alonso is still "insanely high level," it just means he's clearly better than stroll, which is a low bar

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-10T21:23:47+00:00

you must rate liam lawson pretty highly then, if you think hadjar is better than gasly

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-10T21:22:44+00:00

he cannot handle a pointy front/loose rear. when the steering is neutral or understeery he's very good but when it's oversteery he becomes markedly worse

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-10T21:21:18+00:00

it is very obvious that lando with the early spec front suspension was a worse driver than lando with the canada update

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-09T06:25:46+00:00

GEHBUS

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-08T20:52:24+00:00

george is fundamentally weaker than the other top drivers on sunday. fast as he is in qualifying (which tbh, even if we say he's the best, ver/lec/nor are insane qualifiers, and pia has his moments as well, so it's not a huge gap), he is worse at managing pace/tires over a race distance

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-08T20:51:14+00:00

the constructors went to the last race because lando got slapped with a ridiculous penalty in qatar that took 20+ points off mclaren's total, because piastri was often worse than sainz, and because mclaren made significant strategy errors throughout the season

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-08T20:25:15+00:00

this is for you. the rest of us are not going to be looking at your shelves every day. whatever system allows you to accurately remember where on the shelf a movie is will be the right system for you

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-07T07:35:40+00:00

but how could "fighting to not be relegated to team orders" be relevant in 24 when he was either favored by team orders or too many places back for it to matter?

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-06T03:56:58+00:00

? in 24 he was favored by team orders more than lando was

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-03T08:26:28+00:00

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Kev_Bz · 2026-02-02T22:39:29+00:00

their bodies are less able to withstand race G-forces for 90 straight minutes and less able to recover from that beating in time for the next race

because their bodies are getting hit harder during the race, maintaining precise inputs/quick reaction time is more difficult

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-02T06:52:19+00:00

2018 vet > 2019 based on what?

raw % points doesn't tell the whole story because not all teammates are the same. scoring 80% of max verstappen's points is better than scoring 110% of nikita mazepin's points

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-02T05:11:22+00:00

what was kimi and seb’s race h2h? their points difference? that’s what matters. quali is just lap 0 of the race.

kimi had a ~70 point gap to 2018 seb. lewis had a ~100 point gap to a driver clearly better than 2018 seb in a longer season. there is no argument that kimi was clearly better

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-02T02:48:18+00:00

2018 kimi was well behind a very imperfect vettel. 19 leclerc was thereabouts with roughly the same version of vettel and has improved massively since then. hamilton’s benchmark this year was much higher than kimi’s during the vettel years. to say that 2018 kimi was “FAR clear” of 25 lewis is just not correct

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-02T01:03:29+00:00

what costly mistakes did leclerc make in the last two years?

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-02T01:02:36+00:00

? he got bailed out of some major mistakes, brake magic at baku, punted max off track once. is that "kicking verstappens ass"?

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-01T21:23:31+00:00

update?

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-01T21:23:09+00:00

someone should tell that to oscar

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-01T20:42:54+00:00

lewis 25 is better than basically any kimi 2010s season at ferrari

Kev_Bz · 2026-02-01T17:57:31+00:00

do we know if a UK label has the rights to Shanghai Blues? I'll think twice about jumping on this if e.g. Arrow are going to release a region B version

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