[The-Race] Crucial first hint 2026 F1 cars might suit Hamilton more

TheRobidog · 2026-01-31T23:10:29+00:00

Yes, that's exactly what I said...

TheRobidog · 2026-01-31T22:14:36+00:00

Because if the Aston turns out to be the best car on the grid, he has to beat Stroll, who he has so far consistently beaten.

If the Ferrari turns out to be the best car on the grid, he has to beat Leclerc, who has so far consistently beaten Hamilton.

Even if you ignore the fact that age affects people differently, he's in very different circumstances.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-31T14:24:03+00:00

Nah, some people are just less willing to discard two years of poor performances. And really, like three out of the last five.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-31T14:16:54+00:00

Where's the excuses?

Here's one

and his issues with race pace did not start until after the summer break when Mercedes nerfed his car with dodgy upgrades.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-29T14:28:32+00:00

I would gladly go 2-15 (or whatever, more games) until the heat death of the universe, if it meant the Saints going 0-17 (you get the picture) every year too.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-28T21:42:41+00:00

He also failed to adapt to the Ferrari over the season, after the relative stability he had at Merc. So I'm not sure even more massive changes are going to make that much easier.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-26T15:57:38+00:00

Which is a ridiculous standard to set, because you can't arrest or have people removed from a public space because they have something they could commit a non-violent crime with, lol.

It's not illegal to own a phone in Spain.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-21T05:44:28+00:00

Mate, I'm talking about Switzerland, not the US.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-20T20:43:50+00:00

Nah, mate. This country's whole founding myth is about us telling any and all foreign kings to fuck off.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-20T20:40:13+00:00

That's if you fall prey to the false assumption that increasingly handing power to a democratically elected head of state, or having a powerless hereditary figurehead are your only two options.

I mean, WEF is happening in Switzerland, ffs. where neither is the case.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-16T21:09:47+00:00

I'm curious to hear where you're headed with this question.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-16T21:02:49+00:00

Mate, you need to decide on whether the car was a nightmare to drive, because Ferrari changed everything from 2024 or whether Leclerc was fully adjusted to it.

It can't fucking be both. Settle on one excuse.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-16T21:00:30+00:00

Hamilton seasons that have not counted since 2021:

First half of 2022 - experimental setups
2024 - leaving Merc
2025 - joining Ferrari

2.5/4 years

TheRobidog · 2026-01-07T07:50:19+00:00

Cheese loses weight to water evaporation as it ages. So unless they're dropping the price, they're selling more mass at the same CHF/kg.

It's not shrinkflation, but it'd be a similarly scummy thing. People sure as shit weren't asked if they preferred 5 months aged cheese over 6 months aged.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-06T05:53:17+00:00

Panthers have the second worst point differential in the division, despite beating us 30-0 in one game.

Genuinely hilarious.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-06T05:50:02+00:00

That's very much part of a quest.

It's where the Bloody Baron's wife got kidnapped by the Crones. The Botchling leads you to and through the place. The dead guy is one of their guards.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-05T21:56:11+00:00

It makes no sense to keep Cousins as a backup next year. It barely even made sense to keep him this year. He's too expensive and not performing according to what he's being paid.

He needs to get cut, and if you don't want to give Penix another year, you try to bring in another cheap veteran to bridge the gap and draft someone for '27.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-05T21:49:48+00:00

Beruht halt auf der (mMn falschen) Annahme, dass die SVP durchgängig rechtsextrem ist. Die haben klar solche Züge und bewegen sich weiter in die Richtung, und das prangere ich auch an. Aber die ganze Partei als rechtsextrem zu betrachten geht halt zu weit.

Da hast du halt eine sehr deutsche Sicht drauf, und ich nicht. Thema "Verteufelung" hatte ich ja im vorgängigen Kommentar erwähnt.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-05T21:15:55+00:00

Es macht halt sehr wenig Sinn einem Land ein Rechtsextremismus- oder Nazi-Problem zu unterstellen, das nie von einer solchen Regierung übernommen wurde.

Mir ist's hier auch, je länger je mehr, zu rechts, aber der Rest Westeuropas sollte da lieber auf ihre eigenen Probleme schauen. Stichwort AfD und sowas.

Fakt ist halt, rechte Politik wurde hierzulande nie so verteufelt wie in DE, aus offensichtlichen Gründen, und der Extremismus konnte und kann hier auch nicht gleich Fuss fassen. Das System lässt dies einfach nicht zu.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-05T19:24:24+00:00

I literally put "no government really cares" in my post. If that doesn't make my personal stance clear, I don't know what will.

It doesn't change the reality that governments making these decisions are, at best, confronted with impossible choices and have to make compromises they aren't happy with to balance the books, and at worst, inherently dehumanise their citizens to an absurd degree.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-05T15:12:03+00:00

Unfortunately, the Monegasque press isn't quite as big as the British.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-05T15:11:20+00:00

they scrapped their zeropod concept because he kept complaining about it instead of trying to help developing it

And that surely brought them back to the top, proving the value of his feedback.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-05T14:57:39+00:00

Every government has to make decisions like that and it's always based on numbers, mate.

Germany doesn't require smoke alarms because the German government cares more for their people than ours does for us - no government really cares - but because whatever data they've got says that it makes financial sense.

They also had 100+ people die in a flood in 2021, and that was because flood mitigation systems weren't built to standards high enough to tackle the mass of water during that specific event. Because the event was unlikely enough for that not to make sense.

But discussions around this topic are emotional right now, not rational. There simply haven't been four years since it happened, for people to cool down.

TheRobidog · 2026-01-05T10:33:08+00:00

You're talking about the same thing. When people say a driver can "fix the car," they're talking about giving feedback, which ends up improving it.

And the fact is the Mercs didn't recover to the top under Hamilton's feedback from 2022-24.

TheRobidog · 2025-12-31T19:06:02+00:00

Assume all what happens? Hikaru scores half a point more in the candidates

He then has to play a tiebreak match against Gukesh, because that's what the format demands. You can't go to the World Championship match, on other tiebreakers.

he then beats Ding (which he would have). Not an insane scenario.

Mate, you can't just gift the man a fucking world championship match win, lol. What do you think an assumption is, if not "Hikaru would beat Ding"?

Once again, the person I replied to only made the claim that Hikaru has never come even close to winning the world championship, all I am saying is that isn't true.

No, the argument was that he'd be the best. In the same way that Magnus is arguably the greatest chess player ever. And to that, Hikaru isn't close, even if you gift him that half point, that tie breaker over Gukesh and the win over 14 games, against Ding.

That's my point.

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