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F1 2022 Season

Dan_F

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No they were further ahead.

Even last season, which was obviously far from their most dominant, they were 1 second a lap faster than the Ferrari on average across the season. The Ferrari so far has had about 1 second per lap in race pace over the Mercedes this season.
The poster asked if Mercedes were this dominant in general, not if they were this dominant over Ferrari specifically. Weird to just ignore Red Bull completely.
 

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Lewis Hamilton's interview was so cringe.

It was like when people make a facebook status about how they're so fed up and when someone says u ok hun they say they don't want to talk about it.
 

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Lewis Hamilton's interview was so cringe.

It was like when people make a facebook status about how they're so fed up and when someone says u ok hun they say they don't want to talk about it.
Yeah awful, he should have gone ojt and say his car is shite, the team is shite and he's putting in a cheeky bid for Chelsea now
 

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The poster asked if Mercedes were this dominant in general, not if they were this dominant over Ferrari specifically. Weird to just ignore Red Bull completely.
Ferrari are at best 0.1s ahead of the Red Bulls right now, and ~1s ahead of the Mercs and Alpines. So obviously there's no point including the RBs because Ferrari are not dominant over them.

Or I could have just said no - since Ferrari are equal with the RB right now. They aren't anything like as dominant as Merc were in 2015-2019 when it was a one horse race. But that felt too obvious to point out.
 

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Hamilton: Each weekend is a rescue
Lewis Hamilton seems, naturally, very disappointed with how the weekend is going so far for Mercedes:
"It wasn't a great session.
"Naturally it is disappointing.
"We came here with optimism and you know everyone is working really hard back at the factory but things just don't come together.
"I think we under performed as a team today.
"There are things that we should have done that we didn't do but anyways.
"We will work as hard as we can to move up in the sprint race, it is going to be hard, but maybe the weather will improve and we can do better.
"We will just keep working.
"It is what it is.
"Each weekend is a rescue."
 

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In all the seasons of Lewis being a moany git, this is the only season I do not blame him at all for being so.
 

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Driving in one of those bouncy cars must be miserable. Even if I had the fastest F1 car in history I wouldn't be having it :lol:
 

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Red flag - Norris hits barrier | Verstappen takes pole

What a shocking qualifying, it was like some forget how to drive in the rain.
In fairness I think these cars must be absolute dogs to drive in the rain compared with last years.

And the wets are god awful. Awful for keeping temperature, awful at clearing water.
 

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Was pretty weird to see how badly all the drivers struggled with driving in the rain. Was the same in practice. Looks like something's wrong with the setup across the board.
 

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rain really made this quali annoying
Do they need a different format for wet qualifying? Like maybe if you declare it a wet session, just make it a 40 min session with no Q1/Q2/Q3, like in the old days (I know it was 2 one-hr sessions across 2 days).
 

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Ferrari are at best 0.1s ahead of the Red Bulls right now, and ~1s ahead of the Mercs and Alpines. So obviously there's no point including the RBs because Ferrari are not dominant over them.

Or I could have just said no - since Ferrari are equal with the RB right now. They aren't anything like as dominant as Merc were in 2015-2019 when it was a one horse race. But that felt too obvious to point out.
They weren’t 0.1 in practice. Pretty sure that’s what the poster was referring to.
 

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They weren’t 0.1 in practice. Pretty sure that’s what the poster was referring to.
yeah, I’m a casual fan nowadays and don’t have the memory to recall F1 like I can with football. It just seems like the Ferrari in most places is way ahead of everyone, similar to Mercedes dominance.