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Bottas has won 9 races in his career, Rosberg won 9 in just 2016

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They said the data told them he had a massive loss of front downforce, but they... weren't sure if the data was accurate.

I mean, you'd get someone to look under the front wing in the pit stop, wouldn't you?

But its only way if he wants to win the championship, he has to go full Rosberg style, and that means crashes/contoversy sometimes.
Plus he has to be on the same level as Lewis wich he is not, in QLF yes he can beat him, but in race pace where it counts No.
He has to be consistent too. Rosberg was, he was always next to him on podium in 2nd, but when Lewis fucked up he was there to pick up the pieces, and sure you have to have some luck too.

He had the chance in Germany last year, Lewis fucked up, but what he does he puts it in the wall.
If i were him i would have ignored the team orders in Germany 2018 when he had a shot for vicotry.
Lewis,Nico,Senna,Schumacher they all did it if they wanted to really make it.

I cant see him beat Lewis (he is a good wingman to him for sure), on start of season he is maybe on 2.0 or 3.0 version, but once we get to mid season he keeps falling and trying to find his form back, and when he finds it around Mexico, its already over...

The thing is, Bottas has been Lewis's team mate for the same amount of time that Nico was, and hasn't really changed. Nico was much closer to Lewis from day 1, and in 2016 made a very clear improvement in many areas - he still mostly picked up the pieces from any misfortune, but also conclusively beat Lewis on more than one occasion.

Bottas, on the other hand, really hasn't closed the gap or fixed any of the problems.

Wow, it felt like Nico was Ham's team mate for longer than 4 seasons.

I guess in some sort of defense of Bottas, he came into the team long after Hamilton had already made his claim that it is HIS team. Hamilton joined Merc alongside Nico when it was neither of their team yet, they were still on the Schumacher reverence thing.

So I think that Nico could go toe to toe with Hamilton more, as they were on a more even footing at the beginning. Bottas's issue is that he just seems to lack the balls when it counts.

Hell, I place Webber and Berger ahead of him (even though I think all three are on the same level) simply because they had the balls to have a go and say "fuck you" in an actual on track battle not in some pathetic radio message . Bottas just chickens out basically every time.

plus Bottas was called to get to the team simply because Rosberg retired, so he couldn't be that ready to drive there and Hamilton's talent put him slowly into a second driver condition

Had Rosberg remained for a few more years and provided proper championship fights until eventually one or both quitting tired of clashing between each other (or Ferrari hiring one of those like they did with Prost for 1990) then he would be just another Berger haha

BTW one of Rosberg's weak spots was wet weather, in this oily track he wouldn't be spinning like Bottas did but he could be struggling more while Hamilton cruised

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Where did this come from?

Considering both Damon and HHF conked out in almost exactly the same place (less flippers caused 2nd time around though) I thought they just really hated the dip between turn 1 and 2 as it was...

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Bottas is better than you give him imo. I'm writing a blog article ranking the runners-up in F1 in the last 50 years and I've put him mid-pack. If Lewis wasn't there, Valtteri would still be cleaning up most of the races and the championship

Ehhhh I wouldn't go that far. He's only 27 points ahead of Max right now and that's with Max having a tire blowout (while leading) that wasn't his fault. Even if Max was passed by Hamilton and finished second, that would have been a 21 point swing and bringing the gap to 6 points. The tuscan GP he was taken out in a crash that wasn't his fault. The Italian GP was a power unit failure and the season opener was an electrical issue. I'm only choosing to compare Max because he's the closest to Valtteri, not trying to fan boy here lol. I realize that luck and reliability always play a major factor in a world championship. The point I'm trying to make is that if even one of races had gone a bit better for Verstappen (and Hamilton not around) we'd have an epic battle for the drivers title right now and not exactly Bottas cleaning up races and the championship. I've bookmarked your blog, when do you think you'll have that post up? Sound like a great read and can I assume Rubens is number one? haha

well, but you must consider the scenario with no Lewis around, pretty much like the 1994 after Senna death, in which Damon got full focus from the team and was able to catch up in the championship

Bottas with full team support and with a lower rating driver aside could do a championship season

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Thats a very good point, I didn't take that part into consideration when making my post.

Mention an F1 fuck-up from late 90's-2010, Sam Michael's name usually comes up.

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God I love that 1999 Jordan

Well, he finished 2nd to Lewis last year, and will almost certainly finish 2nd to him again this year. He'll presumably hit double figure wins for his career in the next year. He's in a similar boat to Rubens and probably at a similar level (and I rate Rubens quite highly compared to most people - though he won't be number 1 on the list!)

Thank you. I'll see if I can finish it tonight. Will post in one of the threads on here

Well there you go, it's only taken 20 odd years for this to come out, and drum roll.......Sam Michael strikes again lol.

Sam Michael is like a magnitude 10 earthquake

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I dunno, Frenzten is equally culpable tbh. They both should've remembered and they both forgot. It was a belt and braces situation and the belt broke and the braces snapped.

I wonder if the same thing happened to Damon as I'm pretty sure at the time they said both cars had the same problem. Or did Damon have ACTUAL electrical problems at the first start and they copied and pasted that press release and changed the name to HHF when he fucked up...

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Nah, considering how frosty the relationship was getting at that point of the season they'd have thrown Hill under the bus had he done that. He certainly had an electrical issue.