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 Post subject: Re: F1 Predictions 2021
PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2021 5:11 am 
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Drivers Championship Top 6

1. Hamilton
2. Bottas
3. Verstappen
4. Perez
5. Leclerc
6. Stroll

Constructor Top 5

1. Mercedes
2. Red Bull
3. Ferrari
4. Aston Martin
5. McLaren

Constructor - Last Place

Williams

Taking into account COVID, and the fact we have 23 races scheduled, with 2 TBA races (Saudi Arabia and Vietnam) How many races will we have in 2021?

18 at a max

Drivers to be Sacked

Pierre Gasly

Driver Announcements/Silly Season Predictions for 2021-2022

Russell for Mercedes in 2022

Any Drivers Retire?

Kimi Raikkonen

Surprise Winner

none

Best Races

any that Mercedes fail to win, so none

Worst Races

The usual: Spain, France, Russia and Abu Dhabi

Wet Races

none

Most Disappointing Moments of 2021

no wet races or unexpected happenings

Most Exciting Moments of 2021

Hamilton winning after a losing a front wing

Make Bold Predictions

Hamilton gets 5 grand chelems this year

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 Post subject: Re: F1 Predictions 2021
PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2021 9:42 am 
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Drivers Championship Top 6

1. Verstappen
2. Hamilton
3. Perez
4. Ricciardo
5. Russell
6. Bottas

Constructor Top 5

1. Red Bull
2. Mercedes
3. McLaren
4. Ferrari
5. Aston Martin

Constructor - Last Place
Alfa Romeo

Taking into account COVID, and the fact we have 23 races scheduled, with 2 TBA races (Saudi Arabia and Vietnam) How many races will we have in 2021?
21

Drivers to be Sacked
Bottas, Alonso

Driver Announcements/Silly Season Predictions for 2021-2022
Russell to Mercedes as Bottas Replacement. Gasly to Renault as Alonso replacement

Any Drivers Retire?
Bottas, Alonso, Raikonen

Surprise Winner
Ricciardo
Norris

Best Races
Zandvoort

Worst Races
Saudi Arabia

Wet Races
Zandvoort, Monaco

Most Disappointing Moments of 2021
Mercedes hanging on to Bottas for way too long.

Most Exciting Moments of 2021
Russell trashing Hamilton after he replaced Bottas

Make Bold Predictions
- Bottas will throw several tantrums after being massively outpaced by both Red Bull, Hamilton, both McLarens and occasional other cars. Blaming everyone but himself. Gets the boot eventually.
- Alonso deeply disappointing in Alpine's performance. Blames lack of commitment from Renault. Has a huge public falling out with Cyril and gets fired on live tv.
- Mercedes made a mistake in the windtunnel. Car is not bad but not untouchable either while RBR-Honda got everything right from the get go for once.
- McLaren 3rd best team. Not able to fight for wins regularly but both drivers pick up a win during the season.
- Ferrari goes winless again
- Vettel regains some of his glory and trashes Stroll every weekend. This brings a strain on their relation but they keep him on for 2022 anyways.
- After replacing Bottas, Russell racks up a few wins and podium finishes resulting in him adding enough to his 2 points he scored with Williams to claim 5th in the standings.


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 Post subject: Re: F1 Predictions 2021
PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2021 1:59 pm 
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Drivers Championship Top 6

1. Hamilton
2. Verstappen
3. Bottas
4. Ricciardo
5. Perez
6. Leclerc

Constructor Top 5

1. Mercedes
2. Red Bull
3. McLaren
4. Ferrari
5. Alpine

Constructor - Last Place
Williams

Taking into account COVID, and the fact we have 23 races scheduled, with 2 TBA races (Saudi Arabia and Vietnam) How many races will we have in 2021?
20

Drivers to be Sacked
Mid-Season: none (but we might see one or two covid stand-ins)
End of the year: see below

Driver Announcements/Silly Season Predictions for 2021-2022
- Mercedes cool on Russell and give Bottas another year
- Gasly to Alpine in place of Ocon seems a dead cert at this point
- Albon makes a surprise return to AlphaTauri in place of Gasly
- Vettel has a stinker of a year and the team mutually agree to part ways, allowing Aston to sign Stroll's best buddy Ocon (despite everyone screaming at them to sign Russell)
- The Alfa-Ferrari split leads to Gio and Raikkonen both leaving to be replaced by Lundgaard and Pourchaire for 2021

Any Drivers Retire?
Raikkonen (sooner or later this will be right)
Vettel

Surprise Winner
If we're defining this as anyone other than HAM-BOT-VER:
Ricciardo
Alonso
Leclerc

Best Races
Bahrain
Austria
Netherlands

(going for the safe bets that will actually be on this year)

Worst Races
Spain
Russia
Abu Dhabi

Wet Races
Netherlands

Most Disappointing Moments of 2021
- Mercedes re-signing Bottas for 2022
- Mazepin's continuing career and the indulgence of his shitty behaviour by the sport
- Vettel continuing to be a shadow of his former self and hoarding a seat that could go to someone with actual motivation
- Ricciardo makes Lando look a bit shit
- Tsunoda and Schumacher don't live up to expectations

Most Exciting Moments of 2021
- Those first few races where it might look like we have a title fight on our hands
- Sainz pushes Leclerc harder than expected in the races
- Perez does enough to force Mercedes' hand on enough occasions that we have some interesting races
- Ricciardo, Alonso and Leclerc winning at least one race
- Hopefully Portimao gets that Vietnam slot and we get a good race there again

Make Bold Predictions
- Stroll beats Vettel
- Mazepin is seen to have outperformed Schumacher
- Sauber-Renault from 2022
- Latifi is noticeably closer to Russell
- Haas gets a new name and identity for 2022 and Gunther gets the heave-ho
- Monaco gets cancelled again and there are at least serious questions about the future of the event

EDIT: Added Leclerc as a winner - wrote up my reasoning here


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 Post subject: Re: F1 Predictions 2021
PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 10:41 am 
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Drivers Championship Top 6

1. Hamilton
2. Verstappen
3. Perez
4. Bottas
5. Alonso
6. Riciardo

Constructor Top 5

1. Red Bull
2. Mercedes
3. McLaren
4. Alpine
5. Aston Martin

Constructor - Last Place
Williams

Taking into account COVID, and the fact we have 23 races scheduled, with 2 TBA races (Saudi Arabia and Vietnam) How many races will we have in 2021?
18

Drivers to be Sacked
Latifi

Driver Announcements/Silly Season Predictions for 2021-2022
Russel to Mercedes

Any Drivers Retire?
Raikkonen

Surprise Winner
Alonso

Best Races
The ones with rain and many overtakes

Worst Races
the boring tracks like sochi, abu dhabi

Wet Races
1 or 2, most likely only 1

Most Disappointing Moments of 2021
At the moment, not going back to Mugello, Portimao and Istanbul. But I'm sure that might change soon

Most Exciting Moments of 2021
Hulkenberg getting the first podium for Aston Martin racing

Make Bold Predictions
Russel will drive a race for Mercedes again


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 Post subject: Re: F1 Predictions 2021
PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 9:06 am 
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Drivers Championship Top 6

1. Hamilton
2. Verstappen
3. Bottas
4. Perez
5. Ricciardo
6. Sainz

Constructor Top 5

1. Mercedes
2. Red Bull
3. McLaren
4. Racing Point
5. Renault

Constructor - Last Place
Williams

Taking into account COVID, and the fact we have 23 races scheduled, with 2 TBA races (Saudi Arabia and Vietnam) How many races will we have in 2021?
19

Drivers to be Sacked
none

Driver Announcements/Silly Season Predictions for 2021-2022
rumours that Verstappen would join Mercedes.

Any Drivers Retire?
Vettel, Alonso, Raikkonen, Mazepin

Surprise Winner
Perez, even though that would not surprise me too much

Best Races
Monaco
Canada
Australia
Viet-Nam

Worst Races
Monaco
Canada
Australia
French
Zandvoort

Wet Races
Belgium

Most Disappointing Moments of 2021
Mercedes all over again

Most Exciting Moments of 2021
a race where weather conditions are very, very variable

Make Bold Predictions
I see Haas and Williams going to struggle, and might not make it.
And therefore it will be decided that teams can 'buy' a car / chassis instead of investing tens of millions and in the end they all look the same if you would paint them in the same colour.


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