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Teams are never ready to turn their back on the chance to score points. The stakes are too high. This year's story is yet to be written, but it will hopefully be closer.

Reminds me of Mario Andretti's comment to the press regarding his Lotus 79 (paraphrasing): "Keep telling the rest that I have the best car. It gives me an edge going in."

They do look oddly familiar. 😉

Probably the 1991 Italian GP at Monza, featuring all the big hitters of the day: Senna, Prost, Mansell, Piquet, Berger, Patrese, Boutsen and so on, plus the hot new kid who made a controversial jump just the week before from Jordan to Benetton, Michael Schumacher.

Of course there is!! This was just the first of 24 races. There will be lots of changes to lots of cars before you know it. It's difficult to overstate the resiliency and commitment of these organizations.

Last season's McLaren is FAR from the worst car in F1 history. I don't who would have said that if they have any understanding of said history.

Who said that? And if your point was actually that a bad car can be made much better very quickly, I agree.

Damn right they will.

Terrible ones disappeared in preQ or didn't get even that far, such as the Life and the EuroBruns. Coloni, AGS and Osella did better. I rooted for the Life and its interesting W-12 engine. I never understood why Walter Brun's cars were so bad, as his team did okay in endurance.

I would argue that gap isn't entirely down to the car, but to the driver. Max alone is worth around at least a half-second a lap, I reckon, like Fangio, Clark and Senna.

Jos appears to be laboring under the delusion that his opinion matters.

Stop that livery designer before he strikes again!

In a well-run organization people don't get fired because they tried something that didn't work. I credit the McLaren team leadership for keeping things calm and letting people do their jobs. Unlike, say, Alpine.

I said what I said, with maximum respect to Lewis.

I get it: you're a Lewis fan. But the exception doesn't make the rule. Abu 2021 was a complete dog's breakfast, as Hobbs would say, and there were more factors in play on that occasion than mere speed: the mandatory protocol wasn't followed; Lewis could have pitted, too, etc.

Disagree. The HAM Merc had won 5/6 previous titles and 63 of 138 races. It shouldn't have gone to the last race. The faster driver doesn't always win. Lewis was that driver then, but not now, which is my point. And one lap pace is an entirely different thing than racing.

No argument here. It's just not relevant.

We started commentating remotely on certain F1 races for ESPN around 1993, working from the studios in Bristol CT. Soon we were doing the whole season. It's been common in sports for decades. NASCAR has built a production facility in Concord NC for IMSA, so Cup makes sense.

As they should be. It's a matter between an employer and employee(s). No one else's business at all.