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Also V10 era was full of driver aids compared to modern cars, traction control, automated shifts in certain scenarios, launch control on certain cars, etc. You could hear the traction control cut the fuel flow on the TV, it was that obvious. Also there were multiple artificial rules to slow the cars down, grooved tyres being the worst offender. 

So every F1 car built since 2011 is "fake"? Race control has had the ability to remotely disable overtaking aids (DRS in the past) since then. 

This switch for overtaking aids has existed since 2011. You just didn't know about it because nobody screwed up using it, until now. 

This incident is not specific to the current regulations, the FIA has always had control of the overtake aids on the cars, be it DRS or the current overtake mode. This incident absolutely could have happened during the previous regulations, in fact any regulation set from 2011 onwards with DRS. 

What does Verstappen and Norris' opinions even have to do with this beyond pointless fan warring? From a technical perspective, it's nothing specific to the regs. The same thing could have happened in 2013 or any other year between 2011-2025, if DRS was disabled while some cars were on a hotlap, and others were on a cooldown lap, and then DRS was enabled later on. 

That brings me back lol. 

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Because other series can't touch F1 in terms of car performance and the size of the paycheck, no other series is even close. Hypercar in WEC and IndyCar are 30-50kph slower through the apex of high speed corners, with a fraction of the paycheck. 

Of course the critique isn't fully genuine, most critique in life follows the same rule. People give criticism that isn't fully genuine to get something in exchange that they wouldn't get otherwise, this how the world works. 

Not really, F1 is a workplace just like anywhere else and performative public apologies are not rare. We've all seen it before I imagine after a colleague screws up.  If you think it's a weird conclusion, just wait until you're on the other side of one of these "apologies". 

It's the opposite of smart, it makes him look like a coward trying to score PR points. Have a private conversation about it, in front of the media like this Lawson can't say anything back. 

Bottas was on a wet track, a mitigating factor. Baku is bone dry.

The most powerful engine in F1 history is a turbocharged inline 4, what are you talking about? They can make plenty power. Main reason we didn't get inline 4s in 2014 was because they couldn't be used as a structural member in the same way a V6 or V8 could, and teams didn't want to redesign everything. 

Probably what's actually going to happen with manufacturer influence. 

Your last paragraph is the truth but many will be blind to it out of a hatred of Manchester United. 

That's not a scramjet air breathing hypersonic missile, the kinzhal is a ballistic missile launched from an aircraft. Air launched ballistic missiles have been around since the 1950s. Main advantage of a ballistic missile over any other weapon is time to target. A ballistic missile can travel hundreds of miles in 6-12 minutes. If a time sensitive target needs to be engaged, that is where a ballistic missile beats a subsonic stealth aircraft dropping guided bombs. This is why the US is buying a lot of Blackbeard missiles, to engage time sensitive targets. 

However the cost differential is massive. Ballistic missiles can cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars per missile, to deliver a tiny payload. For example the Blackbeard is aiming for a 400K cost to deliver a sub 100lbs payload, and that's considered "cheap". The kinzhal you mentioned earlier costs over 2 million US dollars per missile to deliver a 1000lbs payload. Meanwhile a 2000lbs JDAM costs 20-30K, and a B-2 carries 16 of them, an F-35 carries 2 of them, to deliver hell of a lot more explosive. 

Accuracy is another problem. It's very easy to get a bomb like a JDAM to be highly accurate vs a ballistic missile. And to hit moving targets with a bomb, a target can be laser designated. Ballistic missiles fired from hundreds of miles away hitting moving targets accurately is a very complex engineering problem. The US and China are working on various solutions to this, with multimode seekers (radar seeker + infrared imaging+laser rangefinders for example), and two way datalinks the give the missile up to date targeting information. 

Well they need to replace those 123 A380s, and the 777X is the largest airliner on the market. 

In real life they just sent the B-2 stealth bombers to do the actual strike, escorted by F-22s, F-35s, F-16s and EA-18Gs. With everyone flying way above any "canyons", the B-2 has an unclassified flight ceiling of 50 000ft. 

As the saying goes "Fighter pilots make movies. Bomber pilots make history."

What are you even going to upgrade or develop on the electrical side? Battery capacity, regeneration rates and maximum deployment and maximum power all have hard caps in the regulations. You cannot make a bigger battery, cannot regenerate or deploy more energy than allowed, cannot make a more powerful electric motor. That's one of the big reasons ADUO is based on ICE power only. The electrical side is already heavily restricted. There are no real "Additional Development and Upgrade Opportunities" on the electrical side, maybe a fraction of a percent on the efficiency of the motor at most. As soon as fans start to understand this instead of making up insane conspiracy theories about Mercedes and ADUO, the better for everyone. 

There's still set to set variation because Pirelli QC is all over the place. Russell complained about this a lot, even when he was qualifying ahead of Hamilton. 

It has been automated for 12 years now, since 2014. 

We had driver controlled deployment with KERS in 2009 and 2011-2013, it was a poorly functioning system. How many KERS overtakes or battles can anyone even remember? I only remember Raikkonen at Spa 2009. 

00:58 Electronic “five hundred” callout.

00:54 Electronic “one hundred” callout.

That's a descent rate of 6000 feet per minute on short final... At that point it's not an aircraft, but a human guided missile that's going to hit somewhere on the runaway.  

Also, there are already hard caps on the electrical side. Maximum power, energy storage/battery capacity, deployment per lap, these are all capped already on the electrical side. So what use would it be to try offer additional development and upgrade opportunities (which is what ADUO stands for) for the part of the powertrain which is already heavily restricted? What are the teams even "developing" towards in this hypothetical? You're not allowed to make a higher capacity battery or more powerful electric motor. Electric motors are already extremely efficient, it's not a combustion engine. That's the big reason ADUO is available for the ICE and not the electrical side.

 If Mercedes is simply better at deploying that amount of electrical energy than it's customer teams and the rest of the competition, how do you plan to remedy that? By allowing the other engine manufacturers to increase the amount of power from the ICE further with upgrades, vs a Mercedes who can't upgrade the ICE to try make up for deficiencies in deployment? Because that seems to be the popular consensus here on how ADUO should work. There was no way any team would agree to that in the past, or agree in future. Mercedes customers would be heavily disadvantaged in such a scenario, they don't get the engine upgrades other teams do, and they don't get the deployment advantage Mercedes does. They would never agree. Another solution would be to calculate the power based on each team's individual deployment strategy plus the ICE power, but now we're in BoP/EoT territory. F1 will never go there. 

He agreed to it... All the teams did. 

You can smell the ChatGPT through the screen on the original post 

Welcome to F1. It's almost always been like this. Close racing is the exception, not the norm. 

 This guy needs a number two driver? The guy that frustrated Alonso on his 7th ever F1 race and is mixing it up with the best of the new generation (Leclerc, Verstappen, Norris, Russell), when he's over 40 years old? To be honest it's almost a miracle Hamilton is still so sharp at this age. 

Get real.