We could potentially see a new first time winner next season. Leclerc or even Gasly.

Leclerc has pulled off some outstanding moves this season, most recently against Magnussen in Sochi so I can't agree with you there.

 

Hulk & Perez have had flashes of brilliance in their careers but admittedly not had great seasons this year. So you do have a point in the sense that I couldn't make a case for many of the current crop warranting a seat in a top team.

Leclerc has pulled off some outstanding moves this season, most recently against Magnussen in Sochi so I can't agree with you there.

 

Hulk & Perez have had flashes of brilliance in their careers but admittedly not had great seasons this year. So you do have a point in the sense that I couldn't make a case for many of the current crop warranting a seat in a top team.

Sorry, forgot about Leclerc, he has pulled off some great.moves this season.

 

 

Yeah I agree, looking back, that Leclerc has done some great moves and Bianchi was full of promise. I knew we'd have missed something.

Having said that I think he's an anomaly and that the field in general is fairly poor.

The top six drivers - Hamilton, Vettel, Alonso, Raikkonen, Verstappen and Ricciardo are among the best in the world.

 

The next bunch - Bottas, Hulkenberg, Sainz, Ocon and Perez are all good and like someone said momentarily great, and therefore deserves drives in F1.

 

I'd also place Leclerc in this group as it's really too soon to see if he'll maintain this level. I remember great drivers like Martin Brundle, who wasn't far behind Senna in the lower formula and impressed greatly until an accident messed up his ankles and robbed him of a glittering career, or Karl Wendlinger whose huge crash at Monaco put him in a coma for a month and broke his career. Frentzen, Johansson, Irvine and others all started brightly and never kept it up.

 

As for the rest of the pack I personally wouldn't care if none of them ever raced F1 again

Montoya on his day was.good in his Williams days, that pass on Schumacher in Brazil 2001.

 

 

 

Anyone spotted this during the race?

Yeah lol, I was thinking they had invited some crazy fan into the com box.

Lance Stroll set to get his first outing in a Force India in the post-season Abu Dhabi test at the Yas Marina circuit. :angry:

Nice of Williams to release him to allow that to happen. Red Bull refuse to release Dani Ric and also refuse to let him drive the RBR

If things don't work out with Ocon for Williams, surely Williams must go for Kubica now. Sirotkin's money is no excuse anymore, because apparently Kubica now brings the same amount of backing as Sirotkin.

Will we see Hamilton claim his fifth title? Or will there be a miracle for Vettel to keep it alive for yet another round?

YES :winner:

Awful luck continued for Ricciardo, the engine yet again.

Somehow in only Gutierrez's mind, he is aiming for a seat at Williams for next year.

Awful luck continued for Ricciardo, the engine yet again.

Nope. Yet again it’s got f*** all to do with Renault! Red Bull confirmed it was a clutch failure (Red Bull use their own gearbox) and Horner and Marko actually praised Renault. Well Marko was more implied which is his version of praise for Renault. Horner was right tho, the altitude reduced the advantage that Merc and Ferrari had. You could see the sheer drivability Dan Ric was getting out of the corners it was like the Renault V8 was back. Whatever Renault have done to this years engine they are clearly the best at high altitude running. The rest of the midfield pack were sitting ducks compared to the factory car. While watching the leaders do f*** all for 3 laps we missed Sainz and Hulk overtake 5 cars in about 3 laps

My mistake sorry.

 

Well done to Hulkenberg on winning the B race Mexican Grand Prix.

 

Unfortunately yes the winner was a footnote on Hamilton winning his world title matching Fangio on five.

Gotta admit Hamilton deserves it this year and there have even been moments where he seemed quite likeable.

 

If he drives as well next year as he has done this year I'll probably rate him in the 10 best drivers of all time

 

 

Anyone spotted this during the race?

Footage of the "neeow guy" from the US Grand Prix. He has been unmasked.

 

https://www.twitter.com/lbaeza06/status/105...3497216/video/1

Swiss driver Louis Deletraz will have his first F1 test for Haas at the post-season Pirelli sessions in Abu Dhabi, surely he's better this Dad who raced in three Grand Prix in 1994 and 1995.

Ten years to the day since ITV last showed a Grand Prix where Lewis Hamilton won the world title for the first time. A peak of 13m viewers in the UK watched the race.

 

 

 

Ten years on, how things have changed with Sky Sports having exclusive F1 rights from season, Sky and F1 can only dream of those viewing figures now.