LotusRaptos

Some guy who's interested in F1 and WRC. Scottish. WRC/F1 fan. I upload videos. Occasionally. I might be using sarcasm.

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@KartmanJA @Seb5meister @Motor_Sport A bit rich for you to pull the "people have different opinions" card when you tell people to "do their research" because they had a different opinion to yours.

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@KartmanJA @Seb5meister @Motor_Sport RE 2010: As I already said, 1 crash doesn't make a race good. Pales compared to the 2010 Australian, British, Singapore, Korean or even Canadian GPs.

As for 2008... seriously? It was one of the least popular races of 2008.

And you were condescendingly telling ME to do research?

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@KartmanJA @Seb5meister @Motor_Sport 2012 and what other?

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@KartmanJA @Seb5meister @Motor_Sport 1) I didn't mention Miami in my Tweet so comparing the two is irrelevant.

2) Miami and LV ARE shit tracks. I'm at least consistent with my positions.

3) I was talking about track layout with Valencia, although the scenery was an eyesore too.

4) Still only 1/5 races were good.

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@KartmanJA @Seb5meister @Motor_Sport "Next time do your research"

Only one good race out of five years isn't the dunk you think it is. You talk about Webber's crash, but it's the only highlight from that race. I wouldn't be able to tell you who won without looking it up.

Track was boring, drivers hated it.

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@CrystalRacing Tiago Monteiro, Christijan Albers, Adrian Sutil, Sakon Yamamoto, Marcus Winkelhock, Giancarlo Fisichella, Vitantonio Liuzzi

Can't remember if there was any other one-off substitutes other than Winkelhock

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@mARKHAMillJOKER @TheRoaringKitti @F1GuyDan Curious that you chose not to include the fact that Alinso didn't win the championship with the fastest car when he had it.

Also, Hamilton's won the championship twice with a car that wasn't the fastest, so I don't know where you're coming from with that...

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@FuriusPertinax @autosport Sure, just make the races even more boring than they already are.

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@jensen88mj @Mclhondamp4421 @autosport That's because AF Corse is running the WEC cars, not Scuderia Ferrsri themselves.

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@msnmatt @bobvarsha Perhaps if Michael wasn't crashing every 5 seconds in 1993, then maybe they'd respect him more.

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@LordH2733 I'm not denying that there's an engineer problem at Haas, but that particular issue is nowhere near their biggest.

Their entire team setup works against them to a fair extent, and for all it's worth, it's not like your Pat Frys and James Keys are lining up to work at Haas.

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@LordH2733 "Plus they went a whole damn season without fixing it or finding the solution"

Yeah, because no other team on the grid has ever had this sort of problem before.

Nope. Not even once. Never happened.

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@LordH2733 @TheUnseenTomato @t1me1srunning @PickPig1 @formularacers_ Funny you should say they got rid of him for a reason. Why then would they want him back after he left the first time?

And why also would Gene fire Resta midway through the design for this year's car only a couple of years after Haas had an overhaul of their design departments?

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@LordH2733 @TheUnseenTomato @t1me1srunning @PickPig1 @formularacers_ You can blame engineers for not doing a good job to an extent, but Haas' problems as a Formula One team go beyond just "bad engineers".

Now in fairness, McLaren and Williams have had similar problems recently as well, but at least they eventually realised there was a problem.

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@LordH2733 @TheUnseenTomato @t1me1srunning @PickPig1 @formularacers_ The thing is, I agree with you. Getting fantastic engineers is important for a winning F1 team.

Now let's ask a question. Why are all these good engineers going to other teams like Aston Martin, McLaren - or even their relative rivals like Stake, Williams, etc - and not Haas?

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@LordH2733 @TheUnseenTomato @t1me1srunning @PickPig1 @formularacers_ *Ferrari

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@LordH2733 @TheUnseenTomato @t1me1srunning @PickPig1 @formularacers_ Resta was the chief designer at Ferrari from 2015-2018 and produced cars that were capable of fighting for the WDC in 2017 and both championships in 2018.

Rob Taylor was also at McLaren during the late 2000s, and Agethangolou has had stints at Ferriar and RB.

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@LordH2733 @TheUnseenTomato @t1me1srunning @PickPig1 @formularacers_ Well, funny you should ask about their credentials. They were all ex-Red Bull or Ferrari at some point.

You can blame the engineers as much as you like, but the problem with that team is, and will always be, Gene Haas himself.

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@LordH2733 @TheUnseenTomato @t1me1srunning @PickPig1 @formularacers_ If you want to go there, there's been several personnel changes in the technical department yet Haas remains 8-10th ish in the Constructor's championship.

First Taylor and Agethangolou, then Simone Resta was brought in as a technical director and how he's not there anymore.

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@LordH2733 @t1me1srunning @PickPig1 @formularacers_ Haas already tried that somewhat in 2018, before Racing Point did it, and to some extent in 2020.

The problem with copying cars is you need to understand WHY that car concept works rather than just buying parts for it and hoping it'll work.