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  1. Burt Macklin
    This is definitely not right. Ross has the athleticism to play strongside edge where Sorrell plays now.
  2. Burt Macklin
    And even after all this, Mike Roach, EJ Holland, and Wescott Eberts still think Quay Davis was a huge miss by the Texas staff that will plague us for years.
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    Your takes on all this are so weird. You're completely failing to take into account height and weight when you look at raw numbers. RoJo was in the 81st percentile for testing numbers of all RBs that have ever tested at the combine, and he was 8th for RBs at the Combine. Achane was 68th percentile in RAS and 50th in SPARQ because he's tiny. RoJo weighs 30 lbs more than Achane so of course he won't have the same raw 40 time, but he performed way better overall. And Babers has no fucking clue what he's talking about on stuff like this.
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    If it was just the pods, they could fix it relatively quickly, but they have suspension/underfloor issues that are the bigger problem. Those don’t have a quick fix and, really, no one besides RB and AM know the best design for them.
  5. Burt Macklin
    Sounds like the second coming of Demond Demas.
  6. Burt Macklin
    I agree they should quit going down this path, I'm just saying it's not like they even have a clue what the right path is. The observable stuff, like sidepods does almost nothing. It's all about the underfloor. That's a huge difference between these aero regs and the previous ones. It's much harder to copy/catch up.
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    I don't think it matters what "concept" Merc pursue. RB and AM have something figured out with the underfloor that no one else knows. Merc might be able to find more improvement going with a different concept, but unless they have some drastically better way to run the floor (which they could already be incorporating to their current concept), then they going to be way behind no matter what.
  8. Burt Macklin
    Ferrari confirms the issue was with Leclerc’s ERS battery pack and neither unit is salvageable, so he’ll be taking a 10-place grid penalty in his second race after DNF’ing in his first. JFC Ferrari. get the cheap F1 TV sub and watch the entire 2012 season. It’s absolutely incredible and might be the best season of F1 ever. Almost every single race was great that year. Funny enough, we’d actually have that this year if RB didn’t exist or were on similar pace as the other 3 top teams.
  9. Burt Macklin
    This is how I feel. I want to get into IndyCar, but I feel like every time I watch someone pulls the same bullshit and just shoved a faster driver into the wall with no penalty. McLaughlin did it to Grosjean earlier in the race but Grosjean backed out. On lap 71, he pulled the same bullshit, Grosjean doesn’t back out and they both crash out. Makes for a shit product when you’ve been invested in the race for 71 laps only for the two leaders it be gone. They need to start penalizing guys hard or watching the whole race feels really pointless.
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    For now Ferrari is better than AM, but AM clearly knows the RB concept, and I expect they’ll continue this rapid development pace and pass Ferrari on pace at some point in the season. RB had Max backing off after about 7 laps. He could’ve lapped almost the entire field besides maybe 3 drivers if he wanted to.
  11. Burt Macklin
    I hate Ferrari so got dam much. Fucking imbeciles.
  12. Burt Macklin
    Harmless? Have you ever seen him drive?
  13. Burt Macklin
    Ok so AM is for real. Newey/Fallows clearly have some secret about the floor no one else knows. I guess I’m rooting for a Nando WDC this year.
  14. Burt Macklin
    It certainly seems like they should be interested in selling. Having a second team was just Dietrich dream purchase and they're not getting hardly any marketing value out of the team being Alpha Tauri. F1's revenue and viewership is sky high right now, and I'm not sure how much longer that will trend up. Plus, you have at least one well-funded group chomping at the bit to get in. It seems like a pretty ideal time to sell.
  15. Burt Macklin
    Just imagine if McLaren could build a car anywhere near as well as they market it.
  16. Burt Macklin
    Alex Jacques and Jolyon Palmer being on F1TV is really making me consider watching it that way. I like both of them a lot. Jacques is an incredible announcer.
  17. Burt Macklin
    I’m really curious if their ability to ride low is the floor or suspension. Ferrari tried very low rode heights on Day 1 of testing, but it wasn’t working for them and they had to raise it. It seems obvious they were trying to ride as low as RB but can’t and obviously Merc can’t either. Merc supplies almost everything possible to AM, so that might help Merc identify what part of the car is making the difference.
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    Dan Fallows is the technical director for AM. He was Newey’s right hand man before that, so I would assume he knows some wizardry with the floor and/or suspension from Newey that he’s brought to Aston. Newey worked on ground effect cars in the 80s for Williams, so not only is he one of the best technical people ever in F1, but he also has more experience than just about anyone currently in F1 with these types of cars. So the AM gains could be fairly real if they and RB have figured something out that no one else on the grid has.
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    Demanding $600 million as an entry fee is absurd. Audi paid that for Sauber and Sauber has full F1 facilities, including a wind tunnel. Those assets are worth hundreds of millions. I think this all boils down to the teams not wanting a true American team like Andretti because it will drastically cut into their sponsorships and fans. They were more than happy to let Porsche or Audi join.
  20. Burt Macklin
    A lot of reports this year’s Ferrari is still eating its tyres, so that’s fun. Can’t wait for Charles to stick it on pole by a couple tenths and then finish 3rd or 4th.
  21. Burt Macklin
    This is the good stuff. Massive overreactions to the first day and a half of testing. AM challenging Merc and Ferrari would be one of the biggest leaps over an offseason in the last few decades.
  22. Burt Macklin
    The Stroll rumors continue to grow. Drugovic might be getting his shot.
  23. Burt Macklin
    Just slightly different philosophies. It’s about damn time they replaced Rueda. This guy’s younger than I would have expected. Hopefully that means he’s a wunderkind. He definitely doesn’t seem like the next bureaucrat in line, like so many Ferrari hires.
  24. Burt Macklin
    That’s just a byproduct of all the fisting.
  25. Burt Macklin
    I watched a bit of testing. Ferrari looks like it’s still porpoising a bit, but hard to tell because the track is very bumpy. Also saw something on F1 technical saying RB was the best last year at sealing the outer edges of the floor, so the 15mm floor height raise could create an even bigger gap over the field. That would suck.

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