Formula 1 Qatar Airways Qatar Grand Prix 2024Formula 1 

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Did Perez really lose drive or did he spin it and just tried to lie himself out of another farcical episode.

How did he go from Minister of Defence to paydriver is still beyond me.

Hard to think of a driver who’s fallen off a cliff as much as him performance wise (Seb post-Hockenheim crash springs to mind but his prior highs were higher and lows afterwards not as low as Perez’s now). Went to Silverstone last year and on one of the screens between races they were showing Perez’s greatest hits as it were and it really hammered home what a phenomenal driver he was - I mean that 2020 race win is one of the great drives of the sport.

Psychological perhaps - frustration at not being able to keep up with Max taken its toll massively?
 
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With all of them in the paddock whining about safety, they should applaud the penalty for ignoring the yellows. Now all we need is the stewards staying consistent after this weekend. But that's not going to happens as Russell's safety car infringement was only worth 5 seconds, changing nothing.
 
If Bottas doesn't score in Abu Dhabi (unlikely that he will and that's an understatement), we will have had the same number of point-scorers in a single season three years in a row for the first time since 2009-11 (19/19/19).

Yes, I am into F1, but more into the History and Statistics aspects of the sport.
 
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Did Perez really lose drive or did he spin it and just tried to lie himself out of another farcical episode.

How did he go from Minister of Defence to paydriver is still beyond me.
He's always been a pay driver, just for the past few seasons he's had an absolute rocketship to drive, which he hasn't had this season. And in 2020 he had a dominant Mercedes clone.
 
If we have any more Qatar Airways-sponsored races, they could hold their own championship.
Maybe this one could actually be called the Qatari Grand Prix.

You know, in the same way that France Grand Prix and Italy Grand Prix sound dumb?
 
Formula 1 Qatar Airways Gran Premio del Made in Qatar e'Dell Qataria-Qatargna Grand Prix 2024
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Sorry, that post just happened to remind me of that particular scene in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, ahem!

Back on subject!
 
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We had 21 point-scorers in 2022.

We had 21 point-scorers in 2023.

We now have 21 point-scorers in 2024.

We haven't had more than 20 point-scorers in a season three years running since 1980-1982 (21/21/26).

Flat-bottomed cars separated the top teams from the bottom ones that year, as more teams branched away from the once-ubiquitous DFV.

@Liquid we say "Money Gasket" in these parts.
 
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That 1980 to 1982 run I didn't know of, but it's really impressive if I'm thinking about it!

Points only down to 6th, raging unreliability and only around 16 races a season. That's only around 100 distinct points positions for a season. Compare that to 2024, with 24 races plus Sprints, that's 288 individual distinct points positions.
Will have to go on a proper deep dive into those seasons eventually
 
That 1980 to 1982 run I didn't know of, but it's really impressive if I'm thinking about it!

Points only down to 6th, raging unreliability and only around 16 races a season. That's only around 100 distinct points positions for a season. Compare that to 2024, with 24 races plus Sprints, that's 288 individual distinct points positions.
Will have to go on a proper deep dive into those seasons eventually
It did take a bit of brain-racking on my part.

Upon further research, the sequence actually ran to six years in a row from 1977-82! (21 five times in a row then 26 in 1982!)
 
According to Verstappen, Russell did all he could to screw Verstappen into the penalty after qualification at the stewards yesterday and in the process lost all respect from Verstappen for doing so.
Would've been comedy gold if Russell said "Verstappen **** turned into me!" in quali instead :lol:
 
Don't mean to potentially jinx Max, but if he wins in Abu Dhabi, he'll be the first driver to score a double-figured number of wins in a season four years in a row!
 

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