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erwin greven wrote: ↑3 years ago Mark was not an easy team mate. Same with Ricciardo. And i doubt if the RBR was constantly the best car.

Tbh any world championship chasing ace would dream of having team mates like Weber and Bottas. Keep you sharp but easy to push around when needed

Everso Biggyballies wrote: ↑3 years ago He is no Villeneuve or Peterson, both drivers able to wrestle the very best from an ordinary car.

Ronnie really struggled with the P34 Tyrrell.

So true. With 'em in '77.....aaaannnd........nor agin' 'em in '76.

To be fair however, did Goodyear do any development for Tyrrell after the initial? Depailler didn't fair to well either in '77 compared to his and Scheckter's '76 season with it.
'T'was a shame, the '34 was interesting and showed promise.

jimclark wrote: ↑3 years ago
To be fair however, did Goodyear do any development for Tyrrell after the initial? Depailler didn't fair to well either in '77 compared to his and Scheckter's '76 season with it.
'T'was a shame, the '34 was interesting and showed promise.

The problem was IIRC that the front tyre got no development at all, being a 10 inch diameter size unique to Tyrrell (and not just in F1, the size was just oddball full stop). However to compound that the rears, being a size common to all in F1, and with Michelin coming into F1 in 1977 (with Renault) there was a development tyre war developing. So the rears were getting better and grippier by the race with the fronts on the Tyrrell remaining static creating huge and widening issues with front to rear balance.
Of course Goodyear were developing. the standard 13" size F1 front that all bar Tyrrell were using so the rest of the grid had front and rear tyres developed in unison and complementary to each other.

jimclark wrote: ↑3 years ago So true. With 'em in '77.....aaaannnd........nor agin' 'em in '76.

To be fair however, did Goodyear do any development for Tyrrell after the initial? Depailler didn't fair to well either in '77 compared to his and Scheckter's '76 season with it.
'T'was a shame, the '34 was interesting and showed promise.

No, Goodyear didn't.

It showed more than just promise - it was highly competitive early on. But it just stagnated.

DoubleFart wrote: ↑3 years agoThe issue is your abrasive language/posting style, the attacks you've done on other members because you personally weren't interested in their post, and your determination to play semantics.

And I'm to give any credence to the author of such?.....

DoubleFart wrote: ↑3 years agoI don't know if you're trolling or just retarded by this point.

Quality.

Ponderous.

Everso Biggyballies , MonteCristo....I didn't think they got any. I remembered that Goodyear left 'em out to dry but wasn't sure if it did at least some compound development the first year while keeping the same design and molds otherwise...... Like I said, 'a shame, as was the turbine restricting out of competitiveness in Indy car racing (USAC at the time). ;(

jimclark wrote: ↑3 years ago

DoubleFart wrote: ↑3 years agoThe issue is your abrasive language/posting style, the attacks you've done on other members because you personally weren't interested in their post, and your determination to play semantics.

And I'm to give any credence to the author of such?.....

DoubleFart wrote: ↑3 years agoI don't know if you're trolling or just retarded by this point.

Quality.

Ponderous.

That would suggest you gave credence to my posts in the first place, which you clearly haven't.

White six wrote: ↑3 years ago

erwin greven wrote: ↑3 years ago Mark was not an easy team mate. Same with Ricciardo. And i doubt if the RBR was constantly the best car.

Tbh any world championship chasing ace would dream of having team mates like Weber and Bottas. Keep you sharp but easy to push around when needed

Fast in qualy and a dog in race. Agree with you

caneparo wrote: ↑3 years ago

White six wrote: ↑3 years ago

erwin greven wrote: ↑3 years ago Mark was not an easy team mate. Same with Ricciardo. And i doubt if the RBR was constantly the best car.

Tbh any world championship chasing ace would dream of having team mates like Weber and Bottas. Keep you sharp but easy to push around when needed

Fast in qualy and a dog in race. Agree with you

That's a first on here

This popped up in my YouTube feed:

Weird, that also popped up in my YouTube feed about 2 days ago.

What is it about the Google algorithm that promotes these things randomly years later?

I got a video of stroll being warned seven times about max approaching, before he impeded him at Silverstone. Clever algorithm!

CLAP has triple Seb's point this year, with twice as many DNFs.

This year will go on the highlight reel.

(now watch Vettel win this final race )

MonteCristo wrote: ↑3 years ago CLAP has triple Seb's point this year, with twice as many DNFs.

This year will go on the highlight reel.

(now watch Vettel win this final race )

lol

PTRACER wrote: ↑3 years ago

MonteCristo wrote: ↑3 years ago CLAP has triple Seb's point this year, with twice as many DNFs.

This year will go on the highlight reel.

(now watch Vettel win this final race )

lol

Also lol at Seb getting 2nd place in the Driver Of The Race vote for finishing 14th behind the CLAP.