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I did not realise Toto said that, it means they would have let Hamilton through in the first stint then which would have meant the win more than likely.

If we were to go to that level of scrutiny then Vettel probably lost himself a few points with his start in Canada. He collided with Verstappen who started 5th when he started 2nd. A better start and he likely finishes 2nd or at least 3rd. I also think Hamilton should have qualified ahead of Kimi in Hungary if he was on it, which actually would have won him the race given Vettels issue it would have been an easy overcut/undercut.

Then you also have Vettels start in Russia, although the Mercedes was the better car that weekend (imo) he had the opportunity to win and P1 does usually come under threat from P2 in Russia, he should/would have been safe from P3 if he made a decent start. He still nearly went into T1 alongside, just a slightly better start and he wins Russia.

Ironic that Vettels season is marred by a few bad starts, reliability and bad performances in Baku and Singapore. Just like Lewis in 2016. In fact, most of the key moments in each season occurred at the same races too - Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and Baku.

No that's not a sensible way of looking at this. None of this breakdown is sensible actually. You have Hamilton on here for Russia (a weekend in which, although he seemed to struggle for pace, he did not make any mistakes and had to nurse an injured car throughout most of the actual race) and yet you ignore Vettel's first lap collision from Canada? You want to include races like Australia and Bahrain for Hamilton (races where he finished 2nd) but leave out Russia for Vettel (where he lost the lead at the start - exactly what you are claiming Hamilton should be dinged for). Your whole way of looking at this is totally imbalanced.

I seem to recall there were posts before the start of the race in Russia predicting that pole wasn't the best place to start because of the slipstream, and sure enough...

I’m not sure why Bahrain can’t be classed as Vettel getting a better start on the clean side of the grid. It wasn’t like Hamilton’s start was dreadful, last year when he had awful starts Rosberg was getting the plaudits for an overtake move.

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Yes, make an excuse for Vettel being beaten off the line but when Hamilton loses a position from the dirty side of the grid, refer to it as getting "mugged". You really don't see how blatantly imbalanced your analysis is?

I wouldn't have believed Hamilton could have lost the 17 point lead he had in 2007 over the course of two races, when a win was worth 10 points. Is it 59 points now that he leads by with 25 for a win and with four races to go? Can he win by just following Vettel home in every race yet?

Not only can he win by following Vettel home, he can actually win by not even finishing on the podium in any of them. If Vettel wins all the remaining races and Lewis is fourth in all of them, he would still win the title by 7 points.

Without a Hamilton DNF (or two) there is no chance of Vettel winning the title.

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Considering it is the baseball playoff season here in the States, with lots of talk about "Magic Numbers," am I correct that Hamilton's is currently 42? In other words, if Hamilton can score 42 points in the next 4 races he wins the driver's title regardless of what anyone else might do. Obviously, if Hamilton finishes ahead of Vettel or if Vettel fails to win any of the last 4 races, that number will go down. Sobering, and puts Ferrari's recent troubles into perspective.

Yep. 42 points required assuming he wins no more races.

If Hamilton DNFs in the next 2 races and finishes 5th in Brazil, he can still take the title with a win in Abu Dhabi (assuming Vettel wins the next 3 races).

Those are pretty damning odds against Ferrari.

I want Mercedes to win, but wish that it was taken down to the wire rather than this fade away by Ferrari. It's an odd way to end the season.

He can but then he's not in control of the race, he has the car to stick it on pole, grab the title don't leave it in the hands of others.

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Another scenario: Vettel's last 4 races match the best run of 4 races he's had this season - 2 wins, 2 second places. 86 points for Vettel.

Lewis at the same time matches his worst run of form - Monaco to Austria (7th, 1st, 5th and 4th) - except we'll give him worse luck and sub out his win for a nice big engine explosion. 28 points to Hamilton.

Hamilton still wins the title by a point.

As Zoue stated earlier, there's a rather rotund lady out there somewhere, clearing her throat...

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Realistically Vettel needs two no scores for Hamilton. Sounds unlikely but is it any more unlikely than Vettel failing to score twice in three races?

Any possibility this thread is going round in circles?

Now calculate the likeliness of two very unlikely things happening together

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Yep - realistically Vettel needs alot of things to go his way now.

Those lost points from Baku/Montreal/Singapore/Silverstone were very costly.

He needs more than that. He also needs to beat Lewis in both the races where his engine doesn't blow up for that scenario to work. Otherwise it's -50 points for the two DNFs, then equal points if they trade wins. Hamilton still wins the title that way.

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The 42 points people are quoting isn’t just points which Lewis needs to gain - it includes points which Vettel can drop . For example in the next race If Lewis takes 25 points and Vettel takes 18, The 7 points which Vettel drops would be deducted from the 42 ...42-25-7 leaving only 10 points required.
In this case a 5th place for Lewis in Mexico or any of the other 3 races would finish it .

The gap between Lewis and victory (42) is bigger than the gap to Seb and Lewis(59) which is why things are so difficult to turn round. As already stated Lewis can whittle that target down by stopping Seb from winning races where as Seb has to win these points outright

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