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Ferrari run away with it

Renault win best of the rest with a serious challange from haas

We stop talking about the mercedes engine as the best and flip to the ferrari...

Please remember I said BOLD predictions

In Spain, France, and GB if I remember correctly Pirelli brought a thinner compound and were considering bringing the thinner compound to future races.
In Spain Ferrari had bad tire(you say tyre) wear and were off the pace, they seemed fighty in France but the race did not come to fruition. Here in GB if they can beat or match the mercs they cover off the thinner compound threat of being in say round 19. Also Q3 in GB 5 of 10 cars are Ferrari. There are only 6 Ferrari cars in the whole field which to me says that they have found something in the engine over the break. This means if they are getting both ferraris in 33% of their engines in Q3, if they also get both HAAS who have cemented a run to challenge Renault in recent performance then 66% of engines, if Leclerc continues his hot run of form they are getting a scare efficient amount of cars into Q3 with a Ferrari engine.

Renault... They seem to also suffer a little from the thinner tires and despite the challange from HAAS I do not think that what they managed in the beginning of the season will be surmountable in the constructors championship but I think we will see the HAAS team taking chunkns out of them in the championship for the rest of the season.

If my bold predictions are correct then I think it is clear the 3rd one will probably be accepted but I think even if Ferrari do not run away with it we will still start to consider the Ferrari engine above the Mercedes for my 3rd bold prediction

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Someone outside of the top 3 teams will get a podium somewhere.

One of the Haas tomorrow!

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I don´t think those are particularly bold predictions even if I disagree with some of them.

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Hulkenberg gets a podium !!!

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Its done!! it can not get bolder than that, moderators can close the thread now!!

Ever since 2008, there has been a pattern where in every even year, the championship is decided in the final race of the season.

Therefore I reckon the WDC will still be alive in Abu Dhabi.

And in every even year, Vettel makes more mistakes and generally struggles more than he did in the odd year preceding it.

Therefore, Vettel bottles it in the final race. Calling it now.

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COUGH COUGH Vettel at RBR? There was not any competition for him for like 2 or 3 years, I know 2010 and 2012 were close but the rest were RBR runaways

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He worked the other way at Red Bull, the 2010 season he came from behind I think (this was the year Alo got stuck behind Petrov covering Webber?)

Then he crushed 11, 12 was close, esoecially in the first half and then he literally ran away with 13 and then they switched regs for 14

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What relevance does that have to the post?

Every even year since 2008 the championship has gone to the final round. That is the claim that was made. The fact that Red Bull and Mercedes have dominated that period of time doesn't change that fact.

McLaren get a podium

You just identified exactly the pattern I was talking about. Not sure what point you're making?

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AUTOSPORT GP PREDICTOR: 2017 USA & P-F1 Champion | #2 in the world in 2017

I can't think of anything really that bold, the only one I can think is Bottas not winning a single race largely due to bad luck and Hamilton and Vettel stepping it up for the run in.

That half those seasons were completely uncontested

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It's pretty clear that, for whatever reason, Vettel appears to perform better in odd numbered years. That's the pattern Exediron is referring to.

Kimi to win 2 races in a row.

Somebody will die.

That's unusually dark for this place

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* Daniel to never beat Max again this season on pace in qualy (so excluding reliability, grid penalties and incidents).

* Charles Leclerc to get on the podium in an incident-rich Singapore.

* Vettel to be WDC with two races to go, so after Mexico already.

*Grosjean to be dumped from Haas before the end of the season.
*McLaren to podium in Singapore
*Ricciardo to sign with Ferrari for 2019

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My last prediction in a thread like this earlier this year was: Europe will have a horror summer so we will have seven rain races in a row.

Swap with Leclerc? Doesn't seem so bold now I think about it... Would also help your third prediction come true.

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- Chanoch Nissany

- XNDA to release a cover version of "Don't Worry. Be Happy" with Eminem.

- James Vowels leaves Merc to joins the British Military as a strategic planner.

- Grosjean & Verstappen leaves F1 to open a chain of safe driving schools throughout Europe.

- Raikonnen wins the Nobel Prize for Medicine when it's discovered that listening to him speak for 3 minutes before bed time has a
100% success rate in curing insomnia

- Ricciardo announces he wont be signing any contract until the end of the season as he's still "weighing up his options". Meanwhile
Ferrari, Mercedes, Renault, McLaren, Red Bull, Toro Rosso, Force India, Sauber, Williams & Haas all announce their driver line up's for
2019.

- McLaren re-sign Alonso for 2019 but allow him to miss races to participate in the Tour de France, Volvo around the world yacht race,
Iditarod, Gloucester cheese rolling festival, Kentucky Derby, Finnish wife carrying championships, Scottish Highland games & the US -
North Korea peace talks.

- Magnussen wins 'Most Popular Driver" award as voted on by his peers.

- Helmut Marko opens a refuge for forgotten young drivers announcing " It's horrible the way some people treat these kids".

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Non RB, Merc, Ferrari podiums won in Hybrid era - 300 spots available, 23 won

2017 WCC CPTTC - Jalopy Racing (Herb & Me)

That was a fun read!

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I like them all, but this one really tickled my funny bone.

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Would have to be in Europe, as Moldonado already has a franchise for this in North America

Haha, well done Jezza13!

The championship has been decided in the last race of every even year since 2006.

Well since 2008 the championship was decided before the final race of the season in every odd year, a pattern that breaks down with 2007.

Here’s another one: Neither Bottas or Raikkonen will win a race this season

Mercedes will win 8 races in total, all Hamilton.
Ferrari will win 8 races in total, all Vettel.
Red Bull will win 5 races, 3 for Verstappen and 2 for Ricciardo.