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F1 2021

I'd say Fangio personally. To win 24 races in 51 starts in a era where the cars were so fragile is nuts.

Senna is the best ive seen in the time I've watched F1.
Senna, Fangio or Clark all have a genuine claim to GOAT, not Lewis, he can fight for 4th with Stewart & Schumacher
 
Still 7 Championships though - and that (alone) seems to be the metric
How do they measure Tennis? Snooker? Darts? et al.
Never any doubt (well, not to me) had Masi made a different decision though!
Not in F1, times have changed greatly, it used to be competitive, now unless you're in the right car, maybe two right cars if you're lucky, then you have no chance. Plus in earlier times you might die, and many did. Clark died, Senna died, how many could either have won? Fangio was 39 by the time they initiated a world championship
 

Sensible for the benefit of the sport as a whole. Even if Mercedes did appeal, they'd lose at the FIA level, and say they took it further, the remedy at any higher level would surely be financial rather than altering the result of the Championship.

I was surprised that the FIA took responsibility in the way that they did, even if they didn't go as far as admitting fault. It has tarnished the sport when it was on the biggest possible stage.
 
Not in F1, times have changed greatly, it used to be competitive, now unless you're in the right car, maybe two right cars if you're lucky, then you have no chance. Plus in earlier times you might die, and many did. Clark died, Senna died, how many could either have won? Fangio was 39 by the time they initiated a world championship

All fair points, Hamilton is still the GOAT for me though. I think he's a brilliant role model to go with being a brilliant driver.
 
Not in F1, times have changed greatly, it used to be competitive, now unless you're in the right car, maybe two right cars if you're lucky, then you have no chance. Plus in earlier times you might die, and many did. Clark died, Senna died, how many could either have won? Fangio was 39 by the time they initiated a world championship
IYO!
But the metric is still there!
Though I accept your point about Fangio
 
It’s interesting that she tweeted that a short time before the official Mercedes statement.

I wonder what kind of deal has been cut for Merc to drop the appeal?
There is no deal why would there be . Merc were never going to push on with it. Especially as SLH didn't want them to. The FIA are going to conduct Thier own review of what happened, they have to really as the fallout has been so bad.
 
There is no deal why would there be . Merc were never going to push on with it. Especially as SLH didn't want them to. The FIA are going to conduct Thier own review of what happened, they have to really as the fallout has been so bad.

Mercedes will have been insisting on certain issues being addressed to prevent a situation like Sunday happening again.
 
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