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5 in a row is as many as Hamilton has ever managed!

And only 7 other drivers in history have won 5 or more in a row!

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/f1/history/consecutive-wins-in-f1/

Now 7 in a row, equalling Schumacher and Ascari's record and only one other driver has ever in F1 history won more consecutive races - Vettel...

It has also put Mercedes 2nd in team consecutive wins, equaling Ferrari's 10, with Rosberg contributing more to that tally than Schuey did over Rubens. http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2016/05/02/mercedes-poised-to-equal-wins-record/

Team Wins First Last Drivers

McLaren 11 1988 Brazilian Grand Prix 1988 Belgian Grand Prix Ayrton Senna (7), Alain Prost (4)

Ferrari 10 2002 Canadian Grand Prix 2002 Japanese Grand Prix Michael Schumacher (6), Rubens Barrichello (4)

Mercedes 10 2015 Japanese Grand Prix 2016 Russian Grand Prix Nico Rosberg (7), Lewis Hamilton (3)

Red Bull 9 2013 Belgian Grand Prix 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix Sebastian Vettel (9)

One more to equal McLaren's 28yo record....

Edited by hrd-hr30

Maybe the stars will align and Homo will get a car that works at a GP he gives a fk about. Maybe. Or Sebastian McSwearface will not back off half way through a corner and get shunted again.

These sorts of records are all bullshit anyway. Jim Clark won his championship (One of two) in 1965 with 6 wins out of a 10 race season. Except he didn't turn up to Monaco so it was 9 races. Worth 54 points in total for the WDC. About what you get for winning in China & Mongolia or similar.

Cars are massively more reliable than they ever were and advantages gained are so entrenched by the rules and politics as to be laughable. Used to be just Ferrari would veto bad decisions because it gained them a temporary advantage. Now everyone does it.

modern era is all pretty much the same- certainly for Schumacher, Vettel, Hamilton etc. If anything cars have been less reliable in the past few years than any other time in the last 30yrs! Similar season lengths, but that doesn't really matter anyway - consecutive wins carry over. And points don't come into it.

Edited by hrd-hr30
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They just stuffed up strat wise. Shit happens unfortunately.

Yeah pretty much how i saw it. Split the strategies, they even said at the start that the 3 stop was supposedly quicker so on paper it probably was a good idea

yeah everyone had said the 3 stopper was better and they gave the lead driver what they though was the best strat and the other the alt and just turns out the latter was better...

is that why they dont allow alternate strategies at merc?

Problem being his pace on his second last tyre set was rubbish. They looked to be going away at the end worse than Verstappens. Problem with that observation was there was a point midway through the race where Vestappens pace fell away and I thought his tyres are shot. But they hung in there so who knows.

Anyway RB looked to have two good drivers neither of whom appear to be knobs. First time ever?

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