Juzh wrote:turbof1 wrote: Belgium and Hungary for example, one in the pits (or rather the strategy) and and one on the road. Or Russia.
Granted, smaller mistakes like going off the road without destroying your tyres didn't really costed them a lot.
Belgium it only cost them because it was on lap 2.
Hungary again they got off lightly. A spin on lap 1, a messed up strategy, end result -> 3 and 4th. It takes multiple screw ups on all fronts so we can have any kind of race for 1st place.
Russia? Colossal mistake into T1, compromised strategy -> 1st and 2nd.
You are of course mostly right, but the point was they got punished
. Russia too, although they managed to crawl out of that hole. However, Belgium was much more costly then you like to admit. They did lost one car there. Hamilton would not have finished if it happened later in the opening stage, and depending on when it hypothetically happened later then that, would either have not scored or any points, or very very few. And also look at it in a different way: because it happened to Nico in the openings stage, he had a full race to recover from his broken wing.
That's a bit difficult to do. And if you're not playing favourites F1 becomes much less interesting. For me anyway.
Discussing it on a board where everybody surely will have a preference for different teams, does mean discussing the season from a neutral point of view in order to have equality. I understand that it is harsh not to see your favorite team winning (speakin in general, don't know your specific facorite), but rating a season means taking out your bias for one team. I'm sure there are fans of different teams then mercedes who still think it was a decent season. I for sure think it was!