I’ll play devil’s advocate for a bit here (with the disclosure that I don’t like either of these parties but am fascinated by the trial):

Nope, not even remotely what you typed.

Graham Hill entering and winning the Indy 500 in 1966, is why he is the only person in history to even achieve it.

To be honest, I don’t rate Vettel that high at all. It matters who your teammate is, and Vettel has never beaten a top driver under 30. He’s good, sure, but I don’t think he’s ever been one of the two or three best drivers in F1 at any time during his career.

There’s a difference in being in the best car and being in a dominant car

He dropped to 9th for the Gasly incident, but dropped out of the points as a result of another penalty for cutting the chicane to keep 5 secs ahead of Albon.

Lewis would’ve unquestionably finished ahead of him in Australia and Miami if not for the safetycar timing. So that would’ve been 2/5 for Russell then. And that’s not counting the VSC in Saudi which dropped Lewis from 6th (right behind George) to 10th, as his team was afraid the pitlane was about to be closed when…

This. No way he intended to cause a crash. Which doesn’t get him totally off the hook - it’s cheeky as hell and you’d want to avoid that kind of stuff, but let’s not overreact.

I mean, Schumacher’s pole position record in those 90s Ferrari seasons would indicate that they absolutely never had the fastest car over a full season. However, they did generally have a reliability advantage, which helped them tremendously (and, along with some significant help from Salo and Schumacher, allowed…

Cheers, I understand now. I thought you meant his stats in general.

Bit of recency bias. The Ferrari was only unquestionably the best car in 2001-02 and 2004.

“Whole-career figures also obscure how winning percentages vary depending on the teammate”

So 2018 is some sort of holy grail of F1 seasons now? Kinda strange since 2021, you know... last season, absolutely blows any season down to 2012 out of the water for entertainment value.

That was Ericsson. Also, Russell has claimed that his crash with Bottas last year was in part due to DRS, which is probably why race control was careful with it this season.

Nope. There are simply a few tracks that don’t particularly lend itself to a lot of overtaking. That’s not just an F1 issue (though F1's aero development definitely exacerbates the issue), other series also see fewer overtakes on such tracks. Imola is one of them, as it’s very narrow and only has one real overtaking…

I understand your point, though I don’t fully agree. My point is that overtakes are completely meaningless when the lead driver has no opportunity or incentive to defend. The only drivers who routinely defend DRS overtakes are Verstappen and Magnussen, and they are usually called out as ‘dangerous’ when they do.

I love it. We actually saw faster cars get stuck behind slower ones, having to outwit others to overtake instead of just driving by them in a straight line.

Lewis has had two disastrous qualifying sessions, but the team battle in that regard is still at 2-2.

Tough breaks is an understatement. He’s been ridiculously unlucky in pit lane so far. Lost 6 positions in Saudi-Arabia because a poorly timed VSC and indecision from his team; lost a podium to his teammate in Melbourne because of a SC immediately after he stopped; and got royally screwed in Imola by the Ocon unsafe…

I wonder if Mick is still as happy about the driver switch as he was initially. He’s getting exposed a bit by Magnussen here.