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A 7 degree change to a wing, I would image cause it to stall, at least partially. I’ve no doubt the balance would be severely effected24-11-2020 17:43
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Without doubt a dominant team makes a huge difference to the probability of driver successes. Senna (my personal favourite) dominated in a dominant car along with another GOAT prospect Prost. Both these exhibiting debatable sportsmanship at times.. Schumacher (Michael, not Ralph) was also in dominant cars during his WDC winning years. The Benneton (not withstanding alleged traction control infringement) and Ferrari (not with standing barge board infringement, crashing into opponents, stopping on track at Monaco etc etc etc). Sebastian Vettel also dominated in a dominant car suited to his set up preference. Mark Webber had the same car. Even Button, Hill, Villeneuve (JV), Hakkinen had dominant or at the very least very competitive cars for at the very least enough of the season to get out in front of the WDC race. Clark, (my second most favourite) had a dominant (when not fragile) series of Lotus cars. Fangio too, whose percentage hit rate still stands head and shoulders above all other GOAT contenders, during a time when drivers could move freely from one race winning car to the next, especially as an in demand superstar, thus Fangio was never stuck for long with a dud car. Let’s not forget that each of these GOAT candidates all had at various times of their respective careers, very capable team mates. These not being some F3 pay driver, but quality driver who were quick. Graham Hill, Barichello, Moss, Nico Rosberg, Button, DC, Webber, Massa, Raikkonen, even Alonso! Each (save for perhaps Fangio) had at various points had to deal with cars that were at least a little off the pace, but often still winning the odd race (Hamilton, Schumacher, Prost, Alonso, Raikkonen, even Button). GOAT candidates share common traits. The galvanise a team around them. Generally dominant their very fast team mates and destroy their slower ones. The win when really the odds are against them and they do so with consistency that gets all the more so as their careers progress. Some even manage to not get involved into anything dubious (Good fortune or good management, who really knows?). Other common traits are that they polarise fans with some loving and other loathing (sometimes a little too vociferously to make you not question their sanity). Even if you took all the best mathematics geniuses and all the computer science gurus and all the very best AI experts and they developed an algorithm that calculated all the points changes, mechanical DNFs, driver errors, car competitiveness, races in a year, team mate comparisons, comparisons across each season grid (according to past efforts it was Ralph Schumacher) and even factor in the outrageous claims like “well Rosberg beat Schumi and Hammy beat Rosberg and Button beat Hammy, so Button is clearly the GOAT!” Nonsense into the equation you still wouldn’t get an answer that satisfies the subjective opinions and unwavering faith of fans in their chosen one. I worked with a chap who truly believed Grosjean would be best is he’d been given the right car. Of course it’s hard to argue that Grosjean couldn’t have been a WDC had he been given the Mercedes seat, but the teams do have their statisticians to help them chose who to make a pitch of “please come and drive our car”. With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, they have the resources to research and aren’t going to throw money at a driver they simply like because he’s got a nice smile and looks exciting when he crashes. So, who is the GOAT? It’s whomever you want it to be and everybody else has the wrong opinion. FACT21-11-2020 22:00