2016 Singapore Grand PrixFormula 1 

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Classic Kimi on the radio.



Also, yikes.

Mercedes can equal the record for the longest winning streak by an F1 team at the next round of the championship.

Nico Rosberg’s Singapore Grand Prix victory was the tenth in a row for the team, a streak which began at the Monaco Grand Prix. An eleventh win would tie the record set by McLaren between the Brazilian and Belgian Grands Prix in 1988.

However Mercedes have been here before. They also won ten consecutive races between the Japanese Grand Prix last year and the Russian Grand Prix earlier this season. Their hopes of an eleventh ended when their drivers took each other off at the start of the Spanish Grand Prix.

Had that not happened, and one of the silver car gone on to win that race, Mercedes would have obliterated the record. They would currently be on a 21-race winning streak and instead of tying the current record would be on course to double it.
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They've won 20 of the last 21 GPs and would in great likelihood probably would have won the other if not for the crash.
 
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LMSCorvetteGT2
Malaysia will be tough for Nico and so will Japan and especially the U.S. The true test will be Mexico for both of them. Lewis sounded pretty huffed last year for a guy with the Title in the bag, because the team wouldn't give him a strategy that would have seen him on the back of Nico's wing to fight for a race win.
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Nico can take heart from the fact that he has outperformed Lewis at Malaysia (2013) and USA (2015), and he has beaten the Brit in Mexico, Brasil and Abu Dhabi. Even at Suzuka, he has previously outqualifed Hamilton and, due to the nature of the circuit, that race will likely be decided by the run to the first corner (if it stays dry, otherwise all bets are off).

Not that I don't think Hamilton is still the slight favourite for the title, but the upcoming tracks don't necessarily play against Rosberg.
 
Wait...we haven't been to Malaysia yet?

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SagarisGTB
Nico can take heart from the fact that he has outperformed Lewis at Malaysia (2013) and USA (2015), and he has beaten the Brit in Mexico, Brasil and Abu Dhabi. Even at Suzuka, he has previously outqualifed Hamilton and, due to the nature of the circuit, that race will likely be decided by the run to the first corner (if it stays dry, otherwise all bets are off).

Not that I don't think Hamilton is still the slight favourite for the title, but the upcoming tracks don't necessarily play against Rosberg.
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He outperformed Lewis at Malaysia and the U.S. those years? Even though Lewis beat him...? As for Mexico I acknowledged that in my post in fact, the other two I didn't bring up because if Lewis can't win in Mexico to me it's not going to happen for him. Also if Lewis didn't care as he claimed since he won the championship by this point, to me it was just the driver with the most effort winning in the best car. It wasn't like these past two GP where Nico displayed WDC driving.

Also no one said they play against him, Nico is usually strong at the Asian legs of the season, but the stats when you compare show a much favorable hand for Lewis. Despite momentum. I think Nico has a chance, even if I think Lewis is more favorable as well. We'll see soon enough.
 
I wouldn't be reading too much into previous form as an indicator of future performance. After all, Hamilton has had more success than Rosberg in Belgium, Italy and Singapore, but Rosberg won all three.
 
prisonermonkeys
I wouldn't be reading too much into previous form as an indicator of future performance. After all, Hamilton has had more success than Rosberg in Belgium, Italy and Singapore, but Rosberg won all three.
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Belgium was due to a race that saw him start the back of the grid, not sure how you can even bring that to form. But okay, the other two I give Rosberg proper respect, especially Monza. Singapore was less of surprise because even with it being a track Lewis had done decent at, it's not one of his better, especially with a 33% failure rate. So I think it's quite safe to use previous performance as a model of potential, just as much as current momentum.
 
Bram Turismo
Wait...we haven't been to Malaysia yet?
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It was moved back in the year to pair it up with Singapore and make the logistics of the championship easier to manage, but also to try and avoid the monsoon season; because the race starts late in the day to accomodate European viewers, the chances of the race being affected by a late afternoon thunderstorm are much higher in March-April than September-October. The Malaysians resisted the move for years, arguing that if they followed Singapore, they would be competing with Singapore for spectators, and Sepang typically has one of the lowest turnouts of the season despite having the best value for money in terms of ticket price (but Chase Carey and Liberty Media want to make tickets cheaper). The Malaysians argued that by separating the races by several months, there was a greater chance of some spectators visiting both rounds. I'm not sure what has changed, but they appear to be on-board with the move now.
 
You could have told me we've already been to Malaysia this year and I'd have believed you.
 
@prisonermonkeys, what changed was the circuit resurfacing. They weren't too sure if it would be done in time for the early season, or they wanted some time for it to settle before racing F1 cars on it, so that's why the change happened. It looks to be staying this way.
 
What I don't understand though is why there is the 2 week gap between them. Are they the 2 closest circuits on the calendar? Because I would be tempted to go to both if it meant being away from home (with the cost of doing so) for little over a week only....
 
Wonder how quickly people will give up on F1 next year if there's a Mercedes 1-2 in the first race. Or even earlier, if they steamroll preseason testing. Imagine if they followed the Ferrari and Red Bull model and built the team around one driver.

The Hamilton vs Rosberg rivalry has probably been the only thing keeping F1 alive in this hybrid era.
 
I still can't remember a race where both actually raced each other for the majority of a race.

Agreed on 2017 is in need of new challengers but Red Bull have been impressive lately so hopefully they'll be right up there.

I'm enjoying watching the W07 in action though, will be one of greatest F1 race cars of all time easily in the future.
 
Yeah this championship is not as enjoyable as it looks, Hamilton and Rosberg are rarely in a battle with each other its a championship that in the most part is being won by part durability.
 
mustafur
Yeah this championship is not as enjoyable as it looks, Hamilton and Rosberg are rarely in a battle with each other its a championship that in the most part is being won by part durability.
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That and usually the race is decided by the end of lap one. Unless something insane happens like 2015 Monaco or 2016 Spain.
 
mustafur
Yeah this championship is not as enjoyable as it looks, Hamilton and Rosberg are rarely in a battle with each other its a championship that in the most part is being won by part durability.
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I don't agree, as a Lewis fan it's actually a pretty thrilling wdc. We don't know who's gonna be on top at the end and it makes it pretty damn cool. Also Ferrari and Red Bull both blew one or two chance to win (Australia, Canada and Monaco). I don't get why people don't like it, if it was Prost and Senna on McLaren no one would complain or was complaining.
It won't be decided before the last race most likely also which is awesome again.

If you want a championship with lots of different winner and lots of overtaking you know you're in a bad place in f1. But honestly it was never really that. That's more Nascar territory.
 
The Prost vs Senna rivalry was a hell of a lot better than this. They were contesting each other every race, despite Senna usually being the quicker driver in qualifying.

At least it's technically a title fight, but the cycle has been driver A (usually Rosberg) gets good start, driver B (usually Hamilton) does not and has to fight back to 2nd, at which point the race is already over because driver A (Rosberg) is miles ahead and Mercedes don't do any favours with strategies.

In terms of on track action between the two, and the ability of Ferrari and Red Bull to give headaches other than due to poor starts, 2014 and 2015 have been a lot more exciting.
 

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