Still, the guy actually raced in the sport, unlike 90% of people and journos giving their opinion. Dismissing his opinion isn't a good look on an armchair critic.
At this point your opinion counts a lot more than his does. I am not sure what he is smoking but he always has to weigh in on every issue with his "expert" opnion, just trying to stay relevant to a world that he was barely a part of.
The guy has plenty of street cred. 180 races, 6 victories. He is an expert by definition. A retired one, but an expert nonetheless. What do you call an expert?
Its like Jacques Villeneuve, he also tried at some point to make his opinion known around everything F1, mostly missing the mark with 90% of his "predictions"
solid team.
I feel like with the cost of the drivers and the way the top 5 teams are ahead of the bottom 5 teams managing the second constructor and the last 2 drivers is more about minimizing negative points rather than gaining any points.
I will explain more.
Red Bull, Ferrari, Mclaren, Merc and Aston are going to be taking at least 85% of the points this season.
so for say Yuki, Danni, or Alex to score points it will mean that a Ferrari engine blew, Stroll showed his true form or there was some sort of racing incident where George TBoned Checko or Lewis went flying into Fernando's rear wheel.
for the season I think finding the balance of fewest negative points to fill seats to pair with the most consistent big point driver or team is going to be the way to win.
there is no "hack" like picking Aston at the start of the season, with Redbull as the main and Lando as your 5th.
and then swapping in Oscar for Lance at Silverstone and swapping Aston for Mclaren when they were at their cheapest.
that was what I did to win the league I was in last year. but it felt very obvious to me at the time to play it like that.
Neither are in touch with the current state of F1 much like Hakkinen. where Coulthard is much more involved in the current state of F1 so his opinion carries more weight.
and spot on about DC. he is in and around the sport, still doing marketing stunts for Red Bull from time to time even so he really understands how different these cars are to the ones that he drove.
where Mikka, Ralf and Jaques are removed from this generation completely. the steering wheel changes and safety upgrades to the car make it almost impossible to compare even to something as "recent" as say a 2012 car.
First time in a while I have to watch at work instead of when working from home, super annoying XD Got a video feed pinned to always on top in the corner so I can keep pretending to be busy
F1tv since the latter half of last year has implemented a bunch of copyright protection features that affect browsers and can be a little unpredictable like no video or audio etc. You can't even watch F1tv in a browser if you have a displaylink display active with a Mac/OSX.