How F1 has been robbed of classic on-track fights in 2017
There has been plenty of excited talk about a much tighter battle at the front of the F1 grid in 2018, but a closer look at the data from recent races shows we should already have been treated to some fascinating scraps this year…
Formula 1 keeps teasing us. The pieces have all been in place a few times already now, but fans keep being denied what we really want.
Three of the past five races should have been all-out fights for victory between as many as six cars. But even if that's being optimistic - and judging by the lacklustre performances of Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen in the Mexican Grand Prix, it probably is - the simple fact is that those races should have been three-team battles.
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