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Originally Posted by GuidoK
My prediction is that McLaren will be fastest all year. They just seem to be in that phase of development that they really understand their car.
However, 2024 taught us that seasons favorites can change within a month.
What I'm looking more foreward to, is how drivers within teams are gonna compete. So Hamilton/Leclerc, and also Norris/Piastri and maybe even Russel/Antonelli.
At both Ferrari and McLaren, I think both drivers realise that they have to compete from the getgo with eachother, to establish who gets the preferred treatment when push comes to shove. We've seen in 2024 that things can turn around very quickly, and that at some point decisions have to be made in order to compete for WDC. WDC is still the big price sponsorship and media wise.
I mean, who still talks about 2021 right? Mercedes won the WCC. No fan outside the Max camp ever finds peace&solitude in thàt....
If the WCC had any significance, AD2021 wouldn't be an existing abbreviation on the interwebs..
So my expectation is that either NOR or PIA is gonna be WDC (and I think that decision is gonna happen within the first 5 races), and that there'll be a very heavy battle for 2nd.
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Everything is in play and I predict McLaren won't be the fastest this year, don't ask me why, it's just my gut feeling but I think they will win constructors again only.