After Australia I asked this sub to post bold “It’s just one race but…” statements. Now that we’re halfway through the season, I thought It’d be funny to see if some of them actually came true.

MaxVerstappen will absolutely ruin Mercedes or Ferrari’s season

u/sanderson141 well if they wanted to win every race I guess he did.

It’s just one race but Magnussen & Haas will be F1.5 champions.

This one’s my favourite. Everything seemed to be going so well for Haas in testing. Oh how they crumbled…

Everything seemed to be going so well for Haas in testing.

Found it interesting in James Allison’s beyond the grid that the competitive order genuinely was different pre-season: Ferrari looked like they genuinely were going to paste everyone, and Mercedes believed that.

Its just one race but Verstappen will finish ahead of both Ferrari-drivers in the standings

This one turned out to be pretty good

Its just one race but hulkenberg will completely destroy ricciardo

Nah, Renault is doing it for him (:

Its just one race but Bottas is going to win the championship in sazuka

Unfortunately for us Bottas 2.0 hasn’t turned out like we would have wanted

It was

“It’s just one race but Ricciardo raped himself in the anus by signing for Renault”

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u/xinix03 said:

It’s just one race but Ricciardo already proved he does not need wings

That did not age well 🙁