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wood

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  1. Unfortunately, in the Liberty Media vx of F1, apparently no new teams will be allowed, and none of the existing ones can be had for $1. Before becoming an owner, Brawn was a team principal with all the connections, knowhow, and Machiavellian savvy that come with that. Newey is a master-airbending designer.
  2. IMHO the 'Max to Merc', 'Marko & Newey leaving' stuff is posturing/bluffing to get the Thai side to can Horner.
  3. Maybe they could include steers & bulls in that. Texas needs to money-whip Newey and lock him up. Get him on the Forty pronto. Hold on, lemme fire up the flightaware.
  4. Yeah the timing of the MBS stuff coming out is very interesting. Two things dropping in two days? Very unlikely that's merely a coincidence imho. Kinda like the Lewis news dropping immediately after FOM's idiotic list of bullshit 'reasons' to deny Andretti entry. Thought this was interesting ...
  5. If that tweet is accurate, Newey would apparently be on the same side as Marko, or is just going to fuck off to design sailboats or something.
  6. Este. As soon as Dieter died, some people were saying shit was about to get real, but we had no idea it would be anything like this. And things seem to be heating up on the FOM vs MBS front as well. FOM wants MBS out, and someone (likely FOM imho) is doing their best to dig up shit on him, which isn't difficult.
  7. None of this makes sense.
  8. Damn. Y'all be reading way faster than I ever could. I'm only about 1/3 of the way through, at the part where she calls Horner 'ambitious and unscrupulous' and Toto 'gruff and blunt, but endearing' ... lulz.
  9. That drone looks about the same size as the RB1 did sitting next to the RB19.
  10. Wow. I'd never seen this before. RB1 and RB20 on track together. The RB1 looks like a toy beside the RB20. Nothing short of shocking imho. (just posted on Autosport in a thread about the sorry state of F1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuR5jnNdoIk
  11. This. Until Nico retired, Merc was as dominant in the W/L column as RBR is now. In the first 3 years of this PU era, of 59 races they lost a total of 8 races. 86% win rate, but there was a battle within the team, so many people didn't care. Since the start of 2022, RBR has lost 6 of 45 races, with the same 86% win rate. After Nico retired (and in large part imho because Nico retired & was replaced by 'excellent wingman' Bottas), Merc wasn't as dominant. But Lewis winning the WDC was more of a foregone conclusion than when Nico was fighting him. Bottas was no match for Lewis and was never intended to be one. In 2017 & 2018 (the 4th & 5th years of the PU era), Ferrari was finally able to put up a fight, but in the end they didn't really get very close, and never would have had any hope with a better driver (such as Nico) in the Merc #2 seat. The funny thing though is that despite all of Perez's mistakes, in the dominant years of each car, Perez has scored about the same points per race as Bottas. He's finished P2 and a close P3 (by 3 points). Bottas finished P3 and P5 his first 2 years at Merc. They're also not far off in terms of race wins in the WCC years. Bottas 10 in 5 years, and Perez 4 in 2 years.
  12. Oh, and did y'all catch Brundle's comment about the hybrid engines? Sure took him a long time to finally say it. The cars are so big and ugly and heavy, and look slow af in slow to medium speed corners, changing direction so poorly that they just look like tanks compared to the old ones. I've been watching some of the older races recently and it is absolutely striking how much nimbler and more agile the pre-2014 cars were at low to medium speeds. Also striking is how much smaller they were, because they were so much lighter & didn't need huge, dramatically expanded floors in order to make enough downforce to turn.
  13. He beat his teammate, which is job #1. Had he been allowed to make the swap sooner as they should have, he probably would have beaten him much worse. He might not have anything left, but imho it's still too early to know. Stroll was hit from behind by Hulk, who looked like he might have been hit by (iirc) Bottas, who Martin described as 'driving by braille'. Stroll had a pretty good race after that. getting a point. Yeah he fucked up, and then doubled down. Pretty crazy shit. That would be great, but only if that's Andretti's only means of entry. If the teams succeed in keeping the grid at 10 teams forever, man, fuck that shit.
  14. IMHO top 12. I was telling my kid during FP3 that Hulk is gonna embarrass KMag this year. Dude took 2 years off and beat KMag last year in a car he'd never driven. KMag only lasted in F1 beyond the first couple of years because he's always had shit teammates, until now. Re: the 1:28s, I thought so too, but it seems Max made a mistake on his last lap.
  15. Yeah but they aren't all like this, either, with the first Friday and Saturday sessions in the day and the second ones at night.
  16. Yep. Long run pace sure makes it look like RBR will be out front pretty comfortably on Sunday, with a very tight battle behind between Ferrari, Merc, Aston Martin, and McLaren.
  17. Oh, and JFC, can anyone tell me why the fuck Damon Hill is allowed anywhere near a microphone? What a shitshow in the booth in FP1. The worst possible guy (Damon) is there, being corrected by the 2nd worst possible guy (Karun), who's being corrected by Zak Brown.
  18. Yeah I don't really think we're really much closer to seeing the true pecking order than we were after testing, and even then, this track is an outlier. Drivers and others over the years have said that you don't really get an accurate picture of the pecking order until 4 or 5 races in. Alonso said this year it could be as late as Japan (GP #4).
  19. Driver's Press Conference
  20. It's not one thing. The guy just has zero personality. Dry and lifeless AF, and his employees seem to tune him out 100%, including Albon. They all look like they're thinking "Someone please shoot me". He met with Albon and was telling him how they were on the rise and would be fighting for championships soon. The look on Albon's face was like "Eh ... ok". He was having to fight back the laughter.
  21. Wow, if you ever thought James Vowles was super boring and devoid of anything resembling a personality, just wait until you see Ep. 4. It's worse than I had ever imagined.
  22. Bernie Collins said when the tests were held in Spain the teams would bring new parts every day. Those parts would be installed based on what the car did the previous day. Testing this far away from base with such a short lead time to the 1st race has changed that metric considerably. I won't be at all surprised to see a few 1.5 spec cars show up by FP2. In other news, ugh, Liberty Media coming to a MotoGP near you?
  23. Yeah don't get me wrong. I still think Max will be quickest. I'm just curious where AM will shake out in all of this.
  24. Yeah me too. Wewillsee. I do think this car has good to great long run pace, but they seem to struggle more in qualifying trim. If they can get on top of that, who knows ...
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