Confirmed with Link: Hamilton going to a red team (The F1 Thread)

Lempo · Aug 8, 2023

Bub said:
I believe every tv profile I've ever seen of a Finnish driver is basically just men sitting around in a sauna, then jumping naked into a lake. (Rosberg, Hakkinen, Salo, Bottas. "Missed out" on Kovalainen and Raikkonen tho.)

Crazy, but that's how it goes.

BadgerCane58 · Aug 10, 2023

sheriff bart said:
McLaren's improvement during this season is incredible. From back markers at the start to front row starts. Perez with Red Bull continuing to struggle in qualifying is strange. With Ricciardo sitting in the wings, is Perez feeling the heat?

“Candy gram for Mongo, candy gram for Mongo”.

MinJaBen · Aug 18, 2023

Svechhammer · Aug 25, 2023

Oof, gonna be gutted if this keeps him out for long enough to miss Vegas

DaveG · Aug 25, 2023

Ricky Bobby breaks his wrist, where have I seen that before? /s

hmmm 2.5 months off he might still make Vegas. But yeah he's out for a while either way.

Svechhammer · Aug 27, 2023

Why have full wet tires if you're going to safety car or red flag any situation where those tires would need to be used

Bub · Aug 27, 2023

Svechhammer said:
Why have full wet tires if you're going to safety car or red flag any situation where those tires would need to be used

Agreed. Unless they thought vision would be too impaired, or the whole nation was about to flood, they could have kept going.

Svechhammer · Sep 6, 2023

Bub · Sep 16, 2023

Well, that was an interesting qualifying.

sheriff bart · Sep 16, 2023

Bub said:
Well, that was an interesting qualifying.

And hopefully tomorrow is an interesting race. Max will over drive the car on a narrow track

Bub · Sep 17, 2023

Ferrari wins a race on...tactics? Make peace with your god, people, because the End Times are coming.

Svechhammer · Sep 17, 2023

Carlando getting the 1-2 has had me in all kinds of happy today. I wish Sainz was still with McLaren, but you can't say no when Ferrari comes calling, and to see him dragging Lando along to keep him protected from both Mercs?

Chefs kiss, wonderful weekend

Svechhammer · Oct 2, 2023

Now is when the fun begins

Svechhammer · Oct 9, 2023

Navin R Slavin · Oct 29, 2023

I'm in a reminiscing mood.

Novacane · Nov 5, 2023

Bub · Jan 31, 2024

Formula 1 denies Michael Andretti's efforts to have a team on the grid by 2026

F1 said it'd be willing to reconsider in 2028 when General Motors would have an engine ready.

sports.yahoo.com

Unsurprising. Also, this take from Gunther Steiner:

Steiner: F1 protecting Andretti from itself

Former Haas boss Guenther Steiner said F1's decision to block Andretti joining before 2028 shows the sport is in such good health it can no longer afford to have uncompetitive teams.

www.espn.com

DaveG · Jan 31, 2024

Interesting take from Steiner, he's right in a lot of ways but he's also quite wrong. I would very much not say that every team is competitive right now unless he'd consider "well they have a shot at points on such and such tracks 3-4 times a year but the rest of the year they'll be back of the pack" as competitive. The chasm between the bottom 4 and Renault, by far the weakest of the top 6, speaks for itself. Now, would F1 let a new team come in that is starting off as a 100% customer team the way Haas did when they came in anymore? no probably not, hence F1 telling Andretti to wait for GM to have their stuff together for 28 before they'd reconsider.

Bub · Jan 31, 2024

DaveG said:
Interesting take from Steiner, he's right in a lot of ways but he's also quite wrong. I would very much not say that every team is competitive right now unless he'd consider "well they have a shot at points on such and such tracks 3-4 times a year but the rest of the year they'll be back of the pack" as competitive. The chasm between the bottom 4 and Renault, by far the weakest of the top 6, speaks for itself. Now, would F1 let a new team come in that is starting off as a 100% customer team the way Haas did when they came in anymore? no probably not, hence F1 telling Andretti to wait for GM to have their stuff together for 28 before they'd reconsider.

Agreed re: Steiner. Most races, those bottom teams are already consigned to finishing at the bottom, barring a lot of retirements. (And there are way fewer retirements than there were when I first started watching in the 90s, ftr.) And aren't some (all?) of those bottom teams helped out by providing a lot of driver development programming for bigger teams?

US fans are understandably pissed by the decision, but if F1 doesn't think you're bringing in the money they believe they deserve, they're not letting you in, period, no matter what your name is.

DaveG · Jan 31, 2024

Bub said:
Agreed re: Steiner. Most races, those bottom teams are already consigned to finishing at the bottom, barring a lot of retirements. (And there are way fewer retirements than there were when I first started watching in the 90s, ftr.) And aren't some (all?) of those bottom teams helped out by providing a lot of driver development programming for bigger teams?

US fans are understandably pissed by the decision, but if F1 doesn't think you're bringing in the money they believe they deserve, they're not letting you in, period, no matter what your name is.

Sauber and whatever the Red Bull B team is calling itself now, absolutely. But I didn't think either Williams or Haas was getting much.

Bub · Jan 31, 2024

DaveG said:
Sauber and whatever the Red Bull B team is calling itself now, absolutely. But I didn't think either Williams or Haas was getting much.

Do you mean the Visa Cash App team? Holy hell what a ridiculous name, even for F1!

Yeah I forgot about Haas. Maybe other teams are paying them to keep Kevin "Front Wing Destroyer" Magnussen, and Hulkenberg looked decent last year but is probably considered washed-up in an F1 world that is hungrier for young talent than DiCaprio is.

Svechhammer · Jan 31, 2024

Bub said:
Formula 1 denies Michael Andretti's efforts to have a team on the grid by 2026

F1 said it'd be willing to reconsider in 2028 when General Motors would have an engine ready.

sports.yahoo.com

Unsurprising. Also, this take from Gunther Steiner:

Steiner: F1 protecting Andretti from itself

Former Haas boss Guenther Steiner said F1's decision to block Andretti joining before 2028 shows the sport is in such good health it can no longer afford to have uncompetitive teams.

www.espn.com

FFS Gunther, HAAS has never cared about competing, they exist to be a cash flow for the owners, nothing more. They don't even pretend, their facilities are a complete joke and it's insulting you have this opinion after leading that very uncompetitive team for a while.

I mean hell, Alpha Tauri exists to be a feeder team for Red Bull. By design they don't try to win, so cut the bullshit. This is about locking the teams to 10 because you don't want to share the wealth, and you certainly don't want to share the wealth with an American team. You want our money, you don't want us.

Lempo · Feb 1, 2024

Hamilton to Ferrari for 2025 season, per several sources.

Svechhammer · Feb 1, 2024

Lempo said:
Hamilton to Ferrari for 2025 season, per several sources.

Yep

Woah

And now the thread title needs to be updated, lol

Novacane · Feb 1, 2024

Leclerc + Hamilton is such a spicy lineup. I wonder if that means the Merc is gonna be shit again this year though

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