Formula 1 Discussion - And favourite driver?

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RomanesEuntDomus said:
Yeah, it was worth a shot, but if he now fails to perform, his seat is most likely going to go to some other poor sod that will underperform due to being a rookie.
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I'm hoping they keep Tsunoda and develop him. He went really well in F2 last season nd showed some good talent. That plus the whole RedBull meat grinder saga is getting old fast, they need to learn to stick with drivers for more than 30 seconds before trashing them.

Taking Tsunoda this season was a sweetener to get Honda to agree to help redbull develop what is basically a Honda engine in all but name. Tsunoda is heavily sponsored by Honda being a Japanese driver and all, he is basically a Honda driver rather than a redbull one.
 
As I watched the DTM race, for those that didn't, check out who won it. There are a few top young guys in RB program around at moment, similar to Alpine, so anyone who starts looking capable and getting good results are going to be clamoring for the AT seats. Gasly seems like he has a lock, unless some "better" team comes calling for 2022 (doubtful).

Point being, as I try to really follow F2/F3 and the other formula series, there are a fair amount of drivers who in 2-3 years will be seeking to enter F1. I'd say a good 10 drivers from the various junior series come across as having what it takes to be in F1. Some look like future race winners already.

As we know, there aren't a lot of seats that will be available so I am hopeful a couple new teams take the plunge and enter F1 by 2025. I mean we have 3 seats already being taken because the fathers have a ton of cash. Unless they hit serious financial issues personally, whose to say Mazepin/Stroll/Latifi won't still be in F1 10 years from now? They have the money to keep them there, as long as they aren't 5 seconds per lap slower, the funds will keep them in their seats.
 
LiveFromNS said:
As we know, there aren't a lot of seats that will be available so I am hopeful a couple new teams take the plunge and enter F1 by 2025. I mean we have 3 seats already being taken because the fathers have a ton of cash. Unless they hit serious financial issues personally, whose to say Mazepin/Stroll/Latifi won't still be in F1 10 years from now? They have the money to keep them there, as long as they aren't 5 seconds per lap slower, the funds will keep them in their seats.
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What would be best is if these pay-drivers were consolidated into a new "Uralkali" etc. team, for these shitty pay-drivers to flounder around on tv in their shitty cars, and we could finally get back to the 22 or 24 car days
 
LiveFromNS said:
Watch the Zandvoort FREC race. I was kind of surprised that the guardrails were exposed basically around entire track. Surely they will have tire barriers in front of them when F1 head there. I presume they don't have them there for FREC because those cars are of course much slower than F1 cars. But that track is quite narrow from what I can see so will be interesting to see when the F1 boats are on it in a few months.
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How you see Zandvoort in that FREC race, or in the SRO's races there this weekend as I've been watching instead, is how the track will be with F1 there.
 
Full Race Replay said:
What would be best is if these pay-drivers were consolidated into a new "Uralkali" etc. team, for these shitty pay-drivers to flounder around on tv in their shitty cars, and we could finally get back to the 22 or 24 car days
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The ones I can see coming would be SMP Racing, whenever they get their facilities sorted out and the Panthera Team Asia F1 thing that's hoping to get into F1 soon. There's also the Monaco F1 team that's trying to reuse the Campos assets and facilities but it's looking like they might be on thin ice financially. There's also the issue of the 200 million dollar entry fee for a new team but that mainly serves to protect existing teams by making them valuable simply by being a Formula 1 team. That said, I do expect there to be a team based out of Russia and a team from China in this sport sooner rather than later simply because there's a lot of oligarchs who want to flex their financial firepower and national pride.
 
Watching the practice starts at the end of the pitlane the alpha tauri seems to have some sort of strange cross rear axle resonance. On acceleration their rear wing has a lot of horizontal vibration that the other teams don't. It will be interesting to see if the RedBulls are the same.

Edit Spots of rain on the camera lens.
 
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Vettel is still racing with his starting set. Incoming "Pirelli go boom" Though even ifd a safety car comes out Verstappen is chopping the gap fast
 
Balr0g said:
So now Red Bull is pulling Pro Gamer moves? Makes me wonder what Mercedes will do now
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Turns out, this:
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Close call, Mercedes would have almost managed to keep their position, but damn. When Verstappen pitted a second time and Mercedes didn't counter the undercut, I was pretty certain that Mercs won't even be able to finish without pitting themselves. Imagine Hamilton and Bottas had had to pit 10 laps after Verstappen's second stop. That would have been shameful.

Balr0g said:
Nice result. Verstappen increased his lead. Though Ferrari really fucked up this race. Guess they still have issues with their tyres
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Absolutely. The race had many instances of the dreaded "push button - receive overtake" issue, but all that aside, there was a really, really great strategic play between RB and Mercedes that was rewarded at the very end.
Also, some points for AM makes me happy, gotta give it to Stroll, starting 19th and ending up 10th is a pretty good feat. Hope the next tracks will favor whatever it is AM is good at. Ferrari, on the other hand, is completely screwed on tracks like this. They seem to do well on tracks where acceleration is key, but any track with lots of high-speed straights and corners and they get handed back by most other teams. Pretty brutal, especially for Leclerc, who fell back so far, even compared to Vettel's last season, that result is hard to swallow. Leclerc sure as shit ain't to blame here, the car just can't compete on this track. Much like AM, one hopes the next few tracks will give it something to work with.
 
I think the main isue is the tyre. This track in combination with the Ferrari car / setup ate the tyres like crazy. austria might be another thing. In Barcelona Ferrari was doing good though that race was probably cooler then today.
 
That race was a classic. Classic come-from-behind victory from Verstappen, it's why I'm a fan. And great drive by Perez who got the one stop to work and beat Bottas (who, to be fair, got shafted by Mercedes. He shoud have pitted right when verstappen did and he and Max would be 1-2 in either order)
 
Full Race Replay said:
That race was a classic. Classic come-from-behind victory from Verstappen, it's why I'm a fan. And great drive by Perez who got the one stop to work and beat Bottas (who, to be fair, got shafted by Mercedes. He shoud have pitted right when verstappen did and he and Max would be 1-2 in either order)
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Bottas was pretty pissed in the last couple laps, too.
It feels like Mercedes is not taking him seriously any more, which is quite a stupid thing to do, since they sure as shit won't get any useful input from Lewis "I refuse to properly prepare for a race" Hamilton. Maybe that's why they are doing so bad as of late. Merc decided to ditch Bottas by the end of the season, so they now treat him in a half-assed manner and since they don't respect his input, their strategies and setup are shit.

 
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
Bottas was pretty pissed in the last couple laps, too.
It feels like Mercedes is not taking him seriously any more, which is quite a stupid thing to do, since they sure as shit won't get any useful input from Lewis "I refuse to properly prepare for a race" Hamilton. Maybe that's why they are doing so bad as of late. Merc decided to ditch Bottas by the end of the season, so they now treat him in a half-assed manner and since they don't respect his input, their strategies and setup are shit.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GMabLfjojis
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And now imagine if they really ditch Bottas and replace him with Russell. Hamilton might be shaking in his boots because Russell is fast and young and probably not as "soft" as Valteri. Silver Wars reloaded perhaps?
 
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