It is but they’re shutting it down and becoming a Mercedes customer.
Recent performances are in spite of the Renault engine.
It is but they’re shutting it down and becoming a Mercedes customer.
Recent performances are in spite of the Renault engine.
Leclerc looks absolutely rapid. Being able to use a brand new car after the nightmare in quali was probably a blessing
McLaren should have just pitted first. 2 seconds taken out of his lead with an epic pit stop
Max is such a fucking baby.
Can we just go with these exact cars for next year with the driver changes please?
If McLaren fix their straight line speed next year they will absolutely piss it
There’s definitely some 2021 shenanigans going to happen here. Magnussen has already wiped the fastest lap from Norris and he’s probably been told to cause a safety car at some point
Surely Piastri has to be told to play it safe at this point?
Trying to make it about Lewis Hamilton![]()
It is all about Lewis Hamilton.
Forever in Max’s shadow
Literally the greatest driver of all time by almost every metric, but okay sure.
I thought that the car had been built in the UK for a while.
Renault have always worked out of the Enstone factory.
Jim is referring to Oakes taking over as TP in August.
The f1 podcast I listen to has me wondering whether they’re being overly woke or I’m wrong. They keep pushing Tsunoda for Red Bull like he wouldn’t be an even shittier Perez. Has the guy ever done anything impressive ever?
The Tsunoda love is just odd weeb stuff. He's alright over one lap but nothing special and ultimately just a Honda stooge.
He's also a massive fanny.
I miss Kobayashi. He was properly mad. And actually a decent driver.
Tsunoda would be a disaster.
Whether he does or doesn't get the seat will tell you how much sway Honda still have.
He's no Takuma Sato.
Perez out, Lawson in.
The amount of support for Tsunoda is baffling.
Probably Hadjar up from F2 into the RB seat I guess.
That’s an aggressive driving line up.
I’d love to see K Mag in a big seat just for the madness that follows
Would have preferred to see a driver with even less experience but we cant have it all.
Spa removed from the '28 and '30 calender to allow potential new races in Argentina, Thailand, Rwanda or, and get this .. another Saudi race.
Oh well. It was good while it lasted.
I'm not sure it has ever really been good on a consistent basis, but the trend towards it being all a massive wealth flaunting endeavour twinned with modern reliability, increased complexity and billions of races has somewhat dulled the mystique and allure of it all.
That said, they should probably cancel Spa indefinitely until they can provide a usable extreme wet tyre.
The cars being the size of cruise liners is the main reason extreme wets don't work. Something of that size and weight creates an insane amount of spray. We even have drivers complaining about it when they're on inters now.
Aye, all the torque to the rear just doesn't help. I'd go back to MotoGP but I'm not ready for a Honda without a Repsol livery.
The drivers keep me onboard with F1, anyway. The grid's got so much talent in it.
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To be fair to Pirelli here, the wet tyre actually works exceptionally well, which is itself the problem. It removes a crazy amount of water from the surface. The downside is that gets chucked all over the car behind you. The cars being ground effect and getting loads of water into the gubbins there is what I think is the bigger problem and why there is just no running in the full wets.
If they clip a mud flap on the rear wing that deflects the water back onto the racing line. Problem solved.
Yeah that's my point. It's the cars that are the problem, not the tyres.
The 2026 mockups are quite noticeably smaller than the current cars. Which you'd think is a good thing, but they're still bigger/heavier than 2021. So this wet tyre issue isn't going away. But they're binning off Spa for Saudi II so who cares.
We all overdress in our first day on a job. Working class hero.
He looks great as does the F40.![]()
Speaking of F40s...
https://www.motor1.com/news/747812/f...-norris-crash/
He's just missing the MAGA hat, oh wait, different event.
I'm getting Bond villain vibes.
His terrifying plan is to force the world into a plant based diet.
It is funny how he and Nernando are still hanging out with what is otherwise a grid full of AI generated children.
Only looking through the lineups now, didn't realise there were so many changes like Zhou gone. Never heard of Bortoleto or Hadjar.
I was just thinking yesterday it's getting close to the time to make a 2025 thread. Get your subtitle suggestions in now. It's the exact same 24 races as last season so I'm struggling for inspiration.
The exact same thing over and over again is probably a good epithet for Formula One.
F1 2025 - It's Just Going Round in Circles.