That move to Ferrari will only keep looking better and better as the season progresses, won't it? Car is not bad, but the team is a joke and has been for a while.
That move to Ferrari will only keep looking better and better as the season progresses, won't it? Car is not bad, but the team is a joke and has been for a while.
Gasly gone now too.
What a difference 24 hours makes for Ferrari huh.
Max quietly putting solid points on the board early on too.
Haas 5th and 8th is some result after last week. Bearman drove a very good race actually. Antonelli getting driver of the day was a curious psephological phenomenon to say the least.
Ferrari are some comedy act.
Getting both cars disqualified for different reasons is some going.
Deserved for the embarrassing over exaggerated response from people to a sprint raceOriginally Posted by Gray Fox
'We weren't trying to gain an advantage' is [pasta] chef's kiss.
As a life long Ferrari fan (tifosi as we say) I think it's disgraceful that Sir Lewis Hamiltons 9th world title bid is being sabotaged in this way. Obvious British favouritism.
We should do a Ferrari bingo card.
I look forward to seeing which way they manage to fuck it up in Japan.
I'm going for a double stack fucking one of the drivers.
No doubt in my mind that Albon is one of the best drivers on the grid at this point. He consistently gets every last drop of performance out of that car. All the more sweeter that he was (wrongly) fired by Red Bull by those wankers Horner and Marko.Leclerc and Hamilton both disqualified. Forza Ferrari chaps.
Albon up to P7
Ferrari giving Lewis a stroke already.
Biden-like.
Word is that Red Bull are already thinking about bringing in Yuki to replace Lawson, lol.
At what point do they think of making their car work for more than one person.
Yuki, the whiny little bitch, will last 2 races before being smacked in the face by Jos or the Horndog.
I'm not so sure Red Bull will want to put Tsunoda in that seat. He's a total hot head who will be no better than those that went before him. I reckon Lawson's less-combative nature was what give him the nod initially.
Unsurprisingly, Alpine are already making moves to get Colapinto into Doohan's car before Red Bull come knocking. Not signing Sainz will look extra-retarded when they have to go back to Perez.
Although Ralf Schumacher has said Tsunoda and Lawson are definitely swapping cars in Suzuka, and he's supposedly got sources in the Racing Bulls team.
Hard to see Tsunoda being the solution to anything.
Red Bull want that HUGE fan pop in Japan.
Yuki coming out in the car like Cody Rhodes at Mania 38.
Colapinto is just the same as the rest of them. Desperately inexperienced. None of these guys have driven F1 cars enough to know what they're doing. Yuki might have the best chance on qualifying pace, but he has other weaknesses.
I don't think Tsunoda is brilliant. But, with the experience he was surely worth promoting this year and seeing how it pans out. I don't think he does any worse and even if he is no better he's had his chance and you move on. Sticking someone in the seat who has 9 Grand Prix under their belt was always going to be an issue even Max did a season and a bit at a junior team before moving to Red Bull and let's face it he will have genuine claims to be seen as one of the best drivers ever none of these guys will be in that same conversation even if they are very good drivers in their own rights so all you are doing is burying them.
Unless he starts crashing, I would give Lawson the season.
Yuki would be a fool to take that seat.
Marko and Horner are the issues. Doesn't matter who gets in that second seat, they're fucked.
The Vettel-Webber relationship was farcical at times. You couldn't imagine Ross Brawn letting it play out like it did, that's for sure. Then they ran Ricciardo out of town when Verstappen came in, and that's despite Ricciardo actually beating him in 2017. The long line of rookies after that was just a disasterclass of how to manage a team. Early days Perez (until he chucked the towel in at Suzuka 2023, seemingly along with his driving ability) was the best they'll see as a two-car outfit until there's change at the top.
Ricciardo left town knowing Max was better than him and proved to be absolute dog shit forever more.
Agreed. Ricciardo knew that a life as a number 2 driver awaited him in Red Bull and decided to instead trust the French to give him a competitive car, for some reason.
A number two can still be successful in the right environment. He saw that Red Bull were focusing 100% on Verstappen even after beating him and that any second driver would be on a hiding to nothing because of the way Marko and Horner were going about running the place.
I'm not disputing Ricciardo didn't do himself any favours afterwards but it was weird team management at the time and massively foreshadowed the shit show the team constantly found themselves in after that.
What will they do if Max breaks his legs at Suzuka or is strangled by a killer tulip / hit on the head by a windmill sail when he next goes home? Anything can happen in motor racing.
Could they just swap the Toro Rosso (whatever it is called today) cars?
How attached is he to the Red Bull team? The rumours of him going to Mercedes aren't going away, and we saw with Hamilton how anything is possible. If he fucked off it'd be back to the days of Coulthard and Klein in a real hurry.
Same as any of them, if he thinks he stands a better chance of winning somewhere else he's gone.
He'll go at the end of 2026, unless the Red Bull is the fastest car, to whoever does have the fastest car. Imagine there's a reasonable chance that Red Bull might sell up at that point as well.
Will fizzy drink suddenly not need selling any more?
All that stuff was pushed for by the bloke who’s now dead. I think that kind of ‘expenses we don’t need’ will slowly die off as hedge fund types take over that company.
Someone might decide they can sell it via other means than spending a billion quid on sending various hapless Mexicans and New Zealanders to their eternal ridiculd.
Seems a bit rash, they've got a factory and hats and stuff. People act as if Verstappen is the last good driver, just get another one.
You'd swear reading here that they're banned from signing anyone up.
Sources saying that Yuki is IN with Lawson OUT.
Can't wait for Lawson, a super formula veteran of course, to rinse him at Suzuka.
Comes to something that we're only giving a youth two races, in a known to be shit car now.
Plus the 11 he had before that.
Sounds ridiculous to me but maybe THE DATA shows truly tragic levels of performance.
If you're being hard on him then you can't really be parking a car P20, but two weekends is a pretty quick trigger. You could tell though in his interview after qualifying that he had been told he had to deliver immediately.
How many did Luca Badoer get in the Ferrari that time?
Two before Fisichella went in.
He did more than fine in that car though.
Liz Truss had a longer stint than Lawson.
Tsunoda-Lawson swap official.
Who comes in when Tsunoda struggles because the car is obviously a huge issue? Jos Verstappen?
Tsunoda to shit all over Max
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