Formula 1 Discussion - And favourite driver?
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If RB manages to keep the pressure up and keep the lead, the final straw is pretty clear:
Hamilton will demand FIA ban Verstappen, cause clearly he must be a racist if he's trying to dethrone Abloolew.
when looking around the paul ricard circuit it struck me that a lot of the run off areas around the track that don't have a large tyre-barrier behind them. After seeing the stuck-throttle crash in Detroit last week i was worried something like that could have catastrophic consequences due to the tarmac runoff not slowing the car down at all and minimal protection from the wall.
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.
So, I managed to watch the 2 F3 Races, DTM and DTM Trophy Qs + Race 1 (Ferrari has 2 cars in DTM!), FREC Q + Race 1, SuperFormula Q and SF Lights Q + Race 1, EuroFOpen Q + Race 1. Still got Indy Q to watch tonight.
What are we thinking about the race tomorrow? Strategy with 2nd drivers going to play a big role? I hope it is not a totally boring race.
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Putting Tsunoda into AT was a mistake. He really needs another season or two of F2 to mature a bit more.
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.
AT and RB goes through drivers like whales go through plankton, with similar results to the drivers.
I hope they'll give him at least next season, cause he's not bad, he's just inexperienced.
But I have to say, watching his car twerking its way into the barriers was kinda funny looking.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
Edit Spots of rain on the camera lens.
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The track temp is 20 less than what they are used to, wonder how that will play into things.
Rain potential hopefully will spice shit up too!!
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