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by Chunky
Sat Jul 12, 2025 12:41 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Red Bull Racing sack Christian Horner
Replies: 146
Views: 6053

Re: Red Bull Racing sack Christian Horner

To be absolutely clear, I've never, ever liked the Horner we see on TV. But that's the only version of the man any of us know, we none of us have a clue about his true ability to run a multi-faceted organisation with 2000+ people in an environment of constant and massive change. Despite my dislike, ...
by Chunky
Wed Dec 25, 2024 11:13 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Which driver(s) / team(s) will you support in 2025?
Replies: 53
Views: 11058

Re: Which driver(s) / team(s) will you support in 2025?

I'll be cheering for anyone who keeps their boot in when Verstappen comes intimidating, dive bombing or understeeering his way around anyone in front. So I expect to be punching the air for Piastri, Russell, Norris (from about race 8 onward), Leclerc (if he gets frustrated with Lewis out driving him...
by Chunky
Mon Sep 23, 2024 9:58 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Driver of the Day SGP 2024
Replies: 206
Views: 13155

Re: Driver of the Day SGP 2024

I hope all the Verstappen fan boys voted for Danny Ric, It seems only fair.
by Chunky
Mon Sep 23, 2024 9:55 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Who wins the 2024 WDC?
Replies: 69
Views: 18989

Re: Who wins the 2024 WDC?

I wonder if Lawson or Yuki (or Daniel even?) will get put out for a last lap dash for fastest lap on new softs if ever Verstappen already has the point in the bag, between now and the end of the season. Methinks not. Going all the way back to the 1st Vettel years we've become numb to Torro Rosso car...
by Chunky
Thu Sep 05, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Who wins the 2024 WDC?
Replies: 69
Views: 18989

Re: Who wins the 2024 WDC?

Not sure which one of them it will be, but I'm banking on it being by a single point at the last race of the season. We've not had any excitement since 2021 and those boys in Abu Dhabi are paying big money to host something special. How awesome will it be when it comes down to a last gasp fastest la...
by Chunky
Tue Sep 03, 2024 2:06 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Should McLaren have swapped Piastri/Norris?
Replies: 56
Views: 20144

Re: Should McLaren have swapped Piastri/Norris?

It's only 3 races ago in Hungary that Norris all but refused to let Piastri past for a WIN. They had to use a crow bar to get him to move over. I suspect there was a wider message in play for both drivers in Italy ...... if you want to play the team game it works both ways. Norris was wise this time...
by Chunky
Mon Jul 29, 2024 10:04 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: 2024 Belgian Grand Prix Race Thread
Replies: 488
Views: 34125

Re: 2024 Belgian Grand Prix Race Thread

Well, it took 16 years but Spa 2008 finally repaid :) :thumbup: :thumbup: I wouldn't be surprised if they weighed Hamilton's car first but couldn't find a problem so took the second best option. Spa stewarding has never been kind to Lewis. At least it's only Spa, Zandvoort and all the arab tracks. ...
by Chunky
Sun Jul 28, 2024 5:46 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: 2024 Belgian Grand Prix Race Thread
Replies: 488
Views: 34125

Re: 2024 Belgian Grand Prix Race Thread

After every GP you see cars in Parq Ferme with great gobs of collected rubber stuck to the tyres. It's always been the practice to drive off line over the marbles to pick up as much as possible before pulling in. Post race, Russel's tyres were almost squeaky clean. I'll bet either either George for...
by Chunky
Sun Jul 28, 2024 4:29 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: 2024 Belgian Grand Prix Race Thread
Replies: 488
Views: 34125

Re: 2024 Belgian Grand Prix Race Thread

After every GP you see cars in Parq Ferme with great gobs of collected rubber stuck to the tyres. It's always been the practice to drive off line over the marbles to pick up as much as possible before pulling in. Post race, Russel's tyres were almost squeaky clean. I'll bet either either George forg...
by Chunky
Thu Feb 01, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Hamilton to Ferrari for 2025 Season
Replies: 472
Views: 26787

Re: Hamilton to Ferrari for 2025 Season

Three thoughts: No-one has ever won a WDC with 3 different constructors. Hamilton has nothing to lose, everything to gain. Lewis has repeatedly tied his future to working with Toto. Don't be surprised if he decides to "retire" at the end of this year. James V has been in final training at Williams. ...
by Chunky
Wed May 10, 2023 6:53 pm
Forum: In-Depth Motorsport Forum
Topic: Question on Aero and why cars are 'smooth'
Replies: 37
Views: 190354

Re: Question on Aero and why cars are 'smooth'

Well I'm several thousand hours behind you in P1 time and have never flown anything more slippery than a Duo Discus but I think we're very much in agreement on the main points. Just to clarify - there was no suggestion of anything as crude as turbulator tape on F1 cars but I'll wager that similar ae...
by Chunky
Wed May 10, 2023 6:39 pm
Forum: In-Depth Motorsport Forum
Topic: Question on Aero and why cars are 'smooth'
Replies: 37
Views: 190354

Re: Question on Aero and why cars are 'smooth'

Well I'm several thousand hours behind you in P1 time and have never flown anything more slippery than a Duo Discus but I think we're very much in agreement on the main points. Just to clarify - there was no suggestion of anything as crude as turbulator tape on F1 cars but I'll wager that similar ae...
by Chunky
Wed May 10, 2023 9:20 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: It's finally happened... (losing interest in F1 thread)
Replies: 535
Views: 25778

Re: It's finally happened...

I too checked out emotionally from F1 after 2021 after having watched avidly since the Hunt/Lauda days. As a kid, I suppose late 60s/early 70s I used to enjoy the wrestling on TV on a Saturday afternoon, not realising that it was usually theatre, not sport. Today's F1 reminds me very much of that. T...
by Chunky
Fri Apr 21, 2023 12:33 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Lewis Hamilton's next team will be...
Replies: 52
Views: 5373

Re: Lewis Hamilton's next team will be...

....... The idea that they'd still be able to do it as well as someone equally talented who's half their age, however, is another matter entirely. If we're talking equal talent let's be honest, drivers with equal talent are a lot thinner on the ground than drivers who's daddy has got a heap of mone...
by Chunky
Thu Apr 20, 2023 9:20 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Lewis Hamilton's next team will be...
Replies: 52
Views: 5373

Re: Lewis Hamilton's next team will be...

We have periodic spells of discussion on this forum, basically about driver age. It's nonsense. All the best fighter jet test pilots and most of the top aerobatic pilots are 40+. They pull way more G, need faster reactions and have to think rapidly in 3D, not just roundy round. People are misled by ...
by Chunky
Thu Apr 20, 2023 6:52 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Lewis Hamilton's next team will be...
Replies: 52
Views: 5373

Re: Lewis Hamilton's next team will be...A/Martin

You heard it here first, put a note in your diary for 2026 - Lewis will go to Aston Martin next. Hear me out before you get too judgemental. Ferrari would be reputational/legacy suicide and he certainly doesn't need the money. They're just too, well, too "Italian". A disaster for Alonso & Vettel, Ki...
by Chunky
Tue Nov 15, 2022 11:35 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Do red bull have a max verstappen problem.
Replies: 391
Views: 35894

Re: Do red bull have a max verstappen problem.

Could I respectfully ask that you two just get a room and entertain yourselves separately. It's supposed to be a thread about the merits or otherwise of Verstappen, not how many angels will fit on the head of a pin. Well over a page of " you said I said ", and " no I didn't, what I meant is........ ...
by Chunky
Sun Nov 13, 2022 9:00 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Do red bull have a max verstappen problem.
Replies: 391
Views: 35894

Re: Do red bull have a max verstappen problem.

Everybody bangs on about it being a team sport and we race together, blah, blah. Some people live and breathe it. Some people whinge and whine, eff and blind when they get a pit stop 2 seconds slower than they feel entitled to expect. It's a terrible burden to bear when you're never responsible for ...
by Chunky
Sat Aug 06, 2022 11:59 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The Official Fernando Alonso thread
Replies: 1409
Views: 518572

Re: The Official Fernando Alonso thread

Okay, okay, enough of this rose tinted view of history. To be precise - The McLaren fine was because Uncle Ron picked up the phone and called his nemesis Moseley only when he was subjected to Alsonso's blackmail about team primacy. The size of the fine was a shocker, particularly when compared to th...
by Chunky
Thu Aug 04, 2022 6:03 pm
Forum: In-Depth Motorsport Forum
Topic: Question on Aero and why cars are 'smooth'
Replies: 37
Views: 190354

Re: Question on Aero and why cars are 'smooth'

Not to be picky, but very often and very much mis-used in the wrong circumstances (hence the bad reputation), correlation can indeed imply causation. It's been the underpinnings of much discovery since the days of the natural philosophers. The proper science gets bolted on once the causitive mechani...
by Chunky
Thu Aug 04, 2022 4:50 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The Official Fernando Alonso thread
Replies: 1409
Views: 518572

Re: The Official Fernando Alonso thread

Like I said - unrelenting bad luck and let down by teams with insufficient budget, employee talent or management competence. Absolutely none of it has been under Fred's purview. If, Heaven forbid, Lewis, George, Charles, Carlos and Max were ever in the same plane crash it sounds like Alonso would ha...
by Chunky
Wed Aug 03, 2022 9:51 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The Official Fernando Alonso thread
Replies: 1409
Views: 518572

Re: The Official Fernando Alonso thread

Just bad luck then. All perfectly timed, perfectly logical career decisions and behaviour. Nothing to learn along the way, different every time, failed by others at every end and turn. He's a great team builder who's always had inadequate people to lead. Not black balled by Honda in the US, RBR woul...
by Chunky
Wed Aug 03, 2022 4:09 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The Official Fernando Alonso thread
Replies: 1409
Views: 518572

Re: The Official Fernando Alonso thread

If missing the Red Bull boat was Fred's only team mis-step we could maybe let it go. But against the bigger picture including red-cargate, Singapore crashgate, joining Ferrari as a hero and getting slung out once he'd blown the team apart, returning to a McLaren team foolish enough to forget the pas...
by Chunky
Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:12 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The Official Fernando Alonso thread
Replies: 1409
Views: 518572

Re: The Official Fernando Alonso thread

I've counted 8 team switches for Fred so far, only the first one to Renault resulting in any success at all. Plus don't forget him turning down a Red Bull drive in the car that gave Vettel 4 WDCs; ironically because he only wanted a one year deal and RBR wanted two. But here's what I'm wondering.......
by Chunky
Mon Dec 13, 2021 9:02 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Kimi Räikkönen
Replies: 11
Views: 1559

Re: Kimi Räikkönen

I've been watching F1 since the days of Stewart & Hill Sr. and have followed all the great battles since Lauda and Hunt. Sometimes it seems that Kimi has been with us for most of my time. T.B.H. I was only briefly impressed by him and that was in the pre-2007 time. But anyone who can get kicked to t...
by Chunky
Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:51 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Will Verstappen and Hamilton collide at Abu Dhabi?
Replies: 170
Views: 16052

Re: Will Verstappen and Hamilton collide at Abu Dhabi?

When you have over a dozen back and forth posts arguing each of your own myopic vision of events, it's time to sit down and try to find something useful to do with your life. Calm down chaps. The poll has spoken, the result is in. Oone of you is outvoted, the other is with the majority, no-one reall...
by Chunky
Tue Dec 07, 2021 9:49 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Will the FIA step up. A possible championship permintation.
Replies: 77
Views: 8047

Re: Will the FIA step up. A possible championship permintation.

Nope, gotta' disagree there ATH.

MV got half points for 1st, LH got half points for third. No0one should have got any points for such a sham.

But it's all part of the show..................


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by Chunky
Mon Dec 06, 2021 11:35 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Will the FIA step up. A possible championship permintation.
Replies: 77
Views: 8047

Re: Will the FIA step up. A possible championship permintation.

The final race is going to be a replay of either Australia 1994 or Jerez 1997. And of course, the FIA will do exactly the same this time - let a cheat win a maiden WDC if his actions put his opponent out, but impotently punish him (albeit not with a season DSQ this time) if he puts himself out but h...
by Chunky
Tue Nov 16, 2021 7:06 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Brazil 2021 - Should Max have been given a Penalty
Replies: 498
Views: 40561

Re: Brazil 2021 - Should Max have been given a Penalty

I'm a simple man, so I'll just offer a few simple thoughts: Of course there will be no retrospective penalty. It's a can of worms. Toto is raising it now for no reason other than to reflect the RBR stupidity after Silverstone and maybe to stir the pot a bit. Expect stewarding decisions for the remai...
by Chunky
Mon Nov 15, 2021 11:41 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Brazil 2021 - Should Max have been given a Penalty
Replies: 498
Views: 40561

Re: Brazil 2021 - Should Max have been given a Penalty

Of course there shouldn't be a penalty. The stewards have been 100 per cent consistent this weekend, as they've been all year. Plus, he doesn't have curly black hair and has never taken a title from under the nose of a Brazilian hero on the last lap. Nothing to see here, move on. More seriously thou...
by Chunky
Sat Nov 13, 2021 10:45 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: 2021 Brazilian Grand Prix FP & Sprint Qualy/Race Thread
Replies: 302
Views: 31619

Re: 2021 Brazilian Grand Prix FP & Sprint Qualy/Race Thread

There is nothing "pretty clear" on a cell-phone video taken from some distance away. The only thing that can be clear from such a video is the personal preference of whoever is coming to any conclusion. But if we put this in a rules/legal framework we know that: Red Bull reported MB wing to FIA Vers...
by Chunky
Tue Sep 28, 2021 3:13 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Should Bottas be sacked?
Replies: 78
Views: 10085

Re: Should Bottas be sacked?

I don't understand all the whinging about how Russel would be treated if brought in now. I bet he'd crawl across broken glass to get into the car early, even if his "only" job is to beat Verstappen into 3rd place. Bottas has failed miserably at that so far, it's time to get rid. George can't win the...
by Chunky
Mon Sep 27, 2021 11:26 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Should Bottas be sacked?
Replies: 78
Views: 10085

Re: Should Bottas be sacked?

Here's a prediction. Sometime this morning there will be a quiet chat with Bottas about that pass by Verstappen. It will go somewhere along the lines of, " We're paying you a shed load of money, do your job or you'll be driving a Williams for the rest of the season" . I'm very against the Ferrari/Sc...
by Chunky
Wed Sep 15, 2021 2:03 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Hamilton/Verstappen Italian GP 2021 Collision Discussion / Poll
Replies: 458
Views: 51787

Re: Hamilton/Verstappen Italian GP 2021 Collision Discussion / Poll

Am I the only one who's snot started to fizz when I read this morning's PF1 headline i.e. Uncle Helmut thinks a show has been put on for poor, injured Lewis? After all the whinging and whining about a lack of respect at Silverstone and " the penalty should match the implications of the incident "? I...
by Chunky
Tue Sep 14, 2021 7:12 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: One of these days a pair of title rivals will kill one another
Replies: 112
Views: 13444

Re: One of these days a pair of title rivals will kill one another

Someone help me here, I'm an old man who's been watching F1 for far too long so my memory is fading. When was the last time MV stuck his hand up and said, "Yeah, that was my fault". And when before that? While we're at it, when was the last time Horner stood there and sold the world that Max got it ...
by Chunky
Tue Sep 14, 2021 2:50 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: One of these days a pair of title rivals will kill one another
Replies: 112
Views: 13444

Re: One of these days a pair of title rivals will kill one another

The bottom line is that if you're allowed to get away with something you'll continue doing it until someone stops you. Schumacher won a WDC by running into Hill, but lost one when he got disqualified doing the same thing to JV. Even then, old habits die hard and he could have killed Rubens (Hungary ...
by Chunky
Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:06 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Hamilton/Verstappen Italian GP 2021 Collision Discussion / Poll
Replies: 458
Views: 51787

Re: Hamilton/Verstappen Italian GP 2021 Collision Discussion / Poll

Only one thing I thought when I first saw it. Before the slow-mo replays and being able to judge who was responsible ,the thing that struck me immediately was that after having parked his car on top of another, smashing up the air box in the process, Potty Mouth just walked away without checking on ...
by Chunky
Thu Aug 05, 2021 5:07 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Mercedes vs Red Bull - 2021
Replies: 1450
Views: 169636

Re: Mercedes vs Red Bull - 2021

I have it on very good authority that RBR have already lodged their complaint with the FAI about the forthcoming race at Spa. Allegedly, all the Mercedes engined teams have been doing extensive prep work in the simulator. The plan is for Stroll to t-bone Russel, who will spin and take Ricciardo out,...
by Chunky
Sun Jul 18, 2021 8:24 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Hamilton/Verstappen British GP 2021 Collision Discussion
Replies: 690
Views: 78850

Re: Forum verdict on the Hamilton/Verstappen collision

Coulthard said Hamilton, Brundle said Verstappen, Lando tried so, so very hard not to say either of them. I guess that's because he's not sure if the next time the phone rings it will be MB or RBR. So that's one vote in each category. Horner threw a hissy fit, Wolfe said neither of them were going t...
by Chunky
Sun May 02, 2021 5:36 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Is Vettel at Aston Martin starting to look like Mansell at Mclaren in 95?
Replies: 58
Views: 9319

Re: Is Vettel at Aston Martin starting to look like Mansell at Mclaren in 95?

Wasn't '95 the year when Mansell was brought back to help a failing McClaren but the car was too small for him to fit in? Even after a few raaces off and some redesign it was still uncomfortable and he had a horrid time. As far as we know, Vettel fits in the car okay, didn't take time off to win the...