Ross Brawn said that if one team got to far in front then something would be done to equalise performance, I'm not sure he's still around. Red Bull are not helping things by keeping Perez in the other seat and we can't destabilise Verstappen by signing Hamilton. I always got the impression that a t...

That twitter post is very matter of fact. Whoever approved that post has taken it personally I think this has genuinely caught Mercedes on the hop a bit, calling everyone in last minute for a meeting, toto being on holiday. They’ll be hurting but need to put something out. The #thankyouLewis stuff ...

Had the feeling for years that the team knows how to build, or copy, a car, but they've no idea how to develop a car. Is this isnt it . They basically tried to replicate the 2022 red bull, did a reasonable job of it but don’t truly understand it so are just pretty much stuck with it. Other teams ha...

Perez picks up a total of 4 penalty points. For this one race, how many is he on now? 5 So he only got 1 point for hitting Albon and ruining his race last time out at Singapore. Yes it's a disgrace, for reference Hamilton got 2 penalty points for their collision in Spa which most would consider a r...

Russell's qualifying then relative lack of race pace has shades of Rosberg 2014 with Rosberg often being half a second slower in the races. I was thinking the same. I do think Russell is so focused on beating Hamilton in basically every session, he won’t see the bigger picture (Ie. Having a car to ...

Verstappen & the Merc boys. Yeah he has all the advantages but that was a sublime, clinical display by Verstappen. Nice drive. Russell & Hamilton drove well to finish 4th & 6th respectively. :thumbup: The merc is a bizarre car isn’t it. Garbage all weekend and has really decent pace from about lap ...

I don't mind Crofty at all. Yes, he makes some mistakes but don't we all? Overall, he sounds enthusiastic which is important for the main commentator. Brundle is good but maybe he needs replacing with his son. The biggest problem is that when they've been around the sport for a very long time, they...

difficult. Alonso was probably about the most solid of them. Verstappen was good but not perfect, but did all he needed too. Gasly and Sainz were both very good, but both made big errors on the last restart. I think Alonso and norris were the two main standouts Can’t agree with alonso being a stand...

I'm watching the race now - did Russell just burn up his tyres keeping up with Hamilton in the first stint? Or did they get ruined by following Hamilton? I thought if Russell was genuinely faster than Hamilton he would have been closer than 0.9s behind. My personal opinion is Russell burnt through ...

Not only that but Hamilton himself didn't even develop this relentless race pace until like 2017 as far as I can tell. Hamilton's superb race pace has been a hallmark of his driving since karting. Did you not see some of his performances in GP2? You can go back as far as 2008 to find examples of Mc...

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Mercedes’ legal case is going to be about a million words long and completely watertight isn’t it, otherwise we’d have heard some leaks or whatever but complete silence from them suggests they’re not taking this without a massive fight. Imagine totos phone has about a thousand missed calls and voice...

I agree with you. However I do think the safety car is almost always kept out at least 2 laps too long. Today the track was clear, no debris and for some reason it drove about for another couple of laps and Grojean chucked it in the wall. Also instead of letting lapped cars unlap themselves, would i...

Mercedes can afford to buy out a driver, can't it? I suppose what they need to decide is whether its worth it? I have always liked the approach of a team having a proven talent and an up and coming talent alongside. The shortlist will be made depending if the 2nd seat is for driver no. 2 that will ...

Be funny if Alonso somehow wriggles out of his Mclaren contract, only for them to be the team to beat next season with Merc second/third best. Given how his career choices have turned out, that won't be a first :lol: Kidding and daydreams aside, I think Merc should give the seat to Wehrlein. They a...

World champion Nico Rosberg retires from Formula 1 with immediate effect More to follow, I guess World champion Nico Rosberg has just posted a message on Facebook explaining why he has retired from Formula 1. He says: “Since 25 years in racing, it has been my dream, my ‘one thing’ to become Formula ...

and that's the end of that

Hope.

McLaren don't use black, grey or dark silver paint on their car

Fear.

It's a replica of the current abomination

it'll be interesting to see how / if the new owners make a difference, or if Bernie still holds all the power and we end up in Timbuktu having a race in 2018 because some rich chap made an offer £10 more than Silverstone did.

A proper free live timing app would also be good.

I suspect all we will know of this is that Toto will sa the issue was discussed behind closed doors and has been resolved. One of the drivers (or Niki) may drop hints that Hamilton was reprimanded, possibly fined, and all will be reset to the start of next year. What are they going to do? Sack Lewi...

Whenever I've gone to an F1 race (admittedly only Silverstone), I've always enjoyed watching this bit. Not quite as fast so you can get good pictures, and just nice to watch f1 cars, they only come once a year and the last support race finishes at half 11 or so, and most people at the track don't go...

I was under the impression that engines / power units or whatever they're called now were randomly allocated from the factory?

Even the Premier League realises that they need plurality of viewing options. Add to this that F1 is much, much more dependent on both advertisers and blokes with tea towels on their heads who want to promote their sand infested back yard and you can be certain Sky won't be the only way forward. Re...

Mercedes has two drivers, one that obeys team orders (like in Monaco 2016), and the other that does not. Of course, it can not be like that. It's not optional. or, if it is, be ready to take the consequences. It absolutely can not stay like this, and will not stay like this. I expect something more...

The big question IMO is if Lewis had accepted before to obey the "never back up", and then put himself in position to do it anyway, than I believe bot where in wrong, Lewis should never accepted and Toto should never have asked I suspect the conversation was more "if you back him up we'll pit him a...

Give Hamilton a car that is reliable and he wouldn't have been in that position. would imagine that's almost exactly what Hamilton said / will say when he gets called in for a 'chat'. Hamilton racing his own race and risking a 1-2 is neither here nor there in the grand scheme of Mercedes PR / brand...

Just thinking through... I don't recall Rosberg, Vettel, Button or Hamilton having any spectacular crashes despite relatively long careers (or really long, in Button's case). Webber & Alonso seem to have had a few. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_02/lewishamMS2107_468x310.jpg was pretty bad...

Rain puts emphasis on the chassis over the PU. In Silverstone the RB12 was every bit a match for the W07 while it was still wet, the more it dried up the more the W07 could play out its cards. Monaco also puts more emphasis on chassis - look at qualifying and even race pace for a clue on how good t...

where would you recommend for sunday then, preferably somewhere were it's not just the cars leathering past! We'll get there about 8am, which i think is quite early (we had grandstand tickets last couple of years and there seemed to be loads of GA room at this time). Also, I'm considering going on F...

Whenever he doesn't retain the crown in the future, would he again retain 44?

yes.

Nobody can choose #44 other than Hamilton, until he retires.
Nobody can choose #1 unless they're the current WDC.

He's name is Jenson OP, and of course he's the one who should be retained by McLaren, for obvious reasons. Magnussen is no future WDC , at this point that is pretty much clear. Also, it's 9/9 in the qualifying battle, I'm already sensing some anti-Jenson bias from the OP with these "mistakes". You'...

Was going to ask the same, we went in a grandstand last year, we got in at about 8 and had a wander round, seemed to be loads of space in GA down the national pit straight amd round copse. There's a tiny bit of GA on the international pit straight (according to the silverstone website), can't find a...

sandman1347 wrote:It's such a shame that F1 is now a place where drivers like Button and Alonso might not have a drive next year while Maldonado is already confirmed...

suspect that and is more likely an or...

Button leaves McLaren, Alonso goes there, Button stays, Alonso has a problem...

While he could do it himself, he could also just hire a decent manager who understands the sport and has his sporting interests at the top of their list of priorities. Going directly from Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment to managing himself smacks a bit of black and white thinking. Lauda on the ori...