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mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 11, 2025 9:18 pm

Paolo_Lasardi wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 11, 2025 8:47 pm

mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 11, 2025 3:46 pm
Freddie Slater will drive in F3 for Trident in 2026.
Excellent choice of team. That should offer him a shot at the championship.
I think he'll win it.

He probably should.

Paolo_Lasardi

mikeyg123 wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 11, 2025 3:46 pm
Freddie Slater will drive in F3 for Trident in 2026.

Excellent choice of team. That should offer him a shot at the championship.

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elite are you watching the same races as me. lol one of them loses places at the start at the majority of the races and seems to bottle it all the time in qualy. the other got destroyed last year by that guy. i think norris is having a terrible season i think the pressure has got to him and its mak...

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elite are you watching the same races as me. lol one of them loses places at the start at the majority of the races and seems to bottle it all the time in qualy. the other got destroyed last year by that guy. i think norris is having a terrible season i think the pressure has got to him and its mak...

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Ferrari finishing fourth and Vasseur talks about a good race and an encouraging weekend. x( With such a performance, Red Bull called in crisis meeting and changed things and staff - and see: they are back to domination. With a number of excellent updates back into their own class, some 20 sec ahead...

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I have no idea why McLaren is so keen on favouring Norris.

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Ferrari finishing fourth and Vasseur talks about a good race and an encouraging weekend. x( With such a performance, Red Bull called in crisis meeting and changed things and staff - and see: they are back to domination. With a number of excellent updates back into their own class, some 20 sec ahead ...

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Norris is just not a smart driver. The only way you lose to Piastri is if he undercuts you, and then he had a slow stop. He had the choice of pitting first and willingly gave that up. Madness. If I were Piastri I wouldn't have given up that place tbf hes not smart outside the car either Why?

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Red Bull showing why they are the best team - what a comeback, back to dominance. Whopping 20 seconds ahead.

Ferrari with show laps in free practice but in reality nowhere.

Otherwise an utterly boring and uninteresting race.

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Lindblad has not impressed me this season. Makes too many mistakes Yeah, no one is really standing out in F2 this year. I think Lindblad and Dunne have talent but both need another year in F2. Yes, they are both fast - but both also made hilarious mistakes throughout the season. I agree, another ye...

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Vicky_balboa wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 07, 2025 8:27 am
Lindblad has not impressed me this season. Makes too many mistakes

Yeah, no one is really standing out in F2 this year.

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It would be weird he would be 5+ years older than most and with 8 years in Indy! I don't know if the suggested thinking behind that rumour was for him to get more relevant experience or Superlicense points. Either way it would be odd. He can just do six FP1 sessions and assuming he runs 100km and p...

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Colton Herta will be joining Cadillac as test (& reserve?) driver. 1963263390631039360 Also to be expected. However, I think that, from the Andretti roster, Kirkwood and Hauger are better drivers and bigger talents. I am curious whether Herta will do F2 as it was recently rumoured or completely foc...

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Domenicali announces: - more sprints - shorter GPs - reversed grids - massive reduction of free practice - media trainings for use of simpler and less technical language - explicit message to fans of tradition: get used to it Autosport and elsewhere. This quote "“We’re seeing on many of our channel...

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Colton Herta will be joining Cadillac as test (& reserve?) driver. 1963263390631039360 Also to be expected. However, I think that, from the Andretti roster, Kirkwood and Hauger are better drivers and bigger talents. I am curious whether Herta will do F2 as it was recently rumoured or completely foc...

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Norris urgently needs to win Monza. Will he make it?
After two races of mediocre performances: will there be an upswing at Ferrari?
Will Antonelli continue to disappoint?

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Domenicali announces:
- more sprints
- shorter GPs
- reversed grids
- massive reduction of free practice
- media trainings for use of simpler and less technical language
- explicit message to fans of tradition: get used to it
Autosport and elsewhere.

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I get it crashes are exciting and who cares about the victim, carry on like that then a driver might have to sit out a race. Drivers trying to make things happen is exciting. And yes... If you keep making mistakes you should be banned. Luckily Antonelli isn't close to that. He does seem to be rathe...

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Seeing the Racing Bulls car so close to the Red Bull, I thought it is interesting to see nobody claims that the second team is working for the first anymore. Do you think Hadjar would’ve been allowed to challenge Verstappen for the podium if he could get close enough? I was wondering about this. He...

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I feel sorry for Norris, losing his second place with no fault of his own. Antonelli should be relegated back to F2. Hamilton should retire. Thanks to the SC lottery, several drivers lucked into excellent positions (Verstappen, Bearman, Stroll, ...). Verstappen was either P2 or P3 all race, so I do...

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I feel sorry for Norris, losing his second place with no fault of his own. Antonelli should be relegated back to F2. Hamilton should retire.

Thanks to the SC lottery, several drivers lucked into excellent positions (Verstappen, Bearman, Stroll, ...).

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Piastri & Hadjar

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I more and more think that Antonelli was rushed into F1 too quickly.

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I can't see GM giving him a stake. Certainly not at this stage anyway. Maybe if they're floundering around adrift at the back come the middle of 2027 and he hasn't gone anywhere else, then you go to someone like Horner and give him the keys to the castle to make it a success. The problem with this ...

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Given who is available, it's the best possible option for Cadillac. They could've waited it out a little with one of the two seats but there is no guarantee that whichever of Bottas and Perez they delayed on would still be available, or indeed that any other driver who would represent a better choi...

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To be expected - and very uninspiring. Uninspiring? Cadillac will almost certainly be the worst team in F1 next year, and I can’t think of another time when the slowest car in the sport had a lineup as good as Bottas and Perez. Well I guess McLaren Honda, but those were extraordinary circumstances....

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To be expected - and very uninspiring. Uninspiring? Cadillac will almost certainly be the worst team in F1 next year, and I can’t think of another time when the slowest car in the sport had a lineup as good as Bottas and Perez. Well I guess McLaren Honda, but those were extraordinary circumstances....

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To be expected - and very uninspiring. Uninspiring? Cadillac will almost certainly be the worst team in F1 next year, and I can’t think of another time when the slowest car in the sport had a lineup as good as Bottas and Perez. Well I guess McLaren Honda, but those were extraordinary circumstances....

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I will however say that Perez will be very good regarding experience and feedback. But Bottas also has that and the team probably would have been better off mixing an experienced driver with a new one. In a few seasons time, yes... but not right now. Cadillac is going into 2026 with a lot of unknow...

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Would Yuki vault from last to the middle of the second tier (Albon, Hulk, Lewis, Isaac, Pierre, Alonso) if he had stayed at VCARB? I have to believe he would, and I think polls from last year pretty much confirm that as well, IIRC. This is an interesting one to ponder. I think you're probably right...

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To be expected - and very uninspiring.

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UnlikeUday wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 25, 2025 4:47 pm

Very likely - although very uninspiring as well.

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IndyNXT: Dennis Hauger took a dominant title with one race to go with a second place at Milwaukee Mile.

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Breathtaking drive by Christian Rasmussen to win the iconic Milwaukee Mile (Indycars). That had a Villeneuve-vibe!

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Others have noted that the gap is smaller this year than previously as well as me noticing it. I don't know why so many don't include sprints in statistics. If you don't do this then there would be a change to every sinlge drivers position in the standings from P10 - P19 other than Gasly. The top 9...

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The average qualifying gap for stroll and Alonso this year is a lot smaller only being just over 2 tenths. At least two other pairs of team mates are a fair bit worse than that. I would go as far as saying the worse looking statistics of always qualifying stroll is in representative as they are act...

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Honestly, I'm not entirely sure why people are so confident that Norris (and hence Piastri) are at a level far below Verstappen in terms of speed. We have really no idea how they compare on raw pace, although the most direct link we have (which I want to reinforce is a dubious one, and I have no in...

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No it was just a typo I don't know why I put never there, to that point I will post again in respect to Verstappen being banned being detrimental to the sport, we seem to be claiming he's bigger than the sport therefore should be given more leeway, KMag being banned certainly didn't cause any wring...

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Why is it for the betterment of the sport that drivers that consistently break the rules never get banned, did it damage the sport when KMag got his ban? It's interesting you first say "drivers that consistently break the rules never get banned", only to then say there actually is one who did get a...

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One driver dive bombing a corner is another driver leaving the door wide open, well it seems to be if you're called Lewis Hamilton. No divebombing occurred. There isn't even enough of a braking zone for a divebombing to be possible there. I think if you look to overtake where you can't overtake cle...

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