2025 F1 General Discussion Thread

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Sky have just gone through a piece there on Alpine, it is all very soap opera at the minute - which makes sense when you think Olly Oakes resigned as team principal.

Irish Aris

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I posted in the wrong thread.

Andrew76

Wrong thread too.

dulpit

Big crash from Yuki. His season is going from meh to worse...

prawnsambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123457768#Comment_123457768

I think that went over everyone's head. 🤣

Incidentally, Oakes is at Imola this weekend with the Hitech F2 team. I assume he resigned to take over the running of it from his brother.

Busman Paddy Lasty

Soap Opera - Hollyoaks

That's fecking brilliant 👏

flazio

It's Monaco week. Calling it "race" week might be stretching it.

mickdw

It's a great quali at least.

Andrew76

Think they mentioned on the Sky broadcast at the weekend that the FIA are adding an extra mandatory pit stop for Monaco - so everyone will be forced to make two stops rather than the normal one. Who knows how that’ll play out.

Busman Paddy Lasty

I'll stick to me guns and request a Monaco sprint race in equally matched karts or 1 driver Lego cars. Normal championship points apply.

flazio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123466689#Comment_123466689

Buddy up with a Formula E team and run their cars. They've been doing the best racing in Monaco for a few years now.

Frank Bullitt

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/fia-intervention-prompts-fresh-intrigue-in-red-bull-vs-mclaren-battle/

Sounds like there was a technical directive issued before the last race. Not sure if it actually ties into the result at the weekend, but it could have played a role.

PsychoPete

I was reading about it at lunch, it's interesting. It would make you wonder if Mclaren had to make some adjustments to their cars with the wheel bodywork and tyre management directives. RedBull have been pretty vocal about the McLaren rear tyre management, the FIA release these technical directives and suddenly Mclaren are slow and Piastri ate through his tyres in Imola. It's probably a coincidence and just track specific but there could be something in it if Mclaren are like this for the next few races

Frank Bullitt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123468683#Comment_123468683

I am gonna wait a bit to see, the TD in Spain will also have an impact. So the close season we expected might not materialise…

CONSI

Monaco has to be done, the cars cant pass each outher, its a 78 lap procession and the way the teams worked this weekend highlight all thats wrong with Monaco, when there are cars that can run 8/9 seconds slower per lap then they did in qualifying then its no fu for anyone. take racing back to race tracks

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123486290#Comment_123486290

I get that F1 has to defend Monaco for it's own reasons, but I'm baffled by fans who defend it.

It's probably the best known F1 race and if a prospective fan were to tune in to watch it, they'd have every right to conclude F1 is total scutter and be turned off the sport.

PsychoPete

Spain should be interesting with the new technical directive about flexi wings. I wonder will we see any drop in performance

prawnsambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123486347#Comment_123486347

Qualifying is where the racing happens. And it's phenomenal. Lando's lap was sublime.

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123486395#Comment_123486395

Would you say that's good enough for the showcase event on the calendar?

prawnsambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123486407#Comment_123486407

No, but it's never going to go, so we have to make do with qualifying. And at least that's exciting. It has been always so.

naughto

It's all about the money nothing else comes close in F1.

LIGHTNING

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123486347#Comment_123486347

there is a dedicated thread to Monaco, lets not have two threads getting into the same discussion.

Brief_Lives

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123486395#Comment_123486395

sub 70 seconds… incredible achievement.

Paddy_Mag

Bild Reporting that Ferrari have made an approach to Christian horner

Frank Bullitt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123491693#Comment_123491693

I would find that really quite hard to believe. Not doubting you, but Ferrari need more than a good TP, and even at that, why would anyone want to go there.

Ferrari have been a total train wreck in recent years. Even when Schumacher went there, he didn't go alone, and Ferrari would need someone like him to be part of a broader picture. It is clear Leclerc is losing confidence in them now, and then they have a 40 year old in the other car.

prawnsambo

Ferrari thrashing around for a new team principal is nothing new and Horner would be seen as somebody who wouldn't accept anything but the best. But even if it's true, can't see him going there. Would be a bit of a wrench to have to go to Italy.

So it could well be true but unlikely to happen.

AMKC

They Need to give Fred Vasseur more time. I think he is doing a good job. He got Hamilton to go there. Do I see Christian going there. No way. Now if Adrian Newey had of gone to Ferrari and they were trying go to get Christian to come on board now as well then maybe but I would say at the moment that there is more chance of him and Max going to Aston Martin than there is of him going to Ferrari.

prawnsambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123492051#Comment_123492051

"Christine" Horner. Lol.

dulpit

Christian Horner will never be a team principal for anybody other than red bull, unless he ends up owning his own team. No chance he'd go to Ferrari. He doesn't bring anything to that table that they don't already have.

Fred Vasseur needs time, and ferrari need to look inwards a little too to figure out why they struggle so often.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123492121#Comment_123492121

Easy to do ok. Fixed now.