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AMKC

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Lando is sporting a nice pair of Puma trainers. I love their trainers.

Me too. Much better than overrated Nike trainers.

AMKC

Harika wrote: »

Sorry to disappoint, the fourth for now is red bull....
And I can't see any manufacturers coming into F1 as long as F1 deviates more and more from the market.
Jaguar announcing today that they will only sell electric cars from 2025 shocked me.

Actually they announced that they will only produce electric cars from 2025 and only sell electric cars by 2030. So in the mean time any ICE cars they have produced can still be sold untill there life cycle ends.

Jordan 199

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robinwing

Norris introduced by Pinkham immediately launches into how with his experience of 5 years a McLaren employee and his knowledge gained he will have to take on the responsibility , how he got on well with Carlos Sainz and how they worked well together. Riccardo comes in teeth flashing like a great white. His only mission is to destroy Norris , undermine his confidence , outqualify him and take over the team . Will he do a Hulkenberg on Norris ?

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robinwing wrote: »

Norris introduced by Pinkham immediately launches into how with his experience of 5 years a McLaren employee and his knowledge gained he will have to take on the responsibility , how he got on well with Carlos Sainz and how they worked well together. Riccardo comes in teeth flashing like a great white. His only mission is to destroy Norris , undermine his confidence , outqualify him and take over the team . Will he do a Hulkenberg on Norris ?

Yes

Jordan 199

Alpine launch on the 2nd of March.

AMKC

Aston Martin Cognizant launch on the 3rd of March.

El_Duderino 09

There was speculation here about Max and clauses on his contract which could mean he could leave before the end of his contract.

Horner said “There is an element of performance related to Max's contract.”

"I'm not going to go into what that is. It doesn't relate to the power unit in any way, it's just a binary performance at a certain measurement in time.”.

I heard his last contract had something to do with engine performance e.g. if more than 50% of the gap to Mercedes was caused by the Honda engine then he could leave. But Horner suggests that it’s more straightforward than that the is time. E.g. If he isn’t 3rd in the championship at half way through the season, the he can trigger the clause.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/155066/verstappen-has-performance-clause-in-red-bull-deal

Frank Bullitt

AMKC wrote: »

That's boring and more ugly. I think last years car looked better.

...they are basically the same. Biggest change is under the skin of it.

Adamocovic

robinwing wrote: »

Norris introduced by Pinkham immediately launches into how with his experience of 5 years a McLaren employee and his knowledge gained he will have to take on the responsibility , how he got on well with Carlos Sainz and how they worked well together. Riccardo comes in teeth flashing like a great white. His only mission is to destroy Norris , undermine his confidence , outqualify him and take over the team . Will he do a Hulkenberg on Norris ?

It’s a big year for Lando and as much as I like Ricciardo I hope he outperforms him.

Lando is fortunate enough to have had the experience where he worked with the pit crew and engineers before becoming fully fledged as the driver.

We’ve seen him helping the mechanics after races as he used to do that before he was the driver for work experience. No doubt that has helped him in two ways. To get knowledge of the car and also build a great relationship with the crew who seem to love him.

I’m hoping that he can continue his improvements. Would be horrible if Ricciardo comes in and becomes top dog straight away as Lando is clearly the future of McLaren.

I love both drivers but they are super competitive and I don’t believe it will be the same chummy relationship that Sainz and Lando shared. I can see some sparks flying with Ricciardo coming in with expectations of being number 1 and Lando wanting to prove this is his team.

Really excited to see how it unfolds.

Jordan 199

My season prediction thread is still running in case anybody is interested. The more the merrier and all that good stuff.

Frank Bullitt

AMKC

Frank Bullitt wrote: »

...they are basically the same. Biggest change is under the skin of it.

I know that I just think the new nose cone is uglier than last years but there must be some advantage to the Merc style cone.

Adamocovic wrote: »

It’s a big year for Lando and as much as I like Ricciardo I hope he outperforms him.

Lando is fortunate enough to have had the experience where he worked with the pit crew and engineers before becoming fully fledged as the driver.

We’ve seen him helping the mechanics after races as he used to do that before he was the driver for work experience. No doubt that has helped him in two ways. To get knowledge of the car and also build a great relationship with the crew who seem to love him.

I’m hoping that he can continue his improvements. Would be horrible if Ricciardo comes in and becomes top dog straight away as Lando is clearly the future of McLaren.

I love both drivers but they are super competitive and I don’t believe it will be the same chummy relationship that Sainz and Lando shared. I can see some sparks flying with Ricciardo coming in with expectations of being number 1 and Lando wanting to prove this is his team.

Really excited to see how it unfolds.

It will be exciting to see how it unfolds alright. I hope they both get on but keep each other on there toes goo and when they have a chance of a podium go get it. Hopefully they both will have that chance.

Frank Bullitt

AMKC wrote: »

I know that I just think the new nose cone is uglier than last years but there must be some advantage to the Merc style cone.

They ran it for most of last year as well, I think it plays better with the underside of the car better.

robinwing

Adamocovic wrote: »

It’s a big year for Lando and as much as I like Ricciardo I hope he outperforms him.

Lando is fortunate enough to have had the experience where he worked with the pit crew and engineers before becoming fully fledged as the driver.

We’ve seen him helping the mechanics after races as he used to do that before he was the driver for work experience. No doubt that has helped him in two ways. To get knowledge of the car and also build a great relationship with the crew who seem to love him.

I’m hoping that he can continue his improvements. Would be horrible if Ricciardo comes in and becomes top dog straight away as Lando is clearly the future of McLaren.

I love both drivers but they are super competitive and I don’t believe it will be the same chummy relationship that Sainz and Lando shared. I can see some sparks flying with Ricciardo coming in with expectations of being number 1 and Lando wanting to prove this is his team.

Really excited to see how it unfolds.

Hope Lando can withstand very subtle flak from Danny Ric , remember him digging into the Hulk ( in a joking funny way ) at every opportunity last years. He is a slick operator but a ruthless mother***ker . He will want to undermine Norris . Wait and see. Norris needs to outqualify him on a regular basis . Its great that the team mechanics and staff like Lando a lot. I hope he is tougher than his baby face presents.

El_Duderino 09

This is an interesting bit about the red bull engine deal. They really got a great deal from Honda and they got the other engine manufacturers to go along with the development freeze. Great work.

The video mentions that one of the top Mercedes engine people left this year and hasn’t taken a new job yet. He could be in line to head the red bull engine team. It’ll be interesting to see what happens.

https://youtu.be/W6PPIFn9nFM

Jordan 199

Vettel has put some of his cars up for sale.

One of them was a Ferrari F50. I love them.

AMKC

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Vettel has put some of his cars up for sale.

One of them was a Ferrari F50. I love them.

Are you gona buy it?

Jordan 199

AMKC wrote: »

Are you gona buy it?

Well, I own a few in the Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon games and that suits me fine.

AMKC

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Well, I own a few in the Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon games and that suits me fine.

I see it is sold anyway.

I imagine he sees then as a distraction now and has not got the time for them all anyway. How many cars does a person need anyway? You can only drive one at a time.
Some serious money do to own them and keep them in great driving condition.
If I had that kind of money I would just have a few a change one every year to 6 months depending on when I got bored.

Hijpo

AMKC wrote: »

I see it is sold anyway.

I imagine he sees then as a distraction now and has not got the time for them all anyway. How many cars does a person need anyway? You can only drive one at a time.
Some serious money do to own them and keep them in great driving condition.
If I had that kind of money I would just have a few a change one every year to 6 months depending on when I got bored.

Must have taken a whopper of a pay cut if he needs to sell all his cars already

robinwing

Hijpo wrote: »

Must have taken a whopper of a pay cut if he needs to sell all his cars already

every time he looks at a Ferrari now it must remind him of rejection , they let him go cause he didnt deliver a world championship and hes outdriven by a younger and faster team mate.

vectra

Hijpo wrote: »

Must have taken a whopper of a pay cut if he needs to sell all his cars already

You feel he is short of cash or something?
Getting rid of the bad Karma I'd say.:P

Hijpo

every time he looks at a Ferrari now it must remind him of rejection , they let him go cause he didnt deliver a world championship and hes outdriven by a younger and faster team mate.

vectra wrote: »

You feel he is short of cash or something?
Getting rid of the bad Karma I'd say.:P

Haha very true :-)

Although as an obvious car enthusiast and liking the cars enough to spend that amount of money on them in the first place I thought he would be holding onto them.

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I doubt he "needs" the cash. :P

All kinds of reasons for it tbh. Simplifying life, downsizing, whatever. Limited-number supercars have turned out to be an excellent investment in recent years so he'll be making money on some of them.

eviltimeban

AMKC wrote: »

How many cars does a person need anyway? You can only drive one at a time.

Ah yes, but you can drive a different one every day!

I suppose it's like collecting anything. You can only drink one bottle of wine at a time (or maybe not!), but people have big cellars full. You can only play one guitar at a time, but guitar enthusiasts have many.

A "stable" of classic sportscars and supercars would be something I'd like very much. I would totally look to buy an old F1 car, just to have it.

AMKC

eviltimeban wrote: »

Ah yes, but you can drive a different one every day!

I suppose it's like collecting anything. You can only drink one bottle of wine at a time (or maybe not!), but people have big cellars full. You can only play one guitar at a time, but guitar enthusiasts have many.

A "stable" of classic sportscars and supercars would be something I'd like very much. I would totally look to buy an old F1 car, just to have it.

Indeed and just pick any key do not have them in order so you do not know which car you will be driving on any giving day as long as you get to drive them all at some stage sure I suppose why not.

vectra

AMKC wrote: »

Indeed and just pick any key do not have them in order so you do not know which car you will be driving on any giving day as long as you get to drive them all at some stage sure I suppose why not.

Yes indeed,
throw all the keys in a bucket and close your eyes while picking one.:pac:

Jordan 199

Alpha Tauri launch today.

Burkie1203

Haas lining up BWT as title sponsor

Pink Ferraris