Didn’t think it was great. It glossed over or entirely skipped quite a lot and didn’t really capture his win-at-all-costs drive.
The part with Mick was quite touching — hard not to root for him.
Completed the Schumacher documentary now. There were an awful lot of details and moments I expected to see featured that were glossed over or missed but I guess with a career as incredible as his there was only so much they could fit in.
It was still a great watch and I teared up on more than a couple of occasions through it. Would thoroughly recommend it.
Watched the first half at lunchtime. Brought back a lot of memories, it's essential watching for any F1 fan.
It's on a lot of second tier websites, but the original source is Roger Benoit who has good contacts and has been pretty accurate in predicting movements in the past.
I hope not, SA are a disgrace on the planet, and their ownership would turn F1 into a joke with races in rubbish areas on rubbish tracks.
Where are you picking this up from? I follow a bunch of reputable journo's & outlets and not one has mentioned this.
Filed out that survey, very interesting questions.
I want to watch it, but also not. 🙁
The Schumacher documentary is now on Netflix.
Well, Liberty are American and recently the home of COTA, Texas, passed laws that showed just as much regard for women as any Saudi regime so maybe the country politics won't make any impact.
There's rumours circulating that Liberty Media are looking to offload F1 and are in talks with a Saudi Arabian group.
It would be a shame if it proves true, Liberty have done an amazing job with the parts of the sport they have control over - the rebranding was hugely successful, they've improved the on screen information, brought in new cameras, they've brought in AWS insights, improved ceremonies for things like driver of the day and fastest lap and pitstop, put an end to the extremely outdated and inappropriate use of grid girls, and of course fought tooth and nail to finally get a much needed cost cap into the sport. They also lured Netflix in who were able to use judicious editing and spend time focussing on the interesting battles further down the grid to make the sport much more appealing to new fans who would have been put off by the awful product you generally get from watching Sky.
Unfortunately though there are major aspects of the sport that Liberty don't have control over and haven't been able to penetrate, as the FIA have continued to be utterly useless on every level ever since the departure of Max Mosley, and they have remained completely subservient to the interests of the manufacturers (it was Mosley's attempts to stand up to them that ultimately led to his removal of course). The Saudis are probably a better match for them, they've already got financial ties to some of the worst regimes of that region anyway.
Yeah, one race doesn't make a season. Tsunoda a very strong case in point. I saw the team radio highlights video yesterday and his swear rant on Kubica put me right off him.
I must say this must have been Ferraris quietest Italian Grand Prix in years (2020 not withstanding) no real media attention around them. I'd say Sainz was smarting a bit seeing the car he dragged to second, and could have challenged for a win if he had "one more lap", getting the win this time out.
I just heard Danny Ric's post race radio and he had his "to whom it may concern...." moment. He said "for anyone who thought I'd left, I never left".
It must have been such a great feeling to have such a good weekend and the win is a bit of a bonus, but not a fluke. The mclarens were genuine contenders this weekend. Granted he was never the fastest driver and it required both Mercedes being shuffled behind him for different reasons. But he really deserves credit for his turnaround this season.
We'll have to see if he can maintain the improvement or not. It's not guaranteed that he can match lando from here on.
Shame Leclerc didn't get to start Monaco after that pole lap, he could have converted it. Leclerc and Gasly could win one yet if the stars align, vettel has been in the right place & right time too twice already so maybe third time lucky for him? Doubtful though.
Four winning constructors so far this year. Alpine, McLaren, Mercedes and Red Bull.
Toto Wolff said they'd only accept that if alignment on various other (unspecified) points is reached. What Mercedes say in public and do in private is rarely related so I think there's a long way to go before this happens, but it will be very good news for the sport if it does.
Seems Merc are good with dropping the MGU-H if it means the VW would join.
So will the cars be partially 4 wheel drive from 26 on then?
AMuS thinks the new engine formula for 2026 might look like this
no mguh anymore. Interestingly Honda, Porsche and Audi are participating
Motorsport network conducting another global fan survey, chance for everyone to have their say
Max Verstappen going for a spin through the streets of Palermo:
Red bull would not want to throw millions at an engine development. VW or any other company interested in F1 can take this over without getting into the problems Honda ran into while developing.
Depending on the next engine generation, they might not change at all or expand the electric part of it.
The Honda/RB is a good base to start from
With Albon back, 35% of the drivers on the grid are now Red Bull Academy drivers. Along with two teams and restoring one of the best tracks on the calendar, they really get too little credit for how much they’ve contributed to F1 over the last decade and a half.
They might just be a drinks company but they have never been about anything other than associating their brand with the most exciting action and heroic drivers. They don’t need to sell a message of hybrid efficiency and reliability and all the other things manufacturers have lobbied for that have dragged the sport down in recent years. They’re one of the few serious voices in the sport calling for the next set of regs to bring back the screaming engines that the fans all love.
I’d love to see more teams of this nature invest in the sport (I guess the closest parallel were Benetton) rather than the heavy car manufacturer influence we have today. I hope the departure of Honda doesn’t put them completely out of contention and they can take over the engine program without too many major problems, perhaps it could be a model for the future with completely self sufficient teams who aren’t answerable to a manufacturer - obviously that will only work with far cheaper simpler power units than what we have today though, barring another billionaire like Mateschitz pouring their money into a project.
That article about VW and Red Bull makes no sense. Why would Honda and Red Bull let VW come in and take the credit for their engine.
It makes more sense for a collaboration between Red Bull and Williams and maybe long term for Williams to move over to the Red Bull Honda power unit. It gives Red Bull more options for their drivers and more power at the table for future regulations.
It’s a silly technicality, as Formula E wasn’t designated a world championship by the FIA before so the champion wasn’t the world champion in the eyes of the FIA. In reality nothing about the series has changed, it’s just as international as before.
Sorry, but just clarify what "WDC" means in this context and why Mr Freeze is considered one this year but JEV isn't a two time WDC?
Bbc said he was the first Dutch WDC in an FIA competition. Beat Max to a WDC. .
Nyck de Vries was no Mercedes academy driver so no offense taken by Mercedes. Nyck won the f2 title in his third season among the weakest field in years.
He seems to have money and might end up at Sauber anyway as the rest of the prediction came true.
Btw with Albon back, eight of the F1 field right now are Red Bull academy drivers.
What brings us to the massive problem of a lack of seats for academy driver in general. We won't see new teams anytime soon, so Alpine would need to pay Alfa to seat One of their drivers.
Interesting thought here: https://the-race.com/formula-1/mark-hughes-albon-deal-hints-at-mercedes-red-bull-f1-power-shift/
Idea is that red bull engines will become vw/Audi in the next year's. Instead of developing an engine from scratch take over a competitive engine.
Not only did he win Formula E but he became Formula E's first WDC although why any of the drivers who won the series before that were not WDC drivers is beyond me. I thought they were.
He won F2 in 2019 in what seems to be regarded as a poor year for it, he did beat latifi in second however if that's to be used as some sort of reference?
Interestingly he finished 4th in 2018 behind a trio of Russell, norris and albon. He also won Formula E this year too, again for what that's worth I'm not really sure.
I mean on paper he certainlly warrents a F1 drive I guess?
