New regulations new season....
Can redbull keep up the pace
Gary Anderson reckons the Williams makes no great sense. The front and rear ends don't mat h up as far as he can tell.
The launch car was just a generic render but the car on track was probably real and that's the one Anderson was talking about. Williams reckon it's a 5 year project to get back to the front.
Id be putting money on Williams taking a step back to the back of the grid this year again. Considering they have had the best engine this whole time, they're a bit of a disgrace.
It looks cool though. Pity more cars aren't glossy.
The Williams looks cool. I think it looks a bit like the 1994 version with the rounded nose.
New season of Drive to Survive is out on the 11th of March
Looks like a Red Bull logo on Albon's helmet in the Williams. Is he still a Red Bull driver (or at least sponsored by them)? I presumed that would have ended this year.
I think it was very opaque. Mercedes wanted him to sever ties with red bull before signing for williams and driving their engine and using their gearbox and whatever else williams get from Mercedes. I think he did notionally sever ties with red bull, an F1 promise.
I'd be pretty sure red bull will have the option to hire him as a reserve driver or to replace perez if albon is above average this year, and bring all that knowledge back to red bull with him
As I recall, Carlos Sainz had a Red Bull helmet when he was driving for Renault as he was on loan to them.
First Horner gets his spare driver into Mercedes-Benz's unofficial junior team, then he buys a factory tour at auction, he'll either have moved to the Mercedes-Benz team to replace Wolff, or be running Merc engines in the Red Bulls in 5 years time.
Ferrari leaked
Bybit sponsoring red bull, rumoured to be $30m/year
Oracle deal is $500m over 5 years
According to planetf1 anyway
All the cars look very different from each other, there is a lot of major differences
Ferrari have the same vents on the sidepods that AM and RB have
So the 2022 cars are stunners. I am excited for this season now.
The Ferrari looks great in red and black.
Can not wait to see them all beside each other and racing each other out on the tracks. Be nice to see some different cars for once.
I read that RB are doing a shakedown at Silverstone today, with a camo livery. I am searching frantically for it.
If the cars were about 10-20% smaller they'd rival early 90s cars aesthetically.
Bybit worth $150m over 3 years according to this https://racingnews365.com/red-bull-secure-lucrative-new-crypto-sponsorship-deal - nice lump of change either way!
That Ferrari is lovely - sidepods look different to what we've seen so far too?
Yes the Ferrari sidepods certainly look interesting.
Social media rumour that Merc are going back to silver
Some difference in the cars despite the tighter regulations. The Ferrari and Aston have the very obvious louvres, while others have none at all. Mad.
Think they more or less said that half way through last season.
The black cars were a nice gesture to the BLM movementanf the George Floyd , but their brand is silver.
This image suggests black but who knows. If I had to bet, I'd say they'll be silver.
Don't think people will really notice or care about that TBH, the virtue signalling gets old after a while, especially when their title sponsor was complicit in war crimes, and the Malaysian Gov (who own Petronas) have laws that criminalise homosexuality.
But, a black car will sway the narrative on that 😉
"You can't address anything until you've already addressed everything". Whataboutery.
In any case, sounds like they're going back to silver this year.
"Look, our car is black, just ignore the horrible stuff our title sponsor has done, please. We really care"
Silver generally looked better anyway.
Yeah. That's it. It's a marketing business, as we know.
No point thinking too hard about it. Ruins the facade of pure racing spirits and leaves behind a reality of a business that markets other businesses
This popped up on my YT feed - fairly blurry footage of the Alpha Tauri at Fiorano. Looks like it's from a mobile phone zoomed in. 1min 10s in it's a little better. If nothing else it sounds fairly ok. 😁
Had a look at this video's with analysis of the designs on the AM and MCL. The McLaren is so different to the others, they've either got this incredibly right or horribly wrong. Really looking forward to on track times between cars.
I seen a possible leak of the Mercedes car on FB today. If it is it then it certainly looks interesting.
And almost all silver too. I guess they still had to keep Hamilton happy.
That's from a livery designer, they even cut off his watermark. Here's the original;
And Instagram post;
