New regulations new season....
Can redbull keep up the pace
I'm pretty sure "Wren-Ohhhhh" as the Americans like to say do have a good presence in North America.
They could use Nissan instead given the two companies close ties
Nope pulled out of there decades ago. Never been back. Even Peugeot are not in North America. South America yes Renault and Peugeot are there alright.
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Sorry, my bad. I'd say the best brand to use on those engines is Infiniti.
I Disagree. They done that years ago. The are known no where bar in America. I would say Andretti Renault Infiniti would work better.
I'm just reporting how Joe saward and Gary Anderson explained it.
If suber were they works Honda team, would they have been bitter off? Yes, obviously. Honda works vs Ferrari customer: little argument in favor of Ferrari. Pay for Ferrari engines and pay for all the other ferrari parts, or take huge money for using honda engines and use that money to produce their own parts and maybe become a front running team.
In hindsight, Honda would have pulled out when covid hit (they only stayed on with Red Bull because they won the driver's championship) so the question is a bit more open. But in 2019 the obvious choice for Sauber is Honda.
Alfa finally launched/revealed:
Few new sponsors for Alfa too.
With Colton Herta as second driver
Alfa livery looking lovely.
Looks great. Nice comparison to the 1982 Alfa Romeo.
That Alfa looks lovely. I wonder why they waited so long to reveal it.
Interesting airbox design on the Alfa too and big sidepods.
I see that they have Puma sponsorship now on the drivers race suits:
How did Fittipaldi get a super licence, or did he get one before the current points system? His racing career stats don't look all that good.
https://www.racefans.net/2020/11/30/how-pietro-fittipaldi-narrowly-qualified-for-his-f1-debut-this-weekend/
Trailer out now!
It's a pity that it us not You-Tube that does this because I think You-Tube would do a far better job than Netflix. I did not even watch all of season 2 and will not be watching season 3. Maybe when I am 70 and old I might watch them but for now no thanks it just messes it all up. Netflix are just doing it for hits they do not even care if it is right or not.
Mazepins seat looks to be in serious jeopardy. He might not be allowed race with a Russian licence the way things are going.
The only person who is disappointed by thst news is probably the safety car driver. Mazepin's ansence makes them half as likely to get a few laps during the race.
What is the story with the licence?
If you look at football Russian players are not being stopped from playing for non-Russian football teams - which would surely be similar to Mazepin racing for a non-Russian team.
I don't know what impact the origin of his licence would have here.
You can then get into sponsorship cash and all that too.... but purely looking at it from a driver nationality and race team perspective I don't see why he would not be allowed to race, unless there are further bannings. In Olympics you compete for your nation. I would imagine Russian tennis team won't compete, but I don't know if that goes down to individual athelete in singles competition, it could do (which would then create the argument against Mazepin)
It'd be pretty pointless. Nationality has no connection to the licence so it'd be ineffectual.
Bit unfair, he was behaving himself quite well by the end of the season. If anything I'd say he'd gotten better than Tsunoda.
It would be up to the FIA to ban Russian race licence holders from racing internationally. I don't think there would be anything stopping a driver applying for a licence from a different country and racing under a neutral flag though. Whether Mazepin has the funds and would risk upsetting Putin by doing this though is the question.
Pietro Fittipaldi would not be an improvement over Mazepin. Giovinazzi would be a better shout but still not a great driver either.
Russia is already banned from the Olympics. Hence the ROC ad no flag
Does he not need a visa for every race except Baku and Russia? Maybe Saudi Arabia too? If he can't race is about 20 of the races, no point having him.
https://twitter.com/wbuxtonofficial/status/1498283267983917058?t=dTm5qSiyCTbKcF3vI3ZCzw&s=19
Is it bad luck or poor judgement with Haas.
2 of the main sponsor mess ups in recent times are Haas title sponsors.
Everyone knew Rich Energy was up to no good before that Haas had turned a wheel yet they blindly took them on board. I remember Steiner being asked about Rich Energy before the season and he said they have done their due diligence. Questions need to be asked there really.
Then you look at uralkali sponsor. Fair enough, they couldn't foresee the war but dealing with such Russian companies was dodgy from day one. Mazepin isn't good enough for a start.
Poor management when they have to be taking gambles on unfit companies for title sponsorship when you would imagine they should have the whole of the USA to do business with.
Some more pics of the Alfa:
