The king is dead, long live the king.
Only 102 days to lights out for 2023..
Poor Leclerc looks like he is already fed up of the season
Saw that, seems like everyone but Max and Alonso looked deflated already.
So it looks like Lance Stroll will be racing after all.
Snuck his way out of testing and will do the racing. I wonder how much of a disadvantage he will have compared to everyone else?
Probably not that much. Given they spend a lot of testing doing aero runs, they probably do a race distance of real runs. And Stroll will get to study the data they gathered. He'll be a little bit behind but will probably have caught up by the next race.
As a ferrari fan I've prepared myself for the inevitable disappointment
They can have that. It's pretty good. It's cinematic.
Your negativity is like so negative man.
If I were him, I would've waited another couple of weeks to have a bike crash.
Hulk looking respectable 5th fastest. Didn't see it. Was it abit of a glory run?
I was watching some moore of Conor Moore on Youtube:
I wonder us Lewis sorry he did not go to Ferrari when he had the chance now.
He must be thinking dam why did I not go to Ferrari when the chance was there and all the rumours were going on about it.
If he was with Ferrari last year he could have had title number 8 and be going for title 9 and 10 this year and next year.
No put Lewis is down in 7th and the Ferraris are up in 3rd and 4th.
The Mercedes are still not looking great even do they got there purposing issue sorted.
Even an Aston Martin ahead of them is bad.
I guess we will find out tomorrow in the race won't we how it does and how they do.
When did he have the chance to go to Ferrari?
A couple of years ago.
Alonso always makes me smile at what he does.
Sometimes he goes all out to get fastest lap in race just because, other times he knows there is a faster driver behind him but he has the right to defend his position in the race and will do it well even though it will make no difference to him.
Alonso would make you smile a lot more if he was able to be part of a team. If he could be trusted by a big team who could count on him, he'd have been in a top car all his career instead of d1cking around in the midfield and even had a year where nobody signed him.
He was class and wasted his best years by trying to be far too clever instead of just driving the car. He might have lucked his way back into a good car this year. Hope he makes it count.
I'm hoping it will be an exciting season, abnormally so.
F1 is experimenting with reducing the number of tyres at a race weekend from 13 to 11. Imola expected to be the first quali experiment where they mandate tyres used in each part of quali. Hards in q1 then medium and softs in q3.
Leclerc would destroy him at Ferrari.
Think he did well this weekend.
Made me smile again. 😊
I'd say there's a real risk that Mercedes could lose Hamilton in the off-season. He's only hanging around for his 8th title and I cant see Mercedes giving him that opportunity until the new regs in 2026. Even when they ditch their zero-side pod concept they'll be 2 full seasons of development behind everyone else. They also can't throw money at the problems like they used to and furthermore, they've lost a lot of talent in the garage the past few seasons. The only saving grace is the lack of realistic landing spots for Lewis. Ferrari are the most likely if he was to move but I'm not sure it would be a step up considering all their issues.
Must have been about 10 years ago because no chance in hell he would have moved from Mercedes.
Doubt it. I'd say they'd be pretty evenly matched. Unless there's something about the Ferrari that Hamilton couldn't get it to work, I'd say they'd be nip and tuck.
Most people rank Max and Lewis in the top tier. Some put Leclerc in the top too and others put him as the top of the rest. But nobody honestly thinks Lewis is so far behind leclerc as to be destroyed by him in the same car.
I get that you're a RB or Max fan and you see Hamilton and Mercedes as the bad guys, but this is just not based in real life.
RB would destroy them both so it's irrelevant in terms of a WDC.
I can't see someone who's been beaten by Russell, Rosberg and Button in equal machinery, which is three of his last four teammates with Bottas the only exception, could beat someone of the caliber of Leclerc who is in a different league to those three.
That's right. He was beaten by almost all his recent teammates. That's the whole story and there's no more context needed in that analysis at all..
In my amateur opinion, should things not improve at McLaren after, lets say 5 races, Brown should swap Andrea Stella and Ian James over. When McLaren bought the Mercedes EQ Formula E team they inherited a Mercedes-Benz team principal who had a more successful couple of years then his F1 counterpart delivering back to back drivers and constructors championships. Stella's history looks more like Binotto 2.0
He's been team principal for less than 3 months. The groundwork for this car will have been laid before that and would have had more to do with James Key's department than Stella's at the time, and ultimately Zak Brown above that. The team is in a poor state right now but it's very early to lay that at the door of Stella.
Mclaren have said publicly they scrapped their initial car concept a few months back and are due the new package by Baku, season is essentially a write off already as everyone will be working/upgrading their current concepts from the weekend so they're essentially playing catch up all season. You'd expect lando to maximise any potential points on offer if they do get to that stage of challenging.
That's probably Alonso's salary covered
