The king is dead, long live the king.
Only 102 days to lights out for 2023..
I have the scalextric set up if you want to call around.
Depending on my mood, I may even let you have a go.
Aintree?
This 4 week break sucks. Is there any other racing this weekend that I can watch?
Whilst Checo is a brilliant racer and completely saved max's first WDC, I dont think he has the consistency in him to be a WDC. I'd love to see Alonso and Aston Martin be in the title fight this season but for some reason I just can't see it happening.
The way Max doesn't win the championship is if he goes completely off the boil for the rest of the season, Checo isn't good enough to challenge him properly
Agreed. We are probably in for a few crazy races at some point and I do think the gap will close to RB, but only once they are far off in the distance in both championships.
The battle for the best of the rest is great (although I do hate that term generally). I fancy Alonso to keep producing some magic as he has been, AM already have more points this year so far than 2022 in total.
Yeah he's fast and not making many mistakes. His only competition should be Perez but maz has him in his pocket.
It's more about the constructors and drivers battles down the grid. Championship are in the bag for Max and RB. The last 2 seasons WDCs were well above average. Can't really complain about a bad championship battle this year.
I just hope we dont have total domination for a few years again. We need the others to step up. Red Bull are just really on the ball at the moment.
With the level he is at, and how the car is, it would be hard to see past him winning again.
Someone told me it actually gets very warm in a wind tunnel.
Personally I think it's just a load of Hot Air.
People keep talking about the wind tunnel restriction but i dont think it will have as much of an affect as people think
Think this will be Verstappen's year again, don't see anyone catching him
Apt title. I'm picturing a toilet lid.
He has a podcast with Billy Monger called Lift the Lid if you value his opinion.
Im sorry 😔
You just had to ruin it didn't you 🙊
😃🤣
If he is on social media then the muzzle of Sky is off. His opinion on anything F1 will come through.
Yes yes yes poor Johnny.
Look on the flip side though.... Hallelujah rest of the world! 😁
Poor Johnny 😉
Just read there that Johnny Herbert is gone from Sky.
Maybe there is something to this praying to God lark after all. 😮
Yeah the media outlets still need clicks regardless of whether there's a race. To be clear, I don't suggest F1 orchestrated a conspiracy to get Massa to take legal action. The media outlets don't need Massa to actually do it. They just need the clicks from the story. Everyone's a winner because it gets headlines.
I'm not jumping to any conclusions. Here's the original post and your reply and to it certainly seems you're suggesting F1 orchestrated the headlines to keep the F1 name in the headlines, unless you mean the media outlets are trying to keep F1 in the headlines to bump up their numbers which would make more sense
It is an odd admission from Bernie. More to cause trouble than anything else I'm sure. If the rule books did state that the race should be deleted, Massa surely has a case. However as someone here said, the most likely scenario I would have thought would be that the cheating parties be excluded from the results.
Must have a look to see if sporting regs from 08 are up online.
Re Massa if they have to roll back that result then so be it. If they knowingly covered stuff up then why not? Just because its a while ago doesn't change the fact.
Super Formula is back on YouTube this weekend if anyone is missing some racing. There's a few familiar faces Liam Lawson, Kamui Kobayashi and Giuliano Alesi.
Yeah, well be entertained with stories until the racing begins again. The stories don't have to be true to be entertaining. I'd have thought that's obvious if you pay any attention to F1 journalism over the years.
How did you jump to the conclusion that F1 is conspiring with Massa and Rokit to make the stories happen? Journalists just need to report the stories. Nobody needs the stories to be true in the long term, they just need to entertain in the short term.
You may not have said it directly, but what when you begin a reply to this post;
"Between Rokit and Massa we'll be entertained until the racing begins again!"
with
"I suspect that's the whole point' it's hard to see what else you were trying to say
You can make an argument for that if you want but its not what I said.
Paper never refused ink. I'll believe in those lawsuits when I see them, not when I see an article suggesting they could happen.
The journalist have their targets for articles for the year. I'd imagine they are under pressure to get articles and clicks during a 4 week break. They won't be held accountable if it turns out the stories are based on nothing more than pub-talk. You can't unclick on the article.
So F1 asked Massa to look into taking legal action against them and asked Rokit to sue Williams for breach of contract to keep F1 in the news because they didn't replace the Chinese GP?
I suspect that's the whole point. Headlines for F1 and even an old driver and sponsor, during what would otherwise be a very difficult 4 weeks to get any coverage at all...
