The king is dead, long live the king.
Only 102 days to lights out for 2023..
Definitely going to watch Monaco Quali Live. Just have to find the right place for it where they actually turn the sound up and have no radio on in the background. As for the race the highlights will do.
The other two no idea will see nearer the weekends and see what the funds are like.
I am hoping for an Alonso win at Monaco.
Well that isn't good.
Track staff have been evacuated from Imola, sounds like the situation there is pretty nuts!
Wow. That's scary stuff, making a call like that doesn't come lightly
The river beside the track is nearly up over its banks and there's a shedload more rain forecast, I saw a video of it on the F1 subreddit.
Right now it is really not looking good, we could either have no race, or a Spa 2021 scenario
No race it is so it would certainly be better than the joke that was Spa 2021.
So I just seen something about Ayrton Senna that I did not know. It was before my time but I never knew he saved another drivers life. The man really is a legend.
no idea who that other driver is. Never heard of him. Must Wiki him.
What driver do you think woukd do this today racing or who was racing recently?
My 3 picks are Vettel, Alonso and Button.
I think it was Eric Comas, and Senna heard the engine still howling over the noise of his own. Heard him on an interview in recent years, (maybe Beyond the Grid) and was quite moving to hear him talk about the incident.
Russell bust a gut to get to Zhou last year at Silverstone to make sure he was ok!
Russell was right over to Zhou last year in Silverstone, LeClerc also strikes me as the type who'd be straight out.
In fact, I reckon most of them are able to get out of their own heads in this situation.
I think most drivers would. I remember Irvine jumping out to help Luciano Burti in Spa a few years ago, or Vettel stopping to check in on Norris at the same place a couple of years ago too. In reality though it's a very different era now in terms of safety - drivers are far less likely to be knocked out, cars are less liable to suddenly burst into flames and marshals are usually on hand much quicker and have better training so there's not really that much another driver would be able to do most of the time, they'd potentially just be getting in the way.
F1 made the right call for a change to call this off. As much as I would like to watch a race, no way should it happen when the area is in danger like that.
Fair play to the officials on this one.
Given the situation - 100% the correct decision.
Always a meme.
According to Reddit / Twitter that photo was actually taken at the track this morning.
Yup, the whole area is basically a lake. The river beside the track burst its banks and that is that.
Wonder how big an impact the race cancellation will have on Merc and their attempts to get back to being competitive. Imola was supposed to bring the first major upgrades, and be used to confirm their directions. Monaco is next up and while I don't doubt the same upgrades will be brought, I can't imagine hte data they would get at Monaco will be anywhere near as valuable as basically any other circuit. So will the effectively be two race weekends behind in their attempts now?
Not ideal for Mercedes. But Monaco won't be completely irrelevant either. They'll just have to make do with what they have.
Interesting to see Toto talking about life after Hamilton - I presume that means it's co tract negotiations time again. Hamilton is obvious till a top driver, but the difference in money between himself and Russell must be huge in comparison to the performance difference. I'd say Mercedes has the upper hand in the negotiation for the first time in years. Hamilton isn't current world champion anymore and it must be difficult to justify his enormous wages. I'm not sure who they would replace him with though.
Probably best to knock his wages down a bit next year and make them more performance based. And the look for a replacement in 2025
They were meant to be quickest in slow corners the last few races from what I remember. I think monaco would have been strong for them without the upgrades.
So what will be the plan now? Will they reschedule Imola or just consider it a writeoff?
They'll try to reschedule it. Otherwise they'll probably have to give back the ticket money. Could cost the track a fortune.
It's not likely they'll be able to reschedule. Pity the Chinese gp break wasn't late in the season. Might have been able to fit it in then.
Something I hadn't realised is that Stefano Domilicani is from that neck of the woods so would it makes kind of sense he's protecting his "home Grand Prix"
I read that they wanna move it to 2026. Their contract ends in 2025 and this one to add a year on it.
Calendar is too full to squeeze it in.
Looking at the schedule it would be very tough to place it anywhere else in the season.
I see ticket holders can either apply for a full refund or have their tickets transferred to next years race. That’s pretty good in fairness, I’d probably hold on to the tickets!
Its race week.
Hmm, what could Williams be teasing?
I would guess a special Gulf Livery for Monaco. Remember when McLaren had one a couple of years ago.
That was a beautiful livery.
