The king is dead, long live the king.
Only 102 days to lights out for 2023..
I think people criticizing rookies in general is very harsh. Rookies these days get so little time in the cars prior to the first race.
Piastri only had the pre-season test, and (from all of 10 seconds googling) it looks like he got 126 laps in.
By contrast to ye olden days, Hamilton did 1,011 laps in the 2007 McLaren before the opening weekend of the season.
Yeah it's completely different these days and rookies definitely need to be given time to acclimatise.
There is a distinction with de Vries though as he's actually a lot older and more experienced than his teammate, with plenty of seasons in other racing series behind him, and he's shown no signs of improvement as the season has gone on in the way Piastri has.
is logan sargeant goosed aswell? or as the only yank, is he untouchable?
I wouldn't have thought so. He's definitely not been brilliant, but looks to have a higher ceiling than de Vries did. The fact he's America helps too. Can easily see him getting a second year, but he'd have to start performing in year 2 alright...
It's not all about driving at Williams. They have had at least 1 pay driver at the team over the last few years. Russell brought a reduction in engine costs (not as much as you'd think as I recall) and they had kubica and Latifi as pay drivers too. I don't know what Sargent brings specifically but his status as American almost certainly brings American sponsorship.
Unless the Williams owners are willing to put in a lot of money, the second seat will go to one pay drive or another. Sargent might well get another year.
It's race week! Hungaroring coming up.
Really looking forward to the Hungarian GP to see if McLaren are really in the mix of the best of the rest the teams of Mercedes, Ferrari and Aston Martin.
Goatifi life update. Fair play to him...
All this hype for Danny Ric. If he starts to struggle out the gate in that slow AT car, it'll be a slippery slope.
Yeah, I don’t expect miracles because the AT is poor, but he should be looking to beat Yuki in fairly short order. If he can consistently do that, he has an outside chance of the second seat at RB next year if Perez continues to underperform.
Well it just shows how big a name he still is yet people were saying g he was finished.
He seems to have made the right choices after leaving mclaren. He was faced with a back marker drive or nothing.
He took the redbull reserve role and now within a few months is back on the grid (in a back marker) BUT is in the conversation relating to the 2nd seat at redbull.
Yeah fair point that he's in the conversation for the Red Bull deat. I doubt he had many choices to make though. Was he actually offered any drives for this year?
I have a strange feeling we're going to see Checo and Danny go hell for leather this weekend, should be fun to watch
I think Yuki is pretty quick so it wouldn't be a failure if he didn't beat Ricciardo the weekend.
He could have been in the Haas if he took a realistic salary.
Checo will be praying for a better run. Imagine if he had to start from the back for any reason and be dicing with Ricciardo. The click bait websites would be in overdrive.
Fair one. I wonder if his decisions were by necessity or design. I wonder of he turned down the Haas with low wages, hoping for a better seat. In the end he was offered a reserve seat with probably lower wages.
If he played the odds and it's given him this opportunity then fair play to him. Savvy.
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According to Guenther Steiner, he wanted '10 f u cking million'
All he has to do with beat Tsunoda, high ask but from the sounds of his test at RB he was on the pace within 7 laps.
There is also the mentality of just being back in F1 again that he can take with him. I really would like to see him do well this time, he deserves it.
Ya i read that he did good time after just 7 laps.
Initially I had not been too impressed as anyone should be able to get a good lap out of it if allowed to do lap after lap after lap with no pressure but to immediately get it on the pace is excellent to be fair.
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Silly season has started over who has breached the budget cap for 2022. Rumours of 3 teams. Domenicali is calling for sporting penalties instead of fines.
I think it's a bit rich calling for sporting penalties so late in the day when they set the precedent last year for Red Bull.
The penalties should be made clear before the season starts so everyone knows where they stand. Otherwise teams will chance there arm and can use the Red Bull penalty as reference in there defence.
If anybody has exceeded the cost cap then they need to be punished, and the punishment should be far more severe than any benefit they would have gained with the overspend. So if they spent 100k over, and that might pay for a wing or something, they need to get a fair degree higher sort of punishment, otherwise they will keep doing it. And fines are pointless, the big guys can absorb that anyway
Breaching cost cap should lead to point reductions and/or race bans
Here' s a suggestion as a penalty, for whatever the percentage overpend, should be a percentage reduction in points at the end of the season (or even following season). So spend 100% more than the cap, lose 100% of the constructor's points. Drivers points not affected.
That sounds like a good idea, except it would need to apply to both championships. The driver's championship carries more prestige than the constructor's, so they'd need to avoid the possibility of a team sacrificing one for the other.
There is talk of some teams putting the R&D budget towards hypercar development to circumvent the F1 budget. That sort of narrows down the possible teams on that one.
That is the only reasons the hypercars exist and to be honest, I don't see how that can be policed to standard that would hold up in law.
This was always going to be a problem with the rules. And there is likely to be a crossover between some teams doing nefarious things and other teams simply branching out in order to avoid being forced into staff redundancies, which will be very hard to differentiate.
You are aware Red Bull were hit with a pretty draconian sporting penalty last year and not just a fine? They have heavily limited wind tunnel access because of it which is hurting their development progress and will certainly have a big impact on next year's car.
It's hard for the penalties to be clear cut really as each case is different - you have cases like Red Bull last year where the FIA admitted that the team acted entirely in good faith, they gained no performance advantage, and were simply victims to a different interpretation of some vaguely written rules which everyone now knows about for this year, or you may have cases where teams have genuinely broken budget to gain an unfair advantage, through using road car programs as a trojan horse or whatever.
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