The king is dead, long live the king.
Only 102 days to lights out for 2023..
And no one picked up on this but the CEO Laurent Rossi was sacked.
This McLaren v Alpine thing last year was turned into a Zac Brown v Otmar Szafnauer rivalry by Drive to Survive despite the fact that the two men have completely different roles within their teams, Otmars direct opposite was Andreas Sidil, now Andrea Stella while Zac would be up at what was Laurent Rossi's position. But Netflix just thought "Hey, American vs American" which coloured a lot of peoples opinion of Zac.
Netflix lies to build up drama.
The last two races have been **** for Alpine. No points, nothing. Their biggest rival for fifth in the Constructors Championship (McLaren) scored 58 points and now have a 40 point gap over Alpine.
Which means a team(s) most definitely breached the cost cap!
Re. the rumoured cost cap breaches, FIA are putting a stop to them for now...
Had to double check I was still in the F1 thread… Wtf folks. It’s entertaining at least. 😁😁
So the pecking order behind Red Bull seems to be McLaren & Mercedes then Ferrari & Aston Martin? Only a week to wait until the next race thankfully.
It did nothing to do them because they absolutely nailed the car and are so far ahead of the rest. Those penalties would have a much bigger impact on any other team.
Depends if they breached about the same as redbull did then the same penalty, if they are massively over then meh give them the same as red bull seen as it did nothing to them anyway so the penalties are meaningless. They will just do a better job of hiding overspends in future and not go full board catering which caught red bull out.
In all seriousness any repeat offenders instant DQ driver and constructor championships make an example now or just give up the cost cap. new offenders need like a % discount of points based on the overspend amount
Cant wait to hear what level of "But But Red Bull" that will come out of Toto's mouth if thats true.
Aston Martin breaching in twice in two years will hardly be looked favourably upon.
Aston Martin. Alpine and Mercedes rumoured to have breached cost cap
Well done, that was totally necessary and no one could have understood what was ment without that correction 🙄
I think you mean his wife had a baby unless he had a gender change and has a Womb and ovaries now which would be very big news as well as a very big medical achievement.
The podium in Australia for McLaren was up there for his Motorsport achievements. I think it was McLaren's last podium before there was a big gap when they switched to Honda engines.
On a lighter note KMag had a baby this week which is give or take 9 months since his maiden pole at Interlagos last November. His best professional achievement leading to a major personal milestone. Not a bad way to celebrate it!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Breaching cost cap should lead to point reductions and/or race bans
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
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.
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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.
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.
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According to Guenther Steiner, he wanted '10 f u cking million'
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.
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.
He could have been in the Haas if he took a realistic salary.
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