2024 F1 General Discussion Thread

When you have majority share holder behind you this will go only one way. No matter what people think. Money talks in this world simple. The money is behind Christian that not that I'm happy with reading the text may I add.. Why all the staged pictures and photos over the weekend. We stand with this man. Its like a shot across the bout of a ship. Your move and if you don't parley you go, Simple has that. Its a power struggle. Clear has day in front of our eyes.

"I sincerely hope Carlos wipes the floor with Charles this season, and gets Perez's seat from 25 on."

Me too.

Would love too see Sergio go to Ferrari then but to do that he is going to have to do good this season just not too good. Better than last season at least but not so good that Red Bull want to keep him. That's what he needs so he can go to Ferrari or at least try. Ferrari will want Charles on full form next year and the clear number 1. They know this year it will be harder to do that as Carlos has to put in good form to secure a seat next year and it would be great to see him at Red Bull.

Yeah I think if he's going anywhere he'll be ousting an underperforming rookie or Bottas if he moves on from Kick

Sainz had a good result over le clerc at the weekend, but wasn't le clerc driving a dog of a car with massive steering and balance issues that Sainz wasn't dealing with?

Very much, his brakes were out of sync from what I read and one was running hotter than the other by 100 degrees. He did extremely well to finish where he did.

I think it is very premature to call Ferrari backing Leclerc the wrong call at this point, especially after just one race of the season. Sainz has been equally erratic at times in the Ferrari, his start to 2022 wasn't the best...no one was saying anything back then.

I am struggling how someone can say they were right about Leclerc and Ferrari has backed the wrong horse, when it's 2-1 to Leclerc since they have been teammates, and he has more wins during the same period as well.

In other f1 news...

More drama..

Look out for Yuki

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Jos was seen chatting to Toto over the weekend and of course the internet has jumped on Max going to Merc for 2025

Would max leave if Marko retires? Perhaps you could see it if Marko was kicked from the team, but if he retires I don't see Max suddenly wanting to leave.

For all the criticism Sergio gets he still finished second in Bahrain and second in the championship last year, put someone like Lando into the red bull and Max in say the Merc, I'd have Lando favourite to win over a season.

I also think all the brake imbalance issues from Ferrari are just to save face for Charles finishing behind Carlos, personally I don't think Charles has the mental fortitude to win over the season, it will be interesting next year with Lewis in the car with him, i think they'll cannibalise each others opportunities too much for either of them to be able to win the championship, even if Max wasn't in a red bull

So big changes at Alpine all hopefully for the better,

I think Verstappen runs down the contract till 2028 and leaves F1 for a series like gt,wec etc. He's achieved what he wanted in F1 so everything now is a bonus

He doesn't seem like he wants to be hanging around in F1 till he's near his 40's. If you are going to try a different racing series then may aswell do it when youth is on your side

Sainz has beaten Leclerc over weekends in the past. Bahrain is a sample set of one so can't really draw any conclusions based on it. Even Bottas had a couple of weekends a year where he beat Hamilton fair and square too. He's a decent driver and a thoroughly likeable guy. But he's not as fast as leclerc over a season. They're a bit like the tortoise and the hare. Sainz isn't as fast outright and leclerc wins the quali battle over a season. But both the tortoise and the hare have big weaknesses. Tip-top drivers are fast and consistent.

Sainz has had a few shockers where he goes on a run of poor form, and that's not good enough to be a top driver. In short, I like him so I wish he was faster than he is.