Commentary were claiming all season that the others were closing in on Red Bulls advantage, but they weren't really were they. The fact that if you take all of Perez's points away from them and they'd still be the constructor champions speaks volumes.
Yeah I don't think its a bad decision from Williams, when you've heard Vowles talk about Sargeant over the season - Although when he impeded Doohan during FP1 you saw him close his eyes in exasperation as he was speaking with Sky when it happened, almost like he was fed up of seeing the mistakes.
I thought their hesitation in renewing meant that they'd have gone from Fred Vesti instead
The 2025 market is going to be an absolute mess
Zhou - Bottas - Hulkenberg - Magnusson - Sargeant... Don't think any of them are safe.
Already got Pourchaire waiting in the wings, and then you have Bearman and Antonelli impressing, I wonder if the latter is why they've done it... Easier to give Logan yearly Contracts until Kimi is ready to follow Russell's path.
Maybe even Ocon or Gasly are at risk too if Martins wins.
F2 certainly going to be chaos next year, what with 2025 looming and the new Car... Bring it on
The biggest thing for me with Haas is that they're going to get left behind if they aren't careful. Williams under James Vowles seem incredibly ambitious, even if I am a little surprised they've kept Logan Sargeant, Sauber (i refuse to call it KickStake ) have the Audi works money from 2026 and Alphatauri are apparently going to be based more from the RBR factory at Milton Keynes.
Steiner was great for a few quotes and Drive To Survive but ultimately I think having a very experienced lineup that didn't deliver in 2023 , coupled with a very weird car that fluctuated a lot in race trim meant it was ultimately the end of the road for him.
I'd like there to be a rule that RB can't have a second team and have to find a buyer to be honest, I can see it being a way to get Andretti on the grid without the expansion.
Haas are completely useless though, not enough ties to be a Ferrari B team, not enough Patriotism to be a fully fledged 'Murica team, and they don't have a huge budget fuelled by sponsors or a pay driver or anything either
Shame because we need more than ten teams on the Grid, but someone does just need to buy out Haas.
I'd loved to have seen Andretti just roll up and do it. Doesn't seem to be many other people around with the financial muscle to buy a team , bar possibly the Rodin bid but that was wanting to be run from New Zealand not the UK.
Finally now at the point where all my sons karting rivals and team mates are coming in to cars.
Jacob gave up 18 months ago (being top 10 in the British Champs alone wasn’t enough without the millions needed for F1 and that’s all he was interested in).
we raced with Freddie in Cadets. He has basically been out of school since he was 12 training all day and every day and on track. His old man Adrian owns the cosmetics company Bayliss and Harding. They are totally minted and when you combine that with a talented kid it will go well.
He will make F1 no doubt. Barnard is decent but not sure how far the money will go.
Ironic that formula e started as a series that wanted to only race in city centres and are now moving to more and more actual circuits and formula 1 are leaving behind proper circuits in favour of racing on city centre street circuits
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Red Bull end with a record of:
22 races
14 poles
11 fastest laps
21 race wins
Verstappen ends up with more points than any constructor, as well as more points than the 2nd and 3rd placed drivers (Perez and Hamilton) combined.
First time in F1 History that the Grid remains unchanged
Would expect this to be in effect produce or out the door for Logan. Then again the entire 2025 driver market could be utter chaos.
I thought their hesitation in renewing meant that they'd have gone from Fred Vesti instead
The 2025 market is going to be an absolute mess
Zhou - Bottas - Hulkenberg - Magnusson - Sargeant... Don't think any of them are safe.
Already got Pourchaire waiting in the wings, and then you have Bearman and Antonelli impressing, I wonder if the latter is why they've done it... Easier to give Logan yearly Contracts until Kimi is ready to follow Russell's path.
Maybe even Ocon or Gasly are at risk too if Martins wins.
F2 certainly going to be chaos next year, what with 2025 looming and the new Car... Bring it on
Steiner out at Haas.
Guenther to get his own series travelling around Europe in vintage cars with other ex Team Principals or something 🤣
Steiner was great for a few quotes and Drive To Survive but ultimately I think having a very experienced lineup that didn't deliver in 2023 , coupled with a very weird car that fluctuated a lot in race trim meant it was ultimately the end of the road for him.
Haas are completely useless though, not enough ties to be a Ferrari B team, not enough Patriotism to be a fully fledged 'Murica team, and they don't have a huge budget fuelled by sponsors or a pay driver or anything either
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I'd loved to have seen Andretti just roll up and do it. Doesn't seem to be many other people around with the financial muscle to buy a team , bar possibly the Rodin bid but that was wanting to be run from New Zealand not the UK.
Don't think it will be long until he's picked up by an F1 junior program. Think he's doing F4 again this season with Prema.
Taylor Barnard is another doing well at the moment in Formula Regional Middle East - Been very disappointed with Lindblad in that so far
Both of those will be doing F3 this coming season, although dont think Barnard has been confirmed yet
we raced with Freddie in Cadets. He has basically been out of school since he was 12 training all day and every day and on track. His old man Adrian owns the cosmetics company Bayliss and Harding. They are totally minted and when you combine that with a talented kid it will go well.
He's another with promising potential, and already part of the Mercedes family - Hopefully he does an Alex Albon
F1 is heading to Madrid for a street race from 2026
Cant see it being long before London replaces Silverstone
Yeah I assume it's replacing Barcelona unless we get a revival of the European GP or a Catalan GP?