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    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    He may not even miss more than 1. He is missing this week, but next race is 3 weeks away in Australia, Japan is not until April 5th.

    For all intents and purposes, he is going to be back racing in Australia. 

    Mark it up as a DNF or whatever for Saudi. Just one race worth of points. 


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    And it is settled, the VISA Cash App whatever team will just be announced as RB.......oops, how much did VISA paid to be the sponsor and their name don't even get to be mentioned on air? 

    Sainz was back in the garage watching, so yeah, he will be back for the next race.

    Bearman is impressive on his debut, brave, fast, perhaps a mini Max. With Bearman finishing where he did, Ferrari didn't really lose much in the all important Constructor standing. That's a great thing. But it also crate a bit of a problem for Ferrari on their driver lineup, where can they stash such a talent? Would they loan him to another team? 

    The Red Bull cars are just too fast, boring and nothing to watch up front, but at least the pack is getting competitive (not Alpine not Sauber), and it's fun to watch all the battles, the TV director agreed, literally skipping Max and Perez all race long. 

     

    Now onto Keeping up with the Verstappens episode 3:

    There was rumours about Marko getting suspended by Red Bull.......well that's from someone ignorant, Marko is NOT a Red Bull Racing employee, he cannot be suspended by the team, Marko came directly from Red Bull GmbH. That rumour was quickly shut down by the Red Bull CEO expressing confidence in Marko. Max also chipped in in support of Marko, big surprise........NOT!. Verstapppens and Marko are in the same camp. Max also sort of throw his dad under the bus by saying he and Horner also has a 'good working relation'. Damn those drama!

     


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    Hamilton is spending more effort on fashion image than on his driving.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13177487/Lewis-Hamilton-formula-one-grand-prix-saudi-arabia.html


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Red Bull is a partnership between  Austrians ( Mateschitz)  and  Thaï (Yoovidhya) 

     According to the rumors, Chalerm Yoovidhya is close to Horner  and wants to keep him. The majority of the company 51% is in the hands of the Thaï. They will have the last word .


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    Can someone please explain to me why the last two races have happened on a Saturday….. I may be getting old but for some reason I don’t recall this being the case in the past….


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Ramadan starts 10 March so the Saudi GP was scheduled 1 day earlier and F1 rules dictate 7 days between events so Bahrain had to move as well

    https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/13081415/why-are-the-opening-2024-f1-races-on-saturday-schedule-changes-for-bahrain-and-saudi-arabian-gps-explained


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Ollie is 2 points near lil' LEWEE in one race!

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    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Gnil:

    Red Bull is a partnership between  Austrians ( Mateschitz)  and  Thaï (Yoovidhya) 

     According to the rumors, Chalerm Yoovidhya is close to Horner  and wants to keep him. The majority of the company 51% is in the hands of the Thaï. They will have the last word .

     

    The late Dietrich Mateschitz is close to Horner, and so is his son Mark, in addition to the Thai side.

    Marko however have the ears of the non-Mateschitz executives. 


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    watt:

    Ollie is 2 points near lil' LEWEE in one race!

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    WOW, what a debut for Bearman. He is already at number 10 spot in the drivers' championship.


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    Tells you how bad baby Stroll is from that list. His partner in the same car is 7th. 

     

     


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    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    it is not widely reported, but after the finish, Hamilton was the first to get over to Bearman to congratulate him. Russell and Norris also went over, that's pure class. His teammate Leclerc of course is there too. 

    The reigning world champion however, is nowhere to be seen near Bearman. Guess he didn't like the new competition.

     


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    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Today in episode 4 of Keep up with the Verstappens:

    https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/horner-denies-markos-claims-of-cunning-plan-to-oust-him-from-red-bull-f1-team/10585874/

    The plot thickens. Now Horner is accused of engineering a plan to oust Marko.

    Wow, one can't even make these shit up. 

    Max also thinks he is bigger than Red Bull, putting his weight behind Marko........Well that's a big mistake. No driver is bigger than the team he drives for. Max can easily be replaced by 3-4 other current driver on the grid, might take a race or 2 to nail down the exact setup, but Max is nothing without the Red Bull car. Let's see how 'mighty' Max is when he is in a Haas or Sauber. 

     


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    Whoopsy:

    it is not widely reported, but after the finish, Hamilton was the first to get over to Bearman to congratulate him. Russell and Norris also went over, that's pure class. His teammate Leclerc of course is there too. 

    The reigning world champion however, is nowhere to be seen near Bearman. Guess he didn't like the new competition.

     

    Yes, I saw a couple of posts mentioning about Hamilton congratulating Bearman. Lewis without any doubt is a class act.


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Whoopsy:

    it is not widely reported, but after the finish, Hamilton was the first to get over to Bearman to congratulate him. Russell and Norris also went over, that's pure class. His teammate Leclerc of course is there too. 

    The reigning world champion however, is nowhere to be seen near Bearman. Guess he didn't like the new competition.

     

    Max did indeed talk to Bearman and praised him in the press.  Don’t let your anti-Max bias get in the way.  You can find it pretty easily if you google it.


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    Agree, as race winner Max was not in the close proximity after the race. Also in the press was the Jos Verstappen was not allowed to visit the race in Saudi. But Jos was driving this weekend the Rally de Hannut in Belgium, which he won!


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    lexs4:
    Whoopsy:

    it is not widely reported, but after the finish, Hamilton was the first to get over to Bearman to congratulate him. Russell and Norris also went over, that's pure class. His teammate Leclerc of course is there too. 

    The reigning world champion however, is nowhere to be seen near Bearman. Guess he didn't like the new competition.

     

    Max did indeed talk to Bearman and praised him in the press.  Don’t let your anti-Max bias get in the way.  You can find it pretty easily if you google it.

     

    Ah so he ended did went to congratulate Bearman. Smiley


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    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    lexs4:
    Whoopsy:

    it is not widely reported, but after the finish, Hamilton was the first to get over to Bearman to congratulate him. Russell and Norris also went over, that's pure class. His teammate Leclerc of course is there too. 

    The reigning world champion however, is nowhere to be seen near Bearman. Guess he didn't like the new competition.

     

    Max did indeed talk to Bearman and praised him in the press.  Don’t let your anti-Max bias get in the way.  You can find it pretty easily if you google it.

     

    Actually, I have been spending the last little while trying to find evidence of that happening. I couldn't. 

    The only 'mention' of that was Max made a comment or 2 during interviews. That's in. He actually never went to Bearman's car like the others right after the race. My original intel stands for the time being still. 

     


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    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Bearman mentioned yesterday that Sainz and Vettel supported him and a lot of credit goes to them for his amazing performance on his F1 debut.


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    always amusing Australia!

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    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    P2 - Ferrari looking good!!!!!  their new driver lil' Lewee lookin bad

     

     

    Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc running close to the wall

    Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc running close to the wall

     

    But 20 minutes into the session, Verstappen had yet to leave the pits due to a broken floor.

    A hot lap for Verstappen was wrecked by a slow Zhou Guanyu, and with a few sweary words in the mix he backed off, leaving him down in P9. He improved to fifth on his next lap on the mediums with the Dutchman yet to do a soft tyre run.

    Times

    1 Charles LECLERC 1:17.277
    2 Max VERSTAPPEN +0.381
    3 Carlos SAINZ +0.430
    4 Lance STROLL +0.545
    5 Fernando ALONSO +0.635
    6 George RUSSELL +0.674
    7 Oscar PIASTRI +0.800
    8 Sergio PEREZ +0.813
    9 Lando NORRIS +0.878
    10 Yuki TSUNODA +0.911
    11 Guanyu ZHOU +1.144
    12 Daniel RICCIARDO +1.257
    13 Logan SARGEANT +1.301
    14 Valtteri BOTTAS +1.308
    15 Pierre GASLY +1.414
    16 Nico HULKENBERG +1.425
    17 Esteban OCON +1.428
    18 Lewis HAMILTON +1.557
    19 Kevin MAGNUSSEN +1.998
    20 Alex ALBON no time


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    watt:

    P2 - Ferrari looking good!!!!!  their new driver lil' Lewee lookin bad

     

     

    Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc running close to the wall

    Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc running close to the wall

     

    But 20 minutes into the session, Verstappen had yet to leave the pits due to a broken floor.

    A hot lap for Verstappen was wrecked by a slow Zhou Guanyu, and with a few sweary words in the mix he backed off, leaving him down in P9. He improved to fifth on his next lap on the mediums with the Dutchman yet to do a soft tyre run.

    Times

    1 Charles LECLERC 1:17.277
    2 Max VERSTAPPEN +0.381
    3 Carlos SAINZ +0.430
    4 Lance STROLL +0.545
    5 Fernando ALONSO +0.635
    6 George RUSSELL +0.674
    7 Oscar PIASTRI +0.800
    8 Sergio PEREZ +0.813
    9 Lando NORRIS +0.878
    10 Yuki TSUNODA +0.911
    11 Guanyu ZHOU +1.144
    12 Daniel RICCIARDO +1.257
    13 Logan SARGEANT +1.301
    14 Valtteri BOTTAS +1.308
    15 Pierre GASLY +1.414
    16 Nico HULKENBERG +1.425
    17 Esteban OCON +1.428
    18 Lewis HAMILTON +1.557
    19 Kevin MAGNUSSEN +1.998
    20 Alex ALBON no time

    They mostly looked good in practice and qualifying in recent Grand Prix weekends but they weren't able to compete with Red Bull during the race. It will be interesting to see how they do in tomorrow's qualifying and then in the race on Sunday.


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Apparently, Albon crashes his car beyond repair, Williams drops the ball and doesn't have a third chassis, and they decide to take Logan Sargeant's car and give it to Albon. Poor Logan surprise


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Eventful F2 race.

    Sainz did well on his return - splitting the Red Bulls in Q3. Hopefully the inherent jeopardy of the track will spice things up a bit.


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Logan learned what they think of him, and it's a weak team, the comments on f1.com were that the software that builds their cars is antiquated so they're behind on builds.

    Yes, Sainz looking super - who will get this great driver next year, whilst Lewee over the hill goes to ferarrii?

    Lewee way behind George, Chuck will eat him for lunch next year, he's just SLOW.

    THE TEAM THAT COULD USE SAINZ NEXT YEAR IS FERRARI -  NICE MOVE ELKON

    1 Max VERSTAPPEN 1:15.915
    2 Carlos SAINZ +0.270
    3 Sergio PEREZ +0.359
    4 Lando NORRIS +0.400
    5 Charles LECLERC +0.520
    6 Oscar PIASTRI +0.657
    7 George RUSSELL +0.809
    8 Yuki TSUNODA +0.873
    9 Lance STROLL +1.157
    10 Fernando ALONSO +1.637
    11 Lewis HAMILTON 1:16.960
    12 Alexander ALBON 1:17.167
    13 Valtteri BOTTAS 1:17.340
    14 Kevin MAGNUSSEN 1:17.427
    15 Esteban OCON 1:17.697
    16 Nico HULKENBERG 1:17.976
    17 Pierre GASLY 1:17.982
    18 Daniel RICCIARDO 1:18.085
    19 Guanyu ZHOU 1:18.435


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Not going to lie, after Ferrari ungratefully kicking out a driver like Sainz for a PR move of signing Hamilton, now seeing Sainz beating their N°1 and Lewis not being able to be in front of Russell is hilarious. Never been a fan of Sainz but this year I'm rooting for him.


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    watt:

    Logan learned what they think of him, and it's a weak team, the comments on f1.com were that the software that builds their cars is antiquated so they're behind on builds.

    Yes, Sainz looking super - who will get this great driver next year, whilst Lewee over the hill goes to ferarrii?

    Lewee way behind George, Chuck will eat him for lunch next year, he's just SLOW.

    THE TEAM THAT COULD USE SAINZ NEXT YEAR IS FERRARI -  NICE MOVE ELKON

    1 Max VERSTAPPEN 1:15.915
    2 Carlos SAINZ +0.270
    3 Sergio PEREZ +0.359
    4 Lando NORRIS +0.400
    5 Charles LECLERC +0.520
    6 Oscar PIASTRI +0.657
    7 George RUSSELL +0.809
    8 Yuki TSUNODA +0.873
    9 Lance STROLL +1.157
    10 Fernando ALONSO +1.637
    11 Lewis HAMILTON 1:16.960
    12 Alexander ALBON 1:17.167
    13 Valtteri BOTTAS 1:17.340
    14 Kevin MAGNUSSEN 1:17.427
    15 Esteban OCON 1:17.697
    16 Nico HULKENBERG 1:17.976
    17 Pierre GASLY 1:17.982
    18 Daniel RICCIARDO 1:18.085
    19 Guanyu ZHOU 1:18.435

    But Hamilton is bringing the DEI bus to Ferrari next year.  So much for another near meritocracy reduced to filling quotes and checking the boxes. 


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Forza Ferrari

    The Italian community in Melbourne will have a big night!

    If Alonso is trying to buddy up to George as a potential 2025 teammate he might have to consider a different approach.


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    Sainz 2, Leclerc 0

    Russell 2, Hamilton 0


    Re: Formula 1 2024!!

    Massive penalty for Alonso.  Sad to see that happen to him as that limits his career going forward with other teams.  Ferrari wins and loses as Sainz proved himself with an impeccable drive as Leclerc had no serious reply to Sainz’s speed and Hamilton disappoints during the entire weekend. He is not $100 million driver.  We also saw how fragile the WDC and WCC lead is in the early rounds of the season.  


     
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