USA listed business, with a good record of pleasing investors.

Indeed it could only go to hell.

That is what we are getting anyway, like it or not.

You are right! For some reason I had RBR winning the WCC that year, but Brawn did win it. Thank you.

No one can trust Red Bull, obviously, but yes, that is the rumour.

But this is one of those situations where I hope both sides lose (the team’s other personnel is the sad collateral damage, which sucks). So if RBR can be in the low midfield next season and then both Horner and Marko get the sack, that would be splendid.

The exodus continues. Behind the smiles and jokes in the press conferences, the atmosphere must be horrendously bad for top, middle, and bottom people be heading for the exits as if the ship is sinking.

Low-key hoping next year is humbling for Horner and Marko. A pity for everyone else that works there, but those two really needs a swift kick in the arse.

The king of malicious compliance. And one of the best Brooklyn 99 guest stars.

I love it. Malicious compliance is the best form of protest. To hell with MbS (both of them, actually).

Hard to do any worse… Even Latifi beat Albon once.

I think one of the issues he was adamant about was no 1 year deal. So I would guess he is at least 2 years.

But Audi has a vacant seat…

PER finally beats VER in qualy!!!

Plus, Williams helped ALB get beaten for the first time as well.

I love when this kind of thing happens. SAI sets the FL with no purple sectors, VER does the 2nd best with 2 purple sectors.

Yeah, me neither. I knew PER had a good record there, but best of everyone? Unexpected.

Let’s see what he can do this weekend. It is a good time for the supposed street track specialist to deliver, with 2 of them coming up.

Average of points scored

He would design a car for Satan if Lawrence still paid 30 million, gave him shares, gave him authority over his dept. and some people who tried to run away from him (Fallows CANNOT be happy), allowed him to remain at home, etc.

Lance is no all-time great, but it 100% beats designing cars at Williams for better drivers with a much shittier infrastructure. Or having to move to Italy (which anyone not willing to do is clearly insane, but that’s another matter) when he does not want to, having to play office politics at Ferrari, etc.

That is my fear too. Especially because that is what usually happens, especially with such a complete revolution of the regulations.

It will be a pity, just as this set of regs is becoming super competitive…

100%, but I was imagining that, since Newey is still around the F1 team during races, he would be forced to sit out 2025, which would mean he would join AM even later in the process.

March is late but much better than in the 4th trimester or something like it.

But yeah, it will be exciting, just hoping there is no one that hits the bullseye and totally dominates at the start.

The way the graphic is presented, it does look like it is a count of this season only.

VER has almost 100 points scored in Monaco alone in his career and LEC has 100 in Jeddah and Baku added up, for example.

It might be a combination of factors, but it is weird for an academy backed driver to be bumped as the season is almost done.

And yes, I would guess that Williams was not paying 100% of the cost. Which again is weird, because the concept, as I understood, was support in exchange for exclusivity of driver’s services and less leeway for the driver to choose his path.

Just to cement the point we were discussing: https://x.com/ZakOSullivan/status/1833177788628476134

Race winner, challenging at the front with some consistency, but out of a seat. Not sure what happened, but F1 academy drivers should not lose funding to finish an F2 season…

And there are a few academies that are now moneymakers, taking drivers that are sons/daughters of rich people and/or have good sponsors, pretending to give them a path into something, and just collecting that money.