The F1 Thread

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Good job by Charles hanging on for 2nd.  Ferrari goes 2/2 in Constructors and WDC.  Seb gets a point in his last race.

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Alonso in the Aston Martin today at testing.  Looks pretty nice without the ads on it.

Edited November 23, 2022 by Deleterious

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Looks like Daniel will be the reserve driver for Red Bull.

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OFF TOPIC; From the sophisticated world of F1 & Indy (upside down airplanes that contact the ground), to the wild and woolly world of ovals, horsepower, and dirt.

 

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9 hours ago, Screwball said:

OFF TOPIC; From the sophisticated world of F1 & Indy (upside down airplanes that contact the ground), to the wild and woolly world of ovals, horsepower, and dirt.

 

You could get a Hollywood stunt crew together and they would struggle to recreate that.  Pretty amazing.

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Interesting to see how that Vegas track shakes out.  Looks like it has the potential to be a new Monza.

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That’s quite a turn in 5 days from Vegas to Abu Dhabi.   Literally halfway around the world.  

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Stop doing this to me.

 

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The Italian press is crazy. It seems they have Binotto quitting or getting fired every other day. Multiple people replacing him.

Of course none of it had been true yet.

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Finally. Official word from Ferrari that Binotto will offer his resignation effective December 31. It was posted on their site.

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We knew it had to happen. He was lucky to have been brought back this season and the team still made treacherous mistakes.   Their cars were much faster than Mercedes and 2nd place never should have come down to the last race.    This bodes well for Ferarri going forward.   

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Off topic again, but the racing audience might like this.  I follow this guy on Twitter & Youtube. He is incredible.

 

Edited November 30, 2022 by Screwball

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2 hours ago, Screwball said:

Off topic again, but the racing audience might like this.  I follow this guy on Twitter & Youtube. He is incredible.

 

Pretty cool.  But I had to close his Youtube channel before I lost 3 hours of my life.

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Next year's Chinese GP has been cancelled due to covid restrictions in China.  It was supposed to run in April.

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Oh boy.

 

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Saw a report that Grosjean will join Lamborghini and drive for their endurance team.  Sounds like he will drive their GT car and LMDh car.  The article I read said he will also continue with Indy Car.

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Andretti just broke ground on a $200m facility for their Indy Car team. The article said it could also house facilities for their possible F1 team.

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The FIA is dropping the vaccine mandate for 2023.

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3 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Andretti just broke ground on a $200m facility for their Indy Car team. The article said it could also house facilities for their possible F1 team.

Seems like it would be hard to have F1 HQ in the US.   It would limit the amount of factory talent that you could poach from the existing European teams.   Hard to get people to move from England, Germany, or Italy to Indianapolis.  

Edited December 7, 2022 by Hongbit

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5 hours ago, Hongbit said:

Seems like it would be hard to have F1 HQ in the US.   It would limit the amount of factory talent that you could poach from the existing European teams.   Hard to get people to move from England, Germany, or Italy to Indianapolis.  

That is an interesting point.  I guess I don't know how much F1 experience is needed for these types of things.  We do have a few engineers over here and we do make stuff go fast.   Honda did OK building an engine 10,000 miles from London.

I know a guy who used to build chassis for Ferrari during the Schumacher days that is looking for a job.

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Williams announced its team principal and technical director both are leaving.

Honda registered with the FIA so they can build engines in 2026.  Not exactly sure why they left to begin with.

There was an article today saying Vasseur is the guy for Ferrari.  That the deal was done quite a while ago.  Seems odd if true.  Why not just announce it?

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