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Anelist said:
Max is aggressive, Lando not so much , if ever, he is just nice. I think 2025 he needs to show us he is ready and that means be intimidating at times.. we will see.
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Lando is British... so it is fashionable to be weak.

Let's hope it stays that way and he stays nice, last thing the world needs is an aggressive Englishman, colonizing and building Empires all over again.
 
I am 50/50 on whether another team joining is a good or bad thing. My logic says that these cars are already so big that another 2 cars coming in will only complicate things more. I still think a relegation system is needed rather than just pushing more cars on the grid.
 
Baxteen said:
well done to Max. first Championship he deserved that was not because of interference, or simply a dominant car. this is a well deserved Championship. credit where it is due.
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What a statement. Especially the bold bit.

Good drivers end up in good cars. That is how it works.
 
dotdan said:
I am 50/50 on whether another team joining is a good or bad thing. My logic says that these cars are already so big that another 2 cars coming in will only complicate things more. I still think a relegation system is needed rather than just pushing more cars on the grid.
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Discussed previously. Won't work.

An F2 operation can run on less than $10 million (most of which is provided by the drivers who pay to race) with a fraction of the staff. Even though F1 is now cost-capped, the teams have invested hundreds of millions in their facilities over the years and their staff complements are significantly larger.

F1 rules also dictate that you need to build your own chassis, although it does allow room for third-party manufacturers like Dallara (Haas) to build a bespoke chassis on behalf of a team. F2 teams - nor any junior formulae category team for that matter - do not have these facilities as they race in spec series, and I do not believe the rules would allow a manufacturer like Dallara to build chassis on behalf of multiple teams. This loophole was closed to prevent Red Bull from designing and building cars for both themselves and Toro Rosso under the guise of a third-party entity, which was basically just Adrian Newey's design office spitting out an A and B-spec version of the same car.

No junior team in any series would be equipped to be promoted to F1 and an F1 team that is relegated would face significant financial challenges as sponsors would pull out and they would not have the funding to maintain their staff and facilities.

As crap as Sauber are, their facilities are top notch (it was the reason why BMW bought them previously and why Audi are now involved, they have all the facilities to function as a factory operation), including things like a windtunnel and a supercomputer. If they were to be relegated, they'd be in huge financial trouble.
 
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Craig_ said:
And Lando proved that a good car is useless without the best driver.
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If we are going to make silly statements like the one I replied to, then we need to place an asterisk against half of Lewis' championships, because those 2014, 2015, 2019 and 2020 Mercs were nigh untouchable.

Scratch Senna's title in 88.

Diminish Michael's 2002 and 2004 titles.

Half of Vettel's championships.

It is just a really stupid thing to say. Put a good driver in a good car (as they usually end up in) and they are going to destroy people.
 
dotdan said:
Perhaps Mick might get a look. Wouldn't be surprised if Seargeant makes a comeback perhaps.
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I think Mick and Logan’s time in f1 is over. A new team needs at least an experienced baseline driver for a year or so - I’d guess out of who’s available that’d be someone like Bottas/Mag and then a rookie or American from Indycar/another series? Hopefully the calls for Ricciardo are ignored.
 
dotdan said:
Perhaps Mick might get a look. Wouldn't be surprised if Seargeant makes a comeback perhaps.
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I don't think it would be Sargeant. More than likely going to be Colton Herta.

While Sargeant is American, because he never raced in the US, he didn't actually have any appeal back home. Herta on the other hand is very popular in the US, is close to earning a Super License and more importantly, his long-term sponsor in IndyCar - Gainbridge - is the firm headed by Dan Towriss, who is also the man leading Cadillac's foray into F1.
 
thestaggy said:
I don't think it would be Sargeant. More than likely going to be Colton Herta.

While Sargeant is American, because he never raced in the US, he didn't actually have any appeal back home. Herta on the other hand is very popular in the US, is close to earning a Super License and more importantly, his long-term sponsor in IndyCar - Gainbridge - is the firm headed by Dan Towriss, who is also the man leading Cadillac's foray into F1.
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Nee vk.. you know way more than I do, I will take your word for it. :ROFL:
 
dotdan said:
Nee vk.. you know way more than I do, I will take your word for it. :ROFL:
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If you are on Reddit, the F1 sub is really worth a follow. It's a good place to keep up to date with what is happening. That is where I have been following the Andretti saga.

Cadillac entering is basically the Andretti effort. Towriss replaced Michael Andretti as the head of Andretti Global (Herta races for Andretti Global in IndyCar) which morphed into the GM/Cadillac entry. So that's how the dots are connected.
 
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