F1 2025

[satanboy]

I love this comment:

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

Well he does have a massive price tag and now no longer champion plus the power struggle the last few years between the Austrian(Verstappens, Helmut) and Thai(Horner, Yoovidyha) shareholders is well known.

I don't think they necessarily want to get rid of him, but I do think if Helmut leaves, Max might lose some of his freedom in the team because it sounds like they are changing quite a lot ito people in charge, structures etc.

RB is most likely going into a rebuilding phase for the next few years as a manufacturer now anyway.

Will be interesting to see how it plays out next year, but I still think Max will leave RB at the end of 2026 if the car is not good enough. I am sure after the weekend he will have a renewed hunger to win his 5th and is not going to sit around for 3-4 years to wait for RB.

Max can go to any team he want and they will pay him whatever he ask. Everybody have seen his comeback this year and also how bad his teammates did in a bad car.
Just ask Toto. If Max calls him today, Toto will cancel Russell's contract in 1 day and sign Max.

The amount of marketing Red Bull get with Max, champion or not, is priceless. Without him they will be nowhere. They will pay him whatever he want and let him do whatever he wants. If they don't, the next team will.

 

[satanboy]

 

[Jean Claude Vaaldamme]

 

[quovadis]

Max can go to any team he want

Duh

and they will pay him whatever he ask.

Not really. He got a 3x in 2023 which RB did for this very reason. Realistically, as the most expensive driver in F1 there's only so much more he could ask.

Everybody have seen his comeback this year

Sure and saw Mclaren almost gift him another title.

and also how bad his teammates did in a bad car.

Max hasn't driven the same car as his teammates for ages. And if the Max-first engineering is to believed, any team would a helluva time trying to convert their cars to what he needs.

Just ask Toto.

Can you? I don't have his number.

If Max calls him today, Toto will cancel Russell's contract in 1 day and sign Max.

I'm sure any team would try accommodate - I'm not sure that Russell would be the victim of that signing.

The amount of marketing Red Bull get with Max, champion or not, is priceless.

I disagree. It's certainly valuable but it's nowhere near what Hamilton or Schumacher pulled. Heck, they can't even fill an orange-army grandstand if Max isn't winning...

Without him they will be nowhere.

They were winning before and will be after.

They will pay him whatever he want and let him do whatever he wants. If they don't, the next team will.

I'm sure they'll do their best to retain him as a driver but there is always a hard wall.

 

[satanboy]

Aah shame, quovadis is trying to play with the kids.

 

[quovadis]

Aah shame, quovadis is trying to play with the kids.

I have some time to kill while I wait for 40+ forced firmware updates to complete...

 

[thestaggy]

Good riddance.

Replaced by push-to-pass and active aero (dubbed 'X-mode'), where the driver can switch between low and high downforce wing settings during the lap.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/how-f1s-new-active-aero-will-work-in-2026/10620099/

 

[Heisenborg]

Replaced by push-to-pass and active aero (dubbed 'X-mode'), where the driver can switch between low and high downforce wing settings during the lap.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/how-f1s-new-active-aero-will-work-in-2026/10620099/

So basically drs 2.0

 

[Speedster]

So basically drs 2.0

Yeah. Also, not dependent on being close to the car in front

 

[Sinbad]

Yeah. Also, not dependent on being close to the car in front

Won't the push to overtake be dependent on being close?

 

[Speedster]

Won't the push to overtake be dependent on being close?

Not the way I understand it. You have a certain limit per race which can then be used as needed.

 

[thestaggy]

Won't the push to overtake be dependent on being close?

A defined/lap limited amount of boost that a following driver can use when they feel they can get the most out of it.

With DRS use gone, the FIA’s response to still opening the door for overtaking opportunities is through a manual override engine mode.

This will help deliver an extra boost of power that should give the following driver a chance to pass the car ahead.

While the energy deployment of a leading car will taper off after 290km/h, reaching zero at 355km/h, the following car will be able to benefit from an MGU-K override that provides 350kW at up to 337km/h with +0.5MJ of extra boost.

The FIA’s single-seater technical director Jan Monchaux said about the new override system: “Right now with the DRS you are behind a car, within a second, that ticks a box, and you are allowed to open your DRS in a straight line. This will not be the case anymore.

“However, the logic will be the same: I'm close enough to another car, I am given an extra amount of energy for that one lap, which I can deploy any way I want.

“The extra amount of energy is defined and that will give that boost of energy to eventually give the following car a chance to overtake by the end of the straight.”

 

[Speedster]

A defined/lap limited amount of boost that a following driver can use when they feel they can get the most out of it.

By that wording it looks like PTP is allocated per lap if you're close to the car in front?

 

[thestaggy]

By that wording it looks like PTP is allocated per lap if you're close to the car in front?

That is my understanding from the article.

Which also makes it sound like you could end up with PTP trains the same way we had DRS trains.

 

[Tongs of Destiny]

Hamilton's worst year in his Formula 1 history and Ferraris worst driver in 44 years

Let's hope things can be turned around at Maranello and the wind changes, because going on like this is going to destroy him internally

Whos engine powertrain will be best next year... who knows, could be Ferrari but they seem to fumble everything

 

[Naks]

 

[Naks]

 

[quovadis]

Not the way I understand it. You have a certain limit per race which can then be used as needed.

Wish it was like that. X time per race and can use it whenever - all in the first or last if they want too.

 

[quovadis]