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quovadis said:
Well technically speaking "we" as in Mclaren have two quick drivers. RB has one. 🤔 But the full quote...

“Impossible to know what car he’s got compared to us,” Norris insisted. “The advantage we have is two quick drivers and they don’t, or we have a car that’s capable of allowing drivers to drive it quicker."
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Yeah the full quote doesn't sound as bad. Why is he being asked about why his team is doing better than another anyway. It's not like he knows what's going on over there...
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
The young drivers these days try to jump the que and get in F1 as soon as possible without enough experience.
They will soon learn and see how many young drivers ended their F1 careers quickly like that.
They not Max Verstappen's
If they take more years in lower classes, mature they could come in F1 more consistent and have long careers even if they don't win championships.
Now its a quick all or nothing
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The junior categories are not a place where you can have a long-term career.

If you are not out of F2 in 3 or 4 seasons, you are pretty much done. You'll get your rookie season where you can f-around, but then it is 2 or 3 seasons to prove yourself. If no F1 team picks you up, bye-bye.

The F1 teams are pushing through their academy drivers and want to assess them as soon as they can and for the balance, it is all pay drivers (no driver is in F2 without sponsorship money or the support of an F1 team or manufacturer) and if your results are not there your money dries up and the next guy comes along with $$$ to take your seat. F2 teams are entirely reliant on drivers to fund their budgets, they don't have time to develop you if the money isn't there or someone with more money comes along.

If you are an F2 driver and an F1 seat opens up, you take it, because that may be your one and only chance.

EDIT: Even ex-F2 champions who could not find an F1 seat immediately leave the series. It is pointless to continue if you don't get that call up. Felipe Drugovich won the 2022 championship and then left. He's been in single-seater purgatory since then. He is Aston Martin's reserve driver, but since winning the F2 title in 2022 he hasn't driven in a competitive single seat session in any category.

EDIT2: The Super License thing also marginalises drivers outside the FIA F3-F2-F1 progression ladder. Years back, major regional series such as Japanese Formula Nippon and US CART/Champcar were places where drivers could spend a few years tasting success and developing themselves in faster cars (quicker than F3/F3000) before an F1 team came along. A lot of drivers left the European feeder series and went to the US and Japan to hone and develop themselves at a higher level before their big breaks in F1 (Eddie Irvine, Ralf Schumacher and Juan Montoya are great examples; the former two went to Japan while Montoya went back to the US to rejuvenate his career). You could be a big fish in a small(er) pond and still have hopes of F1 because the quality in Japan and the US was high. Now, if you are not in the FIA ladder, it is difficult to attain the necessary points on your Super License while preference is given to the drivers trying to force themselves through F3 and F2.

Right now, Colton Herta in Indycar is a good example. He is currently the best young American single-seat talent along with having close to mainstream popularity in that country, but it counts for very little in the world of F1. At the age of 25, he is a now 7-year veteran of Indycar, but he may struggle to obtain the necessary points on his Super License to enter F1. He likely has far better race craft than any prospect currently in F2 along with far more experience, but he is outside the F1 bubble.
 
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quovadis said:
Well technically speaking "we" as in Mclaren have two quick drivers. RB has one. 🤔 But the full quote...

“Impossible to know what car he’s got compared to us,” Norris insisted. “The advantage we have is two quick drivers and they don’t, or we have a car that’s capable of allowing drivers to drive it quicker."
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Yeah, wasn't reading too much into that. Sensationalism at its best. But Lando still puts his foot in his mouth more often than not.
 
tyres tyres tyres....

for McLaren to be 1 second a lap faster is insane, I'm sure there are a lot of head scratching going on and how they have done that.

Formula 1 has always been about how to tweak things to be legal but not correct, every team tries... that's why there are so many rules and regulations. It's like measuring fuel pressure at XYZ point, but the team say, "it's correct there where the FIA measure, but not correct further down the line and that's not in the regs etc."
 
www.skysports.com

Oliver Oakes resigned as Alpine team principal days after brother charged with 'transferring criminal property'

William Oakes charged with transferring criminal property after being found in possession of a large amount of cash; the 31-year-old is director of Hitech GP alongside brother and founder Oliver; Sky Sports News has approached Hitech GP for comment, while Alpine F1 declined to comment
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The Briton took over as a director of the team in 2022, after forming a new company that acquired a controlling stake in the side from the father of ex-f1 racer Nikita Mazepin, Dmitry Mazepin. The takeover of Dmitry Mazepin’s shares in the single-seater team came just three days after the Russian, who has close ties to Vladimir Putin, was sanctioned by the UK government over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.


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Oliver Oakes travelled to Dubai after brother arrested with ‘large amount of cash’

Former Formula 1 team principal Oliver Oakes is understood to have travelled to Dubai following ongoing developments.
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Franz Hermann driving the 296 GT3 breaks lap record at Nürburgring?! holy poo, actually not surprised

How awesome that he is such a big Max Verstappen fan, they should get this guy in F1 😈:p
 
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