Formula One - General Chat

[OrangeKhrush]

19 hours ago, Panflute said:

I do wonder where the sudden tidal-wave of 'D-Ric is over' content in F1 media and on Youtube is coming from. Like, he was struggling before Monaco, but now everyone seems to have collectively decided that he's done.

i would say he has been underwhelming at McLaren in general.   whatever the reason is the one thing that is certain is the pressure he is under now.

[RandoEFC+]

It isn't sudden. It's been gradually building for basically all of his time at Mclaren where Norris has quite easily had the measure of him. He got a lot of benefit of the doubt last year as people said fairly enough that the new cars would give him a chance for a reset and take away Lando's advantage of being more used to the old-era Mclaren car but things have pretty much carried on the way they were and Lando's two most recent spankings of Daniel in Spain and Monaco in light of his bout of tonsillitis have really triggered the latest chapter of the conversation.

[MUFC]

 

[MUFC]

Vettel, Tommy would be openly welcomed into F1.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/sebastian-vettel-gay-formula-one-driver-welcomed/

[OrangeKhrush]

4 hours ago, MUFC said:

Vettel, Tommy would be openly welcomed into F1.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/sebastian-vettel-gay-formula-one-driver-welcomed/

Vettel still trying to stay relevant again.    

If there is a driver who is gay and makes it to F1,  fine.   I would however object to flagrant attempts at tokenism to push "the message".    

Its about driving ability,  not sexual orientation. 

[Panflute]

There's already a male-male married couple in F1 in the form of Stroll and his engineer.

[Panflute]

After watching some F1 content on YouTube I immediately get recommended these awful clickbait videos like 'Horner's SECRET message to Toto Wolff'. What a dreadful little world.

[Tommy]

47 minutes ago, Panflute said:

'Horner's SECRET message to Toto Wolff'. 

Was it romantic?

[Panflute]

46 minutes ago, Tommy said:

Was it romantic?

I don't know. It was a secret.

[Tommy]

 

[Panflute]

 

[Tommy]

 

[Panflute]

So far this is the most balanced analysis I've read in regard to the FIA directive. It's in Dutch, but maybe Google Translate will make the main points of the article understandable.

https://nl.motorsport.com/f1/news/waarom-porpoising-ingreep-fia-niet-per-se-goed-hoeft-te-zijn-voor-mercedes/10323257/

[MUFC]

South Africa.

[Panflute]

Completely random question I just thought of: are race engineers required to speak English to their respective drivers over team radio?

[Tommy]

11 hours ago, Panflute said:

Completely random question I just thought of: are race engineers required to speak English to their respective drivers over team radio?

I'm not a 100% sure. But as far as I know, it's more of a Gentleman's agreement between teams, and not a written down rule. Ferrari for example still talk Italian to their drivers in post-race radios sometimes. 

[Tommy]

Recognize three of those kids?

[nudge]

3 minutes ago, Tommy said:

Recognize three of those kids?

All four. Hubert, Leclerc, Ocon and Gasly.

Edited June 19, 2022 by nudge

[Tommy]

Just now, nudge said:

All four. Hubert, Leclerc, Ocon and Gaslys.

Is that really Anthoine?  People on reddit said the kid's name is Valentin Breaux. 

[nudge]

4 hours ago, Tommy said:

Is that really Anthoine?  People on reddit said the kid's name is Valentin Breaux. 

No idea, looks like him

[CaaC (John)+]

5 hours ago, Tommy said:

s that really Anthoine?  People on reddit said the kid's name is Valentin Breaux. 

 

52 minutes ago, nudge said:

No idea, looks like him

 

 

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[RandoEFC+]

Rookie numbers from Max.

[Tommy]

32 minutes ago, RandoEFC said:

Rookie numbers from Max.

Oh Seb. 

[Tommy]

I never knew that he lived in Germany. 

From his Wikipedia:

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Pérez moved to Europe in 2005 to compete in the German Formula BMW ADAC series. He was allowed to live in a restaurant owned by his team manager for four months.