When Haas first came to F1 their strategy was to do their first season and base themselves in Banbury, and then move facilities to the United States. They never did leave the heartland of F1 and I wonder why? lol
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With Ferrari announcing at Monza that LeClerc is being replaced by Mick Schumacher for 2023
Seriously???? Your joking right?
Verstappen does a Rosberg and retires from F1 to spend more time with his
Ugh, I wish Sky would disappear. Here in Germany it's the only way to watch F1. I have a workaround to which I pay for F1 TV from Croatia, and watch from here. But I wish I didn't have to do such stuff.
Sky costs 20€ a month, F1 TV Pro is 8€ a month...
This is exactly the reason why Germany still has no HBO Max ...
Looking forward to the new season, new cars & new orange wins ?
Agree, I see that F1 TV app, and the Pro version is not available in the U.K. either, all due to Sky’s monopoly on it. That will continue though as Sky think nothing of paying billions for sports broadcasting rights, they spend 5 billion or more for a single football league for 3 years. And now they are owned by an American giant with more money in the pot.
I may look into the VPN workaround route for F1 TV Pro.
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Haha I thought you were serious and it actually happened! Phew.. it was a prediction.
Personally I hope to see Lando at the front in the new cars.
As much as I have loved supporting Lewis all these years, I want to see the likes of Lando and George winning this year as they are the next generation. I just hope McLaren haven’t done what they often do and create a shambles of a car. They were getting close last season after many years of development with minimal regs changes and this coming year concerns me. I think Lando is the better driver out of him and Russell but George is obviously very talented too. A great era for British talent I hope.
Indeed. There is a reason some many F1 teams are based in England as the engineering resources here are so rich. They also have staff moving between teams all the time and it’s a hard sell when one team is thousands of miles away from the others.
I remember Adrian Newey being offered obscene amounts of money to join Ferrari and he turned it down because he didn’t want to relocate his family to Italy.
I think so yeah but as we all know an F1 contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on when money is in the equation. Cue Kimi and Alonso at the Scuderia. I don’t think they’ll replace Charles with their reserve Mick this season, but if Carlos keeps outperforming him like we saw last year, Ferrari may consider their options I think. They need a good car first though as it’s definitely a variable.
Well said. Excited to see what 2022. has for us
Can't wait for the 2022 season!
While waiting - here is some cool reminiscing of past glory years.
I totally forgot Mansell was an active suspension test pilot for Lotus, before moving to Williams.... and then he demolished the field when the stars finally aligned for him! ??
...It literally started with 1 line of code for the Williams active suspension programming!
I remember the in-car from the day from street courses like Monaco or Adelaide.
The views from the non-active cars were bouncing all over the place and the Williams was "Citroën Smooth".
The views from the non-active cars were bouncing all over the place and the Williams was "Citroën Smooth".
Just bought F1 2021 for the PS5, anybody here played it? I haven’t had a console since 2013 so i’ll probably be pants. I’m going to do career mode as Max Verstappen and ‘not’ win the world championship just to get him back 
Lots of stories coming in that Michael Masi has lost his position as Race Director. He is missing from the organisational chart and lots of F1 sources now reporting this. I’m guessing the investigation the FIA pledged to do didn’t quite go in his favour. Will there next be an acknowledgment the rules were breached by Masi in the final laps of Abu Dhabi? We will see lol.
Mercedes are denying it, but reports state that they agreed to drop their appeal if the FIA agreed to remove Masi as Race Director.
Both Masi and Technical Director Nikolas Tombazis appear to have been removed from office and now Peter Bayer appears to be handling both roles for 2022.
Both Masi and Technical Director Nikolas Tombazis appear to have been removed from office and now Peter Bayer appears to be handling both roles for 2022.
Still too soon. Raw from the handling of the last race. That's not pro or anti any driver. I still am bereft of any understanding on how and why the decisions were made. It also doesn't appear it will ever be forthcoming.
A green lap last lap is not a decision. It's the consequence of one.
A green lap last lap is not a decision. It's the consequence of one.
Oh wow, that was some heavy information right there. Michael "The Rule Bender" Masi
Probably going to retire to Milton Keynes. I hear a company there bought him a massive mansion! ?
‘If’ he has been sacked/moved then I don’t think it is just because of his antics in the closing laps of Abu Dhabi. He made some quite questionable decisions throughout 2021 in all areas. I had never heard a race director negotiate with a team the type of penalty they wanted for example. His snarky replies to team principles also showed he struggled under pressure. He is the wrong man for the job and he’s damaged the perception of the sport and the FIA are in damage limitation.
It‘s all coming down to Friday’s meeting between Toto and the new FIA President Sulayem. Masi goes and Mercedes drops the appeals, and Lewis returns in 2022.
Masi stays the appeals are filed and Lewis retires from F1.
Lewis will not return if Masi is still Race Director. Either way I fully expect the FIA to still be in Chaos.
I highly doubt Lewis would end his career over it. When he goes it will be on his terms.