F1 2020 Season

He's a poor team principle, you could see it at Caterham & he's got the top role for a long time at Renault due to personal links. He won't be going soon sadly.

But yes, ironic for him to talk about loyalty. He has none.
 
Rooney1987 said:
Interesting comments by Cyril at Renault about Riccardo.



Rather petty, sure anyone who has watched the Netflix F1 show won't be surprised by it. Love to know what the likes of Hulk, Sainz and Palmer think of Cyril talking about unity and commitment. It's poor from Renault especially considering Ferrari and Mclarens very respectable farewell's to Seb and Sainz.
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You could see in the Netflix show that whilst Ricciardo is a brilliant driver, Cyril seemed more happy to be getting one over on Red Bull by signing him. Looking forward to him at McLaren. Hopefully Lando has less reliability issues as well when we get underway.
 
I'm watching the first season of Drive to Survive and bleep me it's good. Seeing those anxious and downbeat Williams' employees in that meeting whilst Claire tries to talk tough on episode 3 really drives home the nature of the beast. Nico and Lewis would have been epic! I love F1 and have watched it for eons without actually seeing anything that has captured the excitement of it like this.
 
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Rooney1987 said:
Interesting comments by Cyril at Renault about Riccardo.



Rather petty, sure anyone who has watched the Netflix F1 show won't be surprised by it. Love to know what the likes of Hulk, Sainz and Palmer think of Cyril talking about unity and commitment. It's poor from Renault especially considering Ferrari and Mclarens very respectable farewell's to Seb and Sainz.
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He came across as a proper bellend on Drive To Survive, such a petty small man.
 
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I was never a fan of Horners, but you could tell Cyril was frothing at the mouth to wind up Red Bull.
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Yep, it was ridiculous, as much as it’s a sport this is a high level corporate environment and he was consumed by his childish want to get one over on Horner.
 
Toto off and Mercedes for sale. Both could go to Stroll/Aston Martin. Looks like at least some truth to Eddie Jordan's diatribe.
 
pauldyson1uk said:
Dont believe this for one second,that was until I saw this !

https://thejudge13.com/2020/05/28/breaking-wolff-stepping-down-mercedes-board-meeting-on-f1-future/
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The autobild article says they are thinking of swapping the F1 team (Daimlers part of it) for Stroll's shares in Aston Martin. Would be a ludicrous transaction if pulled of. Wasn't the Aston Martin CEO replaced a day or two ago?


Edit: He was. Former AMG guy Mooers now heads AM. It's mentioned in the first paragraph of that same autobild piece, I somehow missed it.
 
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It would be a huge shame if they went under but the team has been totally rudderless since Frank Williams started to slow down and Claire doesn't seem to have anywhere near the same leadership skills he did.
 
Would be a real shame if we lose Williams but the writing has been on the wall there for a while. A proper investor and shakeup could turn them around, its a buyers market for sure right now.
 
sun_tzu said:
Doubt many people will be looking to buy unless Audi have changed their mind about wanting to be in F1 - but again current circumstances i suspect VW/Audi have bigger worries
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No chance of any VAG brand entering F1, their strategy is all electric.

Leg-End said:
Would be a real shame if we lose Williams but the writing has been on the wall there for a while. A proper investor and shakeup could turn them around, its a buyers market for sure right now.
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I can't help feeling a lot of the notion i've seen for Williams today is romance back to the 80's and 90's. They've not done anything for a very long time, and actually just going through the motions every year. Ironically it's a good time to sell as the new wind tunnel scale will benefit them the most. The biggest challenge at Williams is the workplace culture, it's toxic.

Renault look to be the next to be sold, due to the job cuts they've just announced globally. However it looks like Dmitry Mazepin is lined up to purchase.
 
So what are the chances of this season being written off, the rule changes taking place for next year and Lewis ending up in an uncompetitive car. Everyone was assuming he would take all of the records this year in that Merc.
 
Dan_F said:
So what are the chances of this season being written off, the rule changes taking place for next year and Lewis ending up in an uncompetitive car. Everyone was assuming he would take all of the records this year in that Merc.
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They will race this season, as many events as they can. F1 itself and the teams only lose if they don't race at all.
 
Dan_F said:
So what are the chances of this season being written off, the rule changes taking place for next year and Lewis ending up in an uncompetitive car. Everyone was assuming he would take all of the records this year in that Merc.
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Slim, the rule changes are postponed till 2022. They will race this year and complete a championship, they only need 8 races to do it.
 
F-Red said:
Slim, the rule changes are postponed till 2022. They will race this year and complete a championship, they only need 8 races to do it.
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Ah, so there’s going to be another season before the rule changes?
 
Dan_F said:
So what are the chances of this season being written off, the rule changes taking place for next year and Lewis ending up in an uncompetitive car. Everyone was assuming he would take all of the records this year in that Merc.
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Zero. F1 needs to race to earn money, with no championship cash this year many would be in seriously bad positions.
 
Dan_F said:
Ah, so there’s going to be another season before the rule changes?
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Yes I believe so. I imagine teams would already be working on the new regulations coming in, so with the way things are I think it’d have been tough to get ready in time. This gives them the time to prepare in my opinion.

Kind of gutted as I was looking forward to a switch up but now I’ll be happy with any kind of racing!
 
sun_tzu said:
If there is a championship this year then Lewis really does have a shot at equalling and passing schumacher
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There will be a season, no idea how many races yet, but there will be a season.
Silverstone is set to stage two Formula One races later this summer with the British government expected to provide participants with an exemption from quarantine rules.
 
pauldyson1uk said:
There will be a season, no idea how many races yet, but there will be a season.
Silverstone is set to stage two Formula One races later this summer with the British government expected to provide participants with an exemption from quarantine rules.
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Any idea whats happening with the fees / f1 contracts for venues
I would have thought typically Silverstone pay money to f1 to hold a race
Then they absorb the costs of getting the venue ready
Then they sell hundreds of thousands of tickets to recoup that... clearly at the moment unless f1 is putting some special terms in place the venues would stand to loose a lot of cash?
 
I have no idea about cost.
Silverstone is set to stage two Formula 1 races later this summer with the British government expected to provide participants with an exemption from quarantine rules.
Britain will introduce a 14-day self-isolation period for travellers arriving in the country from June 8, and with the F1 season due to start less than a month later there were fears that Silverstone wouldn't be able to host any races.
But the government now appears set to provide an exemption from the measure to F1 teams, meaning the behind-closed-doors events should go ahead.
The races are expected to be the fourth and fifth events on the calendar, in August, with the dates set to be confirmed in the coming days.

An F1 spokesperson said: "We welcome the government's efforts to ensure elite sport can continue to operate and their support for our return to racing.

"We will maintain a close dialogue with them in the coming weeks as we prepare to start our season in the first week of July."

Teams must submit a detailed plan for their movements and whereabouts which must be approved by the government.
Austria is set to open the F1 season with two races on July 5 and July 12 after the country's health ministry gave its approval.
 
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They're waving race fees for venue owners who are racing behind closed doors, and meeting costs to put the event on. So no gain for the venue, but the sport gets a circuit to compete on.

There will be a minimum of 8 races this season.
 
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I really shouldn't be surprised, and it makes perfect sense, but a race calendar without Monaco is still a sad sight :(
 
F-Red said:
Probably one of the worst races of the year for entertainment.
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Not really. Even without overtakes I'm more impressed with their driving in the narrow streets than on the plethora of similar looking purpose built tracks that have come to dominate the rest of the year. And when someone does manage to squeeze by it's almost always epic.

It has the best onboard videos too:



It's gone from having a better reputation than it deserves to a worse one than it deserves in my opinion.
 
They're some of the best drivers in the world, driving in narrow streets should be a given & i don't put onboard videos high up in my list of requirements for good racing.

It has the lowest amount of overtakes on the calendar, from 2006-2018 there was only four overtakes for position in the top three (only one was classed as a legitimate overtake).

Monaco has a lot of romance, but unfortunately provides some of the poorest spectacles of racing we see.
 
Lewis Hamilton is an annoying git. He's delusional and has some issues for sure.

His latest statement it he is the first working class F1 champion :lol:

Oh, how hard life has been to you Lewis!
 
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Does it not seem a little strange that four of the ciuntries hardest hit by cv19 (uk Italy Spain and belgium) have been chosen?

Given what seems to be happening in North and south America id guess they are both unlikely to be hosting anytime soon... perhaps a couple of middle east and Asian gps and if all are double headers then we end up with around 16 races which would seem a decent amount
 
sun_tzu said:
Does it not seem a little strange that four of the ciuntries hardest hit by cv19 (uk Italy Spain and belgium) have been chosen?

Given what seems to be happening in North and south America id guess they are both unlikely to be hosting anytime soon... perhaps a couple of middle east and Asian gps and if all are double headers then we end up with around 16 races which would seem a decent amount
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Very fair point.
I just hope that we get some form of competition and of course hope that Lewis Hamilton wins his 7th world championship.
 
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