Formula 1 2024 – WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS

My money’s on Ricciardo replacing Perez after the summer break and Lawson taking Ricciardo’s seat, with Perez getting the boot.

My money is on Lawson going straight into the Redbull seat of Perez, Danny hasnt done enough to get that Redbull seat, Lawson did a filming day at Sliverstone last Thurs in the 2024 Redbull, why put him in that car for a test if they plan on sending him to the sister team, why not do a filming day in the sister team’s car?

I think Horner really likes Checo (same as he really likes Danny) but isnt a big Max fan (in a personality/friendship kinda way) and dosent want to lose him hence all the chances (Checo is a nice guy, just look at how he helped save Force India)

Marko on the other hand is ruthless as we know and wants Checo gone and knows even if Lawson isnt as good as they think he is he cant be any worse than Checo lately and for some reason they dont want Yuki in the Redbull

It’s a fair point, Horner needs every ally he can muster considering the power struggles at Red Bull, and Checo might be one of those allies

Just read this quote from Marko

Marko revealed that Red Bull reserve driver Liam Lawson, who impressed in a five-race cameo for VCARB (then AlphaTauri) in mid-2023 and recently participated in a test at Silverstone with the Championship-leading RB20 car, is “at the top of the list” to succeed Perez.

I don’t see any benefit in keeping Perez for rest of the season over Lawson. Give Lawson the 2nd half to prove himself. It can’t be any worse

This was being discussed on Sky yesterday, that VCARB is supposed to be a development team for Redbull, so why are Yuki, a now reasonably experienced driver, and Danny Ric, a VERY experienced driver, still in seats? If they’re desperate to bin checo, then Ricciardo will go to RB then Yuki can be the team leader for Lawson, then replaced when he runs rings round him, again.

My money is on a) Perez being out before Zandvoort and b) Marko getting his way and that seat going to Lawson.

Max needs a nap.

Not sure Norris and Piastri are going to be mates after this one

Not sure Norris and Piastri are going to be mates after this one

Multi 21 mate

that made no sense to me. can someone explain why Mclaren forced their no 1 driver who needs points against Max to give the place to a slower driver?

because (not for the first time) McLarens race management is a mess. The lead driver should’ve been pitted first, unless there had been prior agreement that championship was taking priority. Given Max was 3x race wins ahead at the start, that ship has likely already sailed

not if he keeps driver like he did today. what’s the beating they ban him from all night Sim Racing on race weekends from now on

Unless it’s in his contract he’ll tell them to piss off. He knows he’s not going anywhere unless he wants to

Because Lando may have lost out to Lewis/Max had they not pitted him first so they put him in front of Oscar, to then give him the place back when safe to do so.

That said I don’t think it will happen again.

lol, Ted Kravitz on Max/Lewis crash

’Redbull are calling it a racing incident, which is what Redbull do when it’s Max’s fault.’

Red Bull calling the top driver childish on the team radio, class!

Max reverting to type when the car isn’t the best on track anymore. Very amusing listening to the toys hit the floor after being ejected from the pram.

Totally agree with brundle etc. Schumacher/vettel/senna/prost would have just taken the win. Norris clearly hasn’t got that killer instinct. If the championship comes down to just a few points by season end he’ll rue today.

Is Piastry bringing in more sponsorship money to the team than Norris I wonder?

Verstappen showing he has zero class. Funny how now he hasn’t got clearly the best car in the field he’s suddenly not performing that well.

All the Verstappen fans waxing lyrical about how he’s pretty much the best driver ever at the start of the season ?

Its quite refreshing to see lots of different drivers winning races this season.

’Redbull are calling it a racing incident, which is what Redbull do when it’s Max’s fault.’

Hamilton called it a racing incident. As far as I know, he’s not a Redbull employee.

Hamilton called it a racing incident. As far as I know, he’s not a Redbull employee

No but he is very media savvy!

Hamilton called it a racing incident. As far as I know, he’s not a Redbull employee

He thinks it’s Max’s fault too?

Stewards have let him get away with it. Again.

Lewis said it was racing accident

Max said it was moving under braking.

Nice to be shown who is the bigger man.

Something tells me Lando will be a lot harder on his team mate at the start of races. He should have had him up the grass today and I think in future he will.

Just watching the highlights…Verstappen can just never admit he’s wrong, can he (talking about lap 1 incident)

Verstappen never misses a chance to demonstrate his gracelessness and lack of class.

Max was just awful today, like a teenager throwing his toys out the pram, very lucky to get away with no further action for that move and lucky not to take himself and Hamilton out of the race altogether, then tried to blame it on Hamilton saying he moved under braking yet Hamilton was just following his racing line whislt max steam rolled into the corner

Then he says the following after the race

“They can all **** off,” was Verstappen’s blunt response when he was asked for his response to comments that his criticism of the team, and the nature of his radio messages had gone too far

The Lando/Piastri thing i kinda see Lando’s point, yes he did get 1st pit stop choice due to covering off Hamilton and Max and was told to swap back with Piastri but after Piastri dipped his wheels into the gravel he was nowhere near Lando and Lando needs all the points he can muster to fight Max for the championship, i would of liked to see Lando just ignore all radio calls in silence then as he approches the line just slow to a crawl for Piastri to pass to make his point that he was faster, hopefully the championship battle between Max and Lando dosent come down to a few points at the end of the season

Very uncomfortable watching the McLaren radio fallout. Lando was clearly faster.
Verstappen showed his petulance once again

Lando let himself down there, should have let him past asap and raced to the finish.

McLaren naive with the situation.

Max doing Max unapologetically as usual.

Enjoyable race considering you can’t overtake. F1 has a bit of drama back, good stuff.

I think Lando missed a trick, he should have given the place back  ASAP, then stick to Oscar’s gearbox, telling the team how much faster he was/legitimately overtake him.

It’s a real shame for Oscar that his first win came like that. It has to have been the flattest, least excitable first win celebration ever.

Easy in hindsight, but possibly Oscar should have said ‘nah, thanks, but I’m good with second’ and then enjoyed his first win properly later in the year.

It has to have been the flattest, least excitable first win celebration ever.

Hakkinen. Also gifted, (by two people!) but then had to celebrate a ‘win’ while someone else celebrated a championship and everyone else was talking about something else entirely.

But he won the next two titles so it didn’t do him any harm

Lando didn’t come across very well in his conversation with Hamilton in the warm down room either. Totally missed that he was giving them a compliment and breaking the tension in the room.

That was dumb by McLaren…they should have said to Piastri “if you can as a minimum match Lando’s pace, then we’ll let you win”…but he was losing time every lap.

McLarens still struggling to be a championship team. They should have pitted Piastri first (leading car), which would have avoided the mess they got themselves into.

Max still has a huge lead. The likelihood of Lando catching him is slim and it makes much more sense to concentrate on the constructors, with a harmonious team. Lando needs to think about 2025 when he needs Oscars help.

Nico’s advice to Andrea Stella after the race was spot on about being clear on what the teams view is. That can be about pre-race agreements, strategies or tyre choices. All things where McLaren havent been 100% over the past few races.

It was like McLaren had Ferrari race strategists on work experience for that race, apart from the fact McLaren got a 1, 2 result of course.

If the season carries on at its current trajectory, with McLaren doing well and Perez being as he his, McLaren will very much be a championship team. Throw in a few risky moves from max as he becomes frustrated at not being able to lap the field anymore and the drivers will be up for grabs too.

I think what today showed is that every single F1 driver has the attitude of a petulant teenager when things don’t go their way.

McLaren couldn’t have made a bigger mess of that. When they gave Lando the undercut I thought, well that makes sense—they have the fastest car and if they can win every remaining race with Lando they will have both championships. A long shot maybe but you’d go for it, right? Apparently not. Let’s take 7 points away from the only driver other than Max who has a slight chance at the championship, and let’s do it in a way that infuriates the drivers, puts the race engineers in a hole, and makes the team look like a bucket of dicks. They could have owned it and moved 15 points closer to the driver’s title with the same constructor points, but no. Ron Dennis must be spinning in his uniformly grey room.

A bit surprised/disappointed to see Lando saying Piastri deserved it… Norris put three seconds on him on the final stint and didn’t drive himself off the track twice… sure, Piastri got the first corner but that was all, and that was in no small part because Norris couldn’t just drive into Max. I’d expected him to stick to the point that Piastri should catch up if he wanted to swap back.

I came to like GP this race. A lovely contrast to Max ? (As was Hamilton… Max constantly ranting “you f**ing ruined my race” and everything else, while Hamilton simply says “I think that first stop was a bit early mate”)

It’s nice to Hamilton with a bit of enthusiasm now the car is a bit more competitive and made Max work.
I’ll admit I was warming to Max against all my better judgement but today just showed he’s not grown as a diver at all.
It was funny listening to the complaints of dive bombs, moving under braking and all the things he’s done in the past.

McLaren could have handled that better.

Haven’t we recently had a fine for swearing across the radio?