Hard to do any worse… Even Latifi beat Albon once.

I think one of the issues he was adamant about was no 1 year deal. So I would guess he is at least 2 years.

But Audi has a vacant seat…

PER finally beats VER in qualy!!!

Plus, Williams helped ALB get beaten for the first time as well.

I love when this kind of thing happens. SAI sets the FL with no purple sectors, VER does the 2nd best with 2 purple sectors.

https://tenor.com/view/formula1-f1-i-am-stupid-stupid-gif-15825263

The Brake Magic race alone is a huge swing between them, as VER was getting 25 and ended up with zero that day.

Yeah, me neither. I knew PER had a good record there, but best of everyone? Unexpected.

Let’s see what he can do this weekend. It is a good time for the supposed street track specialist to deliver, with 2 of them coming up.

Average of points scored

Not comparable because not everyone in the UK was going to be paid millions and millions while doing it. Also, that was hyperbole, sorry if it was not explicit.

I uprooted my family for five years and it was a brilliant experience for everyone. My kid speaks four languages, we learned a bunch of new ways of thinking and living, and expanded ourselves quite a bit. It has tough moments no doubt, but it is worth it, especially for the kids.

He would design a car for Satan if Lawrence still paid 30 million, gave him shares, gave him authority over his dept. and some people who tried to run away from him (Fallows CANNOT be happy), allowed him to remain at home, etc.

Lance is no all-time great, but it 100% beats designing cars at Williams for better drivers with a much shittier infrastructure. Or having to move to Italy (which anyone not willing to do is clearly insane, but that’s another matter) when he does not want to, having to play office politics at Ferrari, etc.

That is my fear too. Especially because that is what usually happens, especially with such a complete revolution of the regulations.

It will be a pity, just as this set of regs is becoming super competitive…

100%, but I was imagining that, since Newey is still around the F1 team during races, he would be forced to sit out 2025, which would mean he would join AM even later in the process.

March is late but much better than in the 4th trimester or something like it.

But yeah, it will be exciting, just hoping there is no one that hits the bullseye and totally dominates at the start.

The way the graphic is presented, it does look like it is a count of this season only.

VER has almost 100 points scored in Monaco alone in his career and LEC has 100 in Jeddah and Baku added up, for example.

It might be a combination of factors, but it is weird for an academy backed driver to be bumped as the season is almost done.

And yes, I would guess that Williams was not paying 100% of the cost. Which again is weird, because the concept, as I understood, was support in exchange for exclusivity of driver’s services and less leeway for the driver to choose his path.

Just to cement the point we were discussing: https://x.com/ZakOSullivan/status/1833177788628476134

Race winner, challenging at the front with some consistency, but out of a seat. Not sure what happened, but F1 academy drivers should not lose funding to finish an F2 season…

And there are a few academies that are now moneymakers, taking drivers that are sons/daughters of rich people and/or have good sponsors, pretending to give them a path into something, and just collecting that money.

Which is my point. Five out of 19 never made it and this year is looking doubtful (even with all the Audi rumours). Plus, once the driver academies came into being, winning F2 at the wrong time is a problem. Piastri being the clearest example, Alpine screwed up and he only made it to F1 because they are a terribly run team and McL poached him.

And fairness is an irrelevant concept in sports, there is no fairness and there never was. If there was, Jacques Villeneuve would have been kicked out of motorsports once he released his album.

When has fairness ever happened in F1? It is all a factor of who you aligned yourself with.

Pourchaire was in the Sauber academy, Sauber academy is a mess, he pays the price. It has nothing to do with fairness or worth or who won what. How many F2 champions have never even sniffed an F1 seat?

There was really no other option, considering more track time for the team’s 2025 driver can only help. Just hope he has another good—meaning uneventful—weekend.

Yeah, I honestly rather burden the imgur servers with the files and have people click the links they want. No sense spending resources that can be extracted from somewhere else.