2021 F1 Driver ThreadFormula 1
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Rashford.
Sports Personality has never explicitly been about the most remarkable sporting achievement nor indeed about being the best "personality"; a list of previous winners is a veritable Who's That? of dullards.
Hamilton has done the most within a sport.
Rashford has done the most using sport as a platform for the positive good.
The award should be renamed as well as expand whom it recognises and for what. But at the end of the day, there's no looking past Hamilton or Rashford. Easily the top two contenders. You'd probably say Hamilton with Rashford getting a special merit award.
Either way, you know that a storm of gammon froth is on its way.
Sports Personality has never explicitly been about the most remarkable sporting achievement nor indeed about being the best "personality"; a list of previous winners is a veritable Who's That? of dullards.
Hamilton has done the most within a sport.
Rashford has done the most using sport as a platform for the positive good.
The award should be renamed as well as expand whom it recognises and for what. But at the end of the day, there's no looking past Hamilton or Rashford. Easily the top two contenders. You'd probably say Hamilton with Rashford getting a special merit award.
Either way, you know that a storm of gammon froth is on its way.
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Doesn't it come down to public vote? Because that is most likely to be his biggest hurdle if he wants to win SPOTY. Can't see it not being Rashford...
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Perhaps not.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54968207
Rashford is getting a special award, but probably won't be nominated for the main award because it's all about sporting achievement, not off-the-pitch stuff. Seeing as Man United haven't been great this year and other English footballers have performed better on the pitch, he probably won't get a full on nomination.
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Rumour: Haas will very shortly announce Mick Schumacher as one of their 2021 drivers.
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They're apparently not waiting for the final F2 results to make their decision, and the article mentions Schumacher and Mazepin as the top candidates.
Also, Kvyat appears certain that he's out of AlphaTauri next year, which ties into the rumor that Tsunoda will be coming in next year as a part of the Honda engine program buyout deal.
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Whoops, wrongbuttoned. 
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Decision about Albons future at RBR will be delayed to post season. A bit as expected after his podium finish yesterday
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Poetry Fittipaldi will take Romain Grosjean’s place in the Haas for the Sakhir GP and for next season Callum Illot will not be in F1 after confirming it on Twitter. So that narrows down the field for the 2 Haas seats.
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One Haas seat, isn't it? Mick Schumacher is in one of the seats. I can't recall if that's been officially confirmed but I think it's pretty much a schu-in.
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I haven’t seen it officially confirmed but I’m expecting it leaving Haas with a sole seat to fill.
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Will no doubt will go to Mazepin.
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I reckon Red bull aren't waiting for Albon to prove himself worthy of staying at the team, they're waiting for Tsunoda to get a Superlicense for a good finish in f2 this season. If he gets it, Albon will stay at RB with Tsunoda taking Kvyat's seat. If he has another bad weekend to finish off the season and doesn't finish high enough to get enough points for a Superlicense (I think he needs 4th), then RB will take Perez and demote Albon back to AlphaTauri.
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I would take Perez over Albon any day. Perez and Verstappen at Red Bull would be awesome.
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I'm with you there mate, but the only people on the planet not with that opinion seems to be Horner, Marko and Albon.
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Perez and Verstappen will go together like cats and dogs I think. Perez's ego will get in the way during the Max Show that is RBR, and I foresee a lot of sparks and headbutting if they're ever paired up.
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I'm pretty sure Horner has said previously that Albon isn't going to be sent back to AlphaTauri if he doesn't make the grade this year, he's either in or he's out. Though given that they don't exactly keep a wishlist of replacement drivers on hand, it's not very surprising that they'll wait until postseason to make any actual decisions.
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Ferrari do say that the 2021 engine is promising on the dyno. They could turn it around with another 50 or so hp.
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These are the same people who treated Ricciardo as a second tier driver right after he won at monaco lol. Red Bull works in ridiculous ways.
Either way, Perez basically confirmed on a livestream today that he won't be in F1 in 2021 but has "options" in 2022. If Tsunoda doesn't get the superlicense points, could be another year of status quo at the RBR teams assuming Kvyat hasn't already been sacked.
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Red bull has the worst setup of driver hiring/switching/nurturing of all the teams on the grid.
Sure they use AT as a step into the main team, but they definitely don't know how to guide their second driver, or how to hire proven talent from outside.
Sure they use AT as a step into the main team, but they definitely don't know how to guide their second driver, or how to hire proven talent from outside.
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Got tree'd, but still sharing this article for further validity. Hamilton just tested positive for COVID-19:
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...covid-test-f1-sakhir-grand-prix-b1764316.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...covid-test-f1-sakhir-grand-prix-b1764316.html
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