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Famine
Have some of those driver images been vertically stretched to fit? Some surprisingly tall heads in there...
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Unless Russell and Bearman are secretly giraffes, I would say that someone goofed the aspect ratio on that poster.

Although they did a fantastic job of choosing photos that make everyone look completely miserable. Even Lindblad has that "please help they're holding me at gunpoint" type of smile.
 
Alonso and Stroll both look like they'd rather be somewhere else (Alonso because "I'm getting too old for this crap" and Stroll because peak absentminded nepo baby experience)
 
Another year of a promising Racing Bulls driver suddenly relegated to Q1 exits because the car is built for Max.

But of sarcasm there I know, but the precedent exists. I do wish Isack well.
 
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Another year of a promising Racing Bulls driver suddenly relegated to Q1 exits because the car is built for Max.

But of sarcasm there I know, but the precedent exists. I do wish Isack well.
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but maybe only for one year if the Merc is superior or Max just gets bored
 
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Alonso and Stroll both look like they'd rather be somewhere else (Alonso because "I'm getting too old for this crap" and Stroll because peak absentminded nepo baby experience)
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They are getting a Newey car under a new set of regulations. They aren’t going anywhere.
 
Someone probably told Fernando that his last F1 title was before the newest F1 driver was even born.
 
I'm pleased Liam gets another shot !
I can't really imagine how hard this year has been for him, half arsed testing in the Red Bull and then demoted after only 2 races, then had to readjust to the Racing Bulls team (with no testing) and coming up against a team mate that was already starting to show he would be a standout... Must've been quite the emotional rollercoaster !!
Hopefully some stability (and a full testing program) will bring out the good performances he's had this year more consistently next year.
 
It's officially Tsunover :indiff:

Get ready to learn Indycars buddy :sly: or LMDhs, whichever Honda is paying for.

Although I would've liked for him to stay for 2026 (with any team tbh, but specifically RBR) with the new regs to see if he can come close to Max, the writing was on the wall when he was doing worse than with VCARB. He even said that Max's setup (or the RB21, I forget which specifically) would suit him and then proceeded to fumble and choke at every opportunity (not always through fault of his own, but he's been here for 4 years now; Lawson and Hadjar should NOT be beating him in the points. That is unacceptable.)
 
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It's officially Tsunover :indiff:

Get ready to learn Indycars buddy :sly: or LMDhs, whichever Honda is paying for.

Although I would've liked for him to stay for 2026 (with any team tbh, but specifically RBR) with the new regs to see if he can come close to Max, the writing was on the wall when he was doing worse than with VCARB. He even said that Max's setup (or the RB21, I forget which specifically) would suit him and then proceeded to fumble and choke at every opportunity (not always through fault of his own, but he's been here for 4 years now; Lawson and Hadjar should NOT be beating him in the points. That is unacceptable.)
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Yuki will stay with Red Bull as a reserve driver for both of their teams.
 
Let's wheel this one out then, from fan to teammate in 6 years.
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Also, Arvid Lindblad will be the first driver in F1 who wasn't alive when Alonso won his titles..
 
It was evident the moment Lewis Hamilton got passed around the outside on the last lap in Australia that he was washed up

I just don't think he has the fire anymore. And to compete with somebody like Charles you have to have that

David Coulthard said when you get older you don't really lose the speed so much as you lose the desire to push to the absolute limit. And I think that's the case of Hamilton right now. It's kind of sad because I think everybody wanted to see him race Charles
 
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It was evident the moment Lewis Hamilton got passed around the outside on the last lap in Australia that he was washed up

I just don't think he has the fire anymore. And to compete with somebody like Charles you have to have that

David Coulthard said when you get older you don't really lose the speed so much as you lose the desire to push to the absolute limit. And I think that's the case of Hamilton right now. It's kind of sad because I think everybody wanted to see him race Charles
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I didn't. I never understood why Ferrari dropped Sainz for Hamilton. I guess marketing reasons...

For me 2022 and 2023 made it obvious Ferrari had a fantastic driver's combo, and that they were safe in that regard for years to come.

I still think Hamilton's 2007 campaign is perhaps the most impressive debut for a rookie ever. But it's obvious his passion and energy have hit rock bottom.
 
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I just don't think he has the fire anymore.
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I think it's the **** car and frustration at the wretched team dynamics and perhaps realisation that they're not going to change. Maybe the new car will be good enough, with the LEC/HAM input, to drive to the wins that allow them to live with the decrepit management structure. But I doubt it.

That clip of Adami earlier in the thread was excruciating, but the post-race (P16 to P8, remember) exchange from today was next-level breathtaking piss-poor driver relations. Dude olive-branched and they just... ignored him.

Also only one Ferrari driver saw the chequered flag first in 2025: Hamilton, in the sprint at Shanghai.
 
I still don't understand why good to great drivers keep moving to Ferrari. The only time they've won any championships since Enzo was involved daily was when Jean Todt acted as a barrier between upper management meddling and the scuderia (and also made the attitude of the team somewhat less Italian under Brawn, Byrne and Schumacher). Since then there's been a series of champions from elsewhere and highly rated drivers, but no success.

I get the appeal of the history and so on, but surely there must come a point when the Verstappens, Norrises and Piastris of the world look at Ferrari objectively and go 'nah, I want to win'.
 
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I think it's the **** car and frustration at the wretched team dynamics and perhaps realisation that they're not going to change. Maybe the new car will be good enough, with the LEC/HAM input, to drive to the wins that allow them to live with the decrepit management structure. But I doubt it.

That clip of Adami earlier in the thread was excruciating, but the post-race (P16 to P8, remember) exchange from today was next-level breathtaking piss-poor driver relations. Dude olive-branched and they just... ignored him.

Also only one Ferrari driver saw the chequered flag first in 2025: Hamilton, in the sprint at Shanghai.
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Charles was even just alluding to how difficult it is this weekend.
So, when asked about Hamilton’s struggles and the difficulty of the Ferrari, Leclerc said: “I'm driving the car as well and I can see how tricky the car is – how you've just got to go full commitment and it's either in the wall or through Q1.

“Then you need to do the same in Q2 and then you need to do the same in Q3 and, yeah, I know what it's like to have a car that is... and also for the understanding of the car, it's much more difficult to understand something from the car when you really have to push to the absolute limit.

“In Q2 I thought I would put it into the wall quite a few times and that makes it difficult to also improve the car – probably the McLaren or Red Bull do by pushing a little bit less in Q1 and Q2, you understand more about what's going on with the car. So, yeah, it's a tricky situation we are in.”
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