Formula 1 2022 Season

They have. It is cancelled.

Only after I expressed my disgust at their inaction :wink:

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Maybe the Haas team were worried in case Mazepin pulled into a different garage and claimed it a his.

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I take it they will have to pay any sponsorship money back.

Yes Marzipan is now out, along with Daddy’s sponsorship. :grinning:

No great loss, apart from the entertainment value of seeing him crash into people at the back of the field…

There have always been pay-drivers at the smaller teams, of course, but I’m glad to see Haas doing the right thing and divesting themselves of Russian money.

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Mercedes sidepods

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It was quite a good race to watch - the changes to the cars seems to have made it a much closer racing experience, hopefully the rest of the season will be as good.

The Independent: F1 boss Max Mosley ā€˜found with fatal gunshot wound after learning he had terminal cancer’.

Just reviving this thread… I’ve watched every race and have rediscovered my love for Ferrari (I don’t like Red Bull so my enemy’s enemy and all that…).

Not sure if anyone saw the race in Japan but if so then this article on whether the sporting regulations were followed correctly (again!) is a mildly interesting read.

As I see it, the wording of the regulation is clunky and inconsistent but, ultimately, it would just delay the inevitable so I’m not convinced it’s worth really pushing for the result to be overturned.

I’ve stopped watching F1 now and haven’t done so for the whole of this season and tail end of the last.
Like you @Gareth I just cant stand Red Bull, the slimy Horner and the total w*nker Verstappen who I’m almost certain will kill someone one day (if not himself first)… A total hooligan :rage:

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I think he’s mostly the reason I don’t like RB. It’s funny cause I think Adrian Newey is a genius as a designer, and I’m constantly impressed with how efficiently their pit crew perform… But Horner and the others wind me up with their whining to the race directors whenever something doesn’t go their way or they feel hard done by.

That’s one of the reasons I disliked Ferrari many years ago… But I’ve warmed to them in recent years as my feelings towards RB have intensified.

I’m unsure about Verstappen. Yes, he’s an aggressive driver. I think you have to be to drive at that level. Is he really any worse than, say, Hamilton was at his age though?

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I think you’d need to go some to make a bigger mess of F1 than the new regime has. From Ferrari’s secret punishment over ā€œfuel metering irregularitiesā€ in 2018, to the long list of Race Control faux pass after the loss of Charlie Whiting and culminating in the farcical implementation of the cost cap.

It’s clearly now run as an entertainment business first and a sport second, but as long as I can watch the highlights on CH4 for free, I’ll keep watching.

Is he any worse than Schumacher was? He was also an aggressive driver who didn’t mind pushing people off the tarmac or going after them in the pits.

I agree about the level of aggression being a necessary component in the sport but hooliganism is a totally different level. Verstappen is just demonic - I don’t recall that trait from Hamilton or Schumacher…

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I’ve never felt that Hamilton, despite being equally determined, has that ā€œI’ll beat you or put you into the armco!ā€ edge to him that Verstappen has and Schumacher used to have.

Unfortunately, I think Max has a little of his father’s notorious bad temper about him when he doesn’t get his own way, but I do believe he’s mellowed/grown up of late.

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