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05-02-2024, 06:57 AM #331
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05-03-2024, 12:26 AM #333
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Newey hasn't been designing anything significant for a while now, he's been more of a mentor/consultant who occasionally assists the F1 designers and comes and goes as he pleases. More of a manager than a designer. At least that is what Redbull was saying last year. It might actually be a positive for Redbull and potentially a negative for the team he goes to. Newey is one of the 3 Redbull employees who's salary is exempt from the cost cap. Him leaving allows RB to open up a salary exempt from the cost cap, and they'll presumably give it to someone who is actually leading the team full time. If Ferrari picks him up they'll have to remove one of their 3 employees from the salary cost cap exemption to give it to Newey, they can't afford him otherwise. Could be a tricky thing to manage if Newey continues coming and going as he pleases and only occasionally works on the car.
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05-03-2024, 08:10 AM #334
I’ll honestly be surprised if he doesn’t just retire TBH.
Or if he still works, it won’t be in F1.
Of course, mindsets, etc change…but years ago he said when he left Red Bull, that would be the end of the road for him.
Not to mention he has been very outspoken about the fact that the next changes for 2026 are absolute ass. It doesn’t sound like he has a lot of interest in working on the next cars IMO.
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05-03-2024, 03:02 PM #335
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05-03-2024, 05:48 PM #336
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Had to laugh at Max's radio after getting sprint pole
"LOL What happened to the others? [My lap] was terrible"
"I mean i'll take it, but er.. ha!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fGUP3TWIws"Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking. They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation" - George Carlin
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05-05-2024, 03:32 AM #337
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05-05-2024, 03:30 PM #338
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05-05-2024, 04:00 PM #339
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05-05-2024, 04:14 PM #340
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05-05-2024, 04:17 PM #341
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05-05-2024, 05:33 PM #342
Red Bull suck (for their standards) at GPs that have Sprint since they cannot properly setup the car with just one practice session. Overall, the car is harder to get the setup done as it should.
Even when they win on such weekends, it usually by a way smaller margin. Brazil 22 comes to mind, where they didn't have the pace as well.
Likely in Imola, things will be reverted to normal
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05-05-2024, 09:03 PM #343
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05-06-2024, 12:44 AM #344
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Very happy for Lando, sure a bit of luck involved, but you make your own luck to a certain extent in motor racing. A popular winner with the whole paddock, and it was great to see RIC's big toothy smile again as he gave Lando a big bear hug. Plus, luck or no, Lando simply outdrove Verstappen to stay ahead.
My personal pronouns are: Don't talk to me/Fck off
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05-08-2024, 05:03 PM #345
I think there's a good likelihood Max would still have lost because Lando's pace was far superior. Max could not get the hard tires to work for him for chit.
But Lando would at least have had to fight some to pass him on track. If not for the safety car fk up, Lando would definitely not have came back on track in P1.
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05-08-2024, 05:13 PM #346
From what I gathered from most drivers, the tires - especially hardy - were basically impossible to get into and STAY in a good working window.
Also Max's floor apparently had significant damage. Max said he didn't notice a performance loss (damage related), but my guess is it was there but he was chalking it up to how bad the hard tires were. (He pitted onto the hard only 2 laps after hitting the cone/bollard.)
All that with the fact that they simply didn't get the car dialed in due to the Sprint format.
So for ALL that to go wrong and him still come out with P2 tells me no...no one is close to them still. lol
It took all that, a highly upgraded McLaren, and the help (although I still think Lando would have won - but it still helped) of a safety car for Max to lose.
Do I think Red Bull can/will likely lose more races if they don't nail their setup and/or have other issues? Most likely, yes. The McLaren pace at the hands of Lando would still have been fantastic I think even if the Red Bull was 100% dialed in. And Ferrari insists that they have upgrades coming that will put them in the fight with Red Bull as well.
I definitely do not think this season will be quite as dominant for Max as last season was.
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05-09-2024, 04:58 PM #347
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05-10-2024, 01:31 AM #348
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05-10-2024, 08:10 AM #349
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05-10-2024, 09:55 AM #350
I’ve seen from a couple places now that Red Bull supposedly had the engines turned way down due to not getting all the cooling situated well enough with the limited practicing, costing them over .3 seconds a lap.
Basically they’re saying expect Max and Red Bull to come into Imola and absolutely **** all over everyone.
Let’s not forget, this is where Max LAPPED Lewis in 2022.
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05-12-2024, 11:18 PM #351
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05-13-2024, 07:43 AM #352
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Piastri is a good value due to his car receiving norris's upgrades in Imola...
Northern Italy is always rainy this time of year so it might be a chit show. Also, Ferrari loves to turn it up when they're in Italy + they are bringing significant upgrades this weekend.
Max is currently 1.4 to qualify first... Which is probably value, but I will wait to see if redbull sand bags a practice session or two to give me better odds.
The rain might have me placing no bets this weekend tho.Spoiler alert; you die at the end.
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05-14-2024, 05:24 PM #353
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Piastri coming in at 32.0 to win qualifying.... How is that not value? He only needs to win qualifying 5% of the time for it to be a profitable bet.
Odds have shifted toward leclerc & Norris for qualifying, and shifted away from sainz & piastri.... I'm taking them both for micro bets.
Still waiting on verstappen to shift favorably.Spoiler alert; you die at the end.
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05-14-2024, 05:48 PM #354
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05-14-2024, 06:05 PM #355
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Well there's a lot more going on than that this weekend.
Imola will suit the new McLaren better than Miami did.
The disparity between Norris & Piastri for quali is absurd. Lando @ 14.2% implied odds, piastri @ 3.1%... I can see that disparity for Sunday, but not qualifying.
Keep in mind piastri did not have the fully upgraded car last weekend, Norris did.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not betting any significant money on this, but if the fans are pushing the odds ridiculously one way, I'll grab the opposite.Spoiler alert; you die at the end.
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05-15-2024, 05:50 PM #356
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05-18-2024, 05:07 AM #358
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05-18-2024, 08:15 AM #359
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05-18-2024, 08:36 AM #360
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Checo out qualified by both VCARBs, all of a sudden he's under pressure. Redbull will be worried about the constructors if Checo starts missing Q3 regularly again. I know the RB doesn't like bumpy tracks but it didn't look like the fastest car today.
Mercedes might legitimately be a midfield team now. They're getting properly trounced by one of their customer teams, McLaren, and seem to fall further back every season. I'd almost feel sorry for Russell if he wasn't such a nonce. I wonder if he's thinking of bailing as well."Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking. They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation" - George Carlin
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