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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.
"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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05-03-2024, 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, 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, 04:14 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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