Official 2024 Season Formula 1 Thread

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

The Hamilton fanbase are the cancer of F1. They only care about transflags, Abu Dhabi 21 and changing narratives to paint Hamilton as some alien.
This year they ignore that Russell is mogging him and continue to refer to the 23 season as an argument that Hamilton is better.
22 the constantly say that Hamilton was testing the car thus why he lost which is probably the biggest BS gaslighting lie they came up with. Hamilton and Rusell switched midseson to test the car. Toto and Lewis talked about it, but since Hamilton lost - in their minds 22 exist only when Hamilton was doing testing.


IMO Ferrari will have the WDC car in 26. I can only see Aston Martin somehow nail it
LeClerc should get his shyt together ASAP. He can mog Hamilton on pure speed but is inconsistent.

Verstappen will likely join Ferrari in 27. RBR will most likely suck in the new regs.

So everyone is agreeing that Newey goes to Ferrari?

I'd love to see it. Rooting against sir Lewis Hamilton will keep me happily occupied for a season.

[R3L3NTL3SS]

So everyone is agreeing that Newey goes to Ferrari?

I'd love to see it. Rooting against sir Lewis Hamilton will keep me happily occupied for a season.

There's a pretty large group of people who believe he will retire or take a 1-2 year break at minimum.

At this point...who knows... We'll find out when we find out I guess.

[superfunk]

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.

[R3L3NTL3SS]

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.

[Tuga88]

Daniel Ricciardo is back baby!

Fuk the haters.

[superfunk]

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