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It’s a cool story, but in reality Alpine announced at the beginning of June that Ocon’s contract would not be renewed. The not-so-clandestine visit to Williams was just before the British Grand Prix at the beginning of July.
Bottas will stay at Sauber/Audi
Alpine will probably chuck Doohan in because why would any current driver want to go there.
Any other seats left?
Also wonder if KMag might fancy a go in that spare Alpine seat? Alpine could certainly do a lot worse.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
And that puts a rather different spin on Wednesday’s Ricciardo/Lawson ‘filming day’.
My guess is the contract as not as Red Bull favouring as reports might have suggested previously, perhaps its not as easy to bin him off and they're hoping and praying he gets better, presumably seeing as he qualified well in Spa, which is ridiculous considering it was an outlier being wet, and he went back 6 places in the race. Very, very strange.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
Added to that, we're now getting into the run of races where Lawson deputised so admirably for Ricciardo last year. So to keep him benched and to keep the fingers crossed that Perez will come back from his summer holidays a changed man is, well... baffling.
By any metric, Perez's current performance is an embarrassment. Over the whole season - including the opening races where he was respectably close to Verstappen - he qualifies an average of 6.6 places behind Verstappen and finishes an average of 3.9 places behind him. That's the worst differential between team mates on the whole grid.
So I reckon @boromedic is spot on, and that costly legal action has been threatened by Perez or his sponsors if he's dropped.
Horner is obviously talking up the potential internal replacements for Wheatley but it feels like the whole ship is creaking right now.
And Mclaren extending Stella's contract is just obvious. I really hope this solidifies a long-term return to the front for the team.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Not ideal for Red Bull, but don't think you can read more into it than basic ambition/career progression.
I think it's far more likely to be pressure from Liberty about the Mexican GP ticket sales and with Checo currently being the only driver from that part of the world etc. I reckon that if that race had happened already they would have dropped him.
I don't think the sponsors will have as much say simply because if RB don't get the constructors title the sponsors will be associated with the driver at fault. Some of his big sponsors would much prefer to be on a winning driver anyway. Nobody sees his personal sponsors as he's hardly ever on the podium.
There's $12Million difference between first and second in the constructors. Even if RB have to pay him $10m to sack him outright rather than demote him RB would still be up by $2m with the right person in that car.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Ironically this is looking like the best season in quite a while but at least some portion of the normies who might have gone to races in the last couple of post-DTS years are probably getting bored. That won't be helped by tickets costing megabucks and a lot of races actually being quite dull in person where you can't work out what's going on and don't have decent commentary, replays etc.
Before the new grandstands I used to sit on the grass at Copse and there was a big screen on the inside of the track so I could see what was happening.
I did get seats at Woodcote ones (previous layout) but that was boring even with a bit of a view of the complex. No overtaking there.
These days - a 3 day general pass is cheaper than just a race day ticket, but for a grandstand seat I think the cheapest race day was about £450. A seat at Beckets was nearly £700.
Add a bit of overpriced food and drink and that would be £2000 to 3000 for my family of 4. And I'm too old to sit on the grass all day now!
Not a chance in hell.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd