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I quite enjoyed that, some really decent wheel to wheel stuff up and down the field. Plus some occasional shitty driving from Stroll and KMag.
Is it just me who absolutely cannot stand his whiney little voice over the radio, blaming all his stupid errors on everyone else? Like fingernails on a blackboard...
Gutted for both RBs - DR in particular finally having a decent run then they both get punted off on the same lap.
Encouraging signs for Ricciardo, shame he lost a bunch of places off the start line and got terminally nerfed by Stroll.
Unfortunately unless F1 completely changes the way drivers are selected for teams, then there will always be teams like RBR that don't need two drivers fighting it out.
Mercedes were unusual in that they let Hamilton and Rosberg race. Although their dominance was such that they could afford them that freedom.
RBR would also still win everything if we had another Max in car two, and maybe we'd get some good scraps, but it's still just two cars fighting when the team allow it and following when they don't.
Anyway, Stroll's mere presence on the grid sums up how F1 is not about putting the world's best in the best cars and letting them race hard to see who's best.
Great result for me as a McLaren and Lando fan and plenty of entertainment elsewhere. I just hope that them being wrong about expected pace doesn't also mean they are slower where they think they will be faster.
They all want him and can afford him.
Well - Merc can as well but he won't go there.
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I think he wants a quiet life and RB has given him that for 15 years, but it ain't giving him that any more. Also frankly when they're this far ahead where's the fun?
I'd LOVE for him to go to Ferrari and I bet that's what his family would tell him to do if the "Lewis & Ferrari" regrets are really how he feels. So that's my absolute hope. Given Lewis is already going you can imagine that's a serious arrow to dangle and you can bet Elkann & Vasseur will offer him literally whatever he wants to get him to join.
If he can't face leaving the UK then McLaren would be glorious - give Lando a proper car finally. Failing that I wouldn't mind seeing Alonso get in a Newey car by any means, but Stroll doesn't deserve it... (also Lance is far more likely to stick with F1 if Newey is coming, which is just such an exhausting position at this point...)
Otherwise.... Williams?
Given that the actual competition at the pointy end of the grid has been pretty non-existent for the past couple of years, the off-track drama has at least given us some great stuff to talk about!
He will presumably have been contacted by every team by now and can sift though the offers at his leisure. I believe they say it's good to be the King.
You don't quit a job without another one lined up, right?
Given the timing of that shitstorm coinciding with the Hamilton announcement I bet that was just the push he needed to start a conversation.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
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He's 65 years old and will probably leave at the end of the season, serving a 9-month gardening leave before starting wherever he goes in September 2025. I suspect it will be Aston Martin (Alonso's new contract decision now makes more sense) but his influence won't be felt there until the 2026 car, which is when the new regs come in.
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He won't want to be building a car for only 1 person who deserves to be in F1.
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