The Official F1 2022 silly season *contains speculation*

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Sandpit Steve said:

The FIA has already done that with F3, so we have several ‘regional’ championships in the same design of car, feeding into the FIA F3 championship that we see on the F1 undercard.

It might be possible to do the same with F2 cars, but previous attempts at championships with high-performance single-seaters have all failed to work financially, because there just isn’t the revenue that F1 or Indy can generate, and not enough people with deep pockets to fund themselves.

My point was more that they could replace Indy and have an Americas Formula One series. Same cars.

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MissChief said:

jsf said:

vaud said:

My point was more that they could replace Indy and have an Americas Formula One series. Same cars.

No chance.

Agreed. F1 will remain unique and will remain the fastest cars.

But it's not mutually exclusive. Regional series and a global pinnacle series.

Anyway, just speculating. If I was running Indycar I'd be worried.

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Lots of noise/rumours that Vettel is quitting and being replaced by Alonso.

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carl_w said:

Why would Alonso go to AM?

No idea.

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HustleRussell said:

vaud said:

Lots of noise/rumours that Vettel is quitting and being replaced by Alonso.

Nah.

It's why I said "noise", it's just that a couple of sites have picked it up and J Saward, IIRC, thought there would be at least one driver swap, possibly mid-season. He's not always right but he is normally very well connected and trusted in the paddock.

Ricciardo/Gasly makes more sense though as a rumor.

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MartG said:

The reason there isn't a replacement for the Russian GP...

https://trans.info/en/f1-grand-prix-brexit-289488

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The reference site for F1 news.

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HustleRussell said:

As a European international road haulage publication they are presumably better able to report on the nuances of that subject than any F1 publication you care to mention?

If it were the reason, wouldn't motorsport or autosport be covering it? Or Joe Saward?

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ajprice said:

I said this in the Spain thread, but after Perez mouthing off about being sidelined for Max, I don't think he'll want to stay there in Max's shadow. I can see him walking like Ricciardo did and going to another team for 2023 if he gets shuffled back a few more times this season. Better to be a bigger fish in a smaller pond than in the same pond as Max/Horner/Marko. He's been in F1 a while now too, getting to the stage where he could be in with a newbie as the old hand teammate.

No way you give up a race winning car to be a leader in the midfield.

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PhillipM said:

Is it still a race winning car if you're not allowed to win any races in it?

Yes. Especially if the team mate drops out. Race drivers want to be in the fastest car.
Many accept that they are also no 2 (Rubens, Felipe, etc) and only have a few races to be P1

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Milkyway said:

Grojean has unfinished business, I reckon that he will back... one day.

I think he is having far more fun in the US. So many more people to crash into.

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thegreenhell said:

Is he still going to get his go in the Mercedes that Toto promised him?

They did say they would again this year, I guess it depends on logistics given his racing seaason.

Also haven't Mercedes used up their filming days this year?

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Joey Deacon said:

Can we have a new 2023 silly season thread please?

Done!

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...