Official 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix Thread ***SPOILERS***
Discussion
TheDeuce said:
Derek Smith said:
He'll attract a fair sized audience from around the world, and it'll be good advertising. The coverage should be great. He's on board for results off the leader boards rather than on them.
Dead right Derek. The car is simply not competitive anymore, it's way under evolved since 2018 compared to the rest of the midfield and the PU has never been that impressive either.It costs £10m per 1/10th of a second in F1 they say... Far cheaper to employ Fred who'll find various other ways of raising headlines. In fact, the slower the car is the more likely he'll raise headlines and keep the sponsors happy
Leithen said:
TheDeuce said:
Derek Smith said:
He'll attract a fair sized audience from around the world, and it'll be good advertising. The coverage should be great. He's on board for results off the leader boards rather than on them.
Dead right Derek. The car is simply not competitive anymore, it's way under evolved since 2018 compared to the rest of the midfield and the PU has never been that impressive either.It costs £10m per 1/10th of a second in F1 they say... Far cheaper to employ Fred who'll find various other ways of raising headlines. In fact, the slower the car is the more likely he'll raise headlines and keep the sponsors happy
Can't see it being the case though. I think they failed to meet their targets already and are now on ice pending whatever they have planned for 2022.
TheDeuce said:
I've made my prediction.. And if I'm wrong I'll be happy for the hard working chaps at Enstone and their French masters
Can't see it being the case though. I think they failed to meet their targets already and are now on ice pending whatever they have planned for 2022.
This is the curious and possibly even more frustrating aspect of this season - not only the token system, but even worse the need to divert resource to deal with the new 2022 concept. The competitive order is possibly going to be even more baked in from the beginning. All we can hope for is that the early gaps are slim.Can't see it being the case though. I think they failed to meet their targets already and are now on ice pending whatever they have planned for 2022.
FWIW I think the top six grid positions are set barring SNAFUs - Red Bull, Mercedes and McLaren. The next 8 positions are going to be fascinating - Alpha Tauri, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Alpine. Can they escape the pack? One old timer and one pensioner trying to put manners on a bunch of whippersnappers. Another pensioner might put the Alfa into this bunch too.
Thank goodness the winter lull has passed. Looking forward to this for all sorts of reasons.
Leithen said:
This is the curious and possibly even more frustrating aspect of this season - not only the token system, but even worse the need to divert resource to deal with the new 2022 concept. The competitive order is possibly going to be even more baked in from the beginning. All we can hope for is that the early gaps are slim.
FWIW I think the top six grid positions are set barring SNAFUs - Red Bull, Mercedes and McLaren. The next 8 positions are going to be fascinating - Alpha Tauri, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Alpine. Can they escape the pack? One old timer and one pensioner trying to put manners on a bunch of whippersnappers. Another pensioner might put the Alfa into this bunch too.
Thank goodness the winter lull has passed. Looking forward to this for all sorts of reasons.
I do agree that what we start with is probably more or less what we end up with this season - although some cars will respond better to setup changes than others and might improve results as the teams/drivers learn. FWIW I think the top six grid positions are set barring SNAFUs - Red Bull, Mercedes and McLaren. The next 8 positions are going to be fascinating - Alpha Tauri, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Alpine. Can they escape the pack? One old timer and one pensioner trying to put manners on a bunch of whippersnappers. Another pensioner might put the Alfa into this bunch too.
Thank goodness the winter lull has passed. Looking forward to this for all sorts of reasons.
Definitely Merc and RB at the top. Third team in my view could be McLaren or just as easily Aston this time. As a wildcard, we don't actually know how improved Ferrari are... If they're close to their former strength they could easily be the third team. So, I see the third team as a bit of an unknown 3 way battle.
It is indeed time to put this lockdown winter to bed and start another globe trotting season of F1
jsf said:
Fundoreen said:
Haha well its not just him. They blamed their failures on perez as well. Nearly killed off his career.
It needs to be front and centre news that perez won a race before mclaren did.
Willing to accept its some sort of spanish armada/catholic thing mclaren cant get over lol.
McLaren is a different team than when Ron ran it, it's also the team that gave Fred a lifeline post his failure at Ferrari.It needs to be front and centre news that perez won a race before mclaren did.
Willing to accept its some sort of spanish armada/catholic thing mclaren cant get over lol.
It's going to be fun to watch him at Renault.
Cant blame them for the past.
jsf said:
Fundoreen said:
A lot or the sour outlook on alonso can probably be attributed to mclaren employees getting shown up for being crap after peddling that aloof attitude for way to many years after they were any good.
If you have a bedroom wall festooned with faded mclaren posters you will naturally fall in line like a good disciple.
Alpine are thrilled to have Alonso onboard after losing richiardo. You cant be credible as one of the major teams with 2 nobodies driving. The only other drivers floating around haven't even been on a podium.
F1 and the TV audience is even more thrilled as its showbiz and the more big names the better.
Renault/alpine may look a bit worse in 2021 but thats down to the identikit aston martin effort couresy of mercedes.
Still it will all be clearer on sunday evening. I think that after a few years in the wilderness of other racing series ,every day is a great day for Alonso.
Get yourself down to the chippy, you need another chip for the other shoulder. You can almost see the spittle in that post. If you have a bedroom wall festooned with faded mclaren posters you will naturally fall in line like a good disciple.
Alpine are thrilled to have Alonso onboard after losing richiardo. You cant be credible as one of the major teams with 2 nobodies driving. The only other drivers floating around haven't even been on a podium.
F1 and the TV audience is even more thrilled as its showbiz and the more big names the better.
Renault/alpine may look a bit worse in 2021 but thats down to the identikit aston martin effort couresy of mercedes.
Still it will all be clearer on sunday evening. I think that after a few years in the wilderness of other racing series ,every day is a great day for Alonso.
I really want Richiardo to be deliberate.
RShole said:
Ricciardo is delusional, he'll never win a world title.
I think he probably knows that but you can't exactly go out and say you know that fact and then expect to be able to stick around in F1. It applies even more so to Bottas and he still says he can be a WDC.
Edited by ChocolateFrog on Friday 26th March 08:28
ChocolateFrog said:
RShole said:
Ricciardo is delusional, he'll never win a world title.
I think he probably knows that but you can't exactly go out and say you know that fact and then expect to be able to stick around in F1. It applies even more so to Bottas and he still says he can be a WDC.
Edited by ChocolateFrog on Friday 26th March 08:28
TheDeuce said:
Derek Smith said:
He'll attract a fair sized audience from around the world, and it'll be good advertising. The coverage should be great. He's on board for results off the leader boards rather than on them.
Dead right Derek. The car is simply not competitive anymore, it's way under evolved since 2018 compared to the rest of the midfield and the PU has never been that impressive either.It costs £10m per 1/10th of a second in F1 they say... Far cheaper to employ Fred who'll find various other ways of raising headlines. In fact, the slower the car is the more likely he'll raise headlines and keep the sponsors happy
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