Valtteri Bottas at Mercedes

[Muzzer79]

HustleRussell said:

He hasn’t been on top of things throughout but he’s had a pole and a win on merit so I think he’s doing well, and seems to have clicked with the car in Baku.

Where was his pole?

[ajprice]

Muzzer79 said:

HustleRussell said:

He hasn’t been on top of things throughout but he’s had a pole and a win on merit so I think he’s doing well, and seems to have clicked with the car in Baku.

Where was his pole?

Baku restart

[HustleRussell]

Ah I had in my head that he was on pole at Imola but he was 2nd alongside Hamilton.

[another 3 points]

Here’s how I see this weekend playing out for Bottas move.

1. Toto makes awkward trackside announcement ?
2. Williams make announcement ?
3. Russell caught writing driving tips for Bottas on inside of cockpit ?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

There's so much noise from the clickbate sites now it's obvious it's a open secret the swap is on. Makes sense to announce it at the British GP but it can only be ignored for so long.

[mat205125]

ajprice said:

2021 driver heights and weights

Dunno why, but in my head I had Ocon down as a midget

[thegreenhell]

mat205125 said:

Dunno why, but in my head I had Ocon down as a midget

Is it because he's French?

[sparta6]

APontus said:

sparta6 said:

That's a fair call.

I'm impressed by how quickly Perez is getting upto speed.

Yeah, he's only been driving F1 car 10 years.

So what is Ricciardo's excuse this season ?

[APontus]

sparta6 said:

So what is Ricciardo's excuse this season ?

Dunno. Have you thought of asking him?

[sparta6]

APontus said:

sparta6 said:

So what is Ricciardo's excuse this season ?

Dunno. Have you thought of asking him?

No. It's his problem

Perez is doing a better job with new team

[APontus]

Might also be he has better engineers around him, who knows? Loads of possible variables.

[SturdyHSV]

APontus said:

Might also be he has better engineers around him, who knows? Loads of possible variables.

Probably a lot of similar faces to who Ricciardo had around him when he was in Perez's seat

Maybe Daniel isn't quite as good as Daniel keeps telling us Daniel is

[kiseca]

SturdyHSV said:

APontus said:

Might also be he has better engineers around him, who knows? Loads of possible variables.

Probably a lot of similar faces to who Ricciardo had around him when he was in Perez's seat

Maybe Daniel isn't quite as good as Daniel keeps telling us Daniel is

If you and Sparta listened to Daniel this year then Sparta would already know the answer to his question and you'd know that Daniel has repeatedly told the world's media this year that it's not the car it's him.

[thegreenhell]

SturdyHSV said:

Probably a lot of similar faces to who Ricciardo had around him when he was in Perez's seat

Maybe Daniel isn't quite as good as Daniel keeps telling us Daniel is

Daniel wouldn't have had multi-million dollar contracts with three big teams based only on Daniel telling us how good Daniel is.

[kiseca]

thegreenhell said:

SturdyHSV said:

Probably a lot of similar faces to who Ricciardo had around him when he was in Perez's seat

Maybe Daniel isn't quite as good as Daniel keeps telling us Daniel is

Daniel wouldn't have had multi-million dollar contracts with three big teams based only on Daniel telling us how good Daniel is.

Here's his team mate telling us how good he thinks Daniel is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2vhclG6mgY

[TheDeuce]

kiseca said:

thegreenhell said:

SturdyHSV said:

Probably a lot of similar faces to who Ricciardo had around him when he was in Perez's seat

Maybe Daniel isn't quite as good as Daniel keeps telling us Daniel is

Daniel wouldn't have had multi-million dollar contracts with three big teams based only on Daniel telling us how good Daniel is.

Here's his team mate telling us how good he thinks Daniel is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2vhclG6mgY

I agree with Lando

[ajprice]

Helmut Marko poking at the Bottas/Russell switch for gits and shiggles https://www.essentiallysports.com/helmut-marko-tro...

[TheDeuce]

ajprice said:

Helmut Marko poking at the Bottas/Russell switch for gits and shiggles https://www.essentiallysports.com/helmut-marko-tro...

Say something interesting, gets articles written that contain the words "red bull", job done!

Doesn't mean he actually cares or even really has an opinion.

[ajprice]

TheDeuce said:

ajprice said:

Helmut Marko poking at the Bottas/Russell switch for gits and shiggles https://www.essentiallysports.com/helmut-marko-tro...

Say something interesting, gets articles written that contain the words "red bull", job done!

Doesn't mean he actually cares or even really has an opinion.

Yeah, but at least we can definitely rule out Red Bull and Alpha Tauri for Bottas in 2022

[SturdyHSV]

kiseca said:

If you and Sparta listened to Daniel this year then Sparta would already know the answer to his question and you'd know that Daniel has repeatedly told the world's media this year that it's not the car it's him.

No indeed, it's been refreshing to see a slightly more serious side.

I don't know why, mostly because of how Drive to Survive no doubt twisted it, but he's just come across as that sort of annoying OTT clown character that typically I find would be a ballache to be around and for whatever reason his arrogance or perhaps rather his delivery of it just annoys me

(don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the drivers have to be 'arrogant' in terms of thinking they're the best, it's part of the mentality that gets them to the top)