Official 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Thread **SPOILERS**

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RB engineering a Checo win by keeping Max out?

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Sycamore said:

Smollet said:

carlo996 said:

Loving the drive from Vettel.

The wrong man is leaving the team

My biggest issue with the various pay drivers on the grid.
Regardless of everything, Daddy Stroll will keep his son suckling his boob

But I’m looking forward to Alonso showing up Stroll every round next year

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Wonder if RB will swap the cars

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Perez could win this

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Smollet said:

Lewis is like some sleeping praying mantis. Wtf is Croft on.

Cake, mainly

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F20CN16 said:

I’ll lay my cards down. Perez won’t do it.

It’s going to be tight

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Leithen said:

He's young and still learning. He'd be mad to pass up the chance of the Mercedes reserve.

No front row starts in F2 is pretty damning, I dont see any major talent there

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the-norseman said:

why did they take the big Aston logos off it.

I guess just part of the deal between Alpine and Aston to get Alonso in the car early, to avoid Alonso promoting AM’s sponsors. Looks good though.

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What The Deuces said:

thegreenhell said:

What The Deuces said:

Yes its very simply about the commercials Alonso is tied to. I was just picking up C70 saying its not really 'Aston Martin'

They are not really Aston Martin. They are owned by Racing Point UK Holdings Limited, which is owned and controlled by Stroll and his fashion business partner Silas Chou.

Interestingly, they have just changed the company name back to Racing Point in September of this year, having previously renamed it from Racing Point to AMR GP in January 2021 to coincide with the team name change to Aston Martin.

I'll say it again, the Aston Martin name on the car and team is just sponsorship, not ownership, in the same way the Alfa Romeos are actually still Sauber.

So there's no flow of cash from Aston Martin into the F1 Team? Owned in part by the same man? Its barely different to Mercedes... they just bought facilities, stuck their name on and invested some funds in it.

Aston and Merc F1 teams are fundamentally different. Mercedes owns (ok, now part owns) the F1 team, but Aston Marton Lagonda owns not one share of the F1 team. It is purely sponsorship agreement to £20m per year.

Lots argue this a total abuse of the AM Executive Chair’s position, as the shareholders of loss making Aston Martin plc are paying for the Chair’s F1 team and son to go motor racing.