The Official F1 2027 silly season *contains speculation*

[nordboy]

Zammy said:

nordboy said:

Hannah Schmitz seems also to leaving Red Bull, moving to Ferrari. Maybe they'll have a decent strategist then, and don't resort to 'we are checking'?

Edited by nordboy on Friday 10th April 20:46

Is that one actually true? I've seen that only on spoof F1 websites. Happy to be corrected though.

Ok, I probably read through my SM and got caught by this one. I follow very few F1 sites on SM but maybe this is a fake account that managed to sneak through.

That'll teach me to be skimming through my SM when i was meant to be working ;)

[n3il123]

The race have done a podcast on what they think the 2027 grid is going to look like. They've also put up as an article on their website.

Link to article here

It is pretty much the same as 2026 but with movement around Haas and Williams. They predicted that Max is going to have a sabbatical next year.

[Mark-C]

From the article:

Red Bull: Isack Hadjar - Arvid Lindblad
Mercedes: - George Russell - Kimi Antonelli
Ferrari: Charles Leclerc - Lewis Hamilton
McLaren: Lando Norris - Oscar Piastri
Aston Martin: Fernando Alonso - Lance Stroll
Alpine Pierre Gasly - Alex Albon
Williams: Carlos Sainz - Esteban Ocon
Haas: Ollie Bearman - Yuki Tsunoda
Racing Bulls: Liam Lawson - Nikola Tsolov
Audi: Nico Hulkenberg - Gabriel Bortoleto
Cadillac: Valtteri Bottas - Sergio Perez

I think it's hard to see Fernando being at Aston Martin next year

[hondajack85]

Mark-C said:

From the article:

Red Bull: Isack Hadjar - Arvid Lindblad
Mercedes: - George Russell - Kimi Antonelli
Ferrari: Charles Leclerc - Lewis Hamilton
McLaren: Lando Norris - Oscar Piastri
Aston Martin: Fernando Alonso - Lance Stroll
Alpine Pierre Gasly - Alex Albon
Williams: Carlos Sainz - Esteban Ocon
Haas: Ollie Bearman - Yuki Tsunoda
Racing Bulls: Liam Lawson - Nikola Tsolov
Audi: Nico Hulkenberg - Gabriel Bortoleto
Cadillac: Valtteri Bottas - Sergio Perez

I think it's hard to see Fernando being at Aston Martin next year

Thats encouraging,as by now Yuki must have realized he was elevated,just to be binned off to save lawson. Haas is ideal,if this comes to pass.

[732NM]

I don't see Albon leaving Williams, he's been there for the long haul to benefit from when they sort their st out.
Williams wouldn't want Ocon either.

[Still Mulling]

732NM said:

...when they sort their st out.

Do you believe that they will? Signs of it last year, but an ignominious start to the new regs.

[732NM]

Still Mulling said:

732NM said:

...when they sort their st out.

Do you believe that they will? Signs of it last year, but an ignominious start to the new regs.

I have no idea.

If they don't, Vowles will be out on his ear before the drivers. He would be wise to stop pissing about in cars and sort the factory out right now.

[Zetec-S]

732NM said:

Williams wouldn't want Ocon either.

Agreed.

I think his time in F1 is coming to an end, since joining Haas he's been outperformed by rookie Bearman. In fact, after nearly 10 years in F1 I think he's only finished ahead of his teammate in the WDC once.

[DanielSan]

Zetec-S said:

732NM said:

Williams wouldn't want Ocon either.

Agreed.

I think his time in F1 is coming to an end, since joining Haas he's been outperformed by rookie Bearman. In fact, after nearly 10 years in F1 I think he's only finished ahead of his teammate in the WDC once.

They had Ocon in for a seat fitting with a view to a deal if Sainz went to Audi.

For what it's worth I'm amazed he still has an F1 career, he's the .modern day Fisichella and his career lasted longer than it should also.

[48k]

Meanwhile, over in Tesco Bletchley....

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LQzAP5Dy4KM

[thegreenhell]

Turkey is back on the calendar from 2027 with a new 5 year deal.

[entropy]

thegreenhell said:

Turkey is back on the calendar from 2027 with a new 5 year deal.

Great, another race fronted by another populist dictator but at least it's back at one of F1's best modern / Tilke circuits.

[vaud]

entropy said:

Great, another race fronted by another populist dictator but at least it's back at one of F1's best modern / Tilke circuits.

Its often expressed as "competitive autocracy"

[vaud]

Also moral codes and F1 rarely align.

Japan has a conviction rate of 90%+ and also has the death penalty (as does the US)

If you start drawing moral codes about where F1 goes then your list would get very short very quickly.

[entropy]

vaud said:

Also moral codes and F1 rarely align.

Japan has a conviction rate of 90%+ and also has the death penalty (as does the US)

If you start drawing moral codes about where F1 goes then your list would get very short very quickly.

I was being ironic, pre-empting the moaners.

McLaren are now owned by the Bahraini royal family and get a free pass from criticism.

F1 had races in South America whilst they were under military dictatorships. In Argentina the junta disappeared hundreds babies in the late 70s and early 80s as well as a crackdown on dissidents.

Motorsports relied heavily on tobacco sponsorship and F1 teams who are still with us wouldn't be where they are today without it. The likes of Phillip Morris tried to claim there was nothing wrong with smoking. But, hey, those companies also gave us iconic liveries and that's OK, right?

[PhilAsia]

entropy said:

vaud said:

Also moral codes and F1 rarely align.

Japan has a conviction rate of 90%+ and also has the death penalty (as does the US)

If you start drawing moral codes about where F1 goes then your list would get very short very quickly.

I was being ironic, pre-empting the moaners.

McLaren are now owned by the Bahraini royal family and get a free pass from criticism.

F1 had races in South America whilst they were under military dictatorships. In Argentina the junta disappeared hundreds babies in the late 70s and early 80s as well as a crackdown on dissidents.

Motorsports relied heavily on tobacco sponsorship and F1 teams who are still with us wouldn't be where they are today without it. The likes of Phillip Morris tried to claim there was nothing wrong with smoking. But, hey, those companies also gave us iconic liveries and that's OK, right?

Marlboro and Bittern & Hisses were fking phenomenal ads! Everyone knew nicotine fked you up, not the fking cars decals FFS!!

It wasn't fking rocket science!

[732NM]

Nicotine doesn't cause cancer which is why vaping the ste is prevalent.

It's all the other crap in the tobacco smoke that does the most damage.

[DanielSan]

vaud said:

Also moral codes and F1 rarely align.

Japan has a conviction rate of 90%+ and also has the death penalty (as does the US)

If you start drawing moral codes about where F1 goes then your list would get very short very quickly.

Japan also doesn't send a case to trial unless a conviction is hugely likely.

[hondajack85]

Myopic view's as usual. The UK have a F1 race and the whole industry.
Currently eager to please the lunatic that has murdered 1000s in various illegal invasions.
In fact we are in florida this weekend. Mar Largo is just down the road if f1 wants to do some ass sucking.
Back on topic,did Turkiye f1 track ever pay the trillion dorrah fine for some minor incident they were accused of?

[vaud]

DanielSan said:

Japan also doesn't send a case to trial unless a conviction is hugely likely.

Which is highly, highly questionable but possibly for another thread.