Or even notice that some of their colleagues are always in trouble with allegations from women, but never seem able to connect the dots...
F1 Bahrain highlights Max & RB looking good. Alonso on the podium. Ferrari have a little work to do. Mercedes plan to "radically" revamp the car completely. Alpine have a lot of work to do. Williams get a point. McLaren should have stayed at home.
Bahrain always a little out of sorts, but if its teh same result after race 3 season is pretty much done already
Yes in as much as the likely winner starts to be clear to everyone. But TBF thats often the case with F1. Far more interesting is the actual racing between teams who are close -from third to tenth there was around 18 seconds across most if not all teams. As the season develops, some will be able to improve their car as they have huge (engineering & financial) resources. The bounce back from Macca to be in the mid table fight will happen, Alpine will not accept the thrashing from non manufacturer teams, so will work around the clock to climb up the ranks. Plus Aston M -can they mix it it up at the top for the entire season? Is Alonso going to be the hero and fans favourite (his pass on Hamilton was superb) or was it first race luck? I'm not sure Aston have the engineers or the budget either to win in a development race over a season. Inter team racing should also be interesting, The two second year guys Russell & Sainz will want to take the lead driver role from Leclerc and Hamilton. I expect (hope) fireworks by the fourth or fifth races... So all in all there's a good possibility that the racing might be good even if Max waltzes off leaving Perez as a blocker.
And with a budget cap in place, its not clear how Toto's plan to totally revamp the car design will actually be possible. So Alonso Hamilton Russell Sainz & Leclerc battles might be a regular thing!
Mercedes announce "NEWS: Head of technical operations James Allison has returned to active duty at Mercedes. James Allison has been on secondment to Ineos/ Merc Americas Cup. Even so getting on a competitive basis with RB is a big ask...
He will have to get past Russell first. Plus Alonso looks like he will be one of the three podium placed guys for the forseeable -even the FIA can't get him off the rostrum!
Absolutely, you are right…come on Sir Lewis, prove yourself at last. You have just been hiding in a team with the best cars. Anyone could have done what you have done with the same car. Your 103 pole positions, 103 wins, 191 podiums in F1. We all know you just got lucky to win those 7 world championships and miss out on an 8th on an FIA coin flip. Call yourself a racing driver…
It was a thoroughly dull race wasnt it? Barring the safety car there were such large gaps between cars through the majority of the field. street circuits are a terrible spectacle once you’ve got past the opening couple of laps imo. Would never happen for obvious reasons but I wonder what the gaps would be like if the MotoGP boys went there…
You're referring to the Jeddah circuit in Saudi Arabia. Fun Fact. It's labelled the fastest street circuit in F1, but ......... it's not a street circuit at all It's a purpose built race track.
It is a bit concerning that the cars arrived in in teams, two by two as if Noah has called them. Have the regs reduced the car to driver importance to 80/20? I'd much rather the cars had the potential for drivers to make errors -because they will- and thus make the racing more exciting. If the cars can corner flat out with any driver (of competative level) it is a brilliant technical achievement but removes the need for risk taking and driver skill.
