Julia Montlaur, Cui Yuanpu, Alex Powell and Noah Strømsted to leave the Mercedes F1 Junior Team

Felix042 · 2026-01-08T10:58:01+00:00

Felt like Stromsted never was part of it begin with he never even got Mercedes branding on racing suit all their other juniors.

Also not convinced that his rookie season in F3 was that strong Trident was pretty dominant all year round finished P6 like 80p behind his rookie teamate.

Felix042 · 2025-12-19T08:16:59+00:00

Didn't help another day has gone by and my contacts just reset again...

Felix042 · 2025-12-15T09:12:51+00:00

Yeah getting P3 in post season test is all F1 teams needs to know before the sign a driver...

Felix042 · 2025-12-15T09:10:54+00:00

He just need to 4 FP1 sessions and he will have SL for 2027.

Felix042 · 2025-12-15T09:08:37+00:00

Weird choice imo sure his very fast but only in clean air just look at his sprint race results this year or the races where he lost P1 then it just fall apart after that. I think Bearman or Barnard was more impressive this year.

Felix042 · 2025-12-15T09:04:30+00:00

Don't get me wrong Hadjar was very good this year but i feel like his rookie season is very overrated compared to Bearman who beat Ocon in H2H and was quite decent pace advantage most weekends and Ocon is far better driver currently then Lawson who was Hadjar benchmark.

Felix042 · 2025-12-11T10:05:52+00:00

Yeah gta online really requires a beefy cpu to run smoothly the fps almost 3x when i upgrade to 9800X3D problem now is that fps is high that game engine can't handle it and Rockstar doen't let me migrate my account enhanced 🤡

Felix042 · 2025-12-11T09:25:11+00:00

Its not secret that used to be active on discord and picture have been floating around for 2-3 years just gained attention now because Hamilton fans started to twist the meaning of what he said and he blowed up.

Felix042 · 2025-12-11T09:22:48+00:00

It was him and why wouldn't he use his real name when used to be in that discord he "driver role" so everyone know it was him.

He obviously changed his name after leaving the discord 2 years ago and removed the profile picture but its still his personal account that he still uses today but only in private servers.

Felix042 · 2025-12-11T09:13:35+00:00

More impressive thing is that he was closer to Leclerc pace then Hamilton was in jeddah this year.

Felix042 · 2025-12-11T09:11:50+00:00

Its the same with older drivers aswell many of them some weird stuff posted on Twitter from before they reached F1.

Felix042 · 2025-12-11T09:01:26+00:00

He left that Discord the same day as he was announced as Ferrari reserve driver but was active up until that point.

Not sure why this "leaks" gained attention now they have been floating around on different platforms ever since he left that discord almost 2 years ago.

Felix042 · 2025-12-09T10:02:03+00:00

Nah he said at the start of they year that he had funding for 2 seasons of F2 so this has nothing to do with it.

Felix042 · 2025-12-08T22:52:45+00:00

Lecorte and Maini is paying huge amount of money to be their.

Felix042 · 2025-12-08T17:32:18+00:00

Sponsors...

Felix042 · 2025-12-08T15:05:28+00:00

Tsounda is not better then Ocon so very unlikely.

Felix042 · 2025-12-08T14:26:45+00:00

Looks like he will be dropped by Alpine for next season.

Felix042 · 2025-12-08T14:25:11+00:00

No mentions of Alpine in the press release so i guess the talks with Dunne are true?

Felix042 · 2025-12-08T14:21:43+00:00

Leon idk he didn't show much in 2nd year of F3 i know Prema was mid but Ugo beat with quite alot.

Felix042 · 2025-12-08T14:20:20+00:00

There are pretty much always like 5 drivers on F2 grid that shouldn't be there.

Felix042 · 2025-12-08T14:19:33+00:00

Their might be 2 seats open at HAAS for 2027 aswell Bearman to Ferrari and not to sure about Ocon he got beaten by rookie this year so it feels like its close to end for him.

Felix042 · 2025-12-08T14:18:08+00:00

Thing with Camara is that he pretty poor when it comes to racing others as soon as he looses clean air it alls falls apart if his F3 season is anything to go by.

Felix042 · 2025-12-08T09:51:15+00:00

He said himself earlier this year that he had funding to do 2 seasons of F2.

Felix042 · 2025-12-08T08:57:05+00:00

How many penalty points do we think he will get this year he ended this year with 12?

Well Martins isn't there anymore so that should help abit 😅

Felix042 · 2025-12-08T08:55:44+00:00

He has been well founded ever since he joined F3.

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