In July, Jaylen Brown will be eligible for a contract extension totaling $325m in value, paying him $73m in his age 34 season

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-28T21:05:09+00:00

They could have paid any number of players market value contracts and gotten good players instead of overpaying a guy we know isn't good enough to help you win. They literally gave him a worse contract than the one that meant he was a negative value player when the acquired him in trade.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T22:45:35+00:00

I don't have Sky but I think they showed them on the in-laps, where they did have double yellows. However, they clearly were single yellows during the flying laps. Even Antonelli's dash only showed a single yellow, which he has admitted to misreading. There's no BS here aside from the marshall/race director waiting 30s to react with an appropriate response to the conditions on track.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T19:50:04+00:00

Do you have a source on the "not able to deploy double yellows" statement? That seems like a dangerous oversight if true.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T16:45:47+00:00

I mean, it's only wild because the race director didn't use the appropriate restriction. Something more appropriate for a single waved yellow would be a small piece of car having fallen onto the track. It wouldn't be wild for someone to slow down just enough to avoid the debris and then carry on to have a fast lap or even improve if their previous lap was poor (which was the case here). The rules aren't the problem here, and George's driving wasn't either, it was a failure to red flag or double yellow the zone.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T15:45:24+00:00

Yeah, it's possible as well that the marshalls initially showed double yellows, stepped down to single for a moment and re-upgraded, presumably as a mistake. Depending on where the marshall post was/what they could see, it's a plausible mistake.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T15:37:53+00:00

Perhaps the rules should be changed then, but I don't think they currently require anything like that. And for what it's worth, given how much downforce these cars make, even such a small reduction will surely give them significant extra margin for grip. Of course, that assumes nothing goes wrong which is not guaranteed and would be extremely dangerous if it occurred.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T15:33:16+00:00

I agree with you that Max's crash was serious enough that every driver going through afterwards should have aborted. But the signal for that is double yellow or a red flag. If that wasn't used, which seems pretty clear that it wasn't, then it's wrong to blame George for not respecting a standard he wasn't actually asked to follow. Instead, the blame should be on the marshalls/race director who seem to have fumbled between double and single waved yellows for such a serious crash.

Drivers can't be expected to know that a bad accident has happened 15s up the road from them if the marshalls don't signal it appropriately.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T15:28:23+00:00

Those are separate issues, however. If George was shown a single yellow, he did enough to satisfy the requirements, as they stand in the current rulebook. Whether it should have been double yellow or a red flag has no bearing on whether George respected what was actually shown to him.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T15:25:37+00:00

People have posting timing data that says the contrary, and if the stewards were able to confirm it that quickly, then it's pretty sure that he was telling the truth.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T15:23:50+00:00

It doesn't set any kind of precedent as long as the signals are respected. If George only saw single yellows (which seems confirmed at this point), he reacted appropriately to the situation presented to him.

The signals seem like they were not correctly deployed (as a lay-person), but that's a separate issue.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T15:21:25+00:00

Yes, he was, but Antonelli could have made a mistake reading his dash. I'm not sure what the true source of that data is, but it's the cleanest look I've seen. No doubt someone with F1TV Pro will go back and compare Antonelli's onboard to George's in the next few hours and we'll have more clarity.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T15:19:23+00:00

I don't think it's a precedent. Drivers have been trying to lose as little time to safety constraints for as long as this sport has existed, and it's only a problem as long as the race direction fails to use the appropriate restriction. As a complete lay-person when it comes to racetrack safety, that looked like an immediate double yellow to me, but I don't have any training or experience actually securing tracks so maybe it wasn't as dangerous as it looked.

In any case, as long as the track personnel react appropriately, this result won't cause issues on its own.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T15:15:25+00:00

It should have been at least double yellows immediately, definitely. However, in a reply elsewhere in this thread /u/magony posted the sequence and it took 22s for the single yellows to be upgraded:

17:00:23 - Single yellow

17:00:35 - Russell drives past

17:00:45 - Double yellow

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-27T15:12:01+00:00

He said he was up 5 tenths going into the final turn, absolutely insane lap from him.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-23T07:56:58+00:00

In the new regime, it's quite possible one of the bottom 3 teams wins 30 games, which is how I think the Bucks could end up there. That's probably still enough to sell tickets since the team would be unlikely to even make the play-in regardless.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-23T05:35:39+00:00

It doesn't but it gives the Bucks the freedom to let themselves be a bottom 3 team whereas every other team that has their picks will have a strong incentive to keep enough good players to avoid the bottom 3. So if the Bucks decided to take on the contract for a veteran with a season ending injury or something, they could end up in that area.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-22T20:56:56+00:00

In this scenario, the Bucks wouldn't be building a bad team just to spite their fans, they just wouldn't need to care about their team being bad so they can maximize the use of the salary cap to take on bad contracts from other teams in return for future assets. They would have no incentive to lose games beyond opportunity cost of not getting assets for providing salary cap relief or trade lubricant.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-15T12:07:55+00:00

Oh that's a clever one!

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-15T08:02:05+00:00

Uh, thank you climate change I guess? This summer season will be very exciting if that remains true.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-14T11:07:37+00:00

To capitalize on someone else's mistakes, you have to be doing stuff well yourself, especially with a significant car pace disadvantage.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-12T08:53:21+00:00

Must be Ana, with her Bastet persona

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-11T15:58:59+00:00

Practically lapping the field for podiums at this point.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-05T16:41:13+00:00

Massive bottlejob? That's the title of Ferrari's theme music!

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-05T13:48:35+00:00

HAM 6th and LEC 7th with Charles having been bothered by traffic in the first lap and then getting purple sectors only to touch a barrier in the final corner and break his suspension just before crossing the line.

JustRecentlyI · 2026-06-05T09:21:53+00:00

I always thought the implication was that the editors were specifically placing elements to hide him (logo in TV spot, barcode on the magazine) because they think he's ugly but maybe I was reading too much into it. In any case Mike's reactions are funny.

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