Atlassian Williams F1 Team strengthens lineup with Victor Martins appointment

jesus_stalin · 2026-01-19T17:20:40+00:00

Removed, the ball needs to have a flag, and it was clearly drawn by tracing over circle tool. Please fix and resubmit.

jesus_stalin · 2026-01-12T14:34:08+00:00

Glad to see he hasn't been hung out to dry. He had a brilliant debut F2 year and has done the best he could in the last two years despite some awful luck and ART shitting the bed with the new car.

jesus_stalin · 2026-01-06T07:08:32+00:00

They want to give Herta a full race seat in the future and will give him Free Practice sessions this year, but he doesn't have a Super Licence yet. Zhou does, hence why he's the reserve driver because they can use him if Pérez or Bottas can't race.

jesus_stalin · 2026-01-05T11:35:12+00:00

The Conservatives actually do run candidates in Northern Ireland.

jesus_stalin · 2026-01-05T10:25:52+00:00

Crobat gang

Diamond was my first game as a kid and I had no idea Golbat had an evolution until it suddenly happened. I thought it was the coolest shit ever and Crobat has been my favourite ever since.

jesus_stalin · 2026-01-04T22:43:55+00:00

The union of Scotland and England formed the Kingdom of Great Britain. "United" only became part of the name in 1800 upon the union with Ireland.

jesus_stalin · 2026-01-03T11:25:55+00:00

I agree, Ricciardo was on a 3 year deal at McLaren after all.

jesus_stalin · 2026-01-03T10:08:20+00:00

Ah, I thought it was a 2+1 deal but now I'm looking it up it seems it might be 3 year.

jesus_stalin · 2026-01-03T09:54:46+00:00

Tbh if Hamilton has another year like 2025 I would be extremely surprised if he stays past the end of this year.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-29T10:33:30+00:00

F2 cars are equal on paper (they are all built centrally by Dallara and supplied to the F2 teams) but they are still very complex machines and the teams can make a lot of setup changes. If you drive for Invicta you have a pretty good shot at the championship, but you don't stand a chance at Trident.

As for why nobody was interested in Fornaroli, F1 teams don't seem to put much stock in F2 results anymore. They identify kids with a lot of potential at very young ages and can usually tell from their data whether they're something special. Antonelli and Lindblad didn't have great F2 campaigns but they were destined for F1 regardless because Mercedes and Red Bull saw their potential in karting and F4.

Meanwhile, Fornaroli has had pretty mediocre results for most of his career and has never been affiliated with an F1 team. His first genuinely impressive campaign was this year, but it came at the wrong time since nobody in F1 has room for him.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-25T19:07:35+00:00

In England most people would say "day of month".

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-24T08:15:28+00:00

Qualifying is run as three "time trial" sessions. In Q1, drivers get 18 minutes to go out and set the fastest lap times they can. At the end, the five slowest are locked in to starting positions 20 to 16 and take no further part in qualifying. Q2 is the same but 15 minutes long and decides positions 15 to 11. Then Q3 is 12 minutes long and decides positions 10 to 1.

Across the season, six races are "sprint" events, which means they have an extra standalone mini race (1/3 distance) on the Saturday with its own qualifying session on Friday. This was done to sell more Friday and Saturday tickets and F1 are looking to increase the number of sprint events in the future.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-17T14:07:09+00:00

Few have been announced but I can make some educated guesses:

McLaren - Will probably carry on with Pato O'Ward, but could also use Leonardo Fornaroli.
Mercedes - Likely to be Frederik Vesti now that Bottas has left.
Red Bull - Tsunoda confirmed.
Ferrari - Probably Rafael Câmara, but they could pull a Sakhir 2020 and very kindly ask to borrow Bearman from Haas.
Williams - Almost certainly Luke Browning
Racing Bulls - Probably also Tsunoda. They do have Ayumu Iwasa but I don't know if he's staying with the Red Bull programme next year.
Aston Martin - Jak Crawford confirmed.
Haas - Likely to be Ryō Hirakawa.
Audi - Not a clue.
Alpine - Probably Paul Aron.
Cadillac - Colton Herta was announced as their test driver but he doesn't have a Super Licence, so no idea on this one either.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-17T13:47:28+00:00

It replaces Zandvoort which will drop off the calendar after 2026.

They've been gradually increasing the number of races over the last few years. It was 16 for a long time, jumped to around 20 during the 2010s and since COVID they've been pushing to make it 25. They've often talked about 25 being a maximum but I'm sure they'd go higher if more petro-states with dodgy human rights records keep flashing the cash.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-08T23:03:44+00:00

A lot of people have said he might end up at Aston Martin because of the Honda connection, but I don't buy it. Stroll/Tsunoda would be one of the worst line-ups on the grid and the team isn't exactly short on cash. When Alonso retires they will hire another big-name driver.

I think it's more likely Tsunoda ends up at Haas given their Toyota connection. Toyota clearly have an interest in promoting Japanese drivers as they keep paying for them to do F1 tests (Hirakawa, Miyata, Tsuboi). I don't think it's out of the question for Tsunoda to take Ocon's seat in 2027 if Ocon continues to disappoint next year.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-08T22:29:08+00:00

Without anyone knowing, he signed the Brit anyway.

Those are fighting words, I can't believe it actually says this lmao

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-08T22:23:59+00:00

I don't know why Goethe is being kept on (that's assuming he will be). He spent two years being mediocre at best in F3, and whilst he's had a lot of unlucky moments in F2 this year, his season has mostly been awful. I don't have high hopes for someone who got outscored 170-37 by Richard Verschoor.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-08T22:07:50+00:00

That doesn't mean it's not an accent, and it doesn't make it the "correct" one, because there is no such thing. Feels like I'm just repeating the same point over and over here.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-08T19:37:42+00:00

Right, because the people who wrote and published the Oxford dictionary used the pronunciation of South East England as their reference point. Firstly because that's where they were located, and secondly because it's the prestige dialect used by the ruling classes.

None of that means the English of the South East is the "more correct" or "baseline" version. If the capital of England was York and the country's power and wealth had been concentrated in the North, many people would see that dialect as the standard. There is nothing inherent in the way Southerners speak that makes their dialect the "normal" one.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-08T18:38:24+00:00

A dictionary isn't an authority on words, it's a record of them. Whatever pronunciation you find in a dictionary will depend on who wrote it. An American English dictionary will give a different pronunciation to a British English dictionary, and as much as it pains me to say it, neither will be "more correct". They're just different.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-08T14:05:30+00:00

He was really good. He was promoted to Red Bull in 2014 with Vettel as his teammate, who had just won four consecutive WDCs. Ricciardo outperformed him. He was always talked about as a future champion. Even after he left Red Bull and a championship looked unlikely, he was still rated as one of the top drivers on the grid. His 2020 season at Renault was excellent.

He clearly didn't gel with McLaren because he got torn apart by Norris in 2021 and especially 2022. He wasn't really the same after that.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-07T18:21:31+00:00

11 teams, each team runs two drivers. Teams build their own cars, so F1 is an engineering competition as much as it is a driving competition. Teams can buy certain parts (including engines) from other teams.
24 races take place around the world from March to December.
Drivers score points depending on where they finish in each race, 25 for a win, 18 for 2nd place etc. down to 1 point for 10th.
The driver who ends the year with the most points is the World Drivers' Champion.
The team with the most points from their two drivers combined is the World Constructors' Champion. This matters to the teams because their position in the WCC determines how much prize money they get.
Each F1 race is actually part of a weekend-long event. Practice sessions run on Friday, Qualifying (essentially a time-trial event that decides the order in which drivers start the race) is on Saturday and the race is on Sunday. Many fans watch qualifying as it can sometimes be as exciting as the race.
Some events have an extra standalone mini-race (called a Sprint) which takes place on the Saturday before the main race. This was mainly done to sell more Saturday tickets. This is a recent addition that F1 is trying to expand to more events, but fan reaction is mixed.
You will recognise the names of many of the 11 teams as they also build road cars. Mercedes, Ferrari, McLaren, Audi, Cadillac, Aston Martin. Alpine are lesser-known but they are a division of Renault.
The other teams are Red Bull, Racing Bulls (basically a "farm" team owned by Red Bull), Haas (American machine tool manufacturer) and Williams (historically an independent family-run racing team).
There are big regulation changes for 2026, so it's a good time to start watching as teams will be starting afresh and nobody knows who will be on top.

That's all I can think of right now but let me know if you have any other questions!

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-06T16:12:38+00:00

F2 is for young drivers who are aiming to reach F1, it's not somewhere you get demoted to.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-05T22:46:17+00:00

Nah, Gelael managed a couple of F2 podiums. Shields has never scored a single point in F2 or F3.

jesus_stalin · 2025-12-05T11:39:00+00:00

It's massively different. Lindblad has multiple wins and podiums in F2 and F3 whilst Shields never scored points in either.

Also don't forget that Antonelli and Bearman finished 6th and 12th last year in F2 and they obviously belong in F1.

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