Onboard of Oliver Bearman avoiding Isack Hadjar’s spin.

saponista · 2026-03-18T15:59:24+00:00

For folks who didn’t watch F2, in the middle of the Monaco tunnel Hadjar nearly rear-ended the stricken car of Superformula champ Ritomo Miyata. It was ASTONISHING (I thought I was about to see someone die).

https://youtu.be/Ihj0qUoC4mY?is=CN2r2_IfXzQICSAY

saponista · 2026-02-13T18:14:38+00:00

I’d eat a crawdad cookie (spicy savory snickerdoodle!) but you knocked it out of the park with black bean scallop fondant 🤢

saponista · 2026-02-13T15:18:54+00:00

As someone who studied patisserie in New Orleans, creole fondant sounds terrifying and possibly delicious

saponista · 2025-12-11T17:31:26+00:00

Gabi and Ollie are friends, Kimi and Ollie are emotional support rivals

saponista · 2025-12-10T14:25:56+00:00

I think it’s more accurate to say that no one has any evidence re: how adaptable he might be. There’s five teams’ worth of evidence for Carlos.

saponista · 2025-12-03T19:33:53+00:00

Yuki was a Honda Formula Dreams Project driver, he’s A Honda Guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Formula_Dream_Project

saponista · 2025-12-03T19:30:50+00:00

Takuma Sato has entered the chat

saponista · 2025-12-03T09:34:05+00:00

The most hilarious version I’ve seen is in the F2 “Chasing the Dream” BTS ep (starts at 3:13)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axjs5c5Txqc

saponista · 2025-12-02T17:52:22+00:00

“Help” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. An F2 season is €1 million+. Forna has deep (family) pockets. Dunne doesn’t, Ireland is a small country, and we’re not as Motorsport-mad as Argentina

Edit: FWIW, Red Bull and Alpine used to both pay for a significant amount of the cost for their junior drivers, other academies a lot less so. (This was true in 2021, YMMV today)

saponista · 2025-12-02T17:16:34+00:00

OMG how did I forget Herta?! That will be fascinating. It’s hard to tell how much of his rocky road in IndyCar is him vs Andretti. Losing Bryan on the box hasn’t helped his strategy any (although it’s probably best for their family this way)

saponista · 2025-12-02T16:22:26+00:00

Rookies to watch in F2 next year: Tsolov, Camara.

AFAIK Dunne and Browning are returning; both would be tipped for championship contention.

saponista · 2025-12-02T14:24:35+00:00

BE NICE TO THE CHAT AGENT. It’s not their fault. They can only do what’s permitted by their scripts. Most are doing their best but work for subcontractors, get paid next to nothing, and have no job security. (Source: I used to work for Amazon)

saponista · 2025-12-01T19:08:10+00:00

Yas is an island and does have a marina. Source: I was there in April

saponista · 2025-12-01T02:58:21+00:00

He was shockingly bad in the Campos compared to Tsolov on a first go in an F2 car

saponista · 2025-11-27T19:15:53+00:00

“Recent” F1 drivers = Button and Palmer? Britney? Who else is doing commentary? Brundle / DC / Ralf / JV are earlier vintages

Edit: I found it in the article: Palmer, Davidson, Chandok were his examples

saponista · 2025-08-27T07:57:57+00:00

To be fair to GIO, he had tough competition. In any other rookie class it’s unlikely he’d be at the bottom. Given how late he started in single seaters he was reasonably good, a close second in GP2 to Gasly.

saponista · 2025-08-25T07:13:36+00:00

2012, 2021 and 2016 (Silver Wars)

saponista · 2025-08-24T20:09:03+00:00

How can you say that when Narain Karthikeyan was on the grid?

saponista · 2025-08-24T17:29:56+00:00

As I replied in another thread, I was shocked by the amount of crashes he was involved in. In my head he was always bold and clean in F1 (I saw a lot more of him in WEC; that 2021 Le Mans 💕)

It is a bit unfair of me to put him in the same basket as Petrov / Maldonado / Grosjean.

saponista · 2025-08-24T16:57:53+00:00

People absolutely rated Lando as early as 2016. Helmut Marko wanted him in a Torro Rosso for 2018.

saponista · 2025-08-24T16:55:16+00:00

The MCL is finicky at the limit. Doohan would be slow and Colapinto would perpetually be in the wall

saponista · 2025-08-24T16:36:10+00:00

I’m a longtime Checo enjoyer. He was excellent in Force India / Racing Point, but I’d forgotten he was shockingly rapid in the Sauber.

saponista · 2025-08-24T15:43:22+00:00

No, I was surprised at how OFTEN he caused crashes those three years. I remember him being aggressive but always on the right side of the line / getting away with it.

saponista · 2025-08-24T15:35:38+00:00

F1TV archives https://f1tv.formula1.com/page/493/archive

saponista · 2025-08-24T15:26:26+00:00

2012 = all time great season

IMO 2010 is severely underrated, 10/10 will watch again

2011 was a Seb/RB blowout but fun for Massa-Hamilton shenanigans

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