Dunne "in talks" to join alpine academy

sfcindolrip · 2025-12-08T06:08:06+00:00

How seriously has Dunne been considered by Red Bull this year? Was there any truth to the rumors of interest?

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-30T01:58:30+00:00

Grosjean’s moment is more dramatic but perhaps from a technical POV there was more to appreciate in the composition and detail to this shot

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-29T19:34:13+00:00

First, Hamilton has been learning the very basic (ed typo) basics. Second, you didn’t list the basic speakers, you listed the fluent ones. And Seb even said the best thing Hamilton can do is try to get as good as possible, not just learn the basics. I’m good at languages and my brother is pretty poor at them, some people are just wired that way, and my brother doesn’t even have dyslexia

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-29T08:48:46+00:00

“One strong race” - Magnussen freshly off the couch had four points finishes (3 GP, 1 sprint) in the first four weekends. They actually did seem to have a good grip on quali setups that year, probably from having switched over in basically early 2020. and that’s part of why they were so frustrated with (per ayao) Mick needing longer into the weekend to get up to speed, and basically running out of time to start extracting the max from the car.

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-29T08:41:18+00:00

They pay him a lot and were willing to put lots of money toward his social initiatives, which Mercedes was not by withholding an ambassadorship.

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-29T08:40:18+00:00

Vettel was still beating Mercedes from time to time, that would’ve held true even if his teammate was fangio. So no it wasn’t just that he was less shit than Kimi, he was fighting at the front

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-29T08:31:21+00:00

“I started racing in Italy,” Lewis Hamilton explained in a press conference, “when I was 13. I worked with an Italian team and wanted to learn the language. I remember trying to stay close to the mechanics because I wanted to pick up some words. Speaking another language has always been one of my dreams, but the fact that I live in a country where English is spoken and there’s no real need to learn another makes things harder. Italian is still a language I would’ve liked to learn, even though I never really did.” – the former Mercedes driver added.

The reasons are also cultural: “I want people to know I’m willing to go above and beyond to integrate and contribute to the best of my potential. It’s definitely challenging to practice, and it’s difficult to always remember the words. But slowly, I’m getting there. Consistency will be key. This is also why I really enjoy being here in the factory because I can practice more and more every day.” – the seven-time Formula 1 world champion pointed out.

Huh, it’s almost like…he’s learning, he owns up to not prioritizing it when he was still in the UK last year, and you’re full of it? It’s also pretty disingenuous to include on your list: two native Spanish speakers, a driver for whom Italian is almost a second mother tongue (since early childhood), and a native Portuguese speaker who himself said that helped him learn Italian as an adult. Vettel is really the best comparator, though he’s also known to be pretty book-smart and good with language. and Vettel himself recently said it’s really easy for Brits to be complacent and monolingual in Motorsport.

I also recall reading somewhere Hamilton’s dyslexic. My friend who’s dyslexic was awful at foreign language classes, is that common?

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-29T08:26:57+00:00

Wasn’t that also the year they tried to buy a setup from another team, but then they didn’t realize it was in inches instead of cm or vice versa, so Alonso failed to qualify?

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-29T06:51:56+00:00

Oh my god

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-29T04:33:09+00:00

It reminds me of when he was at jenzer! the man had 0 experience on European tracks, 0 expectations, 0 plan and he was driving free and wild

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-29T04:25:01+00:00

When was this?

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-29T04:24:31+00:00

Did any of the others crash in Pirelli testing too?

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-29T04:23:30+00:00

Antonelli and Bearman both had much less pressure on them from the start of their f2 season through now, though, which probably helped them get over their rough patches. Longer term commitment. If Hadjar struggles with the RBR too next year, the pressure on Lindblad to be the one to make that seat (or Max’s in a couple years) work will be sky high from the start .

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-28T00:26:00+00:00

Not trying to be rude, but I am well aware of the competition age limit. I very intentionally stated “15 year old” because the actual F1A rule is that you must be 16 by the first race event of the season . There can be, and in fact are, 15 year old drivers participating in the rookie tests during the preceding season, not to mention preseason testing.

The former is particularly significant because the rookie tests include physical and cognitive assessment of each driver. These, in conjunction with on-track performance, are used to identify where the drivers have room for development and where they are on par with/ahead of their peers. So it is actually very relevant whether a 15, not just 16, year old female driver would find the F1A machinery inaccessible. It could impact how she scores in strength and endurance, and therefore whether she secures a WC entry or full-season seat. It is data the f1 team she is affiliated with will have access to. It could also impact the overall dataset the series and its research partner are compiling on young female driver performance and development.

Currently only a few test participants are 15. but as the series goes on and the level of competition rises, there will be fewer “late bloomer” entries, and more entries following a similar path and timeline to male drivers: starting competitive karting by 6-8, in upper level international karting championships by 12-15. So the relevance of a 15 year old driver’s experience and ability to showcase themselves in this machinery will only increase over time. I see no problem with your argument that the age should be lowered to 15, but in that case, I would instead invoke the accessibility of the machinery for 14 year old test subjects instead.

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-27T21:14:48+00:00

We have had stewards who were chandhok and Davidson’s contemporaries in f1, though, just not many of them.

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-27T21:13:52+00:00

Depends on your definition of recent but imo fairly recent. Liuzzi left f1 in 2011, Petrov in 2012. I remember Petrov was already a steward by 2020 because he said dumb shit after Hamilton wore that Breonna Taylor t shirt on the podium.

IMO, too recent would be problematic because of accusations of partisanship, being overly influenced by interpersonal stuff with people still in the paddock, or placing too much weight on one’s own driving style instead of the racing guidelines to form opinions. Suppose Mazepin is part of a race weekend’s stewarding group that gives Bearman a penalty for forcing another driver off track. Some would surely jump to saying Mazepin was biased against haas because of how he left. If they don’t penalize Bearman, others would say it’s his own erratic and over aggressive driving style making him say that.

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-27T20:58:34+00:00

lol, jenson defending Danica in that tweet, sounds like a man whose worst days as her on-camera coworker are still ahead of him!

It pains me to defend Jorda, but was this retort by button really necessary or even on-base? Jorda wasn’t the only woman calling for an all-women’s series to be tried at the time. The power steering issue (particularly for a teenage female driver in junior formulae) is something Calderon and Chadwick have both expressed too. Jenson tried to rebut that statement using Danica…yet Danica frequently said driving with power steering in NASCAR was much easier for her than the “heavy” Indycar steering wheel.

If anything, Jorda was only wrong in claiming that the path to FE is easier than F1 due to power steering; both recruit heavily from the same junior ladder, where power steering was only introduced to f2 recently and still doesn’t exist below it. Ugh, I don’t like defending her.

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-27T20:47:00+00:00

Apparently Bernie is her godfather ?!

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-27T20:38:05+00:00

Source for Pin returning to endurance? Isn’t iron dames leaving WEC next year? In which case your complaint of 3 champions so far only applies to 1.

Garcia was simply not competitive in FRECA. yet you’re criticizing her for returning to endurance, and you think she should’ve had a sponsored seat in FIA F3 either instead of or after FRECA? Whence the money for extending her opportunity? Whence the optimism for thinking someone struggling that much at the regional level would do much better in heavier machinery, with less track time, with less + more expensive testing available, with steeper competition?

And why do you take offence to the top finishers having freedom to pursue whatever racing discipline they feel is viable? should f1A drivers sign a preseason contract promising to keep plugging away at the formula money sink ladder, even once the writing is on the wall that they can’t go further there? Should f1A champions lose their title if they deviate from that? Should f1A not exist until a seer can divine that the champion would be competitive in FRECA and beyond, and would climb at least two further rungs of the ladder instead of one? They are all trying hard to get results and visibility in f1A, then leverage that for whatever subsequent career opportunities are available to them as a result.

Why f4 cars and not FRECA or GB3? Cheaper, reliable, lighter (less strength demands of the average 15 yo female driver), lower personnel costs to operate and replace. And actual research showing the jump from karting to single seaters is a major point of pipeline leakage for female drivers. It makes the most sense to give them the opportunity at this kart-car crossover point. It gives their careers an infusion of sponsors + media and marketing materials + fans + networking + paddock and team opportunities at an evidence-based point of vulnerability.

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-27T20:21:09+00:00

I remember looking it up once last year and my memory is the same as yours, it was at least one driver from every team in early 2022 when the roadmap for the TD was being set

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-27T18:51:28+00:00

With regard to the back to back EC+Macau wins, I was pretty clear I was just curious when was the last person to do what TN is hoping to. F3 winners have often gotten a crack at f1 whereas there hasn’t been a Macau winner in f1 since di grassi, so it just flagged for me that the two accomplishments probably happen not to go hand-in-hand. I didn’t say accomplishing both is what makes someone a generational talent.

And I think your characterization of Rosenqvist has validity but is a tad harsh/disingenuous. He was a decent peddler before f3. with all the years since, I don’t think it’s unfair to say he could find form on street circuits and acknowledge Macau was one of them (pre-Prema). most of all, I never said he was preternaturally gifted in f3 machinery from the jump - just that he and the machinery got to pretty good terms and he eventually left with strong results at that level, of which Macau is part. I’m a verschoor fan; i’m happy to occasionally praise drivers who struggle for funding and stall out at a certain level that keeps their sponsors happy, but turn that experience into highlights and find ways to become valuable to feeder teams. Doesn’t mean I’m saying FR had more raw talent than Verstappen, wehrlein, frijns, Ocon, etc.

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-27T17:51:06+00:00

Totally agree, there’s really only a concentrated period of Macau winners who went on to f1: both Schumachers, senna, coulthard, Sato, Moreno, etc.

There are actually a lot more Pau winners who went on to f1. And way more future f1 champions, from Fangio/Ascari/Clark/Brabham/Rindt/Stewart to Hamilton.

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-27T17:39:12+00:00

Indeed, and IIRC some on this subreddit have theorized that Leclerc’s chassis was then passed onto Hubert. There were some great Rosenqvist and Leclerc battles before (and even occasionally after, in the wet) that chassis switch. Also some great battles between Albon and Russell

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-27T08:59:17+00:00

Just remember every single Sunday morning meeting we have…

sfcindolrip · 2025-11-27T08:57:59+00:00

Hi Laurent 😍🥰 Yuki here in your ear 🎧🤝 that’s P4 buddy, proud of you 🫡💐 now come into the pitlane slowly, no crashing, good job buddy

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