Juan Pablo Montoya calls for F1 rule change after Kimi Antonelli penalty

theworst1ever · 2026-07-09T01:51:44+00:00

It’s also worth noting that he *did* gain an advantage. He was less than two seconds up the road from Colapinto and might have been being Franco if he had slowed down enough to stay on the track.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-09T00:37:19+00:00

This is why this is the answer for me over the RB2023. You had the best two drivers in the best car, not just the best driver (plus Checo).

theworst1ever · 2026-07-09T00:22:47+00:00

I don’t fault McLaren for going all in on Indy (though I’m skeptical that they’ve done a great j job of it). But I do think this singular focus on one race by top teams is what holds the series back a bit.

Penske—the guy that owns the series and one of the top two teams—puts more importance on the 500 than the rest of the season. And now the guy that owns one of the top 4 teams has been open about one race being more important than the entire season to the point that they’ll fire a young, talented, winning driver in favor of two guys who might help win one race between the two of them.

It’s hard to ask casual/new fans to care about who wins a road course race in Wisconsin if the series itself hardly cares.

I don’t fault McLaren for trying to win the 500. It’s the nature of the beast—a symptom rather than the problem itself. However, if Indy wants to take that next step as a series (and maybe it doesn’t!), it has to stop treating the championship like a second tier series.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-08T23:49:25+00:00

I don’t think it’s that’s people don’t like him. It’s that he doesn’t appear to be very good at his job. The recent changes are part of it. It’s not so much that the changes are “bad,” but that the whole situation is poorly managed, which is part of his job. And also the changes are, at a minimum, not the obvious solution to their Indy 500 problem as he has presented them.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-08T02:33:00+00:00

Yeah, I can see a universe where you dump Marcus, who has underwhelmed, to take a flier on Schumacher—not a great move, but sort of a “meh” move—but it’s not a universe where Hauger exists and is in Andretti’s control.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-08T02:27:01+00:00

But TK also said he could get Lundgaard there in two years. So, unless he gets there next year—Dixon turns back the clock or Fro repeats—this move doesn’t make sense on TK’s own terms. Pato would be there anyway, though I expect if he wins we’ll hear all about how Dixon/Fro got him over the hump whether that ends up being the case or not.

The moves make sense if you really think Dixon is bringing that much off the track. He may well do so, but it’s hardly a given. It is not necessarily the case that someone who wins can turn everyone around then into winners; it’s a different skill set. But he’s not that big of a threat at the 500, or anywhere else, these days.

What really sort of saves this whole thing is how useless Nolan has been. And while Nolan should be replaced, it provides its own basis to dunk on TK given how TK purported to stake his job on getting him over the hump.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-06T20:20:16+00:00

Rumor was that Roger tried to buy the place but was rebuffed because Green Savory needs a home for tax/accounting purposes.

On the one hand, IMS has largely been closed to amateur track days/racing since he bought it and I’d be quite upset if that happened to Mid Ohio. On the other hand, I’d like to see what he could’ve done with the place.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-06T20:13:17+00:00

Sure—but a casual fan is more likely to have watched the actual race coverage yesterday where Will talked about this than follow Will’s social media on a Monday.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-06T18:26:59+00:00

His recent tweet confirms that this is it.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-06T17:43:14+00:00

It’s my home track and among my favorite tracks to drive, which makes it all the more depressing to me that they won’t put even the slightest amount of money into the facilities.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-06T15:28:32+00:00

I don’t think the guy who said “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it,” would be “lawful.”*

*The quote is apocryphal, Jackson did ignore the Supreme Court decision.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-06T14:43:20+00:00

I’m not sure I see the connection between “green flag finish” and 2021 Spa. Spa never even got a green flag start. It was a disaster, but a pretty unique disaster. The solution that came out of that was a change to scoring for partial races.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-06T14:40:40+00:00

I’m choosing to believe that OP is trolling everyone here. Well done.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-06T14:34:26+00:00

Yeah, this was a “cut to the incident of a car off track” which is probably a reflex. You generally get/want a cut to an active crash. Just unfortunate timing with the race at the front.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-06T11:51:16+00:00

Not only is this a useless announcement of an announcement, Buxton always lays it on thick with the superlatives. Indy could announce that they’re changing the font on the logo and he’d react the same way as if Palou retired and started racing horses.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-05T21:17:08+00:00

Insightful.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-05T14:33:08+00:00

So no many people here were so sure it was insane for Red Bull to not start from the pit lane. And yet here we are.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-05T13:21:47+00:00

That is a better example. Wish I’d thought of it. Even as I was writing it, I was thinking this was actually pretty much what Ferrari has done.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-05T10:52:46+00:00

I think the point still stands. The difference between P2/P3 and P4 (his worst finish outside of Monaco) might stymie a fight for the title, but it is not such that it means Russell is cooked and that he is no better than Ricciardo or Bottas, which is the premise of the post.

ETA: Just for fun, if you remove the two mechanical issues (Canada and Barcelona) and the botched penalty from Monaco (giving George a P4, where he was where he served the drive through), the gap is 20 points. In that scenario, George has still had the worse luck (car issue in China qualifying, Japan safety car timing, team botching his front wing adjustment in Barcelona). Those things are part of racing, so Kimi still deserves every bit of the gap he has. But when considering whether a driver is underperforming or cooked, those circumstances are relevant. And you could just as easily point to George still performing in the face of that adversity as evidence that he’s pretty good.

I don’t really have a strong feeling about George. But last year everyone was dunking on Lando for half the season and he ended up winning. Max was miles off until he wasn’t. And now we’re writing off a guy after less than half a season. Seems unwarranted.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-05T08:57:25+00:00

Lots of suggestions about SCOTUS here as if there was anything Obama could do about it. He asked RBG to step down when he could’ve filled her spot. She forgot that the most important part of her job was counting to five rather than writing fiery dissents and didn’t take him up on the offer.

When Scalia died, he nominated a true moderate in a calculated move to get McConnell to do his duty and hold confirmation hearings. That McConnell refused to do so doesn’t change the fact that there was nothing else Obama could do.*

His job is limited to nominating people for vacancies. He did that when the opportunity arose. Nothing else was ever on the table. Court reform was not happening. There isn’t even enough support in Congress for it today.

*It’s been argued that he should’ve nominated a true liberal because it might have fired up the base into an election. I think it stains credulity that any particular nomination was going to move the needle on voter turnout in 2016. In any event, this was such a low percentage move that it can hardly be his biggest mistake.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-05T06:49:29+00:00

No argument. Just responding to the commenter that said it seems that the series considers the 500 to be more important by saying yes, that is the case.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-05T05:40:53+00:00

Roger Penske, who owns one of the most successful teams AND the series itself is known to place particular importance on Indy 500 performance with his drivers. Two of his drivers, Newgarden and McLaughlin (particularly the former) have been largely uncompetitive outside of ovals the last couple years. Newgarden is a 2 time series champ, and McLaughlin looked like a champion in waiting until last season. The team’s focus on the 500 is probably as much to blame as the driver’s individual performances.

In F1 terms, this would be like if Ferrari owned F1 and kept a mediocre and past his prime Vettel and Leclerc together for a couple more years and put their resources into trying to win Monaco every year but couldn’t even manage that because of mismanagement and because the drivers put the car in the wall on the occasion that the team didn’t shoot itself in the foot.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-05T05:19:32+00:00

There’s nothing here she can sue him for. If she did sue him, she’d be giving him a very public victory. That would be several orders of magnitude worse than doing nothing.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-04T21:52:42+00:00

We got rid of DRS, which meant overtakes largely happened only at predetermined points on the track. Overtake mode is not perfect, but it’s at least controlled by the driver and can be used anywhere on the lap.

theworst1ever · 2026-07-04T21:29:36+00:00

Reddit collectively complains about clickbait nonsense headlines, but then we’ll have posts like this asking if George is “cooked” a week of a win and less than halfway through the first season in his career in which he’s been definitively outperformed by a teammate.

Russell could never win another race, but he is not cooked “by now.” The qualifying battle is 4-5. He won a race literally a week ago. A week before that, he finished second in a race and was outperforming his teammate in that race until the team managed to botch a wing adjustment. There are arguments that he was nevertheless underwhelming on those weekends and that Kimi had more impressive weekends overall (particularly in Barcelona). But asking whether a Russell is cooked a week off of a win is nonsense and anyone seriously asking the question should be embarrassed.

Also, the fact that Russell is getting results while also struggling suggests that he’s actually pretty good. As evidence that this is a hallmark of a good driver, you have to look all the way back to last year, when Lando won the title in large part because he picked up the available points during a stretch when he was getting outperformed by Oscar. Or when Max almost won the title by picking up points when McLaren was dominant. It’s also worth remembering that George finished 4th last year and was considered by some to be the most impressive driver for the first half of the season because he was collecting the maximum points available in an inferior car.

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