Motorsport Off Topic Thread

Nononsensecapeesh · 15 Jul 2022 at 17:03

Flibster said:
Sao Paulo Judge investigating Piquet.

Former F1 champion Piquet facing court & huge fine over racist abuse of Hamilton

The Brazilian used disgraceful language to describe the Mercedes driver.

metro.co.uk

He deserves it, the racist ****!

Scam · 15 Jul 2022 at 17:55

Yep sounds good to me.

jonneymendoza · 16 Jul 2022 at 08:12

This is shocking

Mr Jack · 18 Jul 2022 at 12:41

These things need gone.

Scam · 18 Jul 2022 at 15:04

Mr Jack said:
These things need gone.

Jesus. I'd not seen that first one before. What on earth is a kerb doing there? :confused:

chrismscotland · 19 Jul 2022 at 19:40

Mr Jack said:
These things need gone.

You wonder what the FIA is waiting for, a fatality?

Nononsensecapeesh · 19 Jul 2022 at 20:18

chrismscotland said:
You wonder what the FIA is waiting for, a fatality?

Sounds about right

Feek · 27 Jul 2022 at 17:18

What a great interview. Jodie Kidd is such a massive fangirl.

Jimbeam3678 · 27 Jul 2022 at 17:21

Porsche bought 50% of red bull racing ..

https://twitter.com/x/status/1552284359209766912

Slam62 · 27 Jul 2022 at 17:43

So is that must be a controlling stake.

adam cool dude · 27 Jul 2022 at 17:54

Feek said:
What a great interview. Jodie Kidd is such a massive fangirl.

Mansell > Hamilton imo.

Statistics do not show everything but the fact he won at Hungary in the dry from 12th on the grid is amazing. Breaking the lap record 13 times in one race. Racing the entire 1992 season with a broken foot. Just to name a few.

He could have easily been a 4-5 times champion too if it wasn't for politics or rotten luck.

MM-Seat · 27 Jul 2022 at 21:54

Slam62 said:
So is that must be a controlling stake.

It’s only of Red Bull Technologies which makes the engines (and other bits). Assume they will rebrand that to Porsche.

Flibster · 27 Jul 2022 at 21:58

I'm sure that Honda are immensely happy about their IP being handed over to Porsche....

MM-Seat · 27 Jul 2022 at 23:00

Flibster said:
I'm sure that Honda are immensely happy about their IP being handed over to Porsche....

Especially with rumours they want back in

chrismscotland · 28 Jul 2022 at 09:48

Flibster said:
I'm sure that Honda are immensely happy about their IP being handed over to Porsche....

Its not being handed over though is it? Red Bull Technologies don't own any of the IP to the Honda engines, the head of Honda confirmed a few weeks ago (At Austria GP I believe) that they never completed the deal to transfer the IP.

Red Bull Technologies will be solely working on their new Porsche partnership with Honda looking after the "Honda" engines until 2026, I fully expect to see the "Honda" engines branded as Honda on that Red Bull next until 2025

chrismscotland · 28 Jul 2022 at 11:05

Sebastian Vettel retiring at the end of the season:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1552595356898234370

Mr Jack · 28 Jul 2022 at 11:09

4 WDCs is a decent haul for any driver. It's difficult to see what more there was for him in the sport, I wish him well in whatever he does next.

chrismscotland · 28 Jul 2022 at 11:10

Mr Jack said:
4 WDCs is a decent haul for any driver. It's difficult to see what more there was for him in the sport, I wish him well in whatever he does next.

Yeah this is true, nothing else to win - I don't think he's as driven to keep racing in the same way that someone like Alonso is.
Wonder if he'll go and do WEC/Sportscars or something now, would be a good fit

MissChief · 28 Jul 2022 at 11:18

chrismscotland said:
Yeah this is true, nothing else to win - I don't think he's as driven to keep racing in the same way that someone like Alonso is.
Wonder if he'll go and do WEC/Sportscars or something now, would be a good fit

There are certainly loads of seats in WEC, maybe back to Ferrari for their Hypercar project?

Now I wonder who will take his place at AM. I genuinely don’t know. Latifi maybe as rumour is Piastri is in at Williams.

Psycho Ned · 28 Jul 2022 at 11:19

Not surprised to be honest, he gave Aston a chance to pull a decent package out of the bag with the new regs. Seen they’ve still got a total dog and he’s wasting his time :cry: