Good. He's not had the best of starts to his F1 career, but I think he's finding his feet more this year, and can hopefully start living up to his promise.
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Good. He's not had the best of starts to his F1 career, but I think he's finding his feet more this year, and can hopefully start living up to his promise.
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Another one falls in to place for Ericsson's prediction.
You can try the circuit website itself but I’m not sure they’re for sale yet.
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Isn't SPA one of the worst to go to? The track is the longest or close to longest on the calendar so you see less action that somewhere like A1 ring or whatever they like to call it now.
Two colleagues, well, three actually, two went together, both went to Spa this year and had a great time they said. It’s true though the long lap means less laps and for example towards the start of the race the field streams by and it’s two minutes or more before you see them again.
De Vries has apparently been meeting with Helmut Marko. I think he's likely to head to Alpha Tauri rather than Williams, freeing Gasly to go to Alpine, and then Williams will take Sargeant if he gets the superlicense points. If he doesn't, there's apparently a potentially deal with Alpine to foster Doohan for a year.
People seem to be seriously linking Hülkenberg with the Haas seat of Schumacher which just seems bizarre to me, but there we go.
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I fancied going to the A1 ring, until it got invaded by the Dutch. If you're a Max fan, go for it, otherwise I'd probably skip it.
Thought this was an empty comment, then realised there was an official announcement
:Nice guy, but he's never been good enough to impress in F1 and has been hugely poor this season. I hope he can find success in some other formula.
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I think the writings been on the wall for a while with Latifi, but DeVries out-qualifying him must have been the final straw for Williams.
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I don’t get all the love for Hulkenberg. He’s a good 2nd driver, but he was outclassed by Ricciardo at Renault in his last season (2019) and even the Honey Badger might not have a drive next year.
Zhou staying at Alfa for '23 confirmed:
He's surprised me with his quality this season, although the points haven't come through a mixture of bad luck and timing, I think he's done very well and earned his place on the grid.
He's surprised me with his quality this season, although the points haven't come through a mixture of bad luck and timing, I think he's done very well and earned his place on the grid.
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Another tick for Ericsson's prediction. De Vries is almost a certainty at Williams, so it'll be interesting to see if the last 3 also fall in to place.
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✅ Alpine - Ocon
❔ Alpine - Gasly
❔ Alpha Tauri - Schumacher
✅ Alpha Tauri - Tsunoda
✅ McLaren - Norris
✅ McLaren - Piastri
✅ Alfa Romeo - Bottas
✅ Alfa Romeo - Zhou
✅ Haas - Magnussen
❔ Haas - Ricciardo
✅ Williams - Albon
❔ Williams - De VriesApparently Gunther Steiner has said they won’t chase Danny Ricc and if he wants to drive for Haas he needs to call them.
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It feels like Ricciardo has already accepted that he's not going to be on the grid in 2023, he would be well placed to get a decent seat in something like WEC you would think.