Motorsport Off Topic Thread

[GravyMonster]

What would the championship have looked like without Red Bull? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YzzLViAy7KA

Hopefully next year is a bit more like this...

 

[AlphariusOmegan]

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/e5yzph/the_drivers_championship_without_mercedes_2019/ what the F1 Championship would have looked like in 2019 without Merc

Verstappen 388 Leclerc 353 Vettel 318
vs
Hamilton 413 Bottas 326 Verstappen 278

 

[hudson86]

More FIA shenanigans.

Steve Nielsen: FIA sporting director quits after less than a year in the job

Steve Nielsen resigns from his role as sporting director of Formula 1's governing body the FIA less than a year since being appointed.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[GravyMonster]

Race direction and stewardship has been an absolute ****show since we lost Charlie Whiting

 

[chrismscotland]

Its clear that F1 didn't have any real kind of plan for a post Whiting world, obviously it was tragic that he died so suddenly but at 66 it not as if he was going to keep going forever.
That said a huge amount of experience (30 years) isn't replaced overnight.

 

[Mad_Jay]

10 years to the day since Michael Schumachers Skiiing accident, where has that time gone?

Whilst other news outlets and tabloids have gone for "Exclusives" which provide no extra insight to Michaels perfectly entitled confidentially, the BBC have gone for this instead.

Sushi with Schumacher: Ex-F1 chef on catering for sport's big names​

Sushi with Schumacher: The life of a Formula 1 chef

Former chef Dave Freeman recalls his time catering for some of the biggest names on the track.

www.bbc.co.uk

A great little story going into the lesser known areas of F1, I also didn't know about the pit board story either until I read it in this article.

 

[JRS]

Gil de Ferran: Former Indianapolis 500 winner and McLaren sporting director dies aged 56.

Dang

 

[JRS]

And another one - Cale Yarborough, NASCAR great, dies at 84.

The last of NASCAR’s blue collar working men drivers has passed away. Cale Yarborough died Sunday morning in hospice care in Florence, South Carolina not far from his hometown of Timmonsville. He was 84.

Yarborough’s passing marks the last of the generation of drivers who worked their way up from humble beginnings to the pinnacle of America’s largest stock car auto racing winning 83 races and three NASCAR championships along the way.

4-time Daytona 500 winner, 3-time NASCAR Series champion, and twice appeared on The Dukes of Hazzard A life well-lived.

 

[Blackvault]

More FIA shenanigans.

Steve Nielsen: FIA sporting director quits after less than a year in the job

Steve Nielsen resigns from his role as sporting director of Formula 1's governing body the FIA less than a year since being appointed.

www.bbc.co.uk

I wonder if it's due to the dislike towards the FIA President?

 

[GravyMonster]

Good in depth video going through the inner workings of the Mercedes GT3 car:

 

[Blackvault]

I must have missed the intention to rebrand Alfa Romeo. The logo and name got revealed today, and I'm sorry but the font looks like 90s Comic Sans!

Renamed Stake F1 team reveals new logo

www.motorsport.com

 

[GravyMonster]

It's still going to get called Sauber. The corporate rent-a-car F1 team.

Any news on what Alpha Tauri is getting renamed to yet?

 

[JRS]

It's still going to get called Sauber. The corporate rent-a-car F1 team.

This. Though it's not just Sauber that's been every name under the sun. Toleman became Benetton became Renault became LOLtus became Renault again became Alpine. And Jordan-Midland-Spyker-Force India-Racing Point-Aston Martin, plus Tyrrell-BAR-Honda-Brawn-Mercedes.

Any news on what Alpha Tauri is getting renamed to yet?

Still just listed with AlphaTauri RB as a placeholder in the entry lists AFAIK.

 

[Feek]

It's still going to get called Sauber. The corporate rent-a-car F1 team.

That's the thing, most people still think of it as Sauber. Stake is a very strange name.

 

[GravyMonster]

True. Although they were a sponsor last year, so not completely out of the blue. It is weird that they've taken the team name entirely instead of just being a title sponsor, but again that fall into Sauber's 'space for rent' ethos.

 

[Stumble Bum]

Sauber are becoming Audi in 2026 anyway, so they already know the name is not going to stick around for much longer, may as well make more money out of naming rights until Audi want their name used in 2026.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Stake has got to be one of the worst F1 team names of all time? Top 3.

 

[Mr Jack]

Saw this list of F1 salaries for the coming year:

Max Verstappen Red Bull $70 million
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes $55 million
Fernando Alonso Aston Martin $34 million
Sergio Perez Red Bull $26 million
Charles Leclerc Ferrari $19 million
Lando Norris McLaren $15 million
Carlos Sainz Ferrari $14 million
Valtteri Bottas Stake F1 Team $10 million
George Russell Mercedes $8 million
Pierre Gasly Alpine $8 million
Oscar Piastri McLaren $8 million
Esteban Ocon Alpine $6 million
Kevin Magnussen Haas $5 million
Alex Albon Williams $3 million
Daniel Ricciardo AlphaTauri $2.1 million
Nico Hulkenberg Haas $2 million
Lance Stroll Aston Martin $2 million
Zhou Guanyu Stake F1 Team $2 million
Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri $1 million
Logan Sargeant Williams $1 million​

If that's even vaguely true, Pérez must have the best agent in sporting history.

 

[Mad_Jay]

Danny Ric was pulling in over $30 million a year at Renault and $15 million a year for his time at Mclaren.

I bet he's just happy he is back racing.

 

[Jono8]

"Stake F1"

Are they having a laugh? What a stupid name.