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Feek said:
Isn't he banned from being in any position of power? Should be banned from the grid, tbh.
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That ended in 2012 after the lifetime ban was overturned. His face would fit at RB at the very least, however he'd be very bad PR to be in any front like position, I don't think any team would touch him.
 
jaybee said:
Lots of talk and hope about the new Merc looking quite daring in its front wing approach and aero concept towards the front of the car...
So 2 seconds adrift in Q3 first race weekend? ;)
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Meanwhile RB will pull out the Merc zeropod concept at some point, make it work and be another 2 seconds faster :D
 
Tigget said:
I imagine if they felt there was a high % chance of the allegations being proved true, that they wouldn't take the risk of giving him air time, going to the launch etc. After all, it's a company focussed entirely around the brand name.
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I’d imagine it’s a tricky one as how do you judge % chance of being proven true without the investigation first. If it dominoed like Epstein where one story came out then 2, 3, 4…. but so far it seems to only be 1 employee so I can see the sense of not taking any action until the investigation is complete.

jaybee said:
Lots of talk and hope about the new Merc looking quite daring in its front wing approach and aero concept towards the front of the car...
So 2 seconds adrift in Q3 first race weekend? ;)
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I’ll wait until testing before and seeing the actual cars, rather than just livery’s, before any hope for Merc’s performance.
 
We know at least one of the 'dramatic' storylines for the upcoming season of Drive To Survive then.

The new series of Drive to Survive reveals how Lewis Hamilton’s relationship with Mercedes became strained before he decided to leave.

The seven-times world champion was frustrated by the team’s failure to act on his warnings about their first car built for the technical regulations Formula 1 introduced in 2022.

“I remember complaining to the team and being like, look, we have to make these changes, otherwise this is the trajectory we’re going to go on and this is where we’re going to end up,” he told the programme makers. “Please, please do something about it.

“I remember they said, like, we know what we’re doing, you’re wrong. And that was definitely an interesting moment. I was like, okay, I’ll step back, don’t want to step on anybody’s toes. Then when we got into the season, then we spoke again [they said] ‘oh, maybe you were right.”
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The boy's gonna have to get better at speaking out and making himself heard if he's gonna elevate Ferrari back to title-winning country...
 
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