F1 2024 season

Johnny Mars Bar said:
I didn't know there was a YouTube version.

Must admit I only dip in and out of that show, I find the jokey banter stuff a bit tiresome. Same with the Matt & Tommy podcast, it's a bit grating.
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Sometimes worth it because you can see EJ's face when Coulthard triggers him.

I agree it's a bit hit and miss. They clip it well for viral shorts which makes it more interest than it is.
 
Newey to Stroll FC confirmed then.

A bit like Omar Barrada going to the rags.

Aston Martin are going nowhere while their driver lineup consists of a bang average rich lad doing it for a hobby and a has-been. They are not a serious team.

They're paying Newey more than Pep gets paid and City and it's not even a full time job - completely mental, and it's all going to end in tears.

Sky talking about Alonso's third title - jog on.
 
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Johnny Mars Bar said:
Newey to Stroll FC confirmed then.

A bit like Omar Barrada going to the rags.

Aston Martin are going nowhere while their driver lineup consists of a bang average rich lad doing it for a hobby and a has-been. They are not a serious team.

They're paying Newey more than Pep gets paid and City and it's not even a full time job - completely mental, and it's all going to end in tears.

Sky talking about Alonso's third title - jog on.
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"I want you to make my Lance a World Champion"

"I'm an engineer, not a miracle worker Laurence."

EJ will have probably put a multi million payment clause to himself if he ever did.
 
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Johnny Mars Bar said:
Newey to Stroll FC confirmed then.

A bit like Omar Barrada going to the rags.

Aston Martin are going nowhere while their driver lineup consists of a bang average rich lad doing it for a hobby and a has-been. They are not a serious team.

They're paying Newey more than Pep gets paid and City and it's not even a full time job - completely mental, and it's all going to end in tears.

Sky talking about Alonso's third title - jog on.
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Going to take time to turn Aston Martin into a team that can compete in the top three let alone win world titles. They will be well along with the 2025 car which won’t really have any of Newey’s input on it, so we won’t see anything that really resembles from the ground up from him till 2026 which will have another regulation change coming. They will need to get all the departments on aero, wind tunnel, engine etc aligned to what he wants, Red Bull did it in the early days but it didn’t happen over night.
 
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Going to take time to turn Aston Martin into a team that can compete in the top three let alone win world titles. They will be well along with the 2025 car which won’t really have any of Newey’s input on it, so we won’t see anything that really resembles from the ground up from him till 2026 which will have another regulation change coming. They will need to get all the departments on aero, wind tunnel, engine etc aligned to what he wants, Red Bull did it in the early days but it didn’t happen over night.
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If Laurence Stroll is serious about competing at the top, he needs to sack his kid and probably get rid of Alonso as well.
 
Newey, eh?

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Alonso driving the AMR25

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It Aston Martin do show serious signs of improvement next season I reckon they'll get a pick of one of the McLaren drivers when they inevitably fall out and if they get rid of Stroll then possibly one of the Williams drivers as well.
 
www.bbc.co.uk

McLaren ask Oscar Piastri to back Lando Norris F1 title bid

McLaren are to prioritise Lando Norris over team-mate Oscar Piastri in their bid to win both Formula 1 world championships this year, team principal Andrea Stella tells BBC Sport.
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I'd say "better late than never" but as a long suffering McLaren fan, I do fear that it probably is a bit too late now for the drivers title if I'm honest. They've pissed away too many points trying to be nice and pussy-footing around with Piastri.

It's a learning curve this, and the way they've rocketed from being nowhere to being at the top of the grid, it's been a very steep one after so many years in the wilderness.

I like that McLaren seem like a nice team run by likeable guys but they were missing that ruthless streak in Hungary, and it's continued since. I include Norris in that.

Hopefully now they've got their arse in gear and have some focus they can make a really good go of both titles this season.
 
This is a brilliant watch

Maybe Jake Humphrey isn't actually a massive twat. I always liked him on the BBC F1 coverage, perhaps he's just instructed by BT Sport to play the role of a giddy banter merchant.

He came across as serious and informed at the BBC when presenting F1 and that shines through here too.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
This is a brilliant watch

Maybe Jake Humphrey isn't actually a massive twat. I always liked him on the BBC F1 coverage, perhaps he's just instructed by BT Sport to play the role of a giddy banter merchant.

He came across as serious and informed at the BBC when presenting F1 and that shines through here too.
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If you can ignore all the shit he posts online about 'rules' he lives his life by and how grateful he is for everything blah blah blah. Think he's pretty nauseating to be honest.

He was ok starting out and presenting F1 was one of his first big gigs, but he's been pretty successful since with his High Performance podcast and his Whisper TV company and I would say he has changed for the worse.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
This is a brilliant watch

Maybe Jake Humphrey isn't actually a massive twat. I always liked him on the BBC F1 coverage, perhaps he's just instructed by BT Sport to play the role of a giddy banter merchant.

He came across as serious and informed at the BBC when presenting F1 and that shines through here too.
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His book "How to Build a Car" is excellent aswell, up there with Ross Brawn's.

The way that these F1 guys approach process improvement and quality control, to the point of paranoid obsession, makes most other sporting institutions look inadequate at best and incompetent at worst. Football may as well be in the 1700s as far as that stuff is concerned compared to F1.
 
Absolutely fucking gutted about Norris but Perez qualifying above Verstappen is peak LOLs.

Let’s see what Lando is made of tomorrow. Time to channel his inner Jenson and smoothly carve his way through the field.
 
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