Formula One - 2022 - Rllmuk League is live

[fragglerock]

God they need to learn some interview skills... a quick thing with Danny about if he was going to Merc for some non driver thing next year... fine... but to keeeeeep banging on when he clearly is not going to say is a waste of all our time.

[MrPogo]

12 minutes ago, jonathanhoey said:

 

I think if Max wins all the remaining races of the season, he'll not quite reach the previous best winning percentage over a single season. I want to say Ascari has the current record, by winning like six out of seven races or something. 

 

That's seventy years ago though, when it wasn't really the same sport. In the modern era Schumacher probably has the greatest percentage of wins in a single season, and I imagine Max can beat that one. 

 

No one will ever beat the career win % of Fangio, who won half of all F1 races he ever entered.  

Someone on Reddit posted a breakdown in the week. I have a feeling Max can equal Schumacher’s second place on win percentage if he wins the last two races, but could be remembering wrong!

[mexos]

So the Max interview in the pen is by LB, not a Sky reporter. Lols. I could get used to this.

[mexos]

The fall of Ferrari this year is pretty brutal. To think it really looked for the first few races like they were going to walk it. What are they doing?

[kiroquai]

16 minutes ago, mexos said:

What are they doing?

Sadly, the one thing we all hoped they wouldn’t do: be Ferrari.

[davidcotton]

18 minutes ago, mexos said:

The fall of Ferrari this year is pretty brutal. To think it really looked for the first few races like they were going to walk it. What are they doing?

Plan f I think.  

[layten]

heh

[myoozikk]

Is the ted thing just a handy way to deflect from the cost cap stuff? 

[layten]

Without a doubt.

[T Pot]

11 hours ago, davidcotton said:

Plan f I think.  

 

They can't go to Plan F if they don't even have a plan in the first place!

[wev]

The only team with a plan this season has been Red Bull, and that plan is "play the victim"

[mexos]

1 hour ago, wev said:

The only team with a plan this season has been Red Bull, and that plan is "play the victim"

 

...and (probably) be spendy. 

[Sidewaysbob]

....... And tell people to stop bullying the kids

[layten]

Perhaps Sky should tell Red Bull to just 'get over it'.

[layten]

Horner and co have achieved exactly what they set out to do and weaponised the asshole segment of their fanbase yet again.

 

[SMD]

i hope those red bull kids get the shit kicked out of them

[SeanR]

2 hours ago, SMD said:

i hope those red bull kids get the shit kicked out of them

I can’t see my son wearing his red bull top any time soon.

 

lucky he has that AM V5 gear to fall back on.

 

you know, on Sunday he asked me 

 

“why are you so hard(!) for Hamilton?”

 

“he’s the 2nd best driver of Grenadian descent”

 

”who’s no. 1 father?”

 

“me”

 

”when I get my licence you’ll be bumped down to no. 3”

 

“no, but you might edge out Pascal Wehrlein…”

 

The boy’s mother is of Mauritian descent… oh how we laughed!

[mexos]

It is absolutely hilarious. Trump levels of hypocrisy from Horner yet again. The difference is I don't think he's delusional. He knows exactly what he's doing. 

 

Sadly the 'boycott' isn't lasting - we will have to listen to his shit again from the next race. 

 

 

[Sidewaysbob]

The first question they should ask Horner is "So, did you rob Lewis of the title or not then ?"

[layten]

37 minutes ago, Sidewaysbob said:

The first question they should ask Horner is "So, did you rob Lewis of the title or not then ?"

Red Bull didn’t rob anything. It was the FIA race director. 
 

Which makes it all the more amusing they are acting like spoilt children who have been told off for the first ever time. 

[mexos]

Abu Dhabi - they did the F1 thing (which all teams do) which is use whatever levers you have (lobbying) to the extreme. It was weakness & lack of leadership on the FIA's side that led to that result. Weak on the day and weak before in not stopping the teams pulling that shit earlier. 

 

Totally different kettle of fish with the spendy spendy. That is all on them 100%. Rabid F1 Twitter can't make the distinction.

 

 

 

 

[jonathanhoey]

@myoozikk and @layten have already called it. No one at RBR gives a shit about Kravitz implying that Hamilton was robbed in 2021. Everyone knows that's what happened, it's ancient history. This is purely an excuse not to have to talk to the biggest multinational broadcaster when they've been caught overspending the cost cap. 

 

I wish the BBC, Autosport, AMuS and everyone else had hammered them on that particular point instead of buying into the "oh no, someone said a mean thing" smokescreen. 

[ryodi]

Max is going to easily win the last two races of the season, the only interesting thing is how Sky and other broadcasters are going to approach it. Normally Sky would have an in depth interview with Max talking about the season, how he won the race and his first  championship in Abu Dhabi. But because everyone knows Hamilton was robbed and after his failed dive bomb on lap one he was nowhere until Masi intervened I’m expecting them to show barely anything of AD and concentrate on the rest of the season instead.

[mexos]

Calling it now. Lewis is going to win in Abu Dhabi. 

[wev]

Red Bull Racing do have a history of pointing the finger elsewhere too, they basically blamed everything from 2014 to 2020 on Renault.

[mexos]

It's amazing just how little credit Renault got for those championships. Renault didn't make enough of it and shouty RB made sure the looked like they were the only stars.

[wev]

Oh and don't forget their wind tunnel is a "cold war relic", poor little Red Bu, having to operate out of Adrian Neweys shed

[Nick_L]

1 hour ago, mexos said:

It's amazing just how little credit Renault got for those championships. Renault didn't make enough of it and shouty RB made sure the looked like they were the only stars.

 

I can appreciate a good bit of shithousery in sport but Horner and Helmut Marko do come across as whiney bellends pretty often

[Shimmyhill]

All we need now is for Redbull to threaten to pull out of F1 and FIA to tell them ‘off you fuck’ 🤣😂

 

Some complex they have but outside of Ferrari there arent (m)any teams that FIA need - certainly all the car / engine manufacturers will be ahead of RB and historically Williams…. So no, not needed and im sure Porsche would buy up the epic of the team for an entry!

[wev]

Hmmm, I'd rather see them stay, they're like pantomime villains and bring a bit of that to the sport when for years it was very, very sterile