Motorsports (NASCAR, F1, etc) Discussion Thread • Page 50

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Haas F1 team splits with Mazepin, Uralkali after Ukraine invasion

 

Hope they go for Illot, Piastri or Gio:

 

I think with regards to Mazepin, if Haas weren’t being paid to have him in the seat there is literally no point in keeping him. He was there simply for his dads money. That’s gone now.

 

Holy shit

 

Yeessss

 

Sepang is one of F1’s best ever circuits, yes please.

 

You'd think Petronas would handsomely pay whatever it took to get a long-term contract signed with that circuit

 

This seemed to be a common misconception on twitter yesterday. He's not out of the sport because he's Russian, he's out of the sport because his talent alone doesn't warrant a seat.

 

K Mag is baaacccckkkk

 

Sad Hulkenberg noises

 

So the Mercedes seems to no longer have sidepods

 

Albon was doing an interview with Sky and during it, Latifi’s brakes caught fire. His response was “I think I know the issue it’s what we were testing. We were struggling with rear tyre temps so we thought flames were gonna help”

god I’ve missed Albon

 

faster than Mazepin’s quali time last year too

 

The car is basically a re-skinned Ferrari (I think), so not too surprising of this time. But still, great to see; Gene Haas might be glad now his cars will have the Haas name on them, which should be good for advertising

 

Mazepin does not come across well in DTS at all

 

So, my predictions for the season:

WCC
1. Red Bull (500+)
2. Ferrari (500+)
3. Mercedes (400+)
4. McLaren (400+)
5. Aston Martin (100+)
6. Alpha Tauri (100+)
7. Alpine (50+)
8. Alfa Romeo (40+)
9. Williams (30+)
10. Haas (20+)

WDC
1. Verstappen
2. Hamilton
3. Leclerc

Best Race:
Baku

Dark Horse:
Tsunoda

 

Just got to Ep4 of DTS. I don't think anyone is going to miss the Mazepins. Jesus.

 

Felt so bad for Danny on S4E2 :(

 

I don't really know why expectations were so high on Ric to start with. He was pretty naff when he first joined Renault too, until he got comfortable with the car.

Be interesting to see how he stacks up when everyone is in brand new cars this season.

 

Had worse office views

(this only took me three attempts to attach, no biggie lol)

 

Vettel tested positive, so Hulk is in the car this weekend.

 

Feel for Vettel. Ugh

excited for Hulk though

 

Shame the car isn’t too great lol. A few weeks ago, they realised they managed to make the car 25kg too heavy. I don’t know that happened but it seems a basic error to me lol.

 

That’s rough lol