F1 2024 Season

Dan_F

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My good man, the article has these quotes from him:

Mercedes driver Hamilton, speaking in a news conference before the opening race of the season in Bahrain on Saturday, added: "It is a really important moment for the sport to make sure we stand true to our values.

"We always have to do more to try to make the sport and the environment people work in feel safe and inclusive. Any allegations have to be taken very seriously."


That implies a lot more than what you said.
Does it? It’s the most bland, corporate, PR pre-prepared, statement ever. I genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about, but then again, that goes for all your other posts following on after too.
 

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@Redplane no offence but it does come across like you just dislike Lewis and are trying to pick fault with his comments. It's clear what he means as he's been quite active in the sport in trying to make things more diverse, equal and in line with important topics within the world. His comments are quite simple and aren't shit stirry at all.
 

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First real glimpse of the actual cars today - exciting!
A glimpse is all the grid will see of Max's rear wing for most of the season.

I'm still looking forward to it for my sins, but I do feel like the energy around the sport is a little bit flat at the moment. Max fans loving life of course and so they should but even winning becomes boring without competition.

Things I'm mostly interested in this season:
  1. How badly Perez can manage to get beaten by his teammate again.
  2. Hamilton's relationship with Mercedes ending, he's already thrown some shade George/Toto's way this week.
  3. How long it takes before Williams finally give up on Sargeant.
  4. Piastri/Norris battle could be tasty this year.
  5. Alonso flirting with Mercedes until they announce LH's replacement.
  6. Ferrari strategists throwing away at least 10 good opportunities, "we are checking".
  7. David Croft not commentating on at least 3 races.
 

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Think we'll have a closer season than people expect.
Ferrari will challenge Red Bull(Max to be precise) on a lot of tracks much like McLaren did but with a lot more straightline speed and qualy performance.

Perez will be useless as usual though I predict 4th place in the Drivers standings for him
 

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Think we'll have a closer season than people expect.
Ferrari will challenge Red Bull(Max to be precise) on a lot of tracks much like McLaren did but with a lot more straightline speed and qualy performance.

Perez will be useless as usual though I predict 4th place in the Drivers standings for him
Just the usual doom mongers doom mongering.

Ferrari will have the fastest qualy car at the majority of tracks this season. They wont catch up on race pace but still be plenty of racing, and they'll probably get more than the 1 win.
 

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Is it doom mongering to not expect a team that won 21 out of 22 races last season, no regulation changes, no driver changes, to not dominate again the following year?

I absolutely hope it isn't the case, I'll be watching anyway but its realism to not hold out too much hope for a battle for P1.
 

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Be hilarious if RB can keep up with McLaren this season. Zak Brown will explode.

Also those Alpine and Haas times :lol: Just disband
 

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The last thing we want near the front is four cars from the same team.

He's right as well.
 

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Sainz did a 1.29.9 in testing on what I'm pretty sure was a hotter track. So they're all still masking pace.
 

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Well if the whatsapp screen grabs I've seen are real it's very PG and also not unsolicited.
 

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Probably irresponsible to speculate but this is getting crazier and crazier
Yeah i'd say 90% it's fake.

Only thing gives me pause is how utterly boring it is. Surely they'd put something actually spicy in there if they were faking it.
 

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Needs a full investigation by F1 tbh, not just an internal RB one.
 

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Well the screengrabs are low quality so it's hard to tell, but there's no identifiable marks anywhere. Could have easily been generated in any of the fake whatsapp chat generators.

There are 2 photos of Horner in there and one of them genuinely could be a linkedin profile pic. The other one is either a selfie, or zoom screengrab, on a plane. Seem very odd pictures to be in amongst references to phone sex.
 

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Is it doom mongering to not expect a team that won 21 out of 22 races last season, no regulation changes, no driver changes, to not dominate again the following year?

I absolutely hope it isn't the case, I'll be watching anyway but its realism to not hold out too much hope for a battle for P1.
The RedBulls are clearly quickest by a margin on the long runs. Plus for some reason they had the engine turned down.

RB have new side pods coming after the first few desert races are over. I expect to be comfortably ahead in quality and in the race