Yes
A drive who is hired because he brings more money, from sponsorship or otherwise, than they will get paid. So they're a net positive to a team's budget, whereas the top drivers you have to pay a few tens of millions a year for.
F1 2022 Season
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Williams looks dirt. Last in constructors think we can put a pin in that.
Ah so they're having to use him as he brings in the money and they can't afford a good one, do you know who the others are. Zhou I'd imagine?
Stroll (his dad even bought the team), Latifi, and Zhou. Mazepin last season also was.
Russell looks like a Thunderbirds puppet in the promo pictures they're using for him.
Bottas, Kmag, Alonso and Gasly in the top 10, lovely.
Hope Magnussen can run in Q3.
Hope Magnussen can run in Q3.
OUT IN Q2
11) Esteban Ocon, Alpine
12) Mick Schumacher, Haas
13) Lando Norris, McLaren
14) Alex Albon, Williams
15) Zhou Guanyu, Alfa Romeo
11) Esteban Ocon, Alpine
12) Mick Schumacher, Haas
13) Lando Norris, McLaren
14) Alex Albon, Williams
15) Zhou Guanyu, Alfa Romeo
Haas in q3 on pure merit. Amazing
Hope you are not a betting man.
That and a driver who didn’t even know he would be racing this year until a mere few weeks ago.
Mercs closer, but I think Max has more to give here. I think it’s an easy pole for him with the two Ferraris after. Lewis might get 4th, but I expect him, Russel and Perez to be 4,5,6 in some order
I kind of hope he is
2 Merc engines in the top 10.
Sadly no midfield team cracked the regs and joined the top teams. At least it looks like a 3 horse race at the top. Could still have a jump in pace.
So now we have track limits they just said.
Shame to see that Mclaren look to have taken a pretty big backwards step after last year.
Now for the first time we will get to see the real pace of the top cars and drivers.
It seems the poor 2nd test has really set us back at Mclaren what a shame
what a shameI don’t think that’s McLaren’s real pace, they are just on the backfoot after testing issues and a temporary fix on the brakes.
Surprised at the time spread of the field, was supposed to be tighter but I guess it is the first race.
Renault almost a second off but now we get to see the true pace of the top teams in Q3.
Renault almost a second off but now we get to see the true pace of the top teams in Q3.
Leclerc on fresh tyres to take pole.
2 horse race for me, for a few race anyway Red Bull and Ferrari , Mercedes still have a way to go to solve all their problems.
We seemed very good at Barcelona, maybe the car just sucks at this track. Hard to understand but hopefully just a lack of setup compared to the other cars.
Amazing to see how well Haas are doing.
Both Mercedes out first in Q3 and on used tyres.
Mags coming out for one run.
Both Ferrari faster than Max
FFS come to something when Mercedes have to worry about a HAAS dropping them down the grid !
Ferrari smashing it.
That alpha tauri shits the bed in the 2nd and 3rd sectors
This is so close, come on Ferrari!
1st sector is essentially 1 corner so it's not really that important.
Yeah, pretty strange to see someone do a purple first sector and the lap is still fecking 2.5s off the pace.
I also thought about it. I would guess low downforce setup is giving him best speed down the 2 main straights that are in sector 1, then low grip all the rest of the way around.Yeah, pretty strange to see someone do a purple first sector and the lap is still fecking 2.5s off the pace.
Oh the purple sector thing isn't working. Russel almost 9 tenths off and it lights up purple.
Yeah was bugged the whole time
Wow!!!
Consequent of Mercedes to sandbag through qualifying and keep everyone guessing for the race
The whole timing systems hasn't been working for all of qualy, new timing screens aren't that much better tbh.
Leclerc!
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Big lap from Charles there