2024 F1 General Discussion Thread

You are absolutely right actually!! Maybe something to do with Sunday being a working day in the ME and Sat being their equivalent to our Sun?

They were both on sundays last year. I seem to vaguely remember it being mentioned when the calendar for this year was released, but cant remember what the reason was.

You could put 6 kilos of paint of Verstappens car and he'd still probably run away with the championship.

Vcarb look like they've gone down the blue and silver colour scheme similar to the toro rosso around 2018, going by the teaser shots my expectations are good for it.

Is there a reason why the teams use the sky presenters for the livery launches?

Depends how much additional colour would affect it. The cars often bump and get small knocks like aero coming off other cars. Sometimes a bump can create a small hole. That's better than the whole part coming off.

Aero presumably experiences huge stress from the air and g-force. No good if it starts to disintegrate before the end of a race.

I don't pretend to know anything about it BTW, just imagining the stresses on external parts

Think Williams used Will Buxton. Just depends on who's available. Although I do remember in 2021, while we still semi locked down, Mercedes-Benz launched in Brackley and got Whisper productions (Channel 4 F1 company) to produce the TV presentation. That was presented by Steve Jones, now usually in these things, the questions the hosts ask are usually pretty PR friendly. Steve was having none of that. He pressed both Lewis and Toto on why at the time Lewis was very non committal on his contract. Last year it was Naomi Schiff and Natalie Pinkham who did the launch so make of that what you will.

Way too busy. But at least it's not black

the best one so far!

thats a little beauty, love the splashes of red and white!

Albon back to RB it seems.

There were already rumblings from other teams not being happy that Visa RB would be getting technical help from Red Bull...so it begins.

I don’t know. Red Bull would be a great spot to put himself in a position to win the odd race and collect a lot more podiums. Given the talent pool, it’s very unlikely he’ll ever head up a top team.

I think Mercedes seems on paper a more natural fit but can see why a return to Red Bull would be appealing.

Depends whether he’s happy to play second fiddle to Max again but the team has shown more patience with Perez after the Albon/Gasly experiments and Albon himself is a lot more experienced.

Seems like it has the RB19s rear and front suspension, not bad parts to have on your car.

interesting youtube about it here

That new Alpha Tauri looks stunning oh sorry I mean VCarb or whatever it is thay are calling themselves now.

Best looking one so far.

His pace relative to Latifi was far better than Russell's performance the year before if you look at laptime analyses. If he had the chance to take Hamilton's seat (though if I was Merc I'd target Sainz or try to poach Norris first) he'd have a great chance of being their number 1 driver and being a title contender there. He's obviously nowhere near the level of a Verstappen or an Alonso, but we've seen drivers no better than him like Rosberg and Villeneuve win titles by being in the right place at the right time.

Well it looks like the investigation against Christian Horner will not conclude before they launch there new car.

And Daft Punk are the pit crew.

I do like that the social media admin have good craic with each other

I know WTF1 is spiritually continued with P1 podcast/YouTube, but I do miss their social media championship thing they used do in the internet's best reaction video...

Confirmation that merc have changed their rear suspension concept for this year. (as am have to use the same suspension as merc and theirs is changed)

The new Aston, cracker.