2024 F1 General Discussion Thread

Proof that blind faith can lead even the strongest to the deepest depths.

Some teams think the gap to Red Bull has extended over the break...

Granted, the rest of them look really close together. Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and Aston Martin all look really close, and you could throw in RB Visa Low Carb Diet App as well.

dts is online there now....

Ferrari look pretty decent from what I've seen of testing.

Hamilton will be pretty confident that his move from Mercedes is the right move. Ferrari shouldn't be a million miles away for the final year of these rules in 2025.

Watched first 2 episodes. Typical stuff from the show, but we did get to see bits of the Danny Ric Silverstone test.

Far too much Will Buxton and Danica Patrick though...

It always seems like a culture problem at Ferrari. They have plans a-e because nobody wants to be an original thinker because they're fcuked if they stick their head above the parapet and it goes wrong. So they plan the strategy and stick to the plan no matter how inappropriate it is.

That nonsense wouldn't fly at Mercedes where have the cop-on to adapt to reality and then learn from it whether it goes right or wrong.

Ferrari are stuck in a doom loop where their best chance of not being fired is to stick to the plan and never innovate. If Fred can sort that out, then he's a serious leader.

Can the dts spoilers or any conversations related to it stick to the dts thread.

Well this is the General Discussion thread and it's generally been talked about here before but ye I did not know there was a DTS thread. Will keep it there.

Could Merc go for Ocon? Is Toto his manager or did that end when he left Merc

I really hope Sainz gets a decent seat for '25

I found a youtube channel that's uploading old races in full. Big Zeddie - YouTube I just watched the 2003 German GP.

I mentioned on the broadcast thread as well that David Croft will be missing three Grand Prix this year.

Who is the alternative for Crofty? Alex Brundle? Alex Jacques? David Kennedy?!?!

Ford not happy. Demanding an update on the Horner debacle.

As mentioned above it will be Harry Benjamin

It is surprising that it's dragging on as much as it is. I understand they need to follow a process but I don't see why it has taken so long - for all the importance of it it does sound like a relatively straightforward claim that shouldn't be too hard to investigate.

Red Bull will need to be very transparent when they issue whatever the outcome is though, especially if Horner stays put...

I wouldn't normally post Red Bulls promotional stuff here, but this is incredible.

Skip to 6:12 to see Liam Lawson in the RB8, and 9:33 for Max in the RB20 if you don't want to see the other bits.

Showing off the brand new car in the wet, before the first race of the season, with some crazy footage. I'm sure the timing is closely related to the Horner stuff.

Interesting to see how much the car slides in the wet from this angle. It's like a video game.

Was also about to post that video, it's crazy how quick the drone is and manoeuvrable it is.

Yeah, think it's 6 or 7 houses - they were broadcasting from them last year, although from memoryonly one was finished

Imagine having those drones for race footage