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#3393813 14-Jul-2025 13:18

Jaxson:

Part of you wants to see what the teams shake out like next year under the new regulations.
The other part knows your current team is in disarray and you want to get out asap.

Getting out earlier allows you to settle into the new team sooner and hit the ground running next year.

Agree

Its a lottery for everyone next year, can cannot really avoid that. Seeing RBR on the up and up is a big stretch, a very big stretch, for so many reasons

Max can score points in Mercedes this year, not that it matters now for him

Yes, bedding in will be huge, as well as for George or Kimi

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#3393887 14-Jul-2025 14:37

Aston is the big question mark for me. Alonso is really getting up there age wise now and the will stroll stay question ever present, I think he will. With Newey on board to contribute towards the 2026 reg change car, great new facilities, what looks to be solid financial backing, and Honda powered, surely they'll be on an up at some point?

Actually Stroll has actually been quite interesting this year and has done well in the wet. He's been quoted as saying he would prefer to see cars be simpler/more pure and less science project to drive.

Found the quotes from Stroll:

“It would just be fun to see some light, nimble, fast cars with a lot of downforce and just simplify the whole thing a little bit.

“Less so of an energy, battery, championship science project and more of just a Formula 1 racing championship.”

Leclerc was similar, saying the focus on extreme battery harvesting was a bit odd.

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#3393890 14-Jul-2025 14:44

Jaxson:

Aston is the big question mark for me. Alonso is really getting up there age wise now and the will stroll stay question ever present, I think he will. With Newey on board to contribute towards the 2026 reg change car, great new facilities, what looks to be solid financial backing, and Honda powered, surely they'll be on an up at some point?

Actually Stroll has actually been quite interesting this year and has done well in the wet. He's been quoted as saying he would prefer to see cars be simpler/more pure and less science project to drive.

Found the quotes from Stroll:

“It would just be fun to see some light, nimble, fast cars with a lot of downforce and just simplify the whole thing a little bit.

“Less so of an energy, battery, championship science project and more of just a Formula 1 racing championship.”

Leclerc was similar, saying the focus on extreme battery harvesting was a bit odd.

Yep, the Pinnacle of Motorsport has a growing majority shareholding these days. We only get to see real drivers on wet days.

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#3393921 14-Jul-2025 15:31

Latifi did well in wet sometimes. Is it driving well in the wet or they aren't pushing as hard as the others so less chance of spinning?

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#3393927 14-Jul-2025 16:00

Bung:

Latifi did well in wet sometimes. Is it driving well in the wet or they aren't pushing as hard as the others so less chance of spinning?

IMO its the feel. To win you need to drive as fast as possible, close to the limit, yet not go off. In the dry that's heavily biased by the car with all the aero/mechanical/ground effect they have these days

Schummy used to get criticised at times for going off so many times in free practice. He was finding the limit. Best to do that in FP than the race

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#3393930 14-Jul-2025 16:08

langi27:

Toto Wolff spotted boarding max's private jet in Sardinia. Silly season about to kick up a gear.

It's apparently fake news, there were a series of photos including one of Toto and Max kissing.

Makes no sense for Verstappen to sign at this point, he knows he's in the dominant position in any negotiation. Don't doubt he's probably talking to Mercedes, but that's a long way from agreeing a deal. Mercedes didn't exactly cover themselves in glory at the last regulation change and you might argue they still haven't fully recovered to where they were in 2021.

Have any of the 2026 engines been on a dyno yet? Mercedes might be talking a big game with their numbers but who can be really sure, and they haven't built a great chassis in a few years now. Verstappen might be best to limit the unknowns as much as he can and stay put for next season.

If, as reported, Verstappen doesn't rate Wache then perhaps that will be the next domino to fall and give an indication as to where Max sees his future? Mekies is now there as a former engineer and he's seen what Eddinton was able to do at Racing Bulls with that package. I wouldn't be surprised to see a shake-up of team with the Brit moved into a more prominant role at the expense of Wache.

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#3393932 14-Jul-2025 16:14

I think I read Flightradar tracks for his jet, and both yachts were at Sardinia, next to each other. (yet hadn't seen each other......)

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#3393938 14-Jul-2025 17:10

One of the reasons I watch WEC (world endurance) and to an extent Indy car is that they have effectively solved all of the issues that F1 has and managed to keep everything competitive.

F1 really needs to ditch the private ownership/prize money distribution and let anyone compete who can put a team and two cars on the grid and hit the minimum qualifying times.

I think after the August break, we’ll start to see more 2026 parts and some new team structures (crews not drivers). I’m not expecting to see engine and chassis until January.

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#3393940 14-Jul-2025 17:33

TwoSeven:

One of the reasons I watch WEC (world endurance) and to an extent Indy car is that they have effectively solved all of the issues that F1 has and managed to keep everything competitive.

WEC have a handicap system to even out the grid and Indycars are all the same Dallara chassis.

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#3396995 25-Jul-2025 11:09

F1's back!

Hopefully we'll get a better picture of what has happened over the 3 weeks and see how it changes the 2026 season

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#3397008 25-Jul-2025 11:49

Jvipers2: F1's back!

Hopefully we'll get a better picture of what has happened over the 3 weeks and see how it changes the 2026 season

Will be interesting to see which drivers have been concentrating on improving their F1 driving via sims and actual driving on test tracks and which ones have been driving rally cars and doing the press circuits, or having nice summer holidays in St Tropez etc.

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#3397039 25-Jul-2025 13:15

F1 teams aren't allowed to do in season testing using current cars is one answer.

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#3397040 25-Jul-2025 13:18

Also F1TV 4k support has been added for google tv, ive just upgraded my sub and confirmed that it works.

At least it does on my google tv streamer...

I have not tested on a tv with native google tv software.

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#3397051 25-Jul-2025 13:45

Will be wet. Doesn't look like uber wet, but it may comes down to who compromises Quali's to match the weather on race day(s)

Max did that recently but the weather didn't play ball!

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#3397055 25-Jul-2025 14:04

ratsun81:

Also F1TV 4k support has been added for google tv, ive just upgraded my sub and confirmed that it works.

I have not tested on a tv with native google tv software.

Thanks for the heads up.

Tell me about the upgrade, is that a reduced cost to add on/prorated to what's left in the season etc?

I'm running the F1 app directly on the Sony tv, so hope that would work...

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