Yea when I learned that I was so surprised more people weren’t talking about it, because that’s impressive.

Did he get smoked? I didn't watch much of any F2

Interesting list, I respect it! It's going to be super intriguing to see how everything plays out

Thank you! Who are you most excited for?

That may be true 😂 but I don’t think it’s that far from a possibility

Right, I guess so! It’s just so weird for such an accomplished team to have these issues lol

Good points on Lawson. And they seem to Lawson is just generally more mentally robust and up to the mental task of being verstappens teammate. It’ll be interesting to see if teams like alpine or Aston can get into the mix at all

Interesting stat! I didn’t know that

Lol been watching for 35 years.. Liam has that seat and after 4 years yuki deserves nothing. Compare the first two years yuki had... lol useless

I wouldn’t have been upset if Yuki got the seat, but I can see why Red Bull wouldn’t want him in there

Not quite ha

Haha thank you!

I get that. It definitely seems like no matter what Yuki does, Red Bull isn’t interested in his services. But mentally I don’t think Yuki would be able to handle it anyways

I think he’s at least shown enough where it wouldn’t be dumb to throw him in

I hope so to see a challenge for Verstappen!

@@LasttoF1rst Liam is the guy to do it!

It will at least be spicy because Lawson won’t back down!

Fair point that anyone who could be as fast or faster wouldn’t want to go there lol. I think if they really wanted someone challenging max, then they would have gone with Carlos though. He would certainly get quite handedly beaten by Verstappen, but he would challenge him at times. Oscars a good shout for that seat in a few years. I can’t imagine the Oscar and Lando pairing lasting for too long

@LasttoF1rst I'm convinced, and it shows in the results, that when Carlos Slim paid almost £60m to keep Checo in the seat, Danny Rics drive died. He was handling Yuki until June when Red Bull signed the Checo extension, and honestly, Danny would've challenged Max. I've been a Red Bull fan since 2009, and I couldn't have been happier to see them drop to 3rd in the constructors this year. Matter of fact, until Max is gone, I hope to see Max win WDCs while Red Bull struggles in the constructors to even place 2nd. I'll never forgive Horner.

Done in 5 years because he retires or are you suggesting he will run out of talent? He’ll only be 32 by then, he’s got many more years than 5 if he desires

It would be interesting to see. Do you think Bottas would do that much better than Perez? I think initially he would, but we also saw he was beat down by the end of his Mercedes drive and was quite off Hamilton

@ I think he was beat down because Mercedes is exhausting 😂. He was phenomenal there but Merc is a PR machine and he’s too Finnish for all that nonsense lol. I think he did a great job as a number 2 for Lewis but we did see some signs at the end that he was sick of being “just” the #2 (think Zandvoort fastest lap 2021 lol). I do think that he’s faster than Checo and that his time at Mercedes would offer more technical knowledge than Sergio has. Hamilton, in my opinion is amongst the greatest in terms of technical feedback and I’m sure that rubbed off on Valtteri in their 5 seasons as teammates (difficult to prove though since he’s been at such an uncompetitive team since he left Mercedes). I also think that, since he doesn’t have a drive for next year, he would pounce at an opportunity to be in a competitive (we’ll have to see about that in a few months) car again and be willing to do whatever it takes to succeed there. Similar to Checo in the beginning at Red Bull. The only difference there is, Checo wasn’t ever really on a competitive team before that so I think he might have wanted to challenge Max a bit too much once he got the hang of the car

@ damn, I wrote you a novel there lol. Sorry

@DeRobez I was worried when Red Bull signed Checo that he may not be quick enough, I didn't think he'd have an issue with the politics as Force India/Racing Point was extremely political, but he was better than I expected in 2021, I saw the signs in 2022 that he wasn't consistent, then in 2023 when he was down almost 300 points to Max that I was proven to be right. You know Max has outscored Checo by an average of 198.5 points a season over 4 seasons. To put that in perspective it'd have taken Albon 7 years to reach that point differential.

@@Hahxbe104ueloquru I feel like his inconsistencies are somewhat justified though. When he stepped up & was competitive, he turned Max into an absolute monster on the track. Red Bull always favored & catered to Max but once he started dominating like that they made the car less drivable for Checo. Newey designed some of the fastest cars ever but they weren’t easy to extract performance from

Good points on those asterisks for the season. I think Yuki’s had his chance to prove his case and Lawson has done a better job making his case in his very short F1 career so far

They could have done it before he signed with Williams, but alas they chose not to for some reason

Thanks Richy! Means a lot! Hope to see you in the comments going forward!

You will do mate thanks

I feel that they definitely have been significantly better operationally this year, but sometimes they definitely still make a questionable decision here and there lol

Which was surprising. I thought there would be more consequences

Did he really fall off that much though at McLaren when the car got worse? I wasn’t watching back then, but I know he at least got one win a season even in the tougher McLaren years

@LasttoF1rst There is a big difference between pre and post 2014. Post 2014 there always was a dominant team and pre 2014 there wasn't. So the pre 2014 Lewis could still win some races. Post 2014 only 2021 and 2024 lacked a dominant team. It is all a relative game.

If he has a competitive car again next year, then I think we will find that out for certain or not!

Bruh, unless this is an attempt at sarcasm, it is not often that I see someone demonstrating his alias as well as you do and shooting himself in the foot with a big heap of sh*t. 🤣 Anyway: Verstappen simply showed he is head and shoulders above this field of losers.

As much as I would have loved that, it is pretty black and white in the rules that the Marshalls can’t touch it otherwise the car can’t continue

I can certainly appreciate and understand that! But, I do think it’s important and interesting to recognize mistakes and analyze driver behaviors

I totally get that, but there was zero movement from the defending cars at all. Not even a half baked attempt to defend it

😂 I love it

Thanks for the comment! I think that’s definitely a good part of it

I can’t wait to see the Oscar and Lando inter team battle next year and the years to follow. It’s going to be very interesting to see who wins out

I hope not, but it is rather concerning times!

Yea he was certainly ready for F1 straight away. It's going to be a very interesting 2025 at Ferrari

RBR did have to optimize all of that during Merc dominance, but they did have their own dominance of the early 2010s to fall back on. So that helped. But of course many things would have changed between 2013 and 2022 so they would have had to re optimize. 2025 is looking like it's going to be so awesome, I just hope we aren't hyping ourselves up too much lol

Thank you! 🙏

Thank you! 🙏

Thanks for the feedback and the sub! I appreciate it!

I’ve definitely been feeling a potential shift towards Piastri, but his recent run of form has been a little surprising to be honest

Already is! Landoofus is just another whingeing pom!

I do have to wonder how much he really wants to be there versus pressure his dad puts on him to succeed

You are too kind! Thank you!

Ha you are right! I didn’t think of that