I'm not sure what you had but my ESPN had a beautiful shot from high of him crossing the finish line with fireworks in the background
Congrats to the McLaren fans. Really fun season. Charls with a spectacular drive today. Carlos showing exactly why he’s going to Williams. Looking forward to a very competitive 2025 season for constructors and drivers title. How long till February?
Looking at possibly 2027 or 28 for Suzuka. I have a 5 y/o who is getting a little into racing with me, but more so interested in all things Nintendo, so Japan could be a cool trip in a couple of years if that keeps up.
Now what do we do? Testing is next thing. Watch old ones? Never paid attention to them. Watch different seasons? Which ones?
Testing is next but wont be all that important. We have a few months before shit of interest really kicks off. February 18th is the start of 2025 testing
I am on the record as over the senna tributes, but I enjoyed the Netflix series. Probably not a rewatch, but worth a watch.
Watching him flounder and insist he has a contract, RB should have tried harder etc... has been sad to watch
obviously not helpful to getting a seat when you're always going to be gladhanding CEO's with questionable morals and policies, but i do wonder if there's a bit of cultural differences that would make what he says not "ok" by western standards but would be more prevalent in a south american country. obviously western culture is even clashing on this right now too.
The stark white minimal everything of broke ass Williams has to be such a culture shock to Carlos after spending his time in the Ferrari facilities that are packed and engineered to the max. The suit and helmet being blank white really drives it home.
i believe i read this was actually done due to ferrari contracts with sponsors. they couldn't have the normal williams sponsorships on carlos due to those deals.
Whatever you do, do NOT immediately follow up watching Senna by watching the documentary that is also on Netflix. Holy shit that was just sad.
Sergio Perez brings an estimated $30-40 million USD in merchandise and sponsorships alone whilst Verstappen lost sponsorships for Red Bull in 2024. Spoiler Statistics Dutch supermarket Jumbo withdrew its financial support this year and while Verstappen still has personal sponsorhips, they're not directly tied to Red Bull. As for the Perez-specific Red Bull sponsors, they reportedly cover Perez's approximately $10 million annual salary and still leave $30m extra for the team and according to the Spanish sports newspaper Marca, multiple new sponsors for 2025 have now signed up with Red Bull. Horner is said to have just given the green light to start production of 2025-spec team clothing and merchandise featuring the new sponsors' names, and one of them is a big, major sponsor that will join the likes of Grupo Carso (Carlos Slim's group). Basically, Checo is bringing enough sponsorship money to pay for half of Max's salary -- perhaps more! That's why Checo's group is asking around £15.7m (some sources have them at $75m USD!) to leave the team because they would definitely need to pay up all those sponsors who have already signed on for 2025. That's a lot of money just to have the privilege to put Lawson in that seat. Can Red Bull sustain the loss of Checo's backing? Perhaps but if they really wanted Lawson or even Ricciardo in that seat, they could've already cut Checo and their sponsors loose (incluing Disney and Ford). Something tells me it's not an easy task for Horner. Sergio Perez has delivered 2,000 bottles of tequila to Red Bull team members at their Milton Keynes base.
Business owner cares more about money than competing for championships? TIL that Christian Horner owns the Buffalo Sabres.
I'm surprised at how public it has all been. Dr. One-eye with all his comments. Joes coming out defending Perez , 16 mil buyout for the seat etc...
that's what happens when people want to get their way, leak other peoples crap out in the public to try to gain the advantage.
hmm as a single-issue voter on this am I happy? the section I'm in is the Honda/Yuki fan section, will it still be his?
Reading up on 1994, how were people able to enjoy this stuff? There were over 200 DNFs in 16 races, people just dying everywhere. In Germany, 18 people crashed out and none of the other seven were within 55 seconds of the leader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Formula_One_World_Championship#Results_and_standings
I just watched Senna (the documentary, not the dramatic miniseries that just came out) and that shit was wild. From what I know it seems like Prost got a bad deal in the media. Very interesting story though from a strange era. Lunacy that they raced that race Something I wish they touched on and I've never seen mentioned itt: Senna saved Erik Comas's life in 1992...a really incredible act of heroism. Then two years later due to a snafu Comas was released onto the track during the red flag where Senna died and he had to sit there and watch the man who saved his life die. And then they wanted him to continue the race!