Spoke with a lovely chap from London on holiday. He said lando is a confirmed bottler and max is inevitable
His confidence is back. He is back on his championship ways. They said What is he saying? F1 news as Lando Norris 'not looking forward' to Las Vegas GP Lando Norris has confessed he is "not looking forward" to the Las Vegas Grand Prix, where he confronts potentially the toughest challenge left in his Formula 1 championship battle. Spoiler The British F1 driver stands as the clear frontrunner following victories in Mexico and Brazil that have positioned him 24 points ahead of teammate Oscar Piastri with three races to go. Max Verstappen trails by 49 points in third position, though Norris maintains the Dutch ace remains a threat. The 25-year-old fears surrendering valuable points in Sin City during the upcoming round, considering McLaren's difficulties on the Strip last November. Norris crossed the line a disappointing sixth with Piastri in seventh, both finishing over 40 seconds behind race winner George Russell in his Mercedes. Looking ahead to his return to Las Vegas, the Brit remarked: "I think it was our worst race last year, so I'm not really looking forward to it. We've been trying to work quite hard on improving those things. We know Mercedes were incredibly strong there last year, as well as Red Bull and Ferrari. I think we were the bottom of those four. "Obviously, we've improved a lot of things this year, so I'm not going to be too negative about it. I think there's plenty to look forward to. We know Abu Dhabi and Qatar are ones we're looking forward to. Las Vegas just a little bit less, because they've been probably some of our weakest races over the last two years." McLaren has seldom faced difficulties at any track throughout the season, with September's Azerbaijan Grand Prix standing as the sole event where the team wasn't genuinely competing for victory. The Canadian Grand Prix, where Piastri secured fourth place after Norris collided with his rear and withdrew, remains the only other complete race this year where neither driver reached the podium. McLaren has claimed 14 Grand Prix victories, including Norris' Sao Paulo success, and clinched the constructors' championship in Singapore a month ago. However, despite cruising to that title triumph and the team's impressive streak of results this season, Norris maintains he isn't being pessimistic about what the Las Vegas race might deliver. He said: "I always try and be as honest as I can be. If I don't think we're going to be quick, I don't think we're going to be quick. I'm not saying I'm going to be 10th, I'm just saying I think it's going to be difficult to win. We were a long way off. Just go and look at the data from last year, look at the race traces - we were miles off."
Think it will look better with 1000 sponsor logos added. I can’t wait for Audi. Awesome racing heritage. I think they will be competitive fairly quickly. Saw today they said their aim is competing for world championship by 2030.
It looks like they glued half a Mercedes to half a Ferrari trying to make a McLaren and I hate it no thanks.
Weird they take a break between Brazil and Vegas but then no breaks from Vegas to Qatar to Abu Dhabi.
Every f1 car showing up black, covered in the thinnest layer of translucent paint anyone has ever seen will be hilarious
don't know the exact reasoning nor logistics, but from what i know they have two of everything basically - hospitality suite, pit crew stuff, etc. and they ship one out while the other is shipping to another location on the map via DHL ships. my assumption is end of this year that one week break will give them time to get one in place while the other ships to the middle east and that one can move up to abu dhabi from qatar pretty quickly meaning no break is needed between las vegas and middle east for logistical purposes. but i could be completely wrong.
Two sets of things - one on each side of the globe. They have to ship from Sao Paulo to Vegas, but the equipment is already ready to rock over yonder. Edit I did not read the post above oops
I’m not familiar with the circuit and its recent history. How does Pirelli predict the tires will fail? could they not provided expected lap life at a given downforce and let teams setup accordingly? Let the lower downforce cars run longer stints?
its not about safety it is about trying to force two stops to make the races more interesting. 1 stop races are usually very boring.
Right but that should be an FIA announcement, not Pirelli. Hell make all races 2 stops for all I care but hiding it behind the tires is a joke.
The teams are way ahead of the FIA when it comes to this stuff. They can calculate time, pace and make sure the two stops wont impact positioning. They did it in Monaco and will do it Qatar. Multiple stops are only impactful when they are unexpected... safety car, weather but not pre planned stupidity. You want to make the race spicy? Make it reverse grid from current standings. Watch these top cars fight the way up the grid...
Ferrari drivers were in the simulator this weekend testing the 26 car and to the shock of all they had nothing but glowing comments about the car!
They did this last year, too. **2023, sorry. 18 laps. Which was curb and impacts related, and they made changes to those elements of the circuit for 2024. So apples and oranges, but recent precedent, nonetheless.
There’s n Explora Journeys experience now available for like 21k pp for the week https://explorajourneys.com/us/en/e...imiWVdvaOLOPI64a-_LXr16N9gmrEEJEaAllgEALw_wcB Owned by MSC, big sponsor of F1
We'll only be in town for the day of quali, unfortunately, so I'm trying to see what the best way to go is. Preferably an experience type thing and not just grandstand tickets