Pre-Season F1 2025

F1Brits_90

F1Brits_90

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never too early to begin this 1

the fastest lap point is finished at the end of 2024. it will be no more.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1846967401604137038

the requirement of the teams to run junior drivers will be doubled in 2025, currently the requirement has been for each team to field a junior driver on two separate occasions, with each of the two regular race drivers having to sit out a single session to hand over their car to a junior (defined as a driver with 2 or fewer GPs).
from 2025 onwards, all 20 drivers will be required to sit out 2 sessions.
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I like the idea of a separate sprint race championship for junior drivers only.

They should have been reverse grid, qualifying races but that would have been far too exciting and may have disadvantaged Red Bull.
 
We are still unsure if any team would sign Colapinto for the next season. He has impressed everyone with his performances so far and I personally would like to see him racing in F1 next season.
 
Christoon said:
We are still unsure if any team would sign Colapinto for the next season. He has impressed everyone with his performances so far and I personally would like to see him racing in F1 next season.
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I think he is best placed at Williams to learn the car and get himself a seat for 2026 because the team want to look after him and develop him. If he was at Red Bull they throw him to the wolves if it goes wrong

Alpine - I can;t see their long term strategy which makes me think Williams had better put an option clause on him to protect him
 
Il_leone said:
If the source is credible I wonder what was it that lead to his sacking. The Verstappen fans are no doubt happy having complained about Red flag timing last race
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apparantly its correct, craig slater is reporting the same. they say its a fallout with fia president. which if true. his days must be numbered because he is stockpiling plenty of enemies. managed to upset all 20 drivers & now is upsetting the stewards
 
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F1Brits_90 said:
apparantly its correct, craig slater is reporting the same. they say its a fallout with fia president. which if true. his days must be numbered because he is stockpiling plenty of enemies. managed to upset all 20 drivers & now is upsetting the stewards
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It's getting ridiculous.
 
im not sure i know where F1 goes from here because at the bottom of everything you need to know there is a respect. & he's admitted he doesn't have it. hes effectively said, yes i deliberately did it & i would do again. i might be wrong but i feel Schumacher & Senna was red mist. they didn't go into them races with that plan

how do you race a driver that has said he will ram you off the road if thats what its takes to stop you overtaking him. also how does the team defend him when stewards will use his own words against him in an meeting.

www.planetf1.com

Max Verstappen confesses to deliberate rule break in F1 2024 season

Max Verstappen said he is happy to "cross a line" as seen at the Mexican Grand Prix, arguing that is a "mentality" that some lack.
www.planetf1.com www.planetf1.com

Verstappen, speaking with Viaplay, said he will gladly take things “over the limit” if the benefit is there, something which not everyone is wired mentally to do.I will always get the maximum out of it, sometimes you have to cross a line, and I’ll do that,”
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“I will do everything to get the maximum result out of it for a championship. And of course yes, sometimes you have to be on the limit, over the limit… You have to calculate all that, and not everyone understands that. Not everyone has that mentality.”
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That being said, Verstappen was asked whether he felt any sense of regret over his tactics used in Mexico, whether his conscience had told him he should not have gone that far.
“No. That race? Not at all,” he affirmed. “No. I think I actually won points there.”
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F1Brits_90 said:
Senna was red mist. they didn't go into them races with that plan
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Unfortunately not the case in Japan 1990. Despite denying it at the time, Senna subsequently admitted in an interview in 1991 that he had decided before the race that he was going to hold his line and either make the corner or take Prost out. It was deliberate and calculated. He should have faced some sort of sanction for that admission.

The debate still rages about Japan in 1989. Senna's move, from way, way back was his usual get out of the way or get hit type of overtake and on this occasion, Prost obliged by slamming the door on him. Prost came out of it the better.

I think, while Senna's move in 89 was foolish, it was in line with his racing character of seeing a gap and going for it. Senna's move in 1990 was a stain on his character and a deliberate crash.

As for Verstappen, he's basically saying I'll do what I want until someone stops me. He has no recourse to the law of the sport and certainly absolutely none to the spirit of it. The FIA has always been a pathetic organisation who once again, will happily let these comments go. The FA are hardly a paragon of virtue but look at their reaction when Roy Keanne admitted in his biography to setting out to injure Alfie Haaland. He received a significant ban and a big fine.

Personally I'd ban Verstappen for life but then I can't stand the boy.
 
cider_and_toast said:
Unfortunately not the case in Japan 1990. Despite denying it at the time, Senna subsequently admitted in an interview in 1991 that he had decided before the race he was going to hold his line and either make the corner or take Prost out. It was deliberate and calculated.

The debate still rages about Japan in 1989. Senna's move, from way, way back was his usual get out of the way or get hit type of overtake and on this occasion, Prost obliged by slamming the door on him. Prost came out of it the better.

I think, while Senna's move in 89 was foolish, it was in line with his racing character of seeing a gap and going for it. Senna's move in 1990 was a stain on his character and a deliberate crash.

As for Verstappen, he's basically saying I'll do what I want until someone stops me. He has no recourse to the laws of the sport and certainly absolutely none to the spirit of it. The FIA, whoever has been in charge in the past, has always been a pathetic organisation who once again, will happily let these comments go. The FA are hardly a paragon of virtue but look at their reaction when Roy Keanne admitted in his biography to setting out to injured Haaland. He received a significant ban and a big fine.

Personally I'd ban Verstappen for life.
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Unfortunately he is saying he is untouchable whilst underming the stewards and his legion of fans will start a British bias row to slow him down. Like I said it will take him ending up in hospital or a hearse to stop him because he is banking on others to not go to that level or over him.
 
cider_and_toast said:
Unfortunately not the case in Japan 1990. Despite denying it at the time, Senna subsequently admitted in an interview in 1991 that he had decided before the race that he was going to hold his line and either make the corner or take Prost out. It was deliberate and calculated. He should have faced some sort of sanction for that admission.

The debate still rages about Japan in 1989. Senna's move, from way, way back was his usual get out of the way or get hit type of overtake and on this occasion, Prost obliged by slamming the door on him. Prost came out of it the better.

I think, while Senna's move in 89 was foolish, it was in line with his racing character of seeing a gap and going for it. Senna's move in 1990 was a stain on his character and a deliberate crash.
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ah i didnt know that. i knew he had held grudge for 12 months but i hoped that it was red mist & he had planned to win the race. until he saw prost down the inside & he deliberately took him out. so yeah that is a stain on his career

for verstappen i think you have to punish him but how. because i think i said above at the bottom of everything whether like them or dislike them. you need to know there is a respect. which driver will be fair & wont try anything stupid or dangerous. i see how you can have any driver F1 F2 or F3 on a grid. with the attitude of "i will ram you off if i have to".

do the FIA do what they did to senna. as i am right that he raced in 1991 on an almost final warning. you repeat japan & your excluded from F1.
 
F1Brits_90 said:
ah i didnt know that. i knew he had held grudge for 12 months but i hoped that it was red mist & he had planned to win the race. until he saw prost down the inside & he deliberately took him out. so yeah that is a stain on his career

for verstappen i think you have to punish him but how. because i think i said above at the bottom of everything whether like them or dislike them. you need to know there is a respect. which driver will be fair & wont try anything stupid or dangerous. i see how you can have any driver F1 F2 or F3 on a grid. with the attitude of "i will ram you off if i have to".

do the FIA do what they did to senna. as i am right that he raced in 1991 on an almost final warning. you repeat japan & your excluded from F1.
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Senna had a licence ban and needed to learn some road safety course or something like that
 

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