What a brilliant race that was. Incredible.
Piastri is going to win many, many championships.
Piastri is going to win many, many championships.
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He is, yesterday was a very impressive drive.
Lando managed to gain points on Max which was a long shot after quali. Singapore this weekend, Red Bull were dreadful there last year with the most dominant car in F1 history, who knows where they'll be this weekend!
I'm so excited about next season. Could we have a ridiculous five-team title battle, with a rejuvenated Mercedes and Newey-powered Aston Martin joining the fray? Probably not but it's going to be fun whatever happens.
It will be absolutely fascinating to see what becomes of Red Bull and Verstappen. I wonder if Max might end up in George Russell's seat in 2026.
I think next year is too soon for Aston for the title but they could be looking at wins by the end of the year - Newey doesn't start until early March.
As it stands apart from Red Bull, every team has a really intriguing driver line up next year. Next season could be an all time great season!
I've just been looking through each championship since 1980 (generally regarded at the start of the modern F1 era, with the 70s being the transition from the "golden days", but mainly because I couldn't be ar$ed to go back further
) The last properly close season involving 5 teams would have been 1981 when Williams-Ford won 4, Ferrari won 3 races as did Brabham-Ford and Renault, and Talbot Ligier-Matra won 2 ... and that was over a 15-race season.1984 seems to be the water-shed mark, where one or two teams start to dominate the sport for periods of time with the all-conquering McLaren-TAG which won 12 races, and then on the big teams pushed the privateers out (although the likes of Eddie Jordan tried to muscle in on occasion). Interestingly (to stat nerds like me), this current season is the first time since 1987 when more than three teams have won 2 or more races in a season: usually one or two teams dominate, and a third (usually Ferrari when they weren't in their dominant period 20 years ago) would pick up a handful more, with one of the smaller teams (at that time) picking up a lucky win. But this season: 7 for Red Bull, 4 for McLaren, and 3 each for Mercedes and Ferrari. Fingers crossed it will be even closer next season: a part of me doubts it, looking at the trends in the sport, but I can hope.
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It could be the best in the last 20-odd years (and, to be fair, that's not hard given the dominance of a handful of teams over recent years), but all-time ... that's pushing it a bit, methinks!
If there are 4 teams and 7/8 drivers competing for wins every weekend then it won't be far off one I'd say.
Dominant from Lando yesterday and more damage limitation from Max. The gap is closing, is it quick enough though? Lando needs others to get between him and Max ASAP.
Looks like the end of the line for Danny Ric, I'm still not sure why he's the one on the chopping board and not Perez, I think Checo has scored something like 40 points in the last 12 races.
4 week break now before 2 triple headers to end the season!
Looks like the end of the line for Danny Ric, I'm still not sure why he's the one on the chopping board and not Perez, I think Checo has scored something like 40 points in the last 12 races.
4 week break now before 2 triple headers to end the season!
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It's really sad the way Ricciardo's career has petered out. He was an elite-level driver until he left Renault and he got closer to Verstappen than anyone else ever did as a team-mate.
I hope he won't be lost to F1 entirely. Part of me suspects he might go back home and race Holdens around Bathurst, I'm sure he'd be happier doing that than tugging around at the back in a glorified Minardi.
Red Bull's head of race strategy Will Courtenay leaving the team to join McLaren as sporting director.