I remember the days of 36 cars (with pre-qualifying) - and points down to 6th in the races...

@patmath1000

Ай бұрын

Yes, being able to score a point in a F1 race was a big achievement.

@Cloxxki

Ай бұрын

No prize money to mention and people created cars anyway.

@laffinarab

Ай бұрын

Yes but also a lot of retirements. This makes it hard for back half of the grid to score points which makes it even more difficult to place them in the standings accurately, due to one or 2 lucky results totally changing the dynamic of the standings. I've thought for years it should be top 15 like motogp. Championship is about consistency and if someone finishes p11 every race this season, they deserve to be 11th in the standings, and not bumped down by a few lucky races for others.

@Andybarney555

Ай бұрын

Never been 36 cars in f1

@walkertorque

Ай бұрын

​@@Andybarney555I don't have the data at my fingertips, but there were races in the mid-80s with pre-qualifying. 26 cars would qualify to start a GP (except Monaco), so the there was pre-qualifying to eliminate the slowest before qualifying. There may not have been 36 entries for every race, but in 1985 there were 36 entries and 35 in 1984. I'll do some scratching...

So glad these f1 walk chats are back - SeedStream 5 ⭐️

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

6:00 It can't be lack of experience because Stroll has been in F1 since 2017 and has 148 race starts... He's just once again showed that he's Captain Oblivious

@MooncricketsInc

Ай бұрын

*Windowlicker

@steveplatts9252

Ай бұрын

He shouldn't be in F1. I'd go as far to say Sergeant would not have a seat also

@SuperPhelix

Ай бұрын

@@steveplatts9252 Sargent is just bad, but Stroll is straight up dangerous

Great video Marc. Agreed with all points brought up, although I spent the latter half of the video wondering where your second dog had gotten to haha.

Great chat, Marc. Enlightening, interesting and seamless. Keep keeping up the good work 🌞

Spot on, Marc. I've been banging on about the flawed points system for years. It used to be top 6...then top 10...now they want to discuss moving it to top 12....WHO is coming up with these random numbers, and why??? Award points for all finishers, and the best man still wins at the end of the season. Fun fact...if we had followed a linear points structure of 20pts for 1st down to 1pt for 20th, Perez would've been leading the championship right now, ahead of Leclerc, and Max would be only 3rd. How's that for excitement!

Sprint Weekend. Friday: Practice 1 Sunday Qualifying. (Use Sunday Placings as Reverse grid for Saturday Sprint) Saturday: Practice 2. Sprint Race. Sunday Race. I think that'll be more interesting as you say.

Ladies & Gentlemen this is the legend that painted the hands of Kimi Raikkonen as blue as a smurf LMAO, got held beneath Kimi's legs later on and was shaved through the middle of his head as a pay-back while on vacation in Kimi's house! What an amazing book!!! Great read! The insight on how Alonso dealt with the mechanics among the other stuff, offering them money, which came out on the internet last year as big news just as I was about reading that passage in the book - book I already had on the shelves among other F1 great books for almost a year, what a read! Great video Marc and all the best to you!

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

👍

What a beautiful countryside, its like the Shire. Great video, no bs, great structure, an English gem.

Seedstream downloaded...Thank you.. Great videos.. keep up the good work!

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

Thank you, hope you enjoy it.

Williams finally didn't break anything.

If F1 is meant to be the worlds biggest cash cow, so lets do it properly: 3 sprint races, a night race, plus a double distance race on Sunday afternoon.

Id prefer to see much longer races up to 500k, dump sprints.

The sprints don't really work for me as they're too disconnected from the actual race ... the way to resolve this, is change the order ... quali to determine the grid for the sprint, then the sprint result determines the grid for the final race ... it makes the sprint a proper part of the process and balances out drivers who quali well and those who are better in race mode ... and you could spread it across the whole season as well then.

LS hitting DR was utter careless driving

I would not be surprised to see both Helmut and Max make their move to Mercedes

Marc I agree that certainly last year, Lewis agreed to be the test mule for the new design ideas as a way of using the race as a way of extending the FIA “allowed” F1 testing limits….

For me the ideal race weekend would look like this... Friday - practice...2 or even 3 sessions, you have all day Saturday AM - Sprint race, randomised grid. Award the top 10, or even half points for all finishers. Saturday PM - quali for Sunday's GP Sunday - race. Points awarded in a sliding scale for all finishers.

Great summary of the issues. Agree with pushing the points to bottom of grid.

Love these! Following you (again)! 👌🏼 Nobody in AM dares to be critical about Lance. Ridiculous situation. As for sprintformat it’s the circumstances that make it interesting not the format unfortunately. All it does is take away any strategy aspects of the race imho.

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

Thank you. 👍

Seed stream is awesome, it's like you say.. really worth a look, great stuff

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

👍

I agree, sprint weekends will work if there was only 1 qualifying session and they used (I know this may be unpopular) a reverse grid for the sprint.

@AndyFromBeaverton

Ай бұрын

What would it would be like if they weight-penalized the cars by points standings? For instance, Max would have to carry an extra 20kg of fuel while Logan wouldn't have to carry any extra fuel.

agree, really experiment with the sprint weekend

The Dutch, they dont like sneeky shit, and Horner revealed a certain amount of sneekyness in his personality, Max is leaving.

12th for points can only be good.

You mentioned reverse grids again, but I somehow don't think teams would push for a top grid position to only have it be inverted. Even if just for a Sprint-esque format, that's pretty much taking the reward away to start with. Instead, why not hold 1 qualifying session followed by a reverse grid (half-point-sprint?) race followed by the actual race, where the qualifying result determines the gridslots for both events. That way teams will have to push to benefit their sunday race-position and we get an entertaining, slightly less impactful spectacle with a reversed setup.

How would qualy work for the reverse grid in the sprint? Get rid of it and have the reverse grid from the last race? Or should there be points for sprint qualy so that the teams are just trying to go the slowest to start from the front?

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

Either of those work.

Hey Elvis is this available as a podcast or can you make it a podcast? Just finished The Mechanic.. Excellent. Listening to PitLane Life Lessons... applying them, especially hearing this from a car guy perspective for my business as a lawyer. I appreciate what you are doing...thanks my friend.

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

Thank you, this is just a video, but I guess you could just listen and not watch? 😊

@alandobson5395

Ай бұрын

@F1Elvis Hey of course, i listen a lot in my car with Android Auto through Spotify or KZread Music and Audible, youtube is not available that way, but I can listen through bluetooth. Or I can just watch when I have time too obviously...thanks I appreciate it. Keep the content coming 🏎

If they for some reason decide not to give points down to 12th, then they must give reverse grids a try. There needs to be something to fight for for the lower teams

I like the idea of getting points for the whole grid. Get's every car to fight for something. Points should only be awarded to cars that actually finish. So all car who cross the finish line after the winner does. So no clasification with 2-3 laps behind cause they retire just before the end... You finish you get points, you don't zero points for you.

Revers grid would mean the cars trying to go the slowest. Sprint grid should be linked to the Q1 grid and reversed.

Well said

I think they should try reverse grid by surprise. Make them qualify then let them know they’re reversing the grid. That will throw a spanner in the works and cause some excitement.

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

Haha, it would only work once I guess...?

Sprint weekend = fri fp1+fp2, sat quali+sprint reversed grid from quali, sun gp 😊

A format for the sprints I've thought could be interesting... You have to start the main GP on the same set of tyres you finish the sprint race on. Some would pit for better race strat, some would take the sprint points, and there would be a diversity of tyre performance on the grid at the start of the main race, much like when there were different fuel strategies when refuelling was allowed. This would also play into many different pit stop strategies being employed and stop there being an optimal strategy which most just stick to

@pranc236

Ай бұрын

Sounds like an extreme version of the q2 rule from a couple of years ago.

@laffinarab

Ай бұрын

@@pranc236 well no, because you could pit right at the end of the sprint if you were out of the points, or happy to forfeit your position, so as to have a set of freshies for the main event. Some arent gona give up points in the sprint, so would almost definitely have some mixed strategies. In the end of the day though, they need to shake things up somehow or the sprint is just a mini version of the main race, and no real reason to think the results would be any different between them. Sounds better than reverse grids too, as for that, people might start just qualifying strategically

Regarding power units I have question, does F1 supply MGU units to the engine manufacturers to mate their ICE engines to, or do the manufacturers supply their own built to F1 guidelines. I know that in years past in Indy cars USAC supplied the teams with a calibrated and sealed bypass valve to keep boost pressures even across the board.

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

The engine manufacturers design their own.

Reverse grids - start them with the safety car. The cost of these cars, and their repairs, is far too high to have the carnage that would result.

in the 80's with the points for first 6 places, it was too hard to get points for backmarkers, specially with 10 or 12 lifetreatening shitheaps in the field with masses of paydrivers that should never have been in F1. Sysytem of today is way better, maybe 20 cars is not much but no riterements to speak of.

Marc, curious on your perspective to how would you feel working on Lance's side of the garage at Aston, when most people would openly say he is only in that car because of his dad owning the team. Surely that's a big issue for morale and motivation? The team cannot be taken seriously while that dynamic continues surely

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

I suspect that is an issue.....

Changing the points system should be done carefully as it needs to properly reward performance from the top to the bottom of the order. It is further complicated by how points are translated to prize money.

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

Yes, lots to consider.

I do think we need to have some thoughts for the teams. 24 races is huge. Plus sprint races. It's too much for individuals. Go much furtger and drivers and teams will be ground down and exhausted. That's when mistakes happen. Mistakes can lead to injuries and death. They have before. I'm getting very annoyed with Liberty squeezing the sport to make ever more amounts of money. The goose is being killed and there will be no golden eggs left.

Marc, have tried to download the app, but my mobile says it cannot install, can you assist please?

I was dead against the Sprint race but the new format worked very well in China and I have now reversed my opinion. I would not be against having that format every race weekend, and perhaps then adopting the idea suggested by Crofty from Sky, a Sprint championship and make it separate to the proper F1 championship. As for reverse grids, please no, never. That is too manufactured, a Flavio idea, not one I will ever support. You make a good F1 video, enjoyed it.

Apparently mick running the simulator was important

I am all in on points to all finishers!

I agree 100% on reversing the field. Otherwise the sprint is just a mini version of the bug rave. I also agree giving points to the entire field makes sense. I like the NASCAR system where races are broken Into stages and the top ten teams earn additional points. If Max is a smart guy he will stay with Red Bull and sign contracts that allow him to leave. Vettel left Red Bull to go to Ferrari and that didn't work out well. Toto trying to openly recruit Max is not much different than Ferrari signing Hamilton in the beginning of the current season.

you can't let points go all the way to 20th place because then the Andretti argument about not being competitive thrown out the window

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

But you just reset the parameters by which you measure competitiveness?

The problem with reverse grids is how would we incentivise teams to not intentionally bottle qualifying for a better reverse grid spot?

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

Easy, either just reverse championship order or give points for qually.

@ayedee6681

Ай бұрын

base the Sprint starting positions based on the last races finishing positions.

@pigalow2002

Ай бұрын

​@F1Elvis I though of that but I still think some teams would value a better starting spot in the reverse grid race over qualy points. Ot sure it's incentive enough

@pigalow2002

Ай бұрын

​​​​@ayedee6681 So no sprint qualy then? Even in that case, I could see teams having a bad day, not seeing a chance at points, parking their cars early for a preferred reverse grid sprint race spot. You know how these teams are. How about just no Sprint? That would be the best option anyway, imo.

@neil3066

Ай бұрын

One quality for race and sprint. That will incentivize people to fight for the race grid position.

Im not in favor for sprint in general. But the new sprint format makes it a practice race. This format is better. Revers grid line up want to see it can be fun.

I would expand FP1 to 90 minutes as the only change to the current sprint format. Adding points beyond the first 10 is interesting, and I think it might work.

I still think the Moto Gp qualifying format & points distribution would suit F1 better than what we have now.. I also think the fastest lap should count on any car’s position & not just the fastest 10.. Maybe the points system should cover as you say 12 positions, but why not award half points for the next 5 or 6 positions after that..as you say what an incentive if you’re fighting at the back of the pack

Totally right about Lance. If he was looking, as he claimed, then why didn’t he attempt to swerve and how come his helmet was pointing towards the apex? The penalty had little effect on his (as usual) underperforming race. And what’s more he prevented Ricciardio from serving his 10 second Safety Car related penalty so he’s now hit with a 3 place grid drop at Miami. His Dad is doing an amazing job except for one rather large blind spot? No prizes!

Check out what has happened to Daniel Ric with musical chairs. His career is under threat now.

Be nice to get notifications on things you follow when uploaded , best think about seedstream is the f1 story's are real not fake news from reporter trying to predict the future

Regarding Lewis, I remember reading a comment of one of his engineers that he was (is?) very hard to work with in testing. They would send him out on a lap with a certain setting during a test, he would return having three parameters changed on his steering wheel as he thought it would get him a better result. As an engineer, you can understand how frustrating that can be when you are running a program. Lewis, world class driver as he no doubt is, seems to be limited in his understanding of the technology behind racing. Whatever the reason, Lewis's experiments are costing Mercedes points....

🙄 Again, you can NOT do a reverse grid. It will be caos! We went through this before! 🙈

Like it or not, these sprint races are the most exciting times / sessions in this Maxxed era. If Liberty hadn't me$$ed up f1, they wouldn't even exist. If the silver arrows are desperate, Liberty media is too. FACTS.

If more points are awarded to lower place it would mean less money for the top ten. So wouldn’t get their vote

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

Just don't change the prize money model...?

Thx for the content , i’ve had the app since it started appreciate it🤘🏻🏁

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

👍

Points to 10th was silly enough. 12th is just BS, rewarding teams for lack lustre effort.

Reverse grids on paper are a good idea. But it would present it's own issues like teams that have no chance of getting points anyway will set up the car for the race and then qualify badly so they could at least have some chance of getting the final points. Tracks that are near impossible to overtake will become even more boring. So you'd have to do it like F2 right? only top 10 get reversed otherwise it will introduce a whole new level of manipulation. I'm not sure if I like the idea, Formula 1 is all about the best team and the best drivers trying to be nr. 1. I feel like it will just become too gimmicky and goes against what F1 (imo should) stand for. There are other categories for that. F2, FE

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

I get that perspective, but we only think that way because 70 years ago we decided that the fastest car should start at the front...& We wonder why the field just spreads out in the race.

You can't talk about Stroll and say something is lack of experience. He's driving his 8th season in F1 and he has more experience in not being aware of his surroundings than any driver in history. He's an absolute master in obliviousness.

@markdouglas3865

Ай бұрын

At least George can nerf it without ruining someone else’s race. While playing with the settings.

Redbull built the car around Verstappen. What nonsense. 😂😂😂

The sprints are stupid. Here is one way to make it exciting, the FIA allow three cars for the sprint. Then each team fields a car for their reserve drivers only. Let the sprint have its own points for those drivers and the teams collect the constructors points.

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

I'd love to see more reserve driver action, but building and then moving and supporting three cars is quite a big cost hike, let alone the extra garages required at each track etc.

Personally I’m pro sprint races. But I think the initial set up was best. Right now they seem pretty irrelevant as it has no consequences for the real race, and seeing how the teams are divided if you running 12th at the half way mark may as well retire the car to preserve the engine. I remember Perez crashing out on the first sprint. That’s kinda the fun. As is it’s just replacing practice. Are people really wanting to watch practice more? I also think it should be either all weekends or no weekends. I’ve seen F1 give more points from top 6 to now 10. If we give more than may as well just get to the conclusion give it to all drivers that finish the race. And only DNF goes home pointless.

Points down to 19th. Should have hard fighting up and down the grid imo. Its pretty obvious you're gonna drive harder if 16th place is an extra point for u and tye team.

Points to 15 maybe.

Talking about other drivers won't fix Mercedes instead heads down and fix that car Toto. By the looks Lewis decision to leave is justified. Maybe he knows that the aero engineering part of the team is in no man land. Probably they should try to poach someone from that department instead of Max .

Cannot see the Verstappens rolling the dice with a Ford engine. The odds of Ford getting it right out of the gate, with no experience building f1 hybrids, are very long. They're happy enough now but I definitely think there's an exit strategy afoot.

I disagree slightly that points further down would generate drivers and teams taking more risk. I think it would give the complete opposite, if a team like sauber are in 12th with points available they'll play it conservative to keep those points whereas now they can take strategy risks as they have nothing to lose. Some of the best results for back of the grid teams are because they had nothing to lose and tried some wild strategy or gambled when the rain was going to come etc.

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

But if you're 12th backwards right now you have nothing to gain?

for stroll the 10 sec penalty aint enough they should of given him the black flag and 8 points on his license !!!

Sadly the crew at Aston Martin are hamstrung when it comes to dealing with Lance. Daddy's boy has been spoon fed his whole life and doesn't have the ability to reflect on his own shortcomings. Papa Stroll has to accept a lot of the blame for this and needs to make some necessary changes for the sake of the team.

@qwj68boots

Ай бұрын

But, he won't.

A sprint weekend is a whole lot of TV watching, esp when time is already split with other life things, must be tricky if you are able to watch live. So here's some ideas that hopefully avoid teams and drivers trying tricks to "qualify where they want to" Sprint weekends, two equal length races one on Saturday one on Sunday, approx 1 hour each. Saturdays grid is reverse championship order, so no manipulating last races finishing order for a good sprint spot. Sunday would be all too easy to say start as you finished, or reverse start again from the result but I feel some might try tricks If they aren't doing well. You could reverse the finishers who didn't fall more than 1 or 2 laps behind but where would that leave early crashers? I'd be tempted to do a fastest lap from Saturdays race, Saturdays race was quali. As the fast cars will be in traffic a lot of the time they won't automatically get the fastest times, and cars out front may not be the quickest. Parc ferme is open between races if you want to make changes. As for normal quali an idea I've floated for a while now is back to a 1 hour session. For the first 20 mins only the bottom 1/3 teams in the championship get to be out on track, for the next 20 the bottom 2/3 teams get to be on track, the bottom 1/3 have now had 40 mins. For the last 20 all teams are allowed on track. The bottom teams have had an hour to dial the car and empty track to play with, the top teams only 20 mins to find a quiet part of track and get their laps done. Imagine the weather like in China getting worse and the top teams have to go in the conditions they've got. Or it getting better and the lower teams have got their inters up to temp and going for it, or maybe already got their slicks fully warmed and the top teams now have to get up to speed. Point wise, like MotoGP, points to 16th but they do have 22 riders not 20 so maybe 15th, 3/4 of the grid. Cost cap like other metrics based on finishing position should also be sliding with lower placed teams able to spend more ( no point giving them more aero time if they can't spend the money ) Lastly for now, No DRS for the top 3.

Reverse grid - can you imagine... everyone trying to go as slow as possible (in SQ). I guess it could be reverse championship standings?

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

Yes, you either reverse championship order or give points for qually...

@walkertorque

Ай бұрын

@@F1Elvis Reverse championship order would eliminate the need for sprint qualifying. I hate the idea of points for qualifying, let alone for sprint qualifying. Maybe they should award points for drivers finishing all their porridge... However, I do actually like the proposed new points in that it should stimulate racing further down the field, especially with the reliability these days.

No. Reverse grids destroy cars and races period. Over and over decade after...... Not real racing just moving over blah blah

Your app requires signup by email. Problem is that I am not receiving the email with the confirmation code and thus cannot even get into the app. No, the email did not go to my junk folder… it was not received at all. You likely have a sketchy email provider that also services spammers or other questionable service providers and as such your email provider likely sits on one or more email blacklists. You will need to get this sorted if you really want your app to succeed to its potential. I may try again in a month or so to see if there is any difference.

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

I haven't heard of anyone else having this issue, but I'll check

Sorry, Christian, for a team leader who does not hesitate to criticize and fire your drivers mid season, your "worry and concern" about other teams getting your drivers is moot. Horner is the last person who should be throwing stones about drivers.

Somehow, F2 sprints are good. Longer than F1 sprints, and top 8 reversed from a single quali. With the huge cost of repairs, little incentive for smaller teams to try too hard there.

Lewis isn't experimenting, he can't find a setup that works. George seems to have no problems at all. Mercedes is making excuses to not hurt Lewis's ego.

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

Lewis even said he experimented with setup?

Horner is trying to steady his ship as it still seems in a bit of a heavy swell, and well, just who caused his 'hidden' problems? Toto is just playing the TP game as he should. All is fair in love and war!

@s1bulka

Ай бұрын

Thats the thing, Toto is playing media games instead of focusing on his team which has been on a downwards spiral for a while.

A 10 second penalty is the new norm for pretty much all infractions, so Lance & co are being dumb.

Sprints ok but your can't watch race qualy when at work on Friday

not a fan of sprint races or sprint weekends. Yes they were on track when they otherwise wouldn't have been if it was a wet FP2 but that still didn't make for an entertaining sprint race, nor did it lead to an interesting GP. the new points system I am a fan of despite the old fashioned opinion of Martin Brundle on twitter.

Hi Marc, is it still true that if you get a point in a GP F1 will pay for your transportation costs to the next Grand Prix? I think it was like that in the 90's. I think that points should be awarded for every position, the racing further back would become epic... Just make the 1 point for last and 100 for 1st Food for thought. The battle through the field would be mega. About Stroll, I agree he was watching the head of the field on his right.

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

That definitely doesn't happen, not even sure if it ever did?

@mallockracer

Ай бұрын

@@F1Elvis I am sure I read it somewhere. ... But i am sure there was additional incentive apart from the divvy up at the end of the season. To answer the other question about Horner getting upset by Merc courting Max, It's F1, it's the Piranha club, get over it... As for the 2026 regs... big shake up... Will F1 survive the more electric era? personally I would rather watch Super Formula or WEC than all electric F1, but the next generation might love it and it may fly. Who knows... It's a bit of a tight rope for F1. You just have to go to Goodwood to see the strength of the love affair with the internal combustion engine. Then again you just have to throw a dart at a map of the UK and chances are within a 20 mile radius of that darts location there will be a guy in a shed with a stunning bit of historical machinery..

I'm on the fence with sprint races, but if we have to have them and there are going to be something that's against the old format. Can they not have FP1, FP2 Qualy, and then the sprint race with the fasted cars at the back. Great video.

Maybe give teams tyres except they have no idea what hardness they get for each pit-stop, just 4 matching tyres but are they hard or soft or extra soft? Have them think on their -feet- _boots_ so to speak. :)

I personally don't like the sprint format, it gums up the weekend with nonsense. If they want to change things around then how about a two day race weekend something like, Sat. morning practice, Sat. afternoon qualies, Sunday the race. Get rid of all those superfluous stuff on Thur. & Fri., plus the fact it would be cheaper, you wouldn't need boarding for those two days.🤪 I think everything is dull, the same guy qualies 1st, he wins the race running away, how about we reinstitute the weight penalties to bring closer together on track.🤪🤪 All out.

About Horner and Wolff te following. As you said It’s not done to openly court a driver that has a contract until 2028. So there’s your answer. Wolff should have stopped whining specifically whence’s got absolutely nothing to offer him! And as for saying Verstappen is just this good because the car is built for him, that’s rubbish. Newly designs a car that’s fast, not that’s for Max.😊

Some weekends, Stroll can be a reasonable driver. Other weekends, it's like he couldn't care less. Spoilt brat. I thought China was the best weekend of the year so far, but I still don't like the sprint. Make it a separate championship, and allow teams to enter different drivers. This will give valuable experience to the teams reserve & development drivers.

You haven’t mentioned how hard it is on the mechanics if you have more sprint races. Also if you have a reversed grid, what’s to say the drivers like Max want to qualify for fastest lap.

Been a huge fan of Merc since they came back into the sport but not a fan of some of Toto's antics since the regulation changes. That said it's a business and if a driver (available or not) that he is interested in signing and is willing to leave their current team, he would be stupid to not at least ask the question and see them going to another competitor.

@givemeabreak8784

Ай бұрын

He should look for an aero engineer not a driver at the moment cause they are chasing their tail for a while now.

@Cloxxki

Ай бұрын

Do you wear black turtle necks to press conferences? 😀 😉

Newey news?

For, Stroll ,PaPa is taking care of him.. Lance should go to Tennis..

Verstappen is not going to leave RedBull for Mercedes. He knows he couldn't win world championships in the Mercedes. His fan base might believe he can walk on water, but Verstappen knows that his success is very much linked with his car.

Always elucidating.

If you do a reverse order then what you going to get is that with the sprint qually drivers try to have the slowest time to be at the front !!! really you did not think that trough well enough there !!!

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

Really, you don't think that's been thought of? It's easy, you either start in reverse Championship order or give points for qually....

@Dutch-linux

Ай бұрын

@@F1Elvis That still doesn't make any sense they should get rid of the sprints completely or change the order so it makes more sense... like fridays have practice 1 and 2.. saturday have sprint qually and the sprint race... sunday have qually and then the race makes more sense that way plus the drivers will have one practice seesion more and the teams have more time and data to tweak the car's... Don't you think that be better then how they have it now ????

I got news for you max has said personally in a dutch tv show he is not leaving red bull for mercedes and if which is a big if he does go to merc then he will only go when he can take Helmut Marco, jp, and newey so max going to mercedes is slim to null !!!!!

Arguably this entire crisis was caused by Christian Horner not being in control of his seedstream...

yes F1 should go ahead with REVERSED GRID !!!

honestly i think they trying to make Lewis Hamilton look bad as he leaving

@F1Elvis

Ай бұрын

I genuinely don't think so, that also makes Mercedes look bad?