2024 Formula One Random Discussion Thread

Omega · PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:19 pm

Verstappen has a clause in his contract that he can leave if Red Bull ditches Marko.

Fabs · PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:42 pm

So the FIA tried to block the one track on which F1 itself organised the GP

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/68478049

He was right though after they had the manhole cover saga

codename_47 · PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:10 pm

Omega wrote:

Verstappen has a clause in his contract that he can leave if Red Bull ditches Marko.

Yeah sure, leave the team where he can win by 30 seconds at his leisure to head to one where he has to fight that car, which will carry on winning without him (just by not quite as much, judging by Perez performance, would still probably win at least 18 races with just him and the latest red bull junior tbh)

Fabs wrote:

So the FIA tried to block the one track on which F1 itself organised the GP

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/68478049

He was right though after they had the manhole cover saga

So we have one whistleblower trying to destabalise Red Bull and another trying to destabalise the FIA itself...

Is Jos going to try to take over Red Bull or become FIA president? Maybe Horner sees the way the wind is blowing at Red Bull and wants Ben Suleyem out of his post so he can go "motor racing" immediately without having to look for a new job....

The big question is, why is all this happening at once? Are people trying to stir up other stories to try and cover their own scandal?
Is Ben Sulyem behind the Red Bull scandal and Horner is dishing the dirt on his shady decisions behind the scenes as revenge?

Feels like they each have enough shit going on but I find it hard to believe in coincidences...

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:16 pm

perhaps a hostile takeover incoming

webbsy · PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:36 am

codename_47 wrote:

Omega wrote:

The big question is, why is all this happening at once?

The overlords of Liberty know this season is going to be evn shitter than last year. Gotta distract from the on track stuff.

micha · PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:13 am

webbsy wrote:

codename_47 wrote:

Omega wrote:

The big question is, why is all this happening at once?

The overlords of Liberty know this season is going to be evn shitter than last year. Gotta distract from the on track stuff.

someone needs to tell them its better to spread it out over the season and not dump it all on us after 1 race :lol:

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:43 am

webbsy wrote:

codename_47 wrote:

Omega wrote:

The big question is, why is all this happening at once?

The overlords of Liberty know this season is going to be evn shitter than last year. Gotta distract from the on track stuff.

If it keeps going it might look like Niki Lauda when he left mid race weekend :8:

Karan · PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:21 pm

Bob Bell has left Alpine as well. Been there since the Benetton days. When such long term employees start rapidly leaving an organization, makes you wonder just how bad the core leadership must be.

amq55 · PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:16 pm

Heikki Kovalainen requires open-heart surgery soon to correct a congenital cardiac defect. https://formularapida.net/kovalainen-to ... -check-up/

westracing01 · PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:50 pm

FiatFan83 wrote:

EAS wrote:

Meanwhile, in one of the oddest weeks of following this sport even, another rumor that came up is that Jos has an affair with former personal secretary, and possible whistleblower, of Horner.

Man, a fictional series of this mess would be 10x more interesting than DTS

When I told my wife about this one, and she's been following the whole thing, her first thought was that Jos put her up to "seducing" Horner and leading him into sending those sexts.

Makes one think.

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That was my first thought upon reading that rumor. Man, the hell is going on in the F1 world.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:55 pm

Karan wrote:

Bob Bell has left Alpine as well. Been there since the Benetton days. When such long term employees start rapidly leaving an organization, makes you wonder just how bad the core leadership must be.

This is the only part of this recent drama I can imagine will actually make it to drive to survive

Red Bull don't play ball with it, Ben Sulyam will demand an edit that paints him in the best light, but Alpine had more episodes this season than anyone else so at least this will be well documented

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:50 pm

Michael Andretti is already seen around Enstone, the only condition is to rebrand the engine like Mecachrome or Supertec

codename_47 · PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:41 pm

LucasWheldon wrote:

Michael Andretti is already seen around Enstone, the only condition is to rebrand the engine like Mecachrome or Supertec

No! No! No! No! No!

+2 cars or don't bother

FUCKING FIA :slaphead:

RtN · PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:19 pm

Why are you blaming the FIA? The FIA have given him an entry for next year.

micha · PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:27 pm

TBH I rather have Andretti save Alpine than having some rich fuck buy it for their kid to race in.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:56 pm

RtN wrote:

Why are you blaming the FIA? The FIA have given him an entry for next year.

FUCKING FOM :whistling:

micha · PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:33 pm

the female RBR employee that told on Horner is now suspended partly by request of Geri Horner

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 3:57 pm

RtN wrote:

Why are you blaming the FIA? The FIA have given him an entry for next year.

perhaps he knows something we don't know that is all part of a big scheme on the war between MBS/FIA and Domeninali/Liberty

FiatFan83 · PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:04 pm

micha wrote:

the female RBR employee that told on Horner is now suspended partly by request of Geri Horner

How does that even work? I'm not the most woke person out there, but damn, this reeks of victim shaming/blaming/retaliation and I can understand the company/team making the decision and maybe I'm being naive but how does the wife get to give input into that?

Like I said, maybe I'm just naive as I'm blue collar and don't have any real experience with office politics or life, and only a call center and big box retail many years ago before transitioning to repair.

:edit: I make the woke comment because even a sometimes male chauvinist pig such as myself can see a problem with this situation and that's saying something.

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EAS · PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:34 pm

FiatFan83 wrote:

micha wrote:

the female RBR employee that told on Horner is now suspended partly by request of Geri Horner

How does that even work? I'm not the most woke person out there, but damn, this reeks of victim shaming/blaming/retaliation and I can understand the company/team making the decision and maybe I'm being naive but how does the wife get to give input into that?

I was thinking the same thing.

So, we have just gone from the driver's dad asking the boss out to the boss' wife asking someone out of a corporation. Just wow

The developments of this story just get weirder and weirder

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