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No idea, the two theories are that 1.) he sent a dick pic, which imo is game over for him, but it's odd that he's still around which makes me think about 2.) which is someone complaining about his aggressive management style that leads in to the rumours of an internal power struggle at Red Bull

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So what is the evidence that supports either of these?

They started building that McLaren around October of the previous year, as soon as the new rules tweaks for the floor dropped and they already knew it was the only way.

Purely rumours, as there can't be any actual evidence made public as it would compromise the legal side of the investigation or whatever is happening

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And the crazy thing is that reliability used to be a factor when parts didn't have to last more than a race.

Today cars are bulletproof even with parts that have to last several races. That's a part that improved in dramatic fashion.

I don't think this is a matter of guilty x not guilty. This looks like a power struggle in which the inappropriate behavior is just a tool to justify a decision that wouldn't be justifiable otherwise.

The drain cover is loose again. Unbelievable.

It's not the cover's fault. It has no business being designed to be sucked off by 20 cars lap after lap on that part of the race track, entry of a fast corner. That shouldn't be the racing line, apart from a couple accidental incursions over the whole race week-end. I think it's a different situation to mid-track, mid-straight covers on street tracks.

Seems like the ridiculous length of the calendar and the massive strains it puts on people has even got to Crofty this year:

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/david-croft-to-miss-first-f1-races-as-sky-commentator/10578756/

Wuss,. Murray was doing 17 races at 67. /s

Harry Benjamin is an interesting choice, it'll be interesting to see how he works out.

As a man who's getting married myself, I can relate. This shit takes up time.

Wet weekend guaranteed for Bahrain

Huh. Leclerc has gone fastest of all. He shaded Perez by a few tenths, then Max switched in and predictably went quite a bit faster. What I didn't expect is for Leclerc to then put another four tenths on Max.

Red Bull probably still have the best car, but I get the impression the gap back to Ferrari might not be as big as it started out as last year. Alonso has also been making confident noises which aren't currently backed up on the timesheets.

Stella thinks Red Bull are further ahead, Alonso has already crowned Max as champion, and Max just completed a stint that, if it began with a full tank, would be a second per lap faster than anyone else's first stint. This stint also saw virtually zero tyre degredation.

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Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Yeah, I just saw that Charles used the C5 tyre versus the C3 for Max. Normal service has been resumed

Apparently Piastri is having high tyre degradation...

It's joever

Isola from Pirelli said teams were closer to Red Bull than last year.
But we can't trust him.

Leclerc's first stint (also on C3s) started out fairly close to Max's times but tailed off significantly by the end.

Max's latest stint on C1s was faster than his stint on C3s, so it looks like they didn't fuel the car whilst it was in the garage.

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Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

more like "we did our job for tires, if you cannot reach Red Bull it's your problem

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I was listening to an old engineer on the Motorsport magazine podcast (forget who it was) who came up with the theory that maybe there wasn't so much unreliability in the past because they were on the cutting edge of technology, maybe some of it was "finger trouble", it's all well and good assembling these beasts of machines in the factory but disassemble it and reassemble it three or more times over the course of the weekend and you're bound to mess something up....

Take that out, allow them to build the cars at leisure without time pressure and some of the stupid errors we've all read about like races being lost due to tiny 50p washers or whatever else doesn't happen as much or if at all

But it was just a theory, no-one has studied this lol

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