2024 F1 Thread

[cjd600]

Cant believe RB couldn't announce it before Singapore and give him a proper, deserved, send off there.
As well as missing a proper send off, he spent the weekend trying to answer relentless questioning about it.
Disappointing.

 

[moa999]

They give him praise but treated him with contempt.

Which is kind of full circle as to why Ric left RBR after 2018 in the first place.

 

[MARTINE]

Cant believe RB couldn't announce it before Singapore and give him a proper, deserved, send off there.
As well as missing a proper send off, he spent the weekend trying to answer relentless questioning about it.
Disappointing.

Agree
Such poor form for a well respected driver.
It really is a brutal workplace - no matter how much you’re paid. He would be a media catch

 

[DejaBrew]

The worst thing is that they informed him on Thursday and still played dumb for the entire weekend, forcing him to address questions over his future. The only way they can be excused is if they gave him freedom to announce and he chose to keep quiet rather than turn it into an event all about him. But I guess we won’t know the real story for. While to come.

Either way, sad

 

[kelvedon]

Perhaps as a reaction to RIC’s fastest lap spoiler in SIN, F1 is dropping the one bonus championship point for fastest lap in 2025.

F1 to drop fastest lap bonus point from 2025 season

Formula 1 is to drop the award of a bonus point for fastest lap from the 2025 season.

www.bbc.com

 

[travelislife]

Perhaps as a reaction to RIC’s fastest lap spoiler in SIN, F1 is dropping the one bonus championship point for fastest lap in 2025.

F1 to drop fastest lap bonus point from 2025 season

Formula 1 is to drop the award of a bonus point for fastest lap from the 2025 season.

www.bbc.com

I didn't mind the fastest lap. Adds a bit of spice of people potentially taking a gamble and making a mistake. Especially if the championship is tight and someone takes a gamble to pit and put softs on at the end to try and get that extra point.

 

[moa999]

Agreed.. the easiest reaction to RICs move would to have simply made it fastest lap within the top 10.

 

[serfty]

Agreed.. the easiest reaction to RICs move would to have simply made it fastest lap within the top 10.

Like what it was in recent years.

 

[travelislife]

Agreed.. the easiest reaction to RICs move would to have simply made it fastest lap within the top 10.

I don't understand the problem with what RIC did though? Still interesting enough if one of the bottom teams wants to chase that single point.

 

[DejaBrew]

I don't understand the problem with what RIC did though? Still interesting enough if one of the bottom teams wants to chase that single point.

It's more the optics of a Red Bull-owned team taking a point away from RBR's closest competitor for both the Drivers' and Constructors' Championships in such a way that the driver/team earning fastest lap could not possibly receive the point for it. The individual action from the driver (RIC) and the team (VCARB) is not in question as it's entirely legit. The issue is that VCARB's actions are being called into question as a cynical attempt at supporting the parent team when the going has gotten tough in a tightly-fought Championship year. Other teams are concerned that RBR exerts influence over the actions of VCARB and this "collusion" is not really permitted and is not in the spirit of the competition.