While the majority of the Mercedes team was busy commiserating or being furious, they still found time to tell Bottas to enable the setting 'Chassis Default 77' on the slowing down lap, which triggered the message 'Kiitos Valtteri' on his dash.
That's quite sweet.
#AbuDhabiGP
So... Lewis Hamilton thinks that Sebastian Vettel will be back 😅
‘I was just sitting here thinking… most drivers are coming back, like… he’s coming back. You’re probably going to come back’ [1/2]
Lewis Hamilton was "really, really impressed" with Ollie Bearman's "mega" F1 debut, especially given his age.
It's something he admits he wouldn't have been ready for at 18:
🗣️ "Charles drove like a real sportsman at the end"
Despite Leclerc's attempt to keep Perez ahead of Russell at the end of the
#AbuDhabiGP
, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff still seemed impressed with how he handled the situation:
🗣️ Perez's radio message at the end of the race...
Perez: Yeah, thank you for that, guys. Thank you.
Horner: I'm sorry about that, Checo.
Race Engineer: We'll debrief everything afterwards.
Perez: Yeah, this shows who he really is.
#BrazilGP
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#F1
More comments from Helmut Marko about where Sergio Perez comes from, used in a critical context, have appeared this week.
This must stop; Perez deserves better than to have to shrug off remarks from one of the most senior figures in Red Bull's
#F1
set-up
Ollie Bearman appreciation post:
- finds out he'll make his F1 debut in a Ferrari
- has one hour of (interrupted) practice
- misses out on Q3 by 0.036s
- will start P11 in his first grand prix
👏👏👏
Alpine technical director Matt Harman and head of aero Dirk de Beer are understood to have resigned, sources have confirmed to The Race. The team has declined to comment. [1/2]
A touch of
#F1
mischief: George Russell and Valtteri Bottas have been placed together in the pairings for Thursday's pre-Belgian GP press conference at Spa
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@XPBImages
Unseen by
#F1
's TV feed, the RB drivers almost collided on the
#BahrainGP
cooldown lap.
Tsunoda, frustrated by the late-race team order, dived down the inside of Ricciardo at Turn 8 and the two almost collided on the exit.
#F1
drivers have finally left the building in which they've been meeting for over four hours at the
#SaudiArabianGP
.
GPDA director George Russell has gone to the race tower where team principals have been meeting separately.
Did you know? 👀
Max Verstappen has now EQUALLED the record for MOST consecutive finishes in the top 2⃣...
🇩🇪 Schumacher - 15 (2002)
🇳🇱 Verstappen - 15 (2022-23)
🇬🇧 Hamilton - 12 (2014-15)
🇩🇪 Vettel - 11 (2010-11)
🇪🇸 Alonso - 10 (2005-06)
🇬🇧 Hamilton - 10 (2018-19)
Fernando Alonso says his new Aston Martin contract is no regular two-year extension - and hints it will keep him part of the Aston family well beyond the end of his
#F1
driver career.
🚨 New images of the circuit that will host December's inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix have been revealed.
What do you make of Hermann Tilke's latest
#F1
track so far?
❗️ Andretti has opened a new facility at Silverstone as it "embarks on the next stage of our preparations to enter the FIA Formula 1 World Championship".
It comes over two months after its General Motors-backed bid to join the grid was rejected by F1's commercial rights holder.
❗️ Audi will complete a 100% takeover of Sauber ahead of its 2026
#F1
entry, rather than the 75% takeover that was originally planned.
Oliver Hoffmann is leaving the Audi board to head up Audi's F1 programme while ex-McLaren boss Andreas Seidl will be the Audi F1 team CEO.
🥇 Pole positions to wins for
#F1
drivers:
Hamilton: 103 to 103
Verstappen: 22 to 37
Alonso: 22 to 32
Bottas: 20 to 10
Leclerc: 18 to 5
Sainz: 3 to 1
Perez: 2 to 5
Russell: 1 to 1
Hulkenberg: 1 to 0
Stroll: 1 to 0
Norris: 1 to 0
Magnussen: 1 to 0
Gasly: 0 to 1
Ocon: 0 to 1
Congratulations to Max Verstappen on becoming the 2023
#F1
Constructors' Champion! 🏆
Mercedes in P2 can only reach a maximum of 470 points this season, so Verstappen has clinched another title with a few races to spare.
❗️ Andretti has opened a new facility at Silverstone as it "embarks on the next stage of our preparations to enter the FIA Formula 1 World Championship".
It comes over two months after its General Motors-backed bid to join the grid was rejected by F1's commercial rights holder.
Williams
#F1
driver Nicholas Latifi, whose crash has played a part in deciding the 2021 title race, has been bombarded with insults on social media in the aftermath.
Aside from being *just awful*, this also betrays a serious lack of understanding of
#F1
:
The Indy 500. Le Mans. Monaco. Also known as: The Triple Crown 👑
But, hypothetically, if you had to add ONE race to it, to make it the *quadruple crown* (name needs work)... what would it be, and why?
🗣️ "Of course we need to be gladiators, but when it comes to the heat, there's only so much the body can take."
George Russell wasn't impressed by some of the criticism ex-F1 drivers levelled at the current F1 drivers for how they complained about the extreme conditions in Qatar
McLaren
#F1
driver Lando Norris says Simon Pagenaud didn't want him to win today’s
#Indycar
iRacing Challenge event because he’s not one of the series regular drivers calling the 2019
#Indy500
winner "salty":
Testing's done. The first race of the season is mere days away.
So, naturally, we've tried to predict the pecking order of the teams for the 2022 season. Do you agree? If not - let us know the order you'd have them in 🗣️
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In a message to his Instagram followers, Lewis Hamilton has revealed he has been struggling “mentally and emotionally for a long time” in an effort to encourage people to confront those kinds of emotions ⬇️
💬 "When I came here, you wouldn't expect for him to be so open with me. But he explained all his issues that he had."
Baku
#F1
winner Sergio Perez has paid tribute to the hard work and attitude of the man he replaced at Red Bull, Alex Albon:
🗣️ Vettel on Russia:
"For myself, my own opinion is I should not go, I will not go. It's wrong to race in the country. I'm sorry for the people, innocent people who are losing their lives, getting killed for stupid reasons."