re: 2023 Formula 1 season Thread

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Koji Watanabe, president of Honda Racing, has already outlined that there are no hard feelings towards Fernando Alonso, who he described as a “genius drier.”

In any case, with the 2026 season a few years away, there are plenty of unknowns about what Aston Martin’s driver line-up will look like.

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Yuki Tsunoda’s strong performances to start the year have sparked hypotheticals about the Japanese driver potentially securing a seat at Honda.

Although predicting the future of the driver market is always a difficult endeavour, Aston CEO of Performance Technologies Martin Whitmarsh spoke in very glowing terms of the 23-year-old:

“He’s very young still but relatively experienced – I think he’s made great progress. It’s tremendously exciting,” The Race quotes him as saying.

“I’m sure our driver line-up will evolve before 2026. Ultimately Honda and Aston Martin want to have the very best two drivers we can have in the cars.

“We are here to win, as are Honda, so in 2026, we have to start winning together. We have to have great drivers.

“He must be considered as a candidate. I’m sure he would love to drive a Honda-powered car.”

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Again, it must be stressed that Fernando Alonso’s future at Aston Martin is still difficult to predict.

It seems likely he will continue until at least the end of 2024, given his high level of performance and the impressive results the AMR23 has secured so far.

However, in three years’ time, it is fair to question whether his motivation to compete in Formula 1 will begin to suffer.

Lance Stroll’s position in the team is hardly ever questioned, given that his father owns the team. That said, it is not out of the question that more pressure will be applied on the 24-year-old to make improvements.

Whilst injury has impacted his 2023 campaign, there is a clear deficit between the Canadian and his teammate. This is especially prominent in race trim.

If Aston Martin is to sustain its battle at the front, Stroll must prove he can compete at the highest level with the strongest drivers in Formula 1.

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Let AM have Yuki and RB take Fernando. Would love to see him next to Max and giving him a run for his money.

They went with that deeper valley over the pods

Still have those bulging trap muscle looking ridge up top

Can't wait for the upgrades to have a minimal effect and then Mercedes's twitter calls for everyone's head. Everyone has insane expectations with upgrades.

That's what I'm hoping happens and I can't wait

I feel there's a legitimate chance they could even fall back a bit, this is a complete change in aero direction for them, along with the change in front suspension and there could be some kinks that need ironing out for them.

The meltdowns would be epic.

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What time does practice start tomorrow CST?

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FP1 - 6:30 AM CST
FP2 - 10:00 AM CST
FP3 - Saturday 6:30 AM
Qualifying - Saturday 9:00 AM
Race - Sunday 8:00 AM

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feel there's a legitimate chance they could even fall back a bit,

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The car is going to feel like shite to the drivers on the worst track possible to not have a solid car under you.

Merc should just be hoping they don't destroy all the carbon fiber they made.

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FP1 - 6:30 AM CST
FP2 - 10:00 AM CST
FP3 - Saturday 6:30 AM
Race - Saturday 9:00 AM
Parade(Barring Ferrari Shenanigans) - Sunday 8:00 AM

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Fixed it for you.

looks different on crash.net.


i don't understand why one pic has half the inlet blocked

This looks pretty nice

This looks like a nice upgrade over that shite they were running. Probably hafta wait till next race to really see how it does but it looks sexy as hell

Likely still a shitbox