re: 2023 Formula 1 season Thread

Not a chance, every move Papa Stoll makes is to get Lance closer to the front. He bought him a team, he's sniped away some of the best engineers, he's building a state of the art facility. Lance has a seat until Lance doesn't want a seat.

It's like the billionaire version of travel ball where the coach wants to exclusively highlight his son.


ETA: I don't think Lance is terrible, I don't think he's top 5 and he's made some boneheaded mistakes but at this point in his career but I don't consider him unworthy of a seat like Mick, Nikita or Latifi were.

Papa Stroll seems like the kind of guy that would do that, especially if Alonso comes in at #2 or #3 and Lance comes in around 7 or possibly lower.

Kind of hard to judge Lance because he's always been a mid tier driver in a bottom to mid-teir car. He kind of did okay in the pink Mercedes. That said, he doesn't know how to use mirrors :lol Let's see if he can run with the big dogs. I don't have high expectations, but every so often he turns it on and can drive. It's just not a skill he can sustain for a full race, much less an entire season.

Looking at tickets for Miami. Sunday only seems to start at $588 a pop and goes way up from there. It's just a 2 hour drive so the tickets are just about the only expense.

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Think it’s a given Ham stays with Merc, but would Papa Stroll kick his kid out and bring in Ham if they are #2 in constructors this year?

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Papa Stroll knows he needs the best car to stand a chance. He will take the best driver available ourside of his son, but he doesn't need to pay for Hamilton to gain some sort of advantage.

No way Hamilton and Merc end their partnership, no reason to do so for either side. No one has a better chance of beating RBR than Merc and there are no drivers above Hamilton looking for a job.

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There'll be a second GA area, a festival zone with 30K tickets for less than $500 but without track views, in a few months.

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dafuq



Has anyone figured out what hotel you can stay at and just parts of the race from a balcony, bridge, or rooftop?

I just looked up Senor Frogs. I get bottle service and a VIP table for up to 6 people on November 18th at 9 PM. Is this too good to be true?

12 hours of Sebring. Can’t wait to see him do the endurance races in real life. Guarantee he’ll take a year off before 30 to do all the endurance races.

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How did you do that? I can't get anything to open on their website.

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I went to Eventbrite and found the events they had the night of the race.

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Aside from paying $20 per beer, if your table looks out to Las Vegas Boulevard, I'd say you did well.

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That's the part I'm worried about. How is it going to be if I show up that night? Will I be able to walk around upstairs? I noticed they have a bar with stools upstairs near the balcony.

Max has a stimulator on his plane as well.

Dude is dedicated.

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To each country their own...I guess