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re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread

Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:47 pm to
Posted by TigerFanatic99
South Bend, Indiana
Member since Jan 2007
32926 posts
Posted on 12/23/24 at 9:47 pm to
Nice. I'm waiting on the giant teknik kits coming out in March of the 2024 cars.
Posted by MississippiLebowski
Member since Jul 2022
605 posts
Posted on 12/24/24 at 8:14 am to
I put this one together back in the spring. It was a fun build. Finished project is 2’ long and 10” wide. Not the 2024 model but it’s $40 cheaper from Target right now than it was from Lego when I got it.

Lego technic McLaren from Target
Posted by Lsut81
Member since Jun 2005
82871 posts
Posted on 12/24/24 at 1:30 pm to
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And some Red Bull!


Costco? Bought that a few months ago and fun as shite to play with in house.
Posted by TouchedTheAxeIn82
near the Apple spaceship
Member since Nov 2012
6483 posts
Posted on 12/24/24 at 6:19 pm to
OK, beating a dead horse here, but the coddling of this dude is unbelievable...

RB: Whole Team at Fault Over Failing to Get Ricciardo to Click
motorsport.com/f1/news/rb-we-all-admit-fault-over-failing-to-get-ricciardo-to-click/

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But despite having benefited from a full off-season to prepare for 2024, the veteran Australian still found it hard to find consistent performance in the VCARB 01. Ricciardo showed flashes of his old self at times, including with a stellar sprint race in Miami with fourth place, but was generally outperformed by Yuki Tsunoda at the team.

Reflecting on why things didn't work out with Ricciardo, RB team boss Mekies has said the team is collectively taking responsibility for not being able to give the 35-year-old a car he could build momentum in.

"The question we have been asked the most was: 'Can Daniel still produce the ultimate speed we have seen?' I think he has on a few occasions, in Miami, in Canada [fifth place in qualifying] and in quite a few other races. So, he did produce that ultimate speed that took him to race wins in the past. But for the team, as for the drivers, the biggest difficulty is not to be fast one day. It's to be fast in every race. Did we manage to keep Daniel in that sweet spot often enough? No, that's the reality. I raised my hand and we raised our hands as a team, because we have a big part to play in it. And this led to what happened.

And yet somehow the corollary to this is not worth mentioning. Mekies is saying that they failed to tune the apparently finicky VCARB consistently enough to allow Danny to get consistently fast results. The corollary should be that Yuki must have done an amazing job of wrangling this finicky beast, as he scored consistently in the first half of the season while the car was still competitive. And yet no one at Red Bull is saying that Yuki did an amazing job because that would just raise more questions about why he wasn't promoted.

So the Red Bull narrative around Yuki is that he did an adequate-to-good job in the VCARB, but didn't show the promise of future growth that Liam supposedly showed. But somehow Danny only scoring half of Yuki's total (22-12) is VCARB's fault because they didn't give him the car he needed to perform. I can't roll my eyes any harder at these dueling narratives.
Posted by BestBanker
Member since Nov 2011
18305 posts
Posted on 12/25/24 at 8:56 am to
Danny lost his desire to achieve. That's all. If you cannot keep your passion afire, how can anyone expect greatness? It happens to the best of people.
Posted by jefforize
Member since Feb 2008
45058 posts
Posted on 12/25/24 at 2:03 pm to
Yeah.

Can’t wait to post some lap times in the kitchen later
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
19876 posts
Posted on 12/25/24 at 4:14 pm to
I just put together on of the tehcnic ones for my nephews. They didn’t appreciate it.
Posted by athenslife101
Member since Feb 2013
19876 posts
Posted on 12/26/24 at 10:08 am to
frick Horner. Dude is obsessed with hearing himself talk
Posted by VABuckeye
NOVA
Member since Dec 2007
37680 posts
Posted on 12/27/24 at 7:03 am to
I got the Senna McLaren Lego set for Christmas!
Posted by Split2874
Mandeville
Member since Jul 2012
2995 posts
Posted on 12/29/24 at 8:57 am to
No a bad plan for Cadillac to get a coupe of veteran drives for the 1st few seasons to work the bugs out
Posted by VABuckeye
NOVA
Member since Dec 2007
37680 posts
Posted on 1/1/25 at 8:35 pm to
Time for the 2025 thread fellas.
Posted by TigerFanatic99
South Bend, Indiana
Member since Jan 2007
32926 posts
Posted on 1/2/25 at 11:55 pm to
Indeed.

Since there isn't one yet, I'll post it here. Rolex is out as F1 official time keeper and Tag Hueur is now the official branding partner. $1.5B deal over 10 years.

Does not affect Tag's existing partnership with Red Bull or Monaco.
Posted by s14suspense
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2007
15192 posts
Posted on 1/3/25 at 7:15 am to
That’ll be a change for sure. 1.5B is a lot of watches though. I could see it bumping their numbers up some for sure but hell.
Posted by TigerFanatic99
South Bend, Indiana
Member since Jan 2007
32926 posts
Posted on 1/3/25 at 10:35 am to
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That’ll be a change for sure. 1.5B is a lot of watches though. I could see it bumping their numbers up some for sure but hell.


The effect is real though. Hell, I bought a Tag F1 Red Bull chronograph after becoming a Verstappen fan in 2021.
Posted by BottomlandBrew
Member since Aug 2010
28497 posts
Posted on 1/3/25 at 1:39 pm to
Annual revenue of Tag Heuer is estimated at $811 million, with an estimated 2023 marketing budget of $100 million. The parent company, LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) had 2023 revenue of $86 billion. That's spread across 75 brands. Shows that LVMH is serious about growing the Tag Heuer brand.
Posted by s14suspense
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2007
15192 posts
Posted on 1/3/25 at 2:11 pm to
Good point, they are a crazy huge company. That is just a drop in the bucket for them.
Posted by MississippiLebowski
Member since Jul 2022
605 posts
Posted on 1/6/25 at 5:34 pm to
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Rumors suggest Alpine’s contract with Jack Doohan is only for the first 5 races of the season, if he doesn’t meet expectations, he could replaced by Colapinto or reserve driver Paul Aaron
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