Formula 1 FIA World Championship 2020

[Vektor 3,326]

29 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

George Russell fills in for Hamilton @ Sakhir GP. Jack Aitken will drive at Williams.

 

Mick Schumacher has been confirmed as Mazepin's teammate at Haas next season.

 

This is the busiest December 2nd in F1 since like 1962 or something!

I am a bit sad that it's not Hülkenberg, but Russell going from the worst car to the best is fun. 

[Monzanator 4,507]

12 minutes ago, Vektor said:

I am a bit sad that it's not Hülkenberg, but Russell going from the worst car to the best is fun. 

 

We haven't seen the "worst to best" since Damon Hill went from Brabham to Williams in 1993

[heywoodu 15,148]

At least 6 cars being filled in differently next season, now that's interesting. Curious what Schumacher will do, he absolutely has the raw speed but does need to step up in terms of consistency (although, to be fair, that has gotten better this year).

[Monzanator 4,507]

Haas needs to step it up tbh. Quite frankly they've fallen behind Alfa Romeo on pace alone. I have a feeling having two rookies won't actually help them much either (though the so-called experienced pair of Magnussen & Grosjean simply run out of steam). Mazepin looks like the least-qualified of the Russian pay-drivers. I'd take Markelov over him and well, Sirotkin was slow but didn't crash too often. I wish we got to see Alexander Rossi in a proper F1 equipment.

[heywoodu 15,148]

No no no, not Artem Markelov. The guy has been racing in F2 since before Fangio entered F1 and just never really improved. He's quite decent, no doubt, but especially for what would be a rookie he's both too old and hasn't nearly shown enough improvement in recent years.

[Monzanator 4,507]

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

No no no, not Artem Markelov. The guy has been racing in F2 since before Fangio entered F1 and just never really improved. He's quite decent, no doubt, but especially for what would be a rookie he's both too old and hasn't nearly shown enough improvement in recent years.

You probably confused Markelov with Marco Apicella in F3000   Between 2016-2018 Markelov was a F2 title challenger, he finished runner-up only to LeClerc in 2017. I'd say he wouldn't have done worse than Sirotkin in 2018 Williams but it's all gone now. His current F2 team seems to be more focused on Formula E which probably explains why he's struggling so much.

[Monzanator 4,507]

First practive is over and Russell was 0,322 faster than Bottas.

 

Guess the Hamilton X factor is a hoax and Bottas maybe sucks more than people think!

[NearPup 3,052]

2 hours ago, Monzanator said:

First practive is over and Russell was 0,322 faster than Bottas.

 

Guess the Hamilton X factor is a hoax and Bottas maybe sucks more than people think!

Next week we should put Latifi in the Mercedes as an experiment.

[heywoodu 15,148]

8 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Next week we should put Latifi in the Mercedes as an experiment.

I'm gonna go with Mahaveer Ragunathan.

[Monzanator 4,507]

Meanwhile Fittipaldi is ca. 0,2 secs faster than Aitken in FP2 again. He was faster by 0,150 in FP1.