And it won't necessarily be Carlos Sainz Jnr who replaces him: https://www.racefans.net/2018/08/03/why-sainz-ricciardo-red-bull-f1-drive-2019-season/
The best intersection between dog-related memes and obscure F1 driver names I can come up with is Henton, a short step away from Fenton, named after the only driver in F1 history to have set a fastest lap in a race but never scored a point.
"GP2 front wing! GP2!"
The very first interview I did with a racing driver was with Katherine Legge during her Champ Car season in 2006: she raved about what a great bloke he was and how approachable and helpful he'd been. I've since come to appreciate how rare it is to hear one racing driver talk about another in those terms.
So much hero-worship in little Sainz's eyes!
It also misses the point. How well an F1 driver does is a race isn't just down to how they drive in the race. Max Verstappen ruined his Monaco Grand Prix weekend in a practice session. That's why we've always done Driver of the Weekend.
They only went into administration on Friday and it's been the weekend since then.
Also, it looks like the whole thing is going to be massively complicated. A lot of politics involved, even by F1 standards.
Some things shouldn't be listicles.
With F1's 1,000th race coming up next year I was reminded of this documentary produced after the 1990 season, which ended with the 500th championship race at Adelaide.
This video is a big part of the reason why I became a huge Formula 1 fan. It's a documentary which tells a potted history of the first 41 championships. Nigel Roebuck does the narration and Murray Walker pops up now and then to pick a highlight from each decade.
I remember being gripped by Niki Lauda's description of his Nurburgring crash, and fascinated by the fact that the thin, spindly F1 cars I'd just discovered had been chunky, flame-spitting turbo monsters just a few years earlier.
It must have been shown on television after the 1990 season ended - that was the first full season of F1 I watched. I haven't missed a race since, and that's partly thanks to this cracking video.
Anyone else seen it? Presumably it's online somewhere, in which case I strongly recommend earmarking it for season break viewing.
Currently, lighter drivers have an advantage because engineers can distribute ballast around the car for better weight distribution while still meeting the minimum car weight.
Next year, there's going to be a new combined minimum weight specifically for the driver and his seat. Hence, there's no advantage to having drivers be lighter anymore, because the driver + seat minimum weight will be heavier regardless.
After the rule was announced he said - at the Mercedes launch, I think - something like he could be 'like a body builder' next year.
It is more their attitude i am very worried about. They lack respect in general to everything els that is not Max Verstappen.
I think it's great to see F1 gaining popularity. I don't know what examples of "lacking respect" you are referring to because you haven't mentioned any.
Yeah it seems they started investigating it again but we'll see what happens. Ferrari apparently protested the earlier decision.
Ferrari apparently protested the earlier decision.
Whiting was asked if Ferrari protested and denied it:
https://www.racefans.net/2018/07/22/whiting-explains-delay-hamilton-investigation-f1/
The Raikkonen 2016 incident isn't a precedent because at that event there was a separate instruction to drivers in the event notes forbidding them from crossing the pit entry line, which was not the case at Hockenheim this weekend.
For me we're having a great championship fight and the races are 50-50 - when something unusual happens (like today) they're great. But the standard races are very processional.
Three words "Didn't age well".
I was thinking exactly the same..
Not a reference to Vettel's infamous 'balls in the pool' comment then...
"Ugh, look at that horrible shark fin", said no one.
That is brilliant.
BRM H16.
I never liked the post-2005 V8s. I rather like the current ones.
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