Max Verstappen references are everywhere if you look for them (the 33 on Chase Atlantic's sax player's jersey)
There is a lot of confusion flying around right now on Adrian Newey’s contract. Employment law terms are being thrown about, some incorrectly. As a lawyer, here are some things you should know:
1. Gardening Leave - this means the period of time in which Newey is technically still paid and employed by RBR but is not allowed to do any work, so he doesn’t get any inside info. Newey has been placed on gardening leave from the RBR F1 division effective immediately. He is not on gardening leave from the HyperCar division.
2. Non-compete period - this means the period of time in which Newey is not allowed to work for another team. This will be triggered by a specific event, which we don’t know. It could start when Newey goes on F1 gardening leave (now) or when Newey’s F1 contract officially ends (near the end of 2024 or early 2025). We simply don’t know.
This means we don’t know for sure whether Adrian Newey will become available to other teams in 2025 or 2026.
Media outlets reporting 2025 do not have sufficient info off the back of the RBR press release to confirm this. Unless they have been told specific and private contractual details that we don’t know
P9... is still in Q3!! And he improved on the final lap!! We take what we can 💪💪
Race so wild I had to colour code it. Anyways the quality is terrible so you'll have to click to see a better image.
Of course I missed some stuff (like Ocon having a tear-off in his air duct or whatever happened with Alonso) but I ran out of space so this is all I could get lol
Say what you will about Alonso but literally promising someone you'd fuck up their warm up and then doing it is so cunt
Daniel had the chance to do the funniest thing (have an Enchante pop up store at Austin) and he did, good for him
Didn't get a video but here's Lewis's post-race interview speech:
"Since 2021 Ive just, everyday, getting up trying to fight to train to put my mind to the task and work as hard as i can with this amazing team. And this is my last race here at the British Grand Prix with this team. So i wanted to win this so much for them, because I love them, I appreciate them so much because of all the hard work they've been putting in all these years. I'm very grateful to everyone in this team everyone at Mercedes and all our partners, and otherwise to all our incredible fans. I can see you lap by lap as I was coming round and there's just no greater feeling than to finish at the front."
"A big big thank you to everyone back at the factory and here. I love you guys, god bless you."
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”- Oscar Wilde.
Verstappen on his way to put in fastest lap after fastest lap in Q1, even though he has a 10 place grid penalty: