Seriously man? Just getting rid of Mazepin means they can reduce the budget for spare body work, that alone cuts millions off what they had put aside for the season.

Uralkali really isn’t any worse than Aramco, Mission Winnow, or Petronas.  Plus, several teams were courting Rich Energy Drinks; I don’t believe any of them turned Rich down because they knew the company was shady.

we have to sort out all the legal stuff, which I cannot speak about, next week

Haas has zero debt I believe, which actually puts them pretty well off financially. 

This comment works perfectly both as sarcasm and sincerity.

I didn’t realize that was ever a secret.

That was never in question. Everybody knows how & why Mazepin got his seat.

That would be part of it, but I imagine the other part is the association with a Russian oligarch isn't super great at the moment.

Kudos to the Haas team for acting so quickly.

why not? because the vast majority of people aren’t so weak & fragile that they’re triggered by a song commemorating the country they live in or are visiting, that’s why.

JFC - there is NO force in this country that needs that kind of vehicle - outside of the military in a fucking WAR ZONE.

And probably have no hope of winning said lawsuit.

Alpine is the Renault team. They rebranded but it’s the same team.

It’s not even only voting pressure. Back at Abu Dhabi, after a pit, Verstappen found himself behind the Alpha Tauris - on fresher tires, he’d have obviously gotten by them quickly, but they just let him pass. That essentially means a title competitor on Ferrari or Red Bull gets a free pass from 3/20 cars, 3x what a…

F1 Teams are already taking the piss with budget cuts. All they do is create a subsidiary company that happens to make suspension parts for F1 cars and has a deal where they only sell them to e.g. Ferrari. All the R&D costs are put through the sub company and Ferrari pay a ‘fair market rate’ for the parts.

Yes exactly. The B teams would provide more feedbacks and data back to the A teams, and A teams could test parts on B teams. There are simply many ways and scenarios where two teams with a total of 4 cars can benefit each other.

Poor Formula 1, it seems the sport can’t go more than a week without some new threat to its global reputation.

Yeah, the first 3 or 4 paragraphs of this story had me ready to rip into Zak for simply politicking (we’ve had B teams forever!) but the sister team stuff makes total sense and I never considered it, especially in terms of voting pressure... Simultaneously, if all participants had to also be unique constructors, you’d…

Hes probably right.