Everyone can have their opinions about the ruthlessness of Red Bull’s young driver program, but the fact stands that it’s certainly produced more race winners than any other young driver program. Given the right car, Ricciardo and Verstappen could both win titles and that really can’t be said about any driver. Yes, a…

Alonso did well but how about Vandoorne? He qualified three places higher than Alonso. Great stuff from both McLaren guys today.

Is that real? It doesn’t look like a joke and $295k seems believable enough. They should get some reparations for that. Why the hell was the drain cover loose? Lucky no one got seriously hurt.

A properly scary wreck and Massa only just missed hitting the same drain cover not 20 seconds later. That would have been a disaster.

That would be pretty incredible. There’s no way they could be competitive starting five-seven years after everyone else.

There’s a 100% chance that if it isn’t Renault, it’s Honda. Merc and Ferrari wouldn’t supply them and since Honda has the least customers, if Renault drops RBR, they literally have no choice. I don’t think most of the comments are serious but anyone who seriously believes a new engine manufacturer is supplying Red…

I don’t think you can place an order for cars Porsche does not currently manufacture and made in limited numbers ie: the cars mentioned in the original comment.

Ricciardo’s driving was second to none today. 16th to 4th and closed the gap to Vettel by 8 seconds in as many laps. Few more laps and he would’ve been right on the back of Vettel’s car. Superb driving from him.

Let’s be honest, he was kept around to appease Vettel. They don’t want another driver to potentially upset the balance within the team and Raikkonen is perfectly happy playing second fiddle. Could you imagine if they had brought back Alonso or a driver of his caliber? They aren’t going to be #2 to anyone.

Also the same Ilmor that designed and built the Mercedes Benz engines that powered McLaren between 1995 and 2005, during which Mika Hakkinen took his two championships.

They wouldn’t give up Alonso willingly and Alonso wouldn’t go to Renault because he’s not gonna take a lesser deal. That being said, since Alonso is a free agent after this year, Renault doesn’t need to propose any deal. He can go if they offer him something attractive but honestly even with the Honda engine, I’m not…

This is really the important point. McLaren would leap frog Renault in the first season with Renault engines. I’m sure Renault could give a damn about McLaren posing a threat to Red Bull because Red Bull is as stuck with Renault as McLaren is going to be with Honda. RBR is no more than a customer.

Yea it’s just a given that if you ask a fellow resident what part of Jersey they’re from, they give you their Parkway exit.

Yea the operator is right there. His excuse is poor to say the least.

My year round residence is in Central Jersey (exit 105 off the GSP) but my family has a beach house in Cape May, so I have spent pretty much all of my 25+ Summers down in Cape May. I’m pretty familiar with the area. More familiar with Cape May and Wildwood Cresr than North Wildwood/Rio Grande.

As a fellow local I have to say that sometimes, taking the Parkway is a pain in the balls. Definitely tacks on a few miles to your journey. Gotta go all the way to Rio Grande.

Set the fastest lap three times in the last 10 laps from what a read. That was a superb race from Alonso, though. The results are at least 75% down to his exceptional ability.

Problem is they got better over the 2016 season only to take a monumental step back. Granted, they changed the entire engine architecture but I don’t blame McLaren for thinking Honda might not ever get it together.

It was also glass. Their reliability was fairly appalling for a few years there although when the engine worked it went like hell. JPM’s qualy laps from that era are some of my favorites.

Exactly I always see people saying that the race was boring if there wasn’t a fight for first. They barely show first place on the world feed to begin with. Yea it sucks that Hamilton walked away with it but he was brilliant all weekend and the battles throughout the rest of the pack were exciting.