Correct. It’s always an excuse when teams claim to have stopped development. It’s also bullshit. Every team has a similar development cycle, with a project planning including milestones that won’t differ too much. Teams know that the media won’t follow up, so when Mercedes do bring upgrades, nobody’s going to throw…

Ricciardo didn’t ‘thrash’ Vettel, he simply beat him. He also just outpaced Verstappen in their first 5 races, rest of the season they were even and the pace gap between the two escalated over the next few seasons as Max gained experience. You’re clearly looking at points scored, which is one of the worst stats to…

He hasn’t beaten Verstappen once all season. That’s not what Mercedes needs him to be.

They did dump it years ago.

Maybe they did it because Bottas has given them nothing this season, and this is the only way they can force him to be of use to the team.

Go watch the 2019 season.

Exactly this. You can tell this ain’t his first rodeo. He’s at a point in his career where he probably never expected to be in a top team anymore and as a result he’s totally comfortable being a number two, knowing that he can pick up podiums and the odd win here and there.

No, fastest time set on his first run on the medium tyre.

Eagerly awaiting two articles per GP about how Tsunoda and Schumacher haven’t found a wall they couldn’t hit.

Not my favorite driver, he’s a bit ‘meh’, but Ocon might very well be my favorite person on the F1 grid.

He tried to protect the mechanic from getting all the blame, and clumsily involved Bottas in the whole ordeal.

It was a bit of a childish jab on my part for calling KMag Swedish... I hope he does well, always had a soft spot for him. Not that many drivers have a personality these days.

Power and Dixon ARE old. They’re older than Fernando Alonso, who’s been struggling to keep up with a midlevel talent (by F1 standards) like Ocon this year.

There’s a lot of great talent in IndyCar that deserves an F1 seat

Former “washed up” F1 drivers like Ericsson and Grosjean showing how they can compete at the top.

You must be American.

The best part is that this is clearly not an oversight, or something that Brownell simply failed to mention. The whole article is written specifically in the way as if Russell is ‘just’ a Williams driver, who’s set to be a free agent if he doesn’t extend his deal. He clearly didn’t know, which is both really funny and…

This. As I noted in a different post: where’s Hamilton going to go? Mercedes’ main rivals are still Red Bull and Ferrari. Walking away from a fight with Russell just to pick a new one with Verstappen or Leclerc seems less than logical.

Please don’t tempt him with the Chadwick nonsense. Even if somehow she found a way to scrape together enough points to get a superlicense, she’d set the whole ‘women can compete with men at the highest level’ debate back a few decades.