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I've long been a big fan of the Finnish model where it is based on wealth and income. Probably everyone heard the story of the Nokia boss that had to pay a massive fine for speeding just a bit.

Like you said, a €5000 would cripple me. Hell, even a €200 fine would hurt me. But for others even a €10.000 fine is nothing.

And as stated before, the $1 million fine is only for the worst of the worst. Up until now it was $250.000 and I cant remember that one ever been handed out to a driver.

Dennis and Hadjar will take over the Red Bulls for FP1 in Abu Dhabi.

They should have just added "driver's name rhymes with pants troll" to the $1m fine conditions and then everyone would have understood.

The fact the FIA rolled this out the same weekend they handed out 5 second penalties for illegal passes to cars that can pull that gap in 5 laps is peak FIA.

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the fact that drivers can overcome time penalties by simply driving away and use it as part of strategy for me is plain wrong. They should simplify the sport, not turn into a series of bureaucratic gimmicks that makes the average joe confused

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The only thing this $1Million will be used for is "bringing the sport into disrepute" you can count on it

Which will cover driving with tattoos/jewellery/being outspoken on LGBT/Green/progressive issues or having a dog in the paddock....

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After a few weeks of paddock rumours, Der Spiegel is now reporting that Audi's entry is under formal review. The boss that was keen to enter left last month and his replacement does not seem as enthused.

https://www.reuters.com/sports/motor-sp ... 023-10-26/

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Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

I'd seen some comments elsewhere about this a little while ago. It seems a complete 180 could be on the cards for Audi: reinstatement of their customer programmes while F1 is scrapped. Which is the right thing to do really.

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Which leaves Sauber open for an andretti incursion

Not the best outcome but is the one that suits everybody

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There goes my hopes for more than 20 cars. Well, maybe when I'm 85 things have changed so much that they will eventually have 26 f-zeros on the grid. Then I can die peacefully.

So everyone bents over backwards to suit VAG and when they got their way first Porsche pulls out and now Audi?

They should sue VAG into oblivion. Destroy VAG. As restitution Mercedes gets Audi, VW goes to Honda. Skoda and Seat to Renault.

Funny you mention, for a very brief moment Audi was Mercedes property, but then VW stepped in and bought the brand to forward development of water cooled engines

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LOL that's amazing and they're completely right to stay out of a garbage "show" like F1.

So this Red Bull will go down as one of the greatest F1 cars of all time, but strangely it doesn't feel like the Williams of 1992 which statistically wasn't as good. The Williams was also over a second, sometimes a second and a half a lap faster (though I can't help but feel that Max hasn't fully unleashed the cars full potential due to not getting things banned for being too fast). I also put it down to Perez. He has been useless in a car that is statistically one of the best there has ever been. At least Patrase wasn't as useless as Perez.

Perez is only useless because the car has been tailored to Max and they won’t make any accommodations for Perez’s driving style, it’s exactly what Ferrari did with Eddie Irvine when Michael Schumacher was the golden child, as soon as Schu broke his leg at Silverstone Ferrari started adjusting the car for Irvine and he started winning races.

Maybe we need Max to take a few weeks off to see if Perez really is as shyte as it appears or whether RBR are favouring Max (not that anybody who has been watching for more than five minutes would need any confirmation).

Perez is just the first time we see Red Bull's toxicity applied to a solid veteran driver. Only difference with youngsters is that it took two and a half seasons to manifest and completely break him, instead of half a season.

Let´s give the man who is 95% certain of winning the race a worse car, to see if the man who can´t reach the podium anymore is better than we currently expect.

I think Ian was suggesting a situation where Max can't race for a few weeks like what happened with Schumacher - let's encourage Max to take up some extreme sports! Though I do think the Ferrari disparity between team mates never seemed quite as extreme when the Ferrari was the dominant car

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I get that, and yes I agree. But even with a car not tailor made for him he should still be finishing on the podium at most races at least. The car is still head and shoulders above the rest.

shitpost of the day: as soon as a driver wins the championship mathematically, he goes home and lets the rest of them race the remainder of the season for other championship positions. Make it mandatory to give that seat to the reserve driver - that may also spice up the constructors championship in years with dominant cars.

this is not shit, it does make sense. and that's why they'll never put this in place

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