Max was on fire this press! 🔥 Our little comedian! ❤️
Got Doints but at what cost 💔
Drive to Survive will pay for convincing people through one heavily edited race that Yuki was "thoroughly outperformed" by Liam and Liam had his heart broken in Suzuka when the literal facts are
-Liam was told he would not be getting the seat before Singapore. This was literally said by him and also Yuki's manager. The rumor that Honda intervened in Suzuka to renew Yuki is blatantly false and nothing like what DTS showed.
-Yuki won the qualifying head-to-head 4-1. The one quali that Liam beat him at (Singapore) Yuki was impeded by Max in Q2 and looking at his Q1 time, he would have easily made it to Q3. Fair play to Liam though, he performed well in Singapore across the whole weekend.
-Monza and Singapore we weren't able to compare because Yuki didn't get to complete a single lap due to a DNS and DNF from Perez ramming into him. In races they both completed, Yuki placed ahead in Zandvoort (before a post-race penalty) and in Qatar after Liam crashed out. In Suzuka he finished one place behind because despite lapping faster, he was told to hold position and Alphatauri were coaching Liam to defend against him. So it's a mixed bag but Yuki comes out ahead.
Yes, Liam was the only one to score points in their 5 shared races. Fantastic work by him and something the team desperately needed. But in the 3 races where the AT had the best chances of scoring points (Zandvoort,Singapore and Monza), Yuki was not even able to start at the latter two and had some bizarre strategy in the first where he was kept on softs for 28 laps till he inevitably fell out of the points
-Yuki was the faster driver in terms of pace across all 3 races they shared.
Now let's be clear here: Liam did a fantastic job for someone who had to jump in at very short notice. He absolutely deserves a spot in F1. However, it's not Yuki who "stole his spot" by any metric. Look at the results of the four AT drivers last year. Yuki's points haul would have singlehandedly kept the team ahead of Alfa Romeo in the constructors. Not to mention he scored points and dragged the car to P11 multiple times at the beginning of the season when it was at its worst. He earned his renewal solely on merit.
Some of you are either a) so eager to discredit Yuki or b) so bored with current F1 that you need to artificially create narratives. Let Liam develop like a normal rookie instead of expecting him to beat an experienced teammate and then inevitably shitting on him when he doesn't. Has no one learned anything from the whole saga of "Nyck is gonna be team leader at Alphatauri and destroy Yuki". He is not the easy target y'all think he is.
The F1 Kids broadcast returns in 2024 for the Bahrain, Monaco, British, Dutch, Singapore, Brazil, and Abu Dhabi GPs! People have been talking about it, mainly as a joke, but it's genuinely a fun watch.
The main difference is different commentators (depending on where/how you watch it) and more colourful, fun graphics (of the drivers, fun facts, team radios, etc etc). There's also simplified explanations which might seem like basic knowledge, but do remember it's made for kids.
It broadcasts via:
Supersport (Africa)
BeIN Sports (Asia, Middle East & North Africa, Turkey)
Foxtel/Kayo/Fox sports (Australia)
Fox sports (Mexico)
Bell Media (Canada)
Viaplay (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Poland, Iceland)
ANT1+ (Greece)
ESPN (Latin America, the Caribbean, USA)
Sky Sports (UK)
K+ (Vietnam)
It's lights out and away we go for the first time in 2024! Here's what happened in case you missed it:
Max 31 seconds ahead of P2 (Perez) for a bit (and then 41 seconds ahead later)
Zhou Guanyu early pit -> Held P10 for multiple laps (dropped to P17 after pit)
Charles Leclerc locks up...several times
Sainz overtakes Leclerc, gets overtaken, overtakes him again
Mercedes engine (and hence, the Williams car too) having issues with overheating and power
Sargent almost retires from the race after a mechanical issue, ends up 1 full minute slower than P19 and unable to regain his position :(
Albon having issues with the screen on his wheel (most likely too bright for a night race)
Piastri comes out of pits and has the inside line, but Hamilton overtakes him
Russel and Leclerc battle for 4th, Russel locks up and Leclerc overtakes him after a failed attempt before
Ricciardo and Tsunoda chasing Magnussen, with RB making a call to do a driver swap that happened unfortunately too late. The RBs were lapped by Verstappen seconds later.
[ Sainz overtaking Leclerc the first time]
P1 - Max Verstappen, ahead of his teammate by 22 seconds to get his 8th consecutive win!
P2 - Checo Perez, ahead of Sainz by 2.6 seconds
P3 - Carlos Sainz, who also won driver of the day!
P4: Charles Leclerc, after seemingly getting his brakes in check and passing Russel
P5, 6, 7: The Brits, with Norris in a Mercedes sandwich
P8, 9, 10: Piastri ahead of the two Aston Martins by a pretty large margin
P11: Zhou Guanyu, who I personally voted driver of the day for somehow keeping the same set of tires (SOFTS!!) from Lap 10-29, and holding P9/10 for 13 laps
P12, 13, 14: The RBs behind Magnussen, with Daniel trying to catch him after a team ordered driver swap
P15- Alex Albon
P16- Nico Hulkenberg, who qualified P10 again this year
P17, 18: The two Alpines, Ocon in front
P19- Valtarri Bottas
P20- Logan Sargent, who had a mechanical issue and went out, before rejoining the race
Oscar 🤝 Daniel
Aussies with three-place grid penalties
not perfect because this is the first drawing i’ve done in like a year but here’s daniel’s 2018 chinese gp win 🍯🦡