F1 2020

[The_Excession]

True, and I can’t remember exactly what happened (did he have another pitstop?) but he ended up behind Latifi and Grosjean. Yuk.

[breakfast_t_england]

something like

Hamilton
Verstappen
Leclerc
Ricciardo

Sainz
Gasly
Norris
Russell

Bottas
Perez
Stroll
Vettel

Albon
Ocon
Kvyat
Raikkonen

Giovinazzi
Magnussen
Grosjean
Latifi

[Ella_Megablast]

Folk (including me) moan about Stroll, but at least he’s doing an OK job this season. The last four drivers here have no place in F1 IMO, and with so few teams on the grid nowadays, it’s a crying shame young upstarts are finding it so hard to get a drive with all this dead wood taking up valuable seats. All four should be ousted for 2021 (I expect all but Latifi and possibly Magnussen will go, TBH)

[breakfast_t_england]

wouldn’t be shocked if the bottom six went next season, but all depends on there being enough drivers to replace them

• reckon Tsunoda might get the Alpha Tauri seat instead of Kvyat if he has enough points for a super licence, looked decent in F2
• heard Alfa were looking at getting Hulkenberg back and then Mick Schumacher alongside - would expect one of the Ferrari driver academy drivers from F2 to get the seat anyway
• Perez to Haas makes sense, American team with Mexican driver? then add someone else, dunno if Haas actually have a young driver programme? just borrow a Ferrari one???
• Latifi’s done nothing to deserve another season really, but he has some money so… plus doubt any of their young drivers in F2 would do better

[jont2001]

Will Buxton (wbuxtonofficial)

[Tiergarten]

Piastri F3 champion. Great effort from Pourchaire.

[iamwiggy]

@The_Excession

Current drivers, current form, no living off past glories or potential. Who would you put in your car in your brand new F1 team for the rest of the season?

Hamilton
Verstappen
— gap —
Leclerc
Ricciardo
— gap —

fully agreed with this

@The_Excession

Gasly (!!!)
Sainz - Norris - Perez (can’t choose between these 3)
Russell

I’d pick Russell over the others in this group, tho not by a huge margin. yesterday he outqualified his team mate despite going in the gravel on his fastest lap!

@The_Excession

Stroll
Vettel
Bottas
Ocon
Kvyat
Kimi (his drive from second all the way back down to 13th at Monza was one of the unsung bad drives of the year)
Albon
Magnussen
Grosjean
Giovanizzi
Latifi (hard to judge but he’s done nothing interesting at all so far)

I’d swap Vettel and Bottas

Max is able to wrestle the maximum out of the red bull, but Gasly and Albon have both looked rubbish in the same car so I think the latter is probably a bit underrated.

On current form tho (which is your question) it would be mad to have Albon above Bottas, who is well off Lewis in the races but occasionally runs him close in qualifying. Think I’d have Albon a fraction above Kvyat on the basis that they’re both well behind their team mate, but Max is a higher benchmark.

regarding Latifi, I think my analysis in pre season stands up…

@iamwiggy

He hasn’t had a very impressive junior career. Drivers who win junior categories in their first season are the ones to watch. Leclerc managed 7 wins and 8 poles in his first and only F2 season (2017) which was also Latifi’s first season in F2. Russell managed 7 wins and 5 poles in his first and only F2 season (2018).

Latifi has taken part in 67 F2 races, and managed 6 wins and 0 poles, with 4 of the wins coming in his 3rd season. Before his single win in the 2017 F2 season Latifi hadn’t won a race in any category for 5 years

he’s pants and I really want him out asap

[breakfast_t_england]

@iamwiggy

I’d pick Russell over the others in this group, tho not by a huge margin. yesterday he outqualified his team mate despite going in the gravel on his fastest lap!

personally I find it really hard to rate how good Russell is - think he will be very good, but so far he’s been up against a well past it Kubica and a rubbish Latifi so it’s hard to gauge his level, and he’s going to be at Williams again next year, probably against Latifi again, so…

[The_Excession]

@iamwiggy

he’s pants and I really want him out asap

Been struggling to work up an opinion on Latifi but based on all that I’m going to steal this one.

[iamwiggy]

we can only judge him on how good he was as a junior

and his record as a junior was extremely good

Russel: won GP3 in 2017 as a rookie, won F2 in 2018 as a rookie
Leclerc: won GP3 in 2016 as a rookie, won F2 in 2017 as a rookie

then again, Bottas won GP3 as a rookie in 2011 (and jumped up to F1 without the tier in between, same as Verstappen)

[Tiergarten]

Who’s finishing 3rd then? Ridiculous start.

[GrandMoffTarkin]

Oh dear.

[jont2001]

Good effort of getting rid of all the shit drivers (plus max and Carlos)

[Tiergarten]

And Pierre.

Too early for 1-stop?

[Tiergarten]

That was a big one for Stroll. Shootout now until the end.

Scratch that, red flag pt.2…

[jont2001]

FOR WHATTTTTT!!!

[anon67149139]

Been waiting all season to make a Keen Latifi gag, but he’s proper bobbins

[jont2001]

Hmmmmm

[iamwiggy]

James Hunt is a weird choice for this meme, tho maybe not for kimi given that he’s apparently a bit of a party man

should’ve gone with this - recognise any of them?

Damon Hill sitting in a toy car at his christening watched by Bruce McLaren, Stirling Moss, Tony Brooks, Graham Hill, Jo Bonnier and Wolfgang von Trips, July 17 1961

so of the adults in this picture, one died in a plane crash (age 46), three in racing car crashes (ages 42, 32, 33), one of natural causes (age 90) and one is alive (age 88)

[anon67149139]

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