In the round-up: Lewis Hamilton suggests Red Bull could have won multiple championships with the floor bib device which they have changed following discussions with the FIA.
In brief
Red Bull could have won titles with bib – Hamilton
Hamilton said it was unclear how long Red Bull have used the device for, or how significant its impact might have been.
“The name of our sport is all about innovation, Red Bull have been the leaders and they have innovated,” Hamilton told Sky. “Ultimately, all the teams look at the rules and they try and find how to massage those rules and get the most out of it, even if it’s just over the edge a little bit.
“It just needs to continue to evolve and be better policed. But at the end of the day, they just did the better job. God knows how long they’ve had that and they’ve been winning championships – maybe that stops now. I don’t think that’s the one thing that’s going to stop them. But I think everyone else, we’ve got to continue to be innovators and leading rather than trying to catch up.”
When asked about the situation regarding his team’s bib device Max Verstappen said he was “not really worried” and “from my side, nothing changes.”
Loss of Renault engine “sad situation” – Ocon
Despite departing Alpine at the conclusion of the 2024 season, Esteban Ocon says he is “sad” that Renault will cease as a power unit supplier in 2026.
“As a driver for the team, it’s difficult to comment about this, he said. “But as a French fan of the sport and as a French driver, everything I can say is that it’s a sad situation. It’s very sad for French motorsport. But there’s nothing more I can say.”
Crawford to run Young Drivers Test
Aston Martin have confirmed that junior driver Jak Crawford will participate for the team in the post-season Young Drivers Test at Abu Dhabi.
Crawford has been part of the team’s driver development programme since February and drove a Formula 1 for the first time – a 2022 AMR22 – at the Red Bull Ring earlier this year.
He will drive the team’s 2024 car after the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in the Young Drivers Test.
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On the road with Perez, Mexico’s F1 megastar (GQ)
”It’s how the sport is. You have one, two bad races, a lot of negative talk about you and so on. But it’s also something in the culture of the team as well—with Red Bull. The surrounding talk, the contract talks and so on. It’s just part of the game.”
How Taylor Swift’s F1 concert helped save the United States Grand Prix (Athletic)
Bobby Epstein: ”We got a much younger audience starting to watch and pay attention to that, because of Taylor, Justin Timberlake (the 2018 headliner), and Ed Sheeran (2022). You start looking at some of those, and that’s who was paying attention to those artists, with Instagram and things that people post on, it very quickly reaches that demographic and that generation.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the physics of Formula 1 racing (StarTalk via YouTube)
Physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the physics at the heart of Formula 1.
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