The Official Formula One 2022 Thread

I may be wrong on illiott. The announcement states something like Indy is out the reach of the FDA to help him so it may be a case of not now but you can come back

Essentially it's like a gap year from my understanding in the sense that he is indy this year but has an option of returning next year (most likely for hypercar or sim work)

Speaking of hypercar, who do you see joining it?

I reckon James calado, davide rigon, allesandro pierguidi and maybe same bird are in with a good shout along with gio, Schwarzman and maybe Ilot

I could see Gio ending in the HyperCar. Maybe Robert S but he might be being groomed for the Maserati fe seat. Per Guidi and calado have to have a shot given their work in Ferrari GT

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/59951382

I really hope the deal between Merc and FIA isn’t actually true. For starters what did Tombazis do wrong exactly, he had nothing to do with Abu?

So the whiny man won't come back unless he can throw his toys out of the pram. Good riddens I say.

Also it turns out Rosberg was offered the Hamilton COVID drive to season's end.

It seems 1 team refuses to let mandatory rookie running in fp1 sessions.

Rather surprisingly it's, Aston Martin refusing to do so

Lol why? To be honest who’d they use, that goes for all teams really

Merc use vesti I say
Ferrari and Haas use Robert S
McLaren use Pato
Red bull and AT use possibly Vips kr Lawson
Alpine use Piastri
Alfa use Pouchaire
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I could see Hamilton going if the outcome of the FIA investigation isn't productive, IE. removing the idiotic overriding "race director has control of the safety car" clause. I don't see why Massi going or staying would be a pre-requisite of Merc dropping their appeal. Massi could stay and the issue be resolved, or he could go and exactly the same thing could happen again. It's a procedural issue more than anything.

No chance whatsoever that Rosberg will come back. I'd put more money Hulkenberg than Niko. But as above, Merc would just buy Occon or Bottas out of their current contracts.

EDIT read the article again and it seems that toto will drop any action if Masi and Tombazis are sacked. Tombazis is the fia head of single seater motorsport. I think toto want Tombazis gone as merc have been disadvantaged a lot by last years regs.

Sky sports reported several teams have expressed concerns with Masi (some before Abu Dhabi). Whilst it seems his position may be untenable I don’t know who else could replace him & id imagine promoting from within race control isn’t exactly great solution to resetting & improving as ultimately that was the same group of people who helped make the in race decisions all season.

Marcin Budowski is leaving Alpine with immediate effect

I think that’s beyond the pale, regulation changes always Impact the team at the top the most potentially, that’s how they work.

Cem bolukbasi has one of the Charouz f2 seats