As @Ducatichick says, each racing team puts an incredible amount of work into each championship year. The proliferation of smartphones and on-demand video content means that seeing "behind the scenes" is more and more commonplace, which I believe is driving the recognition that the Constructors Championship is equally important as Drivers.
I’d love to answer this, I’m sure someone will risk spilling the details, but all I can say is McLaren are very fair with regards to who gets rewarded. Easily one of, if not the most fair to their staff both factory based and circuit based (I was the latter).
Why would it be unfair. It would merely put Oscar back where he was before the "incident" with Mad Max.
I know several factory based people who work for RB at the hours they put in at times are incredible. The bonus for winning is a good reward mind!
It’s even more mental when you have a travelling role. I’ve never worked such mental hours in my life, permanently jet lagged is an understatement but I’m taking nothing away from anybody.. F1 is a brutal workplace. You can have the red carpet in one country and guns pointed at you on another. Total madness.
I see it as unworkable and unmanageable and frankly pretty daft. It’s also unfair on drivers that have made up positions but not involved in the incident as you are effectively giving them a time penalty. Sometimes your race is hurt or ruined following a collision and sometimes you gain from other peoples incidents, that’s just a fact of racing.
I've long said that the only way to deal with Verstappen is to have the crash. If the drivers back down and yield then all they're teaching him is that he can do it to them every race. I thought Silverstone 2021 might have knocked some sense into him- if it wasn't for Masi, those dropped 18 points would have cost him the title- but it appears not. It'll be interesting how things go when Verstappen is the chaser not the chased; given his lead in the WDC this year, any crash that would put Norris or Leclerc out of the race would have suited him. That won't always be the case.
I think piastri hitting colapinto wasn’t deserving of a 10 sec. It was a virtual sc restart, everyone is close together, there were a bunch of cars very close and behaviour becomes a lot more unpredictable for the next couple of corners. The contact wasn’t the result of the DNF either, that was a PU issue. In my view that shouldve been a 5 second penalty maximum. Open to what other people think tho!
This year, the default collision penalty was doubled from 5 to 10 seconds. In my opinion, this was quite careless from Piastri. I think 10s was fair, given that the contact could've caused a spin or puncture. Had this been last year, 5s would've been fair; 10 would really be pushing it.
Or Prost.
yes - the snow covered hills of east Anglia are legendary.
To be fair this year has been better than the last couple.
Joe Saward has hinted a couple of times that things have been a lot more close to the wire than anyone would like, especially in 2021 and 2022 as the world woke up from Covid.
That will be interesting.
Who got the seat - Lawson or Tsunoda?
He may well end up following in the footsteps of Gasly and Albon. Hope they've ordered extra oil for the revolving door at Milton Keynes!
Tsunoda is a Honda driver, not a Red Bull driver, so he was never in with a chance.
