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Throwback F1 2014 [1/∞]

Charles Leclerc (Chinese GP - April 21, 2024) 📷 Pedro Pardo

Charles Leclerc (Chinese GP - April 21, 2024) 📷 Kym Illman

What's better than Ferrari qualifying P1 and P2? How about P1, P2 and P3?

Nice job, Ferrari Hypercar teams, and congrats to Antonio F on pole! 💪

what if I ended it all? what then?

Putting Nico Rosberg, a polyglot and racing encyclopaedia, with the Sky F1 team is like forcing a nuclear physicist to explain fission to Salem colonialist who keep being like "no it's the witch sire she turned my wife into a fork"

📷 @/kymillman

And I didn't wanna hang around, we said it was just goodbye for now

Essentially the summary of the Aston Martin - Sainz appeal

- regulations state that if a car stops on track it is not allowed to continue with the session

- this is not necessarily how it has been applied in the past

- the FIA team explained that so long as the car was able to restart and continue from a stopped position within a reasonable time, that would ordinarily be permitted.

- the teams themselves said that they had previously attempted to agree what they considered to be a reasonable length of time before a car would be considered "stopped". Unfortunately, they were not able to come to a final agreement on the time allowed.

- in the FIA's view, what was crucial was that the car would not receive any outside assistance in order to restart (e.g. from marshals).

- in future race control will decide when a car has been stopped for ‘too long’ and as such won’t be able to continue (as occasionally there are extenuating circumstances at play like traffic etc)

- originally they were supposed to put that a car was allowed to restart provided it didn’t receive ‘outside assistance’ as agreed by the teams but it never made its way to the regulations

i keep forgetting ppl dont know fernando and spanish pdr were implicated in spygate bc they got caught straight up emailing each other shit like 'hey man the new setup we jacked from ferrari is soooo nice, im so happy we stole it i cant believe that we are leading this championship, with a stolen car, that we stole from ferrari' and other things of that nature

For a moment I didn’t connect “Spanish pdr” with Pedro de la Rosa, and my brain just went “Spanish Paul Di Resta?”

But yeah those email exchanges were so funny, especially when in court it was initially tried to play off their email exchanges as ‘bonding over being Spanish’ before everything came out fully

1992 German Grand Prix || First podium at home

Ruby Bonnets on the Run