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F1 with ESPN. On both the Unlapped podcast and the Pad-Hoc #ITFC

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Nate Saunders
2 years
Carlos Sainz becomes just the sixth driver with "car" in their name to take an F1 pole position.
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2 years
Up next: man who watched F1 race on his sofa insists Lewis Hamilton is faking injury from driving a bouncing 220 mph F1 car for 90 minutes. Please tune in!
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3 years
Man. Alex Albon is going to have an awful time trying to recreate that next week.
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3 years
Feb 2021 vs Feb 2022. Think I need to talk to Seb’s hair guy.
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1 year
Perez has missed three Q3s in a row now in the most dominant F1 car in recent history.
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3 years
Lando Norris asked in the press conference how he's going to stop Carlos Sainz and Ferrari this weekend. Laughs and says. "Erm... try brake testing him? It's only a 10-second penalty".
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8 months
What's the Italian for hammertime?
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3 months
Forgot this in all the drama of today but Oscar Piastri is now the ninth driver with "CAR" in their name to win a Formula 1 race
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3 years
Netflix should just release this race, unedited.
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2 years
Likely on his way out in the Oscar Piastri saga, Daniel Ricciardo deserves better than being made the scapegoat for yet another underwhelming and underperforming Zak Brown-era McLaren car
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3 years
Mercedes radio. Bono: OK Lewis, that's P10. Sorry about that. Lewis: Is there even a point for that position?
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2 years
Hamilton's had more TV time in this race than he used to get when he was winning races by 30 seconds
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3 years
Haas, who's title sponsor is Russian company Uralkali, has pulled team boss Guenther Steiner from today's press conference.
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3 years
Strong words from Sebastian Vettel. Says F1 shouldn't race in Russia this September and that he won't race there if the race does go ahead.
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2 years
That Leclerc radio message might be the thing people remember most from this season
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2 years
Incredible that Alpine has got itself into a situation where it could lose a two-time world champion and a driver many consider to be a future world champion in the space of 48 hours. Heads need to roll at that team.
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2 years
Stroll's qualifying record this year: 19th, 15th, 20th, 15th, 10th, 18th, 18th, 19th, 18th.
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1 year
Leclerc getting a penalty because Ferrari was telling him about Verstappen's lap, and not that Norris was behind him on a flying lap, sums the whole situation at that team up so perfectly.
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2 years
Daniel Ricciardo reached out to Oscar Piastri to tell him he has no hard feelings about how things have played out with the McLaren seat. "He's trying to get into Formula One. This moment should be really big for him."
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3 years
Verstappen on Russian GP: "When a country is at war it is not right to race there".
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Nate Saunders
4 years
Don't forget this - Sergio Perez, the man who helped save Force India/Racing Point from administration and then got sacked by the team, won its first race
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3 years
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3 years
Four DRS zones over one lap of this weekend's Australian GP, across 58 laps, which means Max and Charles will overtake each other precisely 400,000 times
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3 years
Max Verstappen is already a three-time champion - pretty remarkable
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4 years
Sadly the Mazepin news is on very on brand - a rich kid escaping real consequences for his actions because of his dad’s money and because it’s easier for the people who can make a difference (in this case, F1 and the FIA) to do nothing.
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7 months
Ollie Bearman is the first F1 driver born after Michael Schumacher had won all seven of his world titles. I feel old.
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13 days
Guests form a guard of honour at RB for Ricciardo as he comes back - no confirmation it’s his last race but every indication is that’s the case. If so, he signed off with a fastest lap
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3 years
Lewis Hamilton has more Pirelli Speed Kings than Senna, Schumacher and Fangio COMBINED.
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3 years
Max Verstappen has a new cap to remind people of the speed limit in and around the Zandvoort area this September
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7 months
You’ve gotta wonder how many of these races F1 can afford this year. No jeopardy out in front at all. You can hype the battle for 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th all you want, but most do not care.
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7 months
Max Verstappen eases to victory in the first race of 2024. Pole, fastest lap, victory. Finishes 22 seconds clear of teammate Perez, 25 seconds clear of Ferrari's Sainz. Unreal. It's going to be a long season for his rivals.
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3 years
This is so cool. Daniel Ricciardo is about to set off in Dale Earnhardt’s 1984 NASCAR (which is owned by McLaren CEO Zak Brown)
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Nate Saunders
4 years
Gentle reminder that if you're more annoyed at Lewis wearing that shirt than you are about why he has to wear that shirt, that says a lot about you as a person
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3 years
Hamilton asked if he's a better driver than his last title showdown in 2016, vs ex teammate Rosberg. Says "Yes. And a better teammate"
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2 years
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on the grid at Monaco
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11 months
This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen
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sergio perez getting announced and then just standing there not sure what to do
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2 years
Ferrari are so good at naming their strategies maybe they should label their tyres A, B, C and D so they never forget one.
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3 years
If Verstappen doesn't win the title from here, that moment will be like his version of Hamilton and China 2007. Even the way he walked away from the car was the same.
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Nate Saunders
3 years
Let's hope this is a wakeup call to F1. Sports and politics do intertwine. You can't pretend they don't just because people pay you lots of money.
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2 years
Verstappen is boycotting Sky Sports interviews due to comments made by Ted Kravitz about Lewis Hamilton being "robbed" of the 2021 title
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4 years
Vettel right now is like the final GoT season. You remember - vividly - how good the show was, but it is just getting worse and worse every episode and nothing makes sense
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Nate Saunders
3 years
Toto Wolff to Masi: "Michael, please no Safety Car, it interferes with the race" Unreal.
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Nate Saunders
2 years
Piquet used the racial slur again later in the interview and then a homophobic insinuation towards Hamilton - just for those of you in my mentions defending this man
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Bryson Sullivan 🇺🇲
2 years
The video in question, with translation: (via @Metropoles ) #WeStandWithLewisHamilton
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3 years
The FIA have created this problem. The racing rules are so unclear, previous decisions have been completely inconsistent.
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2 years
To everyone asking - yes I've been sitting on this for a long time
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3 years
Mercedes lodges intention to appeal. That means they have 48 hours to decide whether or not to appeal - effectively, time to put a case together and decide what to do. #F1
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2 years
Lando Norris says he can't sympathise with teammate Daniel Ricciardo over the struggle for form which led to his split from McLaren
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4 years
Turns out the key to a McLaren podium is Hamilton smashing into Albon
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2 years
Oh dear. Nicholas Latifi is out of Q1. Stand-in teammate Nyck de Vries, who only found out he was driving the Williams this morning, has out-qualified him and advanced to Q2.
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4 years
I cannot believe these replays are real. Grosjean getting out of that alive is the most astonishing thing I’ve ever seen.
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3 years
Great to see the future of F1 stewarding is secure for years to come with so many experts on Twitter
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3 years
Sounds like a remarkable evening in the F1 paddock. F1 has committed to racing on effectively because 'this happens all the time' and the circuit is somehow safe from missile attacks (Translation = $$$$$$$). Drivers not sure.
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Nate Saunders
3 years
Since Hamilton and Alonso were last on a podium together (Hungary '14), Hamilton's won six titles, Alonso's driven for three different F1 teams, taken a sabbatical and come back, won Le Mans, raced at one Indy 500 and failed to qualify for another, and raced at the Dakar Rally
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Nate Saunders
2 years
The F1 race direction this season has been so shocking. If the guy in P2 is 0.8s behind the leader, keep the camera on him.
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Nate Saunders
3 years
This weekend Hamilton: Qualified - 1st Started sprint race - 20th Finished sprint race - 5th Started grand prix - 10th Finished grand prix - 1st. Ridiculous weekend.
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3 years
Down in the paddock. Real sense of confusion and frustration at how everything has played out. Red Bull are in championship T-shirt’s but celebrations seem to have died down a bit. Big uncertainty about what happens next.
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The most remarkable thing about yesterday is that Verstappen was willing to do it over sixth position in a meaningless race (in terms of his season). Has massively hurt his image and to most makes it look like Red Bull have no control over him.
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Nate Saunders
2 years
Verstappen's refusal to help Perez in Brazil was reportedly due to his frustrations with an incident from five months ago at the Monaco Grand Prix
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4 years
This is the most tragic thing I've ever seen
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2 years
Pretty bad race for the team which spent the most time with James Corden. I'm not saying those things are linked (but they definitely are)
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4 years
F1 is going to miss Lewis Hamilton - both on and off the track - whenever he decides to stop racing. That was vintage him today.
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3 years
The FIA has dismissed the first of Merc's two protests, relating to Verstappen passing Hamilton before Safety Car line. The big one - on the result of the race itself - still unresolved.
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2 years
16:47 - Virtual Safety car deployed. 16:49 - Safety Car deployed. 16:55 - Red flag. All for the same incident.
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3 years
Magnussen didn't even think he'd race in F1 again at the start of the month. Now he's in Q3 for the first race of the year and has looked rapid all day. Awesome story, hope they can get the car out.
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A source close to Ricciardo has told ESPN that DR was unaware McLaren had signed Piastri when he released his statement on July 13 that he intended to stay (nine days after OP contract was signed). McLaren insists entire process was transparent.
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3 years
Alpine says it's running the predominantly pink livery at opening two races of 2022. Will then switch to 'real' livery for rest of the season.
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On Alonso's comments on titles - easy to forget now, but Hamilton had a very competitive Vettel and Ferrari to beat in 2017 and 2018. Ferrari capitulated both times, just like they did against Max this year. Doesn't diminish any of those three title wins in my view.
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2 years
Wonder if Horner's going to tell the FIA we only need one racing lap :upsidedownsmilyface:
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1 year
Wow. Max Verstappen gets a very audible chorus of boos on the intros at the Miami GP. Loudest cheers for Checo Perez, Fernando Alonso, Lewis and the Ferrari drivers.
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Crazy seeing some of the vitriol in replies about Masi. He made a big mistake in a high pressure moment but he's just a regular person like the rest of us. Always seemed like a decent guy when I spoke to him. Just don't think he was cut out for that job, ultimately.
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11 months
Wow. F1 has cancelled the first practice session for the Las Vegas Grand Prix due to a loose drain cover. What a disaster for the sport's shiny new race.
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4 years
If Red Bull does pick Albon over Perez and Gasly, two first-time race winners in 2020, you've got to question what's going on there. Something just doesn't add up.
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The Tiger Woods comeback story is impressive, but not even close to the greatest ever in sports. Niki Lauda was severely burned & was given last rites after 1976 Nurburgring crash - came back *that same season* and nearly won the F1 title, then won it in 1977. No contest.
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Ricciardo’s return to Red Bull will be confirmed on Sunday. Role will include sim work, demo runs and marketing bits. Will also be available to take part in tyre tests.
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4 years
This race is Bottas and Albon's 2020 season in a nutshell so far.
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3 years
Ignoring all the other controversy, this shows you why Lewis is so good - Merc don't make a call like that if Hamilton isn't so good on his tyres. His talent opens up so many options on strategy.
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After how the last month or so of last season unfolded, it was so nice yesterday just to have a good F1 race, with an uncontroversial winner, some old-school reliability drama, all without certain people trying to out mud-sling each other in the media. Very refreshing.
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Lando Norris has been on the podium at 75% of races since he appeared on Chicken Shop Date
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Daniel Ricciardo throws his support behind Lewis Hamilton after today’s events. Praises Hamilton for dealing with repeated racist insults like this with “maturity, positivity and educating the world on how we should act”
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Remarkable situation at Alpine. Team only discovered the Fernando Alonso news through Aston Martin's press release on Monday. Now appears Alonso is on a boat out in the Greek islands somewhere ignoring Otmar Szafnauer's calls
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4 years
Racing Point's 2021 lineup: 12th and 15th. Perez: 4th.
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2 years
This is nuts - a recovery vehicle was on the track before the race was red flagged
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2 years
I took a photo of myself every day I spent waiting for the FIA
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4 years
I'm not saying every F1 race should have a red flag, but every F1 race should have a red flag
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Oh yeah... Carlos Sainz becomes the *eighth* driver with "car" in their name to win an F1 race.
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Carlos Sainz becomes just the sixth driver with "car" in their name to take an F1 pole position.
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Mercedes says the design of having one red star among a sea of grey ones - one of its many Lauda tributes this weekend - will stay on their #F1 cars forever, not just this year. Red Halo is for Monaco only.
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Regular reminder that both of the following things can be true at the same time: Hamilton can be an unbelievably talented driver AND have an unbelievably fast car.
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A lot of people saying Vettel must be kicking himself for retiring. Maybe he is, but Alonso will get more out of this car than Vettel would have done. Not sure the hype would be the same if Vettel was still driving it.
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Vettel news announced on the eve of Ferrari's 1000th race at a circuit Ferrari owns. Gotta love it.
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Bottas really giving a great Mercedes era nostalgia tour this weekend. Encouraging qualifying, puts it alongside Lewis, spends Saturday evening as a meme on Reddit, then plummets down the order in the opening laps of the race.
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Nate Saunders
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I do find it remarkable how quick people want to write off sporting greatness when they see it. Whether it's Hamilton, Brady, LeBron, Djokovic, Messi, Ronaldo, whatever. Some refuse to acknowledge anything great they do, but are quick to point out the tiniest flaw
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Maybe Ferrari is doing it so that across the season all their plan letters spell out something like - Thank you Enzo - to mark 75 years
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Daniel Ricciardo should go down as one of the best and most consequential drivers of the past 15 years in Formula 1 - he deserved a better send-off
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If you were talking about any other sport, it would be a given that a 37 year old is more fragile than a 24 year old. You wouldn't have them training the same way etc. Not outrageous to suggest Hamilton is just struggling physically a lot more with that bouncing than Russell.
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No admin, no, this was so not right
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Max is working his way through lapped traffic 👀
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Seems most likely Ricciardo will take the seat Piastri was meant to have at Alpine for ‘23. Easy to forget now but was one of grid’s best performers in 2020 - might be the reset he needs
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Ricciardo on the way out. The Australian driver was told of McLaren's decision by Andreas Seidl on Sunday evening, after the Hungarian GP, and talks about a contract settlement with the team have been ongoing since. Full story at the link below
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Weird that none of the statements yesterday reference Piquet by name. Makes them all look generic, like they could be copy-and-pasted for any instance where someone racially abuses Hamilton or another person in F1. An example of where the sport needs to do a lot better in future
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3 years
Heartbreaking for Lando Norris. That was such a ballsy call.
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Nate Saunders
4 years
Amazing to see Gasly and Perez, at opposite ends of their respective careers, enjoy this same moment this year
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