To be honest, Perez was always a good driver. Perhaps RBR knows that the car isn’t really where it appears to be, and it’s Max that brings it there. Then another driver would not make a difference. And with Perez they know they will not have an intra-team war like Merc did with Rosberg and Hamilton.

Now watch Max wrapping up the constructors on his own like he did last year.

I think they decided that the whole saga around Horny Horner was enough “shaking things up”

The funny thing is that the center support of the halo (that’s what it is called if you want to Google more info), is not in the field of view. A driver very rarely looks straight ahead. Mostly they look at the apex of the next corner.

The bodywork on these cars does not dent. It’s carbon, so either it breaks or it is fine.

Yeah, I wasn’t expecting much to be honest, but this is extremely minimal…

Hahahahaha, that was a lot of fuss about a different color on the front-wing!

You do know that the salaries of the top 3 highest paid team members are excluded from the cost cap right? And the salaries of the drivers too by the way, so 5 people in total.

Why? Many drivers started out in lower teams and then progressed to teams higher up the grid. Team bosses know how each car should classify and take that into account when evaluating a driver. Plus the fact that he is still a Ferrari-junior of course.

Heck, Leclerc started in Sauber himself. Russel in Williams, Vettel in Sauber, Alonso in Minardi, Kimi also in Sauber, Schumacher in Jordan. The examples are many…

Should have gone with the ink-subscription Fred. After all, it’s only 50 bucks per month…

I would guess because this stands out more.

HP is not paying a huge amount of money just to go unnoticed.

Plan M.

They were on different strategies because Leclerc didn’t perform as well in quali. Still on him in my opinion.

Good for Checo! Also with a minimal gap.

Wait, you put that on YouTube?

Brave man!

Without opening the video: I’m guessing it can’t be more than 20 seconds, right?

Cries in Hulkenberg…

Not really I would think. Like I said, these contracts and their adjustments take complete legal-departments to set up. Horner is CEO, so I imagine it would be next to impossible for him to not know about such a significant change to a contract of his most important and highest paid employee.

But without the whole team knowing like the article suggests is way beyond impossible. That would mean the legal people were not even involved.

And what is even more interesting: Insiders have revealed that this addendum to the original contract was brought in unilaterally by the Verstappens and Marko, without the Red Bull Formula 1 team or Horner knowing anything about it at the time.

Marko was able to do this because he is one of two directors at Red Bull Racing and can therefore act on behalf of the team.

Yeah, I’m not buying this (red) bullshit. These contracts are the result of legal teams and lawyers. These are not the type of contracts that you scribble an addendum on with 2 or 3 people behind closed doors. Not even if you are Marko.

If that is how you feel, then I suggest you stop watching. It might improve your quality of life if I read your comment right.

But maybe other people (like me) have a different opinion, so stating it as a fact is a bit much in my opinion.