Williams is a franchise ripe with value... to be sold to the highest bidder.

Two guys who could ill afford to crash.

I wanna watch Liam vs Yuki tbh. Ricc’s washed.

China and Miami next, then Imola and Monaco. Is Daniel really in danger or is it just noise to pressure him to perform?

He’s won at CHN and MON, so let’s see if he can get into Q3 and then some points. China and Miami have sprint races so more chances to get a point or two.

But you think at some point the correct decision would be to cut him.

Just prolonging the inevitable. He’s done.
Bring in fresh young blood. No need to waste more time.

Tsunoda- Q3, 10th, 1 point
Ricciardo- Q2, DNF, 0 points

Max with his 13th hat trick victory. First time he has won 3 of the first 4 races of the season. Lewis did that in 2014, 2015, 2020 and 2021 (Alonso 2005, Vettel 2011).

Daniel is safe till the summer break at least but needs to put in some results otherwise it is better to put in Liam early to give him a head start for next year. He is not getting that RedBull seat he wants so badly and is unlikely to have a seat at all next year.

Let’s see if Daniel can catch up to Bearman by the summer break

Helmut will not sacrifice half a season on a washed up driver imo.

what a great race... I loved it.

Nor should he... Putting off the inevitable is like trying to pull off an over cut when everybody else is under cutting and pulling away.

Got a Ban-aide... RIP IT OFF!

But he had his chance - that 1 year. Showed he isn't capable and should have been shown the door. If he wanted multiple chances that is what F2/Indycar is for.

As for the race, very disappointing to see Oscar not hold on to 7th. It was going to be a sub-par performance anyway but to be two positions behind Lando instead of 3 he would have got a pass mark but that mistake - very bad.

I think there is a lesson in all of this - don't upgrade a track's surface and then tyre degradation really takes over.

Just sell it to Andretti and be done with it. Love to see Penske get involved with his ruthless attitude towards winning as that would really make a difference but can't see him bothering with F1 while he has his Le mans deal with Porsche.

He'll do better at the traditional tracks and whether all that noise about wanting a new chassis and whether there is something in that it will be interesting to see if they do give him a new chassis. I think if we weren't in the cost cutting phase of F1 he would have already got it.

Deserves to see out the year. He will get better but Yuki I thought drove the 2nd best race yesterday. The way that he was able to keep that tyre going after more than 20 laps on it at the end with Stroll on the soft having carved his way back up to him and then Yuki held that distance to him. Although I think at that stage when Stroll had passed Magnussen he probably already used up the best of his tyres and it was diminishing returns after that against Yuki's hards.

I love Daniel... I LOVE HIM. However his time in f1 is over. he is still fast enough for Nascar or endurance racing though I do think he would struggle on a heavier chassis class of racing. I dont know what class of racing Ausiland has, the V8's, but perhaps there is something for him there.

I’m eager to see Oscar perform well but he’s still raw, results will come. Currently 6th in the standings with 32 points, he’s already 1/3 of the way to his 2023 tally after just 4 of 24 races. I look forward to him getting his first of many podiums in Europe this season.

The Mac boys are doing a wonderful job... it's just a matter of time.

It would be endurance racing. He has that sort of Webber like personality about it and don't think he would be inclined to touch Nascar but certainly not Supercars. Mark Webber always turned up his nose to any chance to drive in that series because he thought he was too good for it and would ruin his clean look. Something of which I have always reflected negatively on for his career.

I just think that he can't rest on his laurels and get 7th to 10th place finishes because he is in a good car and they are easy results to achieve. He must get probably 5 to 8 top 6 finishes this year to show the potential he has to one day compete for a championship.

https://x.com/f1/status/1778740055818817937

interesting session just now, qualifying for the sprint stuff. chucking it down and no grip for anyone, cars all over the place. lando and lewis 1 and 2, no surprise that two brits dealt with the pissing rain the best

That sprint qualifying was so much fun

Alonso with the go slow to cause a pile up and end Ricciardo’s race, but also with a go fast to become the 8th oldest driver to secure the fastest lap. Five above Alonso were in the 1950s, as well as Brabham (1970) and Schumacher (2012).

Has he been charged? If so second time this season

It can be debated whose fault it was, Alonso or Stroll, but the queue waiting for a safety car to enter the pits is often a good chance for a crash. Just bad luck for Daniel whose career is on borrowed time.

there's no debate on fault... there's no arguable position that is credible...

In a race situation, IT IS the follow car's responsibility and it always has been, and it always will be.

this isn't like qualifying where there are cars on track with vast differing closing speeds... or a position where one driver is short braking/brake checking to get the following driver in trouble. If you get into an accident on road and if you are the car behind/following, you are at fault.

Some driver are overly prone to driving mistakes at the elite level... Stroll is at the top of that list. I feel bad for him because I am sure if you were to try and face off with Lance in matched cars, he would blow you out of the water... but I feel even worse for those drivers that his misjudgement affected thru no fault of there own.