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Good grief. Sounds like there are two possibilities. Behind door number one, Horner had a fling with a subordinate then broke it off and she wasn't happy. That's between two consenting adults and makes him a dirtbag for cheating on his wife. Behind door number two, he made unsolicited and unwanted advances towards this woman and used his postition of authority to try to get her in the sack. If number 2 is the case, then he should be canned. If number 1 is the case, that's between him and his wife. Regardless, sounds like the knives are out and his days in the paddock could be numbered.
Good grief. Sounds like there are two possibilities. Behind door number one, Horner had a fling with a subordinate then broke it off and she wasn't happy. That's between two consenting adults and makes him a dirtbag for cheating on his wife. Behind door number two, he made unsolicited and unwanted advances towards this woman and used his postition of authority to try to get her in the sack. If number 2 is the case, then he should be canned. If number 1 is the case, that's between him and his wife. Regardless, sounds like the knives are out and his days in the paddock could be numbered.
IF (and it's a big IF) the texts being leaked are real and sexual in nature, then your door number one must be the case given that the barrister's investigation cleared him. I think that the demanding boss / underperforming vindictive subordinate scenario could still be in play. Toto and Zak having the knives out is business and unseemly. Makes me think less of them. The issue has nothing to do with racing. S**t could just as easily come their way.
On the Hamilton to Ferrari topic, I think Toto should be happy. Lewis appears to be past prime but not past whine - he's not maturing into a statesman and George is outdriving him. I'd trade LH for Sainz in a heartbeat. Good marketing opportunity for Ferrari but no way in hell we see WDC #8.
The top half of qualifying results looks pretty similar to 2023's Bahrain results. Most of the shuffling appears to be in the bottom half except for McLaren which is higher up to the order. Alpine are no where!
There was an "anonymous" data dump of texts to 700 email addresses up and down the paddock. It is being reported that many emails are sexual in nature. I wonder if this is indeed over with Toto and Zac Brown calling for a continuation of the investigation.
Qualifying certainly appears to be a case of 2023, but word is that Mercedes have compromised their qualifying set up to optimize race results. We shall see. The real question is "Has Ferrari made any improvements in the off season to minimize tire deg?" If they have, it could be a 3 dog fight (with the exception of Max, because he's going to be 20 seconds up the road. I full expect Checo to come from 5th to a podium position barring any contact.
As it relates to Horner, I was sent the information on Google drive from Europe today and let's just say he's super clingy, cringe, "thirsty" (as the young folks say), even desperate at times. No contact, just creepy text messages at all times of day and night with suggestive conversation, especially when he's on the road. The person on the other side is somewhat accommodating to a certain point, but you can just tell she (or he, hey, it's 2024) is annoyed at the number of messages.
If Ferrari had not compromised Leclerc with the scuffs in Q3, he might have beaten Max…
Forza!
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Good grief. Sounds like there are two possibilities. Behind door number one, Horner had a fling with a subordinate then broke it off and she wasn't happy. That's between two consenting adults and makes him a dirtbag for cheating on his wife. Behind door number two, he made unsolicited and unwanted advances towards this woman and used his postition of authority to try to get her in the sack. If number 2 is the case, then he should be canned. If number 1 is the case, that's between him and his wife. Regardless, sounds like the knives are out and his days in the paddock could be numbered.
Kind of a boring race. My driver of the day goes to LEC for managing a break problem for 57 laps and still finishing a solid P4. Yuki will need a couple cocktails to calm down and RB should have swapped positions before the checkered flag. Can't believe Alpine, a factory works team is pretty much the slowest team on the grid -- that should never happen.
All that said, I wouldn't put much stock into the overall pecking order after Bahrain as the teams have been running 6 consecutive days on the same track, a surface that no-one could run the medium compound tire and the cars with the narrowest window of set up would be dialed in after all those days of testing and running. Going to SA, I fully expect some shake up given they haven't run there in a year and a settling down of order after the 5th race in China where no one has run for years to see who has the widest window of set up for their particular cars.
One of my favorite moments of the broadcast was Martin Brundle completely rouge and Crofty trying to reign him in when MB said that going to the hybrid cars 10 years ago was F1's biggest mistake..... he's not wrong...
Really enjoyed watching using F1Live for the first time. Lots of good data, no BS commentary (DC is great), fantastic camera angles and instantaneous replay. Plus, NO ads!
03-01-2024, 03:21 PM
