Well, unexpected, but not shocked. Some big questions come to mind immediately.
This dude supposedly knows the de Vries family. But I’ll believe it only when we get proper motorsport press reporting it.
edit: Telegraaf.nl reporting it. Ricciardo to replace de Vries link
edit2: Chris Medland says multiple sources confirm
edit3: It’s real! https://scuderia.alphatauri.com/en/scuderia-alphatauri-welcomes-back-daniel-ricciardo/
I noticed this with Perez, had a good start to the season, then the second people start talking about a title race, his performance fell of a cliff. Hope he can get out of his own head, otherwise I wouldn’t be surprised is Horner and Marko are interviewing replacements.
I’m gutted for Oscar missing out on the podium, just got unlucky with the pitstop/safety car. But that’s Formula 1. Still, getting P4 in your rookie year is a great achievement, I think he’s a real talent. And brilliant for Lando, that was excellent defending to hold off Lewis on much faster tyres.
Red Bull getting 11 in a row is just crazy, I think the count might grow. Uninspiring drive by Perez, did what he had to do and dragged the car up the field, but he should be finishing 2nd every single race in that car. I think he’s badly underperforming.
And Ferrari … lol. 4th and 5th to 9th and 10th. Awful day for them.
Well deserved penalty for that ridiculous move. Poor Gasly, he was pretty quick today.
I really hope Piastri can make it to the podium but I think the Hards just killed that :(
Lando understandably pissed as hell
I’m not sure if I should post the video, but having watched it, it’s extremely similar to the crash that killed Anthoine Hubert. Looks further along the track - at the start of the Kemmel straight - but very similar.
It’s not clear how (very bad weather conditions, lots of spray/fog), but his car spins into the middle of the track, stops fully sideways/perpendicular to the track, then is T-boned by another car.
Absolutely tragic.
Wow I did not expect Charles to get that close to Max. What a lap, but Max + the RB is just too good.
De Vries is nearly certainly gone from the other AT seat. Yuki’s had a couple years at AT and I’m not convinced he’s proved himself enough to move up to the 2nd RB seat, but if other teams are interested, we could have both ATs up for grabs. Checo needs to get over the last few races and start getting results. If he can’t, I think RB would start to look at options there. Then is Sargeant bringing Williams enough sponsorship money to make it worth the pretty dreadful results (and the car rebuilds)?
I think it could get pretty silly, particularly towards the back of the grid. I bet Charles has his fingers crossed for an open seat at a big team, I think he’s too pissed with Ferrari right now not to.
The article says “leading-edge” but I really wonder what processes will be used here, so far the new fabs being set up in the US aren’t being tooled for the latest EUV 3nm etc. stuff, but older nodes. The older ones are still very important, and any way to remove dependence on potentially disruptable single sources of chips is great, but would be awesome to have proper cutting edge chip manufacture in the EU.
This. Most I can hope for is the race doesn’t get canned.
I’m flying out to Budapest on Thursday, this will be my first race attended in person. I’m very excited!