[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Strewth ! Should have been changed by now surely, how long does it take to swap a wind tunnel out and last I heard it was miles away from MK hq, Checo money ? The 72 YO ex RAF one, first used in 1952, is in Bedford.
We have 'znajomi' in Bedford and would love to see this old wind tunnel at RAE actually.
https://airsciences.org.uk/bedford-rae-wind-tunnels/

That's an interesting article . Thanks for sharing my friend

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

That's an interesting article . Thanks for sharing my friend

It is next to Bedford Autodrome, GB's own mini 'Nordschleife' where you can I think still take your car around to try it out. Some of the track is sadly now used to store unsold cars including ev's that fewer people want lol The track is owned by ex F1 driver Jon Palmer. His son? Jolyon is an F1 journo.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

That's an interesting article . Thanks for sharing my friend

Got your turkey in yet... just lugged a frozen 5.6 kilo one from Aldi into the freezer

[M5Rick]

Well, looks like Checo is in bar the shouting and splashing of tequila so we might as well get used to it.
Here's Checo in the new FoMoCo modified Raptor with V8 Coyote PU so...let's GO 11

[M5Rick]

^ Put that on hold guys as there may be a twist in the tail ...

[dfox]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

^ Put that on hold guys as there may be a twist in the tail ...

Announcement any day now.

I'll be a little disappointed to see Checo go if that's the path forward, but maybe andretti will put him in a caddy in 2026?

Full support of Lawson in the RB seat if Checo's gotta go though.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by dfox

Announcement any day now.

I'll be a little disappointed to see Checo go if that's the path forward, but maybe andretti will put him in a caddy in 2026?

Full support of Lawson in the RB seat if Checo's gotta go though.

According to the RB20 data and test, is Yuki Tsunoda the man to replace the KitKat man .
HONDA is pushing hard to get Yuki in the KitKat seat..

Hopefully (!)

[dfox]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

According to the RB20 data and test, is Yuki Tsunoda the man to replace the KitKat man .
HONDA is pushing hard to get Yuki in the KitKat seat..

Hopefully (!)

I don't think Yuki is the answer. He's been in an F1 seat long enough to see that he doesn't have the trajectory of a top 5 driver. He definitely doesn't have the mentality, his anger issues come out as terrible driving on track. Even if he pulled some reasonable drives, he's going to clash with Max bigtime. Lawson is a little more of a wildcard in that he doesn't have the seat time, but I think his potential is much higher.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by dfox

I don't think Yuki is the answer. He's been in an F1 seat long enough to see that he doesn't have the trajectory of a top 5 driver. He definitely doesn't have the mentality, his anger issues come out as terrible driving on track. Even if he pulled some reasonable drives, he's going to clash with Max bigtime. Lawson is a little more of a wildcard in that he doesn't have the seat time, but I think his potential is much higher.

Yuki looked faster than Lawson. Yuki improved a lot in this 2024 season.
I think Yuki is ready to help MAX in the 2025 season.

[G30M]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Yuki looked faster than Lawson. Yuki improved a lot in this 2024 season.
I think Yuki is ready to help MAX in the 2025 season.

In the old red bull way, they just promote whoever raced in torro rosso the longest, and then if they crumble they replace with next in line, and so on.

The recent way seems to be pick someone with money / marketing value and then race them to the bottom of the pit.

Must be asking Honda for money lol

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Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Yuki looked faster than Lawson. Yuki improved a lot in this 2024 season.
I think Yuki is ready to help MAX in the 2025 season.

After 4 years of experience for Yuki and less than 1 for Lawson, the two of them are barely distinguishable. The trajectory is just not the same. Yuki is plateauing. Throw him in a RB, sure, he'll be out in a year. Not like Honda is going to pay RB to keep Yuki on the team in 2026 when there's no contractual relationship.

Lawson looked stronger in 2023 than the end of 2024.

Yuki's testing did not look overwhelming and while it's hard to compare times, they all threw down a fastest lap and he was significantly slower than Hadjar, and really the entire rest of the field. Granted, Yuki got Checo's car, which as I've said, has been crappy for the second half of the year, so maybe that's why Yuki's time was so far down from the other rookie in the RB.