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FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:35:35 GMT

From 1/1/2025 Lewis Hamilton became a Ferrari driver.

The Ferrari media team released a very clever post.

Note the time it was posted. 16.44. 16 is Charles Leclerc's race number and 44 is Lewis Hamiltons number. (they are now team mates). Interesting to note that Mercedes have lost just under a million followers and Ferrari have gained over a million.

With all his farewell commitments to Mercedes, Lewis has not tested in last years Ferrari. (All new drivers did a test run in Abu Dhabi.) It's understood, he will be testing in Marinello, Italy, later this month.

A lot to learn. New car, new steering wheel, new team, new race engineer and new language.

Personally, I'm not expecting him to do that well initially. Only time will tell.

* F1 live at the O2 Arena London. February

* Pre- Season Testing in Bahrain 26th-28th February.

* 1st Race - Australia Friday March 14th-Sunday 16th March.

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:57:27 GMT

This year sees 5 new Rookies on the Grid

Driver line up.

1 Antonelli - Mercedes

2 Doohan - Alpine

3 Hadjar- RB

4 Bearman - Haas

5 Bortoleto- Kick Sauber.

Liam Lawson has replaced Checo Perez at Red Bull Racing. He will partner Max Verstappen (poor kid!!) 😂

NB. Liam Lawson should be classed as a rookie as he only took part in 7 races last year when he replaced Daniel Ricciardo at RB.

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:53:56 GMT

Full Schedule 2025. (24 races)

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

pgn — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:29:40 GMT

Not the best name for an F1 driver, Stroll, I'd've thought 😂

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 12:01:11 GMT

@pgn wrote:
Not the best name for an F1 driver, Stroll, I'd've thought 😂

Lance Stroll is one of the worst on the grid @pgn. Only there as his Dad owns the team. Lawrence Stroll is a billionaire and one of the richest men in Canada. Terrible state of affairs when you can buy your son a seat in F1. Particularly when you realise the struggles Anthony Hamilton had (working 4/5 jobs) to help Lewis get his chance.

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:53:39 GMT

Formula 1 fans were asked to vote for the best team pairing on the grid for 2025.

56% is a hell of a lot of votes for Lewis and Charles. The Tifosi will be pleased 😂

I bet Mercedes are totally miffed!

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

jonsie — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:02:23 GMT

I'm still Team Mercedes at heart but obviously will now have a new Ferrari interest whilst Lewis is there

I'm hoping for some interesting battles (literally!) with Max

The gaps between the top teams was narrowing nicely last year so this season could be well worth watching unless there are fundemental differences with the new designs

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:22:37 GMT

HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY LEWIS. ❤️

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:36:57 GMT

@jonsie wrote:
I'm still Team Mercedes at heart but obviously will now have a new Ferrari interest whilst Lewis is there
I'm hoping for some interesting battles (literally!) with Max
The gaps between the top teams was narrowing nicely last year so this season could be well worth watching unless there are fundemental differences with the new designs

@jonsie

I'm not a Mercedes fan any longer. Once they found out Lewis was off to Ferrari they treated him as if he was second rate.

George got all the upgrades. According to Andrew Shovlin (technical director) Lewis was testing parts for the 2025 car for the last 8 races. Yes I know he was leaving but he was left out of all meetings, including those involving strategy.

I well remember that anonymous email which circulated the paddock, accusing Mercedes of sabotaging Hamilton's car. Suddenly for 3 races after that email, Lewis was back racing to his usual level.

Also, can you recollect LH saying, 4 races in, that he would never beat his team mate in qualifying? I thought that was a weird thing for a 7 x WDC to say. He was very nearly right. George beat him 18- 6.

The one thing George didn't have was the same racecraft as LH. So overall Lewis was beating Russell in points until 5 races from the end.

So although Abu Dhabi was very emotional between LH and Mercedes (the end of an era) I lost all respect for Mercedes during the season. You don't treat a driver who has helped you to win 8 constructors titles as if he means nothing.... just because he's chosen to go to another team.

If they think George Russell is championship material, they are going to be disappointed. 👀 🤐

(Unless they have managed to produce a race winning car after 3 years 😂)

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 10:54:46 GMT

Breaking News

So what's happening in 2028 and 2030? Are they doing a rotation with a new track?

Sad that they are using Spa. One of the most iconic tracks on the calendar!

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:37:50 GMT

Lewis Hamilton arriving at Ferrari HQ in Maranello Italy today.

A load of fans were queuing to meet him.

Down to F1 work tomorrow. A few test drives in Ferrari's 2024 car and some sim racing.

Lewis will also meet his team and new race engineer (Riccardo Adami.)

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 11:28:38 GMT

News today:

Lewis Hamilton is to be re-united with his physiotherapist/dietitian Angela Cullen, who worked with him through his Mercedes years from 2016 until 2023.

No reason given as to why she left in 2023. It appears that key personnel may be unable to work for another F1 team for a year. Angela worked in Indycar for a year.

Now she will be joining Hamilton's Project 44 team and 'working in the background at Ferrari as a team physio, primarily with Lewis.

Project 44 is a team of trusted people handpicked by LH to assist with his transistion to Ferrari.

HERE and HERE

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:27:12 GMT

Lewis Hamilton in a Ferrari for his first drive today.

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:13:25 GMT

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:19:46 GMT

Oh dear Lewis! Pushing to the limits apparently.

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:22:18 GMT

Johnny Herbert made some negative comments about Verstappen's style of driving apparently. Now we have this:

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:31:39 GMT

Last night at the O2 arena we saw F1/75. It was to celebrate 75 years of Formula 1. All 20 drivers were present as well as 10 team principals. F1 commentators, Stephan Domenicali (CEO Formula 1) and various members of the public who had paid £110 for the privilege of being there.

The idea was to introduce the 2025 cars, the drivers of each team and the team principals.

Firstly the 2025 cars were NOT at the show, they were packed up and enroute for 3 days of testing in Bahrain

next week.

So the 24 cars were presented with their new liveries.

Sadly the MC for the night was Jack Whitehall, who was NOT in the slightest bit funny and quite cringe at times.

For some strange reason FOM decided we needed 4 musical acts last night. From the US. Kane Brown and DJ Mgk (a rapper and DJ) Final act was Take That.

However Brian Tyler who composed the iconic F1 theme tune, orchestrated another musical masterpiece

"We Are Dreaming" which was absolutely right for this celebration.

Bearing in mind the audience were from all over the world, there was a lot of booing and only one I agreed with. (the FIA)

Christian Horner was booed when he stepped on the stage to speak, same with Max Verstappen. So Max didn't speak at all. Liam Lawson, From NZ) who is Max's new team mate did say he was pleased to be here and he was cheered. There was no need for that booing. Max is a great driver (When he's not crashing into his opponents)😂

The biggest boo was the mention of the FIA, the guys who hand out penalties, decide on safety cars and whether to drop a red flag with a nasty crash. They were booed due to the fact they are inconsistent with penalties

The biggest cheer of the night went to Lewis Hamilton.

Musical acts and Jack Whitehall aside, it was a great show. A lot of technical wizardry was involved showing 75 years of racing, getting the cars on and off the enormous catwalk and talking to the drivers and team principals.

Motorsport have rated the liveries from 1-10

Car Livery Rating

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:52:23 GMT

BAHRAIN TESTING

This week and next there will be 3 days of testing in Bahrain.

The sessions are divided into morning and afternoon.

This morning we have on track:

Hamilton : Ferrari

Alonso : Aston Martin

Albon : Williams

Lawson : Red Bull

Doohan : Alpine

Tsunado : Racing Bull

Hulkenberg : Kick Sauber

Bearman : Haas

Antonelli : Mercedes

Piastri. : McLaren

It's important to note absolutely nothing can be read into testing times. Some cars are on track with front rakes attached to check the flexibility of the wings. Some are on hard tyres. others are are medium. Etc etc.

However, Hamilton is currently top of the leaderboard. 😂

Re: FORMULA ONE 2025.

Cleoriff — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:30:19 GMT

Testing Results AM

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Cleoriff — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:17:39 GMT

Session red flagged after a power cut which affected all the technical equipment in the pits.

The drivers from the PM session were given an extra hour of testing.

The final results from Day 1 :

Williams looking good. Sainz in 5th 😂