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Sherman McCoy's avatar

Just one week ago I suggested the following course of action for Messrs. Marko and Horner:

“0-Dutch Cherub Nyck de Vries is sent back to Formula E or WEC with immediate effect

1-In the vacated AlphaTauri, the remaining ~13 races of the season are shared among (a) Danny Ric, (b) Liam Lawson, (c) Alex Palou; Danny Ric should be “race fit” and the most prepared, so let him have a go today, then Lawson, then have Palou finish up the season after he wins his second IndyCar title (Zak Brown can have a taste of his own medicine and lose Palou as a test driver)

2-The winner of the “shoutout” gets the second seat next to Yuki Tsunoda for 2024

3-At the end of this season, Helmut sends Checo back to Mexico where he can enjoy a lengthy, Tequila-fueled siesta

4-The second Red Bull seat will go to the final boss, the ultimate trickster, perhaps the only person who could hang with Max over the course of a title fight - Fernando, who would gladly leave the Strollercoaster for a final title tilt

5-When Fernando is ready to retire, he can slide right into either the Helmut Marko role (who is ~80 years old now) or the Christian Horner seat, who will by that time be ready to succeed Domenicali as the F1 CRH CEO; recall that Horner is a close Bernie ally, and that Bernie still exercises considerable FIA influence”

Steps 1,2,3 appear as if they are already in motion given that Dr. Marko defenestrated Nyckolaus yesterday after Horner called him up to relay Danny Ric’s impressive performance in the Silverstone tire (tyre?) test.

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MD Streeter's avatar

So, I sort of liked F1 during college when BAR Honda was a team, and when we moved to Japan I had every intention of going to a Japanese Grand Prix... except we had to get married and start making babies because my mother-in-law was diagnosed with terminal cancer and the company I worked for went bankrupt barely more than a month in. In other words, I had a lot of other things going on that took my attention, so I didn't keep up with F1 until this year because of these columns. Last week I found out that RBR uses Honda engines so I decided to root for them, and then Verstappen is a winner, so that made the choice even easier, but this: "Max Verstappen... expressed annoyance and a general who-gives-a-shit attitude regarding the presence of Brad Pitt and Brad Pitt’s movie..."

Brad Pitt may or may not be a cool guy, but Max's attitude is the attitude I'd take if he were to walk into my office (I'd be especially annoyed if he made me do actual work, like the work my job entails). So I can relate to the current best professional F1 driver on a personal level.

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