Silly Season 2020/2021 (starting with silliness in 2019)

[PlatinumZealot]

A tad surprised BWT stays with Aston Martin. I feel like Aston won't run with a pink colour as it does not really promote their brand (has nothing to do with the colour pink, it's just that pink is a BWT colour, and not Aston). Then again, they can also promote themselves without pink or just with some accents. The rar wing in dark blue, white letters, and a pink underscore.

British Racing Green with a Rose Pink could be fine... That bubblegum pink tho...

Like a venus fly trap colour scheme. that would be sick.

[Racer X]

Well now we wait for RedBull in the coming weeks to announce their drivers for AlfaTauri and RedBull.

Who else HAAS will they retain Mazepin.

[graham.reeds]

British Racing Green is actually Moss Green.

[raymondu999]

Well now we wait for RedBull in the coming weeks to announce their drivers for AlfaTauri and RedBull.

Who else HAAS will they retain Mazepin.

I don’t think they have much of a choice, if they want to keep the rubles.

[raymondu999]

I don’t know if this is exactly fhe appropriate thread for this, but has any team announced an early release of their drivers to the rival teams?

[raymondu999]

I don’t know how effective Ted Kravitz’s sources and track record is for rumors — but according to him RBR has signed Perez and Albon will be reserve

[NathanOlder]

I don’t know how effective Ted Kravitz’s sources and track record is for rumors — but according to him RBR has signed Perez and Albon will be reserve

where has that come from ? where has he said that ?

[1158]

where has that come from ? where has he said that ?

In his notebook. Post GP edition.

[NathanOlder]

where has that come from ? where has he said that ?

In his notebook. Post GP edition.

Just this minute seen it, thanks. Interesting, I'm also reading it on a few sites, hope its true.

[Big Tea]

where has that come from ? where has he said that ?

In his notebook. Post GP edition.

Has it been made clear which is the driver and which the reserve?

[El Scorchio]

where has that come from ? where has he said that ?

In his notebook. Post GP edition.

Has it been made clear which is the driver and which the reserve?

It's got to be Albon as reserve. Cruel as that may be, it's crueler to have Perez literally breathing down his neck and the team waiting for the first mistake. It'll ruin the boy.

[nzjrs]

In his notebook. Post GP edition.

Has it been made clear which is the driver and which the reserve?

It's got to be Albon as reserve. Cruel as that may be, it's crueler to have Perez literally breathing down his neck and the team waiting for the first mistake. It'll ruin the boy.

We have the 'young driver test' - would be interesting to have something like a 'driver shootout test'. A test day dedicated to this purpose. Would be cruel/stressful but might be a way to rotate some drivers in and out more fairly and regularly?

[El Scorchio]

Has it been made clear which is the driver and which the reserve?

It's got to be Albon as reserve. Cruel as that may be, it's crueler to have Perez literally breathing down his neck and the team waiting for the first mistake. It'll ruin the boy.

We have the 'young driver test' - would be interesting to have something like a 'driver shootout test'. A test day dedicated to this purpose. Would be cruel/stressful but might be a way to rotate some drivers in and out more fairly and regularly?

Agree. It's a bit cutthroat but it's probably the fairest way of doing it if you have a genuine driver conundrum. I think if I were Albon I'd much rather that than them saying 'you have the seat but the first mistake you make then Perez is in the car'. It's just setting him up to fail. Then likewise if they put Perez in and say the same, you're just wrecking two drivers by making them too afraid to take any risk and make any mistakes.

The team hasn't handled this Albon situation well, really. (or their second seat at all since Ricciardo left) They owe it to him just to be clear and decisive one way or another. Sure they want the right partner for Verstappen but it shouldn't be at the expense of potentially wrecking the careers of other drivers.

[LHamilton]

I think it will be a --- show if Red Bull alternate between Perez and Albon. I expect Perez to be at Albon pace in the first few races, since Perez has shown tendecies to struggle to adapt to a new car. Obviously, his pace will become better throughout the season. However, if Red Bull does alternate before Perez has adapted to the car, that progress might take longer than it should be, and they very much could have two drivers not where they want them in terms of pace. Hopefully for RBs sake, this doesn't happend.

[PlatinumZealot]

British Racing Green is actually Moss Green.

I read here on this same forum that it could be many different shades of green. Forgot the thread though..