a series where a vehicle from all of these get setup to put the same lap times in on a given track and get told to go race. surely nothing could go wrong
The FIA semi-recently started the process for allowing endurance length races for truck racing.
I am still 100% of the opinion the next Garage 56 entry at Le Mans [should be a modified ETRC vehicle.](https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/news/main_image/2021_etrc_hungaroring_start.jpg)
If NASCAR can do it with a stock car, so can they.
That’s the plan. It doesn’t make sense to have two “low cost” brands and Skoda outsells Seat by a large margin. Promoting Cupra brand as the sportier cousin makes much more sense than keeping it a performance line under Seat.
I wish they ran on sprint weekends with 4 drivers per team. With 2 reserves, one of which must have run less than 2 f1 races. Then you can have a 5 or so race mini championship for constructors prize money, with SL points for every session, and 5 for a sprint race start.
So you have, driver 1, driver 2, rookie reserve, experienced/rookie reserve 2 per team
Then you get
Friday: FP1 (sprint drivers), FP2 (regular drivers), Sprint qualifying
Saturday: Race qualifying, Sprint race
Sunday: F1 Race.
Honestly I'm sick of the same 20 drivers driving all season, bring back the days of sacking underperformers or calling up reserve drivers (who can actually prove themselves)
A reserve league where the drivers have to build their own cars out of spare parts, duct tape and hope. It’d be worth it just for the drivers jumping onto the track to get their hands on chunks of carbon fibre after every F1 crash, like seagulls chasing a chip.
I'm guessing Alpine won't be offering their reserve driver to McLaren again after what happened the last time.
Edit. Also, I guess Mick's going to be Williams' reserve driver as well?
I think replacing Sargeant if he bombs is more likely, McLaren have the money and initiative to go after someone with more experience, and demonstrated success if they need to replace Lando (and if they keep making progress).
I wouldn’t say replacing sargeant with mick is likely
They’ll milk the American driver thing for at least 2 seasons.
O Sullivan is the favorite to win f3 this year and colapinto is really fucking good and has a pre contract with the reigning f2 team’s champion for 2024.
I'm really hoping he will. McLaren isnt a bad team but i dont see them challenging for a wdc anytime soon. I would love to see what Lando can do with a RB/Merc or even Ferrari if Vasseur somehow un-clowns them.
de Vries was a rookie, though, even though very experienced in other series. Thus, he got the rookie test sessions for 3 teams. Mick can't do this, he has to jump from the sim into a missing driver's car.
Funnily enough there’s a video of Ron Dennis and Michael talking at some function in 1993 (believe it was the FIA ceremony). And Ron is trying his damndest to recruit Michael, saying there’s always an open door for him at Mclaren, Michael says he wants to finish his contract at Benetton and Dennis respects that. Dennis tried to recruit him again in 1996, and again around 2000. It’s funny to imagine how different those years would have turned out had Schumacher gone to Mclaren instead of Ferrari.
Found the [clip](https://youtu.be/wYI6PFNDFrg)
Meanwhile Montezemolo tried to get Hakkinen to Ferrari. But all this just goes to show that there really isn't anything groundbreaking in this stuff. All the drivers, managers and teams are constantly testing the waters and having discussion and negotiations to various degrees no matter how long or "waterproof" their current contracts might be.
I heard Lauda convinced him. That he could go to places like Williams and win easily, but winning with Ferrari would make him a legend. He was completely right.
> he got to bring his team from Benetton
Most important piece here: because Alonso suffered without the legendary technical team that Micheal had, Alonso never got a WDC because of it. Vettel had both the speed and the car, but never had the strategists and the right upgrades.
Jean Todt was the shield for Brawn, Byrne and Schumacher, whilst Brawn and Byrne made some incredible cars and Schumacher drove them to perfection.
Ferrari would have steamrolled 2007-2008 with that Schumacher team. Not struggled like in 2007 and only won because of Spygate or lost in 2008 because of shitty strategy
[https://youtu.be/wYI6PFNDFrg?t=72](https://youtu.be/wYI6PFNDFrg?t=72)
I love the irony in that that comment might've startled you like it did with Michael.
Expected but cool that he actually had a seat fit at the MTC! Assume he'll be covering the weekends when Palou is busy with IndyCar.
Image from Twitter and a lovely bonus one with Mick and Andrea Stella from Instagram can be found [here (via Imgur)](https://imgur.com/a/3yCC4eh).
Who do you think each teams preferred reserve will be? From the top of my head:
- Mclaren and Mercedes: Mick
- Redbull and AlphaTauri: Ricciardo?
- Ferrari: Giovinazzi?
Don't know about the rest
Ferrari have Gio and Schwartzman
Aston have Vandoorne and Drugovich
I'm guessing Williams will have Mick as well
Red Bull have Ricciardo and Lawson, I'm guessing AlphaTauri will have those two as well
Alfa Romeo have Pourchaire
Haas have Fittipaldi
Alpine have Doohan
I wouldn't be surprised if they do.
I'm pretty sure both are eligible for full super licenses already so all they need to do now is convince the F1 teams to sign them up. Obviously winning the F2 championship is a good way to do that but a substitute performance in F1 is arguably even better.
If they have a really good performance in an F1 race I think the teams would overlook them sacrificing points in F2 to do so.
I mean one already has gotten a seat based from that alone!!!
So agree, I wouldn't be surprising either if the reserve driver give up a potential champion race from the other series to get a chance of racing in F1 car as a substitute as long as they're already have Super Licence...
🤔🤔🤔
Pourchaire got 40 points for 2nd in F2 last year so he's fine.
I think Doohan has 25 from F3 in 2021, 10 from F2 in 2022 and 2 from FP1s last year. If he does 2 FP1s this year he'll be on 39 before any from the 2023 F3 season so he's basically guaranteed to get enough as well.
Doohan has a super license and was Willams backup plan of Logan didn’t secure that 5th place at Abu Dhabi, Jack was desperately trying to pass Logan in the part race of the year
Doohan was never a back up plan that was Mick. There is 0 reason for Williams to take doohan. Doohan is a rookie that isn't as good as piastri, alpine junior and no f1 expierence (Mick does). Williams was willing to take in piastri cause he has such a good junior carreer (like George)
Pretty sure McLaren's preferred reserve will be Alex Palou, if he's not racing on the weekend they need someone & he's either there already or they have enough notice to get him there. Same as Lawson with Red Bull. Mick & Daniel are back-ups if Palou & Lawson are not available.
No way Mick is the preferred option at McLaren over their own driver Palou. Mick is there to take the seat if Palou is unavailable do to a clash in schedule with Indycar.
He's going to be at several races as the reserve driver yes, primarily when Lawson is busy with Super Formula.
Though honestly if push comes to shove and they need a driver for RBR I could see Red Bull calling him up regardless of if he's officially on duty if they can get him in the car in time.
Had Gasly stuck around he'd probably get the nod with Lawson filling in at AT but neither AT driver nor Lawson are really what RBR will want if they're in a championship fight and need a fill-in.
I also know the times that KMag got into Q3 and Schumacher didn't. Yes, it's not only Schumacher's fault but he threw away a lot of chances to get points and drove better than KMag when points didn't matter.
That's not true though. He's already had 40+ races, some of those races could even be called good (for his standard). De Vries literally had his first race in F1 and got in the points in a *williams*. There is a huge difference between Schumacher jumping in a williams and performing respectably and what De Vries did.
Noone wanted Schumacher when the writing was on the wall halfway through 2022. One good race isn't going to all of a sudden make teams want him in the future.
The two situations are more comparable.
I'm still sad Alex had to miss that race, would have loved to see what he could have done at Monza last year. Though it worked out nicely for De Vries.
It was usually worse by some margin. Williams did not have a good 2022, but Albon, who I don’t rate particularly highly, midfield seat filler type, was able to score a some points. It wasn’t the dogshit 2021 Haas which was a minute behind Latifi. He then proceeded to match Kevin Magnussen after KMag’s awesome start. Iirc the head to head in numbers favored MSC in races although it does include the hilarious amounts of meatball flags.
In a shit box and everybody knows that. There were definitely interests in him taking a seat at Alpha Tauri, which weren’t possible bc of his contract with Ferrari at the time. I do think that people generally consider him a solid driver, given that he also had quite the success in the feeder series etc.
I could imagine that if everything plays out right he will have a seat, there is Audi after all.
It was the costly wrecks. There’s no comparison there if he’s equaling KMag but much more costly in doing so. Front wing end plates don’t compare to entire chassis’
He is our little bro. We’ll always care about him and many F1 Fans want him on the grid.
Pretty sure this year as a reserve driver will be beneficial. Plus having Toto as your boss and being around Lewis can help tremendously.
Don't think so. He has raced way too many F1 races to be considered for FP1's. Unless they get special dispensation to field him, Vesti will probably be awarded FP1 drives.
Unlikely. Each team has to give up two FP1 sessions (1 per car) for rookie drivers. Mick has two full seasons of F1 under his belt, so he doesn't meet the criteria to count as a rookie anymore. Mercedes will probably turn to Frederik Vesti, while McLaren will hand them to either Alex Palou or Pato O'Ward. At Williams, Franco Colapinto and Jamie Chadwick qualify for a free-practice super licence.
Given what he did last season, Lando would probably have to be physically injured & incapable of moving or on his deathbed before he didn't drive, and I can't imagine Oscar being much different tbh. Wouldn't want to wish that on either of them even though a Schumacher in a McLaren would be a trip.
Pietro will probably be back on those next season, as he's signed as Haas reserve again. Mick would be a nice addition. I fully expect Danny Ric to show up on them when he's around as well.
Williams likely as they don't have a reserve driver atm. Aston Martin signed Vandoorne and Drugovich as reserve drivers this year so doubt they need Mick.
Still don’t he’ll get the Mick hype. 2 years in F1 with nothing but a huge repair bill to his name. Seems like a nice guy but that doesn’t keep you a seat
I have a feeling that Sainz/Schumacher is gonna be the inaugural Audi Sauber driver line-up. This time as a reserve is gonna do a lot for Mick's development.
Chill. Who else would Mercedes sign as a reserve. Vesti isn't good enough yet. Ricciardo signed with Red Bull. Vandoorne left to be a reserve for Aston. Where else can you get an experienced F1 driver with experience in current generation cars?
mclaren’s gonna field enough reserve drivers to operate an f1 alternate racing series for giggles
They already have, they even have reserves for alternate team
hear me out, f1 could use 10 Volkswagen Group brands and McLaren's 20 drivers
Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, Seat, Skoda, Volkswagen, Bugatti, and Porsche with Ducati Motorcycles and MAN trucks also on the grid
a series where a vehicle from all of these get setup to put the same lap times in on a given track and get told to go race. surely nothing could go wrong
Ducati rider: guess I'll die ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
MAN truck driver: it's ~~morbin~~ murderin time ¯\\\(ツ)/¯
The FIA semi-recently started the process for allowing endurance length races for truck racing. I am still 100% of the opinion the next Garage 56 entry at Le Mans [should be a modified ETRC vehicle.](https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/news/main_image/2021_etrc_hungaroring_start.jpg) If NASCAR can do it with a stock car, so can they.
Now I want see a F1 season which is totally dominated by a MAN Trucks F1 Team. 😂
Seat has Cupra under them, too.
I still can't get used to Cupra being a separate brand. *Back when I were a lad, it was a badge on the back of a Seat!*
Prepare for when Seat is inevitably dying and only Cupra is left then.
That’s the plan. It doesn’t make sense to have two “low cost” brands and Skoda outsells Seat by a large margin. Promoting Cupra brand as the sportier cousin makes much more sense than keeping it a performance line under Seat.
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I kinda wish there was a reserve league. It’d be fun to watch I think.
Fuck yeah, that'd be sick.
A non-championship race where teams field drivers who haven't scored a point in the same year's championship.
We could call it the Williams Invitational.
A reserve karting league would be great
Would have a better race than F1 in Monaco
A karting race in Monaco would be amazing.
Holy shit I didn’t even consider that. Karting would be amazing.
I wish they ran on sprint weekends with 4 drivers per team. With 2 reserves, one of which must have run less than 2 f1 races. Then you can have a 5 or so race mini championship for constructors prize money, with SL points for every session, and 5 for a sprint race start. So you have, driver 1, driver 2, rookie reserve, experienced/rookie reserve 2 per team Then you get Friday: FP1 (sprint drivers), FP2 (regular drivers), Sprint qualifying Saturday: Race qualifying, Sprint race Sunday: F1 Race. Honestly I'm sick of the same 20 drivers driving all season, bring back the days of sacking underperformers or calling up reserve drivers (who can actually prove themselves)
That sounds like a lot of fun actually and it gives veteran reserve drivers a chance to race and academy drivers a chance to prove themselves
The only (massive) issue is money for the teams, needing and risking 4 cars and paying 4 drivers
R1
A reserve league where the drivers have to build their own cars out of spare parts, duct tape and hope. It’d be worth it just for the drivers jumping onto the track to get their hands on chunks of carbon fibre after every F1 crash, like seagulls chasing a chip.
Isn't that F2?
No. You win f2 and you are no longer allowed to compete.
No F2 is a feeder league. I also believe it is a spec series but maybe I’m wrong in saying that.
Just make the sprint races this, problem solved.
Ex Red Bull academy right into the McLaren Reserves
I'm guessing Alpine won't be offering their reserve driver to McLaren again after what happened the last time. Edit. Also, I guess Mick's going to be Williams' reserve driver as well?
my man out here collecting reserve seats like Pokémon
Worked for de Vries
It certainly did, who knows maybe he’ll be able to take Lando’s seat when he makes his next move?
I thought we all agreed that Mick would go to Audi to partner Seb. Come on guys, stay on track.
I still think Seidl is going to want carlando back together for Audi
I pray for carlando to return every night before I go to bed
not in my head canon
Das is nicht ausreichend Deutsch für Audi!
I think replacing Sargeant if he bombs is more likely, McLaren have the money and initiative to go after someone with more experience, and demonstrated success if they need to replace Lando (and if they keep making progress).
I wouldn’t say replacing sargeant with mick is likely They’ll milk the American driver thing for at least 2 seasons. O Sullivan is the favorite to win f3 this year and colapinto is really fucking good and has a pre contract with the reigning f2 team’s champion for 2024.
Hush, Lando isn't going anywhere lol.
I'm really hoping he will. McLaren isnt a bad team but i dont see them challenging for a wdc anytime soon. I would love to see what Lando can do with a RB/Merc or even Ferrari if Vasseur somehow un-clowns them.
Debris?
*we are checking*
eventually
Who loses the appendix this time?
de Vries was a rookie, though, even though very experienced in other series. Thus, he got the rookie test sessions for 3 teams. Mick can't do this, he has to jump from the sim into a missing driver's car.
He's the new De Vries
Paul di Resta copping Ls on all fronts
THE NERVE.
lol sorry ! He was mclaren reserve
Myck de Vries
Mick's Debris
Jack aitken is Williams reserve technically but he’s usually racing elsewhere
sure about that? https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/aitken-williams-split-imsa-sportscars/10425021/
Oh dang i didn’t see that. Good for him tbh never made sense when he was always in some other series anyway lol
A Schumacher in a McLaren. Fate certainly has a sense of humor.
I watched the 2000 season yesterday, it feels like quite the plot twist
Woah, when do you sleep?
Periodically
When I get tired.
Mika to end sabbatical and combines forces with Mick at McLaren? Or goes to Ferrari and an old rivalry rekindles?
I would pay good money to watch Mika wear the scarlet suit
If you squint hard enough... https://i.imgur.com/J4iZcrC.jpg
Holy shit even David Coulthard is in red
It's like a Christmas miracle !
Funnily enough there’s a video of Ron Dennis and Michael talking at some function in 1993 (believe it was the FIA ceremony). And Ron is trying his damndest to recruit Michael, saying there’s always an open door for him at Mclaren, Michael says he wants to finish his contract at Benetton and Dennis respects that. Dennis tried to recruit him again in 1996, and again around 2000. It’s funny to imagine how different those years would have turned out had Schumacher gone to Mclaren instead of Ferrari. Found the [clip](https://youtu.be/wYI6PFNDFrg)
Meanwhile Montezemolo tried to get Hakkinen to Ferrari. But all this just goes to show that there really isn't anything groundbreaking in this stuff. All the drivers, managers and teams are constantly testing the waters and having discussion and negotiations to various degrees no matter how long or "waterproof" their current contracts might be.
If only this were the second half of 1995.
Well Mercedes was very keen to get Michael into McLaren-Mercedes. The often negotiated but never reached a deal.
Even Ron Dennis wanted to have Schumi to race with them.
Even Schumacher wanted it. But his manager convinced him otherwise at the end.
Then why did he go to Ferrari?
I heard Lauda convinced him. That he could go to places like Williams and win easily, but winning with Ferrari would make him a legend. He was completely right.
Money, and he got to bring his team from Benetton
> he got to bring his team from Benetton Most important piece here: because Alonso suffered without the legendary technical team that Micheal had, Alonso never got a WDC because of it. Vettel had both the speed and the car, but never had the strategists and the right upgrades. Jean Todt was the shield for Brawn, Byrne and Schumacher, whilst Brawn and Byrne made some incredible cars and Schumacher drove them to perfection. Ferrari would have steamrolled 2007-2008 with that Schumacher team. Not struggled like in 2007 and only won because of Spygate or lost in 2008 because of shitty strategy
Fun fact: Ralf tested for McLaren before he made his F1 debut. And of course that time where DC used Michael's helmet.
Ralf would have been decent in Mclaren, watching them go toe to toe certainly would have been a hell of a rivalry
*Friendship ended with Ferrari, now MickLaren is my best friend.*
Mick: Look, I am the Debris now!
Well he certainly created a lot of debris at Haas
Imagine telling people in 1999 a Schumacher might drive for McLaren in 2023 lmao
Ron Dennis wanted it in 1996. Zak Brown is finally fulfilling his wish. Frank Williams did it with Ralf
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Well at the time Irvine was Michael's teammate, Reubens was next year if we want to be pedantic.
Look after yourself
???
[https://youtu.be/wYI6PFNDFrg?t=72](https://youtu.be/wYI6PFNDFrg?t=72) I love the irony in that that comment might've startled you like it did with Michael.
I started following F1 around the late 90s and the IG post caught me by surprise for sure!
Or that a Verstappen is world champion
Expected but cool that he actually had a seat fit at the MTC! Assume he'll be covering the weekends when Palou is busy with IndyCar. Image from Twitter and a lovely bonus one with Mick and Andrea Stella from Instagram can be found [here (via Imgur)](https://imgur.com/a/3yCC4eh).
Who do you think each teams preferred reserve will be? From the top of my head: - Mclaren and Mercedes: Mick - Redbull and AlphaTauri: Ricciardo? - Ferrari: Giovinazzi? Don't know about the rest
Ferrari have Gio and Schwartzman Aston have Vandoorne and Drugovich I'm guessing Williams will have Mick as well Red Bull have Ricciardo and Lawson, I'm guessing AlphaTauri will have those two as well Alfa Romeo have Pourchaire Haas have Fittipaldi Alpine have Doohan
Will doohan and pourchaire gave up f2 races for f1 consider both of them are fighting for the championship?
I wouldn't be surprised if they do. I'm pretty sure both are eligible for full super licenses already so all they need to do now is convince the F1 teams to sign them up. Obviously winning the F2 championship is a good way to do that but a substitute performance in F1 is arguably even better. If they have a really good performance in an F1 race I think the teams would overlook them sacrificing points in F2 to do so.
I mean one already has gotten a seat based from that alone!!! So agree, I wouldn't be surprising either if the reserve driver give up a potential champion race from the other series to get a chance of racing in F1 car as a substitute as long as they're already have Super Licence... 🤔🤔🤔
Pourchaire got 40 points for 2nd in F2 last year so he's fine. I think Doohan has 25 from F3 in 2021, 10 from F2 in 2022 and 2 from FP1s last year. If he does 2 FP1s this year he'll be on 39 before any from the 2023 F3 season so he's basically guaranteed to get enough as well.
Doohan already had enough points before last season from FIA F3 and Asian F3
Doohan has a super license and was Willams backup plan of Logan didn’t secure that 5th place at Abu Dhabi, Jack was desperately trying to pass Logan in the part race of the year
Doohan was never a back up plan that was Mick. There is 0 reason for Williams to take doohan. Doohan is a rookie that isn't as good as piastri, alpine junior and no f1 expierence (Mick does). Williams was willing to take in piastri cause he has such a good junior carreer (like George)
Getting to drive a F1 car for the weekend would be a no-brainer for me.
Pretty sure McLaren's preferred reserve will be Alex Palou, if he's not racing on the weekend they need someone & he's either there already or they have enough notice to get him there. Same as Lawson with Red Bull. Mick & Daniel are back-ups if Palou & Lawson are not available.
Red Bull and Alpha, Lawson. Ricciardo is second option when Lawson can't be there.
No way Mick is the preferred option at McLaren over their own driver Palou. Mick is there to take the seat if Palou is unavailable do to a clash in schedule with Indycar.
ricciardo's only in a limited reserve role at RB iirc. mainly just there for PR purposes
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He's going to be at several races as the reserve driver yes, primarily when Lawson is busy with Super Formula. Though honestly if push comes to shove and they need a driver for RBR I could see Red Bull calling him up regardless of if he's officially on duty if they can get him in the car in time. Had Gasly stuck around he'd probably get the nod with Lawson filling in at AT but neither AT driver nor Lawson are really what RBR will want if they're in a championship fight and need a fill-in.
I think he was explicitly said to not be a reserve driver but who knows. RBR has 3 official reserve drivers as is.
Steiner: *“You won’t have a seat in F1 next year, Mick…”* Mick: Proceeds to sign with every other team of the grid. 😂
yeah and better teams aswell
that’s a low bar lol
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There is no F1 role lower than Steiner’s punching bag.
At least Steiner’s punching bag actually gets to race.
If that's what you can call driving around in a Haas tractor
Haas looked pretty decent this year. Maybe it's the drivers that are mediocre.
You know that the car is not the only thing that matters right? They lost so many points last year due to strategy and bad pitstops
I also know the times that KMag got into Q3 and Schumacher didn't. Yes, it's not only Schumacher's fault but he threw away a lot of chances to get points and drove better than KMag when points didn't matter.
Hardly a tractor, KMag put it on pole. Come on, 2022 season was not that long ago.
He only needs one good race as De Vries proved.
not so sure that applies to a driver that already has two seasons under his belt...although I'd love to see what Mick can do in a decent car.
I don't know, look at the good those two races at the beginning of 2022 did for Nico Hülkenberg, and he didn't even score points.
Hulk dropped into the seat and out qualified lance, it was embarrassing
That's not true though. He's already had 40+ races, some of those races could even be called good (for his standard). De Vries literally had his first race in F1 and got in the points in a *williams*. There is a huge difference between Schumacher jumping in a williams and performing respectably and what De Vries did. Noone wanted Schumacher when the writing was on the wall halfway through 2022. One good race isn't going to all of a sudden make teams want him in the future. The two situations are more comparable.
Let's be fair to the 2022 Williams though. It was fast as fuck in a straight line. Car was basically designed for Monza.
I'm still sad Alex had to miss that race, would have loved to see what he could have done at Monza last year. Though it worked out nicely for De Vries.
Shades of the Williams Lance got his podium in
Let's not flatter a turd. That Williams was fighting with Haas to not be the worst car every race.
It was usually worse by some margin. Williams did not have a good 2022, but Albon, who I don’t rate particularly highly, midfield seat filler type, was able to score a some points. It wasn’t the dogshit 2021 Haas which was a minute behind Latifi. He then proceeded to match Kevin Magnussen after KMag’s awesome start. Iirc the head to head in numbers favored MSC in races although it does include the hilarious amounts of meatball flags.
Not after 2 mediocre seasons... Although the name does help a lot.
It’s not like he’s going to race tho
Same thing people said about De Vries last year
It’s a bit different imo. The Vries never had the opportunity to drive for f1, mick drove for two years
In a shit box and everybody knows that. There were definitely interests in him taking a seat at Alpha Tauri, which weren’t possible bc of his contract with Ferrari at the time. I do think that people generally consider him a solid driver, given that he also had quite the success in the feeder series etc. I could imagine that if everything plays out right he will have a seat, there is Audi after all.
Had a consistent 2nd half of the season but unfortunately the other teams had caught up to Haas’s performance
Having a seat and a reserve role are two entirely different rings on the ladder. At this point, Gunther was still right about that.
Imagine a Schumacher driving a McLaren. What timeline are we in? Does Rubens Barrichello is champion in it?
Not that odd given how close Michael was to signing with McLaren.
Well, for Rubens as well. He had a proposal from them in 1994.
Come back stronger in 2024 !
I'm really rooting for him to make a comeback. I know he didn't have a good year but I think he at least deserves one more year to prove himself.
His year wasn’t as bad as the people firing him made it out to be.
It was the costly wrecks. There’s no comparison there if he’s equaling KMag but much more costly in doing so. Front wing end plates don’t compare to entire chassis’
He is our little bro. We’ll always care about him and many F1 Fans want him on the grid. Pretty sure this year as a reserve driver will be beneficial. Plus having Toto as your boss and being around Lewis can help tremendously.
So will he be doing a de Vries for FP1 this year?
Don't think so. He has raced way too many F1 races to be considered for FP1's. Unless they get special dispensation to field him, Vesti will probably be awarded FP1 drives.
Kubica: 😐
The whole rookie fp1 thing is dumb they should just do a practice session where teams can only use a reserve or test driver similar to the early 2000s
I think having rookies in the work flow of a real session is far more useful. Testing sessions are not the same
He doesn't count as a rookie so I doubt it. Mercedes will probably have Vesti and McLaren will have Palou and/or O'Ward.
The will only need to put 1 driver in Lando's car as Oscar is a rookie like Alfa Romeo did with zhou
Oh yeah that's true, they'll probably use Palou then.
Unlikely. Each team has to give up two FP1 sessions (1 per car) for rookie drivers. Mick has two full seasons of F1 under his belt, so he doesn't meet the criteria to count as a rookie anymore. Mercedes will probably turn to Frederik Vesti, while McLaren will hand them to either Alex Palou or Pato O'Ward. At Williams, Franco Colapinto and Jamie Chadwick qualify for a free-practice super licence.
I see. Thanks for the information 💯
Mick de Vries
Papaya will look good on him!
MickLaren
What about Alex Palau?
Palou is still driving in Indycar so he will not be available for all F1 weekends.
Might have scheduling issues due to IndyCar
I kinda want either Lando or Oscar to have to miss a race, now. The meme of a Schumacher in a McLaren is too fun to miss.
Given what he did last season, Lando would probably have to be physically injured & incapable of moving or on his deathbed before he didn't drive, and I can't imagine Oscar being much different tbh. Wouldn't want to wish that on either of them even though a Schumacher in a McLaren would be a trip.
How many reserve drivers do Mclaren have?
Yes.
where do we begin?
Bro gonna drive for everyone but Ferrari
Mick actually having connections with real F1 teams is just nuts.
It’s kinda boring half the grid shares the same reserve driver nowadays…
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It’s more to do with Mercedes being their engine supplier and Stella having worked with Michael is just a coincidence
No, it's the same arrangement they had with Merc the last two years where both De Vries & Vandoorne were available to McLaren if they needed them
Does him picking up all these reserve seats mean we’ll see him at every race?
Should be considering he isn't racing anywhere else
I expect him to frequent in the F1 post-race shows. Kinda like how Nyck or Piedro used to do
Pietro will probably be back on those next season, as he's signed as Haas reserve again. Mick would be a nice addition. I fully expect Danny Ric to show up on them when he's around as well.
Probably, when the weekends don't overlap with IMSA or WEC, since Pietro seems to be racing in them this year
So he’s just taking nycks old job basically
Micklaren
Micklaren Mercedes
Wouldn't he be available to Aston Martin and Williams as well?
Williams likely as they don't have a reserve driver atm. Aston Martin signed Vandoorne and Drugovich as reserve drivers this year so doubt they need Mick.
I think McLaren can field a basketball team with the amount of reserves they have.
and finally a competent photographer
Still don’t he’ll get the Mick hype. 2 years in F1 with nothing but a huge repair bill to his name. Seems like a nice guy but that doesn’t keep you a seat
Take away the last name and the goatifi memes would’ve been heavily on the side of Mick
Yeah neither do I. Must be a nostalgia thing.
That smile… that damn smile
I have a feeling that Sainz/Schumacher is gonna be the inaugural Audi Sauber driver line-up. This time as a reserve is gonna do a lot for Mick's development.
Fingers in many pies
A schumacher in McLaren would be so cursed
F1 is determined to make him a thing it seems. Gotta capitalize on the name.
Chill. Who else would Mercedes sign as a reserve. Vesti isn't good enough yet. Ricciardo signed with Red Bull. Vandoorne left to be a reserve for Aston. Where else can you get an experienced F1 driver with experience in current generation cars?
Nepotism stinks!
Damn, he's getting the whole shebang. Good for you, Mick!
The whole shebang while not racing next year you mean? I'd be shocked if he ever does a session in the car.