Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up.
Comment of the day
Will Max Verstappen ever race for a non-Red Bull Formula 1 team? So far a clear majority of you think so:
I am sure Max would like Red Bull to give him the best car in the field for many more years, and if they do, there is no good reason to change teams. If/when they won’t be able to do this, then there is far less reason to stay, Max has nothing like nostalgia or pink glasses for not team (it’s not the same as drivers dreaming of once getting into Ferrari red), so why would he not leave if other teams offer better possibilities.
Off course he could just stop racing F1 if he feels like it, but that’s a different story then.
@BasCB
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to _Ben_ and Mike!
On this day in motorsport
- Born on this day in 1958: Future Formula 1 driver Giovanni Lavaggi
- Born on this day in 1898: Enzo Ferrari
- 40 years ago today Renault revealed its new RE60 in Paris. The car proved disastrously uncompetitive and the team left Formula 1 at the end of the year.
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BasCB (@bascb)
18th February 2025, 6:59
Jay, CotD – it’s been a long time. And it’s one that isn’t even controversial!
Joe Seph
18th February 2025, 8:02
strong Benetton/renault vibes from that JavaHouse/Splenda car :)
Alan Dove
18th February 2025, 8:49
All their wealthy children racing karts are going home with the best sim set ups in the world. Bottas raced LiveForSpeed back in the day at a decently high level when he was in the Junior car formulas (as were others). We’re not seeing anything new with sims, this kinda thing is already 20+ years old. I don’t think we’ll be ‘finding talent’ on sims either, because motorsport doesn’t seek talent, it seeks money. We have an over-supply of talent.
That’s the thing. You’re having kids race sims at 6 years old and racing karts (or whatever will be available to them) in the ‘real world’. This will be an unbeatable combination.
Jere (@jerejj)
18th February 2025, 12:50
I didn’t know such a thing about Bottas’ lower single-seater days.
I somehow just managed to remain unaware until today.
Tony Mansell (@tonymansell)
18th February 2025, 15:43
Nice line
Theres a line in a DSJ book called The Racing Driver in which he muses the same point. The book was written in 1958