Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up.
Comment of the day
Red Bull may have won a race little more than a week ago, but their poor performance in Bahrain showed they are feeling the strain after several high-profile departures including Adrian Newey, Jonathan Wheatley and others:
Nothing is brilliant forever, everyone leaves workplaces. Red Bull having two four-year spells at the very front in quick succession is great by any metric.
But they’re leaving at an abnormal rate. Newey has traditionally had a good nose for when to jump ship, some might go because they want a more senior position, money or geographical location. I doubt Newey wants money or a job title, I think he just wants to draw cars.
I don’t know if it is Christian, Jos, Helmut or someone else. All great teams disband, it’s natural in any sport. It just feels so unnecessary.
@Bernasaurus
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Jere (@jerejj)
15th April 2025, 6:29
An engineer working simultaneously for both an F1 team & a Premier League (or any football, for that matter) team is a totally new or at least very unusual scenario.
S Arkazam
15th April 2025, 8:33
Reading and writing simultaneously is also a vey unusual scenario :P
PS as per the article:
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
15th April 2025, 10:41
Sansoni should think carefully before making the move, they’ll put him in goal.
pcxmac (@pcxmac)
15th April 2025, 13:22
online abuse only exists if you being dox’ed, or hacked/etc… It’s impossible to abuse someone through a screen. Anyone who feels abused via their interactions on a screen needs to better understand themselves, and perhaps see someone who is real, and in the flesh, antithetical to the current regime of bots/ai garbage that’s pervading the internet these days.
online censorship is wrong. Just like the fuhrer in the United States wanting to send citizens to slave-terrorist camps in El Salvador, who itself is a product of money laundering+bitcoin. Keep the internet sane, don’t protect stupid people, or people who want to harm other people through more draconian methods (race to the bottom).
Bad people protect stupidity, because it pays and affords bad people a life of luxury.
S Arkazam
15th April 2025, 15:12
That’s a tad too limited I’d say. IMO it also includes (maybe the ‘etc.’): online threats, cyberbullying, online harassment, sharing of inappropriate personal content, and cyberstalking.
But these things are typically illegal already and don’t need FIA to add their 2 cents.
It appears that the FIA is more interested in limiting the freedom of speech, especially critical comments against their behaviour and governance, than helping to stop the above illegal behaviours.
MichaelN
15th April 2025, 17:11
It’s not just that, it’s also about fostering a community in which people are happy to participate. Once you tolerate everything, the space just becomes a shouting match between troubled souls and everyone else leaves. Like Twitter.
SteveP
15th April 2025, 20:29
I’ve read that one elsewhere, and each time I read it, I’m sad.
Only being able to write his initials, with help, doesn’t paint a nice picture at all.