The official Formula One and General Motorsport thread for the 2021 season! Mercedes domination set to continue....?

[floydfreak]

[Roonmastor]

Did Cyril just get the chop? Seems harsh, team is going the right way.

[floydfreak]

[Victor Mildew]

Did Cyril just get the chop? Seems harsh, team is going the right way.

He did. Must have been an Alpine in the ass or something.

[Robbo-92]

Legit didn’t even know Cyril had gone, they seemed to be slowly heading in the right direction too. Anything to not get the tattoo

[Captain Kinopio]

Australia and China off already.

[Vermilion]

To be fair, it was always going to be a big ask to do some of the flyaway events so soon.

I suspect Bahrain will be ok though as they had no issues in hosting last time, and following that, i suspest the empty calendar slot will mark the beginning of the european season with a race at either Imola or Portimao.

EDIT: Just seen that Bahrain will go ahead, and Imola will host the second race.

[Robbo-92]

They may as well have just stuck to mainly European tracks again this year, some of them were always going to be a big ask. Australia has been pushed back to November but who’s to say that will go ahead?

[Vermilion]

I also read that Portimao will likely be the third round, and it just needs to be finalised.

[floydfreak]

twitter.com/autosport/status/1348906496684339201

[Victor Mildew]

Leclerc has got the rona now. The cynic in me thinks they're getting it on purpose in the off season so there's a greatly reduced rate of being taken out during the season.

[Memento Mori]

Leclerc has got the rona now. The cynic in me thinks they're getting it on purpose in the off season so there's a greatly reduced rate of being taken out during the season.

I had the exact same thought when I heard Leclerc was infected. If that is what they're doing, they're morons.

[Robbo-92]

Considering how widely the virus affects people you’d have to be really stupid/naive to get it on purpose.

[Vermilion]

Alpine have released a pic of their winter testing livery...

[Rawrgna]

Looks nice with the use of the French flag colours as Accents to the black but I'll wager. There will Kimoa sponsors on the final version

[Robbo-92]

I’m just really hoping their final livery will have a similar blue to what is on the current Alpine A110 as that is a lovely shade of blue.

[Vermilion]

I think there's too much black on the car at the moment (if they're not careful it'll just look like another Merc), but then it is only a testing livery so hopefully the race design will feature more red/white/blue.

[Peter Crisp]

An F1 race on an icy track would be so amazing.
Obviously won't ever happen but they could use a frozen lake and have almost unlimited run-off space and I think it could kind of work.

[Rawrgna]

[floydfreak]