Yuki pookie stayyyssss

[misty patio]

We love yuki pookie

Yassss

[vocal drift]

YASSS

[icy tinsel]

YAY

[vocal drift]

HE FUCKING SLAYS

[flat spire]

Yippiee yookie ❤️

[dapper hollow]

WE LOVE YUKI!!!

[covert vortex]

I’m happy but kinda disappointed

[dapper hollow]

[covert vortex]

I was expecting more transfers for 2025

[vocal drift]

WE LOVE YUKI👏 👏👏(start chant here)

[solar fox]

Let's gooo Yuki ! 👏

[tranquil oxide]

Deserved

[barren jungle]

was hoping for yuki to do a multi-year deal (at least 2 years) but i'll take this!

[timber quartz]

nooo 😭

I was holding out hope for aston

at least he's staying tho

[barren jungle]

well aston seems more likely for 2026, hence why i could see yuki not committing to a 2 year with vcarb just in case

fernando's contract i think is up in 2026

[oblique hatch]

guys dont forget f1 put a ? in strolls place

its everyones seat to play for

😈

[barren jungle]

f1 clowing 😭

[regal knoll]

yuki pookie!!

[oblique hatch]

puki

[vocal drift]

YUKI MY POOKIE

[regal knoll]

YOOKIE

[vocal drift]

YOOKIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[dawn forum]

Jos Mama

[oblique hatch]

yookie :)

https://tenor.com/view/fernando-alonso-fernando-alonso-smile-fernando-alonso-meme-f1-formula-1-gif-3717126936270113935

[timber quartz]

now we just need Lawson seat announcement

[oblique hatch]

🙏

[pale matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/yesss-red-bull-yuki-tsunoda-homestretch-woohoo-gif-22339936

[earnest helm]

Danny ric is gone

[burnt shore]

Yessss 😁

[rustic perch]

LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!

[rustic perch]

REALLLLLLL

[dire tiger]

lawson???

[half halo]

Yeah... what about Lawson?

Riccardo has no consistency

[noble hinge]

as a kiwi I need lawson soon or I'm gonna cry

[barren jungle]

lawson will likely be leaving red bull family tbh

rb gives vibes that danny is staying

[noble hinge]

NO.

[barren jungle]

they just wanted to announce yuki first bc they felt threatened by other teams potentially trying to capitalize on his contract expiring, so if they locked him in now for 2025 they at least have some more time with him

[barren jungle]

HE'S KINDA LIKE PEREZ. HE BRINGS THEM MONEY

[noble hinge]

bruh

[barren jungle]

danny is rly good for sponsorships

plus horner seems to most likely wanna slot danny in perez's seat at some point. it would be easier to promote him from vcarb to that red bull seat in 2027

[noble hinge]

who cares about sponsorships if he constantly gets out-performed by his less experienced teammate

[half halo]

Can't wait for the grid to be full of men in the their 40s and 50s leading to the death of the sport because of

[barren jungle]

i think prob bc vcarb is a midfield team

perez being retained by red bull makes sense bc perez heavily appeals to ford, who will be helping red bull with their power units

[barren jungle]

so if they wanna stay on ford's good side, esp. after the debacle with horner, it literally makes the most sense to keep perez. he embodies the family values and everything ford as a company claims to represent. plus, he also is more profitable in latin america than max is, so red bull can farm money from that too as needed just as a bonus

[earnest helm]

No, it’s just cause Perez supports Horner

Like that is the only reason

[barren jungle]

me when the f2 drivers can't get a seat bc we are recycling danny ric

[earnest helm]

Marko would fire him in 10 seconds if it wasn’t for Horner

[barren jungle]

i kinda thought neither of them like perez. horner loves danny more than perez

like if danny showed more consistency perez would be GONE

[earnest helm]

Perez likes Horner and Max doesn’t

[barren jungle]

he's just there only bc he fits red bull's criteria of he's an experienced driver and he won't threaten max

[barren jungle]

yeah, max supports marko

[earnest helm]

He wants at least one driver that likes him on the team

[barren jungle]

that's rly i think all red bull wants

[earnest helm]

Marko fires drivers after one bad race, he wouldn’t keep Perez on for so long

[barren jungle]

esp. with what happened with gasly and albon

[noble hinge]

that doesn't change the fact he's hardly able to keep up, this is only the second time ricciardo has outqualified tsunoda this season

[earnest helm]

The problem is max doesn’t want to be Alonso, he wants to retire in the next 5-10 years

[barren jungle]

yeah def perez would've been out before 2023 if it were marko running the show

[earnest helm]

Like they need a successor semi soon

[barren jungle]

i mean ricciardo is also the face of red bull outside of max. i think daniel should've been sacked and lawson should've been in that seat since the start of the season, imo, and if i had my way that's how it would've been

[barren jungle]

i honestly can see max leaving f1 after '28 to go do le mans

[noble hinge]

or even the triple crown

he already has multiple monaco wins

[barren jungle]

my most logical thought is they're basically grooming yuki to take over max's seat, unless honda intervenes and is able to secure him an aston seat in 2026

[barren jungle]

def he wants a triple crown. that guy lives and breathes racing

[barren jungle]

if yuki's out of the picture i guess their next best alternative is prob gonna be hadjar?

sainz could go to red bull once max is gone bc the only real reason why sainz can't go to red bull rn is bc sainz sr and jos would probably murder each other

[barren jungle]

but depending on how red bull making their own engine goes, we could see max leave even before 2028 if it's that bad

[barren jungle]

ricciardo tho is just flat out washed. his time in f1 needs to end soon.

like atp if they rly want ricciardo that bad either just make him the social media guy or for shits and giggles make him a reserve driver

[barren jungle]

yeah, de vries was out much faster than daniel. granted, de vries was not very good so i see why he was removed, but i do think de vries deserved more time, esp. if they're being this patient with daniel (and even perez)

[noble hinge]

we are getting to that point where the 2010-2014 gen of drivers will start retiring

[barren jungle]

can i count fernando as this?

considering he was in f1 prior to that point but came back

[noble hinge]

bottas, ricciardo, magnussen and maybe hulkenberg are all gonna go within the next few years

[barren jungle]

hulkenberg def is retiring soon

[barren jungle]

i could see magnussen retiring the second he's out of an f1 contract

[noble hinge]

eh maybe

[barren jungle]

he's more of an older gen of f1 drivers tho

it's just his longevity

[noble hinge]

hamilton will still go for his 8th i know it

[barren jungle]

i don't see a world where once magnussen is out of a seat where another team would pick him up

[noble hinge]

but he might wanna think about retiring if ferrari doesn't get up to speed in 2026

[barren jungle]

no definitely. that's why he left for ferrari

[barren jungle]

ferrari is def going to be hamilton's last team

[noble hinge]

it's almost like vettel tbh

[barren jungle]

irrespective of whether he gets his 8th

[barren jungle]

yeah

[noble hinge]

once he doesn't have a good season with the team he won championships with he leaves for ferrari

[barren jungle]

my gut feeling is lewis is either retiring as soon as he gets his 8th championship or if ferrari isn't making any progress by 2028

[noble hinge]

and then gets screwed over by them (don't really want that to happen to hamilton though as much as I dislike him)

[barren jungle]

yeah, i don't like hamilton, but he did a lot for merc

[noble hinge]

I also think Ocon could be heading out soonish

[barren jungle]

like merc isn't wrong for prioritizing george over lewis rn considering george will be staying and he is for rn merc's immediate future, but i don't think they should be treating lewis as a test dummy tho

[barren jungle]

ocon will be gone prob before hulkenberg or bottas

ocon is not really very desirable just given his history with teammates

[noble hinge]

he is occasionally quick but yeah

[barren jungle]

i don't count him and pierre considering it's kind of public knowledge ocon and gasly do not really get along

nor do they rly like each other

[noble hinge]

what's the point in being fast when you maldonado into your teammates' sidepod every weekend

[barren jungle]

he shows a good race like super rarely

you remember an ocon crash or an ocon penalty more than an ocon overtake

[noble hinge]

yeah

[barren jungle]

ocon is p20 right?

bc he got that grid penalty from monaco

[noble hinge]

i think so

[barren jungle]

you win the wd(estructor)c and make your engineers pissy

[noble hinge]

"kimi get out the fucking way" ahh

[barren jungle]

my gut feeling abt ocon was alpine was planning on dropping him at the end of the year anyways, but didn't have a solid reason to do so.

monaco just happened to be a really good way for bruno famin to announce ocon's out without looking as bad abt it considering ocon was outqualifying and typically doing better than gasly despite their cars both being shit

[barren jungle]

which explains the language he used

do i think ocon deserved the online hate over what happened with him and gasly? absolutely not. he's an idiot but i don't think he should be getting that much hate for it, and i don't think how famin handled it helped the matters.

but i don't see ocon on the grid in 2025 unless a team is super desperate (e.g., merc is desperately finding someone to do a one year stint while they wait for kimi antonelli to do one more year in F2)

[noble hinge]

it just makes social media even more upset I think, particularly those that are true fans of alpine as a team

[barren jungle]

i honestly don't know what alpine was expecting pairing ocon and gasly together knowing their history

it was not going to be pretty either way, even if they did manage to get along

[noble hinge]

probably just because 🇫🇷

[barren jungle]

no def it's bc french

gasly just happened to be french and open for offers

[noble hinge]

yeah

at the end of the day, whilst Ocon isn't actually that bad of a driver I don't see him getting much further into a career

most of the drivers on the grid were here before 2020

except like

sargeant, zhou, tsunoda and piastri

[barren jungle]

yeah

zhou debuted in 2022?

i think

[noble hinge]

yeah

[barren jungle]

tsunoda was 2021

sargeant and piastri were last year

i lowkey feel bad for sargeant

[noble hinge]

he wasn't really known till he had that crash in silverstone

[barren jungle]

i still don't know much abt zhou outside of the fact he has a cat, he loves fernando alonso, and he tends to have pretty fire helmets even tho his car is shit

[noble hinge]

he's a good driver, with potential, but could have been given more time in f2

[barren jungle]

and he was p10 in his debut race

[barren jungle]

sargeant or zhou

[noble hinge]

that's why I'm afraid of people who want antonelli next year

[noble hinge]

sargeant

[barren jungle]

yeah definitely

sargeant really could've done well in f1 if he had more time in f2 + some of the sim work oscar had

[noble hinge]

as much as I love antonelli he hasn't fully adjusted to either an f2 or f1 car yet

[barren jungle]

that being considered yuki didn't have much work with an f1 car or even a simulator before making the jump to f1

[barren jungle]

my only fear with antonelli is he's being overhyped now and they're gonna ruin his career accidentally

[noble hinge]

if he jumps straight into a mercedes he's likely to crack under pressure in his first season and perform poorly compared to russell

[barren jungle]

yeah i think that's most likely to happen

[noble hinge]

which sucks because his talent is genuinely through the roof

he just needs more time than half a year

[barren jungle]

i think sargeant was a pick just to prove the williams academy project actually is successful, but vowles realize this was a mistake and he needed more time

but he couldn't just ditch him after one season bc optically that would look kinda shit

[noble hinge]

yeah

[barren jungle]

and even then logan's second season isn't truly representative given all of williams' other problems going on. sure, logan is by no means near albon skill wise, but he has closed the gap somewhat even if the results don't show it

the fact that they don't have equal machinery either doesn't help

[barren jungle]

but that's not really either of their faults. that's just what happened when vowles overhauled how williams handles manufacturing and upgrades - it's a messy process

[noble hinge]

most of the time regardless of how many km they have in an F1 car they won't be able to adjust fully until about the 5th race of the season, and many take longer than that

[barren jungle]

i do think once logan and alex have a relatively equally upgraded car, i think logan's progress will shine more

[barren jungle]

my gut feeling is to be safe kimi's gonna need a lot more than 5 races

at least with bearman i feel more comfortable throwing him in f1 bc he's had several years of f2 under his belt + he's also currently a reserve driver and participating in fp tests

so he has some experience with f1 cars

and definitely is adjusted to f2

[barren jungle]

plus no one really knows if the results from the test are going to even carry over to f1

bc getting absolutely destroyed your first year isn't a confidence help, and the less experience you have doesn't serve you well to gain some confidence into your next year (e.g., sargeant)

[noble hinge]

it's in the W13 as well which handles completely different to the W15 or even the W14 due to 2022's understeer problems and porpoising

[barren jungle]

yeah, i remember it wasn't the W14