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  1. Burt Macklin
    For now Ferrari is better than AM, but AM clearly knows the RB concept, and I expect they’ll continue this rapid development pace and pass Ferrari on pace at some point in the season. RB had Max backing off after about 7 laps. He could’ve lapped almost the entire field besides maybe 3 drivers if he wanted to.
  2. Burt Macklin
    I hate Ferrari so got dam much. Fucking imbeciles.
  3. Burt Macklin
    Harmless? Have you ever seen him drive?
  4. Burt Macklin
    Ok so AM is for real. Newey/Fallows clearly have some secret about the floor no one else knows. I guess I’m rooting for a Nando WDC this year.
  5. Burt Macklin
    It certainly seems like they should be interested in selling. Having a second team was just Dietrich dream purchase and they're not getting hardly any marketing value out of the team being Alpha Tauri. F1's revenue and viewership is sky high right now, and I'm not sure how much longer that will trend up. Plus, you have at least one well-funded group chomping at the bit to get in. It seems like a pretty ideal time to sell.
  6. Burt Macklin
    Just imagine if McLaren could build a car anywhere near as well as they market it.
  7. Burt Macklin
    Alex Jacques and Jolyon Palmer being on F1TV is really making me consider watching it that way. I like both of them a lot. Jacques is an incredible announcer.
  8. Burt Macklin
    I’m really curious if their ability to ride low is the floor or suspension. Ferrari tried very low rode heights on Day 1 of testing, but it wasn’t working for them and they had to raise it. It seems obvious they were trying to ride as low as RB but can’t and obviously Merc can’t either. Merc supplies almost everything possible to AM, so that might help Merc identify what part of the car is making the difference.
  9. Burt Macklin
    Dan Fallows is the technical director for AM. He was Newey’s right hand man before that, so I would assume he knows some wizardry with the floor and/or suspension from Newey that he’s brought to Aston. Newey worked on ground effect cars in the 80s for Williams, so not only is he one of the best technical people ever in F1, but he also has more experience than just about anyone currently in F1 with these types of cars. So the AM gains could be fairly real if they and RB have figured something out that no one else on the grid has.
  10. Burt Macklin
    Demanding $600 million as an entry fee is absurd. Audi paid that for Sauber and Sauber has full F1 facilities, including a wind tunnel. Those assets are worth hundreds of millions. I think this all boils down to the teams not wanting a true American team like Andretti because it will drastically cut into their sponsorships and fans. They were more than happy to let Porsche or Audi join.
  11. Burt Macklin
    A lot of reports this year’s Ferrari is still eating its tyres, so that’s fun. Can’t wait for Charles to stick it on pole by a couple tenths and then finish 3rd or 4th.
  12. Burt Macklin
    This is the good stuff. Massive overreactions to the first day and a half of testing. AM challenging Merc and Ferrari would be one of the biggest leaps over an offseason in the last few decades.
  13. Burt Macklin
    The Stroll rumors continue to grow. Drugovic might be getting his shot.
  14. Burt Macklin
    Just slightly different philosophies. It’s about damn time they replaced Rueda. This guy’s younger than I would have expected. Hopefully that means he’s a wunderkind. He definitely doesn’t seem like the next bureaucrat in line, like so many Ferrari hires.
  15. Burt Macklin
    That’s just a byproduct of all the fisting.
  16. Burt Macklin
    I watched a bit of testing. Ferrari looks like it’s still porpoising a bit, but hard to tell because the track is very bumpy. Also saw something on F1 technical saying RB was the best last year at sealing the outer edges of the floor, so the 15mm floor height raise could create an even bigger gap over the field. That would suck.
  17. Burt Macklin
    Got dam. That kind of honesty gets you banned on TexAgs.
  18. Burt Macklin
    Wrong as always. Bringing in Donewald improved our offense. Our offense hasn’t improved since Beard left.
  19. Burt Macklin
    I’m really not sure what’s funnier. Being crushed you didn’t get in to A&M or being too dumb to get into that diploma mill. Seems like a real chicken or the egg dilemma.
  20. Burt Macklin
    Ferrari made changes to its livery last year and added “Ferrari” on the rear wing this year, but they will always be a red car, because it’s fucking Ferrari. Just like Mercedes have been the silver arrows for decades. Teams like Oregon and A&M do gimmicky jerseys every year and no one cares, but if Texas added black as a main color to their jerseys people would go apoplectic.
  21. Burt Macklin
    Not quite Taylor Hamm 0/16 level but close, especially considering Shanahan only ended up with them because he had nowhere else to go.
  22. Burt Macklin
    The Gulf livery would look better, but Gulf is a much or sponsor. They’re only paying like $4 million. No chanceany team would go with a full gulf livery all year for that little money.
  23. Burt Macklin
    What in the ever living fuck?! How is Lowell on the ESPN 2 broadcast?!
  24. Burt Macklin
    Eh. McLaren wasn’t blameless in all that, and I don’t think any of the same management are even left on either side. I’m also not sure they could take the current Honda PU, because I believe RB bought the IP, so they’d have to be a RB customer team.
  25. Burt Macklin
    If Honda really wants to stay in F1, this pairing definitely makes the most sense.

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