F1 Mega Thread

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Fernando Alonso: "Since I was little, when I started driving, I only had one kart."

"When it rained, I raced with slick tyres while the other kids raced with slick tyres because we couldn't afford them."

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Carlos Sainz 🤝🏻 Alain Prost

The careers of these two drivers are exactly the same, having driven for Renault, McLaren, Ferrari and Williams respectively. Carlos Sainz is now in his 30s, can he achieve the same accolades as Alain Prost by the end of his career?👀

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👈Formula 1 team principals 2025 and their years of management at their current team

Christian Horner (Red Bull) and Toto Wolff (Mercedes) are the most veteran grid principals at their teams, while Jonathan Wheatley and Andy Cowell will be in their first year of management at Sauber and Aston Martin, respectively.

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"However, that morning on the track we saw a madman who had no mercy for the car at all - in an attempt to squeeze out the maximum, he literally mocked it. As if, by making this metal creature suffer, merging with the track in a mad movement, he hoped to find not only speed, but the highest beauty and harmony.

After five laps, Villeneuve stopped. Everything was smoking on the car: wheels, tires, and axles. I remember well how anxiously I looked at Forghieri's car. And that was only the beginning."

Pietro Ferrari "The Thousand Lives of My Father".

Today, the restless Canadian would have turned 75 years old.

Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve (18.01.1950-8.05.1982)

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Since I have already accompanied the first date for today with a quote from one of the Ferraris, I will do the same with the second:

“But from 1970 onwards, Pedro began a brilliant period, and I regretted not having signed a contract with him at the time. In fact, we met with Pedro several times about this, but the problem was that I was only prepared to offer him sports car racing for a season, while Pedro wanted a full contract. We could not come to an agreement. [...] A year later, in Nuremberg, during an insignificant race, Pedro died at the wheel of a car that he had borrowed from a privateer. And fate would have it that it turned out to be a Ferrari.”

Enzo Ferrari “My Terrible Joys”.

Pedro Rodriguez, the eldest of the brothers, winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans (1968), two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona (1970, 1971) and a master of rain racing, would have turned 85 today.

Pedro Rodriguez de la Vega
(18.01.1940-11.06.1971)

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The smile of a man who knows he'll go down as the oldest Formula 1 driver ever - little did he know he would still hold that title 70 years later. Louis Chiron during the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix, aged 55 years 9 months 19 days.

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Carlos Sainz Points per season in his F1 career

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Red Bull Ford concept for the 2026 Formula 1 season.

Well, this is just arrrrrrr 😏

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🔵According to Motorsport Italia, Max will be looking for a seat in a team with a Mercedes engine from 2026 because he is convinced that the Mercedes engine will be the best engine for the next generation of Formula 1 power units.

The teams that will have Mercedes engines for 2026 are McLaren, Williams, Alpine and the Mercedes team itself👀