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    9 days into 2020, so an F1 thread is well overdue!

    Max has shown significant faith in Redbull and Honda to deliver a championship contesting car, having signed through to the end of 2023. Presumably he knows rather more than the rest of us about Honda's plans beyond the end of 2021?

    The first (mis!)information regarding how the teams are looking for the coming season will come from the Barcelona tests, February 19 to 21, and 26 to 28.

    Anyone here planning to attend any of the races this year? I'm in the advanced stages of planning a trip with my eldest to Hanoi in early April.

    Across the pond, I see that Andretti racing are looking to have Fernando in one of their cars for the Indy 500. As they run Honda engines, I imagine that there will be some 'interesting' conversations going on behind the scenes!!!
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    What's the reliability of contracts in F1 nowadays (in the past some were not worth more than the paper they were printed on )? I guess he has an exit clause. I hope to see him fitting for the CS.

    My interesting in F1 is sleeping until the Barcelona tests and the first race.

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    I'll be at Melbourne for the season opener - 56 days and counting until light out!
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    Innovation is ok but I won't survive another season of Mercedes lapping anyone else.

    Not sure if it's legal. I guess it's not.

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    Dual axis steering is legal this year but has already been banned next year.

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    https://www.planetf1.com/news/honda-...o-alonso-indy/

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    Quote Originally Posted by WhyOne? View Post
    https://www.planetf1.com/news/honda-...o-alonso-indy/

    Just goes to show, you should never burn bridges!

    I wonder if it is the F1 thing or because he is in bed with Toyota at the moment.
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    Most teams are already working for 2021. Investing even more resources for DAS for only one year? Maybe not Williams or AlphaTauri but perhaps Ferrari and Red Bull. The other teams might concentrate on 2021, regarding 2020 as a testing year for 2021. DAS requires a new crash test, so big delay. So Mercedes will have the advantage quite a long time, maybe til the middle of the season. After that all it needs are 3rd and 4th places like Jenson Button won the CS back in 2009.

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    Does he get paid or does he pay himself to race and get a chance for a so-called 'Triple Crown'?

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    So racing point becomes Aston Martin, red bull have Aston sponsorship until the Valkyrie is finished, and Torro Rosso becomes AlphaTauri.... Just to confuse things...
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