I'm already looking forward to the next Formula 1 race and whether Alonso and Aston Martin can keep up the performance and fight for the podium with Ferrari. It looks like RedBull is very dominant and no other car is as strong.
I'm also looking forward to the start of MotoGP, but I expect Ducati to be very dominant this year, just like RedBull in Formula 1.
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March 12, 2023, 06:05:20 AM
March 10, 2023, 07:23:56 PM
Next week we will race again in Saudi Arabia.
That can be a good track for Ferrari this year since they have an incredible top speed but that is not the problem.
Teams can compete with Red Bull in a single lap, but they seem to be unbeatable during the race with the minor force they use on the tires.
Sad to say but they seem to be 1 second ahead of others teams so far.
March 10, 2023, 05:30:04 PM
Next week we will race again in Saudi Arabia. Yet those drivers have a pretty good life, earn a lot of money and enjoy racing in the most beautiful cities in the world with always nice weather. You have a lot of pressure and you can't walk down the street quietly anywhere. The same, really, as what top professional football players experience every day. Verstappen is of course the favorite again next week, but that will also be the case at all circuits for the rest of the year. I think the title fight will soon be decided, I don't see who Verstappen can offer competition. Or it must be a mechanical problem at Red Bull. If all engines of all teams remain in order, Verstappen may win 85% of all races this season. Last year he also won a lot. An achievement/record that may never be matched again.
March 10, 2023, 05:20:34 PM
Redbull confirmed that in 2026 with the new era of the Formula 1.
They will not use the Ford engines coming, but they will build they own engine (from Honda structures)
They will not use the Ford engines coming, but they will build they own engine (from Honda structures)
March 09, 2023, 06:53:18 AM
New news about the Mooney VR46 Team. They are currently opening up the opportunity to join Yamaha. This is also because Yamaha only had one team as RNF moved to Aprilia. Even though the Mooney VR46 Team still has a contract with Ducati this season, of course they open up that opportunity so that Yamaha can prepare for next season. The Mooney VR46 Team provided conditions for Yamaha for them to be given a good bike. Of course it is still next year if it is realized. If that happens then they could reduce the dominance of the Ducati, it will make the race more interesting.
This news was indeed circulated in several media at the end of last month, but it is still speculation for now because the manager of the Mooney VR46 racing team must also see how the condition of the Yamaha motorbike is this season before making a decision to move there. Apart from that, the Mooney VR46 Racing team as a whole is also making a better focus this season in order to get satisfying achievements with the Ducati motorbike. So this is still a question mark at this point so I'm personally just waiting for the launch of the motorbike Livery for each team like two days ago where the LCR Honda team also launched their motorbike Livery for this season.
March 09, 2023, 04:49:50 AM
What total dominance from Verstappen this weekend. Very impressive how much impression he has made again, but are we waiting for that as a Formula 1 fan? everyone likes it much more if other drivers also start winning races and that the differences become smaller at the top of the standings. It is very early to draw conclusions, but if RedBull does not experience any technical problems, I think that the world title will become a prey for Verstappen. In any case, Mercedes was already a lot better in this race than in the whole of last season. I think Hamilton can still win a race here and there.
From the last races we can see that Verstappen and Red Bull have improved in terms of performance and are already competing at a different level compared to the other drivers and teams. I think that if Red Bull's performance is maintained and even improved, it will not be impossible for Verstappen and Red Bull to become world champions. But that doesn't mean other drivers and teams can't compete with Red Bull, the most obvious example is how Alonso and Aston Martin managed to improve their performance and managed to get on the podium. So you could say that if Red Bull went a little wrong with their car it could be a nightmare for them.
There is nothing wrong with Redbull and I doubt there will be anything wrong coming into next races.The reason for that is simple,they have for my personal opinion the best aerodynamics engineer Adrian Newey and he has won many world championships with different teams including with McLaren in 2008 if I remember correctly.
He was the genius behind the winning car of last couple of years and he is again the genius of creating such a performing car like Redbull is.Unless other teams step up their game in a big way to get a name near the intelligence of this person they cannot overthrow Redbull at all and will not be winning any Championship,which can be bad for us as fans who want to see a lot of action and competition between teams.
March 09, 2023, 03:06:17 AM
What total dominance from Verstappen this weekend. Very impressive how much impression he has made again, but are we waiting for that as a Formula 1 fan? everyone likes it much more if other drivers also start winning races and that the differences become smaller at the top of the standings. It is very early to draw conclusions, but if RedBull does not experience any technical problems, I think that the world title will become a prey for Verstappen. In any case, Mercedes was already a lot better in this race than in the whole of last season. I think Hamilton can still win a race here and there.
From the last races we can see that Verstappen and Red Bull have improved in terms of performance and are already competing at a different level compared to the other drivers and teams. I think that if Red Bull's performance is maintained and even improved, it will not be impossible for Verstappen and Red Bull to become world champions. But that doesn't mean other drivers and teams can't compete with Red Bull, the most obvious example is how Alonso and Aston Martin managed to improve their performance and managed to get on the podium. So you could say that if Red Bull went a little wrong with their car it could be a nightmare for them.
March 08, 2023, 05:18:02 PM
I wonder what's going on with Vettel rn... Lol. He's prolly giving his wife a hard time for giving him hints that he should retire from F1 as Aston Martin doesn't look like a team who could put him on podiums. 
Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team.
I also thought about Vettel while watching race and that would be interesting to see him in current Aston Martin together with Alsonso. But last season it looked like he lost interest in F1 and probably even very competetive car would bring it back. Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team.A greater one would be both of them with this car on the same team, now that would be a season to watch of course but it would be impossible, Stroll literally got back after he broke his hands and had pins in his arm, dude really wants to race. All in all I am suspecting that Vettel made his peace when leaving, and he must feel happy and not regretting the decision.
March 08, 2023, 04:50:41 PM
What total dominance from Verstappen this weekend. Very impressive how much impression he has made again, but are we waiting for that as a Formula 1 fan? everyone likes it much more if other drivers also start winning races and that the differences become smaller at the top of the standings. It is very early to draw conclusions, but if RedBull does not experience any technical problems, I think that the world title will become a prey for Verstappen. In any case, Mercedes was already a lot better in this race than in the whole of last season. I think Hamilton can still win a race here and there.
March 08, 2023, 04:44:18 PM
Leave it to my dumb mind, today was a sad day for my wife, so to make her happy I looked at tickets to go see a show in the future, sure wouldn't make her happy right now, but it would be a good time spent to see whats out there, and I bought a ticket to exact date of the next race. Totally forgot about the race. And this one is super important because we have seen how amazing Red Bull is, but would they have any issues? Plus what about the whole ferrari, aston martin, Mercedes duel, I agree that it doesn't look much like a duel right now, but on second race everything could change drastically too.
I don't think the span time of 2 weeks can make any team to change drastically but for sure we can see if they are on the right road to improvement of their cars.Aston Martin should start from a good basis like should be the case for Ferrari also as they don't need to undertake radical changes to their cars and they can move in step by step.For Mercedes is a complete story,they need to think outside the box immediately to start applying radical changes,as Hamilton said together with Wolf that we have a lot to work on and we must start immediately.
Redbull so far are racing in another competition,against each other as from the first race we saw so far they have no rivals and most likely that would be the case even in the upcoming race.
March 08, 2023, 03:59:48 PM
Leave it to my dumb mind, today was a sad day for my wife, so to make her happy I looked at tickets to go see a show in the future, sure wouldn't make her happy right now, but it would be a good time spent to see whats out there, and I bought a ticket to exact date of the next race. Totally forgot about the race. And this one is super important because we have seen how amazing Red Bull is, but would they have any issues? Plus what about the whole ferrari, aston martin, Mercedes duel, I agree that it doesn't look much like a duel right now, but on second race everything could change drastically too.
March 08, 2023, 10:25:25 AM
I wonder what's going on with Vettel rn... Lol. He's prolly giving his wife a hard time for giving him hints that he should retire from F1 as Aston Martin doesn't look like a team who could put him on podiums. Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team.
I also thought about Vettel while watching race and that would be interesting to see him in current Aston Martin together with Alsonso. But last season it looked like he lost interest in F1 and probably even very competetive car would bring it back. Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team.@tokeweed it seems that each and every Vettel fan is agreeing with you, but sadly he didn’t stick around otherwise I too believe that this podium spot belonged to him. Lastly I feel that his failure while driving for Ferrari had crushed his confidence, and post that he never really recovered even after moving on from them.
His failure in Ferrari is partly due to him and the team. It's never really just about the driver or the team. Imagine if Vettel was acquired at Mercedes and it was Hamilton who was at Ferrari. Lmao. I'm pretty sure Vettel would be at podiums while the weekly team radio compilation from Ferrari would be one for the history books. Lolol.
I wonder what's going on with Vettel rn... Lol. He's prolly giving his wife a hard time for giving him hints that he should retire from F1 as Aston Martin doesn't look like a team who could put him on podiums. Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team.
I also thought about Vettel while watching race and that would be interesting to see him in current Aston Martin together with Alsonso. But last season it looked like he lost interest in F1 and probably even very competetive car would bring it back. Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team.Seriously tho, I think Vettel had already decided to quit before his two year contract with Aston Martin ended. Would the performance of the car at his second year mattered for him to reconsider retirement is an open question. I think he would've given it another couple of years if it looked promising imho. Just sad seeing him go...
March 08, 2023, 10:21:59 AM
the mooneyVR46 Racing team has also launched their livery for this season. I see that the colors and textures haven't changed much on Valentino Rossi's team, but it's still good enough to color this year's MotoGP event, as well as the Gasgas Tech3 Racing team, which is now more dominant in red due to their main sponsor, even though the team uses motorbikes from KTM manufacturer. motogp
New news about the Mooney VR46 Team. They are currently opening up the opportunity to join Yamaha. This is also because Yamaha only had one team as RNF moved to Aprilia. Even though the Mooney VR46 Team still has a contract with Ducati this season, of course they open up that opportunity so that Yamaha can prepare for next season. The Mooney VR46 Team provided conditions for Yamaha for them to be given a good bike. Of course it is still next year if it is realized. If that happens then they could reduce the dominance of the Ducati, it will make the race more interesting.
March 08, 2023, 03:46:35 AM
I wonder what's going on with Vettel rn... Lol. He's prolly giving his wife a hard time for giving him hints that he should retire from F1 as Aston Martin doesn't look like a team who could put him on podiums. Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team.
I also thought about Vettel while watching race and that would be interesting to see him in current Aston Martin together with Alsonso. But last season it looked like he lost interest in F1 and probably even very competetive car would bring it back. Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team.@tokeweed it seems that each and every Vettel fan is agreeing with you, but sadly he didn’t stick around otherwise I too believe that this podium spot belonged to him. Lastly I feel that his failure while driving for Ferrari had crushed his confidence, and post that he never really recovered even after moving on from them.
March 08, 2023, 01:39:22 AM
I wonder what's going on with Vettel rn... Lol. He's prolly giving his wife a hard time for giving him hints that he should retire from F1 as Aston Martin doesn't look like a team who could put him on podiums. Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team.
I also thought about Vettel while watching race and that would be interesting to see him in current Aston Martin together with Alsonso. But last season it looked like he lost interest in F1 and probably even very competetive car would bring it back. Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team.From this we can see that losing confidence and losing interest in competing is a big problem for drivers, and that's what happened to Daniel Ricciardo in my opinion, because after leaving Red Bull and joining McLaren his performance didn't improve, even Red Bull officials said that he had lost his love for F1. And conversely, Alonso in the last race proved that with strong determination and a supportive team, he still deserves to be able to fight with younger drivers like Verstappen and others and get on the podium.
March 07, 2023, 08:13:44 PM
I wonder what's going on with Vettel rn... Lol. He's prolly giving his wife a hard time for giving him hints that he should retire from F1 as Aston Martin doesn't look like a team who could put him on podiums. Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team.
I also thought about Vettel while watching race and that would be interesting to see him in current Aston Martin together with Alsonso. But last season it looked like he lost interest in F1 and probably even very competetive car would bring it back. Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team. March 07, 2023, 08:46:45 AM
Now Red Bull is racing in different league. Russel expect that they should win all races this season and there is no chances for others to fight against them. Other teams only can fight to become best of the rest. It's so good to see Alonso on podium and I think he can fight for win in some races.
Mclaren looks so disappointing. And Ocon - how you can get penalty 3 times in one race, I never saw such thing.
Mclaren looks so disappointing. And Ocon - how you can get penalty 3 times in one race, I never saw such thing.
I wonder what's going on with Vettel rn... Lol. He's prolly giving his wife a hard time for giving him hints that he should retire from F1 as Aston Martin doesn't look like a team who could put him on podiums.
Just one more season and he would've reaped the profits of his labor with the team.And yeah, looks like I wouldn't be making a point of dropping everything else to watch F1. Not worth it anymore as it looks like it's gonna be another domination of Verstappen and RBR.
March 06, 2023, 07:15:55 PM
Alonso also drove a great race. Verstappen was allowed to start from Pole Position, but was gone like a devil and after the first corner it was already impossible to keep up. Perhaps a bit premature to draw conclusions, but the new car from RedBull seems to be fine again and the engine has also performed excellently. The rest of the field won't have any chances in these circumstances if Max keeps driving like this, but we still have a lot of races ahead of us so we'll have to wait and see. I don't know what Perez's role will be, he will again function as a kind of wingman for Max to thwart the rest as much as possible so that they cannot get close to Max in the fight for the world championship.
That's right, it looks like Red Bull will be back in the lead this season as their cars are already pretty good and it seems some other manufacturers are having problems with their cars and their performance is not up to what the fans are expecting. Especially Ferrari, they experienced quite a lot of bouncing on their car and caused Sainz to worry and miss several opportunities.
But even so it looks like it will be an exciting season, because we see that names like Alonso, Stroll and Hamilton are showing very good performances and I think that will make for quite exciting races in the coming races.
speaking of Alonso and Hamilton, the bookmakers are giving odds of @9.50 in case alonso wins the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix Race and for Hamilton the bookmakers are giving odds of @26.00 that is simply saying that Hamilton has no chance to win the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, and guess who is the bookmaker's favorite to win the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix? the favorite of bookmakers Is Verstappen with odds of @1.55, the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will take place on March 17th to 19th, I'm thinking of betting on Verstappen's victory, but as I see this odd being low I'll include him in my parlay with other games, I don't know which games yet, I'll think
March 06, 2023, 06:45:51 PM
The Gasgas Tech3 Racing team launched their Livery for the 2023 season yesterday and the mooneyVR46 Racing team has also launched their livery for this season. I see that the colors and textures haven't changed much on Valentino Rossi's team, but it's still good enough to color this year's MotoGP event, as well as the Gasgas Tech3 Racing team, which is now more dominant in red due to their main sponsor, even though the team uses motorbikes from KTM manufacturer. motogp
March 06, 2023, 06:41:33 PM
WSBK Mandalika, I read two fracture injuries occurred in this race. Van der Mark in race two hit the "highside" and broke two fingers. Meanwhile, Loris Baz suffered a broken ankle and calf. Loris Baz suffered an incident of being hit by Kawasaki Racing rider Alex Lowes. It happened when Baz wanted to enter from the outside at the right-hand corner.
Source: https://id.motorsport.com/wsbk/news/wsbk-indonesia-baz-van-der-mark-patah-tulang/10440389/
Source: https://id.motorsport.com/wsbk/news/wsbk-indonesia-baz-van-der-mark-patah-tulang/10440389/
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