#James vowles is not included in said this

[isitreallyatla]

Most of the team principles are not great

But that's what makes them so funny

#James vowles is not included in said this #f1 #team principal #like of course zac brown shit talks rb but would fully do it himself if he could #they're all barely better than eachother #but act like they themselves are angles #fucking hilarious

[chussyracing]

what has been happening in the world of motorsports lately?

Natalie Robyn will leave the role of CEO of FIA after little over one year in the position after a “mutual agreement”

there is a rumour about Logan’s manager speaking to Haas for the opportunity of American team hiring American driver from next season onwards (reminder that Kevin is likely out of contention, Ollie is the hottest candidate and Guanyu is next in talks with Haas according to the paddock gossip)

the Chicago GP was denied …for now (so at this point you have to consider it being a possibility, potentially rotating circuit?)

Merc apparently offered Carlos a one year contract, since they want to keep their options open (potentially for Max leaving or for Kimi stepping up into the team), Red Bull is keen on keeping Checo (although Marko denied they would give him the 3 years contract extension he would like to get) so that door is closing, Audi reportedly extended the deadline on the decision from Carlos till around Monaco

there will be a special edition of Ferrari Trento on the podium this weekend (I’m adding a picture below) and special awards with names of previous winners including people of Emilia Romagna for the year 2023

Williams posted Lap of Legends with Logan driving against AI programmed legends (Andretti, Hill, Manson, Prost, Button, Villeneuve)

Alex Albon extended his Williams contract on multiple year basis (meaning he will be driving with the team through the new regs, but with Fred and Charles starting a new fashion in F1, we simply don’t know how long exactly that contract is)

Domenicali confirmed 25 races a season is a maximum stated by the Concorde Agreement, but he wants to expand F1 calendar in other ways (rotating circuits, more sprints, some journals even talk about sprints at every race weekend)

Ferrari esports team won the constructor championship

Max is supposed to be joining Team Redline this weekend because apart from Imola he is said to be racing in virtual 24 hours of Nürburgring (but with how their weekend is going so far? who knows)

F3 drivers Alex Dunne and Martinius Stenshorne became members of the McLaren junior academy

speaking of juniors, Nikola Tsolov, Martinius Stenshorne and Arvid Linblad (Alpine, McLaren and Red Bull juniors) broke the sporting code by racing in different series without announcing it (the reports differ about who raced where, if they announced it to their teams or to FIA) – the result is, Tsolov and Stenshorne will get a race ban, one of Spa, one for Silverstone, and Lindblad will only get a fine, because he didn’t race in a full race just took a part in testing/practice before the real race

reminder for people watching Sky Sports, that David Croft won’t be in this weekend, and Harry Benjamin is stepping in his place

FIA is considering a different penalty system for continuous penalties and for the situation where a driver gains advantage by leaving the track (Kevin started a revolution)

Domenicali also spoke about a possible engine change for 2030 regulations as the feedback from fans is that they miss the good old sound of F1 (so possibly more noise)

team principals (and Domenicali) had a shared dinner together in Imola and Andrea Stella didn’t get the memo about the dress code for the night

More than Equal initiative founded by David Coulthard and a Czech businessman Karel Komárek started a driver development programme with first 6 female drivers between 13 and 14 years from across the world including Czechia and Slovakia (and 4 more female drivers under the age of 13 got their backing)

31st world stars charity football match between star team for the children and all stars drivers will be held in Monaco on 21st May (we have yet to get confirmed who will be present)

Adrian Newey said he is ready to join another team after a short holiday and according to Jonathan Mcaboy, he already signed with Ferrari

in the latest interview James Vowles reminded that letting go of Logan in the middle of the season is not planned but he has to be open and say that he is at risk of losing his seat for next season because they are talking to 4-5 other drivers (he also said that their car is about 15 kgs overweight and their new upgrade introduced here is meant to fight that problem)

head aerodynamicist Gioacchino Vino is leaving Mercedes but they will get Simone Resta (strategy) and Enrico Sampo (performance) joining as soon as in October (side note: some reports say Vino was poached by Ferrari but 1: it is one not very reliable source, I highly doubt this is a figure Ferrari would go for and there are also reports it was not his choice to leave the team)

Pierre will run an auction for his tribute helmet for Senna after this weekend and donate the money to his charity

Charles said that Xavi leaving was a team decision, and he was informed after Miami

Valtteri Bottas held talks with James Vowles behind closed doors in Imola

#e #gossip night #f1

[ummick]

Formula 1: Report: Mick Schumacher could change racing series - Wolff comments

No more formula racing for the time being? According to a report, Mick Schumacher could switch to a French manufacturer's sports car program. That would also mean: He would probably start at Le Mans. According to a media report, Mick Schumacher could initially leave Formula 1 after this season. As the trade magazine Motorsport aktuell wrote, the 24-year-old son of record world champion Michael Schumacher could switch to the sports car program of Renault subsidiary Alpine in the coming season. Mick Schumacher would then compete, among other things, in the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans. Manager Sabine Kehm did not want to comment on the speculation when asked by dpa. It is clear that the chances of returning to a regular Formula 1 cockpit are currently very low. Most of the places have already been taken. A possible commitment to Williams was repeatedly discussed, where the American debutant Logan Sargeant is struggling. However, his team boss James Vowles recently made it clear that there were no negotiations with other drivers. Wolff: Schumacher can remain a substitute driver Mick Schumacher is currently employed as a replacement driver at the German factory racing team Mercedes, and the contracts of the two regular drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell were recently extended. “It would still be a shame if Formula 1 lost the Mick,” Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff told Sky in Singapore on Friday. However, the Viennese also made it clear that Schumacher could remain a reserve driver for the Silver Arrows if another commitment permitted this. “It doesn’t matter what phase of your life you are in, you can never be sure that it will work out the way you imagine,” Mick Schumacher recently said in a conversation with the German Press Agency. “Of course you think about it: what will I do if it doesn’t work?” he answered a similar question. As auto, motor und sport wrote with reference to the sister magazine Motorsport aktuell, the Alpine management around sports director Bruno Famin is said to have already contacted Schumacher and his management. Supposedly the chances are not bad that he could join the squad as one of the regular drivers. Glock on Schumacher's future: WEC would make sense Sky expert Timo Glock sees this as a sensible alternative to Formula 1 for Mick Schumacher. "It makes sense. He has to choose a racing series in which the cars are correspondingly fast and the technology is similar to Formula 1. Of course there would be that too Indycar series in America, but then you would no longer have a foothold here in Formula 1, but you would have to put your entire focus on America. Therefore, the WEC would be included. "These cars make sense in the end. But let's see what happens."

#mick schumacher #f1 #formula 1 #singapore gp 2023 #fic ref #fic ref 2023 #singapore #singapore 2023 #singapore 2023 friday #toto wolff #timo glock

[f1]

Wolff explains DAmbrosios new role on Mercedes young driver programme | 2023 F1 season

Former Formula 1 driver and Formula E team principal Jerome D’Ambrosio has joined Mercedes as its driver development director. Team principal Toto Wolff confirmed D’Ambrosio’s appointment after he was seen in the team’s garage early in the season. Prior to being Venturi’s team principal in FE, d’Ambrosio spent six seasons racing in the series and won races with Dragon Racing and Mahindra. His F1 experience includes one season with Virgin Racing in 2011 and a one-off appearance with Lotus in 2012 as a substitute for Romain Grosjean while serving as the team’s reserve driver. Wolff revealed d’Ambrosio will assume some of the roles previously held by James Vowles, who left his position as strategy director at the start of this year to become Williams’ team principal. D’Ambrosio started his new job last week and will be responsible for the team’s simulator driver roster and other driver-related topics in addition to their junior team, Mercedes confirmed to RaceFans. “He’s looking after the young driver programme in very close cooperation with Gwen [Lagrue], who has been doing it very successfully over the last few years. “With Gwen’s team we are looking at grassroots motorsports from the early stages of go-karts. This is where Gwen is very active, he was the one working with James, and now within the Brackley structure it’s Jerome who has taken that over. Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free “He’s looking at things and there’s plenty of plenty of scope that James did beyond the strategy work. So I see Jerome growing in the organisation, but at this stage, that’s his area.” D’Ambrosio previously worked with Wolff’s wife Susie at Venturi. She was team principal while d’Ambrosio was deputy, and when she stepped up to become chief executive officer it then freed up the team principal role for d’Ambrosio to move into. However the Mercedes team principal’s history with d’Ambrosio goes back further than that. “I have known Jerome since a long time, because back in the day when he was in the Renault driver development [programme], I thought about managing him,” he said. “So it’s 15 or 20 years ago, and then we had a look again at him when he when he dropped out of the programme. So I’ve known him as a racing driver, but never from the human standpoint, and never from the managerial side.” D’Ambrosio made a successful transition from driver to manager, said Wolff. “When Susie offered him the option to jump out of the cockpit into a management role, he took it with both hands and they were quite a good competitive duo, and Jerome led it into another year and finished second in the FE championship. “He has the knowhow of having been a racing driver at a very high level. He was a go-karting world champion. He’s been in F1 and on the other side, the skills as a manager. Where that will lead him is a question. Today it’s at a very early stage. He is just coming in in the driver development part and administrative functions. And we shall see where that goes.” Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free 2023 F1 season Browse all 2023 F1 season articles via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net/

#F1 #Wolff explains D’Ambrosio’s new role on Mercedes’ young driver programme | 2023 F1 season #Formula 1

[thefastf1]

Today, an article was published by formula1.com that detailed certain "deceptions" that have been carried out by F1 teams during testing, in the past. Here's one of them. - During pre-season of 2009, it quickly became apparent that Brawn GP had the quickest car in the field. This was despite all the team's best efforts' to disguise the fact, by indulging in a spot of "sandbagging". - Sandbagging is not a new tactic by any means and had been going on for decades, before Brawn got in on the action. Sanbagging is the art of putting more weight onto the car, by adding ballast such as extra fuel. This, in turn, hides the true pace of the car. - So, when the team rocked up to Catalunya with the brand-new BGP 001 and it instantly began putting in mega laptimes, they decided to act straight away. - Especially, given that the car featured the radical, innovative double-diffuser system, Brawn GP decided that they should sandbag in order to detract attention away from their vehicle and avoid an early backlash against their system. - “As soon as we saw it delivering those lap times and that other people were not even close to touching it, we literally tanked it up, put more ballast on and then ran it that way for the rest of the week," said then-Chief Strategist James Vowles, via ESPN. - He added, “A lot of people just came to the conclusion that we were doing glory runs, not knowing that actually, we were running every bit of metal we could on the car to slow it down!” - Whilst Brawn GP did all that they could, to hide the pace of their car and keep the opposition from questioning the double-diffuser, their efforts were ultimately fruitless. - Even before the season had began, several rival teams including Red Bull had announced their intention to protest against the BGP 001. It was eventually deemed legal by the FIA. 🏁🏁 | CREDITS: UNKNOWN | #F1 #FormulaOne #F1Pics #F1News #F1Memes #F12019 #ClassicF1 #F1History #BrawnGP #MercedesAMGPetronas #MercedesBenzEQ #HondaF1 #CircuitdeCatalunya #JensonButton #RubensBarrichello #TeamLH #LH44 #MV33 #HondaF1 #CL16 #DR3 #FernandoAlonso #SV5 #FelipeMassa #VB77 #AG99 #LN4 #GR63 #RenaultF1 #MichaelSchumacher #KeepFightingMichael https://www.instagram.com/p/B8oYjEzhrkX/?igshid=1l9hi3i689etu

#f1 #formulaone #f1pics #f1news #f1memes #f12019 #classicf1 #f1history #brawngp #mercedesamgpetronas #mercedesbenzeq #hondaf1 #circuitdecatalunya #jensonbutton #rubensbarrichello #teamlh #lh44 #mv33 #cl16 #dr3 #fernandoalonso #sv5 #felipemassa #vb77 #ag99 #ln4 #gr63 #renaultf1 #michaelschumacher #keepfightingmichael

[megamikethomson]

Day two of boxing day check at mcg updates

england has enjoyed its first-rate day of this ashes collection to take manipulate of the fourth test in melbourne. England has taken manipulate of the boxing day check after a day of excessive drama in melbourne. Alastair cook dinner plundered his first century towards australia because the 2010-eleven ashes series in absurd circumstances to steer england to 2/192 at stumps. Cook dinner (104 not out) and captain joe root (49 not out) combined for an unbeaten stand of 112 runs as england recovered from 2/eighty to be in a sturdy role heading into the 1/3 day of play. The day was all about cook dinner and his dramatic very last-over-of-play hundred. The out of shape opener and out-of-sorts stuart large have virtually observed their mojo. Cook was 104 now not out at the give up of play, posting the thirty second ton of his test profession after taking 11 runs off the final over — added with the aid of steve smith. England path by using 135 runs. Broad snared four-fifty one, his great figures in extra than a 12 months, as australia suffered a disintegrate of 7-sixty seven and had been bowled out for 327 on wednesday. Wide and cook dinner have been among the vacationers’ worst performers within the establishing three exams, during which the hosts banked large wins to assert an unassailable 3-0 lead inside the collection. Prepare dinner offered a sharp hazard on sixty six but it changed into put down by means of smith, normally the most secure pair of fingers in the crew, at the beginning slip. Tim paine was up to the stumps at some stage in mitch marsh’s 2d over. Smith reacted sharply to the low part then snatched at the ball because it bounced out of his palms. Blended with pat cummins’ belly trojan horse, which confined the express paceman to eleven overs, and a flat pitch it gave the skipper masses to reflect onconsideration on. Smith, paine and mitch marsh all chopped on all through the morning session, underlining the dangers worried with looking to up the run-fee on this kind of slow deck. Smith lashed at a extensive transport on seventy six, reducing the skipper’s take a look at common at the venue to 119 and handing debutant tom curran his maiden scalp. Wide, having been spared the axe after logging the worst figures of his take a look at profession in perth, eliminated cummins and jackson hen to assist his facet easy up the tail speedy. Australia turned into rocked by using a amazing crumble of 7/sixty seven to show the fourth test on its head. The aussie were cruising at three/260 earlier than smith’s chop-on brought about a weak disintegrate from the center order. Australia become sooner or later brushed off for 327 early after lunch. England 2/192 from fifty eight overs. Cook dinner 104, root forty nine

australia 327 from 119 overs (warner 103, smith seventy six)

6pm

smith’s absurd present to cook

steve smith absurdly brought himself directly to bowl the very last over of the day to present ashes rival alastair cook dinner a fairytale “steve waugh moment”. Needing seven runs from the final over of the day, cook bashed some short-pitch pies from the aussie captain to attain his milestone with  balls left within the day. Smith’s first thee balls of his over went for 10 runs, including  barriers. It gave cook his first take a look at century towards australia in 35 ashes innings, his first century in opposition to australia for the reason that january 2011. The bbc defined smith’s abnormal over as “dreadful”.

“another atrocious long hop from smith permits prepare dinner to choose up a unmarried from the final ball of the day,” bbc reporter jack skelton wrote.

“smith brought himself on to try to tempt prepare dinner into doing some thing stupid, however it became a dreadful over and simply allowed the england opener to relaxed a extremely good century.”

it became the best over smith bowled for the day and he completed with 0/11 from his six deliveries. Smith changed pat cummins (who become nursing a crook guts) at one end. Cummins’ previous over went for one run. Smith also dropped prepare dinner while the previous england captain was sixty six not out. The century has actually stored prepare dinner’s position in the english check group. Five. 55pm

root and prepare dinner carry up hundred stand

joe root and alastair prepare dinner delivered up a crucial one hundred-run parntership to steer england to two/180. The pair came collectively with england at 2/80 earlier than they combined to put england beforehand within the fourth test for the primary time. Alastair prepare dinner was on 92 runs at the time — just 8 runs type of his first take a look at ton against australia because the 2011 new years check in sydney. The bbc reports prepare dinner has played 35 ashes innings in between check centuries going returned to the 2010-11 collection in australia. Four. 30pm

smith drops a soda

steve smith has proficient alastair cook a existence after dropping a law seize in the beginning slip. Prepare dinner driven at an ungainly duration ball that climbed and hit the out of doors aspect high on cook’s blade off the bowling of mitchell marsh. Smith needed to pass quickly low all the way down to his proper toward keeper tim paine, however had penty of time to get his palms in function as he fell to the turf. The kookaburra slipped out of his fingers, however the aussie captain had the reflexes to flick it up because it fell and had two greater desperate snatches at the falling ball before it — and smith — crashed to the deck in an ugly heap. Cook dinner was 66 not out on the time. 4. 10pm

cook hits first fifty

alastair cook dinner brought up his first half of-century of the collection as england made a confident start in their first innings. Cook delivered up his fifty with a neat flick out to the leg side which raced to the rope. It's far cook dinner’s first fifty in australia since the 2013 boxing day test and his first check fifty since august — ending a run of 10 innings in which he had failed to reach fifty. 3. 40pm

vince falls after internal side kerfuffle

james vince fell to josh hazlewood in the second over after the tea ruin in a moment of excessive drama. Vince turned into given out falling ahead to an amazing duration shipping from hazlewood, ending his innings on 17 runs from 37 balls via what seemed to be a clear lbw dismissal. Vince had a communique with alastair cook at the non-striker’s give up approximately reviewing the umpire’s decision to give him out earlier than he turned and stormed off the ground without tough the on-area choice. Replays on channel 9 confirmed vince had were given an inside aspect onto the kookaburra before it hit his front pad nicely below the knee roll. The new spot technology additionally showed a clean mark on vince’s bat as the ball went past. Aussie take a look at legend michael slater said vince most effective has himself to blame.

“it’s his own fault,” slater told channel nine.

“i don’t assume there’s any doubt, it’s hit the interior of the bat and he didn’t in reality sense it.

“it’s great that he didn’t feel that or listen that because i heard it in my ear. We became the results mic up, that’s wherein we heard the two noises.

“i'm able to’t believe you don’t ship that up because there has been enough doubt. It might were that cook dinner at the opposite end stated, ‘mate i didn’t hear two noises’.

“now he’s in the dressing room searching up going, ‘i have to nevertheless be accessible’ — and it’s his very own fault.”

the plot thickened whilst the bbc stated replays from the television telecast in england confirmed cook telling vince to assignment the umpire choice — leaving vince with no one accountable however himself for the pricey mistake. It left england 2/80. 2. 45pm

cummins returns after injury scare

pat cummins sent a fright thru the aussie crew after being forced to return off the field after bowling just three overs in england’s first innings. He returned after only a few overs with cricket australia officers revealing the aussie quick is battling an ongoing dissatisfied stomach. 2. 30pm

lyon takes a ripper

nathan lyon got the step forward australia changed into determined for while he clunked a freakish one-passed trap at complete stretch straight over his head to push aside mark stoneman off his very own bowling. Lyon got stoneman to come ahead and push at a very good period ball that chipped up and regarded to be floating over the spinner’s head earlier than he slung his proper hand into the air and were given the kookaburra to stick. Stoneman fell for 15 runs to go away england 1/35. Aussie cricket icon bill lawry couldn’t preserve it collectively whilst commentating the instant for channel nine.

“what a trap. He’s taken some other ripper,” he stated.

“it’s a bif one-hander and he gets the leap forward. High-quality piece of vowling. Exact flight. That’s a massive one.”

1. 35pm

australia skittled for 327

nathan lyon gave james anderson his third pole of the innings as australia collapsed with 7/67 in a horror display to begin day two. Steve smith’s dismissal for seventy six early on day  precipitated a huge disintegrate as england turned the contest on its head as the mcg pitch deteriorated into a slow deck delivering some uneven bounce. Lyon turned into the closing to fall for a globe, as australia was sooner or later brushed off for 327. Anderson become once more a standout for england with 3/61 from 29 overs, even as stuart extensive lower back to form with 4/fifty one from 28 overs. 1. 15pm

cummins falls in 2d ball of play

pat cummins changed into dismissed with the second one transport after the lunch wreck when stuart large were given him pushing at a great line and period ball. Cummins’ not anything shot accrued a excessive outdoor area that sailed low to alastair prepare dinner in the beginning slip. Cummins fell for simply 4 runs as australia’s center order collapse deteriorated to 7/66 when they had been flying at 3/260. Cook’s low-capture become reviewed by using the on-subject umpires, despite cummins selecting to stroll back to the pavilion. Replays showed prepare dinner stuck the ball nicely above the grass and had time to wrap his arms under the ball earlier than touching down on the mcg turf. 12. 30pm

australia in collapse as fourth and fifth poles fall

tim paine and jackson chook fell in a big one- sucker-punch moments earlier than the lunch damage. A 3rd chop-on in the first session of play cost aussie keeper paine his wicket. Paine tried to drag a short and extensive ball from jimmy anderson, but an inner edge cut again into his personal stumps, finishing his innings on 24 runs from 36 balls. His dismissal supposed australia fell from 3/260 to 7/318 — a center order crumble of four/58. It changed into additionally a fourth wicket to fall inside the area of 16 overs — from whilst steve smith changed into the primary wicket to fall on day two for seventy six in the 97th over of the innings.

“another one’s long past,” aussie legend bill lawry said in statement for channel 9.

“this game is turning. England lower back in the hunt.”

australia misplaced its 5th wicket of the morning simply 10 deliveries later while stuart extensive trapped jackson hen in the front for his third wicket of the innings. Bird changed into caught on his again pad after stepping onto the back foot to attempt to defend an awesome-duration ball that struck bird right in the front of his stumps. It took australia’s middle order collapse to 5/sixty five. 12. 05pm

marsh long gone after drs undertaking

shaun marsh was trapped in front for 61 in the first session of play, giving england a 3rd scalp for the session. Marsh turned into trapped in the front leaning into an amazing period delivery from stuart wide that needed a drs referral from england captain joe root to prove it turned into on target to hit the stumps. The original selection from on-discipline umpire sundaram ravi was no longer-out, however the drs ball tracker showed extra than 1/2 the ball was going onto hit the pinnacle of marsh’s off stump. Wide’s leap forward approach australia had misplaced three/fifty four because steve smith have become the fourth wicket to fall at 3/260. Eleven. 30am

england goes bang-bang

mitch marsh became the second one aussie batsman to cut on a lifeless shortish wide ball on the morning of day  while he got himself out for just 9 runs. Marsh gave england  wickets in 4 overs while he despatched an inside area crashing into his pegs off the bowling of chris woakes. With both marsh and steve smith being disregarded thru unsightly chop-ons, it confirmed the mcg deck has softened and slowed in a single day with batsman struggling to examine the conditions with some balls staying decrease than anticipated. It left australia five/278. Eleven. 15am

bill’s lawry’s freakish prophecy comes real

aussie cricket icon invoice lawry has shown he’s nonetheless one of the great readers of cricket on this planet with a freakish prediction surrounding the dying of aussie captain steve smith. Lawry cautioned before the begin of play that england must be given defeat while bowling to the crimson-hot aussie skipper and try to set-up a trap for smith to get himself out. Lawry, speaking in statement for channel nine, stated england ought to install the same defeatist method of bowling brief engaging balls which can be there to be hit that proved to be the undoing of sir donald bradman.

“maybe they ought to do what they did to bradman, the half of-tracker,” lawry stated.

“he dragged it directly to the stumps. Plan b.”

that’s precisely how smith despatched himself again to the pavilion — slashing at a huge, short pie nicely out of doors his off stump. Smith fell for 76 runs from 156 balls — giving tom, curran his first wicket in test cricket. 4 overs later the same style of dismissal — a shortish ball out of doors off-stump also proved to be mitch marsh’s dying, while he also chopped onto his stumps. Former england batsman ed smith additionally stated the half-track pies are certainly the manner to bowl to the australian skipper.

“that’s the way to get steve smith out,” smith informed the bbc.

“dangle it out short and huge and get him to chop on.”

11. 05am

smith long gone from absolute pie

steve smith fell for seventy six in only the 8 over of play on day two while he chopped on an unsightly shortish ball nicely extensive of off stump. Smith tried to cut a short ball from tom curran, but his flash thumped the kookaburra lower back onto his middle stump. Earlier smith had long gone identical with david boon because the first player considering that 1993 to reap lower back-to-lower back ashes series with ratings of greater than 500 runs. Smith additionally have become curran’s first test wicket. It left australia 4/260. 10am

‘lazy’ khawaja on thin ice

usman khawaja’s failure to make a critical influence within the series has seen his function come underneath renewed strain. Test splendid ian healy described the primary drop’s manner as a “bit lazy” in the course of an innings of 17 that never were given happening day one.

“the power degrees — we have been hopeful he became going to come out with exact intensity tiers and hustle the day before today, however he didn’t,” healy instructed sen. “he strolls out and is a laidback person.

“he wasn’t finding the middle of the bat or the gaps, and he didn’t do anything about it. He just fought hard and tried to have it flick for him and it didn’t show up.

“he wishes to get going and get his profession kick-commenced once more. He needs to bust the door open or he will get in a larger hollow.”

healy wishes a exchange in body language and initiative from here on out. “australian cricket is at its great whilst we're hustling and threatening to take brief singles,” he stated. “(khawaja) is to this point from that it’s no longer funny in the interim.”

shane warne echoed the sentiment on channel 9. “he is a good player, he has were given all the skills in the world,” stated warne of khawaja, whose check common has dropped to the low 40s. “we've got visible him through the years play extraordinary innings, however unluckily he hasn’t performed it often sufficient.

“we understand he has were given the talent, it’s greater his body language and intensity while he comes to the crease. Have a presence. To me i suppose he's lacking that at the moment. Perhaps it’s a touch little bit of form, however i assume he is lacking extreme presence at no. 3.”

9am

desperate answer for ‘insane’ smith

jimmy anderson is but to crack the steve smith code, admitting it's going to take either an unplayable delivery or uncharacteristic mistakes to disregard the world’s satisfactory batsman — but indian spinner ravi ashwin has another concept. Ashwin, ranked fourth behind global number one test bowler anderson, had a unique idea after smith persevered his 3-yr reign without being dismissed on the mcg on day one. Smith, who will resume on 65 when day  of the fourth ashes check starts offevolved, keeps to build a case he's australia’s first-class batsman due to the fact don bradman. At stumps on boxing day, smith had scored 434 check runs on the mcg considering his maximum current dismissal at the venue. The skipper went to sleep on tuesday needing 9 extra runs to make it 500 for the series, for the duration of which he’s averaged 163. 66 and peeled off two guy-of-the-fit centuries. The document for most centuries in an ashes collection — together held by means of bradman with englishmen wally hammond and herbert sutcliffe — is 4. It would be no marvel if smith joins them at some point in the next fortnight. Anderson, england’s all-time main wicket-taker who trapped smith lbw to stop his profession-satisfactory knock of 239 on the waca, admits bowling to the world’s best batsman has been tough work.

“while a person is in that kind of shape you need to hope for a mistake or desire you bowl a ball that’s suitable enough to put off him,” anderson said. “it felt like, in particular with the brand new ball, i beat the bat and notion ‘here we cross’.

“then the subsequent 11 balls i bowled he performed fairly without problems. He’s manifestly in a actually hot streak and as a bowler it could be hard developing in opposition to a person like that. However it’s our process to provide you with approaches of getting him out.”

all of us desire we were half of the batter steve smith is at the moment. He’s seeing the ball like a watermelon and making it appearance so easy,” warner said after scoring 103 on boxing day. Anderson and stuart large both sledged smith at adelaide oval. The proper-hander turned into disregarded for 40 and 6 at some stage in the day-night test but england have for the reason that been reluctant to pepper smith with verbals.

“we've mentioned a few various things we can attempt for smith. We have attempted plenty,” england skipper joe root stated on the eve of the fourth test. “we were given on top of him in adelaide.” smith is ready to complete the world’s leading run-scorer in 2017, having helped himself to 1192 runs at seventy four. 5.

— aap

8. 30am

anderson: boxing day changed into dull

an mcg pitch labelled the flattest in australia is proving actual to form within the boxing day take a look at, with jimmy anderson asserting it unworthy of the long-lasting conflict. England’s hopes of restoring some pride after surrendering the ashes urn took a major hit on tuesday morning while steve smith gained his first toss of the collection and elected to bat. Australia raced to 0-102 at lunch, with centurion david warner taking complete gain of a street of a pitch that changed into speedy derided inside the cricketing fraternity. The sport slowed to a grind in a center consultation with australia adding simply 43 runs earlier than attaining 3-244 at stumps. Each aspects were watching for a flat deck however england paceman anderson said it turned into a long way from perfect for the gang of 88,172.

“human beings want to peer wonderful cricket, in particular in an iconic test healthy like the boxing day take a look at fit at the mcg,” he said.

“i realize it wasn’t interesting to watch. It wasn’t interesting to play in, to be sincere, when it’s that attritional. But there’s not loads we are able to do about it from here.”

take a look at exquisite shane warne earlier stated the pitch became as flat as he’d seen at the mcg, whilst ed cowan joked the groundsman “idea there has been a bbl game occurring”. The mcg’s current history suggests england’s torment is probable to preserve, specially with offspinner moeen ali out of shape. Australia published big totals in blowout victories over pakistan and the west indies in the past  boxing day exams and performed out a high-scoring draw with india in 2014. All three sheffield shield video games performed on the mcg so far this season have did not produce a result. Josh hazlewood closing week described the wicket because the flattest in australia. “it’s quite flippantly paced, there’s no actual sideways motion, no actual swing and it doesn’t spin lots,” the australian seamer stated. Performing mcg curator michael salvatore defended the drop-in wicket earlier than the take a look at, pronouncing he was assured a end result would be produced.

“we’ve had drop-ins here for 19 years and we’ve best had one draw ... We’ve got no issues approximately that in any respect,” he stated.

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Massive Attack: Mezzanine

“Trip-hop” eventually became a ’90s punchline, a music-press shorthand for “overhyped hotel lounge music.” But today, the much-maligned subgenre almost feels secret precedent. Listen to any of the canonical Bristol-scene albums of the mid-late ’90s, when the genre was starting to chafe against its boundaries, and you’d think the claustrophobic, anxious 21st century started a few years ahead of schedule. Looked at from the right angle, trip-hop is part of an unbroken chain that runs from the abrasion of ’80s post-punk to the ruminative pop-R&B-dance fusion of the moment. 

The best of it has aged far more gracefully (and forcefully) than anything recorded in the waning days of the record industry’s pre-filesharing monomania has any right to. Tricky rebelled against being attached at the hip to a scene he was already looking to shed and decamped for Jamaica to record a more aggressive, bristling-energy mutation of his style in ’96; the name Pre-Millennium Tension is the only obvious thing that tells you it’s two decades old rather than two weeks. And Portishead’s ’97 self-titled saw the stress-fractured voice of Beth Gibbons envisioning romance as codependent, mutually assured destruction while Geoff Barrow sunk into his RZA-noir beats like The Conversation’s Gene Hackman ruminating over his surveillance tapes. This was raw-nerved music, too single-minded and intense to carry an obvious timestamp. 

But Massive Attack were the origin point of the trip-hop movement they and their peers were striving to escape the orbit of, and they nearly tore themselves to shreds in the process. Instead— or maybe as a result—they laid down their going-nova genre's definitive paranoia statement with Mezzanine. The band's third album (not counting the Mad Professor-remixed No Protection) completes the last in a sort of de facto Bristol trilogy, where Tricky’s youthful iconoclasm and Portishead’s deep-focus emotional intensity set the scene for Massive Attack’s sense of near-suffocating dread. The album corroded their tendencies to make big-wheel hymnals of interconnected lives where hope and despair trade precedent—on Mezzanine, it’s alienation all the way down. There’s no safety from harm here, nothing you’ve got to be thankful for, nobody to take the force of the blow: what Mezzanine provides instead is a succession of parties and relationships and panopticons where the walls won’t stop closing in.

The lyrics establish this atmosphere all on their own. Sex, in “Inertia Creeps,” is reduced to a meeting of “two undernourished egos, four rotating hips,” the focus of a failing relationship that's left its participants too numbed with their own routine dishonesty to break it off. The voice singing it—Massive Attack's cornerstone co-writer/producer Robert “3D” Del Naja—is raspy from exhaustion. “Dissolved Girl” reiterates this theme from the perspective of guest vocalist Sarah Jay Hawley (“Passion’s overrated anyway”). On “Risingson,” Grant “Daddy G” Marshall nails the boredom and anxiety of being stuck somewhere you can’t stand with someone you’re starting to feel the same way about (“Why you want to take me to this party and breathe/I’m dying to leave/Every time we grind you know we severed lines”).

But Mezzanine’s defining moments come from guest vocalists who were famous long before Massive Attack even released their first album. Horace Andy was already a legend in reggae circles, but his collaborations with Massive Attack gave him a wider crossover exposure, and all three of his appearances on Mezzanine are homages or nods to songs he'd charted with in his early-’70s come-up. “Angel” is a loose rewrite of his 1973 single “You Are My Angel,” but it’s a fakeout after the first verse—originally a vision of beauty (“Come from way above/To bring me love”), transformed into an Old Testament avenger: “On the dark side/Neutralize every man in sight.” The parenthetically titled, album-closing reprise of “(Exchange)” is a ghostly invocation of Andy’s “See A Man's Face” cleverly disguised as a comedown track. And then there’s “Man Next Door,” the John Holt standard that Andy had previously recorded as “Quiet Place”—on Mezzanine, it sounds less like an overheard argument from the next apartment over and more like a close-quarters reckoning with violence heard through thin walls ready to break. It’s Andy at his emotionally nuanced and evocative best.

The other outside vocalist was even more of a coup: Liz Fraser, the singer and songwriter of Cocteau Twins, lends her virtuoso soprano to three songs that feel like exorcisms of the personal strife accompanying her band’s breakup. Her voice serves as an ethereal counterpoint to speaker-rattling production around it. “Black Milk” contains the album’s most spiritually unnerving words (“Eat me/In the space/Within my heart/Love you for God/Love you for the Mother”), even as her lead and the elegiac beat make for some of its most beautiful sounds. She provides the wistful counterpoint to the night-shift alienation of “Group Four.” And then there's “Teardrop,” her finest moment on the album. Legend has it the song was briefly considered for Madonna; Andrew “Mushroom” Vowles sent the demo to her, but was overruled by Daddy G and 3D, who both wanted Fraser. Democracy thankfully worked this time around, as Fraser’s performance—recorded in part on the day she discovered that Jeff Buckley, who she’d had an estranged working relationship and friendship with, had drowned in Memphis’ Wolf River—was a heart-rending performance that gave Massive Attack their first (and so far only) UK Top 10 hit.

Originally set for a late ’97 release, Mezzanine got pushed back four months because Del Naja refused to stop reworking the tracks, tearing them apart and rebuilding them until they’re so polished they gleam. It sure sounds like the product of bloody-knuckled labor, all that empty-space reverb and melted-together multitrack vocals and oppressive low-end. (The first sound you hear on the album, that lead-jointed bassline on “Angel,” is to subwoofers what “Planet Earth” is to high-def television.) But it also groans with the burden of creative conflict, a working process that created rifts between Del Naja and Vowles, who left shortly after Mezzanine dropped following nearly 15 years of collaboration.

Mezzanine began the band’s relationship with producer Neil Davidge, who’d known Vowles dating back to the early ’90s and met the rest of the band after the completion of Protection. He picked a chaotic time to jump in, but Davidge and 3D forged a creative bond working through that pressure. Mezzanine was a document of unity, not fragmentation. Despite their rifts, they were a post-genre outfit, one that couldn’t separate dub from punk from hip-hop from R&B because the basslines all worked together and because classifications are for toe tags. All their acknowledged samples—including the joy-buzzer synths from Ultravox’s “Rockwrok” (“Inertia Creeps”), the opulent ache of Isaac Hayes’ celestial-soul take on “Our Day Will Come” (“Exchange”), Robert Smith’s nervous “tick tick tick” from the Cure’s “10:15 Saturday Night,” and the most concrete-crumbling throwdown of the Led Zep “Levee” break ever deployed (the latter two on “Man Next Door”)—were sourced from  1968 and 1978, well-traveled crate-digging territory. But what they build from that is its own beast.  

Their working method never got any faster. The four-year gap between Protection and Mezzanine became a five-year gap until 2003’s 100th Window, then another seven years between that record and 2010’s Heligoland, plus another seven years and counting with no full-lengths to show for it. Not that they've been slacking: we've gotten a multimedia film/music collaboration with Adam Curtis, the respectable but underrated Ritual Spirit EP, and Del Naja’s notoriously rumored side gig as Banksy. (Hey, 3D does have a background in graffiti art.) But the ordeal of both recording and touring Mezzanine took its own toll. A late ’98 interview with Del Naja saw him optimistic about its reputation-shedding style: “I always said it was for the greater good of the fucking project because if this album was a bit different from the last two, the next one would be even freer to be whatever it wants to be.” But fatigue and restlessness rarely make for a productive mixture, and that same spark of tension which carried Mezzanine over the threshold proved unsustainable, not just for Massive Attack’s creativity but their continued existence.

Still, it’s hard not to feel the album’s legacy resonating elsewhere—and not just in “Teardrop” becoming the cue for millions of TV viewers to brace themselves for Hugh Laurie’s cranky-genius-doctor schtick. Graft its tense feelings of nervy isolation and late-night melancholy onto two-step, and you’re partway to the blueprint for Plastician and Burial. You can hear flashes of that mournful romantic alienation in James Blake, the graceful, bass-riddled emotional abrasion in FKA twigs, the all-absorbing post-genre rock/soul ambitions in Young Fathers or Algiers. Mezzanine stands as an album built around echoes of the ’70s, wrestled through the immediacy of its creators' tumultuous late ’90s, and fearless enough that it still sounds like it belongs in whatever timeframe you're playing it.

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what has been happening in the world of motorsports lately?

F1 Academy will have their own Netflix show with Reese Witherspoon

Courtney Crone joined F1 Academy this weekend as a wildcard entry for QVC

Ruth Buscombe joined F1TV experts for the rest of the season as she serves her gardening leave

Newey has been set aside from the RBR F1 project with immediate effect, he will focus on their hypercar project after Miami to avoid access to any information about 2025 and especially 2026 car prospects

reports of James Vowles meeting with Adrian Newey before Miami appeared, so some journals are speculating about him going to Williams in the future

rumours about Jonathan Wheatley possibly leaving RBR, which have been reported by a few journals, were denied by RBR

Pierre Waché signed a new contract expiring at the end of 2028 with RBR according to Racingnews365 (they say he signed a contract in 2023 but in the recent news and destabilization of the team, he extended this February)

12 members of US Congress wrote an open letter to Liberty Media over the lack of clarity over failed Andretti F1 entry and they are referencing Sherman Antitrust Act

Guenther Steiner is suing Haas for profit, which they owe him for using his image in promotional material

McLaren announced eBay as another official partner of the team

Ferrari Museum is now listed on Airbnb among "icons", the package includes VIP tickets for Imola with Marc Gene, dinner at Cavallino, private tour of Ferrari Museum, hot lap at Fiorano and a sleepover in a bed directly in the museum

Ferrari will bring their biggest upgrade package so far this season in Imola during the next GP

as a part of events remembering Senna and Ratzensberger, Seb Vettel will driver Senna's 1993 McLaren MP4/8 during the race weekend

Netflix posted a teaser for a new short Senna series

Spanish media (or Antonio Lobato specifically) speculated that Carlos Sainz has denied the Audi offer to which Carlos responded that he is still in talks with multiple teams

Valtteri Bottas' race engineer was fire before Miami without any previous discussion with Valtteri - it is a part of the structural changes before the team becomes Audi (probably also considering drivers, because he also said he is talking to teams and has options to stay in F1)

FIA confirmed they received the official request to allow Kimi Antonelli to race before he turns 18 and the voting process will follow, because multiple parties have to make up a decision which demands a rule change

Kimi Antonelli and Mick Schumacher will test W13 in Silverstone for a direct comparison of the two, James Vowles denied Kimi will be driving in Logan's car in Imola in an interview with Lawrence Baretto and then Williams representative spoke to Will Buxton and said they will not be commenting on driver contracts at this time

Fernando Alonso wants to meet up with Ben Sulayem over harsh penalties for Spanish drivers

Aston Martin's right to review the penalty from China has been dismissed (TLDR they submitted a new angle but the evidence wasn't deemed as substantial and new)

after F1 commission postponed the decision over a possible rule change to award 12 point positions instead of just 10, they will now evaluate 20 scored positions instead

stewards asked for a rule change after Kevin's track terrorism this whole weekend lmao

Alpine's upgrades for Imola put them to the weight limit for the first time this season (congrats Este on the singular point)

Lewis drove W12 in New York as a part of the WhatsApp partnership, which also saw the app changing red formula emoji to Mercedes colors

#f1 #gossip night #e

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Williams announce Mercedes strategist Vowles as new team principal | 2023 F1 season

Williams have announced former Mercedes motorsport strategist James Vowles as their new team principal, filling the position vacated by Jost Capito. The team relieved Capito of his position as team principal after almost two years at the end of the 2022 season. Technical director Francois-Xavier Demaison was also let go at the same time. Vowles had been acting at Mercedes’ motorsport strategy director under team principal Toto Wolff for the past four seasons. He has spent his entire two-decade tenure in F1 at the Brackley-based team, including its previous identities as Brawn GP, Honda and BAR. Vowles said it was an “honour” to be named as team principal for a team “with such an incredibly rich heritage” as Williams. “The team is an icon of our sport, one I greatly respect, and I am very much looking forward to the challenge,” Vowles said. He thanked Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff as he moved on from the team which swept every constructors championship between 2014 and 2021. “Mercedes have been hugely supportive on my journey, and we part on excellent terms after over 20 years of working in Brackley,” said Vowles. “I am grateful for everything Toto and the team have provided, and it has been such a special experience to journey together through failure and success. “Williams Racing have placed their faith and trust in me, and I will do the same in return. Williams has tremendous potential, and our journey together starts in a matter of weeks.” Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Matthew Savage, CEO of team owners Dorilton Capital, hailed the hiring of Vowles to lead the team into the new season. “We are delighted to welcome James to Williams Racing,” said Savage. “He is one of the most highly respected talents in Formula 1 and will bring performance. “As we continue our relentless pursuit for results, we believe that the appointment of James reinforces our dedication to ensuring we have energetic, experienced, and strong leadership as we move into the next phase of transforming Williams Racing.” Toto Wolff praised Vowles’ contribution to Mercedes’ successes during his time with the team. “Having worked with him since I first joined the team in 2013, I know how diligent, capable and talented he is and have taken great satisfaction from watching James develop and grow over the past decade,” said Wolff. “While we are naturally sad to be saying goodbye to such a capable member of the team, I have no doubts whatsoever that he has all the necessary skills to become a fantastic team principal in Formula 1. We wish him every success and are delighted that he will take this next step in his career with Williams, a strong technical partner of ours and one that has a place close to my own heart.” Williams finished tenth and last in the constructors’ championship last season, scoring only eight points. The team will field Alexander Albon and rookie American driver Logan Sargeant in their two cars for the 2023 championship. Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free 2023 F1 season Browse all 2023 F1 season articles via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net/

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Williams announce Pat Fry as new Chief Technical Officer

Williams have signed Pat Fry as their new Chief Technical Officer in what is the first major move of Team Principal James Vowles’ new tenure. The British team have been without a CTO since Paddy Lowe left the operation in 2019 – and are currently without a Technical Director as well following FX Demaison’s departure at the end of last year. NEED TO KNOW: The most important facts, stats and trivia ahead of the 2023 Belgian Grand Prix Vowles, who replaced Jost Capito as team boss at Williams ahead of this season, made finding a new technical lead his top priority and told F1.com last month that he had secured the person but could not yet reveal who it was. Fry will join Williams on November 1 from Alpine, where he has held the CTO role since February 2022. He brings with him three decades of motorsport experience, which includes 17 years at McLaren and a stint at Ferrari and Manor. Fry has had stints at several F1 teams, including Ferrari “On behalf of all at Williams Racing, I’m delighted to be welcoming Pat,” said Vowles. “His knowledge and experience will further strengthen the team’s technical capabilities and pursuit of excellence as we build the next chapter of Williams. “Pat has been a core part of winning teams throughout his career, he is one of the most respected experts in our industry and I’m excited to begin work with him when he joins in November.” PADDOCK INSIDER: Momentum is currently with McLaren – and anything is possible in Belgium Fry added: “I am thrilled to be joining Williams Racing as Chief Technical Officer. The team has a rich heritage in Formula 1, and I am excited to contribute to its future success. I believe in the team’s potential and, together, we will strive for excellence on and off the track.” F1 Correspondent and Presenter Lawrence Barretto says: Vowles knew he had a big job ahead of him when he joined Williams – but he could see plenty of potential and knew early on that reshaping the technical department needed to be the first port of call after years of instability in this area. Fry’s appointment is the first key hire from new Williams team boss Vowles He determined the technical lead needed significant F1 experience – Williams’ last Technical Director FX Demaison having come from rallying, where he had spent the last decade, his F1 knowhow limited to working on Peugeot’s engine project years ago. That approach meant the pool was small – and is a reason why Williams have previously struggled to recruit in this area. But Fry was quickly identified as someone whose wealth of experience across successful F1 teams was just what was required. DESTINATION GUIDE: What fans can eat, see and do when they visit Spa for the Belgian Grand Prix Fry also has the experience to cover the Technical Director role for the period of time required to build someone up internally or bring one in from the outside. Vowles has previously told me that he now feels Williams have a technical structure in place to move forward over the next two to four years. It’s the first step in a big project for Vowles, but now they have some momentum. Between him and Fry, their next task is to find a new Head of Aerodynamics. via Formula 1 News https://www.formula1.com

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Vowles says Williams have found their new Chief Technical Officer

Williams Team Principal James Vowles says the team have secured a new Chief Technical Officer – but he remained tight-lipped with regards to their identity. The iconic British operation have been without a CTO since Paddy Lowe left the team in 2019 and are currently without a Technical Director as well following FX Demaison’s departure at the end of last year. BEYOND THE GRID: James Vowles on his time as Williams Team Principal, Alex Albon, Lewis Hamilton and much more Vowles, who replaced Jost Capito as team boss at Williams ahead of this season, made finding a technical chief his top priority when he started the new role. When speaking exclusively to F1.com in Austria, Vowles said he has his full management structure in place. That is formed of a Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Human Resources Officer, Chief Revenue Officer and a Chief Technical Officer, the latter though has “yet to be announced”. It is believed Williams will be able to reveal the identity of their new CTO before the summer break. Williams haven't had a Chief Technical Officer in place since Paddy Lowe left the team in 2019 Vowles added the new CTO will cover the role of a Technical Director in the interim. “The CTO we are bringing onboard has tremendous experience in that domain and will act as a TD for the period of time required to build up a new TD or bring one in from the outside,” he said. LISTEN: Paddy Lowe on why his 2017 return to Williams didn't work out – and why the team slipped back “You’ll see the individual and think, ‘ah yeah, I get what you mean now’. It’s a positive state whereby I’m confident we have the technical structure in place to move us forward over the next two to four years. “We still have other areas of the business I’m bolstering, including aero, but irrespective for now that was the major hurdle I wanted to clear out.” With the CTO sorted, Vowles’ next key task is reinforcing the aerodynamics department, starting with finding a new Head of Aerodynamics. This feature is currently not available because you need to provide consent to functional cookies. Please update your cookie preferences The origins of the Williams F1 team They were responsible for the sizeable upgrade that broke cover in Canada on Alex Albon’s car (delivering a superb seventh place) and will feature on Logan Sargeant’s car too this weekend in Austria. “Aero itself are performing… the update is their handiwork,” Vowles continued. “It’s on the car and it’s performing. So, we are delivering performance, but it’s quite a significant change we are applying to that organisation. READ MORE: Special livery planned as Williams get set to celebrate 800th Grand Prix milestone at Silverstone and Budapest races “In terms of workflow, how they think, how they structure themselves, it won’t dramatically change the output in as much as downforce, it’ll just change some of the characteristics of the car. “We’re actively looking for a head of aero, and it’s just highlighting one that fits in with our organisation. The way I’ve always performed is you bring in, for example in this case a CTO, and let them ensure they structure the team they want, as it will fall on their shoulders ultimately. “So, that’s why to a certain extent, we are lining up individuals, but making sure we put our other structures in place.” via Formula 1 News https://www.formula1.com

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Williams to race with special livery in Silverstone and Budapest

Williams to race with special livery in Silverstone and Budapest By Balazs Szabo on 28 Jun 2023, 11:40 Williams Racing is set to race with a striking livery in the upcoming British and Hungarian Grands Prix with the British outfit eager to celebrate their 800th F1 race in Silverstone and Budapest. Since its foundation in 1977 by late Sir Frank Williams and engineering pioneer Sir Patrick Head, the team has won nine Constructors’ Championships, in association with Cosworth, Honda and Renault. The British outfit is the second most successful outfit only behind Ferrari, with its seven Drivers’ Championship trophies being lifted by true icons of the sport: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. The Grove-based outfit was expected to reach a vital milestone at the British Grand Prix with their 800th race, but the cancellation of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola last month has shifted this important landmark to the following race in Budapest. The team’s 2023 F1 challenger, the FW45 will showcase a bespoke livery exclusively designed for its home race at Silverstone, and will sport a special emblem in Budapest. The striking Silverstone design will pay homage to the team's British heritage and to its founder, the late Sir Frank Williams. Furthermore, Williams Racing is set to bring a true legend of the past, the 1992 championship winning FW14B, to Silverstone. F1 World Champion and Williams Racing Brand Ambassador Jenson Button is set to take the wheel to complete several demonstrations laps in the iconic car on Sunday. In addition to the on-track excitement, the team will set up a special fan zone area in London which will be open Monday to Sunday at 48 Regent Street during the British Grand Prix week. Fans will have the opportunity to meet Alex Albon, Logan Sargeant, Jenson Button and James Vowles with stunning heritage cars also set to appear in the Fan Zone, including Alain Prost's 1993 Championship winning car. The fanzone in London will also host a state-of-the-art simulators and a dedicated fan store where supporters can purchase exclusive team merchandise. Moreover, the event will feature a STEM education area, aimed at inspiring the next generation of engineers and innovators, fostering an appreciation for the scientific and technological aspects of Formula 1. Commenting on the special livery, Team Principal James Vowles said: "Reaching the milestone of our 800th Grand Prix is a remarkable achievement for Williams Racing. We are incredibly proud of our history and the legacy built over the years. “Over our 46-year history, the team has achieved incredible results. With nine Constructors’ championships and seven Drivers’ titles to our name we are the second most successful Formula 1 team of all time, only behind Ferrari. We invite all our fans to join us in this celebration as we pay tribute to our iconic past and look towards a bright future." via F1Technical.net . Motorsport news https://www.f1technical.net/news/

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Special livery planned as Williams get set to celebrate 800th Grand Prix milestone at Silverstone and Budapest races

Williams have announced plans to mark their 800th Grand Prix at upcoming rounds in Britain and Hungary, setting out a series of events and activities to honour the team’s rich history. Williams are one of the longest-serving and most successful teams in F1, having debuted as a team in 1977 and a constructor in 1978, before racking up more than 100 wins alongside seven drivers’ championship and nine constructors’ titles. IT’S RACE WEEK: 5 storylines we’re excited about ahead of the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix Silverstone had been set to mark the Grove team’s latest milestone of races completed but, with the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix weekend not going ahead, the moment will officially arrive at Budapest instead. To mark the occasion, Williams’ current F1 car, the FW45, will run a “striking” livery exclusively designed for their home race in Britain, paying homage to the squad’s British heritage and late founder Sir Frank Williams, before showcasing a special emblem in Hungary. Meanwhile, Williams are planning to unleash their 1992 double title-winning FW14B over the British Grand Prix weekend, with 2009 world champion and Williams Brand Ambassador Jenson Button set to jump into the cockpit for several demonstration laps on race day. Alongside these activities at Silverstone, Williams’ fanzone will be open in the heart of London – at 48 Regent Street, Piccadilly – from Monday to Sunday of the British GP week, with Button, current drivers Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant and Team Principal James Vowles all set to appear. The fanzone will feature a selection of heritage cars, including Alain Prost’s 1993 championship-winning machine, state-of-the-art simulators, a dedicated fan store and a STEM education area, aimed at inspiring the next generation of engineers and innovators. F1 NATION: Red Bull at home, rivals on the move and building the ‘ultimate champion’ – it’s our Austrian GP preview “Reaching the milestone of our 800th Grand Prix is a remarkable achievement for Williams Racing,” said Vowles. “We are incredibly proud of our history and the legacy built over the years. “Over our 46-year history, the team has achieved incredible results. With nine constructors’ championships and seven drivers’ titles to our name we are the second most successful Formula 1 team of all time, only behind Ferrari.” He signed off: “We invite all our fans to join us in this celebration as we pay tribute to our iconic past and look towards a bright future.” via Formula 1 News https://www.formula1.com

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Williams to put future Gulf livery to a fan vote

Williams to put future Gulf livery to a fan vote By Balazs Szabo on 27 May 2023, 07:00 On the eve of the Monaco Grand Prix, Williams has announced that it will let fans decide the look of their car for the Singapore, Japanese and Qatar Formula One Grands Prix with a vote on four options in the blue and orange of sponsor Gulf Oil International. The Grove-based outfit will offer a choice of four liveries inspired by Gulf’s iconic racing blue colourway alongside an orange stripe, but themed around the Gulf x Williams Racing partnership, including designs representing, Bolder than Bold, Contemporary, Visionary and Heritage. The winning design will appear on both FW45 race cars, the race suits of Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant and across team social media platforms over the Singapore, Japan and Qatar weekends. There will be three rounds of voting, with round 1 opening on Friday 26 May. After the final vote, the winning livery will be announced on Wednesday 12 July and displayed on a showcar at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on the Williams Racing stand where fans can see the livery up close. Williams revealed that it will involve fans with plenty of content, news and other exciting announcements all the way through to the Singapore Grand Prix. Commenting on the announcement, Team Principal James Vowles said: “I’m excited to announce the livery vote as part of our partnership between Gulf and Williams Racing. The winning livery will showcase two iconic motorsport brands coming together. Our fans have the opportunity to create motorsport history with their livery decision, bringing this partnership to life. I can’t wait to see the winning design and watch the Williams Racing fans cheering the team on.” Speaking of the unique livery, Guil Oil International CEO Mike Jones added: “Gulf’s iconic colours have created stunning liveries throughout motorsport history, and this year is set to be no different. We are incredibly proud to announce that a Gulf livery will be running on the Williams Racing cars at the Singapore, Japanese and Qatar Grands Prix in 2023. "This project is all about giving fans control and placing them at the centre of our partnership with Williams Racing. We feel strongly that each theme and livery will go down extremely well and look forward to seeing which one the fans choose. We hope that Gulf and Williams Racing fans alike love this vote and get excited about their role in choosing the latest Gulf livery. This activation marks what will be an iconic moment for both Gulf and Williams Racing in motorsport.” via F1Technical.net . Motorsport news https://www.f1technical.net/news/

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Williams offer fans chance to choose their livery for Singapore Japanese and Qatar Grands Prix

Williams are offering fans the chance to pick a special one-off livery in their partner Gulf’s iconic colours, which will feature on their FW45 race cars at the Singapore, Japanese and Qatar Grands Prix later this season. Williams have given fans the choice of four liveries, which include designs named ‘Bolder Than Bold’, ‘Contemporary’,’ Visionary’ and ‘Heritage’, all inspired by Gulf’s historic blue and orange colourway. READ MORE: PADDOCK INSIDER: Monaco is one of F1's great challenges – and it's where Red Bull's rivals will feel they are beatable The design that is chosen will not just feature on the FW45, but also on the race suits worn by drivers Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant, as well as Williams’ social media feed throughout all three races. There will be three rounds of voting, with round one starting on Friday, May 26. Following the final vote, the winner will be announced at the Williams stand at the Goodwood Festival of Speed event in the UK, where fans can see the livery up close. “I’m excited to announce the livery vote as part of our partnership between Gulf and Williams Racing,” said Williams Team Principal James Vowles. “The winning livery will showcase two iconic motorsport brands coming together. “Our fans have the opportunity to create motorsport history with their livery decision, bringing this partnership to life. I can’t wait to see the winning design and watch the Williams Racing fans cheering the team on.” Mike Jones, CEO of Gulf Oil International added: “Gulf’s iconic colours have created stunning liveries throughout motorsport history, and this year is set to be no different. PALMER: Monaco is the biggest challenge in F1 – here’s how the drivers prepare for a race fraught with risk “This project is all about giving fans control and placing them at the centre of our partnership with Williams Racing. We feel strongly that each theme and livery will go down extremely well and look forward to seeing which one the fans choose. “We hope that Gulf and Williams Racing fans alike love this vote and get excited about their role in choosing the latest Gulf livery. This activation marks what will be an iconic moment for both Gulf and Williams Racing in motorsport.” To be able to have your say, you can click here to vote for the livery that you would like to see on the FW45 later this year. via Formula 1 News https://www.formula1.com

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Verstappen pleased with change to Pirellis tyres for 2023 | RaceFans Round-up

In the round-up: Max Verstappen expects a revision to Pirelli’s tyres for the new season will suit his handling preference. In brief “I’ve never sat in a car with understeer which is fast” Pirelli has made revisions to its tyres for the 2023 F1 season which Verstappen hopes will improve the front-end grip. “The big issue last year was not specifically the tyres, it was just the weight of the car was very massively over and that creates a lazy behaviour on the front,” he told media including RaceFans last week. “Basically once we started to get rid of that weight, the car became more agile and that’s how a car is going to go quick, because I’ve never sat in a car with understeer which is fast in my life, in any category. “Also with the new tyres for Pirelli, I do think it’s a little improvement. Of course we only tested it fully in Abu Dhabi, for example. We have to see on every single track as well that it works everywhere. Because every Tarmac and track condition, like the weather, it influences a lot. But I’m confident that everything will be heading into the right direction.” Capito ‘laid the foundation’ for Vowles at Williams Former Williams team principal Jost Capito says he laid the foundations for the team’s future development and hadn’t committed to spending a third year at the team before his departure was announced at the end of last year. “Of course you don’t have that insight from the outside, but I originally said that I’d do it for two years, maybe a third,” he told Auto Bild. “In the meantime, however, there are so many races that it is relatively exhausting. And getting the team back up just takes longer than two or three years.” Capito spoke highly of James Vowles, who will replace him in charge of the team later this month, and said he had left behind a structure the former Mercedes strategist could develop. “I just think you have to lay the foundation first and once it’s laid, you can build on it,” said Capito. ���I was convinced that this is the case now, and I also communicated this to the board in the following way: that now that you have the basis, you should also have someone who will stay there in the long term and continue it from there can.” Bottas reveals weight loss ‘addiction’ Valtteri Bottas has admitted he pushed himself too hard to lose weight earlier in his Formula 1 career. “I trained myself to pain physically and mentally,” he said in an interview. “It got out of hand, and it became an addiction. No eating disorder was officially diagnosed, but it was definitely there.” “It wasn’t very healthy,” he added. “I wanted to be the best, and I thought I had to do that. If the team says that I have to weigh 68 kilos and I naturally weigh 73 kilos, then they will do everything for that.” Bottas also revealed how he was affected by the death of Jules Bianchi in 2015, and how speaking to a psychologist helped him come to terms with what he was going through. Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Happy birthday! Happy birthday to Victor and Rebecca! On this day in motorsport The first Force India appeared today in 2008 via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net/

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