Formula 1 racing chatter!

[formulanone]

Lewis Hamilton to Ferrari in 2025...looks like Carlos Sainz will be a free agent after this season.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/68169534

The silly season starts early!

[Rothman]

Aw.  No more "Smooth Operator."

[02 Park Ave]

Will ESPN be replaying the Australian Grand Prix any time this week?  I didn't stay up for it but I understand that it was quite the race.  I haven't found it on any schedule.

[1995hoo]

Leclerc's exchange with his engineer this weekend was outstanding:

Leclerc: "Is there a leakage?"

Engineer: "A leakage of what?"

Leclerc: "I have the seat full of water! Like, full of water!"

Engineer: "Must be the water."

Leclerc: "Let's add that to the words of wisdom."

(As the TV commentators suggested, presumably the engineer meant a leak in the drink bottle system.)

[Rothman]

Leclerc's exchange with his engineer this weekend was outstanding:

Leclerc: "Is there a leakage?"

Engineer: "A leakage of what?"

Leclerc: "I have the seat full of water! Like, full of water!"

Engineer: "Must be the water."

Leclerc: "Let's add that to the words of wisdom."

(As the TV commentators suggested, presumably the engineer meant a leak in the drink bottle system.)

TikTok's had a lot of fun with this.

[1995hoo]

Leclerc's exchange with his engineer this weekend was outstanding:

Leclerc: "Is there a leakage?"

Engineer: "A leakage of what?"

Leclerc: "I have the seat full of water! Like, full of water!"

Engineer: "Must be the water."

Leclerc: "Let's add that to the words of wisdom."

(As the TV commentators suggested, presumably the engineer meant a leak in the drink bottle system.)

TikTok's had a lot of fun with this.

I filmed it and sent it to our hockey ticket partners because there's a fellow who sits in our section—as seen below, he goes to Nats games as well—whose schtick is to dress up in faux Naval dress whites (but with shorts instead) and to call himself "Captain Obvious" while holding up signs that say things like, "I have a beard." (It's essentially a ploy to get himself on TV.) I told our ticket partners that I was surprised to learn that he took a job as a Ferrari race engineer.

[formulanone]

Leclerc's exchange with his engineer this weekend was outstanding:

Leclerc: "Is there a leakage?"

Engineer: "A leakage of what?"

Leclerc: "I have the seat full of water! Like, full of water!"

Engineer: "Must be the water."

Leclerc: "Let's add that to the words of wisdom."

(As the TV commentators suggested, presumably the engineer meant a leak in the drink bottle system.)

TikTok's had a lot of fun with this.

Maybe something good will come out of the new naughty-word ban.

Apparently Ferrari also doesn't think their 100-race winner knows what the DRS button does, either.

Changing jobs is weird.