The Bloke and A Bird Show Episode 250

The Bloke and A Bird Show

it looks like something may come out of the FIA’s Investigation of the end of the last Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. We may still end up with a wholly unsatisfying determination from the FIA (and to be clear we do not expect the Driver’s Championship to be overturned and we do not believe that overturning the Drivers Championship to be a satisfactory or desirable result).

Could Lewis Hamilton actually be considering leaving F1 - or is there something else going on with his silence this off season?

We learned of a major flaw in F1’s Race Director structure - one that in this era of Covid Protocols we think is pretty inexcusable. A flaw that arguably didn’t exist when Charlie Whiting was in the role.

We got the first acknowledgment from somebody at Honda that walking away from F1 when they did might not have been the right idea…

Aston Martin is the first to announce the reveal date for the 2022 season challenger. Plus they’ve named Mike Krack as their new Team Principal.

Alpine has parted ways with their Team Principal Marcin Budkowski.

And McLaren is adamantly opposed to any changes in the cost cap.