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Williams will run a special livery in Mexico and Brazil promoting Franco Colapinto's sponsor Mercado Libre.

With this, yellow colour will feature on the Willliams engine cover once again!

Yellow first appeared on the FW08C in 1983 and was ever-present in memorable liveries with a variety of partners until the end of 1993 – a period which saw the team pick up 55 of its 114 race wins, three of its nine Constructors’ World Championships and three of its seven Drivers’ World Championships.

Yellow will also be incorporated into the drivers’ race suits for the two races.

Mercado Libre just dropped a TV commercial with Colapinto promoting the partnership:

Watch the ad on youtube

Franco will be driving with a helmet featuring yellow too, as a homage to f1 legend and fellow Argentinian Carlos Reutermann:

picture of the helmet

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Franco will use this special helmet in the Mexican and Brazilian GPs

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Formula 1 is to adjust its budget cap from 2026 to offset the costs of teams that operate in countries with higher salary levels, BBC Sport has learned.

The move will help Audi’s attempts to become competitive when it enters F1 officially in just over a year’s time.

Audi has bought the Sauber team, who are based in Switzerland where salaries are in the range of 35-45% higher than in the UK or Italy - where the other nine teams have headquarters.

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[Feeder Series]

NEWS | Isack Hadjar is the new Red Bull Racing reserve driver, the team confirmed to Feeder Series! The 19-year-old, who currently sits second in the Formula 2 standings with four victories, is the successor of Liam Lawson.

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Official line from RB team principal Laurent Mekies in the post-race press release:

"Given this may have been Daniel’s last race, we wanted to give him the chance to savour it and go out with the fastest lap."

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As the Aston Martin cars leave the garage, a mechanic is seen pushing a photographer to the side in order to prevent a crash

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/14560406

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A deep dive into Red Bull's car problems, what we know about when Checo started complaining about the upgrades and when Max did, and what the consequences are.

I enjoyed this video – please don't down vote if you are simply not interested in watching videos.

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This video clip was part of a Williams livestream "Watch inside our garage" and has since been taken down.

Explains how that cooler was left on the car.

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Craig Scarborough has also chimed in on the subject:

This makes sense and underlined by the tech reg change. A return of the Newey fiddle brake, but automatic & creating a turning moment with the rear brakes. A simple weighted valve in the rear brake splitter could do this. Altering the effort between the calipers as the car turns

Screenshot frok the technical regulation change drawn visualisation of g sensitive tee valve drawn visualisation of g sensitive tee splitter drawn visualisation of tee splitter at left turn

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 32 points 3 months ago

You mean the Netanyahu whom Sarkozy and Obama called a liar 10 years ago? I mean, come on, obviously anyone with close knowledge of Israel ans Palestine knows Bibis track record – but if Obama knew it 10 years ago, then even his then-VP maybe should have known it too ????

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That makes Ralf the ~~second~~ fourth open lgbtq driver in F1 history after Mike Beuttler, Lella Lombardi and Mário de Araújo Cabral.

I guess that is an answer to whom that homophobic comment in the 2000s about "a gay/bi driver strutting down the pitlane" was about.

Some Germans on another platform said that apparently BILD tried to out him 20 years ago, but everyone refused to comment so they couldn't run that story back then.

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 46 points 5 months ago

Come on, this list of reasons was written by an LLM

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 34 points 5 months ago

That photo (I've seen it circulate on the internet myself) is a photoshop. Every reputable source says that no one knows what happened to that man, and we have no evidence whatsoever of him getting run over.

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 40 points 6 months ago

He was on the board, it's not like it was his project or anything. Imo he wanted to create a protocol, not a platform. "Improve Activitypub" like they always claimed. But then Bluesky realized that they can simply build their own platform and be Twitter 2.0

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 45 points 6 months ago

I hate the fact that this happened on the day of Lando's first victory. Fuck the fascist putschist.

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 45 points 7 months ago

The idea to prompt people who want to subscribe to a publication with "enter your email or ActivityPub address" is great

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago

The reason for kicking out people was obligations the employer holds for personnel (securities and support staff). They needed to send the employees home because it was getting too late in the night and their shifts were ending.

How tf FOM did not see this coming is unbelievable. It's literally advertised as a night race, they should have known that there is a possibility for delays. I have never seen anything like this in Europe, where most countries arguably have stronger wodker protection laws. How did they not have another team on hold that could take on those responsibilities?

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago

allegedly

A bit weird that they didnt want proof of misconduct, but hey

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

Bunch of BRICS countries arent democratic themselves, not to speak of their new additions.

The whole BRICS conference didnt allow journalist questions

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

They should have trained the Afghani women who have an actual reason to fight against the Taliban, instead of the lazy men who instantly capitulated.

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