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Are Renault about to change their name
Renault has been back in Formula 1 since 2016 and has since then been shown with its yellow-black livery. That could change in the future. For example, Fernando Alonso was already hoping for a little more blue and that could happen just like that. Renault's blue of course dates back to the time when the team was most successful. In 2005 and 2006 Alonso took the world title with the French race team, which was then dressed in a yellow-blue livery. An iconic colour combination that did not reappear in Formula 1 after the 2006 season. With the return of Alonso and his wish to give the car a blue tint again, little seems to have happened yet, but Formula 1 journalist Thomas Maher discovered something in Renault's latest press release. Cyril Abiteboul is put forward as one of the important people to promote their brands and under the heading of Abiteboul also Alpine.
Rumours are now raging about a potential new name for Renault, but also new colours. Alpine is a French car that falls under the Renault dome. They mainly produce racing and sports cars and after the project was stopped in 1994, it was resumed in 2012. The logo is predominantly blue and the website is also shrouded in blue. Is this the chance for Alonso to drive in blue again? Alfa, Alpha, Aston and Alpine? Would likely bring the blue back just in time for Fernando’s return, too. As he suggested on signing.
Claire Williams speaks
Claire Williams has spoken candidly to Sky Sports F1 about her reasons for stepping away from the team and Formula 1 - admitting she would have likely found staying into its new era under different owners "enormously difficult". In her only sit-down interview on the family's final race in the sport after 44 years of team ownership, Williams revealed that while she was twice asked to stay on by the team's new owners, Dorilton Capital, she did not feel she was the right person to lead it into its new era.
"It was absolutely my decision and I'd like to make that really clear," she said to David Croft. "I've obviously known that this has been coming. I've been working on the strategic review since March and obviously lockdown as well afforded me the opportunity to think about my life and what I wanted and about the outcome of this process and what the eventualities could be and could mean. I took a long time to think about what it would feel like to have new owners, if we did fully sell Williams, and what that would feel like for me. I love this team, I've always loved this team, and I want to see it do well. But I think anyone, I hope, could understand that for me working for somebody else would be potentially enormously difficult. I've run this team as my team as seven years. You put blood, sweat and tears into something like I have for the time that I have, made the sacrifices doing what I've done. This is a hard, hard business. I've given it my all and I've done that because I've wanted to protect my family's legacy in this sport. I've done it because I'm my dad's daughter and I felt it was my duty to do it, so to speak. Now that it's not ours I don't feel that I could put the same amount of energy into it. The past few years have been incredibly tough. They have taken an awful lot out of me and, if I'm honest, I think that probably Dorilton need somebody that has more energy than I've currently got, somebody that is going to put in more than I can currently give it to take it forward. They're going to put as much as they can into it and they're going to want somebody that can take that and really drive it forward. I don't think I am that person."
[I'm really interested in who will be the new team boss at Williams, I'm sure they will manage until the end of the season but who will the take over running the team?]
Renault has been back in Formula 1 since 2016 and has since then been shown with its yellow-black livery. That could change in the future. For example, Fernando Alonso was already hoping for a little more blue and that could happen just like that. Renault's blue of course dates back to the time when the team was most successful. In 2005 and 2006 Alonso took the world title with the French race team, which was then dressed in a yellow-blue livery. An iconic colour combination that did not reappear in Formula 1 after the 2006 season. With the return of Alonso and his wish to give the car a blue tint again, little seems to have happened yet, but Formula 1 journalist Thomas Maher discovered something in Renault's latest press release. Cyril Abiteboul is put forward as one of the important people to promote their brands and under the heading of Abiteboul also Alpine.
Rumours are now raging about a potential new name for Renault, but also new colours. Alpine is a French car that falls under the Renault dome. They mainly produce racing and sports cars and after the project was stopped in 1994, it was resumed in 2012. The logo is predominantly blue and the website is also shrouded in blue. Is this the chance for Alonso to drive in blue again? Alfa, Alpha, Aston and Alpine? Would likely bring the blue back just in time for Fernando’s return, too. As he suggested on signing.
Claire Williams speaks
Claire Williams has spoken candidly to Sky Sports F1 about her reasons for stepping away from the team and Formula 1 - admitting she would have likely found staying into its new era under different owners "enormously difficult". In her only sit-down interview on the family's final race in the sport after 44 years of team ownership, Williams revealed that while she was twice asked to stay on by the team's new owners, Dorilton Capital, she did not feel she was the right person to lead it into its new era.
"It was absolutely my decision and I'd like to make that really clear," she said to David Croft. "I've obviously known that this has been coming. I've been working on the strategic review since March and obviously lockdown as well afforded me the opportunity to think about my life and what I wanted and about the outcome of this process and what the eventualities could be and could mean. I took a long time to think about what it would feel like to have new owners, if we did fully sell Williams, and what that would feel like for me. I love this team, I've always loved this team, and I want to see it do well. But I think anyone, I hope, could understand that for me working for somebody else would be potentially enormously difficult. I've run this team as my team as seven years. You put blood, sweat and tears into something like I have for the time that I have, made the sacrifices doing what I've done. This is a hard, hard business. I've given it my all and I've done that because I've wanted to protect my family's legacy in this sport. I've done it because I'm my dad's daughter and I felt it was my duty to do it, so to speak. Now that it's not ours I don't feel that I could put the same amount of energy into it. The past few years have been incredibly tough. They have taken an awful lot out of me and, if I'm honest, I think that probably Dorilton need somebody that has more energy than I've currently got, somebody that is going to put in more than I can currently give it to take it forward. They're going to put as much as they can into it and they're going to want somebody that can take that and really drive it forward. I don't think I am that person."
[I'm really interested in who will be the new team boss at Williams, I'm sure they will manage until the end of the season but who will the take over running the team?]
Limejuice
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Ah, Sky's FP2 coverage has the helicopter engine noise bleeding into the live commentary.
It's just like a post-race interview.
I wonder if Sky has sound people scuttling around the track trying to find the most intrusive background racket? If so, well done, people!
It's just like a post-race interview.
I wonder if Sky has sound people scuttling around the track trying to find the most intrusive background racket? If so, well done, people!
1%er
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Wolff plays down Ferrari rumour
Toto Wolff has brushed off rumours that he might soon be leading crisis-struck Ferrari. The wild rumour in the Italian press follows reports of the Mercedes team boss’s dithering over a new contract and strained relationship with Daimler CEO Ola Kallenius.
“Everyone dreams of Ferrari it’s normal,” Wolff told Sky Italia at Monza. “It’s the same with drivers. Ferrari is the most important brand in Formula 1 and it is equally important that they return to fighting to win. But I’m part of Mercedes and the team. I have a good relationship with the team and I feel good where I am. I’m fine here.” However, the rumours of a potential shock switch to Maranello are gaining steam. “Because I have not yet renewed the contract with Mercedes?” Wolff responded. “First of all, it is important to understand where this Formula 1 is going and it’s normal that negotiations to renew are not easy. But I think that in the coming weeks we will be able to close the discussions.”
Wolff also said he would like to take the heat out of the political arguments in Formula 1, insisting: “What matters is being united for the show in the sport.” Finally, he addressed this weekend’s ban on ‘party mode’ engine settings, believing it is an effort to slow the dominant team down. "At first it was frustrating, because we developed an engine to be able to take advantage of this mode in qualifying,” said the Austrian. “But on the other hand, when one team beats all the others, they do everything to slow it down, together with the FIA,” added Wolff. “That’s why we now take the change as a positive thing and we hope to be able to go faster in the race instead.”
Toto Wolff has brushed off rumours that he might soon be leading crisis-struck Ferrari. The wild rumour in the Italian press follows reports of the Mercedes team boss’s dithering over a new contract and strained relationship with Daimler CEO Ola Kallenius.
“Everyone dreams of Ferrari it’s normal,” Wolff told Sky Italia at Monza. “It’s the same with drivers. Ferrari is the most important brand in Formula 1 and it is equally important that they return to fighting to win. But I’m part of Mercedes and the team. I have a good relationship with the team and I feel good where I am. I’m fine here.” However, the rumours of a potential shock switch to Maranello are gaining steam. “Because I have not yet renewed the contract with Mercedes?” Wolff responded. “First of all, it is important to understand where this Formula 1 is going and it’s normal that negotiations to renew are not easy. But I think that in the coming weeks we will be able to close the discussions.”
Wolff also said he would like to take the heat out of the political arguments in Formula 1, insisting: “What matters is being united for the show in the sport.” Finally, he addressed this weekend’s ban on ‘party mode’ engine settings, believing it is an effort to slow the dominant team down. "At first it was frustrating, because we developed an engine to be able to take advantage of this mode in qualifying,” said the Austrian. “But on the other hand, when one team beats all the others, they do everything to slow it down, together with the FIA,” added Wolff. “That’s why we now take the change as a positive thing and we hope to be able to go faster in the race instead.”
dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
why not?
Limejuice
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They had a (now) typically crap session. It would be like kicking a team when it's down.
Limejuice
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dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
You get ad breaks during the FP? Do you get them in quali and the race?In-fucking-cessantly. Every fucking ad break.
Limejuice
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Ad breaks come up during practice sessions. They come (a lot) before and after qualifying and the race itself. But no ad breaks during qualifying or the race.
Sky has always avoided the mistake that ITV made of shoving ad breaks wily-nilly into a live race. (So far.)
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
I realise this has been the talk for a while, but just switched the radio on to hear that Ocon was defending against Raikkonen.
In qualifying
In qualifying
Limejuice
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Exactly. Mercedes' normal mode looes better than anyone else's normal mode by some margin.Mercedes look like they are making a statement that "Party mode" isn't that important to them
Limejuice
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They were both on a qualifying, flying lap. Fair's fair.I realise this has been the talk for a while, but just switched the radio on to hear that Ocon was defending against Raikkonen.
In qualifying
