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Bottas will never be world champion, not unless Hamilton pulls out due to injury mid season, if Hamilton hangs up his gloves they will bring somebody else in to go for the championship. Bottas is a journeyman not a champion in waiting, he's not consistent enough, he didn't finish 2nd enough times last year.

So the same as Jenson Button, Damian Hill & James Hunt then?

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i am surprised Ferrari want the internal competition, Sainz will not 'seed' to LeClerc he believes he can be a champion. Ricciardo to McLaren could be a good move as long as they can still go forward

Yeah but it's a Doodle idea they like to make simple things complicated to make themselves look good.

I give you Mr Trump, what's a few millions deaths as long as world trade continues, collateral damage.

I see this as the first step in Mercedes removing themselves from the front line, they will still remain an engine/KERS supplier as they can use the development in their own cars, but their demographic customer isn't an F1 fan, unlike Ferrari's. Will Lewis jump to the seat if offered British driver in British car?

I take it you are a suvverner so don't want the cars to come Norf, how about start line at Silverstone, out on the A43 to the M1, up the M1 to Donnington, lap around Donington, then back down the M1 across the A14 to the M11 to the M25, M2, round Brands, out on the M25 still clockwise round Larndun, up the M40 with the finishing line at Silverstone. Looks about 350 miles, so there would have to be refuelling but it should be possible at Donnington & Brands, it just needs a bit of imagination to make it work.

Yes, ridden & driven all 3 (although not the GP at Brands), yes they have moved on, but you are thinking with your 21st Century in normal times head, there is no reason why they couldn't put limits on team members etc. don't forget there will be no spectators so hospitality will not be required. As a complete aside I think F1 ought to go the way Nascar do for pit stops, limit the number of bodies in the pit lane from 20+ down to 6, 2 to steady the car & be there to restart in case of stalling & 4 to change the wheels, no more are needed.

We have Silverstone, Brands Hatch & Donnington all with circuits & possibly facilities to host a F1 GP, not sure Brands & Donnington are quite up to the full standards but must be fairly close, so how about a 9 race championship over 9 weekends, one race at each track in rotation. The 3 outside UK teams could be quarantined to not mix with any other personnel from any other team they may have to change pitbox's to keep separation, Silverstone even has a 2nd set of pits.

If non essential International travel had been severely limited earlier & all people coming into the UK had been quarantined earlier we wouldn't be in this mess, the UK Government didn't act quick enough & I'm still not convinced they still are. We are a small island we could have been through this & out the other side by now, but we are where we are. But just like F1 it's all about the money, how long can the teams survive without the sponsorship money, which if they aren't racing then you have to assume they aren't getting, although logically the expenditure is well down as well.

Not sure I'm at them moment concentrating on being here to find out But that only works if we continue down the invisible money no manufacturing route, but it's just not sustainable, at some point the bubble must burst & the sand that all this wealth is built on will shift, 2 bedroom terrace houses changing hands for over £500,000 in London is just crazy, but this is what is driving the commuting society, if we solve that problem then people won't need to commute. The biggest help to all of this would be birth control, stop the population explosion, stop each of the religions going for domination by having more bodies than the other. China did it well with their 1 child policy, okay they held onto it too long, but it should be what we all aspire to.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52209790 That's your funding stuffed then, at least there will be some good come out of this horrendous situation, we cannot build our way out of killing the planet we have to come up with other ways to stop people needing to travel, not facilitate the need.

Because it has never been needed, it's not needed now & it won't be needed in the future, it's a vanity project to put money into the Governments friends whose wallets are the only thing that is going to benefit. Last estimate was 120 Billion wasn't it? which means it won't come in under 200 Billion, the UK Government after this pandemic will just not have that kind of funds to give to their friends or sell to them for a peerage.

Just watching GCN virtual cycle racing, now I can see the point of this, as in some ways there is little difference with the real thing, as it's man that is powering the machine, but not sure about F1 in pretend cars. As to Sky just looked on Sky GO & it's listed.