Awkwardness level: 1 million

https://twitter.com/racinghumour/status/658389013015994368

 

Yes, absolutely! This will be analyzed and remembered.

 

That video cuts out the best bit, Paddy Lowe from Mercedes giving Nico the "You've got a serious chewing out coming" death stare afterwards:

He also finished off most of his champaign on the podium so at the post race conference he's just going off at Lewis about him hitting him being unacceptable, and the individual post race interviews he's rambling drunk.

 

I think he'll have a hard time getting a ride anywhere else, he's currently on 10M which is almost double all of the Redbull/Toro Rosso guys combined, yet I don't see him having the potential of any of them. Both the Force India guys, especially Perez have really turned it up, and you've got Grosjean, KMag, and Stoffel Vandoorne in the wings, not to mention button talking about 2017. I think we've got more talent coming up now than at any point in the past, and with that guys like Kimi and Nico are going to have to start justifying their salaries or be replaced by younger and hungrier drivers.

 

The other hope is that Lewis and Nico could take enough points out of each other to bring Seb to the front as happened with Kimi 2007, Ferrari clearly are backing themselves for 2016 and think the title shot is on and Mercedes are closer to the point of diminishing returns.

Then there's also Fernando's optimism, when you consider how crippling the ERS issues are on the Honda now, they were doing decently yesterday until Fernando had a reliability issue with a sensor. With 20+ hp from the latest upgrade on the ICE the claims made about not being far behind Ferrari become very realistic, and with the amount of engineers Honda are throwing at the ERS issue I think we can assume it'll be sorted for 2016. An even stronger chassis, with an ICE on par and a fixed ERS with two very hungry WC drivers could be something rather special next year.

 

After second engine boom in 24 hours...

 

So sad; can't get a break.

 

I never know about Alonso. He "says" and is quoted saying all the right things, but why would you do something like this? I get that he is frustrated, but so is his team

 

Check out the hashtag #PlacesAlonsoWouldRatherBe on Twitter

 

https://twitter.com/gmspromo/status/665813001023463424

 

Shot from a better angle of Fernando winking at the camera with the TAG Heuer logo on display, totally needs to go on one of those #Dontcrackunderpressure ads, the man is missing quali after a second engine blew and chilled on a lawn chair

 

WOW. Huge news. Great post!

 

Big reboot coming:
McLaren set for big livery revamp for 2017 F1 car
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mclaren-set-for-big-livery-revamp-for-2017-f1-car-866430/

 

Given that Zak Brown is chairman of Motorsport.com that's a pretty good source!

 

The same reason they wrote "Pedro" (Pedro De La Rosa), that orange car is the MP4-21 from 2006 in the orange testing livery that McLaren also used in the late 1990s.