The thing with Aston is that the level of investment doesn’t always produce results. Toyota proved that pretty well. It’s funny how well they performed as Force India on a limited budget, yet seemingly with more investment year on year since Stroll took over they’ve fallen back somewhat. New factory and some good acquisitions on the technical team are good signs, though. Is Alonso going to be able to keep it together long enough for that to bear fruit? I worry he’ll quickly become upset at the driver treatment vs Lance.
the reason Racing Point and Aston Martin iterations of Force India are lacking is because they first straight up copied the winning car of the previous season, without understanding the inner workings. then they tried to lure away people away from Mercedes and Ferrari, but the cream of the crop staid put. those that came in could only copy their work in their previous employments. and lastly Lawrence Stroll keeps insisting his son Lance can become WDC.
my prediction:
- Alonso does so well the stroll clan refuses to give him updates. lance ruins said updates with a string of crashes, so alonso retires a few times and finds a new career as commentator, pitreporter and camera operator
Hamilton and Verstappen go for round two, including cold war part 2, a pitch invasion on Silverstone and a restraining order against Toto Wolff for Harassment of race director Wittich. who wins Wdc 2023 will be determined in Switzerland on a cold February afternoon in 2024, not including another costcap saga which will make rocketpowered mohawk the most viewed f1 commentator on YT, and also makes him public enemy #1 in his home country
Ferrari goes through a Far Cry definition of insanity, winning the first races and throwing away the season because the new Italian strategy team revolts against french Teamboss vasseur, demanding binotto back. instead they all get fired and Carlos Sainz Sr and Jean Alesi do the job together.
At Rbr, Perez falls in a deep slump and announces a shock retirement after crashing out of the first lap in his home grand prix. Meaning Tsunoda has to drive the last two races (should have been De Vries but Honda protested and threatening to pull support if Tsunoda doesn't get the job)
absolutely no infighting at Mercedes, for a bitter rivalry we look at Alpine where Gaslys dominant performance in the first half makes Ocon go haywire and trying to punt him off like with Perez in Spa. Teamboss Otmar Szafnauer uses an old Jean Todt strategy: flipping a coin who he has to fire.
against all odds McLaren wins the battle of the rest, Piastri and Norris perfectly Tag teaming Verstappen in Zandvoort. another pitch invasion led by angry former Ziggo personnel Tim and Tom Coronel ensues, meaning McLaren personnel has to run for their lives. in the aftermath Rob Kamphues, Olav Mol and Jack Plooi are banned from twitter but reinstated by poll results requested from Grand prix radio fans.
Alfa Romeo already benefits from a few Audi tweaks to the hybrid system but despite decent qualifications they break down in the races. help from the Chinese space association is refused as stellantis fears sanctions from the biden Administration
Haas does get the cars in q2 regularly, but both Magnussen and hulkenberg gather their laurels elsewhere in shock moves to porsche and Peugeot for le mans 2024.
at Williams sargent does give albon a good fight pushing the team past Haas and AR. A shock third place for sargent in Las Vegas leads to a tempting offer from Cadillac, and an extra CAS tribunal over their refused entry into F1 in 2026.
outrageous enough for a Monday I think, I'm going to listen to Boomtown Rats and Bangles again
