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Miguel Feb 9

The new @AstonMartinF1
#AMR26 car for 2026 season!!!👀

Team:
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@lance_stroll #LS18 🇨🇦

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#F12026

Book Jan 5

Kimi was in a Ferrari seat and won their last WDC. Due to politicking and scheming, he left. Came back a few years later for a nice payday but it didn't amount to much.

Eyebrow-sama (Alonso) was his prime when he joined Ferrari. 2012's car was a glass cannon, and when he was given latitude, he dragged that pony to a near-Championship win. Soon after, he left.

They got Seb in the seat. He spent six years trying to mould the team to success. The only good time they had was when they were "cheating" with oil burn and fuel-flow meters. Eventually, he broke. His car control worsened, the delicate front end destroyed the confidence he had. And the claims of backroom dealings were rife. So he left.

Ferrari got a brilliant youngling in the seat in the guise of Leclerc. He started gently but soon proved to be one of the fastest drivers ever. He expected to regularly fight for wins and, with a fair wind, a championship. I think too much pressure was, and is, placed on him, because he started to drive the car differently. The psychology is unclear, but he either started to drive the car he wanted (and not the one he had), or he started 'over-driving' the car. This lead to, on occasion, examples of pure brilliance, but more often than not ended with him buying a €5 million ticket straight to the scene of the accident. Now? Charles looks (and somewhat acts) like an abused spouse. I imagine he has a lot of social pressure to stay, given his inner circle and familial desires, but I think he should leave.

Now, they have Hamilton partnering The Abusée. Hammy has competitively driven several generations of cars. While he has a style and front end that he likes, he has shown himself to be adaptable, and work with what he has given the right mindset and space to learn the intricacies of his motor. Ham has done very little at Ferrari, and has expressed frustration more toward himself than Maranello. I understand, but I don't think it's his fault. Yeah, the Boy Wonder is doing better, but he's known nothing else. Ham knows what it takes to make a pauper and into a prince. I think he'll soon leave.

Hundreds of thousand of kilometres driven in anger, hundreds of race wins, and 14 World Driver's Championships are shared between these drivers, and Ferrari has more experience, metrics, and intuition than an internationally-reknowned neurology department, and they still can't do anything of note.

Maybe, and here is my "20+ years watching F1" mouthy opinion: Maybe, perhaps, could be...

It's not the drivers.

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