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Red Bull Bids Honda A Fond Farewell With Special White Livery

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Red Bull Bids Honda A Fond Farewell With Special White Livery

The tribute includes a one-off special livery in throwback Honda Championship White with red accent, paying tribute to the rising sun livery the company wore when it first joined F1 in the 1960s. The cars also carry the characters for the Japanese word ‘arigato’ with a hearty and heart-felt thank you to the powerplant manufacturer. The Alpha Tauri cars will also carry the thank you message.

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Rather than switching to a new powertrain supplier in 2022, Red Bull will take over the intellectual property and production of Honda’s V6 hybrid power units later this year ahead of the revised chassis requirements next season. It would likely be too much of a pain in the ass for Red Bull to have to build a brand new chassis to new regulations and build a relationship with a new powerplant manufacturer at the same time. As a result the fizzy energy drinks company will start its own engine division called Red Bull Powertrains.

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RBR’s Max Verstappen currently sits 2 points behind championship leader Lewis Hamilton with seven rounds remaining in the championship. Perhaps this special livery will be enough to push him to his eighth victory this season, or perhaps it will go about as well as the last time Mercedes decided to run a special one-off tribute livery. We’ll see when the Turkish Grand Prix goes off this Sunday. 

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How Good Was Valtteri Bottas, Really, At Mercedes?

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How Good Was Valtteri Bottas, Really, At Mercedes?

To get the full picture, you’ll have to watch the video. Stuart compares qualifying results, which show that Hamilton has pretty consistently outclassed Bottas when it comes to securing a higher starting position. Stuart also compares stats from the Hamilton vs. Rosberg era, so we get a much clearer picture of what we’re talking about. And while Hamilton also consistently outclassed Rosberg, Rosberg also took pole position and the front row more frequently than Bottas. In fact, Rosberg’s average qualifying time was faster than Hamilton’s.

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There’s more data to back things up, but the conclusion Stuart reaches is very much the one that many other fans have reached: Bottas has been a solidly good driver, but he was never destined to be a World Champion. And that’s exactly where Mercedes wanted him to be.

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Introducing Sir Lewis Hamilton

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Following his record-equaling seventh Formula 1 world championship title taken by a huge margin across the 2020 season, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pulled a few strings to get Lewis Hamilton’s name included in this year’s list of knights of the British Kingdom. Because Hamilton doesn’t count the United Kingdom as his country of residence anymore there were some concerns that he wouldn’t be eligible for a knighthood, but that was bypassed by adding him to the “Diplomatic and Overseas list”. Job done.

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According to the Daily Mail, a source told the paper that Boris had made it unequivocally clear that he wanted Lewis to be knighted this year, and a few exceptions had to be made in order to make that happen. Hamilton has been an incredibly visible sports hero in 2020 with outspoken support for Black Lives Matter, and becoming the face of the FIA’s We Race As One campaign. And that’s to say nothing of his environmental activism campaigns. Or, you know, dominating the competition.

Hamilton will be just the fourth F1 driver to be knighted, following Sir Jack Brabham, Sir Jackie Stewart, and Sir Stirling Moss. Two further F1 paddock alumnus have been knighted, however, as both Sir Frank Williams and Sir Patrick Head have received the honorary. Lewis, however, will be the first contemporary racer to be on the grid with the title to his name. Hamilton received his MBE after winning his first championship in 2008.

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This means he gets to fight crime with Excalibur, right? Does he have to live at Camelot? Does he have to fight the queen? I don’t know, I’m not British. Someone clarify this for me, please.

Anyway, congratulations to Lewis. I know this is a great honor, even if I don’t exactly know what it means to be a knight. He’ll always be my hero.

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