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Old May 15, 2020 | 06:53 AM
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Have you heard of the recent driver moves?

Vettel departs Ferrari, likely because he didn’t want to be the #2 driver on the team to Leclerc.

Ricciardo departs Renault for McLaren.

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Old May 15, 2020 | 06:58 AM
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I'm pleased for the recent changes, I just hope the season can start at some point with or without people in attendance.

I was hoping for Daniel to get the Ferrari seat, but am equally pleased for him to go to McLaren as I see they've got promise for the future.
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Old May 15, 2020 | 07:19 AM
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And, in other racing news, Corvette will not be taking the C8 to the delayed 24 hour LeMans in September. Two issues - it is not fast enough and the team would be required to be quarantined 14 days upon arrival, spend a month there, and 14 days after returning home.
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I've heard a few teams have dropped out of LeMans this year, can't say I blame any of them.
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Old May 15, 2020 | 09:30 AM
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Porsche is going from 4 teams to 2.

IMSA is coming back July 4th at Daytona, unless something changes.
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Vettel is going to be number 1 driver for his wife.
Basically the only team with a slot open could be Mercedes.
I just don't see a successful pairing of Hamilton and Vettel.

Will there be a F1 season this yer at all.?
Two week quarantines make it awfully tough to compress an international schedule.
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Vettel will be with Renault.
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Originally Posted by boltonblue
Vettel is going to be number 1 driver for his wife.
Basically the only team with a slot open could be Mercedes.
I just don't see a successful pairing of Hamilton and Vettel.

Will there be a F1 season this yer at all.?
Two week quarantines make it awfully tough to compress an international schedule.
I was thinking the same thing, what season would we be talking about ? Would there be many venues holding a race in 2020 ? I would suspect the Canadian Grand Prix is cancelled.



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Originally Posted by Emil St-Hilaire
Vettel will be with Renault.
Vettel will do selected IndyCar car and endurance races (Daytona/LeMans etc) and possibly rally races- maybe even Tony Stewart’s yearly charity dirt track race
I don’t see him in F1 in 21 onwards.
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Current plan is to hold some F1 races starting next month with no audience, some will be double headers of back to back race weekends at the same tracks.
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