Welcome to Monday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up.
There were several captions in contention to win this weekend’s competition but this one came out on top:
Daniel Ricciardo predicts the number of seasons Isack Hadjar will last as Max Verstappen’s team mate
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Inside Verstappen’s championship mindset (Bloomberg)
‘I honestly have no idea (how it’s going to be). I haven’t even done that many laps in the simulator. I will just see what happens when I sit in the car. I think what is always very important as a driver is that you can adapt quickly to the situation that you’re in. If that is on a current car that you’ve known for a long time or a completely new car, you just need to be able to adapt quickly, and learn quickly as well because the cars will evolve, I think, also very quickly.’
‘Even when I started at Mercedes in 2014, it just wasn’t a thing. Motorsport was so far behind other industries in terms of the adoption of content and digital. Even in those early days with Mercedes, 2014, and probably as recently as 2016, I was Lewis (Hamilton)’s press officer. I ran the website, wrote the press releases, ran the social media channels, and did the behind-the-scenes photography. This was one person. You have teams of 10, 12, 15 people doing that now in Formula 1 teams. I got in just as it started to become accepted that this was something motorsport needed to do, and it was lagging behind. I was really building one of the first proper digital and content teams in Formula 1 by building a team underneath me.’
Ilott ‘in for a busy year’ with IMSA-IndyCar double duty (Sportscar 365)
‘I really wanted to race the endurance races in IMSA and he was looking for a full season driver. We agreed as long as Long Beach isn’t an issue that I do the full season.’
1970: Formula One drivers’ pre-season ski trip – Wheelbase (BBC Archive)
Gabriel Bortoleto has revealed his new helmet design for the 2026 Formula 1 season.#F1
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