Since this posting, the good Mr Ticktum has seen his championship lead vanish in the face of a late-season onslaught from Mick Schumacher, who'll be crowned champion as long as he scores one point more than his rival in any of the final three races at Hockenheim. He has greeted these developments with good grace and a steely resolve to do better next time, because it would of course be lunacy to log in to Instagram, create a post about your competitor having "interesting" pace and suggest that you're being screwed out of a championship because your name isn't Schumacher. This would be especially true if your girlfriend, by this point deep enough inside the minibar that she's uncovered the secret passage to Narnia, then logged on and began to suggest that those questioning your racing prowess were jealous of your achievements and, in all probability, desperately sexually frustrated. Thank goodness, then, that he avoided that particular pitfall.GB_Simo wrote:However...the Red Bull Junior Program only has 6 drivers in it. Of those, the only one anywhere near a Superlicence is Dan Ticktum, who'll qualify if he wins the European F3 championship (which he leads) or the Super Formula championship (which he doesn't). He's only 19, though, and might benefit from a season doing something else, particularly as his experience in the junior classes has been limited by a two-year ban, the second year of which was suspended.
What he did, in case you're wondering, was overtake half the field under an MSA Formula (now British F4) safety car in order to ram the race leader at speed. He had his reasons, all of them nuts.
No, not avoided. Fell into. I should imagine Helmut was ecstatic.
Meanwhile, Antonio Giovinazzi is in at Sauber, where I wouldn't expect him to be on the level of Leclerc but would expect him to do just fine. Ericsson remains as third driver, presumably because it doesn't make much sense for his backers to place him elsewhere while still owning Sauber.
