They're just selling it for a leaseback. It's a common tactic for reducing tax liabilities in the US. I'd assume its the same in the UK if McLaren are doing it. They're not moving out of the headquarters, just selling it to lease it because the tax treatment of lease payments is more favorable.

My employer just built three large buildings in three big cities and immediately sold them for leasebacks.

Perez’ comments, class act!

https://youtu.be/ee9OF7HggD0

I really hope Kimi stay's in F1

https://www.planetf1.com/news/kimi-raikkonen-first-alfa-romeo/

Norris will be my favourite driver then, if Kimi isn't racing, even stayed behind one race to help the mechanics pack up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9GW8pL_jUM

Absolutely - I think Kimi has become my all-time favorite F1 driver. I just love his attitude, his approach to the whole thing.

I think Kimi is past his "best by" date. He hasn't been a factor in a race in several seasons and he seems content to fight Williams for last place.

My god is F1 horrid nowadays. The sport of my childhood heroes is reduced to computer algorithms. The Indy race today was fun, should be fun as well tomorrow. The NASCAR race made F1 qualifying dulll and that’s a tough nut to top .

Well, umm... same can be said for Fangio, Clark, Stewart, Prost, Senna, Schumacher...

So if a driver is not currently competitive, he can no longer be in consideration for a "favorite all-time driver"? :rolleyes:

He is only in it anymore just to have fun. He knows he will never again be in a competitive car, yet he keeps doing it for the love of the sport. That is a large part of why I said he has become my all-time favorite driver.

Mugello is a beautiful circuit. It’s fun to see some new locations this season. Looking forward to a good race.

If these drivers are supposed to be the best of the best they sure aren't showing it . What an ugly start/restart .

Hope they got lots of fuel in the pace car
 

This is going to be a doozy

Today’s race turned out to be a huge time suck, no real surprise at the end, I turned it off when the political T-shirts showed up.

Congratulations to Albon for the podium finish and Riccardo drove very well . I would love to see Russell in Botas's car .

A few pile ups always spice things up.
Good for Kimi.

The website GP Today is reporting that chemical giant Ineos will purchase 70 percent of the Mercedes F1 team and rebrand . They also stated Toto Wolf will move to Aston Martin F1 next year . Quite a bombshell if accurate .

England's richest dude Jim Radcliffe and Ineos to buy 70 percent share of the team per an interview Sunday with former team owner Eddie Jordan . If this is true I wonder what affect it has on Hamilton contract talks .

F1 was not quite the pinnacle of motorsports today.

I feel a little for Bottas. He beat Hamilton on two of the three starts. Unfortunately, the third one was the one that mattered.

F1 has been made so much more enjoyable to the fans by self-righteous drivers ramming their pet social justice causes down our throats. I really enjoy the well-planned (even to the point of printing up T-shirts in advance :rolleyes: ) somber victory podiums today compared to the genuine joy and emotion of drivers in days past. Can't wait for the next race :D

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I saw Hammy pre-race with that t-shirt. My question to him, where were you when this occurred? Why wait until now? :rolleyes: 100% he had no idea who she was and CERTAINLY no idea of the actual facts vice the SJW version of being killed in bed.

No grid girls or national flags but they get to act stupid :rolleyes:

And what's even more annoying is that not one driver is from the US nor has an interest in what occurs here. But dang if they don't want to insert their politics into our lives from across the pond.

^I am very glad I missed that.

Funny, the sponsors are paying top dollar or pound or whatever for the surface area on those overalls. Wonder how they feel about it? Stupid question, since they would never object...

I was also thinking during the piece on Michael Schumacher about him directing the music while the Italian anthem was being played while he was on the podium after a win. Word was the Italian government stepped in and said "basta" (asked him to knock it off) as it was not appropriate. Hmmm....................... how times have changed

I think sports of all types provide an escape from the daily rigors of life for most fans. Politics should be kept away from the track events. Supposedly the FIA is having a look into Hamilton’s actions.

I am not sure why you would buy a team at the top of their game when the team principal and #1 driver are looking for new challenges in 2022. They can only go down from there.

The Brits are apparently still angry they were defeated and run out of The New World all those many years ago.

Also, it's very easy to criticize anyone or anything. Even a 10 year old can do it. It makes a small minded person feel important... or smart... or that they're doing something of consequence.

Good luck with that. Virtue signalling is the most transparent idiocy in today's pop culture.

Hammy sucks. Very good driver but loses my respect when he takes his helmet off and his main concern is all that girly primping he does.

:rolleyes:

You noticed that too. Over the last couple of seasons when he was getting hair plugs you could tell he was very self conscious about his hair. He would try to either turn his back or go into a garage to take off his balaclava and then put the ladies underpants on his head. :D

Great driver, even bigger doosh.

i had little respect for him before after he cried like a little girl over global warming (his team burns millions of gallons a year in vehicles and airplanes but that's different, because it puts millions of $$$ in his pocket) and then he condemned us all because we .... oh the horror ..... EAT MEAT!

Now this latest hey whatabout me stunt. He's a punk but he cries and acts surprised when he's called out as one.
Maybe they need to hire THREE 24/7 handlers to remind him to keep his mouth shut instead of just two.

I’ve been a formula one fan for a long time thanks to Rob Walker and Road & Track. Saw Cevert win Watkins Glen and Jackie Stewart’s great win at the Nurburgring. I will no longer watch or attend any races. I’m sick and tired of the politicizing of sports. I’m also tired of Hamilton.

Yup, 2 seasons ago, as soon as the helmet and balaclava came off, on went the doo rag. It must have been soaked in Rogaine.

The most pathetic part is that he somehow manage to pusch all the other white dudes into it too. Well apart from Kimi and perhaps a couple of more guys that actually have a spine.

Looks like the little turd’s going to get away with it, the powers that be have decided not to reprimand him for his nonsense. Seems to me to be in violation of their own rules, I guess those don’t matter.

It is a total no win situation for the powers that be. If they enforce the rules well, it becomes that thing we can't talk about in OT. I don't want this thread moved to PARF.

Had Hamilton or another driver protested for something you believed in, you would be screaming free speech...

Now that I have chimed in, can we delete the last 10 posts and get back to racing?

I am liking the more compact season with some new tracks. I hope Mugello can stay on the calendar maybe as an alternate track like the NFL hands out Super Bowls.

Amen, brother

Excellent point! Just look at the number of posters jumping on Hammy for expressing his opinion regarding an innocent young woman who was tragically killed inside her apartment.

As for the race.....Strong drives by Albon and Riccairdo.

Bonehead move by the back of the pack in jumping the restart and trashing several cars.

Amen x2

Back to racing. With the exception of the ESPN tape that cut my race off with 5 to go, I enjoyed the track. Good racing, good second tier racing. Let's have more of this. Thinking FIA should revisit when they turn off the safety car lights based on the track layout. Mugello with its long straight is set for second to draft by first. Seems HAM handled the first restart much better than BOT

bull ****. Politics are politics, and they have no business in sports.

Ah but they don't protest. Been watching since early to mid 90s when it finally got on TV. Never seen one protest until now.

Unless of course if you consider the US GP at Indy in 2005 a protest. In that case I didn't appreciate the boycott since I had traveled to Indy and paid for a ticket.

I wish there were just one place that we could go to escape. Just one.

Agree 100%

Wish this thread would go back to being an F1 racing sports thread as I'm starting to lose interest in this thread :(

^^^^^^^ me too.

You would have thought the teams would have gone though scenarios such as restarts at a new track especially so the restart smash up would not happen.