Bucky On The Front Straight

RHR never looked strong at all this month compared to last year.

Nolan and Christian still don’t look like the most comfortable on ovals at times (like, don’t get me wrong, they’re better than before but there’s still a gap between them and Pato).

For reference, here’s 2025, 2024, 2023 and 2022 choices with some extra details.

In terms of changes:

Apparently the wine cellar only allows 2% this year (all McLaren drivers + RHR were Whole milk last year)

Grosjean has flip flopped back to Skimmed after 2% in 2024

Sato has also gone back to 2% after Whole milk in 2025

Because it’ll probably come up in the reblogs, they don’t offer a milk alternative (at least Armstrong, Dixon and Legge are vegan/vegetarian) or a lactose free option (Power is lactose intolerant yet loves chocolate milk because he is an Aussie with no sense of survival and I love him).

Alex underwent surgery after surgery. When he came round he could see our anguish. He asked if he could hold his son. When told yes, he said: "Then I'm fine". almost as if he had only cut his finger!

His humour was never far away, and he tackled his recovery as if working on his race car. He called one day and said: "Dario, that's it! My legs - I've done it! It took some trials and some changes, and now I'm taller" He never knew when he was beaten, even when I was racing against him in the 1990s (just as well really!)

After his accident he went on to win races in Worlo Touring Cars, and we all knew he would be fired up for the Paralympics. His two golds and a silver were well-deserved, as is the label 'inspiration', even if he can't see that himself. ("I'm not a hero. I can walk, talk, breathe and hold my son. What is heroic about that?")

Sorry mate, but like it or not you ARE a hero to many people in the world, and that includes me.

IndyCar: Yes?

F1: Why are you threatening Mick?

IndyCar: Oh, I’m not threatening Mick, my home is.

F1: Your home is…

IndyCar: Yes, and my home, she-

F1: she?

IndyCar: Yes, my home is a she. Anyway, she’s seen a lot and she has her favourites and not so favourites.

F1: Favourites and not so favourites?

IndyCar: I mean, take Fittipaldi. She liked him, let him win a second time and then he drank orange juice instead of milk. She didn’t like that, didn’t let him win again.

F1: So Mick saying he wasn’t impressed so far…

IndyCar: She noticed. There’s still time for him to get on her good side in May but not a good start.

F1: Ahh…

IndyCar: She still hasn’t forgiven you by the way

Okay, look, let me just wheel out Mario Andretti who between:

Having been around long enough to race before cars the had wings to apply downforce and artificially improved cars ability to get round each other.

Rather infamously hated each other as teammates (Mario’s “I respect the driver, not the man?” quote? Yeah, that’s about Nigel).

The P2P glitch? It wasn’t the first time it happened. Apparently it happens once or twice a year for a while now, it was just before now we didn’t have an independent stewarding board so it was just kept quiet.

Remember folk, how did we find out about Penske having the wrong settings in the first place?