2020 Driver Speculation

[Penfold]

It's getting somewhat painful to watch this new, error-prone version of Vettel being outclassed by young Leclerc.  You can forgive drivers losing a fraction of their one-lap pace as the years roll by, but that should be counter-balanced with consistency on a Sunday afternoon.

[Chrill]

At the moment, I feel like Vettel is as error prone as Grosjean is or Ericsson was. That is not the company a four-time world champion should be in. He has outclassed Kimi over their years in Ferrari, but look at what Kimi is doing to Giovinazzi. That would imply Vettel was at his best as soon as 13-14 months ago, before the 2018 summer break. What has happened since?

[Penfold]

Obviously he had a really bad holiday experience in 2018 and it's still playing on his mind.  That's right, I've nothing sensible to contribute....

[Chrill]

Well, you could go rate the drivers performances from the Italian GP.

[Penfold]

I hope you're not accusing my driver ratings of being sensible....

[Chrill]

I accuse them of not being. At all.

[Penfold]

They exist in my mind; tomorrow morn they shall live in whatever font this site employs.

[Chrill]

Verdana.

[Matt]

Comic sans

Unsurprisingly, that feature doesn't work on my phone. It would be equally unsurprising if it doesn't work at all.

[Chrill]

It does work on my computer, but not my phone.

But Verdana is the standard font for this forum, so I need not use a code to make it so.

[Chrill]

Kubica in talks with Audi with plans for a DTM drive.
https://www.autosport.com/dtm/news/146033/audi-admits-to-dtm-talks-with-kubica-management

[Penfold]

I do watch most of the DTM races and I'd be interested to see how Rob K. would perform.

[Chrill]

I stopped watching DTM when Ekström retired, really. We have a Swede now, but he just so happens to back our nationalistic party which is a bit of a shame. The Sweden Democrats make UKIP seem leftist. I'd say the most telling aspect of that is that the SweDems stem from a neo-nazi movement, and only stopped saluting Hitler 25 years ago.

[Penfold]

What, so not even allowed on special occasions like the Fuhrer's birthday?  Seems a tad harsh....

[Chrill]

I almost share my birthday with the Fuhrer. He was born on 20 April and died on 30 April (admittedly not in the same year) and my birthday is neither of those two dates but is also in April. So, in a way, we are brothers.

This is slightly off-topic.