The Bloke and A Bird Show Episode 201

So we recorded the show at our normal time - but it’s going up late because one of us got distracted and forgot that they needed to edit and post the show Monday evening… But hey, it’s up now so everything’s good!

This year’s season should now be at least 10 races long with the Grand Prix of Tuscany announced for the Mugello Circuit and the Russian Grand Prix announced as well. We’re expecting more announcements soon.

Sochi is even hoping to have fans in attendance - we’ll see…

Fernando Alonso is back… And he’s back and Renault… And Renault insists that Fernando’s return won’t bring new levels of drama to the team… And from a drama perspective, we welcome Fernando’s return.

Renault has filed an official protest against the 2020 Racing Point - but just the brake ducts.

The list of teams that have declared that Sebastian Vettel won’t be driving for them in 2021 has increased by 2. For those keeping score, here’s where we know Sebastian isn’t headed:

  • Ferrari

  • Renault

  • Red Bull (new)

  • Racing Point (not really new but we knew this wasn’t happening)

  • Toro Rosso (they haven’t announced that Seb isn’t welcome, but lets face it they’re not going to sign a 4 times world champion)

No, Toto Wolff hasn’t bought more shares in Williams.

Mattia Binotto says that now isn’t the time to place blame in the collision this past weekend - we disagree.

McLaren explains that no, Lando Norris didn’t try and game a temperature check.

But Charles Leclerc and Valtteri Bottas have received warnings for violating Covid protocols… And if anybody does it in Hungary, they could be headed to jail.

Posted on July 14, 2020 .