I asked @ValtteriBottas about picking up the €5000 bill for the GPDA dinner: "I think it was worth it. In Q1 I got some nice tows from some people on the back straight - so I think it was definitely worth it..."
Adam Cooper
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Adam Cooper
@adamcooperF1
Freelance F1 journalist. My first F1 race as media was in 1985, and I have attended every GP since Japan 1994. Qatar 2025 was my 600th!
Joined September 2009
- This was a nice touch in Abu Dhabi - the retiring Ross Brawn quietly giving the retiring Seb Vettel a personal parting gift, no ceremony, no cameras:
- That bit in Drive to Survive where Toto 'secretly' tells @GeorgeRussell63 that he has the job - it happened at Zandvoort and a rival team boss saw it from his motorhome and immediately sent me this pic!:
- Just spoke to one top driver about the tractor, he won't go on record until hearing from FIA but says drivers have been chatting/texting each other during red flag break, and they are all angry
- '@LewisHamilton on moving on from Abu Dhabi: "This has nothing to do with Max. Max did everything a driver would do given the opportunity he was given. And he's a great competitor. But no issues with him. I don't hold any grudges with anybody."
- '@LewisHamilton: "I'm glad I went to the toilet. The one I went to, someone had dropped a crazy bomb in there. The worst thing ever. It's going to haunt me for life..." Apparently it was a French TV cameraman
- Christian Horner on the porpoising floor changes: "My wife often tells me size doesn't matter so I'm not going to be too fussed about 10mm..."
- '@LewisHamilton: "If you think what you saw at the end of last year was my best, wait until you see this year..."
- Heavy rain overnight at Spa, and it's still raining now - and expected to hang around for most of the day...:
- Confirmed too that there is now a legal limbo with @OscarPiastri. @AlpineF1Team clearly believes that PIA is contractually obliged to drive if offered a 2023 race seat. The question now is what sort of arrangement he and manager Mark Webber have made with @McLarenF1...
- Here's the biggest compliment that @ScuderiaFerrari's design team can have. Adrian Newey and @redbullracing chief engineer Paul Monaghan check out the F1-75 on the grid. They were there for a while...:
- Sunday night was the second time in a couple of months that I've stood in the post-race media pen in front of an F1 driver who had conflicted emotions and was trying to tell me that this was his last race for his team, but couldn't officially say it...
- Classy move by @LewisHamilton who after a nightmare evening just found the time to go down to @HaasF1Team and ask how @SchumacherMick is. No surprise but Guenther Steiner just formally confirmed MSC won't be racing tomorrow