With the Formula 1 grid returning to the United States for the Miami Grand Prix this weekend, we thought it was a perfect time to open the mailbag.
However, over time aligned with the NFL 2025 draft, some football questions are created. So … something for everyone!
We are going to immerse ourselves. Thanks to all those who presented a question!
If you comply with a NFL question as PATS fan: Campbell will improve our horrible rate of pass block why Drake can cook?
Returning to F1: The noise around Jack Doohan being replaced has calmed down in recent weeks. Have you done enough to finish the year or is it a transfer to Colapinto just around the corner? – @fanampfantasyhq in threads
Ah, yes, a beautiful question to start, with the NFL draft recently coming to an end.
Let me say that I think Campbell was a phenomenal selection and exactly what the Patriots needed to do in that place, circling how the dress was ahead of them. I know there are concerns about the length of her arm, or her lack, but this deep immersion in that question with information from Dante Scarnecchia is worth her time.
Ultimately, where I went down to Campbell is here: his “short” arms were not a problem against the SEC runners, and he has the technique to handle life on the edge of the NFL, even his arms did not check the boxes that the explorers tend to look for.
Now, to the biggest question, remember this.
The offensive line is a weak link position group.
This concept has been drilled in my head by explorers, coaches and general managers equally. If you have four good offensive rulers and a bad offensive liner, it does not have a good offensive line. Think about it from the perspective of the opposite defensive coordinator. If your next opponent has a bad offensive liner, but four good, where do each bombing package go? Where are you aligning your best passes in third and long passes?
Campbell is a piece of puzzle, but it is not yet complete.
As for Jack Doohan, he has not yet done enough where we can say that he will be in the seat throughout the season. I think it’s fair. But that is life in Formula 1. However, I have some confidence that he will put a solid performance in Miami. His first international victory arrived in Florida, and I think he put the rest in good use.
What are some similarities between covering the NFL and F1? Even more specifically, covering the NFL draft versus going to a race in Miami. – @Midfieldpod in threads
Honestly, I think there are more differences than similarities.
Open, brutal honesty is strange in NFL. To the point that when a coach or a player really opens, he becomes a meme. Do you think of Jim Mora’s “playoffs”? Rant, or Dennis Green “are the ones who think they were” explosion after the game.
Most of the time, the comments after the game are full of choruses such as “we have to go to review the tape” or “we will learn from this and continue forward.” Well, sometimes there is not much to learn from a loss of 56-0.
That is especially true for the NFL draft, which is also called the official lies of the League. I take all the stories that I hear the duration of the NFL draft, either on a player in private, a potential trade, a potential perspective that a team is watching or anything else, with a large salt grain. There is a reason behind each text, each private message and each phone call. To the point where I almost discarded it out of control.
In F1? The brutal honesty is the name of the game.
The stopwatch does not lie, already difference from the NFL, where you can point to 22 players in the field and argue that you will not know what it was until you check everything, the data is there so that they see minutes after a session ends. Fronra too early in its final corner in the Q3 and is lost in the pole position? It is there for the world to see it. Is the apex lost and the first quarter is lost? The imagose article that is written before talking with Lawrence Barretto. Therefore, there is no hiding place, and the brutal honesty is the norm.
For me, that is one of the many reasons why I love so much F1. Honesty.
For what you have so far and what you know about the clues that are presented in the next races, did Ferrari go up or was the podium plus a blip? – @Theromit in threads
From the outside looking in, it seems that things are quite unequal in Ferrari at this time.
Lewis Hamilton, after Sonar Optimistic after Bahrain’s Grand Prix, was anything except to his P7 in Jeddah. That left the director of the Frederic Vasseur team presenting questions about Hamilton’s struggles, and while Vasseur went to the mattresses to defend his driver, it is clear that there is some work to obtain the complete Connidence of Hamilton in the SF-25.
Even so, Charles Leclerc’s stage in Saudi Arabia can be a sign of opportunities to come, even if only for a reason.
Climate.
While Mercedes has had a “good” start this year, according to the team director, Toto Wolff, a problem that tormented them a season in the head in Saudi Arabia. Both George Russell and Kimi Antonelli fought with overheated tires, which ruined any possibility of a podium.
“Tonight it was the tires and unfortunately, ours suffered overheating. I was pressing to stay with Verstappen at the beginning of the second season, but it was quickly clear that we are going to grind,” six. “I tried to handle the tires a little more, but, with the displacement of the age of the tire they had, Leclerc and Norris could move forward. After that, my tires left the cliff and tried to bring the car home in P5.”
“That was our worst performance of the year so far. The rhythm decreased as our tires overheated and that was frustrating. We entered the races with the hope of being able to compete for the podium, but, with the limitations, we had the tires, p6 and p6 …” We need to analyze our performance, solve why it was the case and improvements quickly. The next race in Miami is another race on a hot track surface, so we will have to be better than we live if we want to avoid a repeated performance. “
If Mercedes continues to fight with overheating, and Miami is expected to be another hot weekend, which could open doors for Ferrari.
Or of course, Lando Norris may not start in P10 in each race.
Ask for you Lol How do you feel when you enter this race after having gone to some last year as a press? Do you feel different? – @undgrndcircuit_ in threads
It feels very, very different.
Last year’s Miami Grand Prix was my first F1 career as a member of the media accredited by the FIA.
And I was completely lost. Literally and figuratively. It took me hours to discover how to enter the paddock, you know, that it is in the middle of the huge stage of the NFL, and equally longer to discover where to go and when. The best example could have a leg with the catering situation. The press area for media members is at the press release level of the Hard Rock stadium. I could only find this area with sandwiches and assumed that things like chips, cookies and corn popcorn together with drinks were everything they offered.
Until Saturday night, when I smelled some fish and uploaded a game of stairs to what looked like a restaurant, at the club level. Where there were food for miles, including some of the best cod I have had. I had no idea that I was basically there for three days, and I was living in cookies and soft drinks.
Which is not usually bad but still …
So it took time to get my media legs under me. I did not ask many questions in media scrums, press conferences or similar, deferring those around me. I was happy to take everything. Another excellent example was the availability of the press after Frederic Vasseur’s career in the hospitality space of Ferrari. I am quite sure that I was the only media member who did not ask a question.
Fred also knew, because he smiled and bought me after he finished giving his final answer. I appreciated that.
Then came the United States Grand Prix in Austin. With that as my second F1 career as a media member, I felt much more comfortable asking questions in scrums, hospitality and similar spaces. I interviewed Lewis Hamilton minutes after he left the initial part of the race, along with just another media member. Then the confidence level had increased by then.
I haven’t asked Fred a question yet. Hoping to change that this week.
Does the maximum leave Red Bull Bull edges, a real possibility or something else? – @Chrisbaileyguy in Bluesky
Honestly? I think all of the above applies here.
Let’s start with a fact or life of media F1: controller transfer speculation and rumors click. Absolutely click, while my editors and bosses keep my brake. A deep immersion in a qualification performance using telemetry data? I love writing pieces like that, and you will like some this week, but they do not move the needle for massive page views.
Speculations about driver X leaving the team and for the Z team? What they click.
Especially when Max Verstappen is that driver.
Now, are there reasons to write those stories at this time? Sure. The RB21 is not the challenger that the team hoped to give Verstappen this year, at least not yet. While he is still and, as he said many times, and Christian Horner has admitted, Verstappen wants to have the fastest car. Each driver does it.
The concern in Red Bull that they cannot deliver the fastest car of the network is real.
Speculation only grows when there are points to connect, as there is with Verstappen. Of course, all network teams would love to sign it. But one can easily establish a Verstappen connection to Aston Martin given one, Adrian Newey and two, the next association with Honda. The leadership in the manufacturer has made it clear that they would love to work with Verstappen again, they promoted the four championships of their drivers, and again the connection is easy to do.
So, I think part of speculation is due to the fact that Driver Transfer News is a story to which all fans gravitate. But there is a part of this that is underlined by a genuine concern on Red Bull that the thesis updates are not and do not nail and give Verstappen a faster car before the end of the year, the exit, which is possible to open only the smallest cracks.
SB nation It will be on the floor for the entire Miami Grand Prix, so check our transmission of the story throughout the week to completely charge!
