The Bloke and A Bird Show Episode 249

The Bloke and A Bird Show

New Year, new episode - and we’ll admit to not being fully over the events of Abu Dhabi

We have a lot to say about how things played out at that race, specifically in the last few laps of that race, and we’re hopefully that the FIA’s investigation into those events ends up with decisive action to prevent it from ever happening again.

After 12 years Jean Todt has finished his tenure as FIA President and for the first time in the FIA’s history a none European has been elected to the role. Former Rally Driver Mohammed ben Sulayem has been elected to the role.

F1 team personnel are likely to be required to be vaccinated for Covid-19 prior to the start of the season in order to participate in the 2022 season.

Otmar Szafnauer is out at Aston Martin after assuring us during the Brazil race weekend that he wasn’t leaving the team. But Christian Horner got a contract extension to remain as Team Principal at Red Bull with the team now looking to extend Max Verstappen’s contract.

Mercedes have fired up their 2022 engine for the first time while Haas’ chassis has passed crash testing.

And is Apple getting ready to produce an F1 based movie with Brad Pitt?

Finally, since this is the first show since the end of the season - it’s time for us to review our predictions that we made at the start of the 2021 season and see how we did.