Hamilton News

(JAP) Red flag during Qualyfing session

[BAH] Safety car during the race

[BAH] Yuki Tsunoda scores points

[BAH] Bearman scores points

[SAU] Safety Car during the race

[SAU] Tsunoda makes it into Q3

[SAU] Leclerc will get top 4 in the race

[MIA] Norris qualifies ahead of Piastri (main race qualifying)

[MIA] Non-Mclaren pole in Sprint Qualifying

[MIA] Piastri finishes ahead of Norris in GP

[MIA] Williams double points in the main GP

[MIA] Over 3.5 Drivers DNF in the main race

[MIA] Both McLaren on the podium

[IMO] Physical Safety Car during the race

[IMO] Max Verstappen Podium Finish

[IMO] Colapinto replaces Doohan in at least one session

[IMO] Piastri qualifies ahead of Norris

[IMO] Tsunoda scores point(s)

[MON] Red Flag during Qualifying

[MON] Pole Sitter wins the race

[MON] At least one impeding penalty during qualifying

[MON] 4+ pit stops in the first 5 laps

[MON] Norris scores more points than Piastri

[MON] Yellow flag on the 1st lap of the race

[MON] Both Ferraris finish in top 5

[SPA] Both Ferraris reach Q3

[SPA] McLaren Pole Position

[SPA] McLaren 1-2 (race)

[CAN] Physical Safety Car during the race

[CAN] Red Flag during Qualifying

[CAN] Stroll starts the race

[CAN] Impeding penalty during Qualifying (at least 1)

[CAN] Mercedes Podium

[CAN] Hulkenberg finishes in top 10

[CAN] Leclerc finishes ahead of Hamilton

[AUT] Physical Safety Car during the race

[AUT] Yellow flag first lap

[AUT] Bortoleto reaches Q3

[AUT] McLaren 1-2

[AUT] Leclerc finishes ahead of Hamilton

[AUT] Bortoleto finishes top 10

[GBR] Yellow Flag first lap

[GBR] Physical Safety Car during the race

[GBR] McLaren 1-2 (race)

[GBR] Non-McLaren pole position

[GBR] VSR virtual safety car during the race.

[GBR] Gasly finishes in top 10

[BEL] Physical Safety Car during the main race

[BEL] McLaren double podium (main race)

[BEL] Intermediate or wet weather tyres needed for the main race

[BEL] A Ferrari driver doesn't reach Q3 (main race qualifying)

[BEL] Bortoleto reaches Q3 (main race qualifying)

[BEL] Leclerc podium (main race)

[BEL] Bortoleto in the top 10 (main race)

[BEL] Hamilton top 10 (main race)

[HUN] McLaren 1-2 in the race

[HUN] Leclerc finishes ahead of Hamilton in the race

[HUN] Antonelli finishes in the points

[HUN] Bortoleto finishes in the points

[HUN] Both Aston Martins score points

[HUN] Leclerc is in first position at the end of lap 1

[NLD] Physical Safety Car during the race

[NLD] Leclerc finishes ahead of Hamilton (race)

[NLD] Verstappen on the podium

[NLD] Tsunoda finishes in top 10

[ITA] New track record Set in Qualifying

[ITA] Tsunoda reaches Q3

[ITA] Non-McLaren pole position

[ITA] Hamilton finishes in top 6

[AZE] Physical Safety Car during the race

[AZE] Red flag during qualifying

[AZE] Yellow flag First Lap main race

[AZE] Norris and or Piastri Fail to finish due to an accident

[AZE] Tsunoda reaches Q3

[AZE] Non-McLaren pole position

[AZE] Mercedes on the podium (at least 1 driver)

[SGP] Leclerc finishes ahead of Hamilton (race)

[SGP] Bearman finishes in top 10 (race)

[COTA] Yellow flag first lap (main race)

[COTA] Physical Safety Car or Virtual Safety Car during the main race

[COTA] Verstappen wins the sprint race

[COTA] Leclerc finishes ahead of Hamilton (main race)

[COTA] Leclerc finishes on the podium (main race)

[COTA] Bearman finishes in top 10 (main race)

[COTA] Hulkenberg finishes on top 10 (main race)

[MEX] all 3 tyre compounds used in main race

[MEX] Bearman finishes in top 10 (race)

[MEX] At least one Ferrari on the podium

[MEX] Leclerc finishes ahead of Hamilton (race)

[MEX] Max finishes 3rd

[BRA] Physical Safety Car during the main race

[BRA] yellow flag first lap (main race)

[BRA] The same driver wins the Sprint and the GP

[BRA] McLaren pole in the SPRINT qualifying

[BRA] Antonelli Sprint podium

[BRA] Verstappen finishes the main race in the top 6

[BRA] Antonelli podium in the main race

[BRA] Both Racing Bulls finish in top 10 in the main race

[LAS]Verstappen finishes ahead of both McLarens

[LAS] Yellow flag first lap

[LAS] All 3 tyre compounds used in main race

[LAS] Sainz finishes in top 5 (race)

[LAS] Hulkenberg finishes in top 10 (race)

[QAT] Verstappen scores more points than Norris during the whole weekend

[QAT] Alonso scores points in the sprint race

[QAT] Alonso in top 10 (main race)

[ABU] NON-McLaren pole position

[ABU] A Ferrari doesn't reach Q3

[ABU] Physical Safety Car during the race

[ABU] All 3 tyre compounds used in main race

Leave it open for upcoming GP

[ABU] Yellow flag first lap

[ABU] A driver not in WDC contention podiums

[MIA] Safety car in the main race

[ABU] Three different teams on the podium

[ABU] Verstappen, Piastri or Norris is involved in a collision causing him to DNF (engine, power unit problems etc. do not count)

[ABU] Impeding penalty during qualifying

[BEL] Yellow flag first lap (main race)

[ABU] A driver not in WDC contention wins the race

(JAP) Safety car during the race

(JAP) A rookie crashes and cannot finish the race (technical problems at the gearbox, power unit etc. won't count, it needs to be a crash)

(JAP) Yuki Tsunoda scores points

[JAP] Lawson finishes ahead of Tsunoda

[BAH] Lawson finishes ahead of Tsunoda

[BAH] Ferrari on the podium (at least 1 driver)

[SAU] Mercedes podium (at least 1 driver)

[SAU] McLaren double podium

[SAU] Bearman scores points

[MIA] 🇮🇹 Kimi Antonelli wins the sprint race

[MIA] 🟥 Red flag during main race qualifying

[MIA] Antonelli on the Podium

[IMO] Piastri scores more points than Norris

[IMO] Leclerc finishes ahead of Hamilton (race)

[IMO] Aston Martin both drivers score points

[MON] Physical Safety Car during the race

[MON] Both Mercedes score points (i.e. top 10)

[SPA] Virtual Safety Car during the race

[SPA] Yellow flag first lap

[SPA] Tsunoda goes into Q3

[SPA] Sauber reaches Q3 (at least one driver)

[SPA] someone receives a penalty for obstructing during qualifying

[SPA] Tsunoda finishes in top 10 (race)

[SPA] Hamilton finishes ahead of Leclerc (race)

[SPA] Bortoleto finishes in top 10 (race)

[CAN] Yellow flag first lap

[CAN] Tsunoda reaches Q3

[CAN] Both Williams reach Q3

[CAN] Williams scores over 5.5 WCC points

[AUT] 3 different teams on the podium

[AUT] Tsunoda reaches Q3

[AUT] Stroll reaches Q3

[AUT] Impeding penalty during qualifying

[AUT] Williams scores points (at least one driver)

[AUT] Verstappen penalty for forcing another driver off the track or a collision.

[GBR] Both HAAS cars finish in the points (top 10)

[GBR] Tsunoda reaches Q3

[GBR] Williams reaches Q3 (at least 1 driver)

[GBR] At least one Ferrari on the podium

[GBR] Bearman finishes in top 10

[GBR] At least one Mercedes on the podium

[BEL] Two or more cars DNF (main race)

[BEL] Ferrari in top 3 in the Sprint Qualifying (at least 1 driver)

[BEL] McLaren 1-2 in the Sprint race

[BEL] Verstappen gets a penalty in either the sprint or main race

[BEL] Leclerc on the podium in the sprint race

[BEL] Red flag during qualifying (for the main race)

[BEL] main race is cancelled/aborted

[HUN] Physical Safety Car during the race

[HUN] Impeding penalty during qualifying (at least 1)

[HUN] Tsunoda reaches Q3

[HUN] Yellow flag first lap

[HUN] At least two drivers DNF

[NLD] Impeding penalty during qualifying (at least 1)

[NLD] Exactly 18 cars finish the race

Hamilton finishes in top 7

[NLD] Yellow flag first lap

[NLD] Wet or intermediate tyres used in the main race

[NLD] Tsunoda reaches Q3

[NLD] Antonelli reaches Q3

[NLD] Both Williams reach Q3

[NLD] Red flag during qualifying

[ITA] Physical Safety during the race

[ITA] Impeding penalty during qualifying (at least one)

[ITA] Yellow flag first lap

[ITA] Wet or intermediate tyres needed in Race

[ITA] Both Williams reach Q3

[ITA] Ferrari on the podium (at least one driver)

[AZE] New lap record in Qualifying

[AZE] Leclerc finishes ahead of Hamilton

[AZE] 3 or more DNF (race)

[AZE] Wet or intermediate tyres used in the race.

[SGP] Physical Safety Car during the race

[SGP] Red flag during qualifying

[SGP] Yellow flag first lap

[SGP] 1 or more teams loses both cars in the race

[SGP] Wet or intermediate tyres used in the main race

[SGP] Impeding penalty during qualifying (at least 1)

[SGP] Tsunoda reaches Q3

[SGP] Antonelli on the podium

[SGP] Kick Sauber scores points

[COTA] McLaren pole position in the SPRINT qualifying

[COTA] Hulkenberg top 5 in the sprint race

[COTA] Tsunoda reaches Q3 (main race qualifying)

[COTA] McLaren pole position in the main race qualifying

[COTA] A Ferrari doesn't reach Q3 in the main race qualifying

[COTA] Impeding penalty (at least 1) during main race qualifying

[COTA] Lawson finishes ahead of Tsunoda (main race)

[COTA] Antonelli finishes in top 5 (main race)

[COTA] 6 or more drivers fail to finish the main race

[MEX] Physical Safety Car during the race

[MEX] Red Flag during qualifying

[MEX] Impeding penalty during qualifying

[MEX] Max wins and Oscar finishes 3rd or lower

[MEX] Yuki is send slightly airborne by someone colliding with his right rear tire

[MEX] Yellow flag first lap main race

[MEX] George Russell podium

[MEX] Verstappen takes pole

[MEX] Piastri finishes ahead of Verstappen

[MEX] Red Flag during the Race

[BRA] main race podium is both McLarens and Max in any order

[BRA] a driver from neither McLaren, RBR, Ferrari or Mercedes gets a podium in the main race

[BRA] all three WDC contenders take a part replacement penalty

[BRA] Bortoleto finishes the main race in the points

[BRA] Max finishes the main race ahead of both McLarens

[BRA] Wet or intermediate tyres used in the main race

[BRA] Red flag during qualifying (for the main race)

[BRA] impeding penalty during qualifying (for the main race)

[BRA] McLaren 1-2 in the SPRINT Race

[BRA] Leclerc podium in the main race

[BRA] Alonso finishes in top 10 in the main race

[LAS] Red flag during qualifying

[LAS] Physical safety car during the race

[LAS] Impeding penalty during qualifying

[LAS] Piastri finishes ahead of Norris

[LAS] A Ferrari qualifies in top 4

[LAS] One or more double-DNF (main race)

[LAS] McLaren double podium

[QAT] Verstappen scores 17 points more than Norris over whole weekend

[QAT] Exactly two cars DNF the GP

[QAT] Lando Norris wins WDC

[QAT] Verstappen and Norris make contact in the sprint or main race

[QAT] yellow flag first lap

[QAT] driver disqualified after the main race

[QAT] The same driver wins the Sprint and the main race

[QAT] Tsunoda reaches Q3 of main race qualifying

[QAT] McLaren 1-2 in the sprint race

[QAT] Red flag during main race to clear gravel (no stranded car or significant car parts)

[QAT] Both McLarens touch and at least one of them DNFs because of it

[QAT] Mercedes on the podium (main race)

[QAT] Both Racing Bulls in top 10 (main race)

[QAT] Both Ferraris outside of top 10 (main race)

Verstappen - Lawson

Russel - Antonelli

Hülkenberg - Bortoleto

Norris - Leclerc

Piastri - Russel

Verstappen - Hamilton

Leclerc - Hamilton

Verstappen - Leclerc

Verstappen - Russel

Russel - Leclerc

Alonso - Stroll

Norris - Piastri

Norris - Verstappen

Piastri - Verstappen

Hamilton - Antonelli

Sainz - Albon

Ocon - Bearman

Tsunoda - Hadjar

Lando Norris (McLaren)

Max Verstappen (Red Bull)

Oscar Piastri (McLaren)

Yuki Tsunoda (Previously Liam Lawson) (Red Bull)

George Russel (Mercedes)

Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)

Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)

Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)

Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)

Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)

Pierre Gasly (Alpine)

Jack Doohan (Alpine)

Alexander Albon (Williams)

Carlos Sainz Jr. (Williams)

Liam Lawson (Previously Yuki Tsunoda) (Visa Cash App Racing Bulls)

Isack Hadjar (Visa Cash App Racing Bulls)

Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber/Stake)

Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber/Stake)

Esteban Ocon (Haas)

YES

Under 65 yo

Straight

Under 60 yo

Has a STEM degree of any type

Has any degree in physics, math, cs, or engineering

Has a Wikipedia page created in 2023 or earlier

Is an American citizen

If male, taller than 5' 9", woman 5' 4" (~us 50th percentile)

Wears glasses (ever in a recent-ish public photo)

Speaks a foreign language

Serious rumors of the actual name announced will appear on Twitter at least 12 hours before nomination (subjective-ish)

Under 55 yo

Has been a CEO

Is married

Under 50 yo

Has children

Self described person of color

Has ethnic Asian heritage

Has a regional or foreign accent (subjective) (not standard US; midlantic counts as an accent now)

Software Engineering background

Was not an American citizen at birth

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Is known to have a dog or cat, or to have had one in the past

Has a profile on google scholar (as of end 2023)

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Citation count on google scholar is 1k+

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Has an active and identifiable twitter/x account at least a year at the time their name leaks as the new CEO

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Signatory of CAIS AI risk statement

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Non-native English speaker

CEO will take office after Q2 2027

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Is an only child

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Diversity Points Score: 1

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Has ever been divorced

Has PhD

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Under 45 yo

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Announcement of the appoint happens on a Friday

Diversity Points Score: 0

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Is publicly Christian

Diversity Points Score: 2

Diversity Points Score: 5 or more

Blue eyes

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Diversity Points Score: 3

Diversity Points Score: 4

If man, taller than 6'1", if woman taller than 5'10" (us ~95th percentile)

Tattoo

Has served in us govt

Has passed a bar exam

Female

Born in the northeast

Announcement of the appoint happens on a Monday

Raised in a single parent family

Left-handed

Tattoo visible during inauguration speech

Grew up in poverty

Catholic

Physics Background

Green eyes

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Both parents had PhDs

LGBT*+

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Has worked or attended school in Israel

Is Muslim

Unnatural hair colour

Has ethnic African heritage

Has the same family name as a previous google/alphabet CEO

Has a physical disability

Has been to space

Has an ADOS background

Pronouns are not standard

Has a speech impediment

Trans

Is an AI

NO

The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle

Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Stewart

The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson

Sabriel by Garth Nix

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Holes by Louis Sachar

Animorphs (series) by K. A. Applegate

The Witches by Roald Dahl

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Have Spacesuit Will Travel by Robert Heinlein

Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist

Airborne by Kenneth Oppel

The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynn Jones

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliffe

Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C S Forester

Mythology by Edith Hamilton

A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Harry Potter and the methods of rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Andromeda Strain by Michael Chriton

On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington #1) by David Weber

The Martian by Andy Weir

The Culture series by Iain M Banks

YES

Will Verstappen outscore Lawson

Will Leclerc outscore Hamilton

Will Russel outscore Antonelli

Will Gasly outscore Doohan

Will Hulkenberg outscore Bortoleto

Will Gasly outscore Colapinto

Will Alonso outscore Stroll

Will Bearman outscore Ocon

Will Norris outscore Piastri

Will Sainz outscore Albon

Will Lawson outscore Adjar

NO

A RB or RBR driver is swapped out permanently

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Hamilton gets a podium finish

Max Verstappen wins the WDC

A team principle gets replaced during the season

Lewis Hamilton announces retirement

Lewis Hamilton gets a podium

Lewis Hamilton wins a feature race

A driver misses a race due to health reasons

The top three drivers in the WDC will be from three different teams

Neither Cadillac nor Audi finish WCC at the bottom

WCC is won with 5 or more races to go

WDC winner wins their first title

A driver at Red Bull Racing gets replaced during the season

A driver gets a race ban due to penalty points

Ferrari finishes 2nd in the WCC

WDC is won with 5 or more races to go

Mohammed Ben Sulayem steps down as head of FIA

2026/03/08 (Melbourne) - Will Verstappen OUT FINISH Norris?

2026/03/08 (Melbourne) - Will Verstappen OUT FINISH Piastri?

2026/03/08 (Melbourne) - Will Hamilton OUT FINISH Leclerc?

2026/03/08 (Melbourne) - Will Norris OUT FINISH Piastri?

2026/03/08 (Melbourne) - Will Verstappen OUT FINISH Hamilton?

2026/03/08 (Melbourne) - Will Piastri OUT FINISH Leclerc?

2026/03/08 (Melbourne) - Will Russell OUT FINISH Antonelli?

2026/03/08 (Melbourne) - Will Norris OUT FINISH Leclerc?

2026/03/08 (Melbourne) - Will Russell OUT FINISH Leclerc?

2026/03/08 (Melbourne) - Will Russell OUT FINISH Piastri?

2026/03/08 (Melbourne) - Will Norris OUT FINISH Hamilton?