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In his book he says that when he was young, he didn’t even like car racing (he preferred bikes) and he only did it for the money, which he wouldn’t have needed if his dad hadn’t died. So odds are, he never would […]

Tyres with different width wouldn’t work without different suspension & brake systems. And then you wouldn’t be able to swap from wet/inters to dry tyres in changing conditions.

Also, even if that were […]

I think he means blocking the spray by encasing the tyre in bodywork (never gonna happen in an open-wheel series of course). This isn’t really Pirelli’s fault though. Large tyres equal big water dispersion. […]

I remember him previously saying that the B195 was a handful to drive, and that he was surprised Schumacher managed to make it work. He seems more positive about it here.

Yeah, it’s kind of a strange comment of him to make. There’s a reason the FIA doesn’t look at the consequences of crashes when deciding on penalties. It is extremely uncommon for crashes at such low speed to lead […]

It’s not about who is behind, it’s about who is on the inside of the corner. And in both cases, that was the non-RB driver. If you take a corner in a car faster, the car understeers. If you do that while on the […]

Dang, forgot about the helicopter. Fair point.

Bernie is a bit out there, but he does pose a legitimate question: Is there any way they could have made the race happen in spite of the rain? Seems to me the main problem is the cars’ speed through Eau […]

If they are so desperate for Fridays to matter, they could just adopt a modified version of the MotoGP solution. The top 8 from FP2 automatically advance to Q3, and the remaining two drivers are still determined […]

The reason this often works in business is because it frequently doesn’t matter whether a company produces a good product, only whether people think it is a good product. Unfortunately, you can’t impress a […]

“After a frustrating French Grand Prix when Alpine slipped from strong Friday performances to both cars finishing outside the points on Sunday” – Alonso finished P8.

Great article, I hope there’s more to come on drivers from the 90s. As a kid, I was a big Schumacher fan, so Hill and Villeneuve were my villains. As an adult, it’s so interesting to read about how my childhood […]

When you’ve got cars with enough downforce to drive upside-down and couple them with teams that have hundred-million dollar budgets and the best engineers in the world whose only job is to come up with ways of […]

That strategy wasn’t open to Verstappen anyway because of Bottas. That’s what Horner means. They need Perez to close the strategy off for Hamilton, as Bottas does for Verstappen.

I’m sure Liberty have done the math on this already, and evidently it’s come out unfavorable for F2A. It’s easy enough to see how F2A would benefit teams, tracks, sponsors and fans, but it would be riskier for […]

I imagine that it’s not a coincidence that Alonso, Ricciardo and Vettel all struggled at the two tracks they haven’t driven much, and that they did so more in qualifying than in the race. Getting to terms with an […]

The most delicious part of all of this is that FI/RP/AM actually had a high rake car until they abandoned that approach to copy Merc.

Automate the detection. Automatically calculate the time the driver gained. With the technology available to F1, this should be doable within an acceptable margin of error.

If a track limits infringement is […]

About that Joe Saward tweet: there is some selection bias going on here. DTS is not an accurate representation of everything that goes on in the paddock. It mostly focuses on the drivers and team principals. I […]

Between this track and Zandvoort, I am seriously worried we might have another death in F2 in the next few years :/