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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 :/

I wonder if they hired Perez because the other driver’s performance (or the team’s constructor’s points) factor into Verstappen’s exit clause.

Devil’s advocate: Magnussen and Grosjean were the two best drivers on the grid. The only reason we couldn’t tell is because they were evenly matched in a terrible car. Probably not true, but honestly, how would we know?

I do wonder whether he actually came as close to dying to the fire as the shock of it leads us to believe. A huge fire is very visually evocative and triggers some of our most primal fears, but I’d imagine that to […]

Great article, one of your best.

“Exhaust pipe emissions comprise just 0.07% of the sport’s total carbon footprint” – this sentence should be all caps, bolded, put in a block quote and shouted from the r […]

@tflb There is a difference between racing a car from the front and racing it from the midfield. Hulkenberg is like Vettel – he is good at qualifying and keeping the car where it started, but also a bit prone to […]

Red Bull need someone to consistently qualify their car in 4th and keep it there, and Hulkenberg is much faster in qualifying than Perez.

“Tradition” is not an argument, and yet it seems that’s all most people here, including Keith, have to offer.

I’ve been watching F1 for 25 years and I just cancelled my F1 TV subscription because it has gotten […]

Perez even said that in F1, having a contract goes only so far and that he might lose the seat anyway, so he himself was definitely not under that impression.

Is there supposed to be an argument hidden somewhere in that sarcasm?

No need to read something into nothing. The parameters of the situation changed, hence the math changed, hence the optimal strategy changed. And in the spur of the moment, Vettel was understandably miffed about […]

True, wouldn’t have thought. I recently read Hill’s book and he describes him that way. I guess it’s because Hill himself started F1 at a very late age, he was 32 in his first F1 season.

Vettel’s season reminds me of Damon Hill in 1999. Former champion on his way out, a fast young teammate, no longer in a dominant car – and nothing seems to work any more.

I admit I don’t know the letter of the law, but the spirit of it is driver coaching. So if they had said that, and the would have gotten a penalty, they would have had a good argument in appealing it by saying: […]

Couldn’t Haas just have told Magnussen: “We are not allowed to tell you, so just make the decision you believe is right.” After all, it was Magnussen who was telling them they were on the wrong tyre, so he really […]