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I know, right? They may be generally rubbish at stewarding, but this is quite excellent comedy by the FIA. It made my day.

No, I agree with the article. The chicane was introduced on grounds of safety. The lack of exit runoff was due to the proximity of the grandstand. The grandstand remains in place, but apparently it’s all perfectly […]

I thought that too, although you have to remember what Sainz used to say about how weirdly Mclarens handle too. Maybe it’s both combined…

One aspect I noticed in the Spa crash is that there is quite an extended absence of debris fencing on the left side exiting Radillon, with a few marshalls unprotected behind a small armco barrier. If cars went […]

Plus we had multiple near misses with pitcrews in Indy and with marshalls in Monaco. It was a pretty scary weekend.

Indycars also look like a lot more fun to race than F1. Obviously you don’t see much drifting on the ovals, but on the other circuits, the Indycars drivers are really wrestling their cars over bumps, regularly […]

Thanks Andre for the support. But to be honest, I’m happy that Boomerang at least engaged on a technical discussion, which I embrace. My bible remains Milliken & Milliken’s Race Car Vehicle Dynamics, but maybe […]

Also, Indycars have been running on biofuel for about 15 years.

@Dex, they are copying the Red Bull suspension. They can’t switch from pull rod to pushrod mid-season, but they can, and have, massively increase the amount of anti dive. Look at how much higher the front top […]

If only F1 would realise that the 2 main reasons for switching to the hybrids were both a load of rubbish. The first reason was that it will attract road car manufacturers because they can improve their road […]

It would be nice if there was an option on this site for me to personally filter out selected people from my view of the comments. Does this option exist? Could it be added? I love the site’s articles, but I’m […]

Yes, absolutely. I forgot to mention push to pass. It’s more than just the cancelling out problem of the DRS train. The power ‘gain’ from DRS is proportional to the cube of the speed, which is a big reason why […]

Nobody seems to have grasped the solution. I thnk I have. In the decade leading up to 2021, the cars developed very clever ways of inducing aerodynamic vortices (like micro horizontal tornadoes) along the sides […]

@Jogo, just telling people to watch one of the most traumatising accidents I’ve ever seen without any kind of warning is a bit irresponsible. I’ve not been able to unsee it in the 30 years since.

Nah, SteveP, that doesn’t count, as in that case, it’s the car that’s touching the jack, rather than the jack touching the car. Of course, if that stands, then the team will design clever suspension that brings […]

Did you bother to watch this race before posting about its review? Or any of this year’s races? FE races tend to be a bit quieter in the first half and then very often go crazy in the latter third. So for you to […]

Can anyone confidently tell me how wide the grid box is that they have to fit the 2m wide car into? I’d appreciate it.

I remember at an Autumn British Touring Car race day at the Silverstone National circuit in 1993, we could hear amazing sounding F1 cars simultaneously testing on the South circuit, and the poor stewards clearly […]

I prefer to call it Indycar – … Was nice to listen to Marcus Armstrong talk about how he saw Indycar as much more of a driver’s series than F1, as it’s so much more difficult to continually wrestle control […]

For those on the fence, I heartily recommend checking out Indycars. It’s just like early 90s Formula 1. Drivers wrestling monsters, frequently drifting sideways over really bumpy undulating circuits. The spectacle […]