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No, Germany is not on the red list. It’s on the yellow list along with most of the EU.

@exediron Because Messi is in a team sport and the clue is in the title?

(F1 might have a constructor’s title, but in the main it’s regarded as a solo sport that happens to have an unusually visible backup crew).

sumedh, the road car idea is a good one, though good luck finding a brand everyone will actually drive due to the manufacturers involved (the Ferrari-backed people in particular are unlikely to be allowed anything […]

F1 tried and failed to ban driver coaching back in 2015-2016. It turns out that it’s easier to ban safety messages than driver coaching ones, and it made race control’s job in general a lot harder to boot because […]

@f1mre I think the amount of money Liberty wanted for a race was a factor.

No, only the non-UK teams did so en bloc. In other words, three of them.

A scattering of individuals from the other teams took up Bahrain’s offer, but I’ve seen nothing to suggest large numbers of them did so.

@randommallard A quarter of people in Brazil who had been infected previously by COVID were infected again when the P1 variant arrived. Recovering from COVID only provides limited protection, and the limits of […]

@jblank The NHS (the UK’s primary medical organisation) disagrees with you, the FDA, CDC and US administration for excellent reason – the clinical evidence available to it does not support the conduct you prefer. […]

@jblank Following the disaster that was staggered permissions to do things last autumn, the government appears to have decided to have most things in each nation proceed in lockstep regardless of people’s […]

@philipgb Different series handle blue flags differently. If it had taken a couple of races to un-cross-thread potential misunderstandings re: which series’ conventions held sway, I’d have understood.

Four […]

A driver still learning blue flag basics for a given series after 4 races of experiencing them (I won’t count the race where he didn’t encounter any) is insufficiently competent for that series.

The various elements of Article 3.9 of the Technical Regulations specifies such things as “Bodywork may deflect no more than 15mm vertically when a 1000N load is applied vertically to it…”. The standard test […]

@jerejj Unfortunately, France is also in partial lockdown and requires everyone arriving from the UK to self-isolate for 7 days prior to doing whatever they came to France to do.

@peartree Fair enough :)

@coldfly That would be inaccurate from a technical perspective. Of course, if we’re using person definitions, not much point discussing this further ;)

Nikita appears to have missed that he was penalised for blocking someone else. The agreement is about not messing up the laps of one’s fellow out-lappers. The penalty was for breaking a rule that’s about not […]

@peartree The regulations are drafted in French. However, Article 9.6.3 of the FIA Statutes has a gender-neutral term:

“There must not be anything in the nominees’ record that calls into question their p […]

@coldfly RaceFans is not social media; it’s a traditional website with a comments system ;)

It’s all gone into F1 itself, one way or the other. Other series are expected to fend for themselves.

@sonnycrockett The TV licence is not compulsory, although anyone receiving live TV or using the BBC’s catch-up service must pay, and about 98% of the British population does (or is eligible for […]