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Carey? No. Brawn? Yes. Brawn’s in charge now.

Daniel went too far in his choice of insult towards the powers-that-be, so I am pleased to see he walked back that part of his comments.

I hope that the powers-that-be also learn from their part in the […]

@jerejj It is a problem because circuits want the full experience. They also don’t want to be treated as “second-class citizens” by the powers-that-be. (Miami potentially volunteering to lose a session in order to […]

@robbie F1 earns nothing from the race audience – in fact, that is the only part of the weekend from which it doesn’t earn anything directly. F1 asking for $6 million more from the entity that was going to be the […]

@jerejj Ross Brawn said 25 was the target (and the maximum limit) in 2019. 24 races was cited before that, in 2018.

Note that both were contingent on some sort of race weekend modification. 23 races with no […]

If the Australian Open can happen, I should think the Australian GP can happen. Especially since I suspect there’s going to be no races in the previous triple-header happening, thus enabling the paddock to do the […]

(Mexico, on the face of it, is doing worse than the USA right now. However, the effects are not evenly distributed in either country, and I can well imagine by October that a secure zone might be established […]

@us-brian The rules don’t encourage cancellation until fairly close to the deadline for starting set-up, simply because unilateral cancellation has to be paid by the cancellor unless the government orders it, and […]

Logistically, Turkey fits.
COVID-19 wise? Turkey has had a massive spike of cases in the last few weeks and may not be able or willing to host.

Not George, Extreme E was also screened on 4 different slots on the BBC Red Button (one for each live session – the races were spread across three of them), as well as a lunchtime Sunday BBC 2 broadcast slot. I’m […]

@jerejj No, because the tracks would again state that reducing practise sessions does not provide “the full experience”.

City still has noise restrictions, but it’s a set number of days. 2020 and 2021 both look […]

@jerejj Liberty said a few years ago that it was aiming to have around 25 races for its calendar (with the “around” presumably because there would be occasional year-to-year variation).

@robbie Canada needs the answers to those questions in the next fortnight, otherwise it won’t have enough lead time to run the race.

The reason “vaccinated Americans” were mentioned is because Canada is […]

Bonus: there could even be a little CGI light appear at the track limit where the auto-penalty was given. It would certainly save the stewards time in issuing penalties.

A solution that might work, but would require some lead time (pun intended) to set up:

Put 3 lights on the cars (all in the same location). Add an indicator of the same to the driver dashboards.

Each time […]

@bascb The easiest way is not always the best (or even right) way. Both you and George are correct.

The vaccine passport being proposed in the UK would accept recovering from COVID-19 as valid as well (some of the proposed versions don’t even need medical verification of this) or a negative test result. […]

@jimfromus The concept of doing even that much is controversial here in the UK. A lot of people are expecting to be able to go to social events with no documentary evidence of immunity at all. Some people also […]

@balue It seems you’ve not paid much attention to Top Gear for a while. In 2020, Top Gear got more viewers than it’s had since the first episode of the reboot (and don’t forget that the presenters on that season […]

@balue A lot of youngsters aren’t into crash-led footage – and many of those who are, are only interested as a curiosity (as in, they flit into the footage for 5-10 minutes to see what happened and then stop […]