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1. Will the series hit its target of holding a record 23 races on the 2022 F1 calendar? : Yes, Turkey will replace Russia
2. Will one team find a significant advantage over its rivals and win each of the opening […]

Circuit rotation doesn’t have to be every other year. We can take 3 (usually struggling) circuits and alternate between them over 2 spots on the calendar, or 4 circuits over 3 spots, etc…

Take for example a […]

Seb: Why is it black?
Lance: I guess they forgot to repaint last year’s Mercedes…

As others have noted, it would be a logistical nightmare for the teams and FIA to run 2 races in 2 different layouts in just 2 days!

However although Bahrain has a pretty good normal circuit (one of the best […]

Despite not having drunk any alcohol, Kimi was still not sure who was that young bloke that was wearing the Alfa Romeo cap, in the presentantion to his right…

Despite Mick’s best efforts, Nikita still couldn’t believe that Haas VF-21 had an 8th gear…

@aapje
The general thinking behind grid penalties for PU replacements, was to prevent teams from fitting brand new engines every weekend and to promote reliability and sustainability.

It’s true that around […]

@dmw The enormous Mercedes advantage refers to Brazil – specifically as we saw, if they just use the engine for just 1-2 races in party mode, then yes, I’d call it enormous – otherwise if the used the engine for […]

@j4k3 @scbriml
Sure Verstappen can win one of the last remaining races, but given that enormous Mercedes engine advantage, I’d suspect that Mercedes will be the team to beat, even if they take an engine penalty […]

This is a must-win race for Verstappen.
If he wins, the lead will go to 21pts with 2 races to spare.
Then unless he suffers a mechanical issue, he’ll win the championship as he can sit back and let the Mercedes […]

@ajayrious Europe (and North America by some extent) are continents, where combined ‘have’ 90% of F1’s entire history, the Arabian Peninsula is a small part of a continent that up until 17 years ago didn’t have a […]

As others mentioned: Portugal, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Turkey are the tracks where Mercedes had a clear advantage.
And I would put: Azerbaijan, Styria, Austria, Netherlands, Mexico as the clear RB tracks.

The […]

Lewis did waaay more than 2-3 mistakes this year – just out the top of my head I counted 11-12 – and Max did way less.

In Monaco his setup was all over the place and started 7th while Bottas started 3rd just 1 […]

Set the grid of the sprint race by championship order.
Award 20-19-18-…-3-2-1 points for the all positions, but those points will only count towards the WCC.
That way we’re saved by the WDC (which is more […]

Since sprint races seem to be inevitable next year, and – as others mentioned above – Liberty will push this “sprint races attract young people to watch” b.s., and since Liberty said they’ll probably make the […]

So wait, if lap 1 incidents are going to be punished ONLY when a driver is WHOLLY at fault, then why did Hamilton got a penalty at Silverstone when the stewards said he was PREDOMINANTLY at fault…?

No, but Sauber was bought (I think) from BMW, it became “BMW-Sauber”, and after BMW left, it automatically became again just “Sauber”.
Right now it’s “Alfa Romeo Racing”, not “Alfa Romeo Sauber”… but aside from […]

So what does this mean exactly regarding the ownership and the name of the team because the situation is a bit strange?

Right now, as far as I understand, the team is “Sauber” but “Alfa Romeo” sponsors it, […]

The point of next year’s regs changes is not exactly to replicate the close competition that we have in 2021 – it would be welcome but that’s not the main issue. The point is to solve the chronic overtaking […]

@yaru
DRS was a “temporary solution” FIA came up with, to fix the dirty air/overtaking problem in 2011 after many fans complained after the 2010 Abu Dhabi GP when Alonso couldn’t pass Petrov for 40 laps.
The […]