Blazzz

+1

The biggest difference between now and then is social media and the internet.

Perhaps you have troubles comprehending numbers, but your question has already been addressed in my original comment. And no, Honda haven’t left in all but name as you claim.

Well, you might be fast but if you can’t finish there are 0 points for all that speed. Have a look at the 2005 Mclaren and the 2012 Mclaren as examples of wasted pace.

I did wonder what impact Honda leaving would have on those engines. Red Bull might be a $5B company, but Honda is a £40b company and they are a motor manufacturer by default. Too early to say, but I don’t think […]

Points are allocated for Events (6.4). An Event, under 5.4, is a race of 305km in length. If we nullify the last lap of the race, as per Mercedes request, then we the Event has not ‘finished’ as the required dis […]

@jelle-van-der-meer

Latifi would have hit the wall 2 laps

But that’s just pure conjecture.

What is factual is that as per the rules Sainz was not given a fair crack to challenge as well Verstappen while […]

There has already been races in the past that have been ammended to a few laps before. Canada 2018 springs to mind. It’s also not unusual for races to be overturned entirely on a technicality. In my lifetime I […]

+1. Reading OP’s post came across as revisionism to me.

That set up the prospect of the F1 world championship concluding behind Bernd Maylander’s Aston Martin Vantage. Clearly that was considered undesirable

Here’s the thing. Had this race been like Brazil, Saudi, o […]

I am not sure Horner appreciates the legal position he and RBR are in. Red Bull would be an “interested party” with no appeal rights at all. Ironically for Red Bull to have had a right of appeal they would have […]

Actually they did- which is why, if you actually read my comment you would have picked up on the plummeting numbers under Ecclestone.

@todfod

I am not sure I concur with this. F1 is such a complicated, technical sport and not many people have the patience to follow an entire season. Under Bernie the viewing numbers had been plummeting for […]

@dmw

We have never seen many on track behaviours that Max has shown us. I mean the deliberate weaving as well after he passed Hamilton on the back straight is something he keeps doing because he knows it’s a […]

@kpcart,

Maybe I am being colour blind but I never thought Masi was white. But prejudice is not just a white thing- even people of non white ethnicity can be prejudiced.

@brum55

Max also got away scots free in Barcelona with the divebomb. He also got away with Monza costing Hamilton a sure win. He also got away with Brazil and Saudi. Don’t be selective and then accuse Merc and […]

@f1fan-2000

Actually it does sometimes.

@andyfromsandy

Because of previous divebombs maybe? Also he had to finish and couldn’t risk a collision.

In all this noise another issue that seems to be forgotten about is Max overtaking under the safety car momentarily- which is in Merc’s protestations. People say we can’t unwatch what we saw- but this is F1. […]

@spencer

Porsche and Audi step in

You have no idea what it takes to build a factory in a matter of months do you? Nevermind the fact that the VW group considered entering during this hycrid period but pulled […]