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I’m pretty sure that if the title race is open at the time of Abu Dhabi race the ratings are going to get higher than average ratings anyway.

1995 races between Britain and Italy were Germany, Hungary and Belgium.
2021 races between Britain and Italy were Hungary, Belgium and Netherlands.

So it was Hungary, Belgium and the home race of non-British […]

So would a commitment fee be like pay X sum of money and get it back as the time goes by. Let’s say competing 10 years would get all of it back, competing 5 years 50 % of the original fee and so on.

Sprints were pre-praised that there’s no need to save anything, drivers can push throughout, which is not possible on Sundays as fuel limit comes to the play and also too much pushing would mean more pit stops […]

I think Tsunoda was put into F1 seat too soon and at the same time, the current juniors are in the similar situation as Tsunoda was last year. Which is why they don’t want to repeat the situation with another […]

As Kimi Räikkönen was absent, Fernando Alonso was the oldest driver to take the start. Alonso became then 9th driver who has been both youngest and oldest starter in a Grand Prix. He was youngest for 2001 and 2 […]

I can recall two occasions where driver retired on the initial warm-up lap, then starting (and finishing) the restarted race after initial red flag: Riccardo Patrese in France 1989 and Heinz-Harald Frentzen in Australia 1996.

Mugello has banking in the last corner which obviously helped with overtaking on the front straight. The same thing is in Zandvoort so we have to see. Obviously the front straight is shorter in Zandvoort than in Mugello.

My ratings so far have same four drivers on the bottom, although in slightly different order.

Winners from same country, born on same year.
1906 Giuseppe Farina and Piero Taruffi (Italy)
1918 Johnnie Parsons and Bill Vukovich (USA)
1926 Jimmy Bryan, Pat Flaherty and Bob Sweikert (USA)
1929 Mike […]

Mazepin has got lots of critique (deservedly so) but I think Schumacher has done more damage so far. Mazepin has had more harmless spins while Schumacher having bigger crashes.

If Gasly returns to Red Bull I think he would need to get his current race engineer with him. They seem to be working very well together.

Talking about strategy variables now: I much prefer this year’s Barcelona or Paul Ricard decisions to Magny-Cours 2004. In two cases, the driver had to make a pass for the lead while seventeen years ago Schumacher […]

It’s funny because Grosjean had not been penalized earlier that year even though he had some incidents (in Australia and Monaco he was the only one to really suffer which probably affected the decisions)

For certain events number of penalty points seems very harsh compared to the instantly-affecting sanction. In Norris case that seems to be case in most of his infractions.

Styria 2020: 3 places on the […]

Norris is effectively on eight since he loses two penalty points before British GP.

Moss has lost that honor four times already. Prost, D.Hill and Rosberg surpassed him in wins on years each one won their first (for latter two only) title. Mansell passed Moss in 1991 before taking title next year.

There’s one thing which really leads boring race anywhere. 2019 French Grand Prix was much related to that and I can also raise 2020 Belgian Grand Prix with a similar issue. I mentioned Spa here because F1 fans […]

Red Bull team-mates won consecutive races for the first time since European and British Grands Prix in 2010.

Latifi didn’t actually serve the penalty during the race so 30 seconds was added to the time. He finished between Bottas and Schumacher, but the penalty put Haas drivers and Hamilton ahead of him.

Remembering […]