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McLaren hardly gave him the win. It’s not remotely clear that Norris could have passed him; Ricciardo obviously had pace in hand (fastest lap on the final tour confirms that) and he was able to resist pressure […]

I’ve no interest in being pointlessly dramatic about tyres, but when your tyres are peaky, wear quickly, can’t be pushed to the limit for more than one lap, drop off a cliff in performance when overused, AND […]

Agree. That would be very interesting, along with the reasoning of course.

I thought them, along with Leclerc’s, the weakest. The imagery might be made up of iconic or significant photos, but as helmet designs I thought they were uninspiring. Ricciardo’s is fantastic though, and I think […]

30% capacity all that will be allowed under health restrictions, but all of that reduced capacity sold in five days.

Just read above – there are plenty of people who think Hamilton is a very good but definitely not great driver. I’m no fan of his, but I think he’s deserving of that description.

I mean that the prevailing conditions in Bahrain are towards some of the extremes for the season, mostly wind, heat and sand. Other ‘non-representative’ tracks might be Monza and Monaco, given their need for […]

Far too early to tell – any one race is not enough information, and Bahrain is perhaps less representative than most.

For now, what we know is that (averaging both drivers) they were the third fastest team in […]

We’re not voting on the car shape, just the livery.

I’m not as bothered by the Alpine shape as I would have expected were it just described to me. In isolation it’s not great, but I think the overall shape of […]

I like the 2020 Alfa Romeo more than this year. I think the changes this year are not so good. While my initial reaction to the 2021 AT was that I preferred last year’s effort, I’ve changed my mind, and voted for […]

Nigh on 50,000 spectators in a stadium last night for the footy. There’s got to be a point where they say ‘this is what you can plan for’ while still reserving the right to make changes to those guidelines if the […]

It’s hard to know from the outside, but certainly circumstantially his leaving RBR coincided with a sustained period of instability in the RBR car and them being very slow to address the issue. Maybe it was his […]

There’s a lot of components and some of them operate in a very hot environment, so yes. This became a thing Haas were talking about in late October last year, though presumably it had been an issue on the car all […]

I think this livery is underwhelming, though perhaps it’ll look better in motion, but that DC Graphics livery is far too visually busy for me.

Aston Martin could have benefited from his concept for them though.

That was a very interesting video. So many little details, so many areas where you need people with experience. All these little places where margins of a couple of mm might make the difference between a […]

Don’t think so. Don’t care all that much to go trawling tabloids to find out either, but I’m pretty sure he’s had a couple of girlfriends.

Launch-to-launch makes for a poor comparison of some parts, but the front wing looks less draggy; bargeboards very different, and I think more complex and less outwash focused; downforce shaping on the front […]

They might close the gap a little, but I think they’ll likely make less improvements on the chassis than Ferrari customer teams will make on the PU. Won’t be surprised to see Russell make Q2 fairly often, but I’ll […]

One other significant factor is that Perez is at the tail end of a long career. If he drives for RBR for a year and is then passed over for younger talent, it will likely still be nothing but good for his chances […]

Comfortable fourth (Mercedes along the bottom axis is almost invisible). Definitely shows that Renault and Force India underperformed and McLaren overperformed. I don’t think any of those teams were substantially […]