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@fer-no65 Pretty much on the money, the reality is that I pay my Sky Sports subscription to watch the drivers drive and certainly don’t pay it to listen to David Croft’s cringey commentary. Therefore I have no […]

@hobo They could have just set the budget cap in real terms (with suitbale reference year) rather than nominal. Although this has complications in that different countries will have different rates of CPI and it […]

I have replied to this further below in the thread.

I agree that F1 teams exist within the real world, however I do take issue with the fact that people may be forced to lose their jobs by an artificial limit on spend rather than outright unaffordibility. If […]

Not sure what F1 have to gain by keeping the status quo. It is clear that development and financial plans were locked in well before inflationary issues were becoming an issue so unless something is done most […]

Would be interested to know who initiated this move in the first place. I suspect that Rossi was looking for a new start, saw Rosenqvist struggling and took a punt at making the switch work. Kudos if true as I […]

Looks like he needs a change of scenery to help get his mojo back. He had some great drives in 2019, Road America was a great example of what he could do.

Not sure any team leader gigs are on offer but I reckon […]

I think part of the issue is that it looks like they have done some fancy reorganisation of the PU cooling to achieve this design (their PU is not the class of the field any more).

With the PU freeze coming up […]

@scott6428 Definitely still a bit raw but better to be fast and crash-happy (a bit unfair but this has happened twice) rather than slow and safe as you can coach crashes out more easily than coaching speed […]

@mashiat My sentiments exactly. Not sure employing a driver who nearly got lapped by a Williams in Abu Dhabi lends itself to what they need.

They have basically completely sacrificed 2021 for 2022 so they need […]

I am now guessing that some cosy relationships between teams and media will be developed. I can easily see MB accidentally on purpose providing questions to friendly media for asking RBR (and vice-versa).

Also […]

The issue I have always had is that the sprint races have a material impact on the full race. I agree that the spirit races should be completely standalone and I maybe would go as far as having it as top 10 […]

I’m pretty sure that F1 have much more power to make changes than before, not so long ago I think you needed unanimous approval for anything except safety.

The issue here is the lateness of the change request, […]

This sounds like simple ‘recency bias’. However to be fair I suspect that MB would be saying the same thing if their man won the championship. It is just part of the phoney war that everyone in F1 plays.

My issue is that it appears that the solution has to be seen to cover what happened at Abu Dhabi to the satisfaction of everyone. Surely the FIA should be concentrating on the truth and not the narrative and […]

Given the fact that their data on them is very limited at the moment and that some allocations would have needed to have done by now, this makes sense at least initially.

However you do run the risk of some […]

Thought they would have delayed it post FIA report given Lewis’ current low profile since it will turn into a circus around his issue with the FIA.

@slightlycrusty I agree that this would be a better solution. 4-5 sets of professional stewards who attend the same training sessions, seminars and debriefs should in theory provide a more consistent […]

@3dom When I wrote the comment I was thinking of RBR’s perspective (re-reading it I wasn’t obvious that was what I had implied). Given that F1 is used as a marketing tool by them I would have thought they would […]

Don’t know if it’s my view of life but cynically it seems that all this announcement and chatter has been deliberately timed to detract from Max’s performance and victory yesterday. Surely they could have delayed […]