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@graham228221 Forgot that Colton Herta was forced to stop last year. Although given that Herta was in the same team and engine with a spare car (although much less time to prepare it) and was too slow, it doesn’t […]

Whilst I get why this has happened, surely the safety risks here are being underestimated? Whilst Rahal can clearly drive a car around the track in familiar machinery, moving between chassis and engine […]

@keithcollantine Wasn’t the Toyota engine not developed in Cologne, Germany. I’m sure Toyota made a point of saying they were the only team where the chassis and engine were developed on the same site. I can’t […]

I think he is referring to Toyota whose entire engine and chassis operation was based out of Cologne (I think).

Love them or hate them, I think the logic laid out by MB and Ferrari is solid. If RBR’s current aero philosophy is evolution rather than revolution then I am not convinced that a 10% reduction in aero resource […]

@wsrgo Only just for the purposes of this rule, he has had “less than 3 starts”. I think this is fair as to not exclude any drivers who have done any unscheduled one-off races from these tests.

@kartguy07 I think that each race driver is obliged to give up one Friday P1 apiece, not the same driver each time.

@dang This is very much the crux of the matter. Deliberate overspend in 2021 on the 2022 car would probably provide peformance advantages into 2023/24, hence the push for genuine draconian punishments.

If F1 […]

@proesterchen The natural follow up question to that would be how many of the existing F1 drivers match your criteria as you have set a very high bar?

If “generational talents that will fight for Championships […]

All of this +1000.

A lot of people on here just look at the championship tables and say ‘he can’t be that good’ which in this specific debate really annoys the hell of of me. Surely if 2 F1 teams whose job it […]

@bealzbob I think you hit the nail on the head when you say that as the drivers entering F1 are getting younger and having longer careers, there isn’t the natural churn needed for the current number of seats […]

@davids I think your point about a grid drop being a weak deterrent is valid. Especially since the new rules allow greater opportunities to follow and overtake compared to the previous set of regulations. The way […]

@bascb My point is that McLaren won’t have had visibility of Palou’s contract with Ganassi to have an opinion on whether he was free for 2023. They will have relied on Palou (and his management team) telling them […]

@bascb I think McLaren did have a signed agreement, however Ganassi also claimed they did. Not sure this is on McLaren since they would have trusted that Palou could sign the contract for 2023 as they wouldn’t […]

@bosyber I am sure that he is sincere in his views towards the climate, but it is difficult to see him as principled on this issue as it hasn’t really cost him anything (yet).

I work in renewable energy and the […]

@afonic A monarch is the worse idea for a head of state except for all the others. The idea that the UK will be better off with an elected president given all the political divisiveness is moronic. It certainly […]

@placid I agree that Newgarden would represent a more tried and tested US driver. However he has stated multiple times about how Indycar is the best series and how he would never race anywhere else, I always read […]

@jonzza The fact that McLaren spent money for a 2 day private test and Red Bull seemingly unwilling to promote anyone but Herta (even though they have a ample stable of younger drivers, they should all be very […]

Part of me just wonders if he felt he had to say it on the basis that he didn’t it be would feel it impacts all the stuff he previously did/said on environmental matters.

Just feels like that if he is not […]

@ivan-vinitskyy It is always going to be difficult for Vettel to be taken seriously in this arena right now, as noble or valid as you think the point may be.

He has amassed astonishing levels of wealth doing a […]