chimaera2003

“Success Has Many Friends, Failure is an Orphan”

Surely a middle ground of putting time back on the clock could be investigated, say 2x current pole time to allow new outlaps. I know that doesn’t solve an issue over the fact that a final set of soft tyres may […]

@peartree No worries. However it needs to be such a strict penalty since this would be massively gamed otherwise. I bet a lot of teams would in certain circumstances take a time penalty for the privilege of only […]

@peartree I think not using two different types of tyre is outright disqualification so no point continuing. However if they were on the second stop of a 2 stop strategy having already used two types of tyres then […]

@john-h I remember we spoke about this in a previous thread. My point was that if they were to completely remanufacture the building then surely just use the existing to destruction if carbon was the ultimate […]

If it was asked 12 months ago I would have agreed with you. However with a cost cap in place this year, I think there is some value in asking since it could easily impact on 2022 car development. $500k could […]

@jerejj I think we agree with each other. What I understood when you said inconsistent is that different people use different numbers for the same corner which I don’t think happens.

I agree that some slight […]

@bascb It was pretty stupid to be honest and surely 30 minutes of one of the many practice sessions could be set aside for promotional filming etc with 100mph speed limit to avoid this kind of thing. However I do […]

@jerejj Just on the corner name/number point, you can argue they are questionable (Hockenheim turns 2/3/4 come to mind) but I am not sure they are inconsistent. I have seen marker boards around some circuits […]

@ben-n 100% this.

You know what they say: “Go big or go home!”.

“could” is the issue with this idea. Liberty are not going to risk a multi-billion dollar investment by rocking the boat too hard, risking the main attractions leaving and hoping that multiple benefactors with […]

@zann I think on the technical side it makes sense to have the teams involved as the vast majority of the expertise works for the teams so their opinions should be sought.

I can see your point on the sporting […]

I am not convinced a secret ballot system will work in F1 simply due to the small number of participants in it. It could only work if all the teams kept their opinions secret as well (this will never happen) so […]

Whilst I appreciate this is meant to be a simple exercise and no-one comes here to discuss economics. Is it not worth doing the same exercise with USD/GBP/EUR equivalent pricing?

Some currencies have massively […]

The only surprising thing about this announcement is that F1 aren’t making a huge song-and-dance about the reduced carbon footprint given all the other initiatives they are doing.

Whilst the statement above is […]

@jeanrien As you point out they have chosen circuits where overtaking is easier but this is counter intuitive to me. If the circuit is easy (relative term) to overtake on then drivers will be less likely to take […]

Not the worst idea, I got the impression that many F1 drivers last year were disappointed in not doing turn 8 flat out. As long as there were some support races to help rubber in the circuit I could see this being […]

@placid He is looking like the real deal and I could see Liberty trying to twist arms to get him an F1 shot if they really want to crack the US market. Every time I tune in he always seems to be at the sharp end of the field.

@shadow13 I kinda agree with you, evry time I try to watch a race it just seems to me that the street circuits are used to try and amplify the sense of speed and with it being quite claustrophobic it just ends up […]