Ciaran

Good read. If teams could make any form of outright profit in 2020, it points to Liberty handling the pandemic very well. Although I would wonder if the $500m loss for Liberty is the primary driving force behind […]

Pretty decent calendar all things considered. Looking forward to finally being able to attend the European races again! The Russia-Singapore-Japan triple header looks brutal for team staff though.

I would imagine that TV viewership is the primary motivator, given that the World Cup is one of the few events that could outmatch F1 in terms of audience numbers.

@jerejj My bad, I confused that with the fact that it ends in 2025! The “motivational” bit was sarcasm though 😉

How motivational for the engineers to know the boss has their back!

I think this all but confirms the teams will roll over and let Liberty expand the calendar up to 25 races as per the Concorde Agreement.

@bernasaurus That’d hurt his reputation more than a year on the sidelines would! If he sticks around in F2 there’s a decent chance Pourchaire or maybe Lawson might beat him to the title in 2022.

The things I appreciate about Liberty – better equity between teams, move towards online streaming + Youtube highlights, more engagement in setting the rules – are more reflective of CVC/Bernie’s failures than of […]

@djarvis I think that’s more damming of F2’s calendar than of anything F1 does. F2 ending in mid-December this year would adversely impact any F2 driver who’s waiting on Superlicense points to be in with a chance […]

@Stefmeister @dbradock I was in a similar position to each of you a few years ago, reassessing how I followed a sport that was pushing through changes that seemingly pleased nobody. Ironically it was Liberty’s […]

Lewis has been, and always will be, judged more harshly than any other driver on the grid. Unfortunately the comments I’ve read over the past few days has only confirmed my worries that F1 and its fanbase has a […]

Agreed – absolutely nothing in F1 is praised until it’s gone!

Both some positives and negatives to take away. It’s nice to see some variability in the grid tomorrow that we otherwise wouldn’t have seen. On the other side, it still doesn’t slot perfectly into the Grand Prix […]

It’s been the biggest flaw of F2/F3’s new format for sure. Taking risks in Sprint race 1 has double the downside as it ruins both race 1 and 2 if it goes wrong, and only gives a small amount of points if it goes […]

Fully agree on both of your comments. Though my main concern is that, if Spring Qualifying isn’t deemed a success in terms of creating more excitement, it still gets pushed through for economic reasons rather than […]

Some telling comments there.
I would have expected Giovinazzi to improve more in his third year – there’s some flashes of good performances but not enough to justify staying on.
Raikkonen again has some […]

It’s only a good thing for F1 that he’s stayed on. From here onwards, him winning races/titles will add more to his reputation moreso than any previous domination years. Plus the comment sections of his articles […]

Makes sense that there’d be a safety concern, and the impact on pit stop times is less than I expected. The 2 second pit stop, when broken into its individual steps, really doesn’t account for human reaction time […]

The changes look encouraging and show they’re willing to make improvements, although I’m astounded it took them this long.
What I like is the ambition of the changes – reconfiguring the first chicane is a […]

The pitfalls of F2’s new weekend format really got laid bare today. Obviously Monaco has little/no overtaking but there was absolutely no desire from most of the drivers to risk both Race 1 and 2 for a single […]

What a gorgeous one Ricciardo has! None of the others come close