Ciaran

I agree @ciaran the last 6 months or so I was genuinely arranging my day so I could watch races (don’t tell the wife, I think I got away with it..!) and shouted at the TV a few times. That’s not happened for a […]

indeed @ciaran.

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I agree with both of you. I don’t think teams should have a direct line to the race director. But I also think that the reason they put so much pressure on Masi is that he has succumbed to […]

@ciaran Dieter mentioned in an article recently that the Bahrain veto (which I also understood existed) was just a gentleman’s agreement between Bernie and the Bahraini promoters, it was never written down in any […]

@ciaran Yes, but F1 has done European races during World & UEFA Cups in June-July, so racing in Abu Dhabi during a World Cup in another Gulf Region country shouldn’t be an issue either.

@ciaran, I didn’t get the sarcasm, but no biggie. Usually, I can tell if someone’s sarcastic, but not always.

@ciaran 24 is the upper limit. Rather the opposite if anything, i.e., demoralizing, as The Dolphins points out.

@ciaran Alex, that’s a mute point as this has been an issue in previous seasons and most likely in future seasons. Your only speaking about one driver. This issue typically doesn’t apply to the F2 winner but […]

@ciaran SPR2 doesn’t decide the grid for the feature though, so that race can be an all out sprint like we used to have before. The issue is mainly with a sprint race (SPR1) deciding the grid for another race. In […]

@nickthegreek Indeed. The same for Latifi.
@ciaran

Thanks for bringing that into the discussion here @ciaran, @flatsix. Those viewer numbers do indeed show that FE should focus on doing it’S own thing and not try to compete with F1.

If it was on regularly […]

@ciaran this does not eliminate pay drivers per se. In fact, by shifting weight towards the more expensive GP2 and away from, e.g., the much cheaper FR3.5, it allows for pay drivers to hog good seats in GP2 and […]

@ciaran, Thanks for bringing some sense to the discussion. You’re spot on.

@ciaran I hope it had been ratified 40 years ago. It does not make much sense although the Luddites actually had a point which has been forgotten.

When “Formula” cars were coined, their philosophy was to be the […]

@ciaran there isn’t much, really. Fingerboy isn’t annoynig anymore, Lewis’ dress code is boring to discuss about, Nico probably won’t suck as much as he did early last year, McLaren might fix their problems… No […]

@ciaran Yeah. That’s probably the main reason for all the negativity. That’s sad, as location should not matter when reviewing sport events / circuits

Well, as we have all probably read, Karun Chandhok for example was helped a lot by Bernie to get into F1(put in some money, phone calls and even helped him get to his first test if I am not mistaken) @ciaran, @peartree.

@ciaran one has to admit that this list mostly contains the finest pedigree out there. It is probably a good system, but still a bit unfair towards some championships and it may need some tweaks.

@ciaran Good? A few weeks ago, Renault said they were ready to quit F1, meaning they were ready to make three teams collapse (Lotus, Red Bull and Toro Rosso). The fact we will not have 16 cars on the grid next […]

@ciaran Indeed. I’m not a WEC fan either but many drivers like it and the possibility of showcasting their talent there does no harm to F1, quite the contrary IMHO.