Ciaran

@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.

@ciaran That’s where you are wrong. Tilke does a bad job even when he’s given a nice terrain to work with. On autosport forums there’s a sketch that Tilke has proposed for Austin. It looks bland and boring and […]

@ciaran Why not? Tilke’s name is synonymous with awful tracks. This one is no exception. I hate this ruination of a classic track. The mickey mouse back section, the emasculated esses, the awful stadium section, […]

@ciaran, Lol, I noticed that too. When I watched bits of Le Mans coverage they were usually more busy explaining how WEC was better than F1 instead of actually commenting on the race :)

I guess it’s difficult […]

@ciaran I think the key thing to take from this is the new lower, safer nose are a good idea/do work, but once again, F1 raced into the breach without anyone taking a step back and applying engineers logic to the rules.

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Qualifying isn’t as big a deal in endurance racing, and as odd as it sounds, neither is single lap pace or outright speed.
You can have the fastest car in qualifying but that doesn’t mean you’re going to […]

@ciaran Minor error with “at least”. It was supposed to be “almost”…
And when I said bad tracks, I was following Bourdais point of view of too much run-off and so on… From my point of view, there are only 5 […]

Couldn’t agree more @ciaran.

People would have moaned even if Mehri had managed to pass Rosberg on the last lap to win the race while cartwheeling through the air on fire while balancing chainsaws on his fingertips.

@ciaran here’s a link to that Valencia story.

http://www.planetf1.com/driver/55667788/45715/Consortium-wants-to-revive-Valencia-race

@ciaran for a few reasons but the biggest is that they use way more powerful energy recovery systems than in F1. the combined ERS systems in F1 are equivalent to 2 megajoule, whereas the top category of LMP are […]

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I don’t remember hearing anything like that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhrOh8XachE

@ciaran True, or to make fun of.

@ciaran well, i know that we haven’t seen an incident like it in quite a while (because it never happened in the last few years) but i believe someone on this site (may have even been keith) checked the […]

@ciaran Agreed.. I’d love to see the exact data comparison used and how this conclusion comes out! I thought it would be Perez or possibly Magnussen in 16th. But there are times when Vergne has looked anonymous this year..

Yeah, I feel the same here @ciaran.

@ciaran they are. The soft tyre was used for pole today. last year it was the medium.

@ciaran, based on his interview with Buxton this morning, I can’t imagine he’s staying at Ferrari, otherwise, he never would have said those things

@ciaran True, but as the only US GP for the forseeable future, there is scope to grow the audience travelling in from the east and especially west coasts.

@ciaran, Malaysia does involve a lot more in logistics costs but the real question is how much should a track pay to get “bums on seats” ?

@ciaran I didn’t say I’d prefer a series like that, but the fan interaction combined with an interesting performance boost absolutely turds on DRS and MGUs. That’s what I’m saying.