Clive Allen

I just wonder when Mercedes will realise that their car is always better on the soft tyre than the super soft…

And they should have told Valtteri to let Lewis through as soon as they realised the tyre pressure botch was slowing Bottas. They’re called team orders for a reason.

DRS doesn’t need adjusting – it needs to be killed, as do all other measures designed to “improve” the show. F1 was watchable long before television and Ecclestone decided to make money from it and it remains […]

Misleading headline. Max didn’t say he wanted V10s back, just that “it would be very nice to have a V10 engine or something, with the lovely sound.” It’s pure nostalgia and not really a desire to return to the […]

One of these days I’ll write a long rant on this subject. For the moment, however, I shall satisfy myself by saying that tyres are rubber bands that should play no part in deciding which driver or car wins the […]

Marcus Ericsson’s entire family assisted with the Australian GP attendance figures.

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I can’t help but wonder if they were going to cut off a finger every day that the ransom wasn’t paid.

I remember that Andrea de Cesaris broke so many cars in his first year that the McLaren team gave him the nickname de Crasheris. It was said on good authority that he would emerge from a fast qualifying run with […]

Be careful what you wish for – without Bernie, there might be “nothing to laff at at all.”

@robbie And I’m not sure that the age of a driver has any effect on the general perception of F1 at all. It may be a long time ago but, when I was young and just beginning to learn about F1, one of my favourite […]

It’s typical Bernie thinking really. Would it occur to him that, no matter how easy or difficult a sport may be, it’s always the truly talented who rise to the top? MV’s success has nothing to do with the sport […]

Spot on. In the end it’s quite clear that Bernie was only a secondhand car salesman all along.

I was late in admitting that Ayrton was something very special – that took about half a season. So I’m not going to be so cautious about Max – he is very, very special. If the RB13 is any good at all, the battle […]

*their aspirations

If Williams can dream about returning to the top flight of F1, there’s no reason why Force India should limit there aspirations to holding on to fourth place. Not that I think the VJM10 is the car to do it…

@hotbottoms
It’s the pay driver thing – anyone with money to spend is automatically assumed to be a loser.

All my other picks have been careful. It was about time I went for a crazy choice – Stroll it is. :D

Not convinced by either Haas driver. I’ll take more notice when they put Rossi in the car.

Hulkenberg looks just too much like Nick Heidfeld for me to put a lot of faith in him. I wanted so desperately for Nick to win races in his BMW years but it never quite happened. The Hulk is worryingly similar – […]