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Bring back Jean-Éric Vergne – he had none of the luck but plenty of speed, and is a mature driver now. Far better bet than Kvyat who went backwards. If it had been appreciated at the time how good Ricciardo […]

Why a driver of Vergne’s ability is out of F1, while a plodder like Hartley remains is another in a long line of mysteries….

Farewell Alonso. For all their rule changes and talk of improving the show yada yada, the number one reason why I and everyone I knew drifted away from following F1 to the degree we used to, is that internal team […]

So many drivers we’d like to see given a top drive, and the way is always barred by those with not much more to offer. The principal potential interest of F1 is in how drivers compare – and we so rarely get to […]

Which would be like changing Test cricket because Tendulkar made it look easy when he debuted at 16

For me it’s lack of competition between drivers. I don’t want to see Rosberg beaten by Lewis again and again. I want to see the new guys, Verstappen, Sainz, and the unfairly ignored guys, Hulkenberg, Perez etc. […]

Absolutely +1

So we can watch Kimi get thrashed by his team mate again, while we will be left forever wondering how the Hulkenbergs etc would fare in a top car. Disappointing all round.

They have a clear team leader in Vettel. Hulk would be a very safe pair of hands to always be there or thereabouts. If they really want a quick no.2 who is going to threaten Vettel (unlikely) then there are […]

Increasing minimum car weight dramatically so that fuel is a smaller percentage of total weight would help. Also means we don’t keep penalising great racers simply because they’re not midgets

How many times will Lewis lap them? At four seconds a lap… oh wait… the Mclarens will break down before he catches them…
This is another example of McLaren trying to be too clever and revolutionary for […]

If they banned advertising on helmets I’d be a lot more interested. Nobody’s had a good helmet in years and years…

I wonder at what point last year a little Ferrari bird whispered in Vettel’s ear, we’ve made a big leap with the engine and we’re not telling Fernando…

Got out of jail free. If Pirelli had brought the right tyres he’d have been properly punished and might have been a bit more interesting to watch. Lucky boy, Nico.

One wonders how many failures Mercedes would have if they were under the slightest pressure from another team. They’ll have to tighten up for next year when surely the others will have closed the gap.

It’s good that they realise they need to update – much of the coverage has barely changed in a decade, the onscreen info is still maddeningly positioned and unhelpful, and almost guaranteed to never answer the […]

The safety car isn’t there to allow extra passing, it’s there for safety. If we’re going to introduce standing starts for more passing – why not just do it every ten laps? A ‘race’ isn’t just about inventing […]

Lewis could have put it all too bed in one line. All he needed to do was say,
“I don’t believe Nico did it deliberately, because that would mean he was admitting he’s not as good as me and he can’t beat me […]

That’s simply not true. Photoshop can’t improve composition – the most crucial part of any photo – unless you cut everything apart and piece it back together, and even that requires an appreciation of the art of […]

I’d far sooner see a contenders series of identical cars, in which young guns that may or may not be ready, race against those who were possibly prematurely rejected. That would give a chance for us to see if the […]