Fer no.65

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After Formula E’s London round last week opened its grid to a mass influx one wonders how much longer F1 can justify its stringent testing and ‘bubble’ regimes.

why would they change something that’s been worki […]

They are probably going to get criticized by many, but as requests go, they made a good effort to prove whatever they wanted to prove. Having drivers performing the moves on a sim and in real life sounds more like […]

A strenght of qualifrying races or a weakness that has been in regular races forever?

Most of the things that make qualy races “great” could well have been applied to normal races years ago…

Think about […]

I don’t understand what they want when they say “a crash like this costs us X.xx million pounds”. Toto said the same after Imola when they blamed Russell.

Crashes are inherent to Motorsport. Be it a problem or […]

I’m no racing driver but it looked like that to me too. Hamilton had earned the right to contest the corner, he was fully alongside coming in, but he ran slightly wide and Max had given him just enough room. It […]

What was he going to say anyway? That crypto.com truck says it all… They have more room for sponsors. If crypto is willing to pay F1, what was it? 100 million dollars? Of course “they are going to love […]

(@zakspeedf1team) what are you talking about? I never replied you

There was no difference to the racing compared to a normal race…

Appart from Alonso’s start (which would’ve happened in any race start, sprint or endurance) this was just a waste of half an hour.

There’s little incentive once you realize trying to catch the car ahead is […]

Looks like a render for a car made by Dallara for Indycar.

I don’t think it looks particularly good, but once team gets their hand on the rulebook it’ll never look like that anyway, so I’ll wait until we see a […]

It’s really sad how complicated this is for so little reward. I’ll have to explain to my friends all about it during the weekend. They are already quite confused on normal GPs…

This will set the starting grid for the Sprint Qualifying race.

No!!! Don’t call it a race! It’s Sprint Qualifying… or #Sprint… or in the words of Crofty (probably) ThEmOsTeXcItInGtHiNgEvEr!!!!1111

Ross Brawn’s comments are the teaser for what we’ll all suffer during saturday at Silverstone. They’ll force the excitement everywhere… I bet Crofty is already practising his shouting…

I said from the […]

That corner goes downhill and keeps going to the right after the exit on approach to turn 5, so cars naturally go much wider than they should. That should’ve been considered, as even going side by side the chances […]

Why give penalties during the race AND penalty points for what were, ultimately, racing incidents? They were already quite borderline…

I think they need to review the way they give these points. Because […]

@robbie sure, I’m not saying he deserves to be in that Mercedes next year. I’m just saying all the options listed are soft landings in the same way crashing against a wall is gently parking a car next to a building

Neither Sauber nor Williams are soft landings to be brutally honest … A soft landing from Mercedes would be Aston Martin at best. And that’s not going to happen.

Unless something weird happens, every option […]

It’s very sad that the almighty Mercedes team is almost letting this championship go with no upgrades in the future and constant complaining. Because when they were against the ropes with Ferrari in 2017/2018 they […]

The big problem is that every directive they give is also a grey area and not picked effectively. If they wanted to fix it they’d force the drivers to keep their position as they go out of the pits, maintaining a […]