For Sure

Le Mans is a historic race that has been run 82 times. It has double points and is run 4 times the length of a typical WEC race.

If there was a 6 hour F1 race at Monza or Silverstone, I’d be in favour of three […]

Todt didn’t build his career in Ferrari, did he? He ran Peugeot’s motorsport operations quite successfully till LdM poached him. After Schumacher and Brawn joined the Scuderia, he was set. Wasn’t there something […]

Hasn’t Briatore’s ban been overturned?

Well, Sauber was sponsored by Red Bull for most of the late 90’s. They famously parted ways when Sauber chose Raikkonen over the RB backed Enrique Bernoldi.

That has no relevance to this list, since Massa, […]

@journeyer That’s true, but they were trying to get everybody to work together. Now the FOM and FIA have explicitly split the teams up into haves and have-nots, so to speak. I’d say Sauber, FI, Caterham and […]

In a way, I’d like to see the non-Strategy Group teams decamp to some other series. Join WEC P1s or shake up IndyCar. Then we’ll see what Bernie and the remaining teams have to say about costs when every race […]

I dunno. I think Maldonado could be a decent driver when he’s away from the red mist of competition. Maybe he should take up rallying or some sort of trials racing.

Either that, or Lotus figure that with only […]

Yeah, I don’t understand why they can’t just put in a piece of pipe with a fixed diameter in the fuel system. There’s already a maximum fuel pressure regulation, 500bar if I remember correctly.

At 500 bar, to […]

Will having a single exhaust on this year’s cars make up the difference? Last year’s engines would have had 1200 exhaust strokes a second, but split between two exhaust pipes. This year’s engines have all 700 […]

Doesn’t Mugello have red and yellow kerbing? Yeah, it wouldn’t be too difficult to ‘shop in a background.

Dammit, now I have coffee all over my keyboard.

Good one, @Mr_Peabody

Really? The early 2000s Ferraris had periscope exhausts. Would blowing exhaust gases onto the rear wing or beam wing add a lot of downforce?

I’m asking because teams have been focusing on how to blow exhaust […]

@deej92 We have to wait till 2015 for some more Clarity on this.

What’s interesting is how easily drivers used to be able to change teams. If you look at the top 10 drivers in the 2013 championship (by racing seasons, no testing):
Vettel – 1.5 seasons Toro Rosso, 5 RBR
Alonso […]

I think only Marussia can use MAX power!

If it feels like its on top of you, you might be in a Red Bull trying to lap a Caterham.

I hope this sponsorship deal helps MP4-29’s sales catch up with the Acme Corporation.

Re COTD, the other thing that seems to be happening is that sponsors are going directly to FOM and bypassing the teams and the circuits. In the last few years Rolex, UBS, LG and Tata have signed up with Bernie and […]

Haha! Good one!

Well, Sauber and Williams don’t have any at the moment. And it’s only recently that Ferrari dropped Marlboro from the name.

But I agree. Nobody mentions their title sponsor as often as McLaren mentioned […]