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@skipgamer good point. Some seasons I think we really have no good reference for how good a car or driver really are (and then obviously no way of accounting for year or year progression or decline in a driver). I […]

I don’t really understand how they can invest so much under the cost cap. How do you spend £200m on a new factory?

Filling station forecourts in Max Verstappens’s homeland will be draped in orange which, given the country’s Verstappen fever, should drive fuel sales sky high

Is marketing really that effective? Are peo […]

I guess they happened at different corners (and again, people comparing Brazil to what happened between Hamilton and verstappen at copse should consider the difference in corner radius and entry speed too), but […]

This article could do with a proof read.

Interesting point about teams running low on spare parts. I wonder how this would play out in the cost cap era – hypothetically, would a team have to pull out of a race […]

@jureo they’re hardly the original wing flexers – Ferrari were doing it with a beer unsafe looking rear wing in the late 90s, which led to the FIA introducing the different load tests. Essentially they’re rear […]

Agreed. I do think it’s ok for people to question regimes in Western countries too – if you’re shining a light on despotism then do it in your own backyard too. But COTD covers that point.

One thing to add is […]

@thegianthogweed @rodewulf thanks both. pretty impressive teamwork – can’t imagine too many other driver pairings working so well together (with the possible exception of Ferrari in mexico, but i feel that was […]

@ruliemaulana cheers mate

Why did the alpines swap positions at the end? Totally missed that on the channel 4 highlights

At a place like Brazil, the damage of a grid penalty is obviously going to be mitigated by the ease of overtaking and also by the sheer number of laps in which to do it. But they’d never have taken the hit if they […]

Didn’t he get re-elected this year? A London grand prix is something that sounds quite cool in principle but I convinced that the reality would be disappointing mess. I’m trying to think of an equivalent sporting […]

Plus ca change…..

@jelle-van-der-meer ah, good point about 2007. I thought it had more than 17 rounds.

I may have worked it out wrong but on the old 10-6-4-3-2-1 points system, verstappen would be on 110 points and Hamilton on 101. After 17 rounds this is an incredibly high number for two drivers to have – they’ve […]

This is obviously highly subjective and prone to recency bias but surely interlagos ’08 has to be up there. I’d add nurburgring ’95 and ’99 to that too and maybe even Bahrain ’14. Going back before my time (I […]

Maybe we should make the cars like we used to then!

I don’t know if we will see failures but it will be a new way of driving certainly. I recall in the late 90s and early 2000s many a spectacular still image of cars getting thrown into the air over the kerbs at […]

@jerejj technically no one pitted at Spa this year. And although Salo did it in a more normal race, he only did 60-odd laps (out of 78) because they reached the 2-hour limit.

@maddme as someone or something says, this is actually a fallacy. Arguably he did develop a bit of a habit of tangling with others at the start of races but Spa was one of if not the first of such incidents.