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Bottas killed his tyres at the beginning of his second stint – I could understand his frustration about the strategy but you can’t help but think he could have done better. I doubt he could have kept second but a […]

I do like the idea of banning tyre blankets but with these pirellis in particular, we would see some crazy differentials in performance at the pitstops. the overcut would be massive, which would in turn encourage […]

I would have thought Sainz should be a struggler – he seemed to be making error after error (from the C4 highlights anyway). It’s a tough race but plenty made fewer errors.

@hahostolze he’s never going to stop moaning – he’s an F1 driver! But I agree he should have done a better lap on his first run. It’s been part of qualifying for as long as I can remember, the whole risk-reward […]

Good point about the mercedes being down in every sector but as for the DRS it’s only open for a small part of the lap. The flexi wing, if it really offers much benefit, will give an advantage throughout the lap, […]

Cracking picture – modern F1 cars look so much better from the back.

@minilemm The tyres in the 1960s were not very sophisticated – they would have been absolutely rock hard compounds so degradation would have been extremely minimal. towards the end of the decade, teams were […]

It is an amazing stat but also quite revealing about the state of F1. The fact they are driving so far from the ragged edge has a direct consequence on the number of errors seen on race day. Compared with […]

He lived an incredible life. His achievements since the news of world scandal alone dwarf most other lives. But he was certainly a divisive figure, which is true of just about anyone influential.

I was thinking norris (totally dominated ricciardo) but I went for Giovinazzi – I may have missed some key parts of his race but it looked like he maximised both qualifying and race.

There are quite a few errors in this article, which makes it hard to read.

I realise there’s not anything on the bendy wings story here, but I was wondering if anyone could tell me how they are proposing to change the flex test? Are they just going to demand stiffer wings at rest or […]

This is one of the finest editions of this feature – your enthusiasm for and excitement about being back in the actual paddock is palpable from every sentence. It’s so refreshing and certainly a relief from the […]

Grand Prix Legends is that very game – it’s not very current but neither am I when it comes to gaming!

Man that would be awesome. I used to love the Ford fiesta series that supported the BTCC back in the day – the race typically ended with the top 20 covered by about 15 seconds. Imagine guys like Hamilton, […]

These graphs are excellent but using seconds to measure laptime is kind of meaningless if you’re aggregating/averaging over multiple circuits. It has to be % difference.

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Who are these young people? I can’t be alone in having started watching F1 as a child. Why are people so predisposed to think children have no attention span? Many of them do.

@mrboerns exactly. It’s a rather tone deaf comment from Brawn – it’s not that young people don’t want to watch a full grand prix, it’s that they can’t unless their parents already pay a ton of money for Sky […]

The idea that the big pay TV deals benefit grass roots in other sports is arguable at best. Take cricket as an example – would they trade the huge potential fanbase they squandered in the mid-2000s for what they […]