George May

Says it like it’s a good thing.

A disqualification in quali *should* result in starting from the back.

Watching the on board from Perez it looks like the amount of dust kicked up was maybe the distraction? Yuki has done the rioting and pulled off, but unfortunately due to the surface it’s kicked up dust and looks […]

Just require all drivers entered into the championship to participate in a kart race on Friday afternoon if they’re so desperate to give the fans something else to watch.

Or is this because the Merc factory team are still actually running more aggressive engine modes than the customer teams have access to?

Interestingly the cycling world is praising F1s handling of this as they waited until it was known Grosjean was OK before broadcasting the images.

Replays of the crash have often been broadcast before we know […]

Honda will not sell the IP to this engine to another company, I don’t think that’s how they operate as a company.

I’ve been involved in downhill mountain bike racing for years, in the mid-2000s Honda turned up […]

I’m in favour of this.

Given that it’s only for a short, qualifying race and not for the main, championship points deciding race I think it would be good to watch. Also, this year is going to be the most […]

@glennb – as the others have said you are describing sample collection and not testing, the test kit will be in the lab.

the real mortality rate is around 0,6%

It’s currently around 5-6% in Italy and spiked slightly higher due to the strain their healthcare system is under with the number of cases, this highlights how important […]

720P isn’t really that bad.

For £200/year?

I can’t see the difference between it and every other yearly flu outbreak

Please read through this thread written by an Italian medic currently dealing with the situation there.

First it was cigarettes and asbestos that weren’t bad for you (honest), and now it is climate change.

Liquid ammonia would be a horrendous option and not something you would want anyone to be exposed to.

So, I think if you managed to keep your liquid H2 fuel thermally isolated then it’ll stay liquid, however […]

Brilliant!

Hydrogen as a fuel has roughly half the caloric value (from memory) as petrol, so you need double the liquid volume to cover a similar distance at a similar efficiency.

Super-cooled hydrogen – what’s going to […]

I read it as this, Merc preparing to have a decent presence in F1 after they depart on top.

Is it not the case that driving slowly with one stop is often better and maintains track positions than driving faster and going through more tyres though?

I say mandatory 5 stops and the drivers can go flat […]

I’d prefer championship points penalties as that doesn’t effect the racing at all and seems fair for exceeding the parts limits.

@geemac – on that last point, it’s quite refreshing this year that not only are McLaren doing not so badly as before but they’re doing it *quietly*, which is a world apart from previous recent years.

There are significant issues with a compressed/liquid hydrogen fuel tank on board a racing car. Petrol is flammable, that would be explosive. The calorific density is also about half that of most hydrocarbons so […]