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@japie Give us one good reason to ignore Hamilton’s qualifying results in Russia, Monaco and Austria…

So, a message to Gregory B. Maffei, President and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Media who bought flailing F1 for a not inconsiderable sum, to Chase Carey, new Chief Executive of Formula One, and to Ross […]

About turn 1, I’d say you’re right. I don’t see it being much different than say, Blanchimont

@selbbin That’s not the point. If Vettel would have had to pit again (something no one can say for sure) doesn’t matter, what matter is that he did 60-something laps on those tyres. I see no reason to believe why […]

@9chris9 Anyone who watched Monaco 2011, where Vettel defended against Button and Alonso in 61-laps old Super Softs (that degraded much more rapidly than todays Ultra Softs) should have known that neither Hamilton […]

Loved the idea. Just listened to it while focusing on work, and it was great! Are you and Ben planing on continuing this podcast for the forseeable future or was this just an experimental episode to gauge […]

I really hope you can rename your own team too. I used to play iGP Manager a few years ago and I had a lot of fun bringing my team Zero Wing up the ranks! I really don’t care about the driver and team licenses, […]

@grippgoat @neilosjames I had to look him up… apparently he has only 10 podiums in his entire CV and only won races in a domestic Mexican touring car championship 5 years ago… Why is he even allowed near an F1 car…

@countrygent I wasn’t that far off, then. Thanks!

@lateralus I honestly have no idea. Last year Rosber did a 1:22.792 on the final day of testing, yet his pole time two and a half months later was 1:24.681. Maybe it’s the tyres. One other reason I heard is that […]

@emu55 That’s to be expected. Testing times are always a couple seconds faster than qualifying times.

@mashiat It’s counter intuitive, but that’s not how it works. The main reason (in my view) why wishbones are shaped like wings is not to generate downforce or condition airflow downstream, it is to reduce drag. […]

Very interesting anon, thanks for that! On the subject of Tarquini, if you add both the times he failed to qualify and pre-qualify, his tally rises up to 40! A few other drivers with similar numbers would be […]

One candidate for most “Did Not Start” would be Chris Amon, at 8 – but I must admit that the data I have saved on a spreadsheet might be a bit wrong, as in the first 30 years or so of F1, it wasn’t uncommon for a […]

I assume you’re confused about what a race appearance and race start mean. Drives usually have more appereances because they have taken part on some of the practice sessions, but failed to make it to the race. For […]

@fanatikosf1 That is a start, but is not enough – after all, Renault was an independent manufacturer supplying only Red Bull and its B-team, and we all know how that worked out. We also have Honda working solely […]

What rubbish. Half the grid is struggling to survive. You suggest that every team builds their own engines, as if that wouldn’t bankrupt them all and leave F1 with only four teams, effectivelly destroying the very […]

@sato113 Merry Christmas to you too, Lewis Hamilton!

@gt-racer Here in Brazil coverage has been free-to-air for decades and without ad breaks during races too. Globo TV has five or so sponsors and they run their ads just before the race start and podium ceremony. […]

This list just goes to show how dreadful this year was in regards to overtaking. This year we have the Verstappen-hype steamroller earning him Action of the Year (and very likely Overtake of the Year here) for a […]