Seppo

Super agreed. Either make certain parts spec, or dramatically loosen the regs and enforce the cost cap. Right now F1 is among the least interesting it’s been because there’s so little room for a small team to fin […]

For a car whose livery has only one job (be red), they’ve botched this up in so many ways it’s shocking. The green MW is hideous. The fade to burgundy is arbitrary and too abrupt, and the gradient is a really poor […]

(Another engineering-focused Californian here!)

I think one of the big issues F1 faces is that like any race series, the cars are the results of the rules, but the rules have become really strange and unwieldy, […]

I didn’t realize “mazepin” was how you spelled “ragunathan” in Russian.

No I’ll will towards Fittipaldi, but I think this weekend is likely to show that Magnussen and Grosjean are really good drivers, and when you stick someone who’s gotten the results Fittipaldi has so far, I thi […]

Interesting if his perspective will change if he ever has a kid. Changes how you value your own life, and what you live for in some people.

Maybe a naive question, but couldn’t F1 split the difference with reverse grid qualifying by meeting out more electric power depending on where on the grid you qualified?

So if you’re in a Williams sit […]

Perez put his name on the action that took FI into administration. That’s a huge personal risk – even if not financially, at the time the impact on his reputation or future hireablity was totally unknown. It t […]

(blew it when posting, but this was supposed to be a reply to Checo -> Haas)

Fingers crossed for this. It’s a shame that Grosjean and Magnussen haven’t had a car that lets them demonstrate their talents, but it’d be *such* a shame for Checo to not have a seat.

It’s one of those awful […]

Is there some context that anyone can provide why Abiteboul isn’t a guy who’s just constantly failing upwards? As a team principal with one of the largest budgets on the grid, what has he accomplished that jus […]

Here’s the problem with Merc leaving. A team shows up, and within a few years utterly dominates the sport, to a degree that only Ferrari has even ever been able to approach.

They’re untouchable for years, and […]

Albon is doing totally fine. I don’t get what’s with the “needs more Toro Rosso time (Alpha Tauri, I guess)”. He’s been scrapping with Hamilton regularly, and is clearly the *kind* of risk-taking, aggressiv […]

I don’t know why Vettel keeps getting dragged by folks. Look, he’s unquestionably a great driver. Leclerc is *also* great – WDC champion potential great. But the Ferrari isn’t. That’s all there is to it, and the […]

Do you know the term “Schroedinger’s Douchebag”?

It’s when someone does something obnoxious, and then decides whether they’re joking or not based on the reaction of the crowd.

I *despise* the excuse, “It’s […]

I wasn’t a fan of Red Bull Vettel, simply because it got boring when he kept winning (same w/ Hamilton these days – I like them as people, just don’t want them to keep winning all the time). But to say that […]

To be fair, it’s impossible to say what Ricciardo’s impact at Renault has been. Last year, clearly, he had no time to really have an impact on the development or direction of the car, and this year, we haven’t […]

^^^ The reason Alonso can’t get a good seat in F1 are because he burned all his bridges. Guy’s a talent behind the wheel, but *correctly* has no place in F1 anymore.

Gasly’s season is the best example of how it’s not just whether a driver is fast, but it’s fast in a particular way. Give a fast driver a fast car and the result is sometimes not fast, if the two aren’t compati […]