Jeanrien

Definitely an innovation because everyone knows that in a straight, the air speeding up over the car create a low pressure pulling the body up and effectively raising the car ride. Mercedes managed to invert […]

Can someone explain the link between a wet quali and the performance of next year’s car built to different spec?
I hope they keep the motivation high at the factory by not looking at any of the 2021 results and […]

@petebaldwin Good points, but it depends on target audience and goals. We might not be part of the ducks to be fed more and by adding more “relevant” sessions they might actually lose eyeballs.

Currently I try […]

Favorite format is also
Friday: double Quali (normal GP first then “crazy quali” after, they could even experiment with that one).
Saturday: Sprint race
Sunday: Full GP
Potentially with layout […]

They could also decrease the amount of water dispersed by wet (and intermediate) tyres, they keep the crossover and they won’t race in conditions where 85L dispersion is necessary (in which they don’t race now […]

Re COTD, it will also depend on driver adaptability to the new cars. Their behavior might be very different from today and might suit some drivers better than others, or some might adapt faster.

Next thing, F1 mandates removable mudguards on the cars, to be set whenever wet tyres are fitted.

No need for monsoon tyres when visibility is a bigger problem than grip with wet tyres. I said that for few […]

I’m not in favor of the growing calendar and number of races but Wolff has an interesting point to keep the races attractive if each team have to run a young driver (less than 5 F1 starts for instance) at 2 rounds […]

Actually I believe the best chance was with about 18 laps to go and Hamilton was about 1.6 sec behind Verstappen. Could have been enough to prevent RedBull from responding to the pit with a good outlap and to have […]

I don’t agree, the FIA decided it was a race, then it deserves fastest lap and driver of the day (as well as all the associated articles on Racefans.net). If you make it a farce, play it until the end, no reason […]

Can also add the Extreme E racing that was brillant.

Yes or release your findings in step rather than all in to benefit from a competitive advantage longer. If the field is tighter, smaller performance gain will lead in bigger result gain.

The promoters of the inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix have announced a slogan for their race: “Overtake the future”.

Isn’t it called getting ahead of themselves?

For Saudi, catching up would already be som […]

Why rely on people when you have good remote cameras?

I was going to comment that the point haul is a metric going against the top of the grid as there is a bigger gap in points at the top, but playing with some numbers, it appears it is rather the opposite and […]

@rodewulf not only on paper, Norris is arguably exceeding expectation and filling his part, but Ric sub par might indeed compensate for that.
/sarcasm font
Now that we know Alpine has a race winning car, it […]

It’s a bit like point for fastest leap which is for the worst of the top (having free pit stop).
This is a chance for drivers out of position to recover at a cheap cost, and unfortunately also being back a super […]

@robbie you’re right, I put aside the fact Pirelli actually proposed new compound that were rejected unanimously by the teams. Maybe that explain why teams like Mercedes and Aston are not too vocal about […]

Especially a year of continuity and budget cap.
I was annoyed by Pirelli having a say about the floor change that might “gift” RedBull a WDC/WCC. Yes Mercedes dominance was a bit boring but they deserved it and […]

I think what is impeding Georges is Georges himself and the enormous amount of pressure he puts on himself, especially to unlock his WDC count. He wants to keep it clean on first lap, doesn’t tangle but lose […]