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Makes sense to me. Who remember 2nd in WDC few years later? There is money in WCC, but nothing except glory in WDC and limited to the winner. As commented by Sky, giving up on a podium position is also a tough […]

@red-andy To be honest, there were similar circumstances during the sprint race and Verstappen was aggressively shutting the door on Hamilton who backed off multiple times. Verstappen got where he was by braking […]

The last thing you want if you risk not getting your payment is being in contract breach and give an excuse for not being paid at all (or having to pay back if they were smart enough to have prepayment).
If the […]

Any corner he can cut or ran wide at to gain time to compensate for 5sec penalty?
That would be even race result with just the ban for last race and early start for his successor.

Quite funny how convenient […]

To be fair to Mercedes, they are not moaning too much about having the least wind tunnel time while it certainly doesn’t help their case. In that context, I’m also impressed that the 2 teams with the least time […]

@todfod @bascb
Basically Horner is blending the comment regarding Verstappen the driver, and the situation surrounding his championships. While the circumstances are questionable about his title last year, most […]

I don’t think there was any issue to start on medium to be honest, but switching both cars to hard was the wrong call. They should have at least put Russell to the soft. It was clear from other teams that the soft […]

They take the hit of going long with Russell to not fully take the risk of switching to medium. Hard was probably the right choice for Lewis at the time, but with drivers yet to pit on soft with okey-ish pace, it […]

@bascb Wait until the FIA deducts 200 constructors points to Red Bull in 2021 and 25 driver points in 2022 in a logic of their own, at the end of the season when Max has won by more than that margin. Effectively […]

The real problem is that whenever conditions are too bad for inters, the wets lift so much water that visibility becomes too bad to race. I guess that in the past they didn’t have same level of downforce and had […]

@wsrgo Fair point that we are using 5 out of 10 possible values and risk giving the same grade to drivers that performed differently. One might be an upper 6 and the other a lower 6, and using a broader scale […]

Really is an interesting case and was always going to happen at some point, and the first case sets precedence.
Agree with most you said @bascb and @todfod
This will be a test of the FIA and how serious they are […]

Nobody did a stellar drive like we’ve never seen it, and at the other end nobody did abysmal performance and reckless driving which would be the two extremes so only logical there is no 0 or 10 in the […]

The other problem is as soon as they went to slick, it’s a no pass except if huge pace difference. Going off line to overtake means wet tires and less grip as everyone drives the same line. Always the case during […]

Are we seeing the first fight for not being second and win more wind tunnel time?

In a way I feel that Extreme E has done a better job at showcasing women driver than W series which ask the question if it was the right formula. Extreme E attracts eyeballs with a highly regarded male roster, […]

And it’s more and more likely to happen with longer seasons and sprint races also giving points. When they realize that, probably that Liberty will want to move all sprint races to the end of the season to keep it […]

It’s interesting as it depends how to define dominant. In many case, people will only look at ultimate pace but it is only part of the equation. Reliability is another factor, as well as ability to follow and […]

Best would be to interrupt the race after 3 laps of SC. We have had very long SC in the past and it is just annoying, if it needs more than 3 laps, then problem need more time fixing and it will be easier and […]

@bascb Fair points but I guess that their approach to have clear #1 and #2 in the past helped them and was less messy than it is now.

That’s probably also something helping RedBull to be honest, especially now […]