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2.3 million USD can buy you a lot more than just a front wing. It can buy you the services of quite a few extra engineers, for example.

He was in that position for a while early last year, until they developed the car away from him.

I follow both series and think 5% is a very generous estimate for FE. Look at their reddits, look at the media attention, look at the crowds.

Yeah no way are they showing their actual car there.

Spot on. I haven’t seen the rest of the rankings, but I assume the top 5 are Verstappen, Leclerc, Russell, Norris and Alonso. Hamilton should slot in right behind those. I’m sure he’ll do better if Mercedes have a […]

Yeah if Vettel actually said that, then that’s really vile of him.

If I were Alpine, the fact that Ocon wants Schumacher as his teammate would be another reason not to take him. Those two are not going to push each other to new heights. To think that Alpine could have had Alonso […]

Anything less than 26 cars is an incomplete grid.
There should be 30 really to make qualifying more exciting.

Vandoorne almost certainly has a deal with DS. De Vries has been holding out since there was a slim chance of an F1 seat.

What made it so big is that it directly changed the outcome of the WDC. So it’s certainly the most consequential goof-up in F1 history in terms of the sporting outcome.

The guys who react are English speaking. Vips is not. I can’t look into his mind, but I think it’s more likely that to him it’s a cool sounding word he picked up from Samuel L. Jackson movies and countless other […]

That depends entirely on where you grew up. Where I live, lots of kids use the n-word because it’s a funny English word they hear in TikTok videos. They don’t even know it’s supposed to be a racial slur. When a […]

Because Mercedes are making by far the most noise about it.

It’s not anti-Mercedes to think they are playing up the problem hoping to get a rules change. I think these political games are delightful personally. They laid it on a little too thick this weekend, but it was […]

I think it’s obvious that this weekend’s complaints and suggestions to change the rules by Mercedes were orchestrated. It’s only cynical if it’s not true. If it is, you’re naive for buying it.

FE has never seemed interest in attracting actual fans, only in impressing sponsors who want to greenwash their image. E.g. the confusing screen graphics, where all cars are represented in light blue. For a first […]

Media will publish what their readers want to read. You read this, so perhaps it’s you that’s “disgusting”.

You’re exactly right. It’s a constructor’s championship and no two teams can use the same car, except for certain parts (which Haas mostly gets from Ferrari).

While I opposed the Iraq invasion, attacking and destroying a peaceful democracy is still something else.

With the current rules, sprint races were pointless, other than the extra start and the first two laps. If they’d implement some of the excellent changes proposed by ChainBear, I’d be all for more sprint races. As […]