Matthijs

@anunaki No doubt that Hamilton had some serious luck in Imola. But things could have been much worse for Verstappen too in Imola at the restart.

@losd Good point

@losd I think Mercedes found out in qualifying that it took them 2 laps to build up tyre temps with the red tyre.

It’s funny that the tiny errors (track limits, wheelspin) are very costly these first three races, while bigger errors (sliding off the track when overtaking backmarkers, or nearly losing your car at the restart) […]

@david I think you misunderstood @ivan-vinitskyy. The fact that there was only one truly dry line meant that half of the field had to start on the damp side of the track and the other half on the completely dried […]

Currently the teams have to balance the aero between maximum downforce for the corners and minimum drag for the straights. That’s why they race with tiny wings on Monza and big wings in Monaco. If this proposal […]

S: fair points. I think overtaking will still be difficult in Melbourne, even after the changes. My point was that you don’t need tight corners, long straights and big braking zones to overtake, and Silverstone is […]

@jerejj You are kind of right, but I have a different opinion. In slow corners you can get closer in distance to your opponent, but not in time. Take the dreadful hairpin in Abu Dhabi for instance, the one leading […]

I am not sure if you are right. Think about it, how many big braking zones does Silverstone have? Very few and there are plenty of overtakings there. On the other hand, Abu Dhabi has an abundance of big breaking […]

I thought pitting during SC was a smart call. I can imagine that his original tyres were pretty cold by then. Since he was effectively last after his pitlane start, he got a ‘free’ pitstop to get fresh and warmer […]

There is a difference between enforcing track limits and ‘leaving the track and gaining advantage’. It is basically (in fact?) a different rule. Regardless of all the times that Hamilton went off the track, Max […]

We feared sandbagging from Mercedes, but not sandwich bagging.

@david-br Indeed. Obeying track limits is a different rule than leaving the track and gaining advantage. Hamilton played it very well.

I am not particularly happy to hear him complaining about not being able to cheat…
I think handing back the place immediately (and not re-attacking at the very next corner, remember Spa 2008) is the right thing t […]

A real shame, because he explicitely stated before the race that finishing was his main goal, no matter what the position. He wanted to gather more information about the tyres. You could clearly see that he […]

I seriously doubt that. Last year’s Racing Point was the third quickest car at the majority of the season. And it must have been much stable to drive than the twitchy Red Bull. Drivers like Gasly, Albon and Vettel […]

Of course it doesn’t matter, but there is an article in this roundup about the only known gay driver, so I think it is fair to talk about sexual preferences.

I do believe that there is way too much money involved in F1. Tickets are too high, the team’s budgets are too high, motorhomes are too expensive and so on. I would like to go to a sports that is less reliant on […]

@tonymansell I don’t rate Kimi as high as I did. I do think that in in McLaren days he was one of the best drivers, but that is 15 years ago…

Frankly, I don’t think Kimi cares much about qualifying anymore, […]

I voted ‘strongly agree’ but I meant it as an addition to the calendar next to the regular Bahrain-circuit. Now I see that people vote ‘disagree’ because they read it as a replacement of the regular circuit of the […]