Matthijs

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 […]

@latorres86 I don’t. But Albon and Gasly are much better drivers in the Alpha Tauri than in the Red Bull. You say it’s the curse of the second Red Bull seat, I say it’s because of the car being very difficult to […]

@icarby I hope so too. Pink Mercedes is much easier to drive than the difficult Red Bull. Same as the difficult Ferrari this year. I would not be surprised if Vettel in the Racing Point (as long as it is a Pink […]

@coldfly Indeed. Ricciardo’s stats against Ocon really show how fast and strong Daniel is. I hope he will be succesful with McLaren. But for Red Bull I think Perez was the strongest driver available. I cheer for […]

@jimfromus I agree that Ricciardo had (another) very strong race and could have been classified as a star. But fastest lap means very little nowadays so for me it doesn’t say much.

Alonso’s time would have qualified him ahead of Ocon and Ricciardo in this weekend’s GP (albeit only just). Renault really allowed him to do glory laps.