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And dont forget Tsunoda; 5% of Lance salary only; but probably will score twice the points than him. Absolute bargain

Agree with all comments, and also I could add that Alonso had a lot of time of karting practice in his circuit during all this period, which is known as a great way of keeping reflexes sharp on a driver. In […]

Ops winds, not wins

Great, the more wins the less settled the Mercs will be! Good for us.

Well, I still think Mercedes spent the last 2 weeks with full resources back in the factory to try to solve the rear end “unbalance”, so they will be probably on pole for first race. I just hope that Red Bull cou […]

Fully agree with you, this one is horrendous, worst Ferrari livery ever.

I tend to agree with you S, winning machinery and opposition from teammates are very important in the equation. I would also add reliability and circuits on that too. With the passing years, it’s much easier to n […]

It’s a beautiful safety car, that’s for sure

One of the all time greats, looking forward to read this one! Thanks for the review!

Great and detailed interview again Dieter, well done! It’s really great to have all the detailed information regarding 80s and 90s cars and the driver accounts from this era. It’s also great to know the ins […]

I like that maybe Ricciardo will be able to drive a car from Dale Sr, his childhood hero, I wish I had the chance to drive any of Zak’s race car collection. I believe he has all of my dream cars in any race c […]

It’s not exactly a new strategy in F1 , teams were copied countless times, I remember that Prost was dubbed blue Benetton back in 1997 (Flavio Briatore was on the deal), this is a somehow safe bet for quick r […]

What I really like is that Vettel is the first driver to openly speak that he disliked the idea of sprint races. Most of drivers are too. PR oriented on their responses, so it’s refreshing to hear him saying t […]

Thanks Tifoso for the extensive reply on Schumacher. I understand it was a major undertake for him to come back to F1, and all of the aforementioned factors from your post explain it really well. On my end, I also […]

Qualifying never been broke, they are trying to react to boredom caused by Mercedes, and also to please the shareholders who wanted to increase revenues, and promoters etc. This has nothing to do with preserve F1 […]

It’s a thin line between over delivering vs over driving the car. A less experienced driver would overdrive the car trying to over deliver ( a bit what Charles Leclerc did sometimes due to lack of experience, he t […]

Hamilton would never take this risk, why leave the most dominant Mercedes where his track record show him as an all time great and switch to a “normal” team and fight for podiums only? He can keep racking wins and […]

I agree, if we consider that most of Tilke old track revamps are a disaster or just kills the flow and character of the circuits (ex Barcelona, or worse, Hockemheim) with hairpins or off camber corners, the […]

Let’s hope this trend of undoing the “Tilkeism” in the circuits keep spreading! Dropping that horrible chicane would be awesome.

One could say the same about Interlagos 2008 , a flawless race by Massa with a very convincing win, and a subpar race by Hamilton, so it goes both ways.