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“But we have a new audience and need to provide value for money every session, not let everyone drive around in circles for the sole benefit of engineers and drivers.” No you don’t. Because value for money is […]

If teams change components between qualifying and race, they would have to serve a lengthy time penalty during pitstop in the race (which would pretty much discourage them from that tactics), or they could be […]

Why don’t they apply grid penalties immediatelly when either of qualifying segment is finished?
For example, Verstappen would have made it out of the Q1, but because of his penalty, he would have been eliminated […]

First of all, thumbs up for CotD, especially this part “Caring for the environment doesn’t mean giving up everything we love. It really is just acknowledging the harm our actions cause and trying to minimise t […]

I’m so glad that non-championship race is in consideration.
I just hope that Liberty will consider scaling down number of championship races (to e.g. 16) and then add another 6 or 7 non-championship races.
Then […]

Replying COTD.

Comparing MP4 to Ferrari’s prancing horse is ridiculous.
MP4 was something imposed by the new owner and had absolutely zero connection to McLaren and it’s history.

P.S.
Practice sessions […]

Replying on COTD.

It looks like 200-250 employees at Manor are about to lose their jobs.
The reason for that are those well-capitalized teams that are grabbing most of the prize money for themselves so that […]

Just a small correction on Schumacher’s first test in F310B.
Schumacher first tested F310B on the January 8th. It was basically a shakedown as he did only 12 laps on Fiorano circuit.
He was supposed to continue […]

“But why shouldn’t Verstappen, or any other driver, learn from Schumacher’s example of the kind of driving which wins you seven world championships and 91 grands prix?”

Wow, I didn’t know that Schumacher pul […]

Regarding VSC.
VSC is more time limited than speed limited, so it is not a good solution.
Drivers do slow down, but it is staying over the minimum time that matters. They are concentrating on that, constantly […]

Instead of using social media to suck-up to people, while using a dead person to evoke sympathy, Mr. Hill should instead try to use his position of a former F1 WDC to start a campaign to educate young drivers […]

Example 1
In this case it is relevant. De Jong had nothing to there when contact happened. He was there only because of tarmac runoff.
Remember Spa 2000, Hakkinen vs Schumacher, one lap before overtake (look at […]

Well, everything is dangerous, including things that are supposed to be safer than gravel trap.

Example 1
Driver going over the track limit because there was tarmac runoff, two cars touch and then one ends up […]

Here’s a crazy idea.
Put the gravel in the runoff area.
Problem solved.

If you wanted to make your strategy work, you had to overtake, especially if you carried less fuel than the car in front.

Good point regarding the difference between 2009 and 2010. Aero rules for 2009 failed […]

I find it interesting that people are always blaming refuelling for lack of overtaking back in 1994-2009 period, when in fact cars aerodynamics were the main problem.

The reason we have the ugly cars, Pirelli […]

Drivers: 10-6-4-3-2-1
Simplest, but the best points system that values both winning and strong overall season performance fairly.
Drivers that didn’t score points would be sorted by their average finishing […]

@smudgersmith1
I doubt you watched any of races in 1994, otherwise you wouldn’t make such statements. Here is a copy of mine older comment about Schumacher’s starts in 1994.

Interlagos – Senna starts better, […]

I did a lot of thinking should I post this or not, because people will probably call me blinded fanboy who lives in denial. But what the hell, here it is. I looked for all 1994 starts which involved Schumacher, […]

Interesting read, but also like Alonso’s career points record, this is pretty much pointless because of different point scoring systems through F1 history.

For example, Kvyat, Alguersuari, Buemi don’t even have […]