Red Andy

@bernasaurus I think the F3 teams are assigned numbers based on their finishing position in the previous year, similar to the old F1 system.

I assumed it was because that’s the number of races there will be per season, assuming Liberty gets their way.

I’m pretty relaxed about three US events, but let’s have them at Watkins Glen, Laguna Seca and Road Atlanta.

There were eight engine suppliers in F1 as recently as 2002 – although that’s 20 years ago now.

If you’re faster than the car in front, @proesterchen, then you will, by definition, overtake them.

The fact that you would theoretically be faster than the car in front in clear air is irrelevant. You’re not […]

I don’t think I would be expecting Hamilton to say anything different, at this stage. He still has a year to run on his current contract, and the competitiveness of next year’s equipment won’t be clear for some […]

On the “smaller gaps” point @shimks, the sensible thing to do would be to drop Abu Dhabi and have the season end at Monza. That would presumably also help the cost issue by shortening the season by ten weeks or […]

Do we know they’ve sorted the porpoising though @moshambles? Since Montreal all of the races have been on permanent courses, whereas six of the first nine rounds were street circuits. It’s not entirely clear to me […]

I think both Permane and Krack are right, broadly speaking. There are other things that can be fixed first before worrying about the need to change the safety car/red flag procedure.

The biggest problem at […]

I’m old enough to remember when it was capped at 17 @gt-racer. The teams eventually caved on that for more money, and will doubtless do so again.

Saudi Arabia are obviously paying lots of lovely money to be there @jerejj, but given that they practically held the F1 circus hostage after the missile attack this year, I’m surprised that Liberty are taking […]

Lots of history, a local team and paying fans who actually have an interest in the sport? Four races in the Middle East, on the other hand…

It’s worth remembering in all this that Red Bull have invested huge amounts of money in their young driver programme, providing F3 and F2 seats for a number of talented young drivers (and a smaller number of […]

I feel for those who have been booking British GP tickets. I have seen dynamic pricing at work before, for example with festival tickets, but in my experience once you add the ticket to your basket that’s the […]

I think F1 does want an American driver, @tommy-c, but to the FIA it’s not worth compromising the integrity of the superlicence system for, which would call into question the value of the “ladder”. Fewer people […]

I think this was done earlier on in the turbo/hybrid era. Multiple changes would result in a pit lane start, with a drive-through or stop/go penalty to be served within the first few laps of the race.

Power unit costs are exempt from the budget cap, I believe? A sensible option could be to remove the exemption – then teams can use as many parts as they like but will have to rein in their spending on other […]

Come to think of it, they could have shortened the F1 and not much of value would have been lost.

Seems perfectly fair to me. If you can’t keep the car on the track, to the point where you run the risk of a race ban, you probably aren’t good enough to belong in the series anyway.

This works in BTCC. WTCC also used to have a rule where the first two laps behind the safety car didn’t count towards the overall race distance. Either would reduce (but not eliminate entirely) the possibility of […]