Simon

Peak Hamilton, in my opinion, had the best ultimate pace of anyone on the grid that he raced against and the best race pace. He grew into being the complete driver package. There’s a reason he’s always been in […]

It’s like Tost hasn’t realised safety is a much bigger deal now than when the first generation of ground effect cars were introduced – decades earlier. Go a bit further back in time still, and drivers being killed […]

A surprisingly good step forward from the FIA, both in terms of speed and sensibility. I’d been thinking of limiting vertical g-force, but vertical movement seems a good alternative that’s probably easier to […]

I should probably have mean clearer with my intentions; the “do now” statement was in reference to finding and setting a medically safe limit (the next sentence), not to enact a limit immediately. For all I know, […]

If we end up with a severe crash where the cause is found to be related to vertical g-forces in some way, or a driver gets injured due to repetitive stresses the body can’t handle, they would have no choice but to […]

They don’t need to regulate ride quality, but they do need to take medical advice on safe human tolerances to vertical g-force at the frequency being experienced by drivers round a circuit like Baku.

And then […]

There is one thing the FIA need to do now. Not next month, not next year, now…

Set a maximum medically safe vertical G for F1 racing, to ensure injuries are avoided. Monitor it, either using the existing G […]

The difference is that starting on time means not relying on a prediction of the future that may or may not come to pass. By delaying, they were trying to predict the future. Yes, they got the prediction right, […]

Agreed they are currently very close, though I think it’s been clear that Lewis has struggled more than George to adapt to the car when its been at its most difficult. I also think we’ve seen the first signs today […]

FIA should mandate a device be fitted inside the cockpit to measure vertical oscillations, and prescribe a safe upper limit for qualifying/races (allowing them to test solutions in free practice). It’s their job […]

I’m not sure that’s the case as a general rule (or at least, there’s not yet enough evidence to say its true), but he clearly has an issue adapting to this particular car in certain races.

In Bahrain and […]

I imagine on reflection, both Mercedes drivers will be satisfied with the weekend. Leaving luck of the safety car aside, Hamilton had the measure of Russell, and the team outperformed their expectations for 2 […]

I do like the idea that Hamilton went from having a near-flawless close to the 2021 season, fighting tooth and nail with Max (and coming out on top in those racing duels), to a level below George a few months […]

He is correct, given he’s talking specifically about reliability. A driver couldn’t race without a car/team behind them. If a team creates a car that can’t finish the race due to reliability issues, then the cars […]

Max would naturally say this, since he doesn’t want any further attention drawn to it. We’d all likely say very similar in his situation, particularly as he had zero responsibility for what happened and thus the […]

Any refers to an indefinite or unknown quantity of something. As an example, if you said “any of the cars” you would be referring to one or more of them, without specifying which cars or how many.

In this […]

Looks like Merc have gone for a calculated gamble, with a non-conventional design they believe has more potential than the route most others have taken, but might take a little while to fully understand and […]

Functionally the rule remains identical, since grammatically “any” means “all” in the 2021 version of the rule. That’s just how English grammar works (it’s dependent on how the word is used in the […]

Not that it will matter in the long run, but removing Masi as race director completely (rather than keeping him as a co-race director, and giving him access to the improvements around support network and rule […]

I understood Grojean’s point, but the fact it would have been “unusal” doesn’t come into it. I also never said the rules were broken, since that wasn’t my point. Arguing over whether the rules were followed or not […]