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Both the Stroll and Verstappen crashes should have been treated the same way – either safety car or red flags. tbh I don’t mind either call, but it should have been the same for both incidents.

I’m especially […]

@eurobrun tbh I don’t think Indycar has been that bad. Last year’s 500 ended under yellow after a Spencer Pigot hit the pit lane attenuator with 5 laps left. And there was a big debate as many drivers thought […]

@nanotech In part, it’s because Indycar varies the race distance per event. And those have changed partly to give the fans more value for money but in some cases it was to prevent fuel milage racing. Take the race […]

So far as recent Indy 500s go since the DW12 chassis was introduced, that was a good one.

It wasn’t as crazy as the 2012-17 races where the leader was a sitting duck as the cars were too draggy in clean air, […]

Interesting session to watch but the 75min format doesn’t seem as good as the one-shot last row shootout they ran in 2019, at least without some changes.

Power’s car had damage from his run but couldn’t be […]

Exposed risk of a yellow is always a concern in Indycar races, generally speaking if someone stops, everyone follows in just to prevent the risk of a yellow flag dropping them behind anyone who has pitted. […]

Graham made 4 stops total, on lap 2,3,30,58. I get the 1st stop to drop the black tyres under caution since the reds were clearly the one to be on but that lap 3 stop meant that the race restarted before he was […]

It’s not the same track. T1 is tighter on the Indy circuit. T5-7 of the F1 track are bypassed with a chicane onto the back straight. The T9-10 double hairpin has gone. And they bypass the oval turn that F1 used […]

That was Silverstone, not Austria. Austria last year ran with the same tyres for both races.

Agree with the suggestion above that if you want to mix it up, run the sprint race at one of the events – I’m not […]

I don’t think there are any EU countries that have gone alone entirely, but there were reports a few months ago of Germany buying its own vaccine stocks independently of the EU buying system.

Then why not wait until the new cars come in next year? For all we know there will be a massive shake up in the running order, as there was in 2009 and 2014. It’s entirely possible that we’ll get enough change […]

Classic take – keep an open mind, and the moment someone doesn’t say anything negative about it we’ll use it to justify permanent inclusion – despite Ross already saying that it won’t happen at Monaco, which […]

I’d be willing to consider this if championship points weren’t on the table. Part of the argument of adding a point for fastest lap was that, unlike points for pole, meant that it remained impossible for the […]

That depends though, as there have been plenty of recent races where the race has run without a caution period from flag to flag.

St Petersburg isn’t one of them though – turn one comes off the runway directly […]

– all cars can fit the best tyres

Monaco 2011 is the counter to this argument. That had potential to be a grandstand finish as the top 3 were running nose to tail with Vettel on softs that were 50+ laps old a […]

Each to their own, but technical development always should take a back seat to having a competitive racing series. Especially as you’ve conveniently forgotten that in the late 90s Lola cars were nowhere in terms […]

In all of those cases though they drove for Ed Carpenter Racing, after Ed made the decision to only do the ovals. Considering how bad his road course record is, that was a great commercial decision to do what he’s […]

…and Helmets in F1 don’t? I’ve lost count of the number of roundup articles on this site showcasing one-off helmet designs for a race.

Also, good luck telling the difference between Dixon and Alonso’s Indy […]