Swordsman_uk

@freelittlebirds Sorry, I don’t know what I was thinking! lol

Seriously though, Mercedes made a procedural error and it seems clear that it was accidental but it should still carry a punishment. Rules are […]

€25,000 for submitting incorrect information they believed to be correct at the time…. about a nose stud.
BUT…
€5,000 for an unsafe release from a pitstop.

Sounds to me like the FIA need to review their fines.

There was no race to rate.

@red-andy
…. and then bury the ashes of that bin in a secret location so that nobody ever finds them again.
Just to be sure.

@balue True, but it wouldn’t have to be just blue in place of the black areas. They could have used white and red too. Or even flashes/lines of other colours including black.

It just looks odd to me. They kept […]

Ah, the colours of the French flag… blue, white, red and….. black….. wait a minute!
Why is there so much black around the sides of the tub? It feels like the black ruins what would have been a nice livery. […]

Exactly. Especially if they really were losing “half a second a lap”!
I can’t believe that they were losing that much time because there’s no way you’d carry that in to the race just to save 3 grid slots.

Sky Sports in UK now reporting that the Australian GP is off. Majority of teams decided not to continue so it isn’t happening now.
It’s a shame; we were all looking forward to the race. But it is the right decision.

@keithcollantine I always like these stats articles. So I hate to point out an error but…

While you correctly state that Schumacher had 68 poles, in the next paragraph you say “For comparison, Schumacher’s s […]

Well there’s a clear winner in this poll.
However, Bernie has apparently already said that he doesn’t want to go back to last year’s format.
Sadly, I think it looks like they’ll keep the deeply flawed […]

@keithcollantine I agree with you there, it’s not as bad as the double points and almost certainly was a “lesser of two evils” choice as you’ve pointed out.
I do wonder if (and hope) it’ll be dropped before the […]

Exactly.

Could you see football doing it for example? In today’s English League Cup Final, Liverpool are lower in the league than Manchester City, does that mean the match should start 1-0 to Liverpool?

With all drivers having to post their laptimes early there will be lots of complaints about blocking I’m sure.

But it also means that by late in the session, the fastest drivers will have their times on the […]

I wonder if “Elimination Qualifying” will be 2016’s “Double Points”? Loathed by fans and dropped after one year.

Several of the teams were saying during the first test that FOM will struggle to get everything done in time. As a former software developer I can completely understand this and it’s right to delay it.

I just […]

Yet again F1 is looking in the wrong places. Qualifying is not what needs to be fixed at the moment. The current system isn’t perfect but it works pretty well (when compared to some of the systems tried over the […]

Nevermind, just noticed that @flatdarkmars answered this on the previous page.

Ah, that was my questions too. Thanks.