Ian Tommins

What happens if someone retires from the Sprint race? I think they’d be allowed to start from the back of the grid (or possibly pit lane), so you would see them coming through the field. Probably quite rare, but […]

COTD:
Point is, there’s an extremely small percentage of people who fall into this ‘casual’ category.

It’s not an extremely small percentage – it’s 100%. At some point every formula 1 fan watched their first […]

“Those yellow rumble strips on the exit of turn two have done an awful lot of damage to our car” he complained, saying that running two or three feet wide would cost them “tens of thousands” of dollars […]

What is the history of chassis four?

Is that the one Bottas is currently using, and therefore each driver is just getting the chassis of the other driver? If so, why?
Or is it a brand new chassis for their No […]

The wording in the article includes the quote “his team asked [Latifi] to box”. That is contradicted by the radio that was played out where the team told him to “stay out”. Sounds like the stewards weren’t aware […]

All 14 drivers powered by Mercedes and Ferrari power units will have engines for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Now there’s a surprise! Always impressive when a car wins without an engine. ;)

How have they managed to go from 18 trucks to 8? Is it smaller? Or does it just pack tighter because of straight lines rather than curves.

I presume the implication is Verstappen won’t take unnecessary risks. Better to take home 18 points, than to try a risky overtake for an extra 7 points and end up going home with nothing.

If you have no hope of […]

It does look like them doesn’t it, especially as you can only see half their faces.

I think it’s Jak Crawford and Arthur Leclerc. Not sure about the third person.

Because then if you crossed the line with 1 second to go, you wouldn’t be sure if you’d won the race and should slow down and celebrate, or if you still need to push because there’s a lap left.

It should just […]

Any idea what happened to the Jaguars?

With 6 minutes + 1 lap to go, Evans was 9th and Bird was 12th. By the flag they were 15th and 14th respectively. They seemed to drop through the field slowly, so I guess […]

To me the problem is the 45 minutes + 1 lap race format, which isn’t compatible with managing energy to the level that you expect to finish the race with less than one lap of energy available. The problem was […]

Then how do drivers manage to get penalised for over usage then?

At the end of the race the FIA checks if the car has used more than the permitted 52kWh (or 33kWh for this race – see Hazel’s comment). If they […]

By that logic, we need a ton of races in China and India.
There were rumours of holding two races in China (I can’t see any in 2021, presumably due to covid).

It’s ultimately about money. Bernie’s strategy was […]

Surely that’s the point? There are 330 million potential fans in the USA.

How many fans would you lose by dropping the French GP? How many might you gain by adding Miami or somewhere else in the USA.

A third race in the USA sounds a lot when we rarely have more than one race in any given country, but the USA shouldn’t be compared to a country like the UK it should be compared to a group of countries (states) […]

Until he touched the grass, Russell was a candidate.

* Qualified 12th
* Spent most of his race running in 10th
* Was overtaking a Mercedes for 9th position

Without that crash we could easily have seen him […]

He was already moving left before Russell hit him

There’s been loads of debate about VER running wide at the last race and how the penalty was harsh, especially as HAM (a Brit) had been running wide at the same corner all weekend.

With RUS it’s more that he […]

There’s even something more than fanboost? Oh dear.

This is exactly the attitude that @skipgamer is complaining about. Yes, fanboost is a ridiculous idea that should have been laughed out of the b […]