Ian Tommins

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 […]

Or run qualifying with race fuel

Much less risky than contracting Covid just before a race (ask Perez, Hamilton and Stroll)

You can’t separate performance and reliability. All the teams turn their engines down to improve reliability and keep engine failures at an acceptable level. If you are able to make changes that improve […]

What about Mexico City? It is described as a “street course” on the Formula E website, so they seem to consider it one, but it looks pretty permanent to my eye.

I answered McLaren, because they have the most significant change.

I fully expect the order at the end of the season to be:
1. Mercedes
2. RedBull
3-6. McLaren, Aston Martin, Alpine and Ferrari in some […]

The point of a black and white rule is that it is clear and consistent – there are no “what if” questions.

Even though it was obvious the bulk of the pack had passed, there could still be a car that had had a […]