Ian Tommins

How would that help? They only bring three compounds to any given weekend anyway (not counting wet/inter). They could reduce the number of tyre sets allocated to each team, and perhaps only bring two compounds, […]

When was the last time the same team were first and last, without the car in last having a crash or penalties?

Huh? The race was a lap too short so the solution is to remove another lap? That doesn’t make any sense.

By encouraging I mean those who after the event have said he did the right thing. That means that a future driver who finds themselves in a similar situation will be more likely to stop and attempt to […]

What else was he doing when he got out of his car and walked towards Zhou? The article headline describes it as “checking on Zhou”. I’m making the assumption that he was also looking to see if there was anything […]

To clarify and in response to all three of the comments above, I was not intending to criticise Russell’s actions in this specific case.

Rather, it was a comment on the general culture. I’d like the FIA to […]

I understand why drivers want to help when they see one of their colleagues in danger, but I don’t think it’s something we want to be encouraging.

Looking specifically at this incident, Russell stood on the […]

Any new engines or parts at this time of the season would just use up his allowance. He wouldn’t be given a penalty, so it would not give him the tactical advantage that it would later in the season.

Interesting that they’ve removed the tobacco sponsorship, at least for that image (which I assume is a photoshoped picture from the recent testing).

They said he’d tested negative for covid. Which I took to mean that he had symptoms consistent with covid (otherwise why bother mentioning it).

Hopefully we all know by now that the lateral flow/antigen tests […]

When he says “We need to make up now every day, we can make up four hours of testing,” he must mean that they will be running late every evening, and in total they will run for four hours in the evening. The […]

F1 isn’t likely to implement a communal parts bin like Formula E, where rivals would also have far too much opportunity to check out each others’ work.

A communal parts bin doesn’t need to mean a literal ski […]

Whenever there’s a trade-off between safety and performance, top-level competitors in any sport will choose the more dangerous, faster option. If they choose the safe option they become a mid-level competitor, […]

No exceptions unless agreed by all teams (e.g. race was red flagged while it was dry and by the time it’s ready to restart it’s full-wet weather). By making the exception you propose you give an advantage to those […]

That gives a huge disadvantage to the first car that has been lapped. Let’s say that’s the car in P8, who quite likely only has P1 between themselves and P7. If they are forced to drop to the back then they will […]

He didn’t need to slow down by exactly a tenth to finish ahead of Verstappen. His earlier lap was already good enough for that (and Verstappen had no opportunity to set a faster lap) so Bottas would have just […]

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 […]