Lone Star Le Mans wasn’t working because it was in the brutal heat of summer, and scheduled against college football. WEC will still be coming around that time, but I get the impression they might not stay for long, they don’t seem to be able to pull the same crowd as the IMSA package.

If he leaves McLaren/Honda, then he either doesn’t have to sit out a GP, or still isn’t allowed to race Le Mans (there likely won’t be factory seats available anyway).

If there’s a GP scheduled against Le Mans again, Liberty will have screwed up horribly, given how criticized it was when Baku was a conflict.

Thing is, Sauber is the one I expect can last another decade. If Manor had gotten the money and Sauber were bankrupt right now, I doubt Manor would still be here in 3 seasons.

Remember when Sauber was so desperate for money they signed 4 drivers for 2 race seats?

Except Sauber has better infrastructure than Manor, and less debt. If you were in the market for an F1 team, Sauber was the better pick regardless of who got F1 prize money.

This is also the first season Honda have had free reign to redesign the engine, the previous two were limited by tokens. Assuming they haven’t sorted the issues (presumably caused by the ground-up redesign they needed) by year’s end, having a second team means more data on failures, which means fixes can be developed…

That’s nice, but it’s the ham sandwich line that people disagree with.

If blood is so valuable, why does this lady seem so willing to get it all over herself instead of taking care that it all makes its way into the car?

Yup, considered a few years ago.

The ACO has considered making the WEC a winter series that ends with Le Mans. Two big reasons they haven’t done it yet, and which seems to be the key factor with most of these events and series.

Date equity. The Rolex 24 and Sebring 12h have had those dates for many decades, not to mention you wouldn’t want to race in Florida in the middle of summer, and can’t race in New York in February.

Thing is, more people actually watch golf. This year the Masters fell to ‘only’ a 7.5 rating, meaning millions (at least 7M, probably closer to 8M) of people in the US watched it. The Le Mans 24 hours last year peaked at 350,000 US viewers. In other words, 20x less popular than golf, which means it might be 20x less…

Heck, he’s probably looking forward to spending more time sim racing now that he doesn’t have such a crazy busy schedule.

Except people like Jr. Though Nico’s not as bad as Jacques on the ‘retired children of former champions’ scale.

Well, it’s required to comply with legal crew instructions, and it seems like United broke their own rules for trying to kick ticketed passengers off a plane due to their own poor planning (force majeur only counts if it’s outside United’s control).

Incident 1: Still on a driver’s permit with my dad in the car. Asks me if I know why he pulled me over, and I genuinely didn’t. He says I jumped the light (if I did anything it was let off the brakes too early, but was well behind the line). I say if I did it wasn’t intentional. He asks where I’m going. “Home from a…

Presuming part of this decision is concussion related, I doubt he does much racing elsewhere (aside from sim racing, which he hasn’t done for a while due to the busy schedule of NASCAR). I’d expect Gordon to be more likely to make his way to Le Mans.

Well, that does seem to be what they’ve decided they should have done. They realize now that they shouldn’t have done it. Doubly so since it seems to be against their Contract of Carriage to ask him to leave the plane in the first place, getting crew to another airport is not force majeur because it’s within their…

Even taking the license usually doesn’t stop people from driving.