Did anyone see that overtake Ricciardo did on Kimi in the last race? Ricciardo was massively behind but at the first corner he was able to easily overtake the Ferrari. That’s the engine McLaren is now going to have, night and day. Of course I should mention that Renault has announced that they are going to completely…

Human sacrifice? More like human trafficking!

Simple! You know how Le Mans started with the drivers running to their cars to start the race? Lets do that in F1, every driver but 2 start 2 miles away and must run unaided to their car, except for Honda, they start strapped in.

The summer break is a transition point for many things in F1, more of the design team switches to the next car, drivers are dropped or signed etc, it also serves as a point where agreements with other teams and the FIA end.
F1 is under tremendous pressure to resolve the predictability of the racing which usually…

In order to understand the obsession with Kimi you must understand that the fan base for F1 has a large Northern and Southern European mix. Guess who roots for Kimi…

Why is it dumb?

Cubism, I see it.

(Takes a deep breath) Incentives, that’s the way people work and how they make decisions, incentives. What we have here is failure to incentives.
I have a theory which can be turned into a concept and than perhaps an idea, and here is how it goes. I propose that incentives be used to shape F1 and push away from the…

In the 1980’s and 90’s there was a surprising rise in the use of the word Pneumonia in the New York Times obits when describing cause of death, always for young men. Over time the New York Times became comfortable with defining the cause of death as AID’s rather than Pneumonia. So Clarkson has AID’s and he’s ashamed,…

The greatest difference between the UK versions and the US versions is the US obsession with demographics. The UK version lets the folks do what they want, a good idea is King! In the USA its all about creating a sealed container defined by demographics. Ideally the show, the sponsors and the thin slice of…

The era of planes with bombs and missiles flown by people in a plane is coming to an end. We are at the start of a transition that will radically change our Navy forever. In the midst of such transitions where everything is fitted to a purpose nothing seems to fit.
The Navy is fully open and public with the fact that…

Oh please just one more! I have an idea, because the whole thing is so gross, make a show of it and end the party on a low note.
Heres my plan. The whole thing is gross, so lets make it super gross. Ricciardo should bring a third shoe to the podium next time he gets there. This shoe should be filled with some kind of…

The feminine foreign policy of Obama is over. Stripping ourselves of a vital layer of self protection is a hilarious notion, pass the blunt…

Generally speaking there are two directions teams go when filling the two driver spots. The Ferrari way is to have a recognized great as the #1 driver and a super solid talented #2 driver. The second way (McLaren) is the have two #1 drivers, Senna, Prost. Chemistry is key but its all black magic and high risk to put…

Maybe the bike is just not that into him?

It looks like Eddie Jordan was right, Mercedes is finito
in F1. The garage sale has begun.

“Liwi also suggested that the initial rendezvous between the lander and crew vehicle would take place in lunar orbit, which differs from the Apollo approach.”

Ask yourself this, who would buy the team AND how much will it cost. The answer is, there are few people in the world that could spend the $300 million or so it would cost to buy the team. So for Mercedes what to do? I believe it when Jordan said Mercedes will be out, I don’t know if its 2018 or 2020, one way or the…

There are several dances going on at the same time, it would seem that one dance has taken the lead for importance, that would be the dance for Alonso. Everything we are reading could have been said last year or six months ago, so the words fall softly, without the necessary edge to induce any sense of drama, at least…

The new Top Gear has gotten past the bare minimum barrier and is worth a look, but it also has some unique issues that have followed it from the Chris Evens incarnation. The fundamental richness of the CMH Top Gear was that all of them were writers, they approached the exercises as a writing exercise needing structure…