So McLaren gets a 4 part doc show for their 2017 season, they just can’t find a brake. THIS is the season to do a doc. The Renault engine of last year won races and overtook a Ferrari from a mile back. This doc will be a slap in the face, maybe they deserve it.
As the world economy starts to take off (thank you…

“Do whatever you want, man”

I thought to mention this a few months ago when this constellation of web sites started endless stories about NYC subways, but I held my tongue. NO MORE!
The writer of this story seems to be a lovely guy, but he’s been sucked into an extremely political story seemingly without knowing it. Some of the writers of such…

Since no one else has, I guess its time to bring up that most boring of F1 rumor, VW will be entering into F1 now that Mr. E is gone and the new team at Liberty are forcing lower costs and getting away from that shit engine.
It seems to me, as Ferrari has dedicated itself to increasing sales by some significant…

I’m not sure about this speed increase for 2018, the cars are getting 15 kilos heavier and the fuel burn restriction is still the same. I guess its possible all the teams will just cut out 15 kilos of ballast weight and that will solve things. The cars are designed with all that ballast weight so they can change the…

I think there is a rational argument for women participating in F1 in this way, if you take the issue seriously…
Having women at sporting events goes back to when mankind had its first and last golden age, 2400BC. In an age where man was just on the cusp of separating themselves from wild animals, sports could lead to…

I kind of felt this episode lacked surprise and absurdity. I think the main reason for this was they started off with a weak story which lasted the whole show and they did this in order to take full advantage of all the publicity the Hammond crash has offered them.
Surprise and magic was their forte and it seems a bit…

Personally I hate any notion of any team being financial controlled in this Orwellian way. F1 is a sport filled with mature adults and their motives are to end up on top, this adds entertainment value for the fans and morality issues, because sports does. I personally would be willing to do many inappropriate things…

This is the tune that comes to my mind when I see that car, in context.
The movie is Harold and Maude

I detest budget caps. Smart people (F1 is filled with them) can get around such budget limitations with ease. Budget caps are just another way of instituting the rich getting richer. But… if this is what the FIA and FOM (Liberty) are going to do lets just watch this experiment play out.
Right now Ferrari is fucking…

If your McLaren and you end up with a Ferrari engine you know for a fact that you will win no races. Ferrari men take care of the engine for all the teams that run that engine.

All these ideas are good. Ross Brawn has spoken about the use of success ballast.

It take a lot more than $90 million to fund the R&D and manufacture of SpaceX rockets. The income is not the issue the billions spent to offer a ISS supply run at $90 million is.
Bazos sells $1 billion in Amazon stock each year to fund his program, Musk squeezes it out of our pockets.

In a sport where turning it up to 10 is essential, and highly risky, Ferrari turning it up to 11 has an inevitable outcome. The top guy wants results now and bang goes the engine every time. You can hear the conversation… We can add 80 HP no problem but the engine will never make it to the end of the season, DO IT!

Always remember that Alonso often said that the Ferrari of today will always come in 2nd. As I see it Alonso looks at Ferrari and still feels he is better at McLaren. Better to be at a team that has the intention and focus to win than at a winning team that can’t win the title.

16 or 321 I can’t remember.

I find the most interesting aspect of this story the fact that NBCSN didn’t even bid, and that their interpretation of events was that Liberty was bidding on their own product trying to raise the price. If Liberty felt they needed NBCSN they would have had bids from them, but it looks like Liberty didn’t really care…

I have been a Hamilton fan from the beginning, even before his entering into F1. From the start you could tell this guy was talented because he was unusually smart. If you just considered how he was thinking and how he considered a question and how he answered, this guy was fucking smart. Over and over he would answer…

The promo video that Musk and friends is sharing to promote their oddball quick flight bullshit is interesting for reasons that I find amazing. The visuals and music create a tone that reminds me of the film Gattaca, a good film. The problem with using such a parallel is that Gattaca was a film whose main character is…

As I remember the whole space plane program was canceled for an odd be reviling reason. The ship morphed from a thin long plane into a plump short thing which was the real world answer to the question, if you had to actually make this thing what would it really look like? It was a fat triangle shape kind of like a…