Right now things are at there maximum complexity, this creates many odd and confusing situations, so its hard to really tell whats happening IN TESTING. As a McLaren fan we can’t let them off with simple excuses, we need more complex excuses. The truth is McLaren is now running an engine which two other teams are…

Holy shit! Does Univision still show F1 races? I don’t care one bit what the drivers think about the Halo, I am a fan and I care what we fans think. The halo is a significant visual disruption to connecting to the driver. The game is up, the fan is out.
You do realize that it is in the team and drivers interest to…

I will engage you in your circular argument. Open wheel is more than about wheels, it means open cockpit so you can see the driver, this thing changes that. The connection with the driver will be diminished simply by cutting off our view of them. Open wheel has always had a quality of danger and risk, this is what…

The 2017 Ferrari had lots of James Allison DNA all over it, but they fired him 1 1/2 years into the development of it, so, they only got part of his genius. Mid year 2017 Ferrari could not keep up the development on a car someone else designed, they didn’t fully understand it. This year they have brought forward some…

Of course this era will be different! Be positive!
I’m a big McLaren fan and its been hard…
Last year Renault powered engines won three races, better than Honda by 3. Alonzo won both his World Drivers Championships with Renault engines, the Renault powered Red Bulls of 2017 were faster than a Ferrari on the straights…

I don’t get your point. Would it help if I said with out fenders racing?

The problem is not Mercedes, with a car and engine both designed and built in England, the problem is the FIA and their rules. Ross Brawn, the man who built the Mercedes F1 team for this run of success, just like he built the Ferrari team for their run starting in 2000, might be seen by some as a wicked man, such were…

I don’t watch those race series, I am making a rational observation about something called open wheel racing. Obviously people love other race series, good for them.

Copied the James Allison Ferrari side pod inlet treatment, keeps wrapping the back of the side pods more tightly than ever to get more air to the rear. This could work.

For better or worse, fans of sport generally like to see the person who is doing the sport. While the car might look fine to some eyes, try to imagine it with a driver in it going fast. There is a reason helmets have become iconic and symbols of the people that race in them, we can’t see the face so the helmet is a…

I don’t think one budget has crossed the desk of any President that was not a compromise. Your either a player or your out on your ass come the next election. A President has many many people working with congress each day to get the best compromise.

The one thing you are unlikely to read in the general press is the…

We disagree.

Formula E is essentially a BS racing series based on psycho demographics regarding guilt regrading so called global warming or what we are now supposed to call, climate change. The series is predicated on BS and lives in BS. So, rather than stop at BS on one level all levels get their barrel full of BS. The more…

This car is one foot shorter than the Mercedes F1 car. It is believed that much of the problem with the 2017 F1 car was that it was overly long. The big drama pre-racing is… has Mercedes made their F1 car closer to the length of a Maybach?

You seem to think the President writes the budget an decided where things get spent. I think its Article One of the constitution that gives congress the responsibility to raise and spend all Federal money. With over 500 people in the mix, as well as countless special interest groups, the President has a voice that is…

Totally Blade Runner territory!
There is always an aesthetic path from today to tomorrow, this is the path civilization takes to get to the world of Blade Runner.

Um… A Senator is elected for 6 years and it is well known that Senators can do as they please for four of those years. Special interest groups own more than 2/3rds of the US Senators not the constituents. Out of site (no election) out of mind.
Actually there originally was a big difference between a Rep and A Senator,…

I could write a few pages in response but I will spare you. First off US Senators DO NOT work for the state they come from. The progressive movement of the early 1900’s fucked that up big time. Under Wilson they changed the constitution with the 14th or 17th amendment, can’t remember. This amendment changed the way US…

Its worth noting that while passenger quantity is a driving force for larger planes there is a counter weight which Boeing paid the right amount of respect to, fuel cost. The single largest cost to operating a plane is fuel. The whole airline business has been obsessed with that one item for over 40 years, think OPEC…

My thought is, a trillion goes a long way, even the embers of $1 trillion will find its way to New York.