Fundamentally F1 is a competition and we don’t get that much competition in F1. As the race runs its course the cars stretch out over a full laps length between the head of the pack and the back. While there is an occasional show of competition in all areas of the pack, the level of intensity is surprisingly mild.…

I’m not that big a fan of Mag, but I do like one thing about his approach. In F1 everything is blended down to numbers, as in, we think we will be 7th or 8th at this race. Mag seems to not care what the engineers thing, he actually tries to get as close to the top as possible. And this is one down side to F1, all the…

Let me be the first to say, this is a big mistake. If you have ever driven next to one of the V12 S cars you will forever remember that sound. Most owners of S class cars drive it themselves and my guess is, they like the sound, its part of the statement of the thing. If they don’t drive it themselves, same deal.
I’m…

First of all Thomas Muster was hilarious, another crazy Austrian, he was a super physical player who eventually became a race car driver. And Martina Navratilova was fat until she hired the nutritionist, being 10 pounds lighter makes a huge difference in professional sports, and so it was with her.
It’s not about…

Unfortunately folks that do real science for a living have to deal with the fact that the money more often than not comes from the government. So they have to do what everyone in business does, they have to sell their ideas to get attention and money. It seems that for the last five decades you have to use the words…

Well… that’s it! I’m not going to even look at a Mercedes if they don’t make a real engine.
All jokes aside, WTF, a company like Mercedes can’t burnish their car rep with a thing of beauty?

China lost control of this ship and didn’t admit it for a some time. I wonder, if you or I were to get permission to have a space in space for our ship, and we lost control of it and didn’t admit there is a problem that might affect lots of people on the ground, would we get permission for another space in space? Why…

The PE world is not a world of home run after home run, Chrysler Motors was taken over by a PE firm and they lost billions before Fiat showed up to buy it for nothing.
The most popular scam that I know of works this way, a firm buys a company, often with the help of the current CEO, and over a period of years they…

I have a different interpretation… I would bet money that these organs were used, in part, for evading flying predators. If the top of your head suddenly gets dark, you might have a flying raptor coming to eat you, so, move quickly in any direction. I would guess the eyes of these creatures were different from other…

Today, 3-29-18 I became a moron. I didn’t see it coming, its just, well, there it is, I’m a moron.
In an F1 world where ESPN just turns on the tap and lets the SkySport show flow onto our TV’s we get what we get. I like Sky and to bitch about the coverage seems to me a complaint against SkySport, they do a fine job,…

There was a BBC documentary two or so years ago which told the story of the end to the land bridge that spanned from continental Europe and the UK. In this documentary they mentioned a fierce storm which hit the UK several years earlier, it hit the sandy beach area of the white cliffs of Dover to such a degree that…

Me too. I have often said I want to see a race during the race, love Hamilton but, I show up for a race. I too was sick of MS and than Vettel I know how fucked up things become when its the same winner like it is with Hamilton now. But this guy has lots and lots of talent and he puts it on the line, taking lots of…

Just for the hell of it let me describe the simple and stupid screw up at the start of the pre race show. ESPN connected to the world feed, it was supposed to connect to the SkySport feed. My guess is, ESPN never takes a feed from another broadcaster and this is where things went wrong. Its like telling a heart doctor…

I would kill for a chance to do an episodic Spinal Tap version of F1, during the season at the race. All the jokes would have a resolution each show and all the jokes would come from content on the track or as a result of documentary style shooting within a team. Yes there would be scripted bits but everyone would get…

I’m a fan of him too, but Vettel is/was a level above, but maybe not so much anymore.

Moto GP and the Isle of Man race freak me out so much its kind of not fun. I can watch just a few minutes a month before I scream out loud, I can’t watch any more, I don’t want to see people die.

Sorry to tell you this but, there is this guy named James Allison, he now works for Mercedes, his great gift is he knows how to design a car that is super gentle on the tires while getting the right heat/grip from them. He work at Ferrari and was largely responsible for the 2017 Ferrari but he was fired by the boss…

Your watching one of the greatest drivers to ever race a car, and he is at his peak’ Don’t miss out on appreciating something special when it arrives. I get it, everyone has a favorite, but if your into the sport don’t miss out on the good stuff, it comes so infrequently.

That Hamilton lap was insane! At the exact spot Bottas started to lose it Hamilton’s car was bounding and bouncing through the corner and zip right through the area Bottas over drove. So, Hamilton over drove his car beyond what Bottas did, yet he had total control, Bottas did not. I swear it looked like the #44 car…

I think there is a question about Ferrari for tomorrow. The question goes like this, when and how will Ferrari make a switch from KR ahead of SV to SV ahead of KR. My guess, first stop.