The FIA has total undeniable access to and control over every teams car and engine. If your car wins on Sunday the FIA has the right to roll that car into their inspection spot and not return it to you until the following week. They have the right to tear that fucking thing down to its nuts and bolts. Every team signs…

Another renowned female pilot of the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_with_the_Night
And her book!

Somehow, someway, this is all about a Monty Python joke, I just can’t figure it out.

Miami, meh! I like F1, in part, because of the international locations, I love a view of some place else. America was a shit hole because we got that the economics of F1 suck and wanted no part of it, what has happened?
KEEP F1 OVER THERE, WHERE EVER OVER THERE IS!!!
Keep it foreign, keep it exotic, keep it…

A Miami race has been talked up for several years now, so this is not a surprise, but other things are a surprise. As we know, behind the scenes F1 is a complex machine, this kind of thing never happens unless its related to other things. Replacing an existing race means there is an issue somewhere. Whats going on in…

Maybach that shit up and I’m all in.

I was driving across one of those endless bridge mazes that links the Bronx with Manhattan in 2011 when suddenly I hear that sound, a low rumble with with a burble and a rhythm. I looked in front and spied a Mercedes 100 feet away, we got closer and the sound got louder, saw the V12 label, didn’t get the model cause I…

Please stop cranking up the black level. I don’t think the cars look cooler as they disappear into the pavement. If the viewer wants to really appreciate the cars, especially the open wheeled ones, its far better to crank up the mid tones and let us see what they are doing with all the stuff that’s exposed. I looked…

This was a strange race which had these anomalies up and down the order. Why was Ferrari transcendent with speed in qualifying yet in race trim kind of not so fast? Why was Mercedes kind of off with Lewis making little forward motion? Why could a Ferrari with new tires not pass a Mercedes with really old tires? Why…

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…

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?

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…

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,…

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.