Nice article, I don’t agree with it all but love the spirit.
The truth is if we had not done it when we did we would not have done it. 1981? No fucking way! That was the economy of Jimmy Carter, things were falling apart and Reagan was handed a pile of shit to fix. There was also the event of LBJ’s Great Society…

Money. That’s why this will happen, not racing or entertainment. Long ago F1 figured out that if you have a new racing star the folks from his nation go ape shit and start spending money F1 had no idea existed. Max Verstappen is the new star, just add water and… money. It is rumored that Barcelona is going to be…

A new black was created by scientist a few years ago and an artist, Kapoor, bought the exclusive rights to it. A new blue was discovered about a year ago, I think in France, it is said to be the first new blue since 1812.

I don’t watch the show but based on this clip I am going to guess that for this show, they shoot the rehearsals, every scene I have seen of this show seems rushed. For some reason in the edit room they choose this take, maybe there was a dialogue change after the rehearsal and it didn’t work when other scenes were cut…

F1 wants/needs to grow the audience, all the research points in one direction for two layers of this complex puzzle. 1) Get a young person up front 2) Get Ferrari up front.
I could write a few pages about how F1 is playing its own game to make more money and how this is well accepted within the motorsport brethren,…

I don’t know about that, F1 offers a great place to develop technology you can’t find elsewhere. Going back is what F1 needs to do, but not all the way back. Right now there is MGUK and MGUH, dump the H and keep the K but reformat it so its cutting edge for today. The sound will return and F1 can sell itself as kind…

This is a sample of one!
This is the first race where the cars and engines had to perform to their max… and there were some mistakes, so what, its race #1.
For those who are not amused tune out and come back at Barcelona. With a few races in the bag and new aero stuff on most cars Barcelona is more representative of…

It might be silly but this is how it played out. Kimi was in 4th or 6th in a race and towards the end of the race he would pit, new tires no fuel. The TV commentators picked up on the game and they openly asked, will Kimi pit for that fastest lap? “Here he goes”… it was a deliberate end to racing for a win and just…

This whole game happens so often I think you have to consider that something else is happening here. When Mr E. was running things he would lay a whopper of a comment in the press, something outlandish and perhaps a little insane. This drove attention to F1 during the down times, maybe this is the game here?
A further…

Yes, I guess I should have said (shifting the blame) that the TV commentators say every single time that they took the aero advantage away and over the winter the teams clawed it all back which equals just as much speed, I have hear every single time.

You might be right I don’t watch any motor sport other than F1. I feel the left and right tight nature of a typical F1 track would make such speed perceptions almost impossible to see.

I agree but I think the combo that would work is 1500hp and massive slippery tires. Driver skill baby!

I remember this. Kimi was driving for McLaren and he was 3rd or 4th, as the race came to an end he would snap off a fastest lap in defiance of the race gods. This is why I don’t really like this idea, it made me mad. The TV commentators would talk about what Kimi had done so much it was a distraction and it was an…

For years drivers have complained about not being able to follow or get close enough to and pass the car ahead because of the wash of air onto their car. This subject is one of F1’s 8 endlessly conversations, and when the FOM started planing to solve this problem everyone thought it was about air coming from the back…

I think the writer of this story did a review of a Bentley Continental, isn’t that super? Has the power, speed, luxuriousness, technology and overall quality. Seems super to me. Oh, I see, the Bentley was super duper, my mistake.

Easy solution.
The show starts in a windowless office, night, everyone looks like they haven’t slept in two weeks, the sound of the florescent lights fill the sound track. One guy is standing with anger on his face, he pointedly looks at his antagonist. Words spill out of his mouth like an overrunning oil tank, I’ll…

I wonder if there is a scenario where an Artist’s Illustration of Mars does not include the rust infused dirt? Might there have been some kind of life that would have change the colors? Might there have been plants like moss or some such thing? If we are going to see a view of Mars which no person has ever seen why…

The insight I get about the show is they are going for the non F1 fan. Christian Horner might be the sound track for the whole thing, because he can spew hours of BS about anything while avoiding the truth, the TV folks might think he is golden.
This is a highly commercial tease which uses an unusual amount of non…

The truth is, human error did in Curiosity. If I were of a conspiratorial mind I would say Curiosity was killed!
The history is, days before Curiosity was to be put into its yearly seasonal sleep mode it was losing power rapidly. NASA openly spoke of their worries that they would not be able to get Curiosity into a…

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