Everything about this issue is about the creation of a legacy. The person behind all this is the President of the FIA a French guy named Jean Todt, who is impossibly stupid. Let me qualify that, he is not actual stupid, he is willfully ignorant, which is stupid. Todt comes from the grease monkey world of auto racing…

Yes. Smooth curves. Ferrari is feminine Lamborghini is masculine.

Anything that can be done to stop all the talk about tires is a good thing. Each race is overtaken by and endless conversation about tires and all the permutations to consider regarding an affect on tires, weather, track surface etc. This has been going on for years. There once was a time when you almost never heard…

Alonso was never that good a qualifier, WRC is kind of qualy laps every stage, so, makes sense.

I wish they went more in the direction of expressing power with respect to the shape of the car. This is a more streamlined feminine look vs a muscular masculine look. I understand why they chose this, its just, aesthetically, could be better…
I think it’s worth keeping in mind that once the aero teams get their teeth…

As far as looks, basically Richard Hammond at 87.
If he could see out of his right eye I think he would have a little less of a sneer.

Just thought I would mention that both Ocon and Bottas were managed by Toto Wolff, so this is a tell regarding his ability to pick talent. To some the measure of legitimacy as an F1 player is your ability to pick drivers, Wolff picked well but no Hamilton or Vettel in sight. Average good is just average.
It is also…

For Ferrari we are living in the perfect world, they just can’t figure out how to win in it. Right now, no spending restrictions and no standardized parts apart from wheel size. The racing sucks, it has sucked for years. Several teams have left and several teams have gone broke, because of that fucking shit engine. The…

The answer to everything in F1 is money. A race in Saudi Arabia might be the question, so the answer is…
The Saudi owned oil company is called ARAMCO, it’s a private company with oil sales thought to be about $100 billion per year, but that is about to change. The Saudi folks want to do an IPO for ARAMCO so they can…

The population of the USA is much larger now then when all this legislation was passed and signed into law. The Welfare rolls have grown massively over the last 50 years. Welfare covers a vast range of options which keep growing, George W. Bush created Medicaid Part D just a few years ago, it is vastly over budget…

It’s obvious that Mercedes has dialed their car into a certain grip level with dry tires while anything outside that range will fail. Lewis is well known for his wet track skills, but yesterday was impossible, because Mercedes is living on a pin head of drivability outside a range of heat and grip. They made a mistake…

It’s so fake. Bad acting.

I have read it perhaps 20 times, in newspapers and other places. I have also see it maybe 10 times on national TV networks. I detest conspiracy theories so I am never found down those rat holes.

Something else is going on. In F1 if someone seems to be offering a helping hand to someone on a different team, that’s probably not what’s happening.
The truth is it’s all about Mercedes. The German company wants that German driver to drive for them. They missed Michael Schumacher at his prime and they think Vettel…

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…

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…