Since when does a clutch system see higher temps than a brake system? Does that happen in road cars? Because it sure as hell doesn't in race cars...

Silicone and dot 5 fluid is mainly for race cars although it tends to get different coding based on the dry boil temperatures (examples are AP 500, AP 550, AP 600 fluids etc, Castrol SRF and so on).

Yeah, but 30 years ago (or more). The difference between the front end of the grid and the back is not just 20 garages and if that is a hell of a reminder, isn't it?

I'm very amused that the Marussia factory clearly has three car bays and about 400sqft to run the whole team from. McLaren have a massive, purpose built atrium just to direct and present enormous productions for launch and promo shots from, Marussia wipe the floor, throw a few sheets up and just push the car and…

That's not really the correct conclusion from that. Webber is not throwing his data out, he's just supplementing the information from the longer run of Vettel's to (most likely) extrapolate his own data for a similar length run. It's not that the three laps are so massively important it's that the number of laps he…

What a complete non-story. Any engineer in any team will look through both driver's data together. Any driver in any team will look for and use data from their teammate if they feel they have even the slightest thing to learn.

There are two very separate issues here: Stirling Moss is, in the nicest and most respectful way possible a Dinosaur from a different era. As mentioned, of COURSE his views aren't necessarily to the same political scale as ours. Non story, get over it.

I thought he did really well, too. I was also pretty impressed how much calmer than everyone else he sounded on the radio. Almost conversational.

"At one point he was leading the race"

How can you possibly know or conclude that? How do you know that the car was even the primary cause of the accident? With so little information anything could have caused this accident - from a blow out on the Viper to the same on the Van or from someone crashing in front of the Viper. You cannot possibly make…

Not even slow motion and fancy editing makes front wheel drive 'hooning' anything other than a damp squib. Slow handbrake turn/drive out moves are pretty dull by comparison to anything with proper wheel drive (ie anything other than front only).

I want a Dodge Caravan as a rental car. They have lots of room (everyone bar the driver can sleep on the way), they're cheap to rent (with enough people) and you can abuse the ever living shit out of it and never (not once) feel bad for doing so. Because it's a Dodge Caravan.

My thoughts, too, but I am suspecting the dirty track meant that grip was more than a little unpredictable. That track looked like it needed a good month of track day running to clear the crap off it.

While I don't disagree with your point necessarily (I don't think they are better, but they certainly aren't worse drivers) that is a really bad example.

No, it is not assumption. I'm a professional race engineer - you can consider that hard evidence, essentially, because if they were listening to music not only would I know about it because I'd hear it through my headset (and it'd annoy me because they can't hear my communication) but I'd also yell at them for not…

You don't need hard evidence if you know anything at all about what it takes to drive a race car at speed, though. It's so far out of left field that it doesn't really require debunking, to be honest.

Because it'd be stupid - the rhythm of driving and the mental workload on the driver is far too high to be able to focus at all on the music and it'd be a silly and dangerous distraction to a driver at the limit. Not even lower formulae racing drivers would listen to music without getting yelled at by their engineers…

No. Never.

This is my friend's house - they're all ok, but his cars and his house are screwed. The car bounced across both his cars before it hit the house. He's just relieved everyone is ok. Hell of a shock in the middle of the night for him.

Aha. That makes much more sense. I have avoided those 'films' for the same reason I avoided 'Driven'. I'd want to stab the tv too much to bear it. Too Fast, too furiously masturbating. Ugh.