3. Absolutely. The 2012 Williams FW34 was an incredibly balanced package, and there were many races where it must have finished on podiums, not just once. And Bruno Senna is also a pretty average driver too. The fact that Maldonado was just barely ahead of Bruno Senna in points, despite having the 25 points from the…

1. Maldonado was in GP2 for four years, and he won the GP2 title on his fourth attempt. Most experts consider this a pretty mediocre result for someone who is aiming for a seat in F1.

Aren’t LMP1 cars using more ground effect now? Anyways, I think the safety dangers of using ground effects have been somehow compensated by the fact that the F1 race tracks are now over compensating for safety. There are now huge run off areas everywhere where cars can crash at big speed. If that’s not enough, then I…

I am basing my comments not on my experience but on what I have been observing in F1 racing or MotoGP for years. First of all, who puts a “a less skilled” driver/rided in front running teams/machinery? This almost never happens. Like 90% of guys who made it into the front running teams were real deal, and I have a…

Neither five guys nor Chipotle are exactly an affordable competition to McDonalds. Both are more of premium chains, but it’s still worth it... much better food, not exactly healthy though, specially five guys.

I am not convinced that more downforce and grip is what Formula 1 needs. DRS is the biggest eyesore right now in F1 racing, and I can speculate that having more downforce is going to make passing even more dependent on the fake DRS passes. What we really need is less aero grip, more pure mechanical grip, and…

Actually, you made a mistake here. There exist two kinds of McDonalds. First, is the McDonalds that exists inside of the relatively bland flood landscape of USA. Here McDonalds can sell its affordable but bland and mediocre food and make profit. Second, there exists the McDonalds in places like China or Germany, where…

In Honk Kong, the McDonalds has always been a pretty high end lunch destination. That’s because in Hong Kong, McDonalds has to compete with about a gazillion other equally priced food options, each of those better than the American Big Mac.

I think a much better solution is to drop the engine count limit per car, and drop any restrictions on in-season engine development. I miss the races when something like 25-30% of all cars failed to finish a race with a broken flaming engine. We don’t have this sort of unpredictability any more.

You don’t fully realize the tragedy it would be if RBR left F1. Red Bull has the best junior driver development program there is in the sport. Just look at the incredible drivers the brought in: Vettel, Verstapen, Sainz, Kvyat, Buemi, Vergne. Need I say more? Without Red Bull we would have been surrounded in the sea…

I want to add a correction. From 2009 through 2013, all engine development was effectively frozen, and all engines, except the poverty spec Cosworth, had about the same amount of reliability and power. There was basically no significant engine development done in that era, but aero was free. But in the new era, we now…

I highly disagree with your statement. Most of independent Formula 1 teams are seriously broke, and basically are nearly bankrupt. As result, most of independents have been employing what most fans disparagingly call the “pay drivers”. On the other hand, not only the Red Bull drinks company provided very solid…

You have actually skipped the most unbelievably interesting seasons. Schumacher won all titles from 2000 through 2004, and that was boring. But what happened between 2005 and 2010 was a thing of legend. Probably the best racing of all time. After 2010, an era of very solid domination did set in. However, 2012 was the…

Let me tell you that what you’re observing right now is pretty much the same story that has always been happening in F1. Vettel won four consequtive championship titles from 2010 through 2014. Schumacher won fifve titles from 2000 through 2004. Williams was the most dominant team in the mid-90s. McLaren set incredible…

The engine configuration is pretty much inconsequential. I do think F1 would be better without the limit on the number of engines a car can use.

Since when did a V12 make formula F1 interesting? When Bernie and FIA wanted F1 to switch to naturally aspirated engines in the late 80s, they wanted everybody to use a 3.5L V8 engine. Nobody opposed this except Ferrari, who threatened to quite F1 racing because of new regs. You see, F1 wanted to prove the world that…

Mr F1Expert, what makes you think that exhaust-blown diffuses were good for F1 racing? If anything, the exhaust-blown diffusers increased the role of aero, making it impossible for car follow each other closely and overtake without an abomination known as “DRS”. Moreover, the exhaust blown diffuses called for such…

You are suggesting regulations that never exsited in F1 to begin with. F1 engine specs have always beenprety tight.

Slow news day.

Of course, not even Putin, but also Putinism itself will not outlive any of the western regimes. But we have to recognize that the whole political machine that Putin created will not go away even when Putin retires. How will Putinism go away? I noticed that in the last couple of years many many Russian intellectuals…