I thought McLaren had veto power over any potential Honda partners. I sincerely doubt they’d allow them to partner with RBR for two reasons: 1) RBR WILL make a better chassis than McLaren, I’d bet my year’s salary on that and 2) Honda making engines for another team will only tax them further at a time when they can…

Everyone can talk their shit but F1 would be hurt by losing RBR. It would basically guarantee the loss of 4 superb drivers for at least one season, would probably mean the loss of the greatest designer the sport has ever seen for a season, if not more, and would cut the field down to just 18 cars. Plus, say what you…

No one can compete with Newey’s chassis except maybe Rory Byrne, who I do believe was consulted for Ferrari’s car this year. MB would have a slight advantage over RBR because the chassis and engine are developed in tandem, but with a MB engine, RBR would run away with the title. The ONLY thing that would save them is…

That rule actually got rejected as per Autosport. It’s insanely stupid to allow B-spec engines, basically ensuring that no none works team will ever win again in the future, but when only three engine manufacturers control the supply and two have works teams to protect, they’re bound to get what they want.

Well, they’d actually have to be reliable first, and I’m pretty sure that’s a word that never even comes up in MB board meetings.

I didn’t see what Smedley said but I think given that he crashed out of third on the last lap after a battle for position, Bottas’s response of “what the fuck did he do?” which was delivered with about as much anger as I display after a restaurant gets my order wrong, was not at all inappropriate.

You could see Bottas was absolutely fuming in her post race interview and rightfully so. Normally I think the stewards are a bit too stringent with the rules but Raikkonen dove into the inside of that corner from so far off the racing line it wasn’t even funny. He wasn’t even close. He had to know he was driving into…

Seb’s commentary on the radio was spot on: “Ok, it’s all clear now but we’ve got a very brave Russian on the track.” I laughed hard when I heard that.

I honestly didn’t care whether the 918 or the P1 was fastest as long as the Ferrari was the slowest, even if it was only by a few tenths.

If I were wealthy, I think $200k would be a pretty hard limit. As absolutely delicious as the Lamboghini Aventador SV (random example) looks in every candy color paint they offer for it, I’m so incredibly anal about the things I own that I would literally drive myself insane if I owned that car or any car approaching…

And what does everyone expect from two world champions? Absolutely unwavering patience in the face of the woeful season they’ve had this year? Button is an absolute gentleman and even he’s starting to tire. Everyone will say Alonso is an ass hole and that the old Alonso from 07 is finally showing but put any driver in…

He wasn’t really competition for Hamilton last year either. The only reason he stayed in contention was because of the ridiculous double points awarded in Abu Dhabi and terrible luck for Hamilton in terms of reliability at the beginning of the season. I’d say there were only two or three times out of seven last season…

I’m not saying Rosberg is a bad driver, but he can’t see Hamilton. In terms of skill, Hamilton is on another level.

All this tells me is that Button will either be driving for McLaren next year or not at all. As far as I know, they won’t block a driver wanting to retire and he could still do that. Aside from the money, why potentially go through ANOTHER year of development, fighting for a top 10 finish. As far as Alonso goes, after…

Realistically, there aren’t too many drivers on the grid who aren’t ass holes when the car is shit and they can’t race. He might be a jerk at times, but he’s still one of, if not the best driver in the sport. He has managed to drag cars not worthy of championships into contention. Like him or not, the sport would lose…

There’s seriously compelling evidence. I believe Racecar Engineering ran a piece about it. Maybe someone already mentioned that. Anyway, it’s all too complicated for my sorry mind to understand, but from what I’ve read, the piece of the puzzle were all there, they just needed to be put together. I’ve read that the…

Let’s be honest, an $18 billion fine will be appealed and stalled and knocked down to $500 million and the suggestion that VW recall their vehicles.

It appears that is what’s going to happen and honestly, given how well he drove and how little difference it would have made, especially given that the team in question is a developmental team, there was no point in making this a lasting memory. Toro Rosso is supported by a conglomerate with enormously deep pockets…

A developmental team would necessarily be a means to an end, the end being moving on to a bigger team. I just think that this is a team sport and given the outcome of the race, it would have made no difference to him to give up position. That being said, I do believe it should always be done under the condition that…

This is not make and it’s not a hero mentality. I don’t care if Sainz was nipping at his ass, Verstappen wasn’t gonna let him past. I don’t think Max deserved to be flogged for ignoring the order. It made no difference in the outcome, but I highly doubt Verstappen was letting him past regardless of where Sainz was and…