Nissany was only a Friday test driver, it was never intended for him to race on F1 so we can’t really count that one (also, Briatore wasn’t Amati’s team boss)... but just this century we’ve had Alex Yoong, Tarso Marques, Zsolt Baumgartner, Narain Karthikeyan, Karun Chandhok, Gaston Mazzacane and Will Stevens. Plenty…

107% rule. It’s still there.

He’s clearly behind Mick, but he’s not a minute off. That was because he did an extra stop, which was a strat that was never gonna work.

He’s here to stay, since his dad will likely be the team owner next year.

He is not even remotely close to being the worst driver this century, let alone all-time. We’ve seen nothing so far that warrants him losing his SL.

Ilmor, who developed Mercedes’ engines after they re-entered F1 in the 90s, were located in Brixworth. After Paul Morgan (the ‘MOR’ in Ilmor, the company he founded with Mario Ilien) was killed in an accident, Daimler bought Ilien out in the 2000s and took over the operation on the same site.

In roughly a two year period, from 2012-2013, Mercedes poached:

Mercedes’ engine division is in Brixworth. Though I assume most of them live in either Northampton or MK anyway.

True, Merc themselves absolutely raided other teams in the early 2010s, creating an all-star cast of top-level engineers & managers.

Good point, though it’s just modified in two spots - Saint-Devote and the chicane after tunnel-exit. It’s a quicker layout (particularly through T1) but it’s the closest we’ve got to FE racing on an actual F1 track. It’s still somewhat comparable. I’m curious to see the lap times, they’ll be miles behind F1 and F2…

I will, thanks.

Courtesy of iRacing, where the car’s been available for a few months already, here’s what it can look like when it doesn’t have a livery that makes your eyes bleed:

What’s bizarre about a young pay-driver struggling in the worst car on the grid? How come Latifi didn’t get this treatment last season? I know Mazepin’s personality is problematic, but do we really need two articles during/after each race weekend about how much of a pleb he is?

Above average, even though he’s been outqualified 57-16 over his career by Felipe Massa, Sergei Sirotkin and Sergio Perez.

Well, the same can be said about Latifi. It’s clear that Mazepin’s past behaviour is causing people to zero in on him. It’s his own fault, but at the same time not exactly fair.

F2 is a great series, evolving the biggest talents into F1 calibre drivers. But that’s only the top guys. There’s a lot of mediocrity in there as well, and those guys usually age out of the series and move on to things like FE, Indycar or GT/sportscars.

Settle down. It was a low speed incident, nobody was in danger of being harmed. Mazepin should’ve checked sooner, but he also got the call from his engineer ridiculously late, while approaching the braking zone for that turn. This was even noted in the FIA decision to give Mazepin just 1 penalty point (“While not…

He’s only 31, way too early to start dropping off. It’s probably a combination of settling into the team and the fact that Lando seems to have taken the ‘leap’, which isn’t uncommon to happen for a young driver after two full F1 seasons. Lando’s been on the cusp of that for a while, but like many young drivers he …

You are out of your mind if you think he’s worse than Duno. By F1 standards, Mazepin is awful, but he’s still better than half the Indycar grid.

Great job, making a comment on a single race and then, when getting corrected on it, changing the subject to championship points.