Yes, the CTO was responsible for pit calls and fuel flow anomalies. This is totally logical.

I like him too, but giving him ‘one more year’ to prove his capabilities in the role is a bit unfair and likely just delaying the inevitable. Binotto has been at Ferrari for 28 years, and he’s probably been their most important employee for at least the last 10. They know him extremely well, and whether he jumped or…

Except that ‘this idiot’ was largely responsible for Ferrari’s success under Arrivabene.

Leclerc also drove for ART in GP3.

Binotto is indeed technically correct, but I’m sure he’s saying these things (as he’s done all year) to protect his decision makers on the pitwall and in the garage. It’s commendable, but it does at times make him seem totally tone-deaf to the real issues that are going on.

They did, but weirdly, sometimes they didn’t. They had better tire wear in the early part of the season, possibly because the Red Bull was still overweight at that time. The won Austria based on their tire wear advantage. That was the midway point of the season. The race after that, in France, Red Bull had to switch…

Not just the first few. Things were close but I’d give Bahrain to Ferrari, Saudi to RBR. Then Australia went Ferrari, Imola and Miami to RBR, with Spain and Monaco clearly favoring Ferrari. Azerbaijan was probably too close to call, but I would give to RBR which I then compensate by giving Britain to Ferrari (based…

Don’t worry... he might not be a superstar, but he’ll not look completely out of place in F1. I think he might be giving Albon a hard time in the second half of the season once he’s settled in.

Since you’re so keen on facts you might wanna acknowledge that Aston Martin made a procedural error and were fined for it. They didn’t overspend.

All the teams agreed to these rules, including the ‘minor infraction’ penalty. Can’t go and cry crococile tears about it afterwards if someone takes advantage of that (regardless of whether it gave them a competitive advantage, which is a separate discussion).

This happened the race after Perez had been ordered to move over for Verstappen in Barcelona. Also, this was early in the season when Verstappen still seemed to be struglling a bit with the new Red Bull, and Perez seemed stronger than last year. The points gap between them was just 25 points (a race win).

You could support, you know... the American driver.

Totally agree. FWIW the two largest F4 series (Italian and ADAC) had a couple of women competing this year.

There’s no real centralized top-level F4 series, so that probably wouldn’t work. I like the general idea though, but at the same time I’m not really sure you want to implement such an idea when you might not like the outcome.

Quite a few contenders. Leclerc not backing down to Verstappen in Bahrain and Saudi-Arabia was awesome. The realization that Mercedes were in trouble. The return of Suzuka. De Vries scoring points on debut...

They’re so busy congratulating themselves with how bright their future is, that nobody’s had time to actually figure out how to make this series work in the present.

I think that’s a fair point. With the caveat that while Bottas never helped Hamilton in the obvious manner that Perez helped Verstappen, he also never did what Perez is accused of doing at Monaco.

The problem is that they probably would’ve been better off bringing in Hülkenberg before this season instead of Magnussen. Throughout his F1 career, Kevin has never been able to look like anything but a rookie: fast at times but incredibly incident prone. With him on a multi-year deal they have to get some experience…

The problem is you’re comparing Lewis right now vs Max right now. Lewis is at a different stage of his career, and he’s had his own issues with teammates that still linger on today. While Verstappen is generally on good terms with his former teammates, Lewis is barely on speaking terms with Alonso (let’s give him at…

Yeah... no. Below is 2018, the year Max turned 21 (still developing) and Ricciardo turned 29 (well into his prime).