I starred just in case it was a joke. But yes, Hulkenberg is 35, just a month younger than Seb Vettel.

Last year in Bahrain Q3, Mercedes were 0.5 slower than Red Bull. They certainly don’t look any closer right now.

F2 has an 83-day gap this year as well. I don’t love it, but it shouldn’t be much of an issue from a drivers perspective.

That’s exactly it. This show is for new/potential F1 fans, which is why a backlash is inevitable. The new fans will get more informed and find out how much the show is actually just plain BS.

That car is hideous.

but it just looks so good with the Petronas Green accents

Having seen them all out on track today, the Alfa Romeo does not look very good. The red doesn’t pop at all, and it just looks look a dark smudge floating around the track.

Every F1 car from 2009-2016 was pretty ugly, if only for the raised and narrow rear wing which made each car look like a HotWheels toy.

The Red Bull livery is good. Everyone loved it when they launched it years ago. But they’ve kept it the same for all racing categories, and people seem to have turned on it. I still like it, though I’d like to see them change it up for a season.

Indeed. I hope it’s a strong reminder that the next time they implement a major safety feature, it’d be wise not to complain about its aesthetics like the vast majority of the drivers, pundits and fans did when the Halo was announced.

He was pissed because Liberty (alledgedly... but also: really) had discussions with the Saudi’s somewhere in 2022 without getting the FIA president involved. Nobody is claiming or even insinuating that he’s got any involvement with the Saudi bid. When the story leaked he tried to undermine F1 by making a statement on…

Any case, including the one for Lewis, deals with subjectivety. For instance, Lewis doesn’t lead any category percentage-wise among the 7 drivers who I personally would consider candidates for the ‘greatest’ moniker, except races finished. 

Not sure if it’ll make any difference in the end, but it won’t help. Ben Sulayem was publicly pushing the Andretti/Cadillac bid just last month before roasting the teams over their lukewarm response to the ‘partnership’.

There’s no link between Ben Sulayem and the Saudi bid. The issue is that Ben Sulayem talked publicly about a potential takeover and in doing so, effectively said F1 wasn’t worth 20 billion. Whether that was the actual bid or not, he should never have commented on that. As the FIA president, he’s not a formal party in…

Only 8 of those 23 are races where he’s gonna be in his motorhome. The rest are flyaway races (except for Monaco where he can just stay at his own place).

I generally think the best main-stream site for F1 news & analysis is the-race.com at this point. It’s a site that’s largely made up of former Autosport journo’s, which makes sense because that publication has tanked in recent years. I can also recommend you to check out their youtube channel. In terms of reporting,…

The FIA has actually been pushing for Andretti/Cadillac to be allowed to join. FOM and the teams are the ones who are digging their heels in. There’s a legitimate board-room war going on between F1 and Ben Sulayem right now.

Exciting indeed, to watch an engine that’s not built by Ford go up against an engine that’s not built by Cadillac.

There’s an often overlooked -but interesting- financial element to using listed parts, though. Because these parts can come from different teams, they needed to be allocated at a fixed price for all teams under the budget cap. So for instance, AlphaTauri uses Red Bull’s rear suspension. Haas uses Ferrari’s. In…

Certainly didn’t help, but in the end the lack of development killed their season.