They have that to know what turn numbers the engineers are talking about.

Print it out and stick it onto the dash.

Considering that there’s 3 ways to retire from a race and only one of them can be legitimately attributed to the driver, it’s pretty pointless to just count up the total. F1 cars have historically been hand grenades with the pin pulled. It’s only in the last decade or so that reliability became the norm rather than an…

Oh, Andrea de Cesaris. In a fairly brief career, 14 years is not fairly brief!

eh, i still think the british gp was just as big a deal as abu dhabi. that hamilton fans are still whining about this is a bit hilarious.

Ultimately, it’s probably the best choice for F1. Porsche would not have added to the pool of engine suppliers and would just have been a customer team in all but name. More manufacturers coming in as engine suppliers is what the sport needs to allow more teams chances to fight at the top

I guess AMR has something 2012-2013 Lotus didn’t have after Kimi’s performances helped bankrupt them: Daddy Strolly!

People make such a big deal of all these decisions and reversals. I don’t think anyone is arguing that they made the right decision in the end, and it didn’t really take too long either.

I mean, in theory there could be a middle ground where the White Stripes had a drummer who didn’t play anything flashy and showy and stuck to the same ultra-basic minimal parts Meg White played, but also could keep a consistent tempo and dynamic and just generally play in time.

Does Joel go overboard in reclaiming Ellie: Yes.

Honest question: what’s so bad about Gladiator? It’s well acted, looks good, has a villain that you grow to hate, and an emotional ending. My biggest issue with it are the icky low framerate bits that get used a few times.

OFC he doesn’t know how to fix it; he’s not an engineer. What he, drivers in general, are good for is telling the engineers what’s not right, and how it should be to be right, and the pencil-necks make it happen. You wouldn’t expect an engineer to be able to take a spin around Silverstone and know what needs to be…

I was thinking Demi Moore. She’s the weakest part of A Few Good Men. Her sparring with Nicholson in the Cuba scene was good but anytime she gets a Sorkin monologue (e.g. confronting Cruise at the softball practice) it just sounds memorized rather than acted.

Shocks me that The Hulk is only 27. Seems like he’s been hanging around the fringes of F1 forever.

Indeed the reason given by for the gap is the need / choice to sea freight the cars from Europe to America. Air freight would be quicker but also far more costly for a series that is probably pretty budget constrained anyway.

I might have some issues with this series but this schedule isn’t one of them.  There was a two-month gap between the penultimate race and the finale in F2 last year as well.  I agree it’s not ideal but I’m also not in charge of coordinating multiple championships within a limited number of dates and locations.

Solving their porpoising problem is but one part of the problem. I think their second biggest problem was their complete inability to fire the tires up for qualifying. It always put them on the back foot. The only benefit was they seemed to be quite nice on their tires, and had decent long-run pace. But I think most…

The reality is that Merc’s dominance up to 2021 of the hybrid era was largely due to their powertrain advantage. The powertrain advantage is gone, and now RB are dominating in the area they tend to over the last 10+ years - aero.

The 2023 cars are not designed to a brand new set of regulations, so the advantage that the RB18 had over the rest of the field at the end of 2022 (and it was quite a big one) means Mercedes, like the rest, are starting from a position of needing to make up for both the existing deficit and any additional gains that…

I’ve been watching F1 since the 80s.